Ian Holms

All,
 
I have received the following from Scottish Cycling today
 
As a club we organised the following events through Scottish Cycling / British Cycling in 2017
Don Smith Memorial Ride - Organiser K Steele JWCC Road Race (Habbie Habble) as part of SC West Series (Organiser A Gumley) Sam Dooley Memorial 25m TT - normally September - Organiser K Steele Five Bella Crits (organised by the Jets) as part of the SC West Youth Series - Organisers M Mulholland / K Steele BC Regional Youth Omnium - Organiser K Steele  
Are we willing to organise / support these events again in 2018?
Are we doing too much?
Are there any other events that we should look at hosting?
Are there any other members that would be willing to take on any of the above events or other events
 
Discussion and feedback welcomed please prior to the 23rd August in order that we can conclude what we would like to support for the 2018 season
 
Thanks, Kenny
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Dear all
 
2018 Calendar Compilation
 
To get the wheels in motion, I’d like to say a massive thank you to all the event organisers and clubs who organised events in 2017 – as volunteers, you are the backbone of our sport and your hard work is appreciated by all competitors and especially Scottish Cycling!
 
We, as the Scottish Cycling Events Team are supporting the process of calendar compilation in the West region. Lauren, your new RDO will be in post as the process continues and she will be present at the calendar compilation meeting. In the meantime, if you have any queries about calendar compilation, please direct them to [email protected]
 
The official 2018 calendar compilation process has now begun, and we hope you are as excited about the coming year as we are.
 
To help the Events Team at Scottish Cycling HQ to compile a calendar that is timely and accurate, the first step is for us to compile our Regional calendars.  Below, I have collated some information that should help you to pull together the information we need to be able to submit the calendar to the Events Team.  Please take your time to read the following information and at the bottom of this email, you will find your actions.
 
General Guidance
·         Until the event dates are confirmed by the Scottish Cycling Events Team directly with organisers, all events are on requested dates only.
·         Following confirmation of event dates, all events should be registered by Christmas 2017.
·         The Events Team and I are here to support you as part of this process and throughout event registration – don’t be afraid to ask!
·         Please find attached;
o   2018 Event Calendar Compilation Information; to provide further information and the timeline of the 2018 process.
 
National Championships and Series Events
·         Applications to host these events in road, track and time trial are now open and will close on 1st September 2017.
·         Set dates have been identified for 2018 National Championships and have been identified on the Regional calendars – organisers are asked to respect these dates.
·         Please find attached;
o   2018 National Event Application Information & Guidelines; for anyone looking for more information on organising and delivering a National Championship or Series Event.
·         You must submit your application to host a National event here.
 
Regional Series and Championship Events
·         These events will be discussed at the meeting.
·         If you would like your event to be considered for a Regional Championship or Series event, please let me know prior to the meeting.
 
Preparing for Calendar Compilation: Your Actions
·         The Regional calendar meeting will be held;
o   Date: 30th August 2017
o   Time: 7pm
o   Location: NGB1, Emirates Arena, Glasgow
·         At least one representative from each club is encouraged to attend.  Without representation, your event may not be discussed.
·         Before the meeting, please engage with your club members and discuss, together, your intentions for the 2018 season and begin to think about the date(s) you would like to request.
·         You will find attached, two documents;
o   2018 Calendar Compilation Regional Agenda; a brief agenda that we will follow during our regional calendar compilation meeting
o   2017 Regional Calendar; a summary of events that took place in our Region during 2017 that will act as a reminder.
o   2018 Regional Event Request Register; which I ask you to complete and email to [email protected] by Monday 28th August â€“ it is key that all fields are completed for each event on this form, otherwise your event may not be confirmed for your requested date.  This document also includes a list of event classifications.
 
Road Race and Closed Circuit Only
·         As you will now be aware, all road courses must be risk assessed by British Cycling
·         For a list of road courses currently registered in the region, follow this link:
o   Scottish Cycling West
·         Scottish Cycling must make any new course requests to British Cycling six months in advance of an event,
·         All new course requests will be approved by the Region before the request is submitted to the Events Team.
·         If you would like to request a course for 2018, please email me with as much information as possible on the course (including a route map) and your justification for the requirement for a new course.
 
