John C

I know a new Café Stop for that route.... the Green Kettle, just up from the roundabout at top of Garelochead, would mean doing the whole  Peninsula loop first, but its only an extra 8 miles before the stop... last time I was in I had the best homemade soup ever....

Destination sunny Kilcreggan - bunch of 10 riders - Alan (Hendry), Alex, Colin Sale, Colin McPhee, Eric, Glen, Jaki, Iain Carvil/McGinty & myself made steady progress all the way to Helensburgh, where upon Colin M turned back to play in a gig later on the afternoon.
We were joined part way in Helensburgh by 2 of Glen's friends who also are heading to Flanders next April, getting some km in their legs no doubt & introducing themselves to some of us Flanders bound Wheelers too!
What was meant to be a quick cafe stop in Kilcreggan turned out to be anything but, the service was good but it was sloooooooooooow!
A welcome tail wind on the way back up the road, but some mad drivers about which wasn't expected this time of the week but still it didn't spoil the run in good weather for December & good wheels to follow all day!
Kudos to Jaki who haven't been on a bike since early October, she dug in & made it all the way round, chapeau!
Probably a shorter route next Sunday ........... it was dark by the time I rocked up my front door :-/
Thanks again for the company & wheels today
Cheers
Chung

Need to be home for 12:30 Sunday so may join you to Dumbarton / Helensburgh and then head back, which is a shame as I love a cycle around Killcreggan.. 

Hi all,
Please come along on Friday. See details in Members section and let us know for numbers.
Our sponsors are Amaretto who are arranging food, how cool is that? It could not be a more convenient or better venue for a bike club
a. right beside the track
b. brilliant food
c. lots of beers
d. enthusiastic patron
Alan
Secy
 
 
 

Five of us met at the Clubroom this morning - Alex, John, Martin, Scott & myself set off optimistically looking for the sun :-)
Instead we got a constant drizzle throughout, but no matter, the company & the spirit made up for it!
Quick cafe stop in Kilmalcolm, where we bumped into Alan & Ross who was out earlier & already enjoying a big breakfast as we sat down!
After that we all headed home nice & early to earn extra brownie points since it seems like we’ve all been spending a small fortune on new bikes recently :-)
Kudos to Martin for grinding up those steep hills with a massive 39-18 gear on his hastily build up steel is real winter bike, big up!
Thanks again for the company & wheels chaps!
Hope to see youse on Friday at Amaretto!
Cheers

Yes.  
Marriage is overrated anyway.

......I guess Bonnie Tyler can stop looking.
I may be bald but I will not fight over a comb. For the record I walked ...also never finished that daft Marmotte thing but then again I never stopped for afternoon tea half way up the Tourmalet either.

Week before Lanza so I better save my legs otherwise I would have joined you Darryl. Enjoy

There is now a website that automates strava segment challenges, so thought i'd give it a go over the winter and see how it goes and if it works will use it for the summer one. If it works as intended i will just need to set up the stages at the start and then dont need to do anything - it will automatically take the times from club members who ride the segment and then do the scoring.
There will be 5 stages between now and Feb 28th 2019
First stage is keep your booty rooted to the seat https://www.strava.com/segments/3356126
results and league table will appear here:
https://segmentchallenge.com/challenges/jwcc-winter-segment-challenge
scoring is as follows
Stage position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th General Classification points 15 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 KOM/QOM - Mountain stage 10 8 6 4 2 - - - - - KOM/QOM - Rolling stage 5 4 3 2 1 - - - - - Sprint - Flat stage 10 8 6 4 2 - - - - - Sprint - Rolling stage 5 4 3 2 1 - - - - -

Guys 
the week the 6 is a dear week if you go Wednesday to Wednesday the week after it’s £130 on easy jet 
tuesday to Tuesday with Ryanair £130 

I thought I’d pull together an approx. cost for this trip to sell it to the Clark Households' Chief Financial Officer
 
Flight £250 - Jet2 not including a bike box.
 
Bike Hire £80 - I think I would go for this option as almost as cheap as paying for a bike box and without the hassle of having to build and dismantle your bike and the risk of damage in transit.
 
Transport to and from airport £25 - I have based this on getting a bus to collect and return all of us in one vehicle.  Based on 10 people sharing a 16 seat bus with driver, which may be easier than lots of individual cars (and less arguments of who’s gone where and why) and may work out the same price as car hire.
 
Accommodation £200 - lots of hotels for less than £50 per room pn.  Following the Pyrenees this year, it would be better if we were all in the same place and I’d prefer a room to myself.  Lots of AirBnB for roughly the same price if you wanted to self-cater.
 
Total approx. cost £555 - not including food and the occasional beverage

Picking Iain McGinty and Carvill up at 4:45 so should be there for just after 5

Will join you all, maybe not all the way

Will join you all, maybe not all the way

Ditto to what has already been said; just simply a brilliant day.  Agree with Martin that this would make a great ‘whole club run’.

Well, I may as well pop my Renfra’ Bunch cherry at the weekend and see if I can hang on to the top of the Col D‘Bishy. 

Charlotte is at a race on Sunday so no club ride for me anyway - perfect timing.  Will probably head out Saturday instead.

Are we planning a club run for Sunday, if so, an early 5pm start in Amaretto has carnage written all over it...

Ditto to what has already been said; just simply a brilliant day.  Agree with Martin that this would make a great ‘whole club run’.

Plan to make this, bringing some sausages and whiskey... I've be training for this my whole life!

Up for this.

Had to mix it up a bit thought broke away on my own until Michael flew past got his wheel and hung on to it until he started flicking his elbow...okay...so we took turns until Largs where my legs were screaming at that point. It was good fun think I gave him a good kicking 

Very doubtful for me this weekend Chung.

Cracking ride today. Glen Fruin beautiful this time of year. In fact beautiful all year. Paul L hope you got back home safely & are well

:-)