The Herne Hill Revival event this Sunday 13th May.

Vintage racing and stuff is taking place at  the Herne Hill Revival event this Sunday 13th May.

As well as racing there will be a cycle jumble, beer tent and displays
of classic marques of bicycle.
The circuit will be open from 9.00am but other clubs will be using the
track in the morning. Please don't arrive too early as it annoys the
locals! There will be a lot of off-track happenings during the day
including a cycle jumble, displays by some of our marque enthusiasts,
trade stands and a beer tent.

Race programme:
Track opens at 12.00 noon for warm up sessions.

Please note that you MUST wear a hard-shell safety helmet if you are
riding on the track.

Racing will start at 12.30 with the following events:

Grand Old Ordinary One Mile Challenge (for original ordinaries only
– no replicas).

Tandems – Sprint and longer race

Roadster race - steel mudguards, upright handlebars, no derailleur
gears, 26 or 28 inch wheels etc. To be ridden in jacket & tie. Time
bonuses to be awarded for appropriate dress and imaginative
interpretation of dress code.]

Early pneumatic/Pre WW1 race

Devil take the hindmost (heats & final)

Sprint race for classic bicycles.

Open Frame race – for drop top-tube cycles (i.e. ladies cycles).
Race open to ladies and gents on this type of cycle.

Slow Bicycle race - A non speed event that any ability can participate
in. No fixies or trikes. Longer race for classic race bikes - 20 or 30
laps – steel frames only. (Definitely no carbon or other fancy
new-fangled materials!)

Solid tyre all comers race - high bicycles of any age, solid-tyred
safeties, etc

Children's race if enough present

All comers race – anything goes

Grand Parade at end of races.

We will need to be off the track at 4.00pm.

Entrance to the venue is free but there will be a one-off race entry fee
of £4 to cover the cost of insurance levies (at cost).
This will allow you to enter as many races as you wish. The races are
organised by the VHC&RC.

Please note parking within Herne Hill is limited to those who are
competing in the races, displaying machines or who have a jumble stall.
We hope to have additional parking available at a nearby school and also
that some people will be able to cycle or use public transport.

More information on the event can be found at:
http://hernehillrevival.com/ <http://hernehillrevival.com/> which will
be updated as more details become available

5th Round Chelmsford - a grand day out

The starters of the 5th Round Chelmsford

 Some CCH Youth riders line up eager to get on with the ride behind Neil, Harry and Keir.

Well done to the 40 plus riders who brave the chilly wet weather to take part on Sunday in CCH's 5th Round Chelmsford ride . This years ride was a  memorial to CCH member Claire Tansley who died earlier this year after a long battle with cancer  - her husband Harry led the 40+ peloton out from the Lea Valley ice rink up to High Beech where the size of the group drew admiring responses from other clubs riders.

Is that left or right onto the Lea Bridge Road?

 At that point we split into three groups a fast group that whizzed off quickly to Chelmsford, a medium paced group following them up and a larger group including many CCH youth riders that did a shorter loop - around 65 miles up to the Hatfield area and back. This was due to the usual bank holiday train engineering works meaning the bailout at Bicknacre was not on. Harry was persuaded  to ride the whole thing despite having not done much riding recently and only really seemed to be suffering when the rain got heavier whilst he digested the large lunch we had at the White Swan. We had hoped to meet up with the faster group there but a misleading R instead of the correct L on the route sheet added an extra ten miles - and after much scratching of the head wondering where it had all gone wrong - this meant we just missed them. Well done to Patrick for beating us up North Hill - perhaps it was all part of a cunning plan... We were joined there by Gary who without his usual alarm call started off at ten and came the direct route to catch us. 

Harry- left -   looking cheerful to be back on the Lea Bridge road.

The rain came on a bit heavier after lunch - no doubt us riders were a bit heavier too - but after a stop for some Eccles cakes - good call Gary - we sped on in back to London enjoying the ever so tasteful Manor Road at Chigwell Row.

Well done to all for turning out and supporting this - remember this year and we would like all  particpants and club members/ friends to donate to the charity fighting Hodgkins Lymphona on the just giving page set up in Claire's memory at www.justgiving.com/Claire-Tansley-Memorial-Page any amount would be appreciated. 

