Category Archives: Miscellaneous

It was late June and Jayne Paine was lying in the middle of the road with a broken hip. All thanks to an inattentive pedestrian. Her routine ride home from work was now anything but routine and her plans for … Continue reading →

The “Old Roads and Drove Roads” Audax offers a rare chance to ride through the closed village of Imber.  In November 1943, the Imber residents were summoned to a meeting and given 47 days notice to leave their homes, as … Continue reading →

Over the last weekend Willesden riders took part in Audax rides in two quite different parts of the country. The first report is from Sylvene, who rode the sell out “New Forest Onshore ” Audax, which started from Lymington on the … Continue reading →

The Wednesday “WoW” rides usually start from Windsor End in Beaconsfield. These rides are enjoyable and well supported, but every so often we like to vary the routes and start from somewhere different. What we fondly call a “WoW Awayday”! … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

  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 →