CLWB SEICLO CAERGYBI - HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB
***Y DDREIGIAU WERDD - THE GREEN DRAGONS ***
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*** NEXT CLUB EVENT *** CLUB WINTER LEAGUE 5 MILER SUNDAY JANUARY 17TH START TIME - 09.45AM RACE H.Q. - TREBAN LAYBY NOTE - THIS IS AN OPEN EVENT FOR ALL LOCAL DISTRICT CLUBS. FOR COMPETITION CRITERIA PLEASE SEE CLUB EVENTS.
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2009 CLUB AWARDS NIGHT SATURDAY DECEMBER 12 SAW HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB MEMBERS GATHER IN NUMBERS AT THE VALLEY HOTEL FOR THIS YEAR'S AWARDS NIGHT. AS ALWAYS WITH OUR CLUB MANY A TALE ( SOME LONG SOME SHORT SENIOR B.A.R. - GARETH BLACKSHAW VETERAN B.A.R. - MEDWYN WILIAMS HILLCLIMB CHAMPION - MARK BOWMAN MOST IMPROVED RIDER - PAUL MARTIN CLUB MERIT AWARD - GARETH BLACKSHAW ROAD RACE AWARD - DELWYN WILLIAMS HERE'S TO NEXT SEASON , YMLAEN CLWB SEICLO CAERGYBI ! ( P.S. DID ANYONE ELSE NOTICE BENJAMIN BUTTON AND THE FONZ AT THE BAR
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) WERE TOLD OVER A FEW DRINKS AND A GOOD MEAL AND THE END OF ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SEASON. A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION WAS HANDED OUT TO ALL OUR HARWORKING MARSHALLS AND TIMEKEEPERS WHO AGAIN THIS SEASON GAVE EXCELLENT SERVICE FOR THE CLUB. THE TROPHY WINNERS WERE AS FOLLOWS.
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*** FOR SALE ***
GIANT TCR C2 2008 £800 ono ( INCLUDING POLAR CS100 TACHO/HR MONITOR WORTH £60-£70) BIKE SPECS -
Frame size - Medium
Frame: Carbon
Forks: Carbon composite, alloy steerer.
Shifters: Ultegra 10s sti
R.mech: Ultegra
F.mech: Ultegra
Chainset: RaceFace Cadence
Brake calipers: 105
Bars: Alloy (Giant I think)
Stem: Easton EA50
Seatpost: Carbon (Giant I think)
Saddle: Fizik Aliante
Wheels: Mavic Aksium Race
Tyres: Bontrager
Colour is Red/Carbon black.
FOR FURTHER INFO CONTACT DAVE BACH WILLIAMS OR holyheadcycling@btinternet.com 19/12/09 |
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CAV AND WIGGINS GO UNDERGROUND TOUR G.C. STAR BRADLEY WIGGINS AND FRIEND TO HOLYHEAD C.C. MARK CAVENDISH RECENTLY MADE A LOCAL VISIT TO DINORWIG POWER STATION TO FILM FOR THE BBC'S SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2009. CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO FIND OUT MORE 30/11/09 |
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REVOLUTION BIKES/ TLI CYCLING WINTER OFF ROAD POINTS SERIES.
There will be a new North Wales Cyclo Cross League during the coming Winter months and any club that wants to promote an event will be very welcome. Revolution Bikes of Bangor have agreed to sponsor the series which will be a points series over all the events held. |
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CLWB SEICLO CAERGYBI - HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB TOUR OF DUBLIN 2009 12 INTREPID CLUB MEMBERS STARTED THE 2009 TOUR OF DUBLIN STAGE.AND ALL AGREED A GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL. THE PACE OF THE DAY TOOK ITS TOLL ON SOME AS PROVEN IN THE PIC BELOW. FOR FURTHER PICS CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
THE CULTURE CLUB !
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MONARFON AWARDS NIGHT MEMBERS OF HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB WENT ALONG TO THE MONARFON PRESENTATION NIGHT IN LLANFAIRPWLL TO CONGRATULATE THEIR TEAM MATES ON A SUCCESSFUL RACING SEASON. CLUB SUPER -VET MEDWYN WILLIAMS TOOK 2ND OVERALL IN THE VETERANS CATEGORY AND CLIMBING SUPREMO MARK BOWMAN ( WAGES IN THE POST MARCO MANY THANKS TO DEWI JONES FOR ORGANISING THE NIGHT.
