Category Archives: Miscellaneous

The new jackets and gillets have arrived, along with some other kit. However Ray Kelly is off to Brazil for a month but he has kindly passed the kit onto Gladys if anyone wants any. The jackets are £65 and … Continue reading →

The winter racing series starts this Saturday at Hillingdon circuit with a number of Willesden riders registered to take part. If you would like to take part or watch then full details and registration are available on the Imperial racing … Continue reading →

Harp Hilly 100 – Sunday 25th January This first reliability trial is the well-known Harp Hilly Hundred starting and finishing also at the Hemel Hempstead CC clubroom, (location map). This starts off following a similar route as the Hemel event … Continue reading →

The Willesden Annual Hill climb and freewheel event is being held on the 7th December in Amersham on the same day as the AGM. Please keep the date free…..more info will follow.

The Willesden AGM is on the lst Sunday in December. Officers reports to be sent to Mike Ellison or direct to Lindsey to be included on the Agenda. Thanks Gladys.

The Westerley would love to see their Willesden friends join them at their club dinnerIt is a great end-of-season social gathering to be held at the Uxbridge Golf Club (same place we hold our club dinner) on Saturday, 29th November. … Continue reading →

Some races have been added to the British Cycling 2009 road racing calandar. Highlights include the Archer GP, which seems to be back on this year after a dispute with police in 2008. The racing team are due to have … Continue reading →

The last time trial event of the season took place on Sunday. The Brighton Mitre C.C. 25 mile event had to be re-routed due to road works and was run over 2 laps of a hilly circuit. It was a … Continue reading →

On Sunday, in the Hillingdon C.C. 25 mile time trial at Marlow , Pete Cookson was the fastest of our members recording 59.55, followed by Gill Reynolds 1.5.35 (3rd fastest lady), Joe Foley 1.9.25 and Mike Jerome, who improved on … Continue reading →

This weekend a splinter group of Willesden riders went on a club run…..8am from Denham. Why so early? The plan was to get back in time for their respective wives and parters to make sure they didn’t get in trouble. … Continue reading →

This weekend saw the Willesden combine with the Westerley RC for the annual 2-up time trial and hill climb. The fastest time for the 10 miles was recorded by Dave Newman and Malcolm Woolsey (Westerley) in 23.40. Willesden’s pairings of … Continue reading →

The Willesden and the Westerley are combining to organise the annual 2-up and hill climb this weekend. The action starts at Great Missenden at 9am. If you wish to enter please contact Suzz here

The plan…… Race at MOD Chertsey in the morning, finish in the top 10 and go out for a nice pub lunch to celebrate. If not then head to Hillingdon for the afternoon and try again, but our lads don’t … Continue reading →

This weekend see’s both Rich Cooper and John Williams attempt to gain their 3rd cat licences. Richard has 9 points and John has 8 points and both need to make it to 10 to make it to 3rd cat. They … Continue reading →

I have just managed to get some of the results from our Track Championships held at Calshott last weekend. The winner was Simon Wicks and the Ladies Champion Jayne Paine. Our 2nd claim members, who are in the Hillingdon Slipstreamers … Continue reading →

Good news, Ray has provided us with the first date of his Tuesday night Turbo sessions. The first will start on October the 14th at the club room at 7:00pm. Please bring your own turbo and bike. A towel would … Continue reading →

Willesden CC members are famed for getting into any photograph going. At the recent Tour of Britain Gladys Joy Purdy and Derek Reynolds claim their 15 nonoseconds of fame… Gladys, second from Left (red jacket and green hat)Derek, fifth from … Continue reading →

Weekend of 06/07 September 08 In spite of the dismal weather some club members managed to ride time trials. Richard Jerome took a break from Road Racing to ride in the Wednesday evening 9.2 mile event at Black Park and … Continue reading →

Jumbo wanted to pass on his thanks for everyone who helped make the road race a success. Please find attached letter from Jumbo in word format HERE. Also we have a photo of Jumbo with the Elite Race winner, Dan … Continue reading →

Gwyn Doel died on Monday afternoon after battling with cancer for several years. She had been a club member for over 20 years and was famous for her large chocolate sponges which she very generously supplied to the club at … Continue reading →