This year LWCC have partnered with @Trainsharp Cycle Coaching to offer two of our members a full year of subsidised coaching to improve fitness and reach their cycling and racing goals in 2024 and beyond. Lucky enough to be on…
Here are Bob's thoughts around our questions... 1. Favourite bike? The short answer to this must the “the last bike that I bought”. I started racing in the 1960s on a steel bike that probably weighed around 15kg or more.…
Round 5 of the Challenge Tyres London & South East Cyclo Cross League was held on Sunday 20th October. It was promoted by Southborough & District Wheelers and held in the rolling grounds of Somerhill School in Tonbridge. The steep…
Autumn in the United Kingdom is hill climb season and Saturday 12th October saw a double-header. The morning's event was the East Sussex Cycling Association (ESCA) Hill Climb up Firle Beacon and formed Round 3 of the South Downs Hill…
The last of Lewes Wanderers' time-trials of the year took place on the morning of Sunday 22nd September. The Circuit of Chailey starts near the village hall and climbs Cinder Hill to join the A272. From there riders turn west…
A week after the London & South East and Sussex Cyclo-Cross Leagues kicked off the East Kent version commenced on Sunday 8th September. The Tim Mountfield Memorial event was hosted in the grounds of Sandwich Technical School and Darren Haynes…
Peter Baker spent the morning of Bank Holiday Monday 26th August participating in the Sussex Cyclists' Association "Sporting" 25-mile time-trial . Sporting in this sense means far from flat and the twenty-two competitors were required to complete just over three…
Dan Street and Paget Cohen rounded off their working weeks with a rush-hour drive into Surrey in order to race on Friday 9th August. The event was Cyclo-Cross Reigate - a one-off, non-championship cyclo-cross race within Priory Park in that…
The tenth and final round of Lewes Wanderers' series of 10-mile time trials took place in dry, but cloudy conditions on the evening of Monday 22nd July. The event incorporated the annual "2-up" Championship where riders pair-up and ride together,…
Round 8 of Lewes Wanderers' series of 10-mile time trials took place in mild, but showery conditions on the evening of Monday 8th July. That could possibly explain why only five riders took to the start line and that was…