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Download the forms for this year's Evening League Competition. The Evening League is one of the area's most successful & popular cycling events that has been running for over fifty years! Club members compete against the clock at various distances throughout the summer every Tuesday evening. Even those who have never thought to enter a time trial competition find this a very easy and friendly way to try it out and most get hooked! One you put a time down, you'll always want to beat it. Non-members get three chances to ride it and try it out before requiring to join the club (second claim if you are already in another club). So come along to Longwick each Tuesday.
Click here to go to the Time Trials page where you can download the forms and get maps and locations |
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COMPARE YOURSELF
AGAINST THE WORLD'S BEST
RACE AGAINST
WORLD CHAMPIONS IN THE HWCC EVENING LEAGUE TIME TRIALS
World Individual Pursuit Champion, Rebecca Romero,
Tour de France stage winner David Millar,
National Time Trial Champion, Stuart Dangerfield have
all competed recently and used the
Evening League Time Trial
events as training and preparation for the World's Biggest
Races.
Rebecca Romero - 30th May 2006 - Longwick 11mile circuit TT
- 28'20"
David Millar - 8th August 2006 - Longwick 10mile TT - 19'04"
Stuart Dangerfield - 22nd August 2006 - Longwick 10mile TT -
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MOUNTAIN BIKING
The 2008
Trans Germany Mountain Bike Stage race for the Child
Bereavement Charity
Two High Wycombe Cycling
Club members took on the 500 mile, 7 day Mountain Bike Stage
race across Germany. In June 2008 Chippo & Raggy
raced, off-road across Germany against National & World
Champions to (a) survive and (b) raise £2,500 for the
Child Bereavement Charity
See all the pictures here
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Sunday CLUB RUNS
Come and join us! -
click here .
For all
Club Run Dates & Destinations see the
Club Diary sectionClub Captain Jonathan Smith 01628 474101Club run group speed is 15-17mph and we re-group at the top of hills, all other times we ride as a close group. Leaders:
please have a backstop / sweeper rider. Please note coffee stops destinations can change on the day due to weather conditions and the number of riders. Please volunteer to lead a club run, even if you are unsure of a route there will always be someone on hand to help. I am always looking for new café stops, if you know of any please advise me. |
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 | CLUB CLOTHING
Download the club kit order form here
Clothing order form Dec06.xls or in pdf version Clothing order form Dec06.pdf
Please note that Giordana have increased their prices so the prices on these forms will be subject to change. |
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 | TRAINING
Want to know how to recover? Want to find out if you are over-training?Check out our TRAINING page for new scientific methods, techniques and help |
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 | 2008 MALLORCA TRAINING CAMP
Photo gallery of the HWCC Training Camp in Mallorca with the new Team High Road Sports
Click here for the photos... |
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 | The Sprocket Blog
Keep up to date with the The Sprocket Editor's blog
Training, news, and various bumph..... |
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| Tour de Longwick 2007 Review
All the facts, quotes and pics from the last year's club Tour de Longwick
Download the new 16 page guide to the HWCC event from last October |
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| 2007 FORTHCOMING IMPORTANT CLUB DATES
For key club dates go to the NEW Club Diary section |
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EVENT REPORTS........ |
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 Non-stop
for 1,200 kilometres
The Paris - Brest - Paris
is a killer 'audax'. The longest non-stop ride in the world!
Read HWCC's Mark Black describing how tough he found the 2007 event here... |
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What a happy bunch!
Enough Yellow & Blue to brighten any Time
Trial
 These
recent pics were taken at the club's Lesley Cole 10 mile Time Trial
event on Good Friday 2007.
Check the Club Diary Page for dates and times of
all our Evening & Sunday Time Trials and club runs. All welcome! |
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Bring Back Style to Bike
Racing!
We're going to start a campaign here at HWCC
to bring style back into cycling
 From
the earliest Tour there has been style in cycling. Coppi in the
40's, Anquetil in the 50's even the 70's cycling managed to keep it's
head and look cool. But it all went wrong in the 80's didn't it?
These amazing pics of
our club's own driving force, Gordon & Margaret look absolutely
fantastic. We want this style back please....
Check the
December 2007 Sprocket for more Retro
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Five Year Old makes HWCC Racing Debut
You're never too young to start joining in
with High Wycombe CC.
 Five
year old Felix Wragg makes his racing debut in HWCC colours at the South
Bucks RC Hillclimb competition with Dad, Neil, being pushed up the
climb.
See
http://www.highwycombecc.org/reports.html for more details |
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Club Hill Climb Championships 2006
The Club's Hill Climb record, set on the
brutal Britwell hill near Christmas Common, was smashed by Mountain Biker & Road
Racer - Matt Steven.
 Britwell hill is a severe brute of a climb with a
15% gradient and its ¾ mile length presents an unforgiving exposed
challenge as riders heave themselves to the summit on Christmas Common ridge.
There were other very good performances on the morning with a 3.02 for 4th
place from Rob Barns, and Brendan Divall 5th in 3.09. Veteran
Kevin Holloway made a massive improvement from his 2005 vets records time
when he came up the slopes in a 3.11 which was also good enough for 6th
place.
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New Club Record for David Millar
HWCC member David Millar, currently riding
for Pro-Tour team Saunier-Duval broke the club 10 mile TT record at Longwick
in early August 06.
 In
a star studded Tuesday Evening Club 10m TT both British National TT Champion
Stuart
Dangerfield AND Tour de France Stage winner, David Millar both competed in
our club 10 on the Longwick course. Stuart had just flown back from
Australia and was riding the 10 just to 'spin the legs' . Even so the
20'55" time he recorded with Clive Nicholls wasn't bad!
