Swindon RC – Road Race
Sunday the 25th was the Swindon Road Club Cotswold Road Race had a full field of 60 riders from an original entry of over 140. The 2/3/4 category race also incorporated a round of the Cotswold Cycle Racing League (this was the 6th of 7 rounds). The race left Brinkworth House in cool and overcast conditions with a slight drizzle falling. Thankfully the drizzle fizzled and the roads dried out making for generally good racing conditions. The peloton stayed together until the second time up Callow Hill when the race split and a group of seven riders gained a gap of around 40 seconds, a second group of about nine riders followed, then the remains of the peloton some 30 seconds further behind. By the final lap the 2 front groups had merged and at the bell they had a 60 second advantage over the chasing peloton. Over the final…
TORQ 12:12
So the 25th of August was the TORQ 12:12 epic MTB race and we had 2 great teams in it – 1 3 man team with Peter Dixon-Clarke, Lee Johnson and Garrick McMullin and one 4 man team with Jonathan Fearne, Oli Woods, Kevin Harrington and Mike! It was a great day with many teams being pro or semi pro so the competition was on! Each team experienced some mechanicals but at the end the 3 man team managed to get 10th and the 4 man team 12th in their categories!! Such a great result for SRAM and a great day for all so well done to all you guys! Bring on next year. Here’s a few photos from the event, gallery coming soon!
New Club Website
The new website is now live, there’s still some tweaking to do, and functions to add, but have a look and see what you think. We’ll soon be introducing and using the Events Calendar to schedule club rides, and races etc. So keep your eyes peeled for that, we’re also working on integrating Facebook logins into the site so you can comment, like and share direct from the site to your favourite social networks. Exciting times ahead for the club. Be patient and it will all come together! Thanks!
Tour of Tidworth
SRAMcc Race will be representing the club at this years very first ever, Tour of Tidworth, organised by Army Cycling Union viagra samples. Many of the team have already been competing this season at the Ludgershall test track events, also organised but ACU. So we jumped at the chance to enter this 3 day stage race event. The team taking part is as follows: Edwin Puttock Michael Ford David Peel Joe Henstridge Steve Reno Liam Walsh Everyone at the club wishes them the very best! To find out more, check out the Tour of Tidworth website here: Tour of Tidworth
Junior Section
You may not know but the club is now running a Junior section on Tuesday nights at 6:30pm for mountain biking.
Club Alps Trip – Tour de France Week
SRAMcc have been on tour in the Alps. We visited in May, when it was a littel bit chilly shall we say! But we’ve also been across in July and managed to watch a stage of the Tour, a great week’s cycling was had by all and we’re looking forward to doing it all again next year. Just the Tour of Britain to look forward to now!