Category: Club Updates

It’s less than a week to the Sydenham reliability event, the hardest of the series (we think). Combined entry and route forms for both distances can be found below.

• 107km Route and Entry Form
• 64km Route and Entry Form

Enjoy!

Anyone who is attending the club lunch this Saturday and would like to do so with a calorie deficit should be aware that Rob Royston is organising pre-eat ride with exactly that intention. Weather permitting this will start at 9:30 at the bottom of Polhill and the intended route will take in local lumps – Row Dow/One Tree/Hubbards/Toys.

Over the last few years the interest in the old inter-club competition has waned within the other clubs involved. During the same time we have grown much stronger links with G.S. Avanti and now Sevenoaks Tri. For next season this has resulted in us sharing the responsibilities for organizing the time trial programme and also deciding to run a new inter-club competition between the three of us. This will be made up of 18 events (namely the 10 mile time trials). The points will be 7 points for first, 6 points for second, down to 2 for sixth and every finisher thereafter. This is an experimental set up for the first year and could change in future years.

A provisional calendar of next years events is now available on the website. Go to the ‘Events’ page and click on the ‘2010’ link at the top of the page. Its not fully confirmed yet but should be mostly correct. You will see the Events are now co promoted with two other clubs (GS Avanti & 7 Oaks Tri) with whom we will also be running an inter-club competition next year…..full details of how this competion will work inc. the points system will be posted on the website shortly.

Please note that the club time trial due to take place this coming Thursday on the East Peckham course has been cancelled due to roadworks on the course.

ITV4 have recently confirmed that they will be showing highlights of both the Tour Of Britain and the new Tour Series of city centre races. The programmes will be limited to highlights but will hopefully be rare source of bike race viewing pleasure for those without SKY. You can find more details on Bike Radar.

Following the club reliability ride on 15th Feb a couple of items of property have been recovered from the hall. If you are the owner of either a set of Bianchi water bottles or an OS map of ‘Maidstone And The Weald Of Kent’ and you would like to organise return/collection of them please contact Bob Loader on 01732 459789. If no takers have come forward within a couple of weeks the items will be disposed of.

Please be aware that there is no pre-entry facility for the Sydenham Wheelers Reliability Ride on 15th Feb. Entry is ‘On The Line’ only.

Please take note, that by popular demand, details of the TT courses used for the club events are now available on this website. They can be accessed by clicking the ‘TT Courses’ link at the top of the 2009 Events page…..or just click HERE! There is still some work to do refining the descriptions and the intention is to provide maps for all of them. However whats there currently should hopefully prove useful to you.

You may recall that last years reliability ride route was altered from the traditional route in order to avoid roadworks at Wateringbury. This year we wil be reverting back to the time honoured route. Details of both routes can be found below.

• 107km Route Details
• 64km Route Details

** Please note these routes were updated on 5th Feb 2009 from those previously published. This is due to a slight change made to the 64K route.

The new look LondonCycleSport.com website has published details of the Kent reliability rides. Click the following LINK to be redirected to the appropriate page on their site.

The enthusiasm that is generated by the starting of a new year combined with a desire to shed those excess pounds left by Santa means its about now many of you will be hunting around for the dates and times of those early season ‘tests’. Well look no further….details of the provisional calendar of CTT events can be found HERE! We also have a provisional calendar of the club events available by clicking the ‘Events’ link at the top of this page.

The CTT have published a provisional calendar for their 2009 events. It can be found by following this LINK .

The General Meeting point for the Claygate Presidents Run are as follows:

For those of you coming from the Orpington/Sevenoaks areas and want to ride in a group. Dave Twin intends meeting up with anyone else who wants to join him at 8.30 at Green Street Green roundabout. They will then make their way out to Seal via Polhill, Otford and Pilgrims Way. The idea is to get to Seal for 9.30 to meet up with anyone else who’s interested, outside the Post Office in Seal High Street see MAP.From Seal, the group will then go via Stone Street and Plaxtol to meet everyone else at Hadlow at 10.30. Then everyone will make their way to Claygate.

Now that the racings mostly over its time to start thinking about piling on those pounds as an excuse for the ‘slower than you’d like’ times heading your way when the 2009 seasons kicks off. Dates for your Diary:

30th Nov – Presidents Run To Claygate
Start location tbc (normally Hadlow) heading to the White Hart in Claygate. Tables are booked for 12:00 – 12:30 and the menu can be viewed HERE. Priced at £22.50 per person.

17th Jan – Xmas Lunch
This is to be held in the Grasshopper again, the big one on the A25 not the pub on the green in Westerham town centre. The menu can be viewed HERE. Priced at £22.95 per person, with the Grill Room booked for us between 12:30 and 17:00.

Surely no more fun could be had for £45.45 than attending both of these events!

Now that the racing season is all but over for the vast majority of members the traditional sunday club runs have started to take place. Rides start at 09:30 from the layby on the motorway bridge at the bottom of Polhill. Click on this LINK TO MAP for the exact location. If you would like to check/confirm attendance please ring or text Ed Rieu on 07867 537386.

If you ride LOOK KEO pedals please be aware that there is a fault with some of the models with chromoly axles. The affected pedals are being recalled for a free axle replace. The advice from Look is not to ride on them! See this article on Bike Radar for more info.

Many people have requested that we set up a club message forum via the website. The link below is to a free message forum service that we would like to trial. Access to the message forum is password protected and the password will be sent out to all club members. If you would like to have access to the forum but don’t have the password please contact us using the ‘Email Us’ links at the top of the page. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

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If you want to get a preview as to what you are letting yourself in for this sunday Click Here! for full details of both the 64k and 107k routes.

There are some important dates for the club coming up in February so put the following in your diary:
Tue 12th Feb – Club AGM, Bricklayers Arms 8pm.
Sat 16th Feb – 2007 Prize Presentation & Lunch. Grasshopper, Westerham 2pm.
Sun 17th Feb – Club Reliability Ride, Knockholt Village Hall 9am.