We had some cake racing, and a team competing at BUCS track last weekend. We've got one race report, and keep an eye on facebook for a BUCS roundup.

Save the date for Sports Award Dinner on 11th June. We'll let you know when you can buy tickets.

Here's a little message from Georgie:

"In less than 3 weeks time I'm going to be cycling to Bordeaux from Bristol (around 600miles!) with a group of people (I'm yet to meet) all hoping to raise awareness and support the charity Temwa. I hadn't heard of the charity myself until being told about this challenge but having looked into the brilliant work that is being done to sustainably develop one of the most disadvantaged regions in the world I decided that I had to get involved. Training commensed yesterday....so I have some work to do to be able to complete the challenge within the 8 day target!"

For more info and to find out how you can donate, visit her Fundraising Page.

Mega thanks to all who participated and helped out with the cake races today, it was a metric ton of fun.

Here are the results:

Hill Climb:

• Andrew 4:11
• Fred 4:21
• Tom H 4:22
• Tom S 5:13
• Eric 5:30
• Alice 7:15 (our sole woman's entrant).

For the downhill, Nat came back from a nasty 1st run crash to edge out the win with a 1:07 descent of The Full Belmonty. One would expect no less from our DH rep. Eric improved a couple seconds over his first run, but 1:08 wasn't enough to defeat the hardtail hero. Cam had an off on his first run, but despite that, still set a very promising time of 1:16. A potential winning run was snatched from his grasp by a big spill in front of the road bike spectators.

As it gets closer to exams, the social rides will continue every week, but there may not necessarily be any committee ride leaders.

Wednesday - 2pm

Sunday - 10am

Meet at the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Road and XC split into different ability groups and head out to explore the countryside.

Organise other rides through the facebook group.

It's your final chance to have your say before our official committee handover meeting. How did we do as a club this year? Did we meet expectations? What went well? What didn't go so great? Can you suggest any improvements or new ideas for 2014/2015?

Respond here.

We've got a new committee and we've got cake racing! Read on to find out more.

Also, a quick shout out to Georgie, Ryan (aka Fabian), Mat and Chris competing at the BUCS track champs in Manchester this weekend! We hope the home of GB cycling success rewards us with some of our own.

It's time for some cake races, which will be this Sunday, 11th May.  These are fun, friendly, timed runs either up a hill (road) or down a dirt track (MTB), which conclude with a yummy carvery lunch. This year, we'll be doing a race each for both road and MTB, but of course you're all free to do both if you like. Here's the plan:

Road: Most, if not all of the 10am Sunday road groups will end up at the bottom of Belmont Hill at 12:30pm, where Eric will be waiting to send you off for a run up the hill if you'd like to get timed.  The finish line will be about here, right next to the start of the MTB tracks. 

MTB: We'll be doing runs down the Belmont Hill dirt tracks, following a course that should be both fun and beginner-friendly.  Timed runs will start around 1pm, but you can show up as early as you like to mess around.  If you'd like to ride out there together, Eric will be departing from the bridge at 11:10 (meeting at 11:00) to head over.  For those making their own way, the trail entrance is here.

Our carvery meal has been booked at Gatcombe Farm Shop, we're on for their 2pm lunch, which should give us some time to do prizes beforehand.  The place is just down a forest path from the Belmont Hill tracks, but can also be accessed by road via a longer route.  MTBers, it would be great if you could bring as many locks and cables as you can, that way we can secure everyone's bike.

Note:  If the weather is seriously uncooperative, we may move this event to another week, but for now we're looking alright.

BUCS XC will take place on June 7th at Birchall, and we'll be heading up the night before to camp out, BBQ, chill in our big gazebo, and maybe even challenge Bath to a long-skid contest.  We want to bring the biggest team we can, so this is a FREE trip, the club is even covering race entry.

Sign-up on the union page.

A huge thanks to the outgoing committee for commitment and hardwork put in throughout the year. An especially big shout out for Tom Hall, 2013/14 club president, for going above and beyond the role and organising the club's first ever Open events.

Your new committee are:

• President: Mat Mew
• VP Road: Fred Cook
• VP MTB: Eric Eckstein
• Road Captain: Charlie Ormerod
• Race Captain: Cameron Toms
• Track Captain: Ryan Witchell
• XC Captain: Sam Oliver
• Downhill Captain: Nat Aaronson
• Treasurer: Kate Mactear
• General Sec/Publicity: Tom Mowbray
• Events Sec: Connor Hearn
• Kit Sec: Christopher Brasnett
• Social Sec: Andrew Kirby

As it gets closer to exams, the social rides will continue every week, but there may not necessarily be any committee ride leaders.

Wednesday - Meet at the Clifton Suspension Bridge at 2pm. Road and XC split into different ability groups and head out to explore the countryside.

Sunday - Meet at the Clifton Suspension Bridge at 2pm. Road and XC split into different ability groups and head out to explore the countryside.

Organise other rides through the facebook group.

If you've got 15mins to spare, this is quite interesting.