Our audax series has lived up to its name this year, requiring some courageous spirit to complete the rides. The 50km ride in January was beset by freezing conditions and then the 75km had an unforgiving headwind coming home. The 100km was hit with cold, wet conditions resulting in several DNFs, “Chapeau” to the twelve […]
Club post-lockdown rides continue…
Our second post-lockdown ride on Sunday attracted a good turnout of 25 riders, who were set-off on their way from the Sports Club in groups of 6 or less. We enjoyed a new route variation out to Honeystreet Mill Café passing through Keevil, Bulkington and Worton on the way. The café was a tad busy […]
The return of the group leisure rides
On Sunday, 30th August, we had the long-awaited return to group leisure rides for Chippenham Wheelers. We certainly picked a good day for it, with pleasant temperatures, sunshine and a tailwind home. Over 20 riders joined in, with a mixture of the usual suspects and gratifyingly, a couple of new members. Starting from Chippenham Sports […]
Leisure Rides to restart on Sunday 30th August – Save the Date
Article by Dr Jamie Brosch, Leisure Rider and Club Committee member. Background As you may know from the club newsletter, your committee has been keeping a close eye on the government’s rapidly evolving social distancing rules and the more specific British Cycling guidance, regarding club activities. Until now, the additional measures required to meet this […]
Support Time Trials in West DC
West DC are establishing a list of volunteers to support time trials in West DC to allow events to be run under a West DC banner. If you are able to give some of your time please do volunteer so that we can establish what may be possible. This is the text from that letter: […]
Club Newsletter – July 2020
It’s an enormous sense of relief to see things are finally starting to head in the right direction, after what has been one of the most unusual chapters ever experienced in our lifetime. We are now enjoying more freedom to go out and about, which has meant we’ve been able to see our families and […]
Summer Solstice Bingo – Gallery
Thanks to everyone who took part in our game of Summer Solstice Bingo last weekend, we hope you enjoyed playing along! Here are some of the entries we received, which included some very inspired and original ideas! 1. A Cottage with an unusual name 2. An Archway 3. A Roman Road – various sections of […]
Club Evening Time Trials Are Back – Wednesday 15 July
Great news – the CTT have announced that time trials can resume from next week. Our first evening time trial will be on Wednesday 15 July. Extract from CTT letter – which is on their website This update relates to CTT events in England only. It does not relate to events in Wales or Scotland. […]
The Way Forward.
Club Activities: British Cycling have today announced the next steps in returning to a more “Normal” way of Club life, in the announcement that they will now sanction some club rides and coached events, whilst adhering to current social distancing measures. We have decided as a Club to remain without a programme of events at […]
Summer Solstice Bingo now includes Bingo card to play!
