Ramsay

We're delighted to announce that Tarmac, the UK's leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions company, will continue their sponsorship of Johnstone Jets Youth Cycling complete with their new Company branding
 
Martin Mulholland of Johnstone Jets stated 'Tarmac is a leading company nationwide. Their continued support will allow the Johnstone Jets to further invest in Coach and Volunteer Development whilst providing quality, accessible cycle coaching for Youths in the Renfrewshire area'
 
http://www.tarmac.com/about-us/

Johnstone Jets Youth Cycling is delighted to announce its new sponsor, Dooley's Cycles of Paisley. Dooley's will sponsor the Jets until the end of season 2018.
Dooley's Cycles, established 1951, is Renfrewshire's longest established cycling shop and has a great history of supporting local, regional and national teams and events.
 
Owner Ian Dooley said "I'm really looking forward to helping support the Johnstone Jets. The club is doing great work at the grass roots of cycling as well as identifying and developing talent to a national level. Our shop caters for beginners, amateur and professional cyclists, so I believe this is going to work well for Jets members and their parents."
 
Johnstone Jets secretary James Simpson said "This is fantastic news for the Jets. Dooley's financial support is great, but it's also great for us to have a partnership with a local bike shop where members can go for help, specialist advice and member offers"
 
http://www.dooleys-cycles.co.uk/
 
Note:
Dooley's Cycles joins Tarmac as sponsors of Johnstone Jets Youth Cycling

Red bull is also very good for hydration. However the 100db disco music at the Red Bull stop became very entrancing and one can be tempted to hit the disco dance routine (allegedly)

Well done Alan and all participants.  Cracking times.

With the closed road, the start house, the film crew, 30-odd riders, dozens of spectators, and sunshine(!) that was surely the ultimate club confined. Thanks again to Jann, Kenny, Martin and Graham for a great morning, and well done to Alan and Danny for showing the rest of us how it's done! (Though I think it bears repeating: that climb is a horrible, short, sharp effort into the red. It takes a fair bit of nerve just to get onto the line at the bottom of the hill and we all deserve a pat on the back for taking it on.)
 
Comparing times from different years can't tell the whole story without a record of weather conditions, too…however, it has to be worth noting that Danny's time of 1:35 and Hamish's time of 1:37 would both have been good enough to win the senior championship three times out of four between 2011-2014! Stellar rides, lads.
 
Given a half-decent day and another big turnout, hopefully someone can record the magical 1:20-something next year.

It's all happening on Planet Jet this week.
 
We are all sorry and at the same time delighted to report that Sarah Bradford is moving on from the club. For season 2016 Sarah is moving up to Team Jadan, a women's race team based in Yorskhire.
 
She is guesting with them this week at the An Post Rás na mBan, Ireland's premier women's road race. 
This is a 5 day, six stage race covering 400km with an international field of over 100 riders.

Full race info at http://www.rasnamban.com/ including a start sheet showing some big names.

No results from this evening's opening 68km stage yet, but our spies tell us Sarah had a safe bunch finish. Keep tuned in for more!

Congratulations on the new team Sarah - but come back and see us please!
 
(pic shows Sarah in tonight's first stage - 4th rider from left)

Yes - it was a nice afternoon - skived off work to go out on bike! Oh the joy of working from home!
I did recognise you Ian.
Also saw Ramsey at Glengarnock Thursday evening.

From what I can gather from Abraham's website and Twitter, he was hoping to use a recumbent trike in a traffic-free environment (one-legged!) to limit his losses while the ankle healed. But as there haven't been any Strava updates since the 29th March, I suspect he's decided it's better to rest and recuperate.
 
At the time of the crash, Abraham was more of less level with Searvogel in mileage terms. However, he'd completed nearly twice as much climbing and all his miles were racked up during a British winter. Miles accumulated in the Florida sunshine are easy miles in comparison!

As we've no definite riders for this tonight I am planning to stay at home in the warm, and not come out to timekeep.
 
We'll hope for better weather next week!

Well done to those who took part, fantastic conditions with a little wind. Thanks Iain Couttie for shoving off the riders and Jann and Iain for the photo shoots.
 
Times as follows
Ian McGinty           27:47 Alan T                    28:47 PB Paul L                    30:43 Mike Ferguson       31:14 Iain Cowden           31:52 James MacLaren   33.23 Graham F              33:41 Money paid to JWCC Bank £21.00 + £3 for last week
 
Jane will ensure delivery of change due to AlanT £7, and change due to James MacL £7.
 
