1. Wed 25th - UOBCC Social
2. 8th & 14th March - Track Trips 6-9pm
3. 28th March - Open TT (enter now)
4. 18-19th April - BUCS DH and XC Save the Date!
5. Kit Amnesty
6. Rapha Job Opportunity
7. BC Membership Collection

What's on this Week

Tuesday, 8pm - Spinning (Sign up on the Facebook Group).

Wednesday, 2pm - Road and XC social rides from the bridge (remember your lights)

Thursday, 7pm - Development squad training

Saturday - Road Circuit racing at Ludgershall and Odd Down.

Sunday, 10am - Road and XC social rides from the bridge.

Time: Wednesday, 8pm.
Location: 13 Belgrave Rd
Facebook Event

It's time to give our livers a work out as well as our legs (I think there is a strava option for pint drinking, just after Nordic ski) hence we will be going out somewhere on Wednesday.

Ben has kindly offered pre-drinks round his house (Belgrave road, right by the uni). We will then head to Bunker/Thekla depending on demand

Anyway save the date and maybe do a little light training, see you there!

8th & 14th March - Track Trip. 6-9pm.

Probably ~£15 (depends on numbers).
Beginners welcome.

To show your interest, please use this Facebook poll.

Remember to get your entries in for UOBCC Open TT on 28th March. Join the Facebook event for more updates. Entries open online now.

Go to the CTT website and filter the events entries by:

• Distance: '10'
• Month: 'March'
• District: 'West'

(or this direct link might work...)

18-19th April.

The annual BUCS Downhill championship is happening April 18-19th in Innerleithen, Scotland. We'll announce the cost once we figure out how much subsidy the Club can offer. We're also planning on taking the opportunity to do some XC riding on the nearby Glentress trails. It's the weekend after easter break, so plan ahead and tell your family you're going biking!

The night races on Wednesday evening were a blast, here's the results:

Women:
Naomi "On-three" Magowan: 17.13
Louisa "No fear" Ramsey: 17.17
..That brings Naomi and Louisa to one win each in our cake races.

Men:
Barney "Das Nachtmeister" Butler: 12:35 (On a slick circuit at night!)
Mike "El Diablo" Diamond: 13.01
Cam "More cowbell" Toms: 13:12
Dan "Indefatigable" Morris: 13:15
Eric "20 gearshifts a minute" Eckstein: 13:15
Sam "loads of grip" Oliver: 13:38
Alex "Rainman" Maxwell: 14:32
Frank "Warp speed" Hodgson: 15:13
Alex "Win it or bin it" Persin: 15:57
Ryan "No lights" Witchell: 16:28
Sam "The Chief" Miller: 20:41

Congrats to all finishers, especially the rookie racers. That must have been quite an introduction.

A message from Chris our Kit Sec:

"There's been some confusion as to the whereabouts of some of the club's kit recently, so if you have any, please drop gear.uobcc@gmail.com a quick email just to confirm what you have at the moment. I don't want to have to recreate Act 4 Scene 1 of Don Carlos with every single club member."

However big or small, the club kit has taken several years to amass, so please take a minute or two to double check you're not holding on to anything that you've borrowed from UOBCC.

Rapha Job Opportunity - Upcoming/Recent Graduate?
Rapha are opening a retail outlet, the Rapha Archive Store, at Kilver Court in Somerset in early April. They are currently recruiting for a Store Manager, Supervisors and both full time and part time retail assistants to deliver the legendary Rapha Customer Service experience in our new Archive Store.
It's important to Rapha that their staff are keen cyclists, with a strong interest in the sport of road racing who and embody their core values of passion, determination, creativity and communication.
If anyone would be interested in a position at the Rapha Archive Store, have a look at the job roles on their website. Any applications can be forwarded to retailcareers@rapha.cc.

