Fourteen Rye Wheelers Entered
The Southborough & District Wheelers 10 Mile New Year’s Day Cycle Race has no less than 14 Rye Wheeler Entries in the 91 strong field. Continue reading Southborough Wheelers New Year’s Day Cycle Race
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KCA Luncheon
Rye Wheeler Pav Bryan is Joint Best All Rounder Champion of Kent
Kent Cycling Association Annual Luncheon and Prize Presentation – Sean Yates is Guest of Honour
Wheelers Tuesday Run at Appledore
At Appledore on the Way Home
The Rye Wheelers Tuesday run is a comfortably paced ride that anyone who rides a bike fairly regularly can easily manage.
It leaves from North Salts at 12 Noon in the winter month (from when the hour changes) and 1pm. in the Spring Summer and Autumn (The time changes when the hour goes forward). Continue reading Wheelers Tuesday Run at Appledore
Rye Wheelers Have a New Star
Michael Maxwell wins East Sussex Cycling’s Junior Hill Climb Title
Rye Wheelers have found a new star rider in 17 year old Michael Maxwell who has been mentored through his junior career by another Rye star, the former Kent 12 Hour Champion, cycling coach Pav. Bryan. Continue reading Rye Wheelers Have a New Star
Carnival Appeal Film – 1965
Will Rye Sports and Rye Carnival Live Again
In 1965 Rye Sports Day was a popular local event, attracting athletes from all over the country. But Television was gaining a hold and first class athletics from the White City was showing athletes of International stature. Spectator support was dropping and the difference from 1950, when about 4,000 people turned up at the Cricket Salts to watch the athletic and cycle races to the mid sixties, when Continue reading Carnival Appeal Film – 1965
Preston Park Cycle Racing 1962
A very short piece of film with a few shots of racing at the Preston Park Cycle Track in Brighton in 1962.
Rye Wheelers used to make a regular Wednesday evening trip to take part in the track league there during the summer months. Continue reading Preston Park Cycle Racing 1962
Ewe & Lamb Sprint 1962
They used to race, in days of old, from the Ewe & Lamb at Wittersham to Tenterden and back.
This race, filmed in 1962, was supported by seven tricycles and one single (Rye Wheeler Jon Ashdown. Continue reading Ewe & Lamb Sprint 1962
Cycle Racing in East Sussex 1960
ESCA 2 UP Team Time Trial 1960 Plus Road Race
This piece of film will be mainly of interest to grey haired racing cyclists from the 1960’s.
John and Dave Ashdown are featured in the first race, with Richard Wall doing a cameo appearance after a face plant.
Bob French and Lynn Chambers of the Hastings Club and Gerald Maryann of Tunbridge Wells appear in the second race, which finished on Brighton Sea Front. Continue reading Cycle Racing in East Sussex 1960
Rye Wheeler is Joint Kent Champion
Dead Heat after 18 Hours of Racing
Amazingly it was confirmed last night that this years KCA Best All Rounder was jointly won by last years winner Dean Chittenden of Abello-SFA Racing Team and Pav Bryan of Rye & District Wheelers in an average speed of 24.674 mph across 4 Continue reading Rye Wheeler is Joint Kent Champion
Rye & District Wheelers 100 Mile Championship
Wheeler’s Championship “100”
Best Race in three centuries of club history Jon & Barry go ‘Head to Head’ in “100” Championship
In over 120 years of Rye cycling there can have been very few time trial championships as hard fought and competitive right down to the wire. Continue reading Rye & District Wheelers 100 Mile Championship