Saturday 19th January

Kingston Wheelers Sporting 14

Just a quick reminder to you and all your members that the Kingston Wheelers Sporting 14 open time trial is open for entries.

We moved the date from the second Sunday in February - two weeks later. This year we are on 24th February (Head Quarters at Ripley Scout Hut) Start time 8.30.

Marvellous home made cakes will be available. Grateful if you can encourage participation we appear to have an awful lot of the promoting club riding!.

I also appear to have more than one junvenile/junior riding this year so a special welcome to any youngsters. Its a fairly straight forward course even if the road surface is more your Paris Roubaix than Champs Elysee...

Yours in cycling

Nicola Wadham / Peter Anderson

Kingston Wheelers CC

Next sat and sun rides

Next sat we go to West Horsley garden centre, a nice 25 to 30 mile ride. Sunday will be 9AM START if not icy. Check forum on the day for any change if icy. We will ride to Redhill Airfield 35 to 40 miles.Hope to see a few new faces out. Can split the groups into slow and fast if enough out!

First club ride in 2013 (from Horton Country Park, Epsom)

Nine of the riders outside Garsons Farm, Esher. The weather was cool (6-7 degrees), foggy and dank in the Surrey hills and overcast thereafter when we rode to the farm cafe for a nice cuppa. Nevertheless we were all well prepared and by the look of us we had a happy day.

Bikes for Snowy Roads

Maggie and I are in Zermatt at the moment, enjoying a family Winter holiday.  It's a car-free town, which is nice, and quite a few people use bikes to get about, despite the snow and ice.

The pictures show a couple parked at the ski-lift this morning.  The Cannondale is pretty typical of what people use - it's an old mountain bike with mudguards and snow tyres.  The white bike has an electric motor in the front hub, which makes going up the numerous hills rather easier.  There are quite a lot of these around, too.  The black plastic tubes at the rear wheel of each bike are to hold your skis - you just stick them in.

The road outside our chalet is pretty steep - steep enough to ski down - but every morning you see plenty of bikes whizzing down to town or to the lifts.  Easier than walking, really.

Happy New Year and an enjoyable 2013 season to all.

Mark

Sir Wiggo Gold

OK not the best picture I know but the best I could do after the criptic comments about how he looked from the tele picture when he won BBC SP12. I guess that KPRC congratulate Wiggo as I do and to think Tim used to race against him as a 16yr old schoolboy at Cristal Palace. Well done Sir Wiggo!

American Pie Night 20 Dec 12

And a very good night was had by all. Well done Jake as ever for encouraging!