Author: Paul Winchcombe

Every Thursday evening during the long winter nights the club continues to time trial. The races are part of a series hosted on Zwift by WTRL (World Tactical Racing Leagues Ltd). The club participates in the team time trial, although they do host other events and we are also registered for the Tuesday night road…

As the club time trial season draws to a close it is time to report on the the club awards for the various time trial trophies. Congratulations to all of those in the club who have competed and ridden in both club and open time trials. The level of participation has been great this year…

Throughout the season the evening time trials have been reported on through Facebook. Here is all those reports collated into one documents for those whom do not use Facebook or want to see a record of the evening events.https://www.chippenhamwheelers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Chippenham_Wheelers_2024_Evening_TT_Report.pdf

At the request of some riders we have produced a digital honours board for all of the club trophies. At the moment the trophies are listed in the club handbook and are held on the club website as a viewable PDF or downloadable Word Document. This digital honours board provides an easily accessible link to…

We have reached the end of the club evening time trials for the Jack Nunn series and many other events for this year. Next Wednesday, 4 September, sees the end of season hill climb at Bowden Hill, Lacock. Many will know that the results and commentary are published each week on the club Facebook page…

As has been correctly pointed out the clocks don’t change this year until Sunday 31 March, which is a week later than normal.  This means that the first planned time trial of the year on 27 March would actually be starting in the dark.  We would need to start at 5.30 p.m. for riders to…

As we have reached the end of the time trial season the 2023 Time Trial Report may now be read at: 2023 Time Trial Report Chippenham Wheelers The report will be summarised at the AGM. My thanks to all those that have supported time trialling in the club over the year.

The CTT have issued the papers for the CTT AGM on 3 December.  The papers can be viewed following the links and anyone with views on the various resolutions should contact the racing secretary.  The racing secretary will be attending the CTT AGM as the West District representative and voting as directed on the resolutions. …

With the loss of the club evening 50 mile time trial due to roadworks we have not been able to hold the Nixon Edwards 50 mile time trial competition as the evening 50 was the nominated event.  It was also a time trial championship event. There are two more 50 mile time trials in West…

Over the next few weeks we have: Lottery 2 Up Hinder & Gerald 25 Sheila Edwards 10 Nixon & Edwards 50 These all have a handicap award. To be in the handicap event I need to know the week before if you intend to ride and this is made more complicated this year as I…