Help Needed to Put CCH's Junior Road Race

Volunteer with Cycling Club Hackney

Calling club members help and assistance will be needed for the following event - remember CCH Membership requires a commitment from full members to support at least one key CCH event per year.

Cycling Club Hackney Junior Road Race 2017
Saturday 16th September 2017 - This year we are putting on a  110Km Junior  Road Race, giving young riders all over the country a chance to race on open roads . As ever we will need help with the sign on, convoy, marshalling, catering, signage, advance signage, judging and other roles. Thirty plus volunteers required for this event. Held on the Bulmer race circuit (near Sudbury Suffolk) - start will be at 2pm. Please let Harry know how you can help.  Thanks

Time trial news - winners in sight

Three 1st places and one silver medal have been won by CC Hackney riders taking part in the The Lea Valley Cycling Club Velo Park summer 10 mile Time Trials. These are held at Lea Valley Velopark circuit (10 laps solo against the clock)

Well done champ(s) great effort there. Congratulations from CC Hackney to Ewan Crallen, Anoushka Minale, Charley and Conor Dash.

 

Calling CCH riders - testing for NHS & cycling science

Two CCH members Mattew Hardcastle and Keir Apperley have recently assisted Imperial Collage London as test riders. This was during the start of research into diagnostics into a particular physical aspect of sports cycling, the collage has provided an information sheet here:

   

The researchers are seeking more volunteer riders to help this piece of work. It takes place by appointment in the evenings and weekends, and involves scanning and a max heart rate test. Anyone interested in helping this project should contact Keir for more information: keirapperleycch@gmail.com

2017 London Youth Games winners - some Hackney Cycling Team pictures

Well done Team Hackney!

 

LYG squad get ready for Saturday

The squad members relax in the garden after their meeting at Elsdale

This Saturday 24th June is the Cycling event for this years London Youth Games at Lea Valley Velopark. Once again CCH have helped put together a strong team of riders to represent the London borough of Hackney for the road events. Good show and well done to their counterparts for their recent team third place in the BMX event, let's see if Hackney's road team can go even better. If you want to go down and check out the action its on all day from 9am-5pm with U16 TT in the morning followed by U12 TT in afternoon then the circuit races.

View From Inside the Race

CCH Primavera Circuit Series 2017 - 4 

27.05.17 - Cat 4 race

Primavera 4 and the Category 4 race starts to heat up...

This was my second race this season, the first being the third race of the series a fortnight ago. I was a bag of nerves before that race a couple of weeks ago, but today I was relaxed and calm yet focussed. Matt Hardcastle and I had decided, in one of our many pre-race chats/post-race post-mortems, to try and stay among the first four riders. This way we could stay out of trouble (being in the middle of the bunch in a cat 4 race can be a very twitchy experience given some of the novice riders!) and try and instigate the chase down of any breakaways. A two man break succeeded in the previous race because no one wanted to commit to a chase; who would? 

Breakaways never work at the Velopark right?

The sprint finish saw the riders spread out a bit.

With a moderately strong westerly giving the usual headwind on the finishing straight, the race got underway, clean clip-in at the start, and Matt and I succeeded in staying among the first few riders for almost its entirety. My legs felt fine and going into the wind I was feeling strong and cornering well. I’ve always liked the handful of little ramps on the Velopark circuit, although small you can see the effect they have on riders towards the end of a race. There were a few attempted breaks, but we successfully reeled them in. One that sticks in mind, that we can’t take credit for catching, was a rider that tore past everyone just after the bridge dip only to dramatically strike his pedal on the tarmac on the sharp left hander. He was lucky to stay upright. Perhaps a few too many turns in the wind took their toll, picking the wrong wheel and being bumped onto the grass on the penultimate lap didn’t help, but by the third to last corner I was getting swamped by riders. I got my head down and tried to claw back some places, but it was too late. 

Fnan Afewyk finishing in 6th place for CCH

Rob Tutt finishing just outside the points in 13th for CCH - after showing a lot on the front of the race 

Matthew Hardcastle finishing in 24th place for CCH - along with Rob he spent most of the race at the front end.

Thirteenth overall, just outside the points and back home in time to watch the FA Cup Final. There’s always the next race…

Thanks to all CCH volunteers over the last few weeks - 

Rob  Tutt.

CCH		Primavera Circuit Series 4 27/5/17	Results
		4th Cat Only
Position		Name	Club
1		John Mitchell	Cambridge CC
2		Christopher Richmond	-
3		Hazar Emre Tez	Islington Cycling Club
4		Giles Harvey	-
5		Adelos Gheistides	-
6		Fnan Afewyk	Cycling Club Hackney
7		Rob Briogens	San Fairy Ann CC
8		Ian Dawson	Gemini BC
9		Anthony Attwood	San Fairy Ann CC
10		Darren Franks	Cranks
11		George Martin	Woolwich CC
12		Paul Cundy	PMR@Toachim House
13		Rob Tutt	Cycling Club Hackney
24		Matthew Hardcastle	Cycling Club Hackney

Click here for full results for all races in round 4 along with a photo gallery - the results and loads of photos form across the series can be found here on our website.

CCH Adult members social BBQ - Friday 9th June

On Friday 9th June CCH's the club run 'whats app' group have organised a social for adult members at the club's new centre and garden. There's no entry fee for this event but a whip-round for BBQ fuel, food and drink will be called for. This would be an opportunity to meet and mix with all CCH riders, get more involved with the club, do some planning and even exchange training/racing ideas.   
There is a fee for the hall hire that can be covered by the club but if interest is too low, we may have to cancel this time. Please respond to: keirapperleycch@gmail.com.