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Cheshire East Tour of Britain Charity Sportive, promoted by Congleton Cycling Club

86 Miles with over 5000 feet of climbing. The route follows some of the roads and all the climbs which the 2016 Tour of Britain stage 3 will be following two days later. Event Date: Sunday 4th September 2016 Event … Continue reading

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CHANGE FOR TONIGHT’S TT

PLEASE NOTE – AND PASS ON IF YOU ARE IN CONTACT WITH ANY REGULAR RIDERS Tonight’s club 10 has been switched from the Chelford based J2/1 to the Congleton based JC27 course on the Holmes Chapel Road. This is because … Continue reading

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Club Run Changes

The Sunday destinations have been shuffled about slightly for the following dates: 23/11 will now be Ice Cream Farm 30/11 will now be Lavender Farm, Dunham 14/12 will now be Beeston (see the Club Run List on the right for … Continue reading

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29/07/2014 Club10 JC/5

Twenty seven members and twelve guests rode the 10 mile TT on the Gawsworth course last night in cooler and cloudier weather than recent weeks. This did not stop the torrent of “personal bests” which included nine members lowering their … Continue reading

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22/07/2014 Club 10 J2/1

Last Tuesday evening was a near perfect one to ride a time trial. Twelve riders got personal best times and several more seasons bests in warm calm conditions on the Chelford course. The winner was Ben Norbury in 21 minutes … Continue reading

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Update on the World Age-Group Championships on 1 June at Pontevedra

Bill Boynton of Congleton Cycling Club was a member of the large GB team at the “Worlds” competing in the ITU Duathlon. He won the bronze medal with 3rd place in the M70-74 Standard distance event in a time of … Continue reading

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Club run to the Tour de France (Sunday 6th July)

Watching the Tour de France is Total Anti-climax, but that is what cyclists do. You sit by the roadside for three hours, and the bunch flashes by in 30 seconds, because it is in Yorkshire it will be cold, wet … Continue reading

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TT League Corrections

At the Beartown Tap club evening last Thursday, Rob Waghorn observed that a “standard time” for one of our riders had switched to the next age a bit early – days before the person’s actual birthday. Sure enough, there was … Continue reading

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Clothing Update

Members’ recent orders have been sent through to Endura for manufacture and you will be informed when they arrive. We have some stock items for immediate availability which are now listed on the clothing page. A small amount of additional stock … Continue reading

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Club runs change & update

The motorised club run has been re-scheduled to 18th May in place of 11th May. Our club run list has been updated with this and extended through to 8th June pending further planning for the summer season over the next two … Continue reading

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Where are my points?

With the new method of awarding points in the Tuesday evening TT series, the results for all the riders (including guests) have been published in the established way but not showing any points. As most of you will realise, the … Continue reading

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Annual Prize Presentation Dinner Pictures

The photographs from the Prize Presentation are now available via the Photos tab. Apologies for the delay in putting these on the web site.

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Hill Climb – 29/09/13

The last of the club’s TT promotions for 2013 took place on Sunday Sept 29th. It was the annual hill climb championship on Mow Lane (Ganney Bank), towards Mow Cop from the Congleton Side. It’s only a mile and a … Continue reading

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Club Runs & Hilly Reliability

The Club Run List has been extended through to early November, see the Quick Link on the right. The Hilly Reliability (much postponed in the early part of this year) has been scheduled for 20th October. It counts for Bob … Continue reading

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Club Runs and Bob Job points

The Club Runs list has been rolled forward for the next few weeks, see the hot link on the right. In order to spread the load of leading the rides and to better cover for unavailability of the most regular … Continue reading

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Club 10 – August 13 – Circuit

The last club evening TT on the JC26 circuit course was run in bright but windy conditions. The 10 miles was covered in 23:47 by Nick Decker, for his first win of the season. He was ahead of Pete Tatton … Continue reading

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Club 10 – August 6 – Gawsworth

Fine weather and the approaching end of TT season brought a club record entry of 50 riders in this week’s 10 on the JC5 course on the Macclesfield/Congleton Road. There was also a record entry of 34 from of our own … Continue reading

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Club 10 – July 30 – Gawsworth

The “podium” in this weeks 10 was filled by our own club riders with Pete Smith 22:19 first, Pete Tatton 23:01 second and Ben Norbury 23:26 third. Pete Tatton maintained his lead in the seasons Bob Job points competition, which … Continue reading

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Club 25 – July 16th

This week’s club 25 on Tuesday took place on the J8/15 course starting near the Chain & Gate pub. Twenty members and six guests started in warm weather with light winds. The outright winner was Philip Knupfer of Manchester Wheelers … Continue reading

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TT Course Swap

Hi everyone. Due to a clash on the Chelford course for next week (18th June), we have had to swap the course with the Gawsworth event which was on 2nd July. 18/06/13  now GAWSWORTH 10 02/07/13 now CHELFORD 10 Please … Continue reading

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