Ramsay

Merry Christmas to all members

Season's Greetings to all JWCC members. Here's to a great 2015 cycling.
 

 
Darryl

It's the same from me too!
 
Hope santa is good in bringing you all bike blings :-)
 
All the best
 
Cheers
 
Chung

And to you and everyone else

Merry Christmas to all club members, and best wishes for 2015.
 
:banana :banana

Merry Christmas to all club members, and best wishes for 2015.
 
:banana :banana

Anybody who is enjoying the UCI channel coverage of the cyclocross world cup should check out www. VIER.be for archived footage and live streams. 
Watched both the Zilvermeercross live and archived footage of the Superprestige Francorchamps, which features the run up from hell  :twisted leer, today. Extremely cool courses and skills on show.
 
I am an internet dolt who can't figure out the likes of Steephill TV so if I can do it I would imagine anybody could.
 
The Flemish commentary is strangely hypnotic and far more informative than the arch irritant McCrossan who needs to get over his unrequited crush of Nys.
 
 
 

Major omission no1, and even BIGGER THANK YOU to Carol for taking thousands of photos during the event and to Dave for taking lots of Carol.
 
Looking forward to them appearing on the Wheelers website. Jane
 
 

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who attended last night and made is an event to remember.
 
Personal thanks to everyone behind the scenes for all the support which helped it happen. Rita and Katie for agreeing to present the prizes, Ramsey and Paul for officiating, our sponsors and guests, Gleddoch House Hotel - particularly Wendy, Ian Simmet for the ceilidh, the team of  Helena, Jann, Karen, Mary, Seonaid, Allan C, Allan T, Martin and Graham F who helped pull all the ideas together, sourced photos and raffle prizes, ran errands, made calculations and sold and folded the raffle tickets.
 
The Jets who presented flowers and assisted with the Raffle deserve a special mention too!
 
Thanks also to all who cycled this season to compete for the prizes and well deserved congratulations to the prizewinners, new awards to aim for next season?
 
Thanks again for my flowers.
Jane

Yeah, great night.  Thanks to Jane and all the team for the organisation.
 
Two fantastic guests of honour as well!!  :banana
 
Well done to all the prize winners.
 
R

Great evening. Jane did a fantastic job organising it all.
 
Big Al earned his nomination for the Hamoc award for next year.

Fantastic effort lead organiser Jane and the immense support team. Very well done.
 

A great night, well done to the organisers and congratulations to all prize winners. 
 
Mary and Iain

Yeah second that Mark, great night. looks like you, Billy and Tom were settling in for the night with the red wine raffle prizes. Tut tut, some of know our body is a temple......

Big thanks to Jane and her band of organisers for putting this evening together. Greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks also to the club sponsors for their input and generosity and to all the other contributers.
 
A most enjoyable evening.
 
Mark

Mary/Jane,
 
Couple of raffle prizes coming from the Muirheads (not as exciting as all the others)!
 
R

Additional prizes promised from Domino's Pizza, Bernie's Cafe Bridge of Weir, Trattoria Roma Johnstone, and many kind donations from Members and Jets.
If you can't make the Awards night perhaps you could ask someone to buy tickets for you?

More prizes from local business;  Boots, Amaretto, Wards Jewellers, Hendersons Flowers, Cafe Siempre and others

Mary, generous donations received from Gleddoch Spa, R34 cafe Kilmacolm, Neil Stewart IFA, Bridge of Weir so far. More to follow, I will bring along to Gleddoch.
Jane

Loads out and about today!
 
 First Jann and Ian Manson on the track heading towards the clubrooms from Lochwinnoch,, quickly followed by the welcome sight of Ramsay (back on two wheels) and Elaine on the same route.
 
At the lochside cafe were John and Rita and Carol and Dave who had missed the bunch earlier.  After the cafe Carol, Dave and I joined forces for a bit, up the back road to Beith then back via Gateside, the rocky road and down Bowfield.
 
 Thanks to them the company on a great day to be out on a bike
 
Iain

Done another count of declared participants tonight, Total 115,  please get your orders in as only 29 more tickets available to reach capacity.
 
Ordered tickets will be available to collect, if paid for or on receipt of funds at the AGM.
 
Jane

Hello All, 
 
Just 4 weeks to go to the Presentation Dance   Whaur's the party, then?     It's Party time!... or as I prefer to call it The Awards Ceremony!
 
There are some exciting raffle prizes in the bag already, but we would very much welcome your prize donations for the Raffle   A wee bit of help.   A wee bit of help.  A wee bit of help. . 
 
If you could pm me to indicate intention to donate to the raffle, just so I have an idea of number of prizes (prize details not necessary), that would be great. Prizes can either be brought on the night or I can arrange an uplift from the club.
 
Many thanks for your support.
 
Mary 

Bike now sold.

They don't make Johnstone Wheelers like they used to! I've ridden 41x22 for the last three years. I've never been faster than 1:36 and even on that occasion I was never properly on top of the gear. The ratio picked itself as the smallest I could get on the bike: 23-tooth sprockets are really hard to find and my cranks won't take a 40-tooth ring or smaller without the chain touching the arms of the spider.
 
Compare my teeny-tiny 41x22 (Alan!) with Graeme Herd's 42x17: 49" plays 65". Graeme's record is 1:22, 16.46mph, at an average cadence of 86, up a slope of 11% average gradient.
 
Great info, guys. Cheers!

Bike now sold.