Rye Wheelers have a National Champion Chairman’s Report I have been doing these reports for over ten years now and each time I have wondered how the club can possibly improve the following year, but amazingly it always seems to. The 2011 act will be a hard one to follow.
Tag: Steve Gooch
Steve Gooch runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Readers can move between “Rye Wheelers Greatest Year”, “Two Great Long Distance Champions”, “Inter-Club 10 Miler”, and “Rye 7 District Wheelers”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.
Rye Wheelers “50” Championship 2010
Steve & Bronwen are the Champions Rye Wheelers 50 Mile Time Trial Championships On an almost perfect morning the 2010 Rye & District Wheelers 50 Mile Championship (incorporated in the VTTA “50”) was keenly fought out on a Romney Marsh course. 17 riders, thirteen men and four ladies, took the starter’s signal and rode off … Continue reading Rye Wheelers “50” Championship 2010
Rye Cyclists Take New Year Honours
Rye Wheelers started the year in style with individual wins in both men’s and women’s events. Wheeler of the Wheelers took the honours with a win over very formidible opposition, even beating Shaun Yates, the former Tour de France Yellow Jersey holder, by over a minute. Dave is now considered as one of the best … Continue reading Rye Cyclists Take New Year Honours
Rye 7 District Wheelers
23 Riders From Rye Rye & District Wheelers have no less than twentythree riders in the first event of the 2010 season the New Year’s Day “10” Mile Time Trial, organised by Southborough Wheelers.
Faster at 65 than he was at 25
Bob Burden Writes …. Kent CA 25, Sunday 15th April 2009 Eight members from the club entered this event held on the Chilham (Q25/8) course. Dave Wheeler was the fastest member of the day with a time of 56.51 setting a new club record, and bringing it back to a local course. Steve Gooch also beat the hour … Continue reading Faster at 65 than he was at 25
Wheeler’s First Promotion
The K.C.A. “50” On Sunday 8 June Rye & District Wheelers, on behalf of the Kent Cycling Association, promoted the famous June K.C.A. Fifty Mile time trial on the Romney Marshes. A seven year high of 84 riders competed on a blustery morning and … Continue reading Wheeler’s First Promotion
Sprocket Page-Wheelers Dine
It was great to be ‘down by the Riverside’ with the Rye & District Wheelers on Thursday 8 November.
The Sprocket Page
Adventures of the Rye & District Wheelers. The Mayor And Rye Cycling Paul Osborne, the cycling Mayor of Rye, has made a tremendous contribution to the Rye & District Wheelers and cycling in Rye generally, during his two year term of office at the Town Hall.