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CLWB SEICLO CAERGYBI - HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB DOWNHILL CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 JENKINS POWERS TO THE PEBBLE !
STUART JENKINS - DOWNHILL CHAMP 2009 ENERGY CYCLES RIDER STUART JENKINS UPSET THE BOOKMAKERS AS HE STRORMED TO VICTORY IN THIS YEAR'S HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB DOWNHILL CHAMPIONSHIPS. STUART PIPPED JOHN PAUL OWEN TO THE COVETED PRIZE BY A FULL BIKE LENGTH TO SEND JOHN PAUL (A.KA. JOHNNY NIONYN) IN TO 2ND PLACE FOR THE 2ND CONSECUTIVE YEAR. CONDITIONS MADE STUART''S WIN ALL THE MORE SWEETER AS GREASY LEAF LADEN ROADS MADE THE COURSE HAZOURDOUS TO SAY THE LEAST. MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO STUART AND A BIG THANKYOU TO ALL COMPETITORS & MARSHALLS FOR ATTENDING ON THE DAY. FOR SOME MORE PICS CLICK BELOW MANY THANKS TO ERIC HUGHES FOR THE PICS
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THE MARATHON MEN + CLUB RUN REPORT SUNDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2009 3 CLUB MEMBERS SET OUT OF HOLYHEAD IN THE GLORIOUS MORNING SUNSHINE. JOHN PAUL OWEN, GARETH BLACKSHAW AND IFOR PHILLIPS SET OUT TOWARDS VALLEY AND MADE THEIR WAY THROUGH BODEDERN AND LLANGEFNI,BUT THIS CLUB RUN HAD A DUAL PURPOSE TO SUPPORT CLUB MEMBERS STEPH FELL AND DELWYN WILLIAMS WHO WERE TAKING PART IN THE ANGLESEY HALF MARATHON. THE DUO WERE SPOTTED RUNNING STRONGLY JUST OUTSIDE LLANGAFFO WELL DONE LADS ! AFTER SHOUTING ENCOURAGEMENT THE CYCLING TRIO MADE THERE WAY BACK SUPPORTING OTHER RUNNERS ALONG THE ABERFFRAW TO RHOSNEIGR ROAD. SEE YOU ALL ON THE NEXT CLUB RUN SLIGHTLY EARLIER THAN USUAL ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH. NEWSFLASH DELWYN WILLIAMS CAME HOME IN A TIME OF 1HR 50MINS, ACHIEVING HIS TARGET OF FINISHING IN UNDER 2HRS. CONGRATULATIONS FROM ALL YOUR TEAM MATES AT CLWB SEICLO CAERGYBI !
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DDRAIG WERDD C.S.CAERGYBI - THE GREEN DRAGON OF HOLYHEAD C.C. When lycra came in, that would have been in the nineties, the cycling club needed to change the design of its jersey. Gone would be the old faithful yellow jersey with its green and red hoops and trims, flock lettering in black of Caergybi/Holyhead, splendidly rendered by Mr Stan Hughes, Gibbsport of Salford to be replaced by a wonderful new design based on a popular Tour de France team. This would have a greater amount of red in the basic colour with a circular design depicting wheels but also having small circular panels for the club logo. The problem was what to place in these panels; much discussion ensued – celtic designs were favoured for a short while involving the never-ending whorls and strange lettering, lighthouses were also suggested and rejected. That’s when the red dragon was suggested – after all we were a Welsh club! A red dragon on a red jersey simply would not do, though inserted against a white background, so another colour had to be found. We learnt also on some grapevine that only the national cycle team were allowed red dragons on their jerseys. The dragon of Owain Glyndwr, Prince of Wales (1351 – 1417) was of gold on a white background; that would not do either on account of all the yellow in the jersey design, besides our colour choice was restricted to red, yellow, green or blue. Stan had no gold. Blue was definitely out – our first jerseys in 1982 were blue and stayed like that a short while until we found that most other clubs had blue. That left green, one of the