We are informed by the Brighton Mitre that their race at Hove Park has plenty of entry places in the Youth categories. Hove Park is a great place to start racing, if you have not taken part in a road race before. With a hill and downhill every 1km there is plenty of excitement and…
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Overnight Mountain Bike trip to Gumber Bothy National Trust Camping Barn After the success of last years trip we will be returning to Gumber Bothy for a mid- summer bunkbarn camping trip on the 29th June 2019 This is very much a social, family event with cycling thrown in. All ages welcome. Cycling activities will be…
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We will continue with the sprinting theme that we started last week. Track bikes.
Today at Inner Ring we ran the second of our regular skills racing sessions. These are intended as a friendly introduction to competitive racing within the club, giving riders a taste of what to expect if they start to attend Go-Ride Racing events run by other clubs in the region. We ran the same three races as…
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With our own promotion in the SE Youth Omnium Series on Sunday we will be focusing on not wearing out any of our riders who are competing and so will be using track bikes but focusing on skills, most notably sprinting.
Club parent Simon Tamplin needs some help tomorrow morning from 09.00 at the track side from parents who are watching on and waiting for their children during the inner ring and outer ring sessions. Simon is moving one of the shipping containers using a tirfor, no special skills or equipment are needed but a bit…
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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…
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Tomorrow’s outer ring session will be on track bikes, and will incorporate continuing accreditation for inner and outer ring riders who wish to start or complete their accreditation for track league. However, the weather is forecast as sunny with some showers, if there is rain in the morning then the session will switch to road…
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With currently a ‘heavy showers’ forecast for Saturday it is unlikely we will be able to use track bikes, even if the day proves fine. Thus, we are going to run a road bike session, so leave your track bikes at home.Come prepared to ride lots of laps, remember your rain coats and of course…
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It is with regret that the club has to cancel the Outer Ring session this weekend, as coaches are unavailable. We will DEFINTIELY be back for an Outer Ring session next week, 27th April, and will continue to incorporate accreditation for Inner and/or Outer Ring riders as required during the session.