Tuesday 17th February Weekly Newsletter

Get on your bike, prevent food waste and help out a great community project. Volunteers needed Saturdays 9-10pm and Sunday mornings (cycling or cooking).

British Cycling Events within 50km of Bristol

Road, XC, Cyclocross and Track events hosted by British Cycling. All events are within 30 miles of Bristol.

What's on?

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).

Wednesday

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

Thursday

7pm - Development squad training

Saturday

Road Circuit racing at Ludgershall and Odd Down.

Sunday

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)

XC - Cake Racing: Tomorrow

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.

Tour de Burrito - 19th March 2015

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.

UOBCC Open 10 mile TT - 28th March

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: CycleFit Service. UOBCC 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…

WURL Racing Roundup

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.

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