Club Rides.
The club was founded on the principles of cycling for all and flexibility. Most members are busy people and several have family commitments who would struggle to make the same ride every week. The club is therefore very much web-based and has used blogs, forums and Twitter to enable members to interact and ride together; it is always better to ride with others, for motivation and for fun. The present website and application attempt to bring these experiences together and to offer a tool to facilitate meeting up with like minded riders. It relies on members posting rides and sharing interest.
This web-based format has been very successful and there are rides on most days of the week, for example either long commutes or evening training. Distances and pace vary as does the terrain with flat and hill rides. There is a regular off road Tuesday night so keep an eye on the rides and participate.
In addition to the ad-hoc rides put together by members the club has seen the emergence of regular events over the past 2 years:
• There are rides on most Saturdays and Sundays. Some of these regular with, for example
- the Social Ride, a monthly event which leaves Beeston at 9:00 for a steady ride (15-16 Mi/h) and a cafe stop (see rides.bunch.cc/...ection_pages/13 for more info),
- a regular monthly Club Fast Ride (18+ Mi/h on the flat, no stop) leaving Beeston at 08:30 (contact Frenchie).
• There are morning Training and Long Commuting Rides into Nottingham on Tuesdays and Thurdays (1h30 to 2h), leaving Beeston at 06:45 and arriving at the QMC before 08:30 (contact Frenchie).
• Throughout the year there are also either chaing gang evenings or short hilly sorties, often in support of the club racing team but with a wider audience of fit, non-racing riders part taking as well (contacts MikeW/RichardB). We also join forces with other groups on their chain gangs.
• There is a regular mountain bike ride on Tuesdays (contact SimonH).
• In the summer the club runs its own time trial weekly series outside Sutton Bonnington (contact Sarah).
• And there is much more; the annual Good Friday Club Run, the yearly Club Freewheeling championship, the 'Pudding Ride' (in January) and, of course, the Club Challenge Ride and Hill Climb events.
The club offers a lot we feel, and we hope you will find in the above the right event and pace for you to join in with us. Some of the rides return for a cafe stop at Nero’s in Beeston so we advise you take a couple of quid in your back pocket and join in the post-ride banter. If you can’t, no problem, use the forum!
