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  • The Club Open Hill Climb was held on Saturday 3rd of October and had one of the largest fields seen in last few years.  Nick Ferris always offers to organise the event as in his words "It's usually very easy as it's generally a small field" so he had his work cut out this year,…

  • Chippenham Wheelers will be promoting our open hill climb on Saturday 3rd October at 10:00am on Bowden Hill near Lacock as part of a hill climb weekend in the West DC. This is one of 4 local hill climbs taking place on the weekend.Start time is 10:00am and the event HQ is in The Manor Room, Lacock Village Hall,…

  • Last Tuesday we presented a donation of just over £1,100 to Gwynn Rees of Chippenham Talking Newspapers. This represented the amount we raised from our succesful Midsummer Bike Night back in June.Yesterday we received a letter of thanks from Gwyn: – "On behalf of all of us involved in the Chippenham Talking Newspapers, the committee, readers,…

  • The last "open" event that the club promotes takes place on Sunday 11th October beginning at 9am at Bishops Cannings near Devizes. The event is a 24 mile race where teams of three riders ride together with the time taken as the third rider crosses the line. The course is best described as "sporting" with…

  • Once again this is intended to be an informal gathering of members interested in vintage and Classy bikes. We  are not too strict on the machines, although they should either be  pre 1990 (not 1987 as the Eroica requirements) or something rather special in the hand built category.Gather in the garden opposite the pub, so that…

  • Congratulations to all the Wheelers that rode the 18th PARIS BREST PARIS Randonneur. Jason Webb, Kate Churchill, Sheni Jiwa, Dylan Spencer, Brian Atkins all arrived in back in Paris before the 90 hour cut off time.And also well done to James Bradbury who sorry to say didn't quite make it to the end due to…

  • After another very wet August day it stopped raining for a few hours yesterday evening.  This was good news for the young wheelers who came along to our Youth Distance Challenge evening.Congratulations to Lewis, Lucy, Alex, Dan, Joshua and Harry for their considerable efforts.Full details on the awards can be found by selecting the Young CW…