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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Tour De Ricky – 01 June 2024
One of the highlights of the Willesden calendar is the excellent Tour de Ricky. This year it was held on 1st June and it was an amazing day, all impeccably organised and promoted by our remarkable club mate, Liam FitzPatrick. … Continue reading
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Simon Doughty
As many will already know, this week we heard the very sad news that Simon Doughty had recently passed. Simon was a lovely, funny person as well as a highly respected rider and talented author. Everyone liked Simon for his … Continue reading
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Club kit orders?
If you would like to order the new club jersey and / or shorts. Let Gerry McManus know ASAP. We are likely to have an online shop open to members this week but advance info would be useful as the … Continue reading
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Jayne Paine races Le Tour Des Vallées Azuréennes
Jayne recently journeyed down to the South of France to race in the Tour Des Vallées Azuréennes, a multi stage event held just inland from Nice. The TdVA is a four stage race and also includes a contre-la-montre/Time Trial and was … Continue reading
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Brunel Uni exercise experiment wants volunteers.
An email from Brunel Uni, looking for Guinea Pigs. If you’re interested…. email addresses at the bottom. I hope this email finds you well. I am reaching out on behalf of our research team at Brunel University London. We are … Continue reading
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“Westerley Wednesday” evening Time Trial Series.
Last Wednesday (24th April) saw our friends at the Westerly CC run the first of their popular series of evening time trials at the Hillingdon circuit. Unsurprisingly, the series is known as the “Westerley Wednesday”! The time trial covers 11 laps … Continue reading
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Jim Love
Willesden CC’s former president, Jim Love, passed away recently. Jim, who lived in Kingsbury, northwest London, was a member of the Willesden Cycling Club. He joined the club at the age of 16, around the time the war was ending. … Continue reading
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Hillingdon Time Trials
I got this email the other day. For those who didn’t: Hillingdon Time Trials The 2024 Westerley Hillingdon time trials will start after Easter, so I wanted to let you, as a past rider of our events, know the details … Continue reading
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Serendipitous Cycling
It was our first bike ride in over two months and it was not just our chains that were starting to rust! So our aims would be modest – a short flatish ride around some of our favourite lanes in Bedfordshire. … Continue reading
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Free tickets to the National Cycling Show in June
Julie Anderson passed this on… The National Cycling Show is presently offering some free tickets. If you want some the link to their booking page is https://editor.ne16.com/vo/?FileID=5f695c2d-972d-4db8-9ec5-5aead5a134b8&m=ffbb397c-8fc0-4b89-b7c9-ad60ee427b51&MailID=6524952&listid=1004878&RecipientID=10251895352 Track down the page to a button that says “Use code LAUNCH for free … Continue reading
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Riccione Cycling Trip 2024
The proposed dates for the WCC trip to Riccione are 6th to 13th April. We are currently waiting for confirmation of prices / package from the hotel and are looking at flights. WCC members can contact me if they are … Continue reading
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Bike buddies scheme
We got the following email from Lucinda at the Bike Project recently. A cycling worthwhile cause. Hello! My name is Lucinda and I work at The Bike Project. I am reaching out to you in the hope that you can … Continue reading
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Westerley Winter Warmer, 14th January
Our friends the Westerley Club are running their Winter Warmer event on Sunday 14th January. There are three versions, at 110km (1200m of climbing), 61km and a the shorter version is around 44km. The long route is a challenging winter … Continue reading
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Cormac Nisbet becomes a Pro Cyclist
John Wheatley has an update on Comac Nisbet’s pro cycling career. John says “Some members may remember Cormac Nisbet, who was in the Slipstreamers then the Willesden CC, before getting serious as a racing cyclist. “ In a very exciting … Continue reading
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Big Audax Sunday!
Last Sunday (29th October), WCC riders were out on a couple of traditional and popular fixtures on the Audax UK calendar, namely the “Dartmoor Devil” and the “Emitremmus”. Both rides are 100+km long but are quite different in profile. The … Continue reading
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Peter Persistently Picks Plenty of P*nct*r*es (WoW Ride 25th Oct)
This week’s WoW* ride had a great turn out of eight riders, namely Vyv, Anne, Juli-E, Marianne, Ian, Gerry, Pete and yours truly. As we got ready, a buzz went around the groupetto as we began to notice Ian … Continue reading
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WoW (Willesden CC on Wednesday) Ride
This week’s WoW ride consisted entirely of Willesde-dents (Willesden residents). They are a bit of a rare species with in the club, so a 100% Willesde-dent peloton was quite a land mark…. shame it was only a two-up! Many of … Continue reading
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Cookham Bridge closing for five months.
Today’s WoW ride (moved forward to a Tuesday to enjoy the splendid weather) went over Cookham Bridge. I noticed with considerable surprise that our favourite way of crossing the Thames will be closed to traffic from 16th October to 22 … Continue reading
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Club Annual General Meeting this Friday 6th October at 19.30
Club members are invited to our AGM this Friday at the clubrooms on the Hillingdon Circuit. We will have the usual official reports etc but there’s an interesting section on Club Development that we want to get approved and implemented. … Continue reading
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Hillingdon High Wheelers – Sunday 24th September 2023
The Pennies are back at Hillingdon for another day of high wheel racing. At stake will be the British Penny Farthing Championship race trophy, donated by The Pickwick Bicycle Club. The other trophies originate from 1910 and are for riders … Continue reading
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