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Tonight’s talk has been postponed and is now just a normal club night. Email distribution lists are currently not working.

Come and join us in what will be a fabulous night, celebrating all the great cycling achievements within our fantastic cycling club this past year. And not only that but a very tasty hot buffet will be available too, catering … Continue reading →

Club rides will restart from Saturday, April 3rd. It isn’t quite clear at the moment whether we will still be governed by the ‘rule of 6’, or if we will be able to have a larger group as a British … Continue reading →

Club rides are starting again scheduled from this Saturday although we are at the time of year when rides are less likely to go ahead. We have reverted to groups of six; optional café stops depending on the leader as … Continue reading →

The text below has been provided by Birkenhead North End CC A new National lockdown has started in England; and along with it comes a raft of new restrictions. And cycling is, of course, affected by these. As of midnight … Continue reading →

As a result of the announcement of a national lockdown from Thursday onwards there will be no club rides, at least for the rest of November. Hopefully, we will be able to resume in December, but we’ll have to see what … Continue reading →

Global sports took a back seat for a few months but with the recent return of F1 motor racing and football, Congleton Cycling Club (CCC) have been involved over the past month with a shortened but successful and extremely popular … Continue reading →

Saturday 8th August will see the first club ride since lockdown. Bob and Georgina Norton are organising a ride which will feature a “picnic” stop on Hankelow Village Green, near Audlem. Rides are currently scheduled for each Saturday and Sunday … Continue reading →

The Manchester District Committee have now allowed time trials to resume for our region. So it is now possible for us to start our Tuesday evening time trials. We held a successful test event on Tuesday the 28th of July. … Continue reading →

The club’s Open 50 mile TT scheduled for August 1st has now been officially cancelled because of continued uncertainty surrounding the Coronavirus crisis. The Cycling Time Trials Manchester District Committee made the decision a couple of weeks ago, to suspend … Continue reading →

Your committee had hoped to be able to restart club rides shortly. However, although the government guidelines now allow social distancing of one metre (plus extra precautions) inside, we still have to keep two metres apart outside. Also, the maximum … Continue reading →

The lockdown is easing, but not that we’d notice. My take is that it’s still no business as usual, as far as the club is concerned. BC and CUK have updated their advice following the changes announced yesterday. CTT have not updated … Continue reading →

Following the government’s recent announcements and advice from British Cycling and Cycling UK, all organised club activities will be cancelled until at least the end of April. This means that the remaining reliability rides will be cancelled, as will Club … Continue reading →

This year, we have a 20 event evening TT programme, counting towards the clubs evening TT league. There are trophy competitions for the fastest man and fastest woman on both TT and Road bikes, the best veteran on Veterans Standard, … Continue reading →

What’s the best thing to have when you are leading a ride but the last thing you want when you come to write it up? An incident free ride. Six went to Beeston and had a good time. Actually less … Continue reading →

Every year the club competes with Macclesfield Wheelers over a two leg time trial in remembrance of Karl Austin, who was killed in a TT accident in 2011. Usually it is over two 25 mile TT’s but this year both … Continue reading →

On Saturday afternoon in the Dukinfield C.C. 50 mile time trial Ben Norbury had another second place (also second last week in a 25). His time of 1:49:32 was just over a minute behind the winner and only 1 second … Continue reading →

Only the brave turned out in yesterday evenings atrocious wet weather in the first leg of the annual challenge for the Karl Austin Memorial Shield. It was run as a 10 instead of the scheduled 25, because of roadworks. Even … Continue reading →

The Holmes Chapel Road JC/27 course was used for the third week in succession for tonight’s evening league 10 mile TT. Every week is different though. Tonight was characterised by cool bright conditions with a lot of traffic. The top … Continue reading →

Roadworks on J2/3 meant we returned to the Congleton-Holmes Chapel JC/27 course again this week. It was again a bright sunny evening but this week it was a headwind out to the turn with a tail wind back, which was … Continue reading →