Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Willesden C.C will be making a donation of £100 to the Thames Valley Air Ambulance service as an appreciation of their services generally and forlooking after a rider (Douglas Aspinall) who fell breaking his hip on theWilly Warmer audax earlier … Continue reading →

Below is a short list of upcoming OPEN TT at Know Hill, Bentley & Aldermaston. Details are available form http://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/ web site. To enter the open events you will need to fill out a TT form, which is available from … Continue reading →

The Good: A wonderful 200km ride though pretty Essex villages in great company, where Wendy bags her first PBP qualifier. The Bad: A tiresome and annoying westerly wind Ugley: The curiously named village of Essex, where the Event HQ was … Continue reading →

The Willesden CC were a hit on last year’s Chantilly New Years Eve parade. So much so that we have been invited back again this year. Ray Kelly would like to hear from anyone interested in venturing over to Chantilly … Continue reading →

I’d done 106 miles on Saturday, so wasn’t feeling up for the first WLC25 mile time trial – especially when I left Ealing and headedstraight into a nasty headwind. The wind continued throughout the morning, butat least the sun was … Continue reading →

Saturday March 10th saw five members of the Willesden Cycling Club’s youth development squad (combined age exceeding 300 years), congregating at Coulsdon to take part in the 100km Brass Monkey event excellently organised by our own Tim Wainwright. I must … Continue reading →

The fine weather has brought the time trialists out of hibernation. Gill travelled down to Suffolk to ride in the West Suffolk Wheelers Sporting 21 mile time trial and with a time of 1.02.10 took the fastest lady award. Also … Continue reading →

“Ye-ah We’re on a road to nowhere ” went the old Talking Heads song, a potential theme tune for Tuesday night turbo. This highly successful evening attracts up to 25 riders and their machines attend each week. Ray “The Turbonator” … Continue reading →

www.parisbrestparis.tv As the build up to this year’s PBP continues PBP TV has recently been launched. It presents a series of videos and photos (spot the Willesden rider) of the last PBP as well as interviews looking ahead to this … Continue reading →

Ed P. is not only quick tester, but can get the results in to the blog faster than a bun down Moony’s neck. Here’s his report on this morning racing. The Willesden put in a good showing at the first … Continue reading →

Ed Packard joined the WCC last month. A keen cyclist and expert blogger (see his blog http://omcoc.blogspot.com), Ed has thrown him self in the the Willesden way, riding our events, attending club meeting and writing articles for the blog. Here … Continue reading →

Gladys sent in the following report on last Sunday’s Ciclotecca 100 and 60km. She thoughtfully provided the English rather than the Italian version. Whilst most of the followers of cycling were at home ready to watch the coverage of the … Continue reading →

Peter Turnbull who is the UK national Audax champion notched up another award last month. The interesting point about his most recent trophy is that it was awarded by the local newspaper, The Bucks Herald. It is great to see … Continue reading →

Tim Wainwright has sent through his account of his first 200km ride since last summer. Five WCC auks sneaked out of work on Wednesday to ride Tom Jackson’s Wye Wednesday 200. They were Mark Brooking, John Hopper, Bob Macdonald, Mark … Continue reading →

Today was the turn of the Willesden CC to host the fifth round of the Chiltern Classic Series. The Italian flavour of the event was reflected in the ride names, 100km Al Forno and the 60km Al Dente. The Guide … Continue reading →

Recently Ian and Pauline Why together with Sean Bannister visited Simon in Hospital in Sheffield. Whilst it is encouraging news, Simon injuries are still very serious. Here is Ian’s report“Pauline, Sean Bannister and I went to see Simon on Sunday. … Continue reading →

Reminder Tomorrow (Sunday 25th February 2007) the Willesden CC is hosting the Fifth round of the Chiltern Classic series. Please attend and wear your best Willesden kit. Show your pride in your club Forza Squadra Verde!

The term Reliability Trial is, well, rather past it. Time for a change and make cycling the cool sport that it is today. So shaking off the ghosts of the 1950s the Willesden CC will be having an Italian theme … Continue reading →

On a sunny Saturday at the begining of February Richard Melik just lost out on the sprint for the line in the Imperial Racing Team’s Winter Series at Hillingdon. As you can see the rest of the bunch were left … Continue reading →

Suzz Patel our new time trial Secretary has given me a list of Time Trials run by the West London Combine Time Trial over the coming year Date: 4th March 07 – Start 08.01Course: 10 miles – H10/2 0 – … Continue reading →