Alfred’s Tower XC Race

Kim Little made it four out of four to take an unassailable lead in the series at yesterday’s GDW mountain bike race.On a longer than usual course, with a killer climb up the chute, it was another tough race at the...

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Winter Riding

Winter Riding – not that we’ve had too bad a winter yet (and last year’s incessant rain hasn’t haven’t arrived either) the last 2 Sat morning club rides at 9.00 and 9.30 have had a number of riders...

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GDW Mountain Bike Series

The club’s mountain bike races continue this coming Sunday (21st), usual venue of Alfred’s Tower.  Meet at the main car park in plenty of time for a 930 race start.  If you are able to help out with marshalling then...

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Inside Park XC, Round 4

88 riders turned out for the latest Offcamber-organised mountain bike race at Inside Park near Blandford on Sunday.  There were a couple more tweaks to the ever-improving course, which was slippery in places, although not as bad...

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Alfred’s Tower XC Race

Round two of the GDW mountain bike series was back up at Alfred’s Tower woods after the club’s first round tt at Search Farm near Mere.  The 23 starters had a fairly short course to tackle, but it was a tough one...

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GDW Presentation Evening Awards

The Gillingham & District Wheelers club dinner and presentation was held at the Amore Restaurant, Shaftesbury.  Results from the Time Trial based awards as follows:1st Overall (Club Champion Shield) – Charles Rees 1st Senior...

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Hop Dog Horn

Wareham Forest was the scene of Sunday’s two hour Hop Dog Horn mountain bike race, a course featuring a mix of single track and gravel fire roads, with some of it very muddy after some recent rain.  Although the majority...

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GDW Club Trip/Training camps

Gillingham and District Wheelers are running 2 club trips abroad next year.  Details of the trips here:Sayalonga, Spain – 16 to 23 Feb 2015Mark Geddes is organising a week in Southern Spain (nearest airport Malaga) and has...

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Burrington Coombe Hillclimb and Other Stuff

The Bristol South CC ran the final WTTA Hardrider event of the season on Sunday, with 99 riders feeling the pain of the 3 kilometre Burrington Coombe hillclimb.  As always, the BSCC put on a great event and there was a bumper...

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GDW MTB Series, Round One

The GDW mountain bike winter series got underway today with an off road time trial.  Jim Broom had devised a varied 8 kms course just North of Mere, with a long flat section, a tough climb up Whitesheet hill and a fast descent...

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Some Recent Results

Chris Mullett has been taking part in a couple of recent Open time trials, continuing with the good form he has had this season.  The competitors at the Yeovil CC 10 mile event on September 20th were treated to some great...

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New pics on the Photo page!!

For those interested in cycle touring or just some nice scenery I’ve posted some pics from my 10 day 700 mile trip across France this summer on the Pictures page ‘Caen to Montpellier 2014’ .  A mix of shots...

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Final Mere Hillclimb

21 riders battled against an Easterly headwind and the steep gradients of Mere Hollow at last night’s final hillclimb event of the season.  Kim Little set the quickest time.  Again.  He also won the series overall.  Again....

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Bulbarrow Hillclimbs/Other results

The club had its first hillclimb event at Bulbarrow today, and although only a few riders took part they all enjoyed it.James Chant was hampered a little by having to use his tt bike but was quickest on both the Woolland and...

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Mere Hillclimb R4

The penultimate round of the GDW hillclimb series had another good turnout of 22 riders, with many of them matching their times from the previous week.  One of the riders who improved was Kim Little, who lowered his own course...

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Mere Hillclimb

After a break of four months or so, the GDW hillclimb series resumed this evening with a good turn out of 21 riders.  The expected head wind on the course suddenly died down just before the start and so it turned out to be a...

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Stour 2 Up TT

Even though it was a miserable evening for riding a bike around, there were 21 pairs of riders at the 2 up time trail, the final GDW tt of the season.  Kim Little and Paul Hopkins were quickest, a minute clear of Paul Caton and...

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Youth Squad Race Reports

The GDW Development Squad riders have been getting a load more great results recently at the recent Winchester crit races and at a couple of the Odd Down summer series races.  James Little was presnet and has kindly written the...

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Stour TT

There were lots of personal and season best times at tonight’s tt, with the field of 38 riders making full use of the strong tailwind out to Manston.  The main news from the evening was a new course record for Jay Hookins,...

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