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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DVCA Auction

The next Dorset Vintage and Classic Auctions event has lots of interesting bicycles entered, from a 19th century Velocipede and Ordinary bikes through to several from between the wars.The bikes – plus the usual array of...

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Marshalling Course

British Cycling are looking to train up more marshals for road races.  The local accreditation courses will be run through Poole Wheeler David Wade, for anyone who might be interested in helping to support local roiad racing...

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GDW Mountain Bike Series, Round 5

Nigel Brown was the clear winner of Sunday’s race at Alfred’s Tower, which was rescheduled from a couple of weeks ago due to the recent snow.  The race took place on a very muddy short course which meant everyone got...

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2013 Club Kit

GDW 2013 kit order is being finalised. Please contact the shop asap to be included in the order if you wish anything specific. The usual stock of Summer items will be ordered.So far we have orders for the following...

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GDW 50 Mile Reliability Ride

It’s that time again, 50 miles on the bike in the freezing weather.  The annual ride linking up some of the Gillingham Wheelers’ time trial courses will start and finish at the Riversmeet Leisure Centre, Hardings...

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News

Offcamber held the fourth round of their winter series of mountain bike races on Sunday which featured a bumper entry of 58 riders.  It was a chilly but dry morning at Inside Park, though a lot of the course had got considerably...

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Early Season Races

There are a couple of early opportunities for the speedier riders among you to get some race miles in – the Perf’s Pedal race is on February 10th this year, it’s open to E/1/2/3 cat riders, entry closes on Jan...

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2012 GDW Awards

The club annual dinner and awards evening was held at Indigo Blue restaurant attended by 48 people.  For those who could not make it here is the list  of the prizewinners:TT Series 1st Overall and Club Champion  – Simon...

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GDW MTB Series Round 3

The third round of the GDW mountain bike series took place on a sunny Sunday morning in Stourhead Estate, with Paul Hopkins completing six very consistent and fast laps to take the win.  Paul was giving his new lightweight...

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Frome Cobble Wobble

The annual hillclimb blast up Catherine’s Hill in Frome takes place on December 16th this year.  It’s always an atmospheric event, and should be even more so with its new pre-Christmas slot.  Most of the places are...

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Strava Revolution

Many of you already have GPS enabled Garmin devices, or have downloaded the Strava App for your Android phone and may be already out there collecting King of the Mountain awards (KOMs).For those that haven’t; either get...

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GDW Xmas Dinner & Presentation Evening

STOP PRESS – After several years at the Coppleridge Inn, Motcombe the Gillingham & District Wheelers Dinner and Presentation evening will be held at the Indian Restaurant in Mere (Indigo Blue) on Sat 24 November....

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GDW Mountain Bike Series

Vince has managed to sort out the various permissions needed for us to race at Alfred’s Tower woods so the mountain bike schedule looks like this –  13th Oct sat evening about 19.30  28th Oct sun morning  18th Nov...

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Final Hillclimb

Josh Day rounded off the GDW road season with the fastest time at the Mere hillclimb, winning with 4.36.  Kim Little had a bit of an off-night with 4.47 while James Chant and Simon Barfoot tied on 5.05.  NIgel Brown was next up...

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Stour Provost TT

Visiting rider Paul Caton of Welwyn Wheelers set the quickest time tonight, winning with a 23.18.  Times were pretty good, a strong tailwind through the middle section helping a lot.  Kim Little was second, just ahead of Simon...

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Interclub TT

51 rides competed at the first Gillingham v Frome v Westbury interclub on Wednesday evening, a brilliant turnout.  After a lot of number crunching back at The George in Longbridge Deverill, the GDW team of Paul Hopkins, Nigel...

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Bournemouth Wheelers 50 mile tt

The Bournemouth Jubilee Wheelers held their 50 mile time trial this morning in ideal conditions.  The course is made up of a hilly first 25 miles from Organford to Sturminster Marshall and back followed by three laps of the...

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Stour Provost Non-Aero TT

Jay Hookins took a narrow win from Kim Little at tonight’s non-aero tt.  There was a hard headwind for the riders to battle against on the outward leg of the course, but both Jay and Kim got into the 23s regardless....

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Bruton 19 Mile TT

The final Bruton time trial of the season took place in near perfect conditions with little wind and warm temperatures.   A fine win by Kim Little with a season best time of  47.18,  season best times were also recorded by...

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Sun Club Run – Weymouth

The Gillingham wheelers club run set off for Weymouth in showery conditions, picking up Denzil at the top of  Bulbarrow hill but losing Rob in the process as he had to head home.  The remaining wheelers had a nice run down via...

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Olympic Club Run Weymouth – Sun 5th Aug

Due to popular demand this ride will take place on Sunday 5th Aug departing from Wheels Cycles at 09:00.This will be a steady paced group ride (expected to be in the region of 15mph) down to the Oasis Cafe, Preston, Weymouth...

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Wyke 10 and Other News

Simon Barfoot was the winner on a very hard night on the Gillingham 10 mile course.  Simon has now secured enough points to win the GDW time trial championship for 2012 so a massive congratulations to him.The wind conditions...

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