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Friday daytime ride

alecstilleyedye — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:48:38 GMT

By alecstilleyedye at 11:48pm on 10/03/10

depending on workflow, i might well do. flat or hilly?

Friday daytime ride

NickC — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:18:06 GMT

By NickC at 11:18pm on 10/03/10

maybe baby i'll let you know

nickc

Friday daytime ride

petemcg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:36 GMT

By petemcg at 6:30pm on 10/03/10

I'll be out on Friday 10.30 am at the train station if anyone wants to jpin me.

Let me kow here please.

Cheers

Pete Chairio

weds day ride?

Ant Bethell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:42:30 GMT

By Ant Bethell at 12:42pm on 10/03/10

does anybody fancy riding weds days mtb or road rather than wait for the chain gang? Ant

3 Loops Randonee Sunday 14 March

jjackson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:02:38 GMT

By jjackson at 9:02pm on 09/03/10

alecstilleyedye wrote:
i therefore petition the wise elders of counsel to consult the gregorian calendar, lest another event of public celebration be found to be in opposition (as t'was the case on the feast of st. valentine), causing consternation and internal strife in the abodes of the membership.

The other names attributed to this festival includes Simnel Sunday, Refreshment Sunday and Rose Sunday. Therefore, you must seek refreshments at the Flavours Cafe, Tiverton. This Sunday was also once known as "the Sunday of the Five Loaves", from the traditional Gospel reading for the day. You can witness Mr Galgut consuming the Five loaves with his full breakfast at the Flavours Cafe, Tiverton.
Mothers day is not fixed by the Gregorian calender but the variable festival of Easter and is celebrated on the 4th Sunday in Lent. Next year Mothers day is 3 April.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday

3 Loops Randonee Sunday 14 March

alecstilleyedye — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:57 GMT

By alecstilleyedye at 7:21pm on 09/03/10

i, huw alecstilleyedye melliar-smith do solemnly declare that, had the date fallen outwith the day known as mothering sunday, i would have done, as bananaboat cottom, two loops or three. 'tis as a result of the seed of my loin being unable to organise appropriate celebrations of said day, that i am unable to fulfill such early assembly.

i therefore petition the wise elders of counsel to consult the gregorian calendar, lest another event of public celebration be found to be in opposition (as t'was the case on the feast of st. valentine), causing consternation and internal strife in the abodes of the membership.

i can but seek solace in the knowledge that my esteemed clubmates will honour the event in my absence, and in the fact that the grand prix of bahrain shall be broadcast on bbc1 that day.

3 Loops Randonee Sunday 14 March

Claire — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:43:11 GMT

By Claire at 6:43pm on 09/03/10

I Claire Jayne with wobbly bits Logan do declare that I intend to ride one loop. Him in doors (Wayne) is also intending to ride - however if I can get him out of his pit and make it up to Macc for 9am - I'll wash my bike!

Signed

Monday/Wednesday Night Training Rides

Mickoc — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:20:53 GMT

By Mickoc at 6:20pm on 09/03/10

Wednesday Night ride goes at 7:00pm. It is the same as the Monday night Ride.

Mick O' C

Darley Moor

Pokerface — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:42:48 GMT

By Pokerface at 2:42pm on 09/03/10

Hi - planning on racing at Darley Moor (BC race) this Saturday (March 13).

Just wondering if any other Wheelers are going?

Cheers!

Monday/Wednesday Night Training Rides

Pokerface — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:36 GMT

By Pokerface at 2:41pm on 09/03/10

Haven't been in a long while due to injury - but are lots of people still going to the Mon and Wed night chaingangs?

Still leaving at 7:00?

At this time of year - is the Wednesday ride any different than the Monday one?

Would like to go this Wed, just don't want it to be like the last time I went and be the only one there!

3 Loops Randonee Sunday 14 March

Chris Cottom — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:34:28 GMT

By Chris Cottom at 10:34am on 09/03/10

I Christopher Robert Bananaboat Cottom, being of sound mind if not body, do hereby declare my intention to ride Les Trois Loops, or two if the weather and/or fatigue means that no one else keeps me company or if I remain debilitated by the cold that sadly excused me from the Macclesfield Wheelers Monday Night Chaingang, Slow Department (off the back of the) and that also means that the British insurance industry is having to struggle on without me today.