5th Round Chelmsford - Claire Tansley Memorial Ride

CCH's 5th Round Chelmsford ride will take place next Sunday 6th of May. This years ride is a memorial to CCH member Claire Tansley who died earlier this year and we would like particpants to donate to the charity fighting Hodgkins Lymphona on the just giving page set up in Claire's memory at www.justgiving.com/Claire-Tansley-Memorial-Page any amount would be appreciated. The ride leaves
from The Lea Valley Ice Rink on Lea Bridge Road at 8.30am and takes in 160km of wonderful countryside out round Chelmsford and back, stopping for lunch at the White Swan in Bicknacre. If you don't want to ride the whole distance you can get easily into Chelmsford from there and catch the train back. The route sheet and bailout routes are available for download here.

Last year we had lovely weather and around thirty riders rode the whole distance with another twenty or so doing a shortened version - lets get more out there this year and hope the rain dries up....

Trials - 2012 London Youth Games - Hackney Cycling Team

April racing round -up so far

Tao and the rest of the Junior GB team.

First of all apologies for having to put up two weeks worth of racing all at once - last week was just too busy. This weekend has produced some great racing across the globe what with team GB doing so well on the Track in Melbourne - I lost count of how many medals they won, and a fantastic win for man of the moment Tom Boonen at the Paris-Roubaix. Our very own Tao Geoghan-Hart was riding in the Junior Paris-Roubaix for Great Britain and altough he crashed out I'm sure he helped in some way his team mate Jon Dibben finishing on the podium in third place. Anna and Bede said - "it was an amazing chase through French fields and lanes. We managed to see the juniors six times and watched the pros come into the velodrome. We recommend it as a very exciting day out!  

Quote from Tao who is at a ODP training camp in Newport -  'A unique race, a brilliant atmosphere and great support from CCH members on the road. It was a shame to crash so hard out of the lead group but I'll be back next year!'

Logan chasing Harry Tadman and Theo Modell

Alex in the U16s at Hillingdon 7/4/12

This follows on from another win for Tao last weekend at Hoghill in the E123 Eagle RC Spring Circuit races. At Hoghill on Friday we had the Eagle Road Club's Good Friday meeting where Kai posted 4th in the U10s as did Alex in the U16s, Alex followed this up with a tenth place in a very tight race in the U16s on Saturday at Hillingdon in week 3 of the After Spring Crits. Logan was fourth in a closely fought U12s. The previous week Alex finished 11th in the U16s as did Mostyn in the U14s. 

Patrick at the Good Friday meet

Friday saw CCH represented at the Good Friday meeting at Herne Hill in the shape of one of our Ugandan team-mates Patrick Lawino in the sprint. It was a great day out and if you've never been to the Good Friday meeting before you should get there next time.


Apologies to anyone Racing in the ERRL Chelmer road race last sunday - results not posted yet - same to any youth riding yesterday in the start of the LVYCC summer series at a very wet Hoghill - no results yet. If you are out there racing please email me how you get on - I can only spend so much time trawling through the results.

Reminder - free jam tonight - benefit gig at The Glyn Arms E5

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Members day - great cake great attitude - what a jumble

The CCH Jumble scrum come road block last Saturday that was caused by Anna (in case there are any problems with the authorities)

But seriously, well done Anna Hart, Liam pelgrem, Prosper Watts and all the Jumble team for organising and delivering the jumble and recycling some great stuff. I just had to dive in for Tao's rear carbon Zip wheel sorry for any disappointed punters but hey. Many more useful deals were struck including young Henry Boeteng who replaced his 'S' (rear mech) for his hack bike on the spot.
Cake is something CC Hackney is good at - if there was a championship event for this we would be right up there - and I do mean the UCI world champs - yet again export grade and rapidly vanishing material was on display. Both of these initiatives raised useful funds for the cause.
Membership was well attended with nearly a hundred people turning up to become fully fledged - thanks again to Mick Smith and Giuliana Molinari who took care of this aspect of the day. Another ripple of applause is due for our youth volunteers, Neil Irons, Gary Boyd, Harry Moore and many more who were all on hand to help out during this busy day.

Cheers, Keir Apperley

 The last cake disappears all gone...

It seems we've taught some local church members a trick at their own game :)