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Club Clothing -
It's arrived
The clothing has arrived so anyone who has ordered any please
get in touch with Phil. There are spare items available if
anyone requires any. |
YCF Lunch and Prize Presentation -
28th Feb
C A Rhodes award presented to Steve
Peat,
World Downhill Mountain Bike Champion. Guest of Honour is Carl
Saint, World Trike Champion. - Full details and menu
CTT Handbooks - Phil Hurt
has several if anyone requires one |
Ron's Reliability 5 - Reliability
Rides 2010
It's nearly that time
of year again folks. |
SUNDAY
31st JANUARY 2010 – SEACROFT
WHEELERS- 80km & 50km. |
SUNDAY 7th FEBRUARY
2010 - HARROGATE NOVA CC - 80km & 50km. |
SUNDAY 14th
FEBRUARY 2010 - AIREDALE OLYMPIC - 80km & 50km. |
SUNDAY 21st
FEBRUARY 2010 - OTLEY CC - 100km & 50km. |
SUNDAY 7th MARCH
2010 -YORKSHIRE ROAD CLUB- 65 Miles & 30 Miles. |
All
entries £1-50. Please try to have correct
change when signing-on.Engraved medal
awarded to all riders completing the five trials (longer
ride only, if two) inside qualifying time. Claim
forms available at last (YRC) event.Full
details of routes available at start of each ride. - Full
Details |
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Gusto Cycling Tours
Win a week’s
complimentary stay at Casa
di Nonna in Tuscany (excl.
travel & meals) from the 17th-24th of April 2010. - www.gustocycling.com
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YCF Yorkshire BAR 2009
Run over distances of 25/50/100
miles and 12 hours, Joel Wainman (Team Swift)
wins the event with YRC's Gordon Midgley 6th
and John Baines 12th - Full
Results
In the short distance event
run over 10/25/50 miles, Joel Wainman (Team
Swift) wins again with YRC's Carl Saint (6th)
and John Colman (8th) making it into the
top 10. YRC also take second place in the team event (Saint/Colman/Fairweather)
whch was again won by Team Swift. - Full
Results |
La
Marmotte 2009
 
Bumper Edition
This year sees many new faces
attempting the ultimate ride. Sadly, it also sees
two Marmotte stalwarts reduced to using motorised transport
for the event. With special reports by Steve Smith, Dave Dixon
and Graham Heath and even a headcam video of Steve Smith and
Pete McGowen descending the Galibier. Read
this special report - La
Marmotte |
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Club Runs and Social Events 2009/10
Sundays November
28th 2009 to January 24th 2010
Club Ride – depart Lawnswood Cemetery Gates at 09:30
Except Sunday December 13th
2009
Depart Lawnswood for Turkey Inn,
Goose-Eye at 10:00
Other Social Outings:
Wednesday December 2nd 2009
Lunch etc at The Cuthbert Broderick (JDW), Millennium Square;
Leeds.
From 12:00 – upstairs bar.
Wednesday December 16th 2009
Transpennine Rail Ale Trail. Meet JD Wetherspoons, Leeds
City Station
12:00. Calling at Dewsbury/Sowerby Bridge/Halifax/Huddersfield
Purchase Metro, Train Only, Day Rover Ticket – approx £5-00.
If you have a Metro Over 60s Bus Pass, it will be cheaper
to buy individual tickets for each journey (35p).
Friday December 25th 2009
Black Bull, Otley Market Place (for 12:00)
Saturday January 23rd 2010
Proposed Opening Day for new JD Wetherspoons in Otley!!!!!
Sunday January 31st 2010
1st Event (Seacroft Wheelers) for Ron’s Reliable Five
2010/
Starts Squire’s Café Bar (between
Micklefield and Sherburn – B1222)
For further info, contact Phil Hurt |
Another
successful Steve Smith organised event. This year saw ninety
three people attending at 'The Village' for this years
Club Lunch.......Results
and report |
Having ridden time trials
every year since 1959 (he's now 66), in events at all distances
throughout the country, Yorkshire Road Club's Stan Mills decided
he needed a new challange.......Read full feature |
YCF
Points Competition 2009
Andy Jackson (Pedalsport
CC) wins the series. John Colman was the best placed YRC
member in 5th place - Final
Table
Photographs from the Pendle
Hill and Crag Vale TT's, FREE downloads at
-www.sportsunday.co.uk |
Yorkshire
Hill Climb Points Series 2009
Matt Clinton (Mikevaughan.co.uk) wins the 2009 series.