As a team, we are very excited to begin the process for 2018 and are committed to supporting our Event Organisers to bring together the 2018 calendar in a timely manner, and to deliver another year of fantastic events in 2018!
 
If you have any questions at all, please let me know.
 
Many thanks and we look forward to seeing you on the 30th.
 
Sarah and Morven

Well that was interesting. Myself James Iain Mctavish Eric and Andy Prenelle headed off along Georgetown . By time turned for bishopton I doing my usual hiding at back. Got a bit of a fright going up to 1st set of lights as my BPM suddenly rocketed to 193 but stopped at lights and went back down so hoping was technical fault and not heart failure. Mctavish the gent he is nursed me back on to bunch on bishie hill and we were joined by 2 non wheelers. Hung on to bunch till about 1/2 mile from turnoff at 0 took shortcut with Eric and met bunch on Clune. Hung on to back of bunch till BOW and decided to call it a day. Cheers guys for the tow

+1 Paul. Bunches always drop in summer because people are away. So long as all runs are stuck on the Bunch forum somewhere I think we are OK. I always post on the Bunch whenever going out on an unofficial bunch ride and do this right through the winter when we'll still easily get a dozen wheelers on a Saturday morning in January.
 
The big mix of abilities combined with differing domestic commitments results in a fanastical Venn diagram of potential combinations and I would not want to stop this but just accept that people will sometimes do their own thing.
 
There is no way any of us can keep up with (or police) every feed so I would ask that people keep the Bunch updated with their activities and don't change the big Sunday posts. If it is nice weather there will still be loads of people keen for a ride.
 
A special request to the more experienced or faster riders to please occasionally ride with the other Sunday groups. You will not suddenly lose fitness by riding a little slower for four hours and you might get to see the great countryside instead of Paul McDonald's rear wheel.
 
Post and ride indeed.

And as it turns out, there were roadworks at Houston with a signal controlled lane closure. That's like temporary traffic lights, so no racing tonight.
Thanks to Richard and Billy for plotting up anyway.

Apologies, I'm unable to attend tonight.
Resting, doctor has just diagnosed costochondritis !
Basically it's a temporary inflammation of the costal cartilage, painful .
Thank goodness thats all, I thought I was having a heart attack.

Not long now folk's 😎
 
Mudguards or not?

I've done the NC500 but detoured slightly as there was a few places on the west coast I hadn't been to and wanted to see.
 
Are you planning to cook/refuel in the youth hostels or eat out?
 
There's a nice pub in Applecross if you haven't already been.

No run this week as we are hosting the  Habbie Habble Road race in  Kilbarchan. See post under Road Races. If you haven't already volunteered or are taking part in the race, come along and support.
 
Cheers
Dave

Looks like Evans is the cheapest at minute at £42 -£46 depending on what ratio, and if you're a British Cycling member you get an extra 10% off.....

Ian, you are welcome to anything suitable out of my stash in the shed. Craft welding course booked for September! Bit dark at moment but could see if anything remotely suitable and bring along on Sunday if it helped.J

Is this your cassette?
 
http://bike.shimano.com/content/sac-bike/en/home/components11/road/dura-ace-tt-tri/cs-9000.html

There's a three-year guarantee on Dura Ace components, Ian. Are you definitely outwith that period?
 
Three-cog blocks with an 18t cog are available as spare parts. Shimano call them "sprocket units". Unfortunately, it looks like they cost nearly the same as a new cassette, and if you were to buy one and run the three new cogs with your existing used chain, there's a fair chance the chain would jump under load. :-/
 
I'd just take the hit and buy a new cassette and chain. The repair option's seductive as a money-saving exercise, but if you somehow manage to re-pin the cog and it comes loose again when you're stamping down on the pedals, like as not you'll end up on bouncing down the road. I'm no' sure it's worth the risk.
 
