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Sounds great. Sign me up.

Me too

Is anybody driving from south Birmingham and able to give me a lift?

I'm riding fairly late but you can stick it in mine if that's any use.

If you want to hang about I can offer you a lift home too.

Do we have a list of courses and records anywhere?

Is sand bagging allowed?

Me me me me me me

keith wrote:I would have thought that, that is more likely to be positive John . Others have been told no , yesterday

I'm on the start list, but they never bothered to tell me. Time to book a hotel in Wales!

Didn't get in on the Merthyr event . Perhaps entering under my pet name of Edward 1st of England was not such a good idea. There is a Worcester st johns 25 on the same day so I've entered that instead . That one closes tomorrow I've still not heard about it :( In other news the Midlands events page...

Keep me in the loop

All three are entered!

I have entered the Little Mountain TT via the CTT website. I just wondered whether there was a link to the rules for "roadman" entry - I remember it somewhere on the Beacon site but I can't find it. I just want to be sure that any of my aero slipperyness will not void entry into this classification...

I love roundabouts.

RTTC #2 and #3 (Buxton and LMTT) entered.

I'm down for the Buxton one!

I'm also considering driving to Wessex...

Hi Martin, Something I saw a few other clubs running is a Season Ticket for their time trials. It seems a good idea as you get payment up front and I don't need to find three quid every week :) That's interesting John, which clubs are doing it so I can investigate it? Worcester St Johns was the one...

Hi Martin,

Something I saw a few other clubs running is a Season Ticket for their time trials. It seems a good idea as you get payment up front and I don't need to find three quid every week

The weekend Jessica Rhodes-Jones, second claim member Ollie Hayward, ex-Beacon member Richard Bussell and myself all competed at the national hill climb. This year the course was Bank Road in the centre of Matlock. Richard came 7th and was sadly unable to defend his title. Jess finished a very respe...

There are some interesting suggestions here: most of my TTing has been down to the encouragement of Jess. For standard turn up and race crits the idea might work, but not as well for events you have to enter in advance (always my downfall!) It would be nice if we could use the official Facebook page...

I've started to try to use the Beacon Facebook page to share more regular news about people's race results, starting with Stu's win this week and news of the National 10. Anyone can view the page - no need to have a Facebook account (we could probably find a way to embed the feed on the front page ...

Entered. Never done a 25 before so may not get in.

In terms of organisation it would be good if we could work together to enter events and pool cars etc. Especially road races where we start and finish together, unlike a TT where you can have an hour or more between competitors. Pete is correct in that Facebook and mainly Strava are how I get most o...

Where can we see all the records?

Yosser wrote:How the mighty are fallen eh George. Got to say that I tried v hard but it was a sound beating on the night. Not using TT bike was a factor but neither were any others. What a ride by Jon Hunt, on a strictly non aero bike! Respect.

To be fair my bike is a strictly aero non aero bike

John Hunt did it in 1min10 and won the Redditch hill climb here last year I think, would be good to see how the Academy stars compare! Local lad Gerard Henry won his age group last year too. The lad's a twig. At the Redditch event I was at there was a large number of young kids doing it. Some must ...

Great post today to come home to with the entry booklet arriving. Fantastic work John on it again. Good to see so many Beacon entries, worried I'm going to be the last finisher though! The target times are interesting, bet Matt Regan is looking forward to posting a 1hr40 time!? Is Matt riding a mop...

Is there anywhere with an explanation of exactly how the handicap system works? It seems a form of black magic to me.

Anyone got a skin suit I can borrow?

So... next Friday then Alan? Just a thought, some 24 hours McDonalds only have drive through which we might have to check.

http://www.steephill.tv/ is my favourite as it has links to most other races.