Best placed YRC member was James Atkinson in 20th place. - Final
Results 2009
| YRC 2-Stage Hill Climb -
26th September |
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| Photography by Robert Brown |
Matt Clinton put in cracking
performance's on both climbs to claim 1st position
and show why he is the National Hill
Climb Champion. Thank ou to all riders who participated
in this event, every one of you put in a great effort.
We had some very talented young riders in the event, which
was great to see. I hope you all enjoyed event and will
hopefully see you all return next year.
Thank you to Time keepers Phil
Hurt, John & Linda Hardy. Marshalls Stan & Ruby
Mills, John Blomley, Pete Gamble and all other
helpers. Also my wife Marie and son Callum for
the numbers and result board. Thanks for making
this event a success for me as a first time organiser.
Also thanks to Steve Woodrup of Woodrup
Cycles for putting up some of the prizes. Thanks to Nutra
Mulch for allowing spectator vehicles to park
in their entrance on Arthington Bank, and also to the New
Inn at Eccup for the use of their car park
too. A few of our members stayed after the event for
a chat, pint and meal at the New Inn, I would certainly
recommend it as the food was excellent. Finally,
many thanks to all the spectators who came
out to watch the event.
John Colman - Results - Video
of stage one - Video
of stage two |
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Professor
of Pain
The YRC's very own Mark Johnson featured
on BBC's The One Show on Monday this week
If you missed it here's the link
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show
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Unfortunately Mark missed his 5 minutes of fame
as he was picking up a TT bike from Phil Hurt's
Bike Shop.
Mark was inspired to 2nd place
in last weeks Club Scrap event after his 6 year
old son won his first criterium. It was in last
Saturday's under 8 East Bradford CC Championships
at the Richard Dunn centre - Event
web site
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“Club
Scrap” 25
mile Time Trial - Sunday
11th October 2009.
Ian Fairweather wins in 58:47 and is
the only rider under the hour, Mark Johnson
2nd and James
Atkinson 3rd, both riders producing course PB's.
- Results
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Yorkshire
Road Club Annual Luncheon
Sunday 22nd November 2009 - 12:30 for
1pm
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Guest of Honour - Carl Saint
2009 World Tricycle Champion
Tricycle 10 & 25 miles N&WHCRRA record holder
The Village Hotel & Leisure Club
186 Otley Road, Headingley, Leeds LS16 5PR
Details and menu choice
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YRC 'Victory'
Open 50 mile Time Trial -
19th September
COURSE V259/1 Thirsk – Ellerbeck
-Topcliffe – Ellerbeck
- Thirsk. First rider off at 14:01
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Full details - Start
sheet |
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Another year over and Carl Saint rides
a 27:56 to get the years fastest time by just one
second over Matt Howitt. There
were some fast times on the years final
ride, but this as it had been reduced to 11.2 miles
due to roadworks - Full
results
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Terry Burrell -
2nd in Masters Road World Championship Time Trial
From Capetown SA, YRC life member Terry Burrell gets a
silver medal in the 2009 World Champs. Terry says...
"I'm finding it hard to believe
that it is a few months over 30 years since I met Eric
Linley at Cowthorpe Lane End and got involved with Yorkshire
Road Club. Little did I think then that I would still
be riding a bike in 2009, least of all racing on a TT
bike with disk wheel, in a skin suit and 'funny' helmet..
Anyway, I thought my old contacts
in YRC would be interested to know that, after several
(7) years of participation there, I managed to get a
podium result in the Masters Road World Championship
Time Trial (20km)(75yrs+ category) in
St Johann last month ( www.masterswm.org )
Got a 2nd place silver medal with 31m.01s, Bruno Podesta
(Germany) got the Gold medal with a 29m:25. I've had
faster times there but this was my best placed result
so I'm well chuffed."
