Weekly Wednesday Winter Ride

The Wednesday night winter training rides will start again tomorrow evening (14th), meeting as per previous years at the Gillingham Library at 1900.  This usually takes the form of pretty gentle spins up until the New Year...

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GDW Xmas Dinner and Presentation evening

Quick reminder for those members who have yet to book their place at the club dinner on Sat 24th Nov. If you are coming can you please let Mike Smith know (mikey.e.smith@googlemail.com) along with your menu choices and £15...

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MTB Round Two/BSCC Hillclimb

The second of the GDW mountain bike races took place last weekend, with a pair of visiting riders from Rock and Road leaving the rest well behind.  Ollie Taylor set a super fast pace which only his clubmate Julian Grundy could...

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Mountain Bike Series, Round One

Kim Little was the dominant rider at the opening round of the GDW winter mountain bike series.  Kim led throughout to beat Andy Parsons by just over a minute by the end of the ‘one hour plus a lap’ race.  Anyd had a...

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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 Mountain Bike Races

The first of this winter’s mountain bike races will be taking place this Saturday night, at the usual venue of Alfred’s Tower woods.  The race will start at 1930 so please make sure you get there early to get signed...

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TLI 2 Day Stage Race

TLI’s two day stage race took place this weekend, with a very strong line up of riders this year.  As always, stage one was a hillclimb prologue up Wick Lane in Downton.  Kim Little led the way for the GDW entrants, racing...

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Return of Trophies

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.

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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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Hillclimbs and 2-up

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...

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TLI 2 Day Stage Race

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

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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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Recent Open and Club TT’s

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),...

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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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Olympic Club Run – Weymouth

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...

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