News in brief

Welcome to the Bournemouth Arrow Cycling Club Newsletter of October 2008.

Club Dinner

The annual club dinner and prize presentation will be held on the 13th December at the Hotel Collingwood. This years guest Paralympics champion Darren Kenny and Dan Lloyd (if he is in the UK !)

Tickets cost £14 for adults and £7 for children. 

Please contact Anne Stevens for tickets.

Tel. 01202 824032.

Please can you return your trophies to Pat Lockyer as soon as possible. Contact 01202 256074.

Win Green Classic and Club 50 in 3½.

Sunday 23^rd November

For increased safety, we are changing the route starting and finishing at Merley Community Centre. The full ride is 60 miles but for those wishing to do 50, the start is in Verwood.  Merley start is between 08:30 & 09:00, the Verwood start is 09.00

See Course description later in newsletter.

A new ride, Tour of the Purbecks,is on 1st February, , starting from Merley Community Centre 8:30 - 9:00

More details later.

Membership If you have not already paid your membership, please contact:

Anne Stevens, 01202 824032

treasurer@bournemouth-arrow.org.uk

A membership form is available on the club website.

http://www.bournemouth-arrow.org.uk

Web Site updates

Anything you want to go on the website send Brian an email.

 brian.garrard@bournemouth-arrow.org.uk

What’s on

Calshot Track Training (Winter 08/09)

Calshot this winter has started the next season Saturday 8^th November then the second Saturday in each month. Contact Alan McRae for more details.

The other dates are 13^th December, 10^th January, 14^th February, and 14^th March.

Club Runs

Meet at 9.00 during the summer on the Corner of Birch Avenue, Burton, Christchurch.

Distance: 50 to 70 miles approx, depending on the weather and time of year.

Average speed of these rides is approx 16+mph.

Weather conditions may result in cancelled or modified rides.

Time Trials

All our events have now finished but we hope to run a similar calendar of events next year. Many thanks to those who help run the events this year especially Julian James & George Bolton without whom none of the events would have been possible.

Next year we will continue to run our open events to be organised by Don Standhaft. The Good Friday 10 is on 10^th April, the Open 25 Sunday 31^st May and the GHS 10 Thursday 25^th June. All three events to be run at Ringwood.

Results

William & David Couch - Cycling Racing Results Summary 2008

David in addition this year has been attending the DHL Sprint School at Newport

(4th April, 13th June, 18th July).

Time Trials

Entries for this year’s Club 10s were down a bit, probably due to this so called summer we have had. We had to cancel one evening 10 and the club evening 25 championship due to the heavy rain and we were not able to rerun it. We lost the last 10 as we had no timekeeper, and would appreciate any assistance for

next year to prevent this happening again.

Our Open events were run by Louise Burman to whom we are very grateful.  Next year’s 25 will be on a version of the P304 2 lap circuit starting at Ringwood to enable members to ride and help with the organisation.

2008 Evening 10 league

 

	Total	rides	Fastest	Worst Points
Name	Points		Time
Group 1
Peter Wilson	121	13	23:50	10
Kevin May	116	14	24:00	9
Tony Strickland	100	16	24:10	7
Brian Garrard	89	11	24:28	7
Stephen Roberts	57	9	24:48	5
Barrie Watkinson	51	5	24:04	9
Mark Hardwicke	41	5	24:23	7
Robert Labuda	40	8	25:45	4
David Gilham	39	6	24:56	4
John Stockley	32	4	24:36	7
Richard Stevenson	27	4	25:05	5
Rick Benson	14	2	25:41	7
Keith Tucker	11	2	25:01	5
Sean Conway	6	1	25:38	6
Group 2
Peter Redhead	82	8	25:57	9
William Stevenson	56	6	26:43	8
Steve Shepherd	43	4	25:50	10
Andy Beken	39	4	26:30	9
George Lockyer	21	2	26:07	10
Richard Andrews	20	2	27:41	10
Steve Chrutcher	10	1	26:10	10
Group 3
Martin Atkins	112	12	27:28	7
Ian Taylor	91	11	30:42	6
Richard Walter	71	7	27:12	9
Ian Haydon	50	5	27:19	9
Emily Hardwicke	39	4	28:55	7
Sam Jackson	39	4	29:11	9
James Caball	17	2	31:01	8
Arron Buller	9	1	29:54	9

 

Slades Farm Latest.

