Dave C

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

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

60 miles today - thanks Dave, Carol and Boyd for the company and pointing out the right way to go.
Bit damp on return.
Tony

Thanks for tow to bridge today guys !

........ & for stopping to assist in the puncture repair by offering Co2 & pump! :-)

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.

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.

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

Just like to add that Calmac never had much choice but to refund the tickets when Boyd the Boss set about them.
Cheers Boyd

Just like to add that Calmac never had much choice but to refund the tickets when Boyd the Boss set about them.
Cheers Boyd

A good day out, but not quite what was planned. Four of us pushed hard to get up to Lochranza in time for the ferry, only to find that the ferry had broken down and a replacement was going to take some time to get there (if it ever did), so we decided to carry on round Arran. We stopped at Shiskine Golf Club for a good lunch and some relief from the southerly breeze,  before heading back round to Brodick.
 
The one good point was that Calmac took our complaint on board - they should not have sold us Five Ferries tickets at Ardrossan because the Lochranza ferry had broken down the previous day - since they refunded the tickets and gave us complimentary tickets to get back to Ardrossan, which paid for a beer at Brodick golf club before we left the island.

Thanks for the company everyone today and Martin has summed up the run above except for the occasional attacks on the hills from Team Cowan,

Very enjoyable wee run this morning. 6 up from the clubrooms, but Ken Mac was feeling poorly and turned round after the rocky road. The Dalgarven Mill cafe passed Graham's £5 test, and they've adopted the JWCC too - a photo of a clubrun group now on their menu.
 
Coffees drunk and then home via NCN and the track. Good to see and have a quick chat with John and Rita Montgomery who were out with a number of other youngsters from Glasgow Wheelers and the Ivy. 
 
At Kilbarchan Morna persuaded me to add on an extra wee loop so we headed up Burntshields road while Dave, Carol and Boyd headed their own ways home.
 
73km in the legs and home before the rain. Great stuff.

Me, Carol, Morna and maybe Boyd are planning to take the five ferries route starting from Ardrossan on the 9.45am ferry.
 
The route goes from Brodick to Lochranza to Clonaig to Tarbet to Portavadie to Colintraive to Rothesay to Wemyss Bay and is a bit of a classic. Although appox 51miles is hilly in places and an all day trip to include the ferries.
Would be suitable for early retired, pensioners, students, teachers etc and anyone on holiday from work like me  .
 
Others are welcomed to join us
 
Dave
 
 
 
 
 
 

lovely night with some cracking times, special kudos to Billy for almost breaking the hour. £12 collected, Gerard will pay next time. Cheers George for helping out.
 
Gerard 1:12:48 PB
Alan T 1:07:52 PB
Iain C 1:05:44
James 1:04:21 PB
Billy 1:00:18 PB

Walking barefoot on LEGO, waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay, slicing off a fingernail when cutting lemons, rubbing your eye while cutting chillies, the moment you realise your child is too tall to run between your legs, riding the Lochlibo Road 25mile TT. Just some of the more painful things you can do in life. Big thanks you to our timekeepers, George and Paul, wise decision. Well done to the other riders for seeing it out.

Clubrooms 9 am
 
Second attempt at Eaglesham Wind farm at easy pace.
 
Bowfield, Lugton, Dunlop, Stewarton, Fenwick, old A77 towards Farm.
 
Approx 45miles with a great decent into Newton Mearns on return
 
Please post up if coming
 
 
 
 

Morna did make it afterall along with Boyd, Anthony Carol, me and a welcome return by Bill T.
Headed uo Bowfield hill to Lugton, Dunlop, Stewarton and then change of plan due to time constraints and windy conditions, went for coffee stop at Rendezvous  Cafe in Kilmaurs.
Returned via Torranyard, Barmill circuit to Beith and then back along track, with a tailwind and the sun out.
Thanks to Boyd for the route and the guys and girls for the company in what was the Real Intermediates group..
 
Dave

Morna did make it afterall along with Boyd, Anthony Carol, me and a welcome return by Bill T.
Headed uo Bowfield hill to Lugton, Dunlop, Stewarton and then change of plan due to time constraints and windy conditions, went for coffee stop at Rendezvous  Cafe in Kilmaurs.
Returned via Torranyard, Barmill circuit to Beith and then back along track, with a tailwind and the sun out.
Thanks to Boyd for the route and the guys and girls for the company in what was the Real Intermediates group..
 
Dave

Morna did make it afterall along with Boyd, Anthony Carol, me and a welcome return by Bill T.
Headed uo Bowfield hill to Lugton, Dunlop, Stewarton and then change of plan due to time constraints and windy conditions, went for coffee stop at Rendezvous  Cafe in Kilmaurs.
Returned via Torranyard, Barmill circuit to Beith and then back along track, with a tailwind and the sun out.
Thanks to Boyd for the route and the guys and girls for the company in what was the Real Intermediates group..
 
Dave

Boyd, Carol and I may be up for this if not too wet first thing.

Was thinking of going with Boyd to Whitelees Windfarm at an easy pace. Could be a 30 miler,intermediate,intermediate.

Keeping with the theme of the moment, i.e. council road works spotting;
 
Kilmacolm Road, Port Glasgow – Road closureLimits – Boglestone Roundabout to Port Glasgow Shared Campus Roundabout
Start – Saturday 1 July 2017 – 0600 hrs
End – Friday 14 July 2017 – 1700 hrs
Reason – Inverclyde Council Carriageway Reconstruction
Diversion – A761 Kilmcolm Road, A761 Clune Brae, A8 Glasgow Road, A8 Greenock Road, A8 Port Glasgow Road, A8 East Hamilton Street, Ratho Street, Belville Street, B788 Kilmacolm Road, B788 Auchemountain Road, B788 Auchenfoil Road, B786 Lochwinnoch Road, A761 Port Glasgow Road & vice versa.
 

Another excellent day out at Millport. Chapeaux to:
Joseph Mackintosh 1st junior in the TT and 2nd junior in the hill climb
Iain Couttie, 2nd in the medium old group in the TT
Ian McGinty, 1st in the medium old group in the hill climb and 5th overall
Scott Mackintosh, PBS in both events
Gerard Deeley, PBs in the TT.
 
A fairly decent return for the joansin today.
 
I was worse than last year in both events.

Good run with the i i i group around the back roads of North Ayrshire. The Dalgarven Mill is very bike friendly and serves cakes and bacon rolls. Thanks for the company guys and girls on a fine warm morning for cycling.