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.

Jason Evans & Rawvelo

Dear CCH members,
One of our longer serving club members, Jason Evans, is launching an exciting new cycling industry business and we want to share with you what he is doing, and to ask if you may support his efforts in some way.
Jason's new business is called Rawvelo and they will be making the first complete range of organic, vegan sports nutrition products designed specifically for endurance athletes. It is a great idea and about time somebody made something that is actually healthy for you as well as being good cycling fuel. Their tag line is ‘Sports Fuelled by Nature’ Eventually they aim to have a full range of products available from energy gels (free from all processed sugars and corn syrups) to healthy protein recovery drinks. It will all be 100% organic and vegan. 

To launch the brand they are making a range of Organic Energy Bars and are looking to raise the funds to do this through the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform.

Their Kickstarter page here - http://kck.st/2pd1Lzz

Here you'll find more information about Rawvelo, their products and brand philosophy. Please share this with anybody that you think may be interested and able to help support our club mate in this interesting project. Jason has promised that when Rawvelo gets off the ground they will support the club in whatever way they can.

If you have any questions you would like to ask Jason directly please email him - jason@rawvelo.com

Here is an article about Rawvelo on the washing machine post - http://www.twmp.net/rawvelo/


All the best,


Keir Apperley - lead coach and manager CC Hackney.

Opening social event at Elsdale Community Hall next Saturday evening May 20th

New Centre, new storage solution.

On the way down Well Street

Last Tuesday (25th April) ICiC & CCH took delivery of a refurbished 40 foot shipping container. It is to serve as a bike and equipment store for the Elsdale Centre's on going cycling delivery programme. We have moved out of Nightingale Estate after a 10 year residency, the old 70s concrete, condemned building is finally coming down as part of the wider regeneration project going on there. We'd like to thank our main supporter and partner Hackney Council Housing for setting us up in our replacement base and office. This is our second bike store supplied by Containers Direct, the first being set up by our now defunct partner organisation Interlinkx CiC for our base at the Concorde Centre. We'd also like to thank both for their excellent, helpful service and competitive rates.  

The Elsdale Yard & truck hauler Adrian up top taking off the lifting gear chains.

The address:

ELSDALE COMMUNITY HALL FRAMPTON PARK ESTATE, ELSDALE STREET, LONDON, E9 6PW 

Ariel view - Elsdale Centre; the diamond shaped building to the left, the yard just NW of here.