Author: Paul Goodwill

Rider Update from Dylan Hicks

Many of you will know club volunteer Dylan Hicks who has been a member of PPYCC for over 8 years. Always an enthusiastic rider, Dylan has also displayed increasing talent in recent seasons and was selected to join British Cycling Team GB Apprentice programme for 2020. Clearly this season has not been what Dylan and…
Read more

PPYCC 2020 Circuit Championships – Saturday 3rd October

We are pleased to announce that PPYCC circuit championships 2020 will be held on Saturday 3rd October replacing our normal Saturday morning coached session at Preston Park. Each age group will have bunch two races. U8/U10 races will be 10mins each and U12, U14 and U16 will be 15 mins each. In order to keep…
Read more

Items for sale …..

Club member Dylan Hicks has some great items for sale ….. Elite Rollers – These were my first rollers and have been well used but are in good working order. Highly recommended for leg speed, balance and control on the bike. – £40 ONO Elite Super Crono Fluid turbo trainer – This turbo is in…
Read more

Windy opening race for PPYCC riders at The Hoggenberg

It’s been 5 months since the last major youth circuit race and Saturday saw the first big race of the 2020 season at Redbridge “The Hoggenberg” with PPYCC riders racing in windy conditions against strong fields of riders. Alfie Bunyan was racing in the u14s where the field split very quickly into small groups in…
Read more

The 2020 Season

Happy 2020 ! Hope you’ve all had a good Christmas and have been riding your bikes since the club sessions finished. The cyclocross season is drawing to an end with National Championships next weekend and just a couple of London-South East cross events remaining. And so we now look forwards to the 2020 road and…
Read more

Inner and Outer Ring Sessions Sat 5th October – Final Distance Challenge 2019 !

Tomorrow we’ll be running the final distance challenge of the season. Inner Ring riders will complete their distance challenge by age group after a warm up. It could be quite cool first thing so please bring long sleeves/legs to warm up in. Outer Ring riders will complete the 10 mile TT after their warm up.…
Read more

PPYCC Circuit Club Championships 28th September

On Saturday 28th September the PPYCC Circuit Club Championships will be held at Preston Park. We’ve moved venue this year from Cyclopark to our home track to hopefully make the club champs more accessible.  The inner ring will run as normal on Saturday 28th and we hope many of our riders will stay on and…
Read more

British Cycling South East Regional Circuit Race Championships 27th July, Eastbourne

The weekend of 27-28th July is Eastbourne Cycling Festival which is a great day out for a visit with lots going on. Within the festival on Saturday 27th July the event is hosting the British Cycling South East Regional Youth Circuit Race Championships. The races are all on closed roads around the seafront and surrounding…
Read more

Isle Of Man Youth Tour 2019

Last weekend saw over 350 riders head to the Isle of Man for the annual youth tour which formed the 2nd round of the British Cycling National Youth Circuit Series. PPYCC was represented by 3 riders – Freddie Newman and Lukas Nerurkar in Youth A and Luke Goodwill in Youth B. Stage 1 was a…
Read more

Inner Ring Saturday 20th April – Distance Challenge

The Inner Ring session on Saturday 20th April will be a Distance Challenge. For those who haven’t taken part in a Distance Challenge before it’s a time trial on the track where we set the riders off individually at 30 second intervals and they complete a set number of laps, depending on age group, in as…
Read more