Part #2 next Saturday morning.
 
 
 

Cold and windy morning for the first confined of 2015.
 
£15 collected and transferred to the bank.

Some photos from Sunday taken by Alan T.
 

More Jets news
 
Jess Millar, Lusia Steele and Gemma Penman selected to ride for WoSCA girls at YToS, Danny Mulholland selected for WoSCA boys.
 
Also, Adam Hazle riding for Velo Club UK.
 
Good luck to all our riders!
 
M

Some advance notice of a date for your diary if you can make it.
Sunday 10th May, 10am. I'm planning to run the Jim Daly memorial race as normal on the Barmill circuit.
More details to follow with a few weeks.
As always any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I will give advance notice of when it will go live on entrycentral.
 
 

A pleasure to be out with a Johnstone bunch for the first time in about 25 years? Good riding standard in the middle group and thoroughly enjoyable day.
 
Ian C - I can make you beat the hour :-)

Congratulations to Gemma Penman, invited to race at Revolution 50 on the Olympic track in London. Recognition for loads and loads of hard work and some great performances on the bike.
 
Well done from all at the Joansin.

JWCC Confined Events 2015

 

(When, What, Where, How Long)

Sunday, 1 February 2015 - Reliability #1 - Tour of Renfrewshire (09:00, 09:30, 09:45) Club Rooms, 40 miles

Sunday, 8 February 2015 - Reliability #2 - Moscow Revolution (09:00, 09:30, 09:45) Club Rooms, 50 miles

Sunday, 15 February 2015 - Reliability #3 - Sinclair Street (09:00, 09:30, 10:00) Club Rooms, 60 miles

Sunday, 22 February 2015 - Reliability #4 - West Kilbride (09:00, 09:30, 10:00) Club Rooms, 70 miles

Sunday, 15 March 2015 - Restricted Gear TT 10:00 Gateside, 10ish miles

Saturday, 21 March 2015 - Langbank Hilly TT #1 10:00 Langbank, 10 miles

Saturday, 28 March 2015 - Langbank Hilly TT #2 10:00 Langbank, 10 miles

Tuesday, 31 March 2015 - Chocolate #1 18:30 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 7 April 2015 - Chocolate #2 18:30 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 14 April 2015 - Chocolate #3 18:45 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Sunday, 19 April 2015 - Whole Club Run – Dunoon / Stachur - Creggan's Inn

Tuesday, 21 April 2015 - Chocolate #4 19:00 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 28 April 2015 - Chocolate #5 19:00 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 5 May 2015 - League of 10 TT #1 19:00 Westferry, 10 miles

Tuesday, 12 May 2015 - League of 10 TT #2 19:00 Westferry, 10 miles

Tuesday, 19 May 2015 - League of 10 TT #3 19:00 Westferry, 10 miles

Thursday, 21 May 2015 - Structured Run #1 (18:15, 18:30) Houston

Tuesday, 26 May 2015 - 10 Mile TT Championship for the Frank Lauder Trophy 19:00 Westferry, 10 miles

Tuesday, 2 June 2015 - Chocolate #6 19:00 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 9 June 2015 - Chocolate #7 19:00 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 16 June 2015 - Chocolate #8 19:00 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Thursday 18 June 2015 - Structured Run #2 (18:15, 18:30) Houston

Tuesday, 23 June 2015 - Chocolate #9 19:00 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 30 June 2015 - Chocolate #10 19:00 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 7 July 2015 - Gateside Hilly TT #1 19:00, 10ish miles

Tuesday, 14 July 2015 - 25mile TT #1 19:00, 25 miles

Thursday, 16 July 2015 - Structured Run #3 (18:15, 18:30) Houston

Tuesday, 21 July 2015 - 25mile TT #2 19:00, 25 miles

Tuesday, 28 July 2015 - League of 10 TT #4 19:00, 10 miles

Tuesday, 4 August 2015 - League of 10 TT #5 19:00, 10 miles

Tuesday, 11 August 2015 - League of 10 TT #6 19:00, 10 miles

Tuesday, 18 August 2015 - League of 10 TT #7 19:00, 10 miles

Thursday, 20 August 2015 - Structured Run #4 (18:15, 18:30) Houston

Tuesday, 25 August 2015 - 2-up TT #1 18:45 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 1 September 2015 - 2-up TT #2 18:45 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Sunday, 6 September 2015 - Whole Club Run – Largs

Tuesday, 8 September 2015 - 2-up TT #3 18:30 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Sunday, 13 September 2015 - 2-Up Championships for the David Raymond Trophy 09:30 Georgetown, 7.2 miles

Tuesday, 15 September 2015 - Hill Climb #1 18:30 Howwood, 0.3 miles

Tuesday, 22 September 2015 - Hill Climb #2 18:30 Howwood, 0.3 miles

Sunday, 4 October 2015 - Hill Climb Championships for the Joe Brunetti Sheild 10:30 Howwood, 0.3 miles

 

I will bring soup.

I have been trying to talk myself into entering this for a few years now and am pretty much committed to entering this year. A cycling event where it's mandatory to carry a survival bag and emergency whistle. What could possibly go wrong............?
 
http://3peakscyclocross.org.uk/entries/
 
If anybody else is interested please post up.
 
Cheers,
Davie
 
 
 
 

With the confined events calendar still to be finalised for the year, here are the dates for the Reliability Runs.  As previous years these are the 4 Sundays in February, with longer distances each week:
 
 
Feb 1st.      No.1 Tour of Renfrewshire - 40 miles  http://www.mapmyride...e-route-1730016

Feb 8th      No.2 Moscow - 46 miles  http://www.mapmyride...w-route-1787383

Feb 15th    No, 3 Sinclair street - 58 miles  http://www.mapmyride...t-route-1827559

Feb 22th    No. 4 West Kilbride - 72 miles http://www.mapmyride...-route-14021498
 
 
As previous years there will be tea, coffee, soup, etc available at the club rooms at the end of each ride.
 
Each run will be posted under Club Runs at the appropriate time, here's a link to the first one.

Hi Paul,
 
As others have already said, welcome to the club.
 
In answer to your question, yes, keep an eye out for details of club runs that have been planned.  If the weather is good, there are usually a few different bunches going out.
 
The meeting place is mostly always at the clubrooms, Miller Street, Johnstone.  When you turn up, just introduce yourself and find out which group you are planning to go with.  If you haven't ridden in a bunch before, then let someone know, and they will go through a quick few pointers (it is really easy, but need to remember signals and calls).
 
Enjoy and I hope you get your bike fit sorted.
 
Cheers,
Ramsay

Paul
I wil help as much as I can I think things are looking up for the mighty Johnstone

I am honoured to be nominated for the road race El capitano role and have been giving it some thought. If you wish to be part of a team effort that's great, if you want to race and do your own thing then no worries please do not feel under any pressure to join in. Here is how we might do things, happy for constructive comments and additions,
 
- we each enter as many of the WOSCA series races that we can manage
- before each race I will propose a race plan based on my observation of people's form at the time and the course, I am totally open to other suggestions,
- whatever debate happens we will agree a race plan,
- things happen in a race like punctures (tyres or legs!), crash etc. In this case I will use my experience when a quick call is required to change the plan.
- where appropriate we will use team members to flog themselves for the team effort. Conversely where the rider ambition is more aligned to a different goal like finishing in the bunch then I will give best advice I can for rider to achieve that goal
- I strongly recommend each member tries to get a few bogs bunch runs under their belt between now and March
- I also recommend that when out with bogs bunch, gauge your effort to try and get as far into the last 15 miles as possible. This is the highest quality and best prep for road racing. ( eg take a break for 10 miles pre Kilwinning if it gets you more of the quality time)
- Finally I strongly recommend 4 weeks of one session per week of short, very high intensity intervals starting 1st week February. I will post my recommendation after talking to my learned coach friend Billy Mac as he will be more up to date and know the type of program a lot of you guys are following.
 
Welcome any comments, private or public
 

That's right - after 500 days of riding.
 
If you've been logging your miles on Strava or Garmin, you'll get a sense of the numbers involved here. I barely managed 6,000 miles last year. Some of you will have got into five figures, I dare say. 75,000 miles in a year is mind blowing.

Happy New Year to you all.
 
Hope you all get to ride your bikes as much as possible in 2015!
 
And win KOM or QOM on Strava, win the sprints at the 30 signs, get to the BB first, enjoy the food stops on sportives or whatever you like best on your bike 🚲