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Your club supports the work of the Road Records Association (RRA http://www.rra.org.uk/) through the means of a modest annual subscription. It came up for renewal this month and we have forward paid for the next five years. With your committee discussing this via email, Rob Duncumb wrote the following summary of the organisation that was…

The Club has been asked to support a charity coffee stop, in support of the MS Society on this coming Sunday, 14th July.  To this end the Sunday Leisure Ride has been reversed bypassing the stop in Sherston in favour of a stop towards the end of the ride at Biddestone.  Please see the changes…

On the 6th July a group of ten Wheelers met in the New Forest for a day of gravel riding on a mix of gravel and mountain bikes. The trip was brilliantly organised by Jim who’s kindly provided this super account of our day…. The omens looked grim. “Double blobs too much for me” –…

Our club Audax Series for 2024 concluded with our traditional Fish and Chip day trip to the seaside in perfect conditions on 29th June. Results and medal awards are shown further below. Congratulations to everyone who managed to go just that little bit further this year! We enjoyed our morning stop at Chew Valley Lake. Unfortunately…

In conjunction with Chippenham Doorway Project, Chippenham and District Wheelers are please to support the Doorway Cycle Club Meet and encourage everyone who cycles regularly, or not so regularly, to support this event to raise funds for this Charity who do so much for the vulnerable in Chippenham. Details, routes and registration links can be…

The club will be running three Go Ride sessions this summer on the last Tuesday of the month. This will be dates: Pre-pandemic, these sessions were regularly run and popular with the children attending. It is hoped that there is sufficient interest to made these sessions worthwhile. The club has also recently received a grant…

The existing Sports Dome is coming to the end of its life. Come and see the proposal for a more permanent and sustainable Sports Hall that will benefit the local Chippenham Community. Residents and Club members will have the opportunity to understand in more detail about the initial proposals for the new Sports Hall. Feedback…

Our Spring Gravel Ride Program kicks-off on 2nd May with the first of our regular weekly Thursday evening gravel rides around our local byways and bridleways. Although we’re mainly a “road club” there does seem to be an appetite for more “gravel” rides these days, so we’ve put together a program of rides for May…

We’ve now held 4 of our 7 audaxes in this year’s series, which are proving to be as popular as ever. Perhaps it’s the attraction of all those hills? Or maybe just the chance to ride in good company? 40 of us turned out to ride April’s Kennet Hop 125km Audax on a lovely spring…

The ever popular Tuesday evening sessions at Castle Combe Circuit resume from April 9th – September 17th 2024. We are arranging some specific Chippenham Wheeler group riding sessions on these evenings. As we have done in previous years and had enough riders, we have formed 2 or even 3 groups of differing abilities. This is…