Signed
X
Chris Cottom, his mark

3 Loops Randonee Sunday 14 March

alecstilleyedye — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:59:37 GMT

By alecstilleyedye at 8:59am on 09/03/10

lucky you. who put this ride on mothers' day?

3 Loops Randonee Sunday 14 March

Simon Galgut — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:43:53 GMT

By Simon Galgut at 8:43am on 09/03/10

I'm allowed out ! Two or three loops depending on the weather.

3 Loops Randonee Sunday 14 March

FREEWHEEL — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:32:24 GMT

By FREEWHEEL at 12:32am on 09/03/10

see you @ 8 am mr j

3 Loops Randonee Sunday 14 March

jjackson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:59:52 GMT

By jjackson at 5:59pm on 08/03/10

I will be doing either 2 or 3 loops with JP. Who else is riding and how many loops?

Macclesfield Wheelers Committee Meeting: THURS 18th March

dharbott — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:41:26 GMT

By dharbott at 8:41am on 08/03/10

Thursday next week

Today's Training Ride

Mickoc — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:39:47 GMT

By Mickoc at 8:39am on 08/03/10

Chris,

I clocked 56 miles. Good ride and thanks to Fozzy for being the routemeister.

Mick

Press Report 7 March

Kev — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:29:05 GMT

By Kev at 7:29am on 08/03/10

Great report Dave.

It was good to mention Colin and his goal of the worlds in August. He has just been to a training camp in Ireland and been given a provisional spot on the Irish national team. He has been training quite hard over the winter for this chance and it was good to hear from him that he made it; now we need to convince him to get a proper winter bike with mud guards and all!!

3 Cheers for Colin!

Press Report 7 March

Claire — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:00:50 GMT

By Claire at 10:00pm on 07/03/10

Great report Dave, good to have the Sunday night ritual back, of logging on to see how everyone has done....thanks so much.....I'll send my results in as soon as I can get my act together and start racing!

Press Report 7 March

thetrotter — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:18:10 GMT

By thetrotter at 9:18pm on 07/03/10

Just to demonstrate that these do still exist, here is the first report of the new season:

"The Wheelers Chris Higgs secured further recognition for her outstanding season last year when she was presented with a special award by Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and Team Sky supremo Dave Brailsford at the annual British Cycling Awards luncheon at the Midland Hotel in Manchester recently.

Higgs has continued to dominate events at the Manchester velodrome despite suffering a nasty crash a few weeks ago which left her unable to ride for several days. On Friday night she won the points race, attacking after the second sprint and forming a break with two other riders and took second place in the 16 Lap race. John Jackson, Roger Wrenn and Chris Quin were also in good form. In the 1 kilometre events Jackson was 2nd in his race, with Wrenn and Quin taking third and fourth place in their event. Quin then went on to win the points race by out sprinting Wrenn on the last lap. Jackson won the" Devil take the Hindmost" by attacking early and staying away..

After winning the North West Cyclo Cross league in his first season back in the sport, Paul Bethell has continued his run of good results. He took sixth place in the final round of the Notts and Derby Cyclo cross league at Bakewell and then in his last race of the current cross season he travelled to Bethesda in North Wales for the Revolution Cycles League event and notched up yet another win by lapping the entire field.
A few (fool)hardy Wheelers have also braved the continued near freezing temperatures for the traditional season opening time trials and road races. Warren Jackson opened his time trialing season in the Chester RC Hilly 14 mile event with a solid 39.24 on a course which the mud made look more like Flanders than Cheshire.

Alex Taylor and Colin Lynch took part in the first round of the Paramount Circuit Race series at the Sundorne Sports Village near Shrewsbury. The tight and technically demanding circuit saw a number of crashes which both Taylor and Lynch did well to avoid and to finish their first race of the season. Lynch, who is training for the paracycling world championships in August, and Taylor followed this up the next day by organising a 80 mile ride around some of the biggest climbs in the Peak District."

Now for my annual reminder that whatever other skills I may have, clairvoyance is not one of them (if it were I would be lying on a beach somewhere having won the Lottery). Although I am prepared to do a little research to discover what people have done, this is limited by other demands on my time on a Sunday evening (like recovering from the Sunday training ride aka sleeping) so if you want to get your name up in lights then I need details of what you have done, together with a little background if at all possible.

Wishing you all a fast and safe season.