 
 
 

Ian
 
I can't open the pictures...but I have customised 11 speed cassettes so that I can insert a 16t sprocket to make up a 12-28 which is not available on ultegra. If you check out the shimano service manual I reckon you could buy the segment which I am guessing is 3 sprockets pinned together, I bought the spare sprockets I needed on eBay from Japan I think as that was only place I could get them. Having said all that you have nothing to lose by trying to repin the segment as I think that is the minimum you would need to buy anyway.
 
Cheers

Cheers Alan - your of the route last night with Kenny. It's a cracker!

It would be great if we had a central place to post runs that all members have access too?  Yes! It's called the Bunch Forums
 
People are on holidays, weather or insert lame excuse here Well, hallawrerr china!  are main reasons why people can't make or don't show up on runs, Billy has done a great job of posting runs for a long time and sometimes it falls apart.  Some of my suggestions below 
 
1. Post runs to help Billy out, he does a great job(mostly)
2. Post if you are coming
3. If you post a run you should show up at very least
4. Don't counter post on a run because you want to do something else, PM the original poster if you want a change of route
5. Don't post if you are not coming because its wet, it makes you look weak 
6. If you are part of one of the many JWCC Sunday splinter cells that's cool, But does it help build the club? this includes me 
7. Cross posting on Strava, Facebook, Social Media etc. is great but the forum should be the original source of Club Rides as that's were we direct all members new and old
 
Again first world problems, post and ride   

This spring a Facebook 'messenger' group sprung up kind of randomly called 'Saturday morning bike run'. It has a few dozen members from local clubs and it works well, you just post up and generally always a group up for something.
 
Might be worth a pilot for one of the 3 club run groups, if it was one messenger group for all it would probably get overloaded with messages and a bit confusing.
 
Overall I think the Bunch works pretty well for posting and organising runs.

Thanks to the timekeepers and to Alan for towing me along and waiting at times on me catching up.However still the fastest I have been up and down the Georgetown on a bike.

Usual big thanks to our timekeepers this evening, Graham, Carol and Ian. Big thanks also to Joseph who agreed to pair up with me at the very last moment as I had not realised we were starting earlier this week. It was a good run and quite a different experience making sure we stayed together.

6 riders out on a breezy but dry evening, the results were:
 
Joseph & Gerard      18:32
David C & Alan T     18:21
Paul L & Scott         16:34
 
 
Well done to all, and thanks to Ian A. & Carol for helping.
 
4 riders paid, Joseph (Jet) and Scott not paid, Â£12 transferred to club account.

Last weeks results - i left it too late to use the 'this week' results tab so may have missed a couple of riders out
 
Marc - 26 seconds (6 points)
Robbie - 28seconds (5 points)
Iain mct - 29 seconds(4 points)
Gerard - 30seconds (3 points)
Ian A - 32 seconds(2 points)
Ian H - 34 seconds(1 points)
Graham - 35seconds (1 points)
James M - 40seconds (1 points)
Anthony - 41 seconds(1 points)
 
Overall
 
Iain Mct 71
Robbie 60
Ian A 45
Colin 43
Eric 29
Paul Mcd 28
Marc 27
Paul L 19
Graham 14
Ian H 13
Ryan 11
Anthony 10
James 7
Jesse 5
Alan mcb 5
Billy 4
Gerrard 4
Duncan 4
Alex 3
Charlie F 2
George 2
Paul C 2
Alan T 2
Jane 1
Greg 1
Alan mcl 1
James M 1
Steven 1
Mia 1
Andrew F 1

Thanks to Martin for the run and to the guys who helped me with the double puncture on the way back. Two snake bite holes on both tubes when examined back home,
Nevertheless a good run in dry weather.
 
Dave

Road rash on my ankle leg hip and elbow are healing nicely, although I am NOT enjoying the pain when the scabs catch clothing and bed covers !!
No major damage to bike or clothing .
Enjoy your recovery.

Did it in 30 seconds tonight, not quite smashing it, more of a little chip off the top.

Richard, I might actually ride the 2up TT if I get a Jet to ride with or another OAP

Aye, totally ridiculous, Ian! That must be the second confined you've missed all season. 
 
Hope all is well.