Hop Dog Horn

Wareham Forest was the scene of Sunday’s two hour Hop Dog Horn mountain bike race, a course featuring a mix of single track and gravel fire roads, with some of it very muddy after some recent rain.  Although the majority...

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GDW Club Trip/Training camps

Gillingham and District Wheelers are running 2 club trips abroad next year.  Details of the trips here:Sayalonga, Spain – 16 to 23 Feb 2015Mark Geddes is organising a week in Southern Spain (nearest airport Malaga) and has...

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Burrington Coombe Hillclimb and Other Stuff

The Bristol South CC ran the final WTTA Hardrider event of the season on Sunday, with 99 riders feeling the pain of the 3 kilometre Burrington Coombe hillclimb.  As always, the BSCC put on a great event and there was a bumper...

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GDW MTB Series, Round One

The GDW mountain bike winter series got underway today with an off road time trial.  Jim Broom had devised a varied 8 kms course just North of Mere, with a long flat section, a tough climb up Whitesheet hill and a fast descent...

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Some Recent Results

Chris Mullett has been taking part in a couple of recent Open time trials, continuing with the good form he has had this season.  The competitors at the Yeovil CC 10 mile event on September 20th were treated to some great...

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New pics on the Photo page!!

For those interested in cycle touring or just some nice scenery I’ve posted some pics from my 10 day 700 mile trip across France this summer on the Pictures page ‘Caen to Montpellier 2014’ .  A mix of shots...

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Final Mere Hillclimb

21 riders battled against an Easterly headwind and the steep gradients of Mere Hollow at last night’s final hillclimb event of the season.  Kim Little set the quickest time.  Again.  He also won the series overall.  Again....

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Bulbarrow Hillclimbs/Other results

The club had its first hillclimb event at Bulbarrow today, and although only a few riders took part they all enjoyed it.James Chant was hampered a little by having to use his tt bike but was quickest on both the Woolland and...

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Mere Hillclimb R4

The penultimate round of the GDW hillclimb series had another good turnout of 22 riders, with many of them matching their times from the previous week.  One of the riders who improved was Kim Little, who lowered his own course...

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Mere Hillclimb

After a break of four months or so, the GDW hillclimb series resumed this evening with a good turn out of 21 riders.  The expected head wind on the course suddenly died down just before the start and so it turned out to be a...

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Stour 2 Up TT

Even though it was a miserable evening for riding a bike around, there were 21 pairs of riders at the 2 up time trail, the final GDW tt of the season.  Kim Little and Paul Hopkins were quickest, a minute clear of Paul Caton and...

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Youth Squad Race Reports

The GDW Development Squad riders have been getting a load more great results recently at the recent Winchester crit races and at a couple of the Odd Down summer series races.  James Little was presnet and has kindly written the...

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Stour TT

There were lots of personal and season best times at tonight’s tt, with the field of 38 riders making full use of the strong tailwind out to Manston.  The main news from the evening was a new course record for Jay Hookins,...

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Racking Up The Miles

Jenny Lucas, Sarah Wheeler and John Phillips have all been tackling some long distance rides of late, here are some reports from each of them about their rides – From Jenny – This was my fifth trip with Saddle...

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Stour Provost tt

Another win for Charles Rees on a windy evening lifted him up to the top of the points tables with one round to spare.  Charles was just nine seconds ahead of Paul Hopkins with a good time from Kim Little placing him third....

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GDW club trip – Mallorca 2015

In addition to Mark’s winter training camp, I am looking to organise a club trip to Mallorca from Sat 4 – Sat 11 April 2015 which is the Easter weekend so those tied to school holidays should be able to go....

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Gillingham TT etc

Charles Rees was just quickest on Wednesday night on the Gillingham tt course, with Paul Hopkins only two seconds adrift.  Kim Little moved to the top of the points table with third place.  Although th econditions didn’t...

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GDW Sun Ride (West Bay)

 The remnants of Hurricane Bertha are definitely going to hit southern England so the ride to West Bay probably won’t go ahead, but there may still be a shorter ride from Wheels at 9.00 am for those brave enough to venture...

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Sunday Club Run – West Bay (10 Aug)

There will be a Sunday club run departing Wheels, Gillingham at 09:00 this Sunday.  Depending on numbers there will be 2 rides meeting up for lunch/cake/refreshments at West Bay.Jim Broom will be leading the 1st ride and will be...

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Gillingham TT

There were loads of pb and season best times at the latest GDW time trial, held on the 10 mile Gillingham course on a hot and still evening.  As well as a record entry of 43 riders, Charles Rees broke the course record by 14...

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