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General Discussion / Half-year general meeting. Agenda items.
« on: May 21, 2026, 02:36:27 PM »
Folks. I've had a few suggestions for improvements / changes in the club. I'd like to put together some agenda items for a half-yearly meeting (in July?) and we can decide if we want to move forward with them.

Some example ideas

Modernise our web presence. The web site does look a bit "Myspace", and the pictures we have very dated and perhaps not as exciting to new members as they once were.

We have someone enthusiastically running our social media again. I don't expect anyone to dissent but we should probably quickly formalise that.

Re-introduce our awards night. I'm too young to remember this, but I am told there was one. This is absolutely not just for anyone racing. There are a lot of successes we could celebrate and essentially use as a get-together.

If anyone else has any ideas we could add to an agenda, eg replace the chairman, please let me know.

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Club Runs / Pacers' winter-paced ride, December 21
« on: December 19, 2025, 12:11:05 PM »
Steady ride, but not so steady you'll get cold. Coffee at Ground Control in Brynna. Option to cut short after coffee or add a 15 mile loop around Pyle. 09:30 start.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/2720395290

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Time Trials / Hill Climb! 2025
« on: August 12, 2025, 06:42:25 PM »
Only a year since the last TT post. Club hill climb is 21st September, first rider off at 10:01.

If anyone is out that day but doesn't fancy the excitement of their breakfast trying to make an appearance just past the finishing line we will need 2 time keepers, and maybe even a pusher-off if we're feeling extravagent. Otherwise you've got about 5 weeks to get on the intervals.

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Club Runs / Club Ride : January 12
« on: January 13, 2025, 03:42:23 PM »
Been a bit slack on forum posting of late but there was a club ride on January 12, and for anyone wondering, we should expect at least one ride each Sunday for the rest of the year.

Out on Sunday were Nige, Paul, Mark, Chris, Richard L, and Karl for a loop out to Barry via Groes-faen, and back along the coast through Rhoose. Slighlty less cold than in recent weeks, and with actual sunshine for more that half the ride we gradually warmed up before coffee at an oddly quiet Romilly's. What little breeze there was seemed mostly in our favour on the return with Nige picking up the pace. Communication generally working well up the line to avoid any gaps opening. Nice to see a few fans of the club out, passing closely to shelter us from any cross-wind and giving us a cheery beep. A few of us got in a few extra extra miles / minutes of sunshine via Ogmore before heading home.

No storms predicted for at least another week, so hopefully the start of a reliable cadence of club-runs into 2025.

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Club Runs / Bethlehem! December 1.
« on: November 15, 2024, 09:10:52 AM »
Getting it out there early(ish).

Bethlehem, December 1. Giving us 2 or 3 more slots if the UCI Adverse Weather Protocol kicks in.

https://www.strava.com/routes/3773326

I vote for an 8am start from Brackla for the young and virile. But we are nothing if not democratic. Please indicate your preference which will allow the old and unvirile to make their plans, assuming there will also be a Neath start.

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Time Trials / Hill Climb!
« on: October 16, 2024, 03:05:15 PM »
I feel duty bound to mention it. Can anyone tell me if we could still run this this year? Do we have to notify police? Does anyone care?

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General Discussion / Club velodrome night
« on: October 08, 2024, 01:08:10 PM »
Newport have a slot for club bookings on Friday nights throughout the winter, 8pm - 10pm.

If you would be interested in going can you reply here. And any Friday nights already nailed into your packed social calendars.

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Club Runs / Pacers 30 June
« on: June 25, 2024, 02:01:29 PM »
As part of a new series of I can't be bothered to make up routes, I'm inviting special guests to submit rides. This week, you might know him from 11 cocktails on a Saturday afternoon, why is there nothing on the shelves by the till in Greggs, and pretending to do really big rides, but really they're two fairly long rides with a sleep in between and so are TWO DIFFERENT RIDES. It's Dave.

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Club Runs / Pacers 23 June
« on: June 19, 2024, 11:48:48 AM »
Trip over Black Mountain. Dragon ride is same day but I think we are travelling a different direction and at very different times.

It's a bit middle of nowhere halfway through so I'm proposing 2 relatively brief coffee and cake stops at Craig-y-Nos Country Park, and Coaltown coffee in Ammanford.

It's also fairly long so I think an 8am start is reasonable, but will be democratic about it.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/1656305669

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Club Runs / Social Ride June 9
« on: June 05, 2024, 12:24:42 PM »
Another scoot through the Vale. Coffee at Ground Control in Brynna. See you on Sunday morning, 9am.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/1625215593

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Club Runs / Social Ride June 2
« on: May 29, 2024, 10:12:59 PM »
31 miles along the coast. Coffee in Llantwit or Cowbridge depending on how thirsty we are. Pace for the slowest rider, no one gets left behind.

9am start at Brackla.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/1615137827

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Club Runs / Pacers 26 May 2024
« on: May 24, 2024, 06:00:05 PM »
Short and sweet, dodging the showers. Something for everyone, dual carriage way, tedious wind-swept grind up to a hairpin, and stupid fast descent where you can all drop me. Coffee at Cwm Farm Shop after 50 miles and 1 x Rhigos. Meant to be decent, but don't blame me if it's not!

https://www.komoot.com/tour/1602948739

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Club Runs / Pacers 19 May
« on: May 14, 2024, 08:15:36 AM »
Not as nice as last weekend but the forecast is still looking reasonable. How about this one over Mynydd Llangynedir, coffee at Talybont-on-Usk and probably a petrol station stop before Pontypridd on the way home.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/1540722746

8am start from Greggs, Bryncae
https://maps.app.goo.gl/36Aia7VCvrptkDUEA


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Club Runs / Pacers 14 April
« on: April 10, 2024, 10:52:24 AM »
Short warm up for anyone off to Majorca the next day. Sa Calobra practice up the Bwlch, freewheel to Remo's at Aberafon, spin home via Porthcawl.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/1505969026

GPX attached


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Club Runs / Easter Day Spin
« on: March 29, 2024, 10:19:50 AM »
For those of us want to honour the true meaning of Easter by lying on the sofa watching the last 80km of the Tour of Flanders, here's a short, flat ride to Severn Sisters via the gourmet highlight of McDonalds, which should be a) open, and 2) not reserved by people interacting with their families on a religious holiday.

https://www.komoot.com/tour/1487215092


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