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Archive: Club News 2006 Club News 2005 Club News 2004 |
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PZW Club Kit Order 2007 [9/2/07] |
Important Safety Notice |
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New - Alternative (Slower) Club Rides on Sundays |
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Neil Hollow and Terry Mappin are trying to start a slower group for the Sunday club rides, we will still start at Longrock at 9 o,clock, the ride length should be somewhere between 25 & 30 miles and ridden at the pace of the slowest rider, if anyone wants to contact me they can ring me on 07968 835712 or e-mail me on neilhollow@hotmail.co.uk 1st ride will be 5th August and every 2 weeks from then. [Neil Hollow 28/07/07] |
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Important Safety Notice |
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If you are planning to do the final PZW club '10" of the season on Thursday 23rd August, please read this carefully. 1. When waiting for the start, please keep in single file and well to the side of the road or on the grass verge. 2. Please do not do U-turns by the start area while warming up. 3. Please do not warm up in the vicinity of the start area, there are lots of suitable alternative roads. 4. When finishing, please do not stop by the finish officials. Continue riding straight back to the car parking area. The finish officials will bring clothing and results back to the car park area when the last rider has finished. 5. Drafting. If you are overtaken during the race, please drop back 25 metres and do not hold the wheel of the rider who has overtaken you. If you subsequently find yourself catching this rider, you may legally overtake. PZW does want you to enjoy these races without too much formality, but at the moment rider safety is seriously being compromised and the timekeeping officials are being distracted from their job leading to inaccuracies in the results. Have an enjoyable and safe ride in the next race. [16/08/07] |
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PZW Club Champs 2007 |
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The dates have now been fixed for this year's PZW championships. If you wanted to ride in the road race championships, then wake up, you've already missed it. It would be great if we could have a massive turn-out for the various time trial championships this year. The first one is the '10' on Wednesday 20th June at 7.00pm in conjunction with the Truro CC club race. Signing on will be at Tresillian Village Hall. Defending champion is Tony Farnell. There are no '50's in Cornwall this year, so the PZW championships will take place on Sunday 1st July at the Plymouth CCC Open '50'. This is a well-organised race with an extensive prize list - I think last year just about everyone who finished received a prize and they were good prizes too. Defending champion is Dave Henderson. You will have to enter for this race 2 weeks in advance, so get your entry in now and start arranging to share transport. Next is the circuit TT championships on our home course at Leedstown on Thursday 12th July in conjunction with one of our regular club TTs. Defending champion is Mark Haynes. No excuse for missing this one. Then we have some sun-bathing time before the '25' on Sunday 9th September at Tresillian in conjunction with the St Austell Wheelers club TT. You can enter on the day for this one. Defending champion is Tony Farnell. Finally, on Sunday 9th October there is our hill climb and cake eating championships to round off the season. Jeff is the record holder and defending champion here, but I'm not sure who won the cake eating because I think Rhys had a morning in bed. [Tony Farnell 9/06/07] |
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Club Kit Has Arrived |
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For those who ordered new club kit, it has now arrived and can be collected from Cyclelogic. If you are taking advantage of the one-off 25% reduction offer (only available on a single item of kit), then send the receipt, together with a stamped, self-addressed enevlope, to club treasurer Mark Travis. Don't forget that Cyclelogic are moving to their new premises next week. [7/5/07] |
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Thanks From Terry |
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Terry Mappin would like to thank everyone who has given him support in his recent period of ill health. He still needs more tests, but hopes to be back in circulation soon. [2/05/07] |
