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A quick phone call to Tamworth Services, they are now expecting us in the early hours. :D From our previous experience at the Tamworth Services there is very little on offer in the way of refreshment, so you may want to take your own goodies for personal consumption. It's so quiet that they certain...

Yep, I'm interested too. Not too fussed when but I'd like to try and avoid the dreaded midges

I'm also not to sure about parking and if it would be okay to leave cars in Becketts car park? On the basis that any cars won't be left until late Friday night and should be picked up by about 6.00am it's doubtful that anybody at Becketts would even know they were there. You could phone and check b...

Alan, glad you've taken up this mantle as I was certainly keen to do it again but haven't had the time to organise lately. So yes, put me down. We were back pretty early when we did it in 2012 so Keith would have plenty of time to ride back to Tamworth again and still do the Pretty Pig 200. Of cours...

RESULTS FROM THIS EVENING'S EVENT NAME / SPLIT TIME / TIME Chris Hudson / 15.05 / 31.17 Gary Mackintosh / 15.10 / 31.55 Alex Stevenson Brown (UoB) / 16.04 / 32.33 Martin McGowan / 16.02 / 33.08 Elfyn Jones / 16.01 / 33.12 Rhys Richards / 16.27 / 34.15 Phil Gameson / 17.07 / 35.32 Laurence Cooley / 1...

Certainly Ken: £3.00 which includes £1.00 to Midlands Air Ambulance. I plan to be at Evesham on Sunday

Is anyone opening a book on this? I'll have a tenner on Steve Morton, or if he doesn't ride then Laurence Of course if Norman Adams can find his way to the start then that's another matter.

Charles White 1.21.03; o/a:51st/124; MSV: 11th/25 Paul Deane 1.24.22; o/a:67th/124; MVV: 5th/5 Anne Hughes (first tri) 1.30.47; o/a: 90th/124; FVV: 1st/2 The weather was kinder than feared, all ice had disappeared on the Clent hills but it was still a shock to the system coming out of the pool. A gr...

I am unable to get to the TT this Saturday. Is there anyone who can take the stopwatches along for me. They can collect them from my house OR I can take them to Club night on Thursday Dave I'll take them if necessary Dave, though I suspect Andy will manage admirably with his own electronic wizardry...

Colin Williamson of Solihull CC is promoting a new event this summer, details below. If anyone is interested in competing or helping with timing could they please contact Colin. NEW EVENT FOR 2013 THE SOLIHULL TOUR Solihull CC Roadies Chrono Tour. Monday 24 – Thursday 27 June 2013 A Four Evening ser...

Drum roll.................................THE RESULTS!!! Chris Hudson 15.49 Neil Compton 18.15 Richard Leaper 18.28 Steve Morton 18.33 Brian Botfield 18.39 John Crawshaw DNF (Guest) Commiserations to would be first time time trialler John who's turn it was to go wrong on the course this week. He did...

Do we have a timekeeper for tonight?

Yes Brian, it's me. Eric Hogg had to cry off as he's in the middle of a house move. See you later and fingers crossed for the weather.

If you've been thinking for a while that you might try a time trial this year then tomorrow nights little 6 miler is your perfect opportunity. (and the last one this year, not counting the hill climbs which are only for animals and people with malfunctioning pain receptors) Perfect! you're bound to ...

Gareth Scott 31'15" John Rice 31'19" Ed Schofield 32'01" Team Midland Chris Hudson 32'33" John Hitchcock 33'25" Brian Botfield 35'29" Neil Compton 35'34" Richard Leaper 37'13" Kerri Jones 37'24" BRAT Geoff Mann 39'02" BRAT Steve Morton DNF Congratulations to Gareth just edging John Rice. Disappointm...

Excellent, well done guys. Wish I could have been there but as consollation I was in Surrey for the Olympic road races and we had a great weekend.

Great Steve. Unfortunately I've just had to cancel my place due to an injury otherwise with three entrants we could have competed for the team prize. Next year!

Well done Steve. Are you planning to do any Midland based events? I know there are still places for the Droitwich Sprint Tri on 28th July.

As you may know the 50th Anniversary Track Champs is on 14th July. To add to the occasion it would be great to see as many as possible turn out to support the event. Bring the family and a picnic (dogs and grandmas too!) and there will be an opportunity between events for children and grown ups to b...

RESULTS: 1 Steve Bull 21'10" 2 Chris Hudson 21'58" 3 Peter Blackwell 22'33" (BRAT) 4 Matt Regan 23'00" 5 Gary Lowe 23'01" 6 John Hitchcock 23'09" 7 Nic Vipond 23'16" 8 Gary Mackintosh 23'29" 9 Andrew Burley 23'35" 10 Brian Botfield 23'42" 11 Ian Taylor 24'45" 12 Richard Kings 25'12" 12 Carl Woodfie...

Yes, well done Ed, excellent result. It's been a while since we had a Junior Champion, in fact much too long. Keep up the good work.

Still waiting for Spring to arrive but this evening at least saw some good sunshine and calm conditions if still very much on the cool side. Ten riders turned out and it was great to see guests from four other clubs ride the triangle. Results as follows: 1 Steve Bull 21.30 2 Mark Cooper 22.20 Reddit...

How did you manage to capture so many smiles? There was certainly a great buzz around at the start with most putting on a brave face before they went into the unknown. Now I understand what gallows humour is. Wish I could have been there from the off. It got a bit trickier with time as I had to kee...

Sorry for the delay putting up my photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/1077243242 ... 4LfD78XHIw

I'm afraid I don't have rider's numbers Ruth but I presume that can be sorted.

I'll take you up on your kind offer Phil as I don't think there will be any more available unless they do another reprint. Cheers

The Falling Rain Ride certainly does look an attractive prospect, great jersey too.

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