As many of you will know, we have been successful with the Planning Application for a 250 m outdoor tarmac track to be built at Slades Farm in Ensbury Park.

This is possibly the biggest breakthrough for the club in the last 50 years.  It will provide us with a base for all our activities since there are changing rooms and a

Community Hall close by.  The Club has been trying to secure a base in the heart of Bournemouth for years and this could not have happened at a better time.

You would have needed to be on the Planet Mars to have missed the fantastic Track Cycling at the Olympics and the case for the provision of local facilities where cyclists of all standards can match the performances of Chris Hoy, Vicky Pendleton etc (in their heads if not necessarily through the pedals !) has never been stronger.

In the past, local riders such as Darren Kenny, Anne Stevens, Dave Gilham and Team Couch have had to go to Manchester or Newport to learn the discipline and techniques of riding a 250 m track.  Soon we hope it will be possible for everyone to taste these delights.

But how soon is soon?

The money will come predominately from British Cycling and the Local Authority. 

Councillor Stephen Mccloughlin, the Leader of the Council, is attending our Dinner on 13^th December so come along and show your support for our project and encourage him to dig deep into his budgets!

British Cycling has submitted a Funding Application for April 09 to cover all their requirements and this includes some money for Slades.  We will find out if they will be granted all they requested in the first half of next year.

Construction will take about 12 weeks so if, and I do mean if, the money can be found we could have a facility available by Autumn 2009.

However, this is not the only cycling project we have. 

Behind the scenes we have also been influencing the proposed redevelopment around Winton and Glenmoor Schools.  This will be funded by the Government’s Building Schools for the Future scheme and will result in a redevelopment of these school’s sites.  We have the objective of having a 1 km road circuit as part of the redeveloped school infrastructure. 

Mark Adams from British Cycling has been working very closely on both Slades Farm Track and this Schools development and we hope to get Mark along to our Club Dinner also.

We are closer to these truly exciting developments than we have ever been. 

I would like to take this opportunity to place on record the fact that without the support of our Club members, running Cycling Skills classes for kids for over 15 years, none of this would have happened.

Bournemouth Arrow - Win Green Classic & Reliability Trial – 23^rd November 2008

 

Dist.Miles       Town                          Road                           No Directions

0          Merley Community Centre                    Depart Centre left at end of road then left again at T junction

Willett Arms                             B3073   Turn right at T junction (use cycle path)

0.5                                                                    Over temp. bridge (cyclist dismount) 2nd right (new borough road)

then second left, Avenue Road

1.25      Traffic lights                                         Straight over, up the hill, turn right at roundabout

2.25      War Memorial                                      Turn left at crossroads, (signpost Broom Hill)

Church                                                 Straight over at crossroads

3.5        Broom Hill                                           Straight over at crossroads, (signpost Three Legged Cross)

5          Higher Row                                          Turn right at T junction

7.51      Three Legged Cross                             Turn right at T junction, straight on at second roundabout turn left

10         Chip Shop                                            Follow main road at first roundabout (Start of 50 mile ride)

Verwood                                              Left at second roundabout, (signpost all routes)

Verwood centre                                    Straight over third roundabout, left at forth roundabout

12         Heavy Horse Centre                              Straight on to T junction, turn right

13         Cripplestyle                              B3078   Straight on

14.5      Alderholt                                  B3078   Follow road round sharp left hand bend,

before next bend take left turn, (signpost Sandleheath) under bridge

16.76    Sandleheath                                         Straight over at crossroad

19.14    Rockbourne                                         Straight on through village