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Important
Club nights every other Wednesday last one 25th Aug at Minet park springfield road Hayes     UB2 0LT meeting in Goals bar at 8-15pm after LVRC race which starts at 7-00.
In general we have around 6 members racing in the series .
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Training
Next date to be announced
Training day's at 9.00 am meeting at HP18 9QN 42 Brill Rd . This is open to club members but guests can attend for one session.
Day will consist of 2hr group B ride & a 4 hr Ride group A ride followed by a light lunch and training talk.

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Another successful Training camp weekend August 1st
6 Club members took part in the V02 and Watts testing on Saturday followed by a social a few beers and homemade Curry Thanks Helen.
Next day 8 rider we went out for a 2 1/2 hr steady ride in the Oxfordshire countryside followed by a short break.
some riders called it a day but the keen few went for a harder Zone 3 2 hr ride with Alexey showing great grit and determination to stay in there.
Also Alex and Alexey rode the La Tap last week in which Alexey beat his Dad for the first time.
They have both got BC Licences now and plan to ride the last few events at Hillingdon Circuit with Jason Jones.
Jason came down with a bug over the week end so missed the ride on Sunday.
Sam grant a 17 yr old junior rode well over the week end and with a bit of help could be a good rider as he possesses a Killer sprint.
It was nice to have Harry Lodge turn up for the Sunday Ride giving out useful advise to the riders .

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Gregory Holmes rides another 10 TT report coming soon ********************************************************
Road men had a busy weekend with Scott taking 3rd in the High Wycombe E123 Race on Saturday breaking away early with 3 riders.

Simon 5th in the LVRC Road Race near Newbury on Sunday followed by 5th in the BC Terry Cronin Masters race at Hillingdon .
With Scott finishing 8th and then 12th in the following 2-3-4 Cat race straight after.

Scott also won the last Quest very wet LVRC Circuit race of the season with Simon taking 3rd and Duncan close behind Andy also rode well and has been riding strong all season and is a real team player pulling back breaks etc.
Paul showed up to give his support and after, We all went for a well deserved curry.
Full reports on all races BC & LVRC Page’s
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Scott Holmes Wins a bronze in National LVRC Road Race Championships
Full report on LVRC RR page

Graham Weeks wins Championship 10 report on 10 TT
Tim Burrows wins old crocks 10 report on Old crocks page
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     Scott wins at Hillingdon Circuit Quest LVRC on 11th Aug & Peter Jones wins his Cat.           Full results coming soon
Also Scott 7th at MK Bowel in the Team Corley BC E-1-2 Race on 5th Aug
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05-8-10 Evening 10 results P Egan & Graham Pettitt improve Time
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Simon wins Cat at MK Bowel LVRC on 3rd Aug
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Alex and Alexey complete London to Paris ride on Thursday 5th Aug.
Riding time was 16 hrs Total miles 253
Well done to both report coming soon
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29-07-10 Evening 10 results
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End of Season social
Sportive Week end 3rd October arrive Saturday afternoon New forest.
Book into B-B and go out for Dinner.
Sunday ride 100 km Sportive.
Social night out Curry and a few beers stay B-B then return home Monday.
Please let Paul know in the next few weeks so he can make a block booking.
Booking through Paul Egan 07886196352

Also Hillingdon Circuit Quest LVRC 15th Sept 7-00 Prize presentation and Social

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Simon Williams 3rd place in BC Quest Race Scott 2nd full report including National BC Masters on BC Results
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Helen and Gregory Holmes ride there first 10 mile TT
Weston-on-the-green
Report in TT 10 mile page

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Paul Egan to re-join as full member
Paul organising end of season sportive week end in new forest for members

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Oakley RR another fantastic day report in Road race report page

Duncan Railsport Champ
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Sunday another member of the Hillingdon Cycling Club, Jim Burgin will be seeing the results of his hard work over the last year finalise when he promotes the Veterans Time Trials Association's National 50 Mile Time Trial Championship on the Amersham/Great Missenden course. A total of 48 riders from all parts of the county have entered. This will be followed by a 50 Mile Time Trial on behalf of the West London Cycling Association of which Jim is General Secretary. The Championship event will start at 7.00 am. Many members of the Club will be up early and will be helping Jim with these prestigious events
Connie
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Scott Holmes 5th Inverse GP BC event 19/06/10

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Alex takes a tumble at Hillingdon LVRC on Wednesday in his first bunch sprint with road rash on hip shoulders and arms .Cash hat destroyed with clothing as well but bike ok.
Duncan comes in Second overall with Peter 1st in his Cat and Graham 2nd.

