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Ware’s Essex Sportive – 4th October

Anyone fancy a Sportive sign up here….     http://www.sportiveuk.co.uk/       Choice of distances: 15, 40, 70 or 100 miles       Alex, Mark, Lol, Gary and ex-West Kenter Austin have entered the 70 mile ride.   The last event “The Hertfordshire 100” was superb. Well organised, well mapped well marshaled and a ton of food at the …

The first WKRC BYO BBQ : – 25th July

About 25 people attended the BBQ on Saturday and the weather was very kind to us. Most guests were complimentary about the venue particularly the option to park off road.   Steve Clack managed to get the laptop working & members were able to see the penultimate stage of the TDF at the same time as enjoying quality burgers & …

BBQ 25th July

Please continue to let me have any raffle prizes as long as they are in good nick & unopened (booze).   I am pleased to announce the price for adults only (kids are free) for entrance to this BBQ top venue in Sidcup(with parking). Five pounds only per head! Tickets can be purchased at club nights or by sending me a …

Tour De Essex Sportive – 21st June

Its not too late to enter this sportive being held around the lanes of Essex – 5 West Kenters recently went and recc’d the route and reckon it;s a belter. There’s also a shorter route, and for those mad or brave enough a longer one.   To register for the event and for more details go here:- http://www.sportiveuk.co.uk/ Create an …

West Kent Road Club, Club Championship

Hi West Kenters, Here are the final details for the Road Race championship this coming Sunday (14.6.15). We have booked the track at Cyclopark from 10am. Anyone who isn’t planing on riding, your help will be appreciated. Signing – on will take place from 11.00 – 12.00pm. (You can of course ride on the track from 10am). Race will start …

WKRC, Club Road Race Championship 2015

Dear West Kenters,   The 2015 WKRC Road Race championships will be taking place on the 14th June at the Cyclopark road circuit, Gravesend. The club have booked the circuit from 10am – 2pm. This will give us ample time to set-up the event, practice, warm-up, race, warm-down, pose for photographs etc. The race will start around 12 – 12.30 …

Crime prevention:

You may have heard about the theft of some valuable bikes last weekend. Can we draw your attention to the following site www.bikeregister.com and suggest that you may wish to take some time to register your pride & joy? Also remember that if you are going to buy a second-hand bike in the future you should always check this site …

Ride Of The Lions 2015

Social Media is great, I know some people still like to throw a pigeon out of a window to deliver messages, but honestly the world has moved on! Having been Twitting, Tweetering, Tottering and as some have pointed out Twatting around with the website, Facebook and Twitter pages for a good while now, I noticed a Tweet for The Ride …

WKRC Open 10 TT – Saturday 11 April 2015 Results

    Course Q10/22 THIS EVENT IS PROMOTED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF CYCLING TIME TRIALS UNDER THEIR RULES AND REGULATIONS Event Secretary: Colin Ashcroft Timekeepers: Tony Peachey – De Laune CC and Roy Canning – CC Bexley     Awards: Scratch: 1st J Parker Velorefined Aerosmiths 20:44 2nd N Malins 4T+ Velo 21:41 3rd B Hawkes Thanet RC 22:21     Veterans on Standard: …

Could this be the last saddle you ever buy?

I for one have been looking for a new saddle due to getting some unwanted pain from my old faithful Fizik Arione which served me well all the way to Paris.   Well at the London Bike show in February it turned out that our President, Alex was also on the look out for a new perch. So after a …

WKRC family BYO-BBQ

    The BYO BBQ will be held at the Scouts hall Partridge Road Sidcup Kent DA14 6RS on Saturday 25th July 2015  & will start at 2pm until approx 8pm. Friends & families are invited & a raffle will be held to raise funds for the WKRC.     Drop in for a few hours and watch live coverage of …

Website

All we have had a couple of people say the christmas stuff is still coming up when you view the website. The only thing i can think of is you need to do some housekeeping and refresh your cache’s as we deleted the plugging used to display all the christmas stuff on the 1st of January.   Myself and Alex …

VO2 Sportive – 8th March

A fairly local sportive starting in Hildenborough   Get more info and register here……. http://www.thevo2sportive.co.uk/   Let others know if you are doing it so we can get a group together.

San Fairy Ann Sportive – 4th May

Another great sportive for a brilliant cause and only/still £15   San Fairy Ann are promoting our May sportive again this year. It will be on the 4th May. Last year was our first attempt at organizing and as you can imagine we are planning to implement some improvements this year including completely new signage, a cleaned up GPX file …

Tour Of The Hopfields – 10th May

Lets get a club entry together. This is a local sportive put on by the Cyclopark     2015 Tour of the Hop Fields. Sunday 10th May. Three routes: 70 miles; 50 miles; 33 miles. Entry: £25. Enter via British Cycling website. Www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/124198/cyclopark’s-Tour-of-the-Hopfield’s#entry Registration is from 07:45. On site café Showers pre-ride mechanical assistance Post ride massage available Individual rider …

Xmas 2015 – your help needed!

We are planning for our Christmas do 2015 and are looking at a event on Friday or Saturday evening with food & music & dancing –so if anyone has been to a decent venue in the last few months please pass on the details.   please e mail the new social secretary Trevor at t.benton@ntlworld.com

London Bike Show 15th Feb

   A reminder that the London Bike show will be held at the Excel Centre from the 12th-15th February 2015 . The committee extend a welcome to all members to come along on Sunday 15th February 2015 for a club visit to this event. The show starts at 9am and ends at 1700 and the venue is accessible by all forms of transport particularly the …