The club’s annual Trinders Trophy Downhill Freewheel competition, which now takes part during the club’s two Saturday rides, attracted 27 riders. Mr President explains the downhill rules at the top of the hill From a standing start at the top of Hempton hill, there is only one rule to this competition – no pedalling. The[…]
Recently crowned National U23 TT champion Charlie Quarterman teamed up with local rider Lydia Watts – who finished 10th in the Women’s U23 championship – to dominate the club’s final 2Up TT of the year. It’s not often a club gets the honour of a rider competing in their weekly TT wearing the red, white[…]
Five Star riders, Stuart Quick, Simon Bull, Mike Kirby, Marcus Gaskell and Denise Shepherd, along with our Team Cherwell friends, Ben and Annie Heaney, entered Oxonian Cycling Club’s Open 50 mile TT on Sunday, with only Stuart and Mike having raced this distance before. On a windy morning with an early start the H50/17 course[…]
Keri Williams created it and a few of you have ridden it and now member Mike Kirby gives a great account of his recent 7 Cols ride, as well as his views on Strava. I chased my first ever Strava segment last week. The ‘segment’ in question was the (in)famous 7 Cols ride, devised by[…]
A dry, but breezy evening greeted the 43 riders who turned out for the club’s annual Interclub TT against local clubs AMG Mercedes from Brackley and our regular visitors Team Cherwell. Road works right on the normal finish line meant the regular K4/20 course had to be shortened by around 400 metres, so no records[…]
A Star who has been travelling afar to compete in TTs is Lee Heron, who represented Banbury Star over the weekend down in Abergervenny, Gwent, where he rode in the Cardiff 100 Road Club’s 50 mile Open TT. The R50/1b course is predominantly dual carriageway and doesn’t give riders an easy time with a fair[…]
An overcast, but dry evening with a fresh breeze, made for a somewhat reduced field of 19 riders who turned out for the club’s final 10 mile Wednesday TT of the season – a good test before the club’s Open 10 mile TT on Saturday 31st August. The remaining time trials will be on the[…]
Earlier this month we reported on Stuart Quick’s two crit races in as many weeks – he’s certainly been active this summer, competing in both another crit race and an Open TT last week. On a hot Thursday evening he was back at Milton Keynes Bowl, where a much reduced field started the Cat 4[…]
When you get a lovely warm evening, a return to the club’s favourite 20km course and another appearance of course record holder Charlie Quarteman a large entry of 49 eager riders was always on the cards. Charlie was recently crowned Under 23 National Time Trial Champion, so everyone was wondering how close he could get[…]
Another good entry of 37 riders competed in the club’s Wednesday night TT, this time held on the new K4/10W course, the venue of our new Open TT, first held last September. Starting near the Herb Centre, the course gets off to a fast start with the descent of Warmington Hill and then it’s the[…]