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Charity Events

Charity Roller Cycling Competition

As many of you may already know, the grand daughter of long-time Wheeler Keith Alderson is suffering from Neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that mainly affects young children. In order to help raise money for specialist treatment a charity Roller Cycling Race Off has been organised. This will take place at New Marske Sports & Social Club, Gurney Street, New Marske, TS11 8EG on Sunday 7th December at 3pm.

The event will be in the form of a number of 1v1 elimination race-offs, leading to a grand final providing an outright winner. In addition to the outright winner there will be a number of category related prizes (youth, female, vet etc.).

The event is sponsored by Galactic Echo, who are providing the winner and runner up prizes, and a number of local bike shops who are kindly donating “category” prizes for the event, prizes whose value now exceeds £250.

Prizes will be presented by two-time Commonwealth Games gold medalist & Teesside cycling legend Paul Curran!

Entry is £10 and is open to anyone – you don’t have to be a member and you can just turn up and ride! Please enter this event if you have the time, want a bit of fun and want to help raise money for this worthy cause. If you don’t have the time but still want to donate, you can do so by following this link. Tell your friends, family and the wider cycling community about it too, let’s get as many people along as we can.

Prize List

Galactic Echo
24 Carat Gold Plated “Goldie” Rohloff Chain Medallion
Standard Rohloff Chain Medallion

Godleys Cycles (Nunthorpe):
Bell ‘Ukon’ helmet.

NRG Cycles (Great Ayton):
BBB Combilaser light set;
3x Zipvit bottles;
3x BBB bottle cages.

Bike Scene:
2x SIS Endurance Pack – an assortment of energy bars/gels/sachets.

Blackhawk Bikes:
Big bottle of Muc Off;
A type of cycling-themed cup with pen;
2x cycling beakers with an assortment of energy bars and gels and Blackhawk Bikes pens;
2x drinks bottles with energy bars/gels and Blackhawk Bikes pens;
2x Planet X thermal hats, one with an assortment of energy gels/sachets and Blackhawk Bikes pens;
1x loose Blackhawk Bikes pen.

Peddlers:
£20 voucher.

Fibre-Lyte:
Rear derailleur side plate (as per the customer’s request – Campagnolo,Shimano, whatever) Carbon Fibre clock (you have to see it to believe it!).

Many thanks to all the events sponsors.

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Social

Bring & Buy Sale, Friday 31st October, 7pm

The Wheelers’ annual bring and buy sale will be held on Friday 31st October at the usual venue of Stokesley Town Hall.

Come along and browse for useful bits of kit and clothing that you never even knew you wanted, and then enjoy a cup of tea and some delicious cake downstairs. Or just come for the cake…

It’s always a great occasion, a chance to chat and meet fellow members (and non-members), buy spare cleats, wheels, stems, bikes or sunglasses (for when summer returns) – or indeed to sell such items that you no longer require. And then to eat cake.

Entry is 50p on the door and if you have things to sell then it’s 50p for a table to sell as much stuff as you can cram on to it.

As always The Wheelers will be looking for volunteers to help run things on the night and of course for people to make and donate cakes! If you can help out any time between 6pm and 9pm (we know it’s Halloween and flexible working hours can be arranged) please get in touch with Steve Tilly, Dave Kirton or any of the committee members.

If you want to donate cakes, just drop them off at the town hall any time after 6pm.

All helpers, sellers, buyers and cake donors will be greatly appreciated.

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Training

Monday Night Training

Tonight (27th Oct) – Monday evening Autumn/Winter bicycle practice:

More pedaling economy, technique, balance on the bike and devilish sprints. If there’s strong cross winds, it’ll be a fantastically welcome extra challenge for tight formation riding.

Venue: Prissick cycle circuit, Marton Road, Middlesbrough
Dates: Mondays from October 6th
Times: 7.15 p.m. for a 7.30 start until 9.00 pm.
Cost: £3.00
Target group: Mixed sex, mixed ability, (complete novices welcome),

What to expect: Drills concentrating on tight formation riding, pace line etiquette, riding economy; Warm-up 10 laps to destruction; team time trial efforts; simulated points races; break bridging and the best event of the day – the devil.

Great turnout last week. Would be good to see double figures in the females…

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Information

CTC Membership & Insurance

For those of you still wondering about the best deal for 3rd party liability insurance whilst out riding, the CTC do a very good deal for club members. Their normal adult rate is over £40 but if you quote our club affiliation number you can get it for just £18. This will give you £10 million quid of liability cover, and they also offer a host of other insurance options for bikes & bike related travel. The relevant CTC web page is here.

If anyone is interested and would like the affiliation number just contact me here.

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Club Runs

A Good Weekend

Its been a  good weekend of club runs this weekend. 16 or so for both days of the Very Steady group (with some people out both days), and 14 or so in both the Steady and Fast groups today. Good riding, well disciplined with little or no incident (one minor tangle in the Very Steadies today) and importantly no one being left behind to fend for themselves. In addition there was an excellent turn out for Marcus’s Strength Training Program in Saltburn.
Well done and a big thank you to all those ride leaders who turned up.
On another note, winter is most definitely coming, so it’s time for everyone to get mudguards fitted. In fact they’re a requirement if you’re coming on a club run in winter. Crud RoadRacer are my preferred guards, though some prefer SKS Raceblades. Others are also probably available. You pays your money and you takes your choice…