I have British Cycling race licences for:

Jonathan Pang
Matthew Taylor
Connor Hearn
David Plemming
Tom Hall
Oliver Neale
Georgie Snowdon-Brett
Freddy Carlton
Alice Toms
Will Bourne
Sam Game

Let me know when is a good time to collect your race licence. I'll be in the Queen's Building Foyer at 1pm on Thursday for 15-20mins. I'll also have some UOBCC membership cards.

10 HOURS.
130 MILES.
4 BURRITOS.

Tour de Burrito is back for 2015.

HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?

STEP 1: Register on the union website. Registration costs £5 and means ALL the money raised goes straight to charity.
STEP 2: Set up your personal fundraising page. Go to the IGNIT10N Everyday Hero website, click on 'start fundraising' and set up your personal page.
STEP 3: Tell everyone what you're doing and raise some money for a great cause :)

For more info about the ride see our website. Any queries, please direct them to the Facebook Event.

See our website for more info about our sponsors and what special deals they can offer.

Bike UK have just launched their CycleFit service. Club members can get a half price fit (from £30 for the express fit and £60 full fit) until the end of March.

A custom fit of how your bike is set up is just that: a custom fit just for you.  What a CycleFit can do for you depends on what you want and can address one or more of…

• increased power
• improve aerodynamics
• alleviate pain
• improve comfort

Head to Bike UK:CycleFit and when booking use the code UOBCLUB. Feel free to pass on this code family members, friends, riding buddies etc…

This Week (16th-22nd Feb)

A reminder that kit can now be picked up from Bike UK. Just head in and tell them your name and what you've ordered.

Tonight - Spinning (Sign up on the Facebook Group).

• 2pm - Social rides from the bridge (remember your lights)
• 4:30pm - Post ride brownies
• 6pm  - Cake Racing II: Leigh Woods Night Sprints

• 7pm - Development squad training

• Road Circuit racing at Ludgershall and Odd Down.

• 10am - Road and XC social rides from the bridge.

Coming up in March:

• 8th - Track Trip. 6-9pm (more details soon)
• 19th - Tour de Burrito (register now)
• 28th - UOBCC Open 10 mile TT (entries open)

18th Feb, 6pm - Cake Racing Series. The next event in our Cake Racing Series will be a lap of the Leigh Woods blue loop.  At night.  Race the clock, and don't get eaten by Sasquatch.  February 18th, the bridge at 6pm.

We'll have club lights available for the non-enlightened. Suitable for all abilities.

For more info, check out the Facebook Event.

10 HOURS.
130 MILES.
4 BURRITOS.

Tour de Burrito is back for 2015.

HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?

STEP 1: Register on the union website. Registration costs £5 and means ALL the money raised goes straight to charity.
STEP 2: Set up your personal fundraising page. Go to the IGNIT10N Everyday Hero website, click on 'start fundraising' and set up your personal page.
STEP 3: Tell everyone what you're doing and raise some money for a great cause :)

For more info about the ride see our website. Any queries, please direct them to the Facebook Event.

Now's the time to get your entries in for our annual 10 mile TT event. Entries open online now.

Go to the CTT website and filter the events entries by:

• Distance: '10'
• Month: 'March'
• District: 'West'

(or this direct link might work...)

Bike UK have just launched their CycleFit service. Club members can get a half price fit (from £30 for the express fit and £60 full fit) until the end of March.

A custom fit of how your bike is set up is just that: a custom fit just for you.  What a CycleFit can do for you depends on what you want and can address one or more of…

• increased power
• improve aerodynamics
• alleviate pain
• improve comfort

Head to Bike UK:CycleFit and when booking use the code UOBCLUB. Feel free to pass on this code family members, friends, riding buddies etc…

Bath Uni CC hosted an afternoon of racing at Odd Down Circuit. After 15 laps of racing, Kate Mactear secured 4th place in the women's event, and in the men's novice race, Chris Parker and Freddy Carlton finished 8th and 10th respectively.

