Mag Rev plan with CCH, Interlinkx and Cycling Uganda

Magnificent Revolution, new partners with CC Hackney, are planing together for project work in Hackney and abroad in 2012. Cycling Uganda's Stephen Okellow is currently working on rigging up 24v motor donated by Mag Rev onto CU's turbo trainer in Kampala, Uganda.

200-300w - a small but beautiful amount of power

CCH AGM minutes and report

The CCH AGM minutes are now availible online to download here.

Love London, Go Dutch

 

Love London, Go Dutch

Last weekend's racing roundup.

Frank shows how to keep control on the first corner.

Three hardy CCH riders made it down to snowy and cold Herne Hill on Sunday 5th of February for the last round of the London Cyclo Cross League. First up was Frank in the U12’s with a good start he managed to avoid the pile up at the first corner and settled into a consistent top three place for a majority of the treacherous two laps,  only for a crash and the resulting lose of his chain to slip down to fourth – still a great result.

Mostyn finishing without a chain.

Mostyn was next up in the Youth race where again a mechanical  caused a few problems but he stuck at it and was forced to shoulder his bike for the last 500m!

Harry leading round some Vets after the Youth had kindly cleared the snow.

 For the last race of the day conditions had improved slightly with mud and slash being more of a problem that a layer of snow…. Harry managed to get round (with only a couple of tumbles!) and had a grand battle with a few other Vets. A great end to an enjoyable Cross Season roll on the next! Full results and report here.
Words Harry - Pics - Cross Crazy.

Jessie off to a flyer in her first U14 race.

Meanwhile on Saturday 4th, Me, Isaac, Jude, Justin and Bede went to Hillingdon to take part in a race, it was a freezing morning and there were over 60 riders in total and CCH did well. It was my first under 14 race, my first race of the season and really the first time I had been on a bike since November/October. I came 3rd U14 girl (even though there were only 3 or 4) and Isaac came 8th U12 boy and Bede came 9th U12 boy. Justin came 18th and Jude did very well. Also Louis and Theo from EastlondonVelo rode a brilliant race, Theo coming 6th u12 boy and Louis coming 3rd u16 boy (even though it was his first u16 race!) Everybody did very well despite the weather and we enjoyed it. Full report and more pictures here. Words Jessie - pic - Sean.

Over at Hoghill James, Ben and Tom were racing in the cat3/4 4th round of ELV's six days of winter series. Report here.

London 2012 Olympic hopeful joins CC Hackney

As result of CC Hackney's on going support for Cycling Uganda, track sprinter and London 2012 Olympic Games hopeful Patrick Lawino has joined CCH. Moreover Patrick has formed a coaching partnership with yours truly. He and I will be representing Uganda at the forthcoming London round of the UCI World Cup. Objectives for this event are to gain experience in the sprint event and clock a creditable competition time in the 1km TT. So please, any CCH members who are going along to this event do give our very own Patrick a wave and a shout - this would be much appreciated by Mr. Lawino as he takes to the boards I'm sure.
After the London World Cup we will be focusing of the Olympic qualifying event that is the UCI World Championships in Melbourne Australia. Patrick will need to do well enough against the African quota of riders who are also hoping to gain entry into the London 2012 Olympics.
Additional support for this effort is coming from Velo Club Londres who have offered track time and have donated shoes and other items of equipment to keep our man in the frame. 


Yours,


Keir Apperley

Partick Lawino flanked by his escort of riders; Robert Sweeney (L) & Jac Daley

CCH - big in Japan

Daichi found CC Hackney in Japan...here

2012 UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships

The Koksijde crowd of sixty plus thousand would do anything to get close to the action

A group of CCH crossriders set of very early on sunday morning - or was it saturday night? - to travel over to Belgium to watch the 2012 Cyclo-Cross World Championships. The weather was bitterly cold and foggy but the excellent organisers had electronic signs up lighting the way to the venue from the motorway. A shuttle bus took us from the car into Kosijde - where the racing was taking place. The course wound its way around a military airport normally restricted to the public. Vast sections of the course consisted of very deep loose sand on steep hills which were energy sapping to walk on never mind race around.

The team arrives

We bumped into top women's Cross rider and GB champ' Helen Wyman before the race and wished her well.

Unfortunately Helen had a bad spill on the sand after leading the race but still managed to finish strongly in 13th place. Check here for the photos of Helen's deep rims disappearing in the sand.

At the finish line before racing started

Nikki Harris from GB on her way to an excellent sixth place

The women's race was pretty closely contested with not much separating the leading six riders however the amazing Marianne Vos eventually pulled away for the win - full report here.

Desperate warming up measure were called for...

With a long wait between the races we took to dune jumping to keep warm followed by Beers and frites. By now the massive crowd was in full swinging and singing party mode as they anticpated a home victory.

The Belgium crowd were treated to a masterclass by their riders who cleaned up on their home sand.

Afterwards we met up with USA rider Jeremy Powers and were filmed with him so check out his programme Behind the Barriers here to see if we turn up on it.

Jeremy Powers tries out for CCH - Harry's being filmed by the guy at the back  for J-Pows series.

They were not to be disappointed as the Belgium team rode the course like a team time trial eventually securing the top seven places. The world championship was won deservingly by Niels Albert  who put ten seconds into his rivals each lap coming home nearly half a minute up on his team mates he must have been sat up for the lsat half a lap.