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Club Monday Meetings 2007 As from Monday 26th Feb the club meetings will be held at the Bath Inn Penzance. It,s been mentioned at the last few meetings that the "Magpies environment has become very smokey". The Bath Inn has a no smoking bar, a function room with 52" TV should we have film nights again, and rather large beer garden so during summer months if people wish to cycle to meetings they can be held "al fresco" hope this is satisfactory for everyone. [Neil Hollow 24/02/07]
Racing Guide for New Members The cheapest introduction to racing is undoubtedly time trialling. If you are a paid up member of PZW you can enter any time trial. For local club races, entry fees are usually about £1.50. Turn up about 30 minutes before the advertised start time, pay your entry fee, collect a number, which gives you your start time, and enjoy your ride. For open races you need to enter 2 weeks in advance on an official form (download from the CTT website or ask someone for a photocopy) and entry fees are £5.50-7.50. See Races page for details of open races in 2007. A full club race calender will appear when finalised. No special bike is needed, although you will see many expensive and fancy machines. Don't be put off by this - most of the owners are no better than you. Some clip on aero bars are the first priority, followed by some aero wheels. My fastest ever '10' was done on a road bike, with road wheels. Road races are more expensive. To enter most races you need to have a British Cycling road racing licence (details form BC website). A few races will take entries on the line and you can pay for a day licence, but if you are going to do more than a couple of races then this is an expensive way of doing it. PZW are promoting 3 criterion races at RAF Portreath - a traffic free circuit that provides an ideal environment if you are new to road racing. The circuit is only 1.25 miles, so if you are dropped by the bunch, you can cruise around until they lap you, then hang on for some more training. There are also regular mountain bike and cyclo-cross races in Cornwall and Devon in which various Wheelers participate. Details are to be found on the internet. [5/02/07]
PZW Club Kit Order 2007 Do you want any new club kit? This is probably the only chance you will have this year! Cycle Logic in Helston have again kindly offered to provide the Penzance Wheelers clothing. As most active members of the club will be aware, a number of us have hoping to get hold of some club kit for the winter and the fast approaching racing season. Unfortunately we have been unable to do this as we need at least 15 individual items of clothing to enable us to place an order. A number of riders have recently contacted me requesting club clothing and it should be possible to place an order, providing we require at least 15 items. In order to receive the clothing for the start of the racing season, we will place the order on Monday 28th January (following the club dinner on Sat 27th) so anyone requiring clothing for the coming season will need to contact me to place their order before this date. Prices unfortunately aren't the cheapest, but the gear is quality stuff and well worth the money compared to budget gear, especially the comfy bibshorts!
Sizes available are; Sizes 2 (extra small) and 6 (extra large) are also available as a special order and have a 20% surcharge. From memory I think there are some size 2 shorts and jersey at Cycle Logic but they are childrens sizes really. I suspect most people will need size 3 or 4.
Short Sleeve Jersey £40 Due to a previously poor collection rate by our members, we need to pay for all items other than s/s jerseys and bibshorts on ordering, please contact me to arrange pre payment by cheque made payable to Cycle Logic. Anyone needing bib shorts or jerseys, just let me know what size you need and we can just add it to the list. Anyone considering PZW kit will need to order it now for the coming racing season, as this will probably be the only order for the next 12 months. There is approx a 6 week wait for the order, Please email me on markhaynes1@hotmail.com, or phone 01326 313914/07789375633 evenings if you're interested. [Mark Haynes 5/01/07]
Dartmoor Classic Cyclosportive 2007 Sunday 13th May Two courses - 100miles or 100 kilometres. Have you entered yet? If not, perhaps it might be a good idea to enter sooner rather than later - most British cyclosportives seem to fill up soon after entries open. You can find out more details and enter online at Dartmoor Classic Cyclosportive 2007. [Tony Farnell 15/11/06]
Club Dinner and Presentation Evening Saturday 27th January A really enjoyable evening with a large turnout. Some good beer, plenty of grub, loads of raffle prizes, presentations admirably performed by Steve Coram of Cyclelogic and adroitly co-ordinated by Rhys. Thanks once again to Phil and Lisa for organising the dinner so efficiently and to Mike for all his work preparing the awards, trophies and plaques.
PENZANCE WHEELERS AWARDS 2006 |
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