Cleveland Wheelers

Membership renewals 2015

Hi Wheelers. There still seems to be a lot of people that haven’t yet renewed their membership for 2015. You all need to get your £10 membership subs to me before the Kirton closes! On Nov 30th if you wish to secure your place with the Cleveland wheelers for 2015.
Thanks to all those who have renewed already, and please ignore this message if you joined the club after July 1st this year. I also need to know from parents if their children will be staying with the club next year.

I’m out on club runs Saturday and Sunday this weekend if people wish to pay there. I will also be at Prisick for the Monday night training session.

I can also take pay pal payments to davekirton74@gmail.com

Or request bank transfer details

Or post money or cheque made payable to Cleveland wheelers through my door.

Thanks, Dave

Dave Kirton
6 Glendue Close
Nunthorpe
Middlesbrough
TS70QN

Community

Collideoscope

From Tom Fleming :-

I am getting in touch to let you know about a FREE new web-app, called Collideoscope, designed to enable cyclists to report incidents and near-misses they experience when cycling in the UK to the relevant local Council. It has been developed by ITP and mySociety to raise awareness of this road safety issue, and attempt to improve the quality of data that can be used to prioritise and design safer cycling infrastructure.

The Association of Chief Police Officers has previously indicated they believe only 1-in-12 cycle injury collisions are recorded, based on a comparison of A&E reporting and official STATS19 data. We also think there is value in collecting data on near-misses that could result in serious injuries to cyclists or other road users. This could help to highlight the locations where it is only good fortune that has prevented a large number of more serious incidents from taking place. You can find out more about why we have created the site, and our mission here.

Whilst we sincerely hope that you never have cause to use Collideoscope, we thought it made sense to get in touch and ask you to check out the site and (if you like it!) let other cyclists in your area know it exists. If you want to stay in touch with us via social media then you can find us on Facebook and twitter.

Finally, we have a number of thoughts on how we might continue to improve the site, but would love to hear any suggestions or ideas you have. Provided we can raise more sponsorship then we will be continuing to develop the site over the coming months, along with sharing anonymised injury-related data collected in London with Barts NHS Health Trust’s Bespoke Study.

Thanks for taking the time to check-out Collideoscope, and please get in touch if you need any more information.

Club Runs

Hi Wheelers. Over the past month we have been fine tuning the club runs with the introduction of the easy paced group which has really taken off, plus various club run regulars volunteering to lead groups organised via the Cleveland Wheelers ride leaders face book page. It all seems to be running well, however the last little tweak for now is we are going to separate the start times of the steady and fast groups to avoid confusion and the amount of numbers gathering in the car park. This will encourage riders to decide which group they are going to ride with before they leave home and assist the ride leaders organising their group. This worked well a couple of winters ago. So for the winter period the start times will be as below and we will see how it goes. All routes to be made up on the day by ride leaders as weather becomes a big factor, unless we decide to put out a special route . additional rides can be organised via Cleveland Wheelers members face book page.

Saturday. 10.30. Easy paced group 14-15mph. 25-35 miles. (we have made it 10.30 start to allow some members to get over from the park run)

Sunday. 09.30. Easy paced group 14-15mph. 25-35 miles.

09.45. Fast group 18-19mph.

10.00. regular steady group 16-17mph

The above rides will not be advertised weekly, they are a weekly feature however please keep an eye on wheelers website and face book page for additional rides. Marcus smith is currently running the Monday prissick nights plus strength training on a Saturday morning. Also if anyone fancies organising a faster Saturday group then please organise it via the wheelers face book page and we can see how it goes.

Please enjoy your riding over the winter months and remember that mudguard season is now upon us!

Thanks. Dave Kirton.

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…