Paul Egan Alex- Alexia -Andrew-Simon-Paul all road the dragon ride 118 miles of hell in south Wales report coming soon

Duncan Sherwood new National LVRC Crit Champion 2010

Duncan won with a race long break with two other riders
Scott Holmes came in 4th after breaking clear with 4 other riders 40 mins to go .
Simon Williams finishing 12th and Andy in the next group.
Great team effort from the Hillingdon with Two LVRC National Champions in two years.
Full report and photos on LVRC Road Results Page.

Scott Holmes 9th in BC Divisional Championships
after a hard start to the year riding in mainly long E-1-2 Road events.
Full report On results page

Scott Holmes Wins Quest LVRC crits on Wednesday

Yesterdays 25 !!! after 2 miles I realised why I don’t time trial anymore…there F#$#in hard !!!
Cold drizzly rain and windy, really fast to the turn, but got caught by some old boy with disc wheel, low profile etc, he flew past me in a massive gear, I was on the hoods twiddling (need to ride some bigger gears) that demoralised me. Finished with a 1.05.14. Disappointed, but I did not ride in my limits as I was on for a big ride straight after in prep for the Divs & Dragon ride. Nevertheless I did try and my glutes were pretty sore afterwards. Took me 10 miles to get the buttocks feeling loose again after the race. Total mileage for the day…85, so a good day really.

Tony Gibb won it with a short 53, great ride, the last 2 miles were into the wind with a nasty long drag, I didn’t get over 18mph !!!
Time trialling over for the next 20 years !!! Simon Williams

After the spring like weather of late, It was a shock to the system for members of the Hillingdon Cycling Club when they turned out to help club mate Cecil Hambleton promote a 10 mile time trial on behalf of the Veterans' Time Trialling Association's, London & Home Counties Group on the Maidenhead/Marlow course on Bank Holiday Monday, the. weather turning quite wintry with heavy showers throughout the event. The club had two representatives taking part, Graham Pettitt who clocked 25.39 and Bill Gladwin 31.50.

On Saturday afternoon Cecil was himself in action when he rode in the West London Cycling Association's 10 Mile Time Trial at Newbury and clocked 30.31.

The previous Saturday saw Graham Weeks ride the Newbury Cycling Club's open 25 mile time trial and did extremely well to record a super time of 56.49. Bill Gladwin also rode and clocked 1.17.20.
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Sat May 1st - Greg Riley Memorial LVRC Road Race full report in results page
Simon Williams 1 st in a epic 30mile long break Photo Home page.
Scott Holmes 19 th in Chas Messenger support race.

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Skin suits in and tops but shorts have to be sent back should be re made within 2 weeks.

More results in go to results page Hillingdon Cycling Club's Graham Weeks continues to impress with a 56

Results in from LVRC Quest circuits

Simon 2nd and 3rd in two events this week
Graham Weeks wins first 10 of the year in the new kit report on results page

Duncan is of to a great start with his first race on Sat 13th March, an excellent 4^th place from a break of 6 riders

Full report on results page BC road

Sunday 7 th March Training camp was another successful day . Six riders turned up for a great zone 2 , 4 Hr ride. Alex- Alexey -Andrew-Simon-Paul and Scott
"Thanks Helen for the Fab home made soup"
Simon was the hard man of the day as he rode on his MTB bike
Andy was the fool of the day as he bought Stuart grimes old wheels and broke a spoke.
Well done see you all on 28th March.

I will post any info you have about cycling ,drinking ,eating ,anything.

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A Brief History of Time (Trialling)

Hi, I’m Graham Weeks and I have been time trialling on and off for some thirty five years. Time Trialling is a race against the clock. Riders set out at minute intervals on an out and back road course (usually). The quickest time wins.

Time trialling is known by our continental counterparts as the ‘race of truth’. In time trialling or testing there are no wheel suckers, no tactics (usually) just a flat out VO² max blast. The standard testing distances are 10 miles; 25 miles; 50 miles; 100 miles and as far as you can go in 12 (yes read and weep) 12 hours.

Many time trials take place each week around this area including Bucks, Berks, Surrey, Herts, etc. ‘Open events’ take place mainly on Saturdays and Sundays and ‘enter on the line’ club events mainly mid week evenings.

There is a wealth of history and experience of testing in the Hillingdon Cycle Club and new members can tap into a wealth of information, tips and training help; just ask me.

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A Christmas Tale

Ours is a singular esoteric sport, I know not why we shave our legs or not shave our face before a time trial, although I do.When I was young I scoffed at the etiquettes and traditions of cycling; now I truly love and embrace these idiosyncrasies. One of my favourite cycling institutions is the Boxing Day 10.

