Tom Butler has launched a series of Saturday morning road rides predominantly aimed at young riders (12 years+) preparing for the forthcoming Calder 10 mile TT series. Other age groups and supporters are welcome. The pace will initially be very steady building up in distance and intensity in readiness for the 10 series. Young riders […]
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0915 – 1030 every other Saturday morning starting 11th Jan Start and finish Denby Dale Road Car Park, Thornes Park near the Band Stand Initially 10 miles Predominantly aimed at young riders (12 years+) preparing for the forthcoming Calder 10 mile TT series although all age groups are welcome. The pace will initially be very
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No need to enter the Tour, just turn up and ride the regular Wednesday evening 10 on 21st August.Every rider, apart from receiving their normal 10 mile time, will be timed over the last 3.5 k from just after Ackworth Roundabout to the finish. That’s it. Stage 1 Prologue completed and you are in the Tour. Location
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Paul Frewin, a regular at the Summer Series 10 mile Time Trial is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in October to raise money two charities, Variety and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service. Rising majestically above the African plains, the 20,000-foot Mt. Kilimanjaro has beckoned to climbers since the first recorded summit in 1889. It is the
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Club 25 and 50 Mile TT Champion 2012. Photo Ken Pickles Michael Vennard is the 2012 Calder Clarion 25 mile Time Trial Champion. He becomes a double champion after winning the 50 mile TT earlier this season.He won the event, which was included in the Drighlinton BC open event held on 4th August in North
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Sturgess Leader, Graham Price. The amazing influx of new members in 2012 is making an impact on Calder Clarion with many of the ‘new breed’ embracing the competitive side of club activities despite most of them being new to road riding. Twenty of the new members have swelled the numbers competing in the time trials and
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Article appearing in Wakefield Express Edition 3rd May George Masson Calder Clarion’s Tony Anderson, from Hemsworth was first rider off in the Wakefield Club’s first event 10 mile time trial of their Summer Evening Series on Wednesday 2nd May. Tony was on familiar roads on a new course which started on Station Road Hemsworth and
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Michael Vennard grimaces on Pineapple hill In a season when the Summer Evening 10s have been disrupted by weather, a road accident, road works and a road closure due to diesel spill, the feeling was that nothing more could happen and the last two events would pass without incident. Step forward a local Old Snydale farmer.
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Tom Butler defending his title in the 2011 Calder Clarion10 mile TT Championship You could have thrown the proverbial blanket over the times of the first 5 finishers in the hardest fought Calder Clarion Club 10 mile TT championships for years, all of them finishing within about half a minute. Form rider Matt Dodsworth, fresh
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Organiser Jim Blankley – Timekeeper Dave Smithers For a change, there were still conditions for the summer series opener after the windy and wet conditions of recent years. However it was cool and overcast to make everyone feel at home.Alistair Wareham of Team Swift was a comfortable winner with 23.17, ahead of Ravensthorpe CC’s Callaghans (father
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