Simpkins wins 30 mile TT, but Kisley claims the Edmunds Cup Banbury Star’s 30 mile Edmunds Cup time trial is one of the club’s toughest, made even tougher this time as it was held on one of the hottest evenings of the year. The circular undulating course started at Tadmarton, went out to Shipston, across[…]
There are three club rides this weekend, all leaving Broadribb Cycles, please be there 15 minutes before the leaving time. Saturday 10am: Andy Perry and Rob Christopher will be leading this 29 mile gentle ride at 13-14mph and features a mid-point coffee stop at the Harley Equestrian Centre, Eydon. Sunday 9am: Matt Watson will be[…]
We celebrate the longest day of the year with the longest time trial of the year so after rising at some ungodly hour to participate in a pagan sunrise celebration at Stonehenge you’ll no doubt want to dash back and compete for the Edmunds Cup on the K4/30 course which we tried for the first[…]
Record 52 rider entry for Banbury Star weekly time trial. One of the warmest and windless evenings of the year so far brought with it a record entry of riders, including an increasing number of women. The entry also contained some of the best local time trial riders, including two pro-riders. One of them George[…]
There are three club rides this weekend, all leaving Broadribb Cycles, please be there 15 minutes before the leaving time. Saturday 10am: Rob Christopher will be taking the gentle ride group on a 28 mile jaunt at 13-14mph out to Sulgrave for a mid-point coffee stop at the Manor. Sunday 9am: Matt Watson is resting[…]
We return to the comfort of Ludlow Drive this Wednesday for what will be the final time trial for a few weeks of everyone’s favourite timekeeper, Mr Keri Williams, before he jets off to watch muddy men roll around whilst playing with their odd-shaped balls. The course is our ever-popular 20k loop with sign-on open[…]
Two Banbury Star CC teams compete at the Silverstone 9up Team Time Trial Held on the iconic Silverstone F1 Grand Prix circuit, Banbury Star CC entered men’s and a mixed team in last Friday’s annual 9up team time trial. Organised by Bicester Millennium CC, a total of 81 teams from a wide area, including two[…]
Fourteen year old Toby Heron wins the Manners Handicap 25 mile TT Following on from father Lee’s Friswell Cup win two weeks ago, young Toby Heron put in an amazing performance to win the annual Banbury Star CC Manners Handicap Cup. He beat guesting pro-rider George Fowler (CatfordCC/Banks), who along with several other riders started[…]
There are three club rides this weekend, all leaving Broadribb Cycles, please be there 15 minutes before the leaving time. Saturday 10am: Andy Perry is at the helm for this 29 mile gentle ride which will be taken at 13-14mph and features a mid-point coffee stop at Wardington Sunday 9am: Rich Collier and Stuart Quick[…]
It’s the Manners Cup time trial this Wednesday which uses a combination of voodoo, black magic, blind faith and guestimation to calculate a handicap time based on an alogorithm that’s so complicated that when it was shown to Professor Stephen Hawking for approval he took one look at it and went back to studying the[…]