Can the winners of last years perpetual club trophies please return them to Wheels Cycles, Gillingham by Saturday 3rd Nov so they can be engraved ready for the awards presentation.

The last two hilllclimbs at Mere have produced very similar results, with Kim Little beating Josh Day and James Chant at both last week’s event and tonight’s.  Kim has now clinched the hillclimb championship while...

One of the best events of the year, Glenn Longland’s 2 day/three stage race is on October 6th and 7th this year, entry is now open.  Entry form and other details are attached to this post

…from last night’s tt          Comments

Four Gillingham and District Wheeler/Wheels Cycles riders were among a field of 63 riders in the West DC Open 25 mile time trial held near Cricklade.  Vince Hounsome was first Wheeler with a mid-table time of 0:56:39 (32nd),...

I am proposing to do a GDW club run to Weymouth (well actually Preston and the Oasis Cafe) on either Sat 4th or Sun 5th Aug.  There are Olympic sailing events on both days so we will be able to view the racing from the seafront...

Simon Barfoot got another maximum points score tonight, just beating Nigel Brown and Vince Hounsome.  Simon only needs one more win to get the maximum possible points total.  It was a fast night this evening, with the perfect...

The Bicester Millenium club are holding a 9-up team time trial at Silverstone GP circuit on Friday 10th August.  GDW have a spot provisionally reserved for a team which the club are going to pay the entry fee for.  If anyone...

Josh Day won tonight’s hillclimb, crossing the line in 4.42.  There was a nagging head/crosswind for the riders to push against resulting in slower times than normal.  James Chant was second in 5.03 with Simon Barfoot in...

Junior rider Josh Day beat allcomers at both the hillclimb and time trial this week, making it four consecutive wins for him.  He set a time of 23.57 at the Wyke 10 to beat Simon Barfoot by three quarters of a minute.  Vince...

32 competitors were treated to really good riding conditions at tonight’s Bruton tt.  Josh Day continued his impressive run of form by setting the quickest time of 47.22 to win both the juniors’ section and the...

Nigel Brown and James Chant were first and second at tonight’s Frome Wheelers 5 mile time trial.  There were only seven riders competing but a win is a win!  It was the host club’s opening evening event of the year,...

It was a really fast night at the second round of the GDW time trial championship, lots of riders improved by over a minute compared to last week, some by two minutes and there were a few pbs as well.Paul Hopkins set the...

The first hillclimb of the year took place yesterday, with most riders finding it a big shock to the system.  Despite good weather conditions, times were a little slower than normal. Josh Day was quickest, the only person under...

Jane Pritchard won the ladies section of the second round of the EDCA series yesterday.  Jane beat Sarah Woods and Judith Martin with a time of 1.09.08 on the hilly 24 mile course which runs from...

Just to let everyone know, if you weren’t aware GDW has a Google Groups forum that is open to all (you have to request access in order to post – this is to prevent spam posts).You need to have a valid email address...

The EDCA hilly time trial series kicked off last weekend, beginning with one of the hardest events on its calendar, the 25 mile tt based at Wool.  The course takes the riders up the hill out of Wool to Lulworth on three...

Thanks to everyone who helped out at the Open yesterday, there were lots of compliments from the riders afterwards so pat yourselves on the back.Rob Pears (Bath CC) was the overall winner for the third year in a row, beating...

The penultimate round of the Wheelers’ mountain bike series was held in lovely warm conditions today, although the course was as muddy as ever in places.  It was a much harder course than last month’s fire road...

Just to let people know that as it’s forcast to freeze over night (-4 deg) and given the wet state of the roads today I will not be planning on going out in the morning to lead the ‘B’ ride.  ...

Came across this short film recently, it’s well worth watching if you’ve got the time – it’s footage from the 1962 Tour de Francehttp://vimeo.com/21306164

There will be a long weekend trip to Normandy, France from 23 – 25 March, these dates coincide with the end of the week long Tour of Normandy which is a UCI class 2.2 road race so we will be able to take in some of the...

We had the biggest turn out so far for the reliability ride on Sunday, and also the highest temperature as well which made a a welcome change from the previous freeze-athons.  A big thankyou to Simon Barfoot, Ella and Ebby for...

Darren Clarke and his fellow organisers had to work hard on Saturday morning to get the Ludgershall circuit prepared for racing.  The hard frost meant that the surface had plenty of tricky areas which needed some road salt...