This year I cycled out to Maidenhead Thicket on my winter bike complete with mudguards, lights, festooned in tinsel and me sporting a rather good Father Christmas hat.

You have probably noticed that our sport is not solely occupied by cyclists anymore, we now share our sport with triathletes, duo athletes, sportif riders and the like, these people and a good lot they are, do not always understand our ways and stared wide eyed at the Santa’s, Reindeer clad bikies etc.

Mind you two testers rather let the side down by turning up with full on how yer father carbon low pros’ with disc wheels and all the bells and whistles. I don’t know about you but I almost think that sort of behaviour on the hallowed Boxing Day 10 is bordering on cheating.

Anyway this is what I wanted to tell you. As I am waiting to go a lady triathlete in front of me refuses to be held by the pusher off, the time keeper gives the customary ‘thirty seconds’ to go followed by ‘fifteen seconds’ then he begins the count down
Five
Four
Three
The lady scoots off into the distance, we testers are aghast!, astonished looks are exchanged between the gathered, but this is the best bit, the timekeeper does not miss a beat, the carries on totally unfazed
Two
One
Gone
His total sangfroid had me absolutely creased up and I was still laughing when it was my turn.

I trolled round, caught two Santa’s and one reindeer and throughly enjoyed myself. I managed a 26.40 (only beaten by the two low pros) and rode home a happy bunny after a sherry and two mince pies.

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Report on the Bike jumble held on the 14th November 2009

Roy and I were very sorry to have missed attending the Bike Jumble this year, although we did a little bit to help before we went on holiday to Tenerife on the 10th, and we did think about everyone helping, especially when we heard England were having atrocious weather while we were enjoying warm sunshine and light evenings. My ex colleague, Simon Ekless who is now in charge of fundraising for the charity PACE had sent me an e-mail for our return with details of the event. Apparently in spite of the bad weather, a record number of persons attended. All the tables had been booked before the big day. Simon was very grateful for the help he received from:

Brenda and Tony Norris who collected the entrance money at the door raised £335.65.

The Stall responsible for the selling of bikes and anything bike related, including clothing made £653.00 which was manned by Chief salesman Pete Cross with Pete Hoare, Brian Harris, Simon Williams and Brian Major..

In spite of the Catering running out of bacon for the famous bacon butties by 11 o'clock, an amount of £275.60 was made. Beryl Brooks was a very useful member of this team and she even had time to buy herself a new bike as well.

Money raised from the hire of tables came to a total of £460.00

Therefore, a grand total of £1,724.25 was raised.

Simon has particularly asked me to convey his sincere thanks to all the above - he said he could not have managed without you, and has asked me to tell you that the Recreation Hall has already been booked for the 13th November 2010. Roy and I have made a special note of this. For those who have never attended one of the bike jumbles, it’s a lovely social event meeting up with lots of people from other clubs. It’s also a good way of selling off all those unwanted bike bits so why not have a good sort out and hire a table next year. Cecil did just that and he was very pleased with the result.

Another interesting note Simon told me is that since Roy and I have been helping with bike jumbles for the last eight years £13,500 has been raised. Not bad eh!

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Delysia (Del) Hambelton

28.12.1934 – 13.08.2009

Del became ill some time ago and tragically passed away on Thursday the 13th of August.

Cecil and Del married in 1955 and it was a partnership of joint interests, both were members of the Ealing Paragon CC. Del, having joined the club at 16, was Runs Captain at 18.

From then on she not only rode the bike along with Cecil and the Ealing Paragon but contributed hugely to the furtherance of the pastime. Del was the treasurer of the South West London Ladies’ Association and a committee member of the Ladies’ Road Records Association. For ten years she was treasurer of the VTTA London and Home Counties Group.

On joining the Hillingdon in 1976, Del took up timekeeping club events and readily helped the club’s coaches with transport and refreshments on training weekends. Latterly she became a familiar figure at the end of the telephone at event headquarters as she received results from Cecil at the finish.

Along with the demands of her administrative posts, Del was the VTTA London and Home Counties BAR Champion in 1994 and she won the club’s Ladies’ Invitation 10 on no less than three occasions.

Both she and Cecil took over the running of the Fellowship of West London Cyclists: Cecil as Secretary and Del as Treasurer, taking it through a sticky patch to its present place in the cyclists’ potpourri of nostalgic groups.

The club’s sincere condolences go out to Cecil, Julie, Sara and Mark at the sad loss of a devoted and much loved wife and mother.

The funeral which took place at Breakspear Crematorium on Wednesday the 2nd of September was attended by many friends from the cycling world who joined in the moving tributes and memories.

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