David Millar was using the Evening 10 as a warm-up for the Vuelta
d'Espagna prologue and indicated that he is in very good form by smashing
the club record by over a minute to record a 19'04" on a course not
renowned for fast times.
All the official results are available in the
Time Trials section
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Etape du Tour 2006
Gap - Alpe D'Huez 190kms.Well
done to all those who entered the Etape du Tour for HWCC this year. It
was a magnificent effort and you'll be able to read all about it in the
August Sprocket.
Simon JACKSON, James PATERSON,
Paul MACE,
James NORRIS,
Neil WRAGG,
Daniel FORSTER,
Patricia HICKS, John EDMONDSON,
Jonathan SMITH, Terry RIDGLEY,
Frank FALLON, Paul MORRISSEY,
Andrew DAW
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 Cyclosportives
Both in the UK and Abroad, Wycombe riders
are competing in the long, endurance style
Cyclosport rides ever week.
Simon Jackson (left) recently won the first
day of the Tour of Wessex and Greg Lewis
(right) completed the brutal Megeve
Cyclosportive in the French Alps in
preparation for the Marmotte.
 And
the Tour of The Cotswolds (left) had five
competitors from HWCC. Neil, Matt,
James, Dave & Paul.
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 Competition
Wycombe riders are competing in Road Races &
Time Trials.
Paris-Roubaix, Giro d'Italia, Tour de France
or Olympic Time Trial? Want to be a
compete cyclist? Come along to the
club and get all the help and support so you
can start racing.
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Naked in Wales
Yes, this is as bizarre as it looks. .
Here is HWCC Member Gary Marshall on his
mountain biking stag weekend in Wales.
It's 5 degrees, his friends have taken his
top off and his Best Man, Dave Johnson is
bending down in front of him taking off his
shorts. Find out why at the pub on
Wednesday.
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Kingcycle
Testing
Has been taking place at the Clubhouse over the
last couple of weeks.All
members have the facility to get their power
output tested by leading National Coach and
Club President Dr Gordon Wright. The
results can then be structured into a
personal training plan enabling you to train
far more accurately than without.
Thresholds can be identified which means you
can train at or below these limits far more
effectively.
And there is
nothing like getting a head start on the
competitio n!
HWCC's Youth Development Squad is quick to
spot talent!
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 RIP.
Paul Burnett
A member for over 50 years, Paul Burnett sadly
passed away just before Christmas.Check
future editions of The Sprocket for
tributes. Also please send your
messages, memories and personal tributes to sprocket@highwycombecc.org
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 Simple.
Adventures of a Bike Racer Chapter One
HWCC's Comic strip now available in The SprocketCheck
out US Bike Racer Chad Nikolz' journal of
life as a bike racer. Click on the
strip on the left.
nikolz@bikecafe.net
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 HWCC
Hill Climb & Downhill Champs 2005
Over 35 riders turned up to compete in the Club
Hill Climb Championships.
Well, 35 riders
turned up but a couple took one look at the
ascent and then promptly disappeared (and
they were mountain bikers)! The climb
of Britwell Salome is a fearsome 12.5%
gradient for nearly a mile but 30
riders set down their time for the climb
with Paul Mace setting a new club
record of 2'44". Afterwards
the less strenuous but more skilful Downhill
Championships was won by John "Hip
Waggling" Day.
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 HWCC
Iron
Persons
Well done to Dave 'Never Give Way' Johnson for
completing his Ironman Triathlon and getting a
superb 6th place. For
more info click here....
Well done as
well to Heather 'Never Dont Smile' Spittles
for her personal best performance in this
summer's half-Ironman Triathlon.
For
the record an Ironman Triathlon is a 2.4
mile swim then a 122 mile
cycle race followed by just a 26 mile
marathon. Read
all about how they fared in the November
Issue of The Sprocket
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 Volcanic
Training
The latest scientific training method to improve
your fitness is to ride up and down Volcanos!
HWCC
member Richard Wise has opened up a new Bed
& Breakfast in the Parc Naturel Régional
des Volcans d’Auvergne in France, which is
home to the Puy de Dome, one of the Tour de
France's hardest climbs.
http://www.french-bedandbreakfast.com
He can
provide dedicated cycle tours,
training and holidays in this fantastic
region. http://www.french-bedandbreakfast.com
or email him at french_bedandbreakfast@yahoo.com
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 Come
On Roger !
Well done Roger and the rest of the GB Team in
the recent World Champs.
sprocket@highwycombecc.org
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 Seaside
Specials !
Taken your loved one on any exotic trips?
Tell
us where you've been riding or visiting,
enlighten us at sprocket@highwycombecc.org
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 High Wycombe CC
2005 Etape Du Tour Medals - Clean Sweep !
All HWCC complete this years Etape in Bronze,
Silver & Gold times!
Pyrenees,
France July 2005
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High Wycombe CC
Evening Time Trials
Clive Nicholls in an explosion of power
Whiteleaf
May 10
From the Out and Back 10's to 22 mile Sporting
Courses to the devilishly hilly Whiteleaf.
Click
here for the Evening League results
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High Wycombe CC win Thames Velo Road Race!
3/4/W/J
- 68Km April 17
Despite some small groups getting up to 20 seconds on the bunch, it
was the usual 'chase-and-sit' which resulted in a mass gallop for
the line. HWCC rider Steve Golla getting a bikes length on
his rivals who all came in together.
See Race & Press Reports...
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