Ian Holms

Mega thanks to Alan and James for time keeping and holding up on a wet morning.
Very satisfied with my performance today.
On the podium,
First rider in V60 category ,
Personal best and lying 3rd in a lot of strava segments today .
 
Painful though !!

Mega thanks to Alan and James for time keeping and holding up on a wet morning.
Very satisfied with my performance today.
On the podium,
First rider in V60 category ,
Personal best and lying 3rd in a lot of strava segments today .
 
Painful though !!

Mega thanks to Alan and James for time keeping and holding up on a wet morning.
Very satisfied with my performance today.
On the podium,
First rider in V60 category ,
Personal best and lying 3rd in a lot of strava segments today .
 
Painful though !!

I can marshall, is it Bish community hall 0815hrs ?

Happy to help out. I have a 30 mile hilly TT on Sunday so won't be riding.

I will be down to ride, but can I request an actual push off at the start!

Can I do the holding and pushing off thing again, quite enjoy it now !!

Week 25
Only three events left and just 3 winners to be determined.
Joseph McIntosh has an unassailable lead at the top of the Chocolate Series, with one run still to do - well done Joe.
The Sub 26 chocolate also looks secure - well done Gerard
The Hilly TT final decider is this Saturday at Langbank and is wide open
The TT league is not yet secure, but could be sealed on Saturday, although I've still got the levelling to do taking only the top 20 results, so it's still in the balance, and we won't find out for sure until after the Sam Dooley.
How exciting is that?
PDF 20170823 Week 25 League.pdf

Thanks to Richard and Ian for timekeeping and holding up,
Really hard on the way back, particularly from the bridge to the finish,
Well done to all.

A deceptive night with the weather, a lot tougher on the return leg than expected. Nice to see a good turnout of Wheelers(and Jet) with a big thank you to Richard and Ian for officiating.

Eight riders tonight. Conditions a fair bit harder than they looked on paper. Scores on the doors:
 
Carol - 20:37 (PD)
Joe - 19:33 (PB)
Dave - 20:17 (PD)
Alan T - 17:44 (PD)
Gerard - 17:15 (PD)
James - 17:35 (PD)
Scott- 17:15 (PB, PD)
Paul L - 17:27
 
Good effort, folks. Nice to see you all. Ta much to Ian Holms for haudin' up.
 
18 quid to be transferred to the club bank account.

Hi all,
 
Despite a few late call offs, 6 of us came out to play on this run - Al, Eric, Ian Ginty, Richard (a rare sighting in a Bunch run as the Nessie Monster  ), Stevie & myself set off from the Bridge with hope of some half decent summer weather!
 
Pretty event free before the (always nice) cafe stop in Kilcreggan apart from the greyish sky rather than the sun we were half expecting
 
Then it all kicked off after the stop - first I had a front flat curtesy of dirty rain washed road which my uber supple Italian rubber ain’t designed for, duly fixed & off we went again.
 
Then disaster struck for Stevie up the Glen Fruinn climb as his brand spanking new super duper Cevelo S3 had a major mechanical which render it a bit of a mess, a quick SOS call back to base had him sorted for a rescue of man & machine. We reluctantly left him to gently walked back down to the main road - poor Stevie (even worst for his wife/partner who had to drive all that way to rescue him  ) we were pretty sure we could have converted it into a single speed & at least had him ride to Helensbrough for the train ………. oh well :-)
 
So, the 5 of us continued on home via Balloch, where upon Richard & myself stayed on the Northside as the others cross the bridge.
Thankfully everyone got back ok & the sun finally came out when I got home ……. typical!
 
Thanks to Ian for posting the run & the rest for the wheels today, thoroughly enjoyed it despite the few issues & well done to all the testers on the 25TT on the West ferry, especially Billy for a very good time indeed, chapeau chaps!
 
I haven’t posted a ride report for a while, the ease of Strava have made me lazy in that respect, anyhow thanks for reading & hope to see youse on the road soon!
 
Cheers
 
Chung

There will, of course, be a social run after the event, probably to Bernie's cafe in Bridge Of Weir where they have some excellent recovery scones.

I'll hold and push off.

Smashing run today with great company.
Paul L should have lots of photos to add to the JWCC gallery after today's run

Carol Morna David Martin Alan Paul L Ian (The Cheeky Chappy) and me set off from club. Carol was time constrained so she stopped at Dunlop Dairy with Morna so they could discuss girlie topics. Rest of us pressed on to Troon for a pleasant cafe stop at Betsy's. Brisk run back withe no mechanicals and it stayed dry. Excellent!

Smashing run today with great company.
Paul L should have lots of photos to add to the JWCC gallery after today's run

Thanks to Paul for the route and the guys for the company. Brisk pace on the return when Martin finally took a spell up front as he had been saving himself on the way down, not that it was mentioned in the cafe.  .

I'm riding this .

Thanks to Jane and Graham for timekeeping. Think the fact Team Cowan turned up, made the others pull out a bit more.

Right back at ya, Gerard.
 
Our changes weren't the smoothest so thought it prudent to leave you out in front for a bit
 
Really enjoyed it & kicking myself for not doing more this year-got the bug back now

Great night for it. Bit if a headwind on the out leg, but, as so often, flying back. Big thanks to Jane and Graham for officiating.
And finally, thanks to Ian, my partner for tonight. Not a bad effort for your first TT in 30 years....

I do believe the Holmes/Thomson team will be making a bid for this most prestigious of trophies.
 
Still needing some volunteers though.

Team Cowan planning to be there to regain their trophy.

If you guys would like to swing past the Georgetown around 7:15, you could cheer on the riders in the David Raymond Trophy event.