Lots of cheering was had by all. The more experienced guys battled it out head to head with Ryan topping the table and Andrew coming in a close 2nd.

Andrew and Ryan go head to head (video).

Full results available here.

Thomas and Oliver cycled up to Monmouth in Wales for a 75 mile valentines day ride. Here they are finishing up at the Suspension Bridge.

See our website for more info about our sponsors and what special deals they can offer.

A touch of frost didn't stop several UOBCC nutters taking on over 2000m of ascent across the Mendips on Sunday. Remember that Ignit10n (Tour de Burrito epic ride) is coming up on Thursday 19th March so it's definitely worth getting some miles in now in preparation.

This week we have Racing on Wednesday and Sunday at Odd Down and the MTB taster session on Sunday.

There are a couple of useful links to additional cycling resources on in the left-hand column of this email.

Tuesday: 8pm, Spinning at the Gym (Free + NO gym pass req.). Sign up will be via a post on our Facebook Group. The first 16 to reply will get a place.

Wednesday: 2pm, XC and Road Social Rides. See you at the bridge! Remember to bring lights. Most of the road leaders will be racing at Odd Down in the afternoon. See below for more details.

Thursday: 7pm, Development squad. See respective groups or email Cam (ct13975@my.bristol.ac.uk) for more info.

Saturday: Racing at Odd Down or Ludgershall.

Sunday: 10am, Road social rides from the Suspension bridge. And MTB Taster session! See below for details.

Remember that the facebook group is still available to organise unofficial rides (although try to avoid arranging these on days which already have a ride).

Time: Wednesday, 1:30pm.
Location: Odd Down Cycling Circuit
Facebook Event

Racing starts at 3pm.

Bath Uni CC is hosting the next event in our series of uni races! If you didn't come last time, prepare for a great mixture of men's and women's races, lots of cheering and lots of rivalry! If you've never tried racing before, this is your chance to have a go in a relaxed atmosphere and for FREE.

If you want to cycle down, we'll be taking a group down leaving at 13.30, otherwise grab the train down to Bath and we'll see you there for 3! Afterwards we can head down into to Bath for a bite to eat before riding back.

Date: 15th February
Time: 10am
Meet: Clifton Suspension Bridge
Facebook Event

Jump on a knobby-tyre bike, get some tips from our club's best, and go ride the local trails!

What to bring:
A mountain bike if you have one. If not, post here so I can get a count of our hire bike needs. We'll get them through PedalProgression, their hire bikes are ace.
Some cash, if you need to hire a bike. I'll announce how much it will cost once we get a solid idea of attendance.
Some protective gear beyond a helmet would be nice, but not super-necessary. We can organize some loaner kneepads if requested.
The hire bikes have good flat pedals, any athletic shoe works fine with them.
Pro-tip: Road jersey's are fine, but I'd recommend you wear some shorts over your fancy lycra bibs to protect them in case you hit the dirt.

Sign-up via the facebook invite that's already gone out, or if you don't do facetube, then email Eric (eric.eckstein@bristol.ac.uk)

18th Feb, 6pm - Cake Racing Series. The next event in our Cake Racing Series will be a lap of the Leigh Woods blue loop.  At night.  Race the clock, and don't get eaten by Sasquatch.  February 18th, the bridge at 6pm.

We'll have club lights available for the non-enlightened. Suitable for all abilities.

Check out footage from Leigh Woods Enduro Racing.

TT season will begin with the UOBCC Open TT in its 2nd year. Entries open online now.

Go to the CTT website and filter the events entries by:

• Distance: '10'
• Month: 'March'
• District: 'West'

(or this direct link might work...)

If you haven't yet picked up your membership card or race licence, then get in tough with me (Tom Mowbray) either by facebook or email and we can arrange another time to meet up. (I'll be in Queen's every weekday).

For more info on how to become a member of British Cycling, see our website.

The Mendips Madmen - photo credit: Will Barr

See our website for more info about our sponsors and what special deals they can offer.