CLUB MEETING

The next club meeting will take place on TUESDAY 13^TH   May 2008

 at the NAVIGATION HOTEL, Hyde Road , Woodley starting at 8.00pm.

MOVED TO TUESDAY THIS MONTH

 

cdnw road race – help needed

We are again assisting at this event which is on Sunday 25^th May.

 The course is at  Lach Dennis  starting at 10.00am and Headquarters

 are at Byley Village Hall. Paul Towler has the names of marshals but

 some additional help is needed so please contact him if you are available.

fred Gratton 25– marshals needed

Our own open time trial promotion is the Fred Gratton 25 on Saturday

14^th June starting at 1400.   Again help is required to erect signs, marshal

and organise the race HQ.  We also need to enter several riders as this year

 our race is the inter club event with the Stone Wheelers. Please assist if

 you can and contact Chris Aimson.

club 25 result   MDTTA Event  J2/9   19th April

                                                Actual           Handicap Net    

                                            1. George Coghlan                   1.02.37            NQR

2. Phil Robinson                       1.02.46            12.15               50.31

3. Andy Pyatt                           1.04.01            16.43               47.18

4. Peter Brocklehurst                1.13.01            20.04               52.57

5. Harry Fletcher                      1.13.40            26.23               47.17

6. Alan Prince                           1.16.47            19.44               57.03

                        Fastest – G Coghlan                 1^st Handicap – H Fletcher

A close run contest in very windy conditions, George winning from

 Phil by 9 seconds and Harry taking the handicap by 1 second from Andy!

CLUB 10 SERIES

These are Westmead organised events and we assist with marshalling.

They are on Wednesdays, course J2/1, start at 19.15 and entry fee £3.00

payable when signing on.

There will be a limit on the maximum number of riders in the early and

 later events.  The use of rear lights is recommended when riding all of

these events. Dates as follows:-

 

Wed, 30th April, 2008,                        Wed,7th May, 2008 (marshal)

Wed, 14th May, 2008 (marshal)       Wed, 21st May, 2008 (10 series)

Wed, 28th May, 2008 (10 series)         Wed, 4th June, 2008 (10 series)

Mon, 9th June, 2008 ( Westmead hill climb on Brickworks)               

Wed 11th June, 2008 (10 series)          Wed, 18th June, 2008 (10 series)

 Mon, 23rd June, 2008 (Westmead hill climb on Cat and Fiddle)

Wed, 2nd July, 2008 (10 series)           Wed, 9th July, 2008 (10 series) 

Wed, 16th July, 2008 (10 series)

Wed 23rd July, 2008 (marshal) Wed 6th August, 2008 (marshal)

 Wed 13th Aug 2008 (marshal)          Wed, 20th Aug, 2008 (10 series)

Wed, 27th Aug, 2008 (10 series)

For your times to count you will need to marshal in at least one of the events

 we are covering. The ones first two are already covered but volunteers

are required for the later ones, at least 4  per event so to assist so please

 let Harry Fletcher know which you can marshal. 

club events 

The next event to count as a club event this year is the MDTTA 100

which is on  6^th July, followed by the MDTTA 50 on 19^th July and the

 Stretford Whlrs 25 on 14^th September.

And don’t forget the club road race on Sunday 7^th September

club records

There are several club records waiting to be broken, the 25 mile team

 standing since 1962 for instance, 30 mile team since 1965 and 50 mile

 team since 1962. With 3 fast riders (George , Phil & Andy) all in action

 this year maybe some of these will be challenged starting perhaps with

the 25 in the Stone Whlrs event on 17^th May.

other results

South Lancs RC 10 J2/3           Andy Pyatt                         25.51         29 Mar

                    Harry Fletcher                    32.19        

Withington Whlrs 25 J2/9       Andy Pyatt                      1.03.26         5  April

Stratford CC 10 K33/10          George Coghlan                  24.01        12 April

Macclesfield Whlrs 25 J2/9       Andy Pyatt                      1.05.36         12 April

VTTA(Mcr & NW) 10 J2/1         Phil Robinson                     24.16         15 April

Peter Brocklehurst               29.39 (T)  

more from the archives

Extract from the news sheet JULY 1965 – Memories of a wet club 50.

 

 The morning started innocently enough, but some of the older hands cast doubting

 looks in the direction of those light delicate – looking clouds high on the western

 horizon. They had obviously seen such things before! Everyone started in dry

conditions, with a bit of pale watery sun for most of us. But this was quickly transformed

. By the time even the first starter had reached Holmes Chapel, the weedy sun had

given way to a bank of low threatening cloud and as quickly again to rain. It was quit

e gentle at first, for all of two minutes, before it really let us know its strength. Once it

 had decided it was going to let us know all about it, we were all drenched and soaked

 to the skin. This brought about a startling change in the riders. No longer did they

 look immaculate members of a fit fraternity, but looked distinctly mucky and unhappy

, looking feverishly for some legitimate excuse for packing. Bill Hamm was first to

achieve this distinction, even though it took two goes at unscrewing his cotterless

chainset before it became sufficiently bad to pack with dignity.

            Shortly afterwards, Ernie Joules, no doubt after riding through all the loose

 flints and gravel he could find, succeeded in puncturing, the third time in five events!

As he was changing his tyre to ride back to the start, a red and yellow clad imp rushed

past in the opposite direction pouring out a torrent of abuse at the unfortunate gent.

 When Ernie reached Manor Lane, he had a brief chat with Fred Gratton, deviser in

 chief of this torture, during the course of which a bedraggled  Mike Stanley  arrived

and announced his intention of retiring. .He was quickly put right on this score, that

 he would not be allowed to pack without achieving some honourable means of doing

so. He had to be put back on his machine and pushed in the general direction of the

 finish. Next to arrive was Dave Moss, who proved to be made of less stern stuff than

 Mike. No amount of ’persuasion’ would make him get back on his steed and finish

 the course, making the excuse that he was riding a ‘25’ on the following day. Ernie

 and Dave then got into Bill Clayton’s van which conveniently happened to be passing

by, and set off round the course in search of Mr Moss Sen. who had Dave’s clothes in

 his car. The search proved fruitless or perhaps Dave’s dad had heard that he had

 packed, and so three spectators and two packers returned to the start to await the

 arrival of those who had been unfortunate enough to go all the way round. The two

 packers sat back in comfort, whilst Mr & Mrs Clayton and the redoubtable ‘Crasher

’ Jones prepared toast and tea for them.

            Eventually the riders came speeding in to the finish and after all the

speculation the race was won by Brian Gourley, and the Handicaps by Warren

 Francis and Stan Griffiths.  Before the event was over Ernie’s day was made

complete by the news that the red and yellow clad imp, who had earlier criticised

 Ernie’s choice of tyres , had had the misfortune to have the wind escape rapidly from

 his back tyre  whilst he was cornering, thereby causing him to fall off his machine and

 disappear into a hedge, in the process of which he tore his shorts badly enough to

require a new pair. Perhaps Ernie isn’t the only one to use poor tyres. Still its hard

 luck Jeff, you should have done it earlier and saved the fag of going all the way round.