Archive for January 2011
tints ride
28/01/2011 by D.B.MILNER.
wednesday 2nd. feb meet thornhill rectory park 0930 for mystery ride terminating at the ALAMO for lunch.
Club Run Points, Who’s Winning??
27/01/2011 by Al and Sarah.
OK who’s winning at the first quarter of the thorpers year?? Mad John at 13 points! excellent turn out John and it shows in your good form. Mike the ref 12 points! (who’s Mad) and thats with a metal leg. Martyn Bolt 11 points. Craig Johnson 10 points. Alastair and John (Spinner) 9 points. Andy Callaghan 8 points. Brad, Phil J and Ben 7 points. Jack and Paul 6 points. Doug,Phil R and Steve McCall 5 points.. Some excellent turn outs so far this year, nearly always in double figures. We need bigger cafes if we keep this up.. Hope to see you all soon Alex..
Ravensthorpe CC now join Twitter
24/01/2011 by Alastair.
Most of you old codgers won’t have a clue what Twitter is but for us young, hip, cool people, Twitter is where it’s at.
It’s very similar to Facebook but miles better, in my opinion. You can put short status updates (170 characters) to keep people up to date with RCC and everything were doing.
If you’re on Twitter, just type Ravensthorpe CC into the search box and click follow. http://twitter.com/#!/Ravensthorpe_CC
I’ll update the site as and when anything interesting arises!
Club Run 23/01/11 Uppermill and Glossop
24/01/2011 by Al and Sarah.
Boys out today = Me, Mad, Spinner, Dave, Martyn, Goeff, Mike, Paul, Alastair, New boy (another John) and someone else (sorry I asked your name and then forgot). So we all rolled out of Mirfield at a nice steady pace heading for Elland and our first hill of many, Hollywell green. Now this nicely split the group apart and warmed us all up. When we all gathered at the top we realised that the new rider John was a very capable bike rider and that we need not worry if he had dropped off the back as there was no chance of that happening. Right on to the next hill Stainland to Barkisland very steep but no traffic and a good surface all the way. A quick re group and off again this time on a single track road over to the Dam up above Ripponden and on to the main road over to Denshaw, Delph and then the first stop of the day at Uppermill. A very busy cafe just managed to squeeze all of us in and we all had a well earned rest and refuel.From eleven to five riders after breakfast as the others made there excuses and left us to continue to Glossop. Good effort new rider John for not taking the option of turning back with the others. Ok now for the ride over to Stalybridge and the two mile climb out of it. I was starting to suffer now and glad when the top slowly arrived and I could then enjoy the long decent down to the out skirts of Glossop now knowing the dinner stop was just a mile or so away. The garage cafe at Glossop is basic but good, with no complaints about the bean portions, in fact Alastair could not even finish his!!!Now Holme Moss or Woodhead?? sorry lads but I could not face the climb of Holme Moss so off we set for woodhead and I was now hitting the wall big style and the head wind was making things worse. John stayed with me up Woodhead and the rest shot off in to the distance. I scrapped myself to the top and we all re grouped and that was the climbing over for today. Now for the long decent to Newmill and flatish run into Huddersfield and Mirfield. Very tired today but a great ride and company. 65 miles and 14 MPH average speed. Next week we are going FLAT, what? well not totally but most of it, Tadcaster. See you next week cheers Alex.
BEARINGS
23/01/2011 by johnthewliss.
Hi folks I think the rear bearing on my fulcrum 7s are cream crackered does anyone know were I can get one and how easy/hard are they to fit
New Ride
22/01/2011 by Martyn.
princes-trust.doc
We got some info via the club email about a new charity ride in February. I’m sure being university students , doing a degree they have researched their market, targetted their material to the audience and produced a first class product.
Stands back
tints ride
22/01/2011 by D.B.MILNER.
wednesday 26th meet shaw cross 0930 for cas and wintersett/newmillardam? weather permitting.
Brad involved in accident!!!
20/01/2011 by Lancashire Hotspot.
Just to let you know Brad has crashed today on the bike, he was 2 minutes from home after riding to Holmfirth & back when a car pulled out on him on Leeds Roads, Liversedge. He was taken to Dewsbury to be checked over, luckily he is only very badly bruised and has lots of cuts and graizes & strugling to walk at present. I don’t think he will be out on the bike for a few weeks!!! Ange
CLUB DINNER
20/01/2011 by Tomac-76.
We now have the full menu for you to make your choice from for the Club Dinner 27th February at The Grange - Grange Moor. At the moment the Blog does not want to accept the menu as an attachment so if you e-mail me at Home: richard.creaser@ntlworld.com Work: r.j.creaser@leeds.ac.uk I will send a copy on to back to you.
I will be down at the club room tonight - 20th and next week the 27th with some paper copies.
See you tonight
Rich C
120 year Special edition shirt.
19/01/2011 by FactoryPilot.
Since the idea of a one off special edition shirt appears to have gone flat, I spoke to Andy on Sunday regarding my idea of a 120th anniversary special of the club jersey. My idea was to simply switch the black and white on the current club design, giving us what I think would be a very classy looking jersey, yet retaining the current design. Andy then suggested adding 120th Anniversary lettering in various places which would look fantastic. What does everyone think? If the new shorts come through with mor black on than white, then both shorts and jersey would look fantastic!! Get your ideas down here, and lets discuss…….. Brad.
