By Paul on April 22, 2012
Hey look, Paul W towing some guys up a hill! This only happened on lap 1
The annual Hull Thursday road race is always a source of fear and dread for anyone who isn’t a natural climber, on account of its six ascents of the sharp 115- metre climb out of North Newbald. It didn’t [...]
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By Paul on April 12, 2012
Congratulations to VC Beverley member and Wilsons Wheels racer Paul Rymer, who has just had his third cat licence delivered before the season’s properly started!
Many more points are likely in 2012 and beyond from this very talented young rider, who most recently got an extremely respectable 8th in the Active/CP Cycles RR.
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By Paul on March 18, 2012
Funny old business, time-trialling. Its devotees spend ages punishing themselves alone on turbos, wattbikes and the like, only to then spend slightly short periods of time punishing themselves alone on the road, on bikes that cost more than some cars.
For career masochists like our own Dutchy, who will soon be facing the likes of Wiggo [...]
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By Paul on January 17, 2012
VC Beverley 2012 AGM – minutes
1. Club officials
Rob Brown, Martin Smart and Paul Waddington to remain as club secretary, treasurer and chairman respectively
New ‘posts’ in the club include:
TT supremo – Chris Holland agreed to champion time trialling within VC Beverley, alerting us to upcoming events, badgering people to do more TTs and possibly getting involved [...]
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By Paul on January 8, 2012
The Jan 2nd ‘cross race at Todmorden, billed as a tough circuit, certainly didn’t disappoint.
The 'right kind of mud' according to local CX experts.
With Maffers from Malton Wheelers, not actually looking too muddy
The ground in Centre Vale Park was absolutely saturated and by the time the Vets/women went off , parts of the [...]
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By Paul on January 8, 2012
With 19, possibly 20 riders, today’s club run was a record-breaker for VC Beverley.
Welcome to the new riders who joined us on what turned out to be a good long steady ride on the first non-windy day for ages.
Not a bad turnout for the middle of winter!
Photographic evidence, taken before we were joined by a [...]
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