Annual Dinner & Prize Presentation

Date for your diaries. January 18th  is the date of the club dinner which is being held at  The Grange, Grange Moor. Commencing at 12.00noon. Members £10.00 Non members £12.00. Children £5.50p. Menus are available let Me, Brad. or Angela have your menu choice by 11th Jan 2009.

No woom at womersley !

Club run report - Sunday 2nd November 2008 to Womeresley. Present were Alex Millman, Phil Rounding, Derrick Milner, Dave Sugden, Phil Johnson and Craig Johnson. It was a damp but promising start, met Derrick at Castleford for mid morning brew. Unfortunately the promise didn’t last as the heavens opened on the way to Womersley and to add insult to injury there was no woom at womersley for the soggy crusaders! So it was on to Askern for lunch and a cold, miserable and wet ride home where it was decided the better idea would have been to stay in bed like the other poofs did. Ride was 68 miles and average 15 mph.

At last

At long last I think Im blogging. See you at the Windmills on Saturday. El prezy

Mirfield Moor 25 development

Apologies for this not being a strictly cycling related matter but just thought it may be worth mentioning on here for all of us that are in any way interested in Mirfield - whether you live there or have family there - that there is going to be planning sub- committee meeting for the proposed 25 development on Mirfield Moor on the 6th November at 1pm at Dewsbury Town Hall. If you wish to make an objection at the meeting you have to get there for 12.45 in order to inform them. I feel this is a really important issue for Mirfield (I know it affects us directly !) but realistically it affects us all in terms of traffic in the area which is already a nightmare for us cyclists. Anyway just thought I’d mention it, we need all the help we can get !

BAR comp

If we plan   we can get one club event per month during most of the year? Such as

HCA reliability   feb?

50 in 3 March

Club 10  April

 GHS 100 in 8  ?

Club 25?

Phil & friends   Aug

Hill Climb   Oct

Handicap  Nov?

 Freewheel   dec?

Hill profile

just a test to see if this works for future rides

I have tried to upload a climb profile

Cycling related nicknames and trophies they are likely to win.

Hello folks, just a bit of a daft post, a bit of fun really. Without using foul and abusive language (a struggle I know, but lets try), can you think of  cycling related nicknames and their likely trophy wins, if we had them, for members of our club? Be careful though…..some of them might stick!!

Here’s an example to start you off :- Martin Lucas - Sat nav- Winner “most time spent 10 yards in front of the bunch after sitting in all morning”.

26/10/2008 Club Run to Hambleton Cafe

Good turn out of 8 riders in total - Al, Doug, Brad, Phil, Dave S, Craig Newton, Martyn B and Derek. Derek, Phil and Dave went the shorter route over to Keighley cafe and the rest went over Peckett Well but all meeting up at Hambleton Cafe with very good timing !The weather was not great, blustery and showery with some sunny intervals - making it hard going at times, but fast descents ! Martyn unfortunately had a puncture but overall good time was had by all. 

Thorpers on Facebook?

Yes, Ravensthorpe Cycling Club is now on the social networking site “Facebook”.

With links to our web site and blog…..

 For any of you registered with facebook please feel free to join the group.

 Happy Blogging

Big’N

Calling all artists !

Just wondering if there’s any budding artist out there or anyone who knows one ! Who may be interested in putting together a poster and some flyers that we could distribute to promote the club and hopefully attract new members. Unfortunately we are technologically inept so that rules us out !