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Scottish
100 Time Trial Championships
Matt
Howitt gets
Bronze in the Scottish 100 Champs, the podium
results are:
Ian Black Sandy
Wallace Cycles V 3:56:06 + 71:27
Carlos Riise Shetland
Wheelers V 3:56:10 + 66:46
Mathew Howitt
Yorkshire Road Club S 4:01:36
Yorkshire RC Open
25 -
V236/1 18th
July
On a windy but dry day Keith
Murray (Westbrook Cycles)
rode a 52:31 to beat Joel Wainman (Team
Swift) 53:19 and Andy Jackson (Pedalsport
CC) 53:38.
Ian Fairweather was the fastest of
the YRC in
5th with a 56:12. Charlotte Wadsworth (Ribble
Valley CRC) won the ladies event in 1:01:56.
Andrew Howe (Cleveland Wheelers
CC) was first Jumior in 1:18:39. - Mens
Results - Ladies / Jumiors Results
National 100 Time
Trial
Many YRC members feature in the National 100
results this year
23 |
John Colman |
Yorkshire Road Club |
03:59:09 |
30 |
Gordon Midgley |
Yorkshire Road Club |
04:03:50 |
50 |
Steven Smith |
Yorkshire Road Club |
04:20:29 |
52 |
Stan Mills |
Yorkshire Road Club |
04:23:20 |
61 |
Stephen Woodrup |
Yorkshire Road Club |
04:33:53 |
66 |
Allen Bell |
Yorkshire Road Club |
04:52:00 |
70 |
John Baines |
Yorkshire Road Club |
05:01:27 |
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Full Results Men -
Full Results Women
Steve Smith and Denise Shackleton (Yorkshire Velo) were perhaps a little jaded
after riding the
Marmotte the Saturday before.
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Carl Saint -
World Champion
Carl Saint wins the World
Trike Championships 2009. Held in warm conditions
on a technical 15 mile course in St Marsault,
France. He beat Dave Keene a previous 4 time
winner of the event by 3 seconds.
Carl said "The race
ended up being a battle between me and Dave.
There were 2 laps of pretty country lanes with
lots of twisty bends. Then the
last 10 minutes were straight out and back
to a village which had a
couple of speed bumps ... very interesting
on a trike. Even the most
experienced trike riders thought it was sporting
course, so I knew it
would be close between me and Dave.
My TT ended up being a hard interval session
which had me handling the
corners as best as I could then sprinting out
of them to get back up to
speed.
The results took a little while to come out
at the end and me and Dave
were pacing around... I ended up having to
go across the road to the
local bar for a beer.
In the end I scraped it by 3 seconds" - Results -
Photos - Photos
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Carl missed out on the National
50 record by 1min 30secs at the Otley 50 last
Sunday with a 1-54-43 ride.
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Time Trial
Report - Dave
Stone reports on the latest TT results
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John Colman has two wins
in as many weeks, both events run by Bridlington
CC - Report
 IOM
TT 2009
James Atkinson and John
Colman report on the 37 mile Colin
Nelson Mountain Time Trial on the Isle
of Man. - IOM
Reports
YRC had good
representation and results recently with Dave
Meakin winning the Seacroft Wheelers
Hilly 11 and Steve Smith taking
second place. Many YRC riders competed the VTTA
30. And John Colman took second
place in the Clifton CC Time Trial - Full
report
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Bicycle Kicks
A SEASON IN THE SADDLE
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Si Hood is aiming to cycle to every single
York City league match in 2009/2010,
looking to raise as much money as possible for
The Alzheimer’s
Society along the way. - Web site
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Dave Stone Interviews
Our top web journalist is
starting a series of informative interviews
with YRC members. The series kicks off
with John Colman, a continually improving
time trialist who could be embarking
on a new cycling venture - Interview
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The Club's
Hancock 10 11.00am
Sunday 29th March, V212 Arkendale
Ian Fairweather wins
this years event with a 22.43, 2nd John
Colman (23.17) and 3rd Russel Brown (23.34)
- Full
results
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YRC
- The future of the club
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Meet
Dave Meakin's stepson Connor, aged
10, the YRC's youngest member. Connor will
be flying the flag for the Yorkie's at
Whiterose Youth League events from May onwards.
Good luck Connor.
Although he will still be
too young for the 2012 Olympic Games, Connor
will be carefully nurtured by Dave for the
2016 event. Dave said "He will benefit from
my years of success and experience". Dave has
promised him the very best equipment, although
this will mainly be hand me down gear as Dave
doesn't want him to use anything that isn't
up to scratch.
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Dave Stone
gets C.A.RHODES MEMORIAL AWARD
The C.A.Rhodes Memorial for 2008 is to
be made to David Stone MBE and Edward (Ed)
Clancy in recognition of their success
at the Beijing Olympics in both winning
gold medals.
The memorial was instigated in 1961 as
a tribute to the memory of Charles
Arthur Rhodes (1895-1961) doyen
of the Yorkshire Road Club, co-founder
in 1932 of the Yorkshire Cycling Federation
and a nationally recognised timekeeper
and administrator. The Award is
regarded as the greatest distinction Yorkshire
Cycling can bestow.
A copy of the citation
is attached. - Citation
The award will be presented at the Yorkshire
Cycling Federation luncheon to be held
on the 22nd February 2009.
Dave
Stone gets MBE
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Along
with Chris Hoy's Knighthood, Dave Stone gets an
MBE in the New Years honours. Well done Dave.
Cycling did well this year, the full list
is:
Olympians: Sir Chris Hoy (KBE),
Bradley Wiggins (CBE), Victoria Pendleton (MBE),
Rebecca Romero (MBE), Jason Kenny (MBE), Jamie Staff
(MBE), Ed Clancy (MBE), Paul Manning (MBE), Nicole
Cooke (MBE) and Geraint Thomas (MBE).
Paralympians: Darren Kenny (OBE),
Sarah Storey (OBE), Aileen McGlynn (OBE), Jody Cundy
(MBE), Barney Storey (MBE), David Stone (MBE), Anthony
Kappes (MBE), Mark Bristow (MBE) and Simon Richardson
(MBE).
Performance Director: David Brailsford
(CBE)
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Beijing
2008 - Race Report
Dave made it look
easy in Beijing, but the reality was years of dedicated hard
work were needed to achieve the two Gold Medals. Read Dave's
report on what it's like to compete in the Games and how it
feels to win Gold - Beijing report
Dave
Stone wins 2nd Gold medal in Beijing
Dave wins his second Gold
Medal, and the 16th cycling medal of the games, in the mixed
individual road race. He made it look easy by finishing with
a lead of almost three and a half minutes. Dave has promised
to write a report on his experiences in Biejing, so watch this
space - Report -
Pics
David Stone
wins the mixed individual time trial (CP1/2) in 22:14.86 -
Games
report
Dave
on what the Gold Medal means and how he conquered the
trike - TV
interview
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The BBC's
Look North interviewed Dave as he prepared to leave for the
Beijing Paralympic Games. Dave is
the current World Champion in the CP2 category and is tipped
to win gold at the games - TV
interview British Cycling's interview
Details of events and results can be found
on the official web site - Events/Results |
"Sheer
power 2 "
Carl
Saint breaks the National 25 Trike
Record
To go with his National
10 Trike Record, Carl broke the National 25 Trike Record
in the Stone
Wheelers CC event on 20th September on the J5/8. He
rode a 54:48 to take the record. Carl
said "It was a tricky course for the trike with 7
roundabouts and a camber that was always trying to steer
the trike for me. With the tailwind out, I flew to the
turn (well for a trike anyway)" -
Results
To round off his weekend,
the day after the Trike record, Carl won the Cleveland
Couriers 25 by nearly 3 minutes,
in 52-08. YRC took the team prize too, with Carl, Phil
Hurt (58-57) and Mark Johnson (57-19).
Carl breaks the National 10 Trike Record
YORKSHIRE Road Club
rider Carl Saint sliced three seconds
off the 19-year-old record for the Tricycle 10-mile record
in East Yorkshire on Saturday.... Full
story
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Elmet
CRC 12 hour
A
photo gallery
of Yorkies enjoying themselves. Ian Fairweather 233.30
(12th), Stan Mills 226.89 (14th), John Baines 219.80 (15th).
The "Saints" tag team consisting
of Carl, his brother & nephew (13 years old) did 281. Carl
wouls like to say "thanks to Martin and Alison Purser
for the photos and for feeding me!"
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Citrus
Cycling - Cycling in Spain, discounts etc - Web
site
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Hotel Gran San Bernando Riccione - Web site |
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