Weekend Round-up

Total Buzz ran their Wincanton Triathlon on Sunday, and the field of over 100 competitors featured quite a few familiar faces.  The event was based at the Wincanton Sports Centre and is classed as a sprint distance competition....

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Stour Provost TT Results

Lots of riders turned out last night for the latest round of the tt series, 34 starters in total with the numbers boosted by an influx of Mark Geddes’ Army colleagues.  We had three fallers at the Manston junction, one in...

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Sandie Radford Road Race

Kim Little put in a great ride at the weekend in TLI’s Sandie Radford Memorial race on the New Forest.  The race is a hilly 35 miles all-categories event, with plenty of Elite and First cat riders taking part, and this...

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Local Triathlon Events

For those cyclists who think that swimming are running are also good things to do (they’re not), and would like to do them one straight after the other (really?!) then Total Buzz Events have two triathlon races coming up...

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Stour TT, 17th March

28 riders turned out for the third GDW tt of the season, with riders’ times much improved after the first two weeks had been hampered by a strong Easterly wind.  This time everyone got pushed along the middle section of...

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Road Racing events – 20/21 April

In addition to the TLI organised Sandie Radford memorial road race on Sat 20th mentioned by James in an earlier post, there are also road races this weekend on Sunday 21st at Bishops Sutton, nr Chew Valley Lake and at Merryfield...

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SXC/EDCA

Round One of the Southern XC races took place at the weekend, based at Matterley near Winchester. Paul Hopkins (Merida) got off to a great start in the series, winning the Vets race after a race long scrap with Lewis King of...

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Stour Provost TT, 10th March

It was a horrible evening but 24 riders turned out anyway, with some more new faces and several junior riders which was good to see.  Although it was very wet, the wind direction was much more favourable compared to last week so...

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Yeovil CC Road Races

Yeovil CC held their annual road races on Sunday, the Ham Hill and Pittards Trophy events.  The Pittards race for 3rd and 4th category riders included entries from Pete Humphreys, Mike Smith, James Chant, Jay Hookins and Charles...

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Many thanks to all the riders who turned up for this Saturdays ride a good turn out of 30 riders lets keep it up.  If this continues we will look at bringing in a 3rd group this will slot in between the 2 existing rides. this...

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National Mountain Bike XC Series

Kim Little writes -The weekend of March 23rd/24th was the first round of the National Points MTB Series at Sherwood Pines in Nottinghamshire.  The weather forecast for the weekend was not looking good with reports of deep snow...

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Stour Provost TT

The 2013 GDW time trial season got underway on Wednesday night, with plenty of regulars joined by some new faces as well.  The times were some way off of most riders’ personal bests, a very strong East wind making the...

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Mere Hillclimb

Kim Little raced up Mere Hollow to yet another GDW hillclimb win last night, beating James Chant by 25 seconds.  Everyone found the going even harder than normal, with cold temperatures and a strong headwind along the route...

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Tri Bar Offer – Wheels Cycles

Wheels Cycles in Station Road, Gillingham have a special offer for the start of the club TT Season. – Purchase a pair of Profile Design Legacy Aerobars (Normally £60) for £40**GDW members only. Subject to availability....

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Good Friday Castle Coombe Meeting

There was a good turn out of wheelers at the 2013 castle coombe easter meeting with riders representing in both 4th and 3rd category races. James Foster, Nigel Brown (riding for Westbury Wheelers), and James Hawkins (in his...

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Ilton Road Race training

Taunton Vale Cycle Racing AssociationIlton training starts next week (Thurs 4th April) at the Merryfield Airfield at 19:00, signing on for 18:45.  The sessions continue on Thursdays throughout the season (apart from 2nd &...

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On-Line GDW Club Membership

We are pleased to announce that you can now join as a GDW  member on the internet.  This facility is provided by British Cycling and will cost 70p (about the same as a 1st class stamp and an envelope) and is accessed through the...

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2013/14 membership fees and new committee

The 2013/14 GDW club membership fees are due from the 1st April,  the form is available for download on the membership page.   Pete Humphreys is the new membership secretary so all forms to be sent to him (address on the mem...

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More Cold Cycling

The recent poor weather and low temperatures have caused the cancellation of many events over the last two weeks, but today the latest round of the WTTA Hardriders time trial series took place at Maiden Bradley. The 24 miles...

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Barney On The Up

Barney Cox has been racking up the BC licence points lately and has now moved up to a 3rd category licence.  Barney’s been racing at the Ludgershall/Army CU winter series on a regular basis and has scored second and third...

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Wheelers’ Big Weekend

The club held the annual Open tt and the final round of the winter mountain bike series at the weekend.  At Bruton on Saturday, the Open was blessed with a lucky break in the weather, treating the riders to a couple of hours of...

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Don’t forget…

…as well as the club’s Open time trial this Saturday, we also have the final round of the GDW winter series of mountain bike races at Alfred’s Tower.  Meet at the tower car park on Sunday (10th) and sign in for...

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