Roberto

Probably the largest JWCC bunch so far in 2018 headed out and enjoyed a good Reliability run, a few early mechanicals in the bunch duly fixed and Sinclair Street conquered. On the path towards Balloch Rachid hit the deck once his wheels slipped in deep leaves and mud, I had nowhere to go but over the bars and landing in a heap with both bikes, no real damage done! Steady pace thereafter with no more  issues and home in a steady drizzle. Well done to all.

Splendid run today with the 9.30/45 group. Good steady pace with group staying together until the last climb from Langbank.  
Special thankyou to Alan for dragging himself out of his sickbed and for waiting at the end with a much appreciated pot of curried parsnip soup. Thanks Alan, and to all who took part.
 
 
 
 

I'll try & get that day off

Drum up number 4, brilliant as always!
 
First of all, big thanks to Iain Lochrane, Geoff & Linda Smith for organising this delightful run & inviting everyone to join in, also for the chief fire starters on site too!
 
Weather forecast wasn't ideal, so I was pleasantly surprise to see a large bunch of yellow & blue at the Loch shore - I counted 13 - Campbell, Colin, David & Carol, Graham & Jane, 4 x Iain McGinty, Carvill, McTarvish, Archiebald, Gerard, Paul McD & myself (sorry if I missed anyone) We seem to make up half the attendees today :-) chapeau Wheelers!
 
Culinary wise, it was a bit of a disaster for me as my craft sausages end up being firewood   Luckily a few was well stocked & the best was Gerard's FILLET STEAK, which I managed to blag a piece, it was bloody tasty ......... thanks Gerard!
Not to mention the red wine, home baking, truffles, coffees etc. It was better than any cafe that I've been in out on a run!
 
Don't forget we did a bit of cycling too   Thanks to everyone for the wheels again today & it was much needed as the way out was a horrible head wind .......... 152km for me by the time I limped home, I'm totally spent but with a full stomach, absolutely gallus!
 
Same again next year please & time to look out for some titanium & carbon BBQ utensils ........ over to you Gerard!
 
Cheers
 
Chung

Grand day out finished off with a +20 mph tail wind all the way home, pure bliss

Cheers to Roberto. I'll drop you a message.

I'll be entering the shorter version, looking forward to catching up again with the JWCC.

Lovely quiet roads down there...

I've registered for this.
Having ridden it before, I can say that it's a great ride. I'm looking forward to it in 2018.
Anyone else thinking about ?

Times
 
Joseph 2.37
Robbie 1.40
Gerard 2.34
 
Thanks to Gerard for timekeeping at the bottom of the hill.
Well done to all.

For some of us, it's simply "the bike" summer, winter, whatever!

For some of us, it's simply "the bike" summer, winter, whatever!

Congrats to Gerard!

Cannot believe no-one has posted yet.
News alert: Bute novice race won by Gerard Deeley JWCC!
Along with his TT win he made sixty quid today.
 
Massive congratulations!
 
Race report please....

Paul, Ian A and me in the first group. Through the wonders of age handicapping we also had Jim Cusick as well as the women Lynsey Curran and Jesse who are all regular Renfrew bunch and winter Saturday morning riders. Ian McT, Marc and Robbie were in the later groups.
We quickly had a very well organised bunch of eight or nine which held together until a touch of wheels half way on the return and a rider went down. We lost momentum and within a few minutes were swallowed up by a big bunch including Marc and Ian who must have worked super hard to put over 4 minutes into us.
I just held on over mt Stuart and just sat in for the habble to finish. Kudos to Paul as first v50 but all jwcc did well in big bunch sprint. Robbie punctured.
APR is good format, Very hard racing with no let up, my geek meter says average 232 watts which explains why I am writing this while lying horizontal on sofa.

Nice one Alan, thanks for organising. I'll alert the Jets.

Echoing Martin's comments above, thanks to all who helped out today. It promised to be wet but we got away with it
 
Congratulations to Ian Archibald, the 2017 JWCC Club 25m Time Trial Champion
 
For some reason I am unable to copy / paste onto the forum but I'll find a way and post up the full results
 
That's the Open events done for the season. We do pretty well at putting these on
 
Gang Forward!

Just getting in ahead of Kenny Steele to say thank you to all the Joansin who helped at this morning's Sam Dooley Memorial TT. Fabulous show of strength by the club.
 
And of course a big thank you to Kenny for organising another super smooth event. Great stuff.
 
M

Houston rise
 
https://www.strava.com/segments/4032797

That was me & missus giving yous a toot near WD Council Offices Dumbarton looking strong dudes

That was me & missus giving yous a toot near WD Council Offices Dumbarton looking strong dudes

That was me & missus giving yous a toot near WD Council Offices Dumbarton looking strong dudes

This weeks results:
 
Robbie - 5.56 (6 points)
Marc - 5.59 (5 points)
Iain mct - 6.01 (4 points)
James S - 6.22 (3 points)
Colin - 6.48 (2 points)
Eric - 6.53 (1 point)
Paul Mcd - 7.02 (1 point)
Robert - 7.34 (1 points)
Graham - 8.12 (1 point)
Ian H - 8.33 (1 point)
James M - 9.33 (1 point)
 
 
 
 
Overall:
 
Iain Mct 81
Robbie 66
Ian A 49
Colin 45
Eric 33
Marc 32
Paul Mcd 29
Paul L 19
Graham 15
Ian H 15
James S 15
Ryan 11
Anthony 10
Jesse 6
Alan mcb 5
Billy 4
Gerrard 4
Duncan 4
Alex 3
James M 3
Charlie F 2
George 2
Paul C 2
Alan T 2
Robert 1
Jane 1
Greg 1
Alan mcl 1
Steven 1
Mia 1
Andrew F 1

Finlaystone to Radio mast
 
 
https://www.strava.com/segments/2278844
 
 
This is a horrible one apologies in advance!

Thanks Paul. Hope you are well too.
 
For anyone in JWCC who may be interested in adding the 'blue and yellow' to the bunch, which would be good to see, here is the route this year. Great countryside with some superb climbs... Lunch stop this year at Glentress (with tables booked). Come on, you know you want to. :-)
 
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/1172986153
 
Btw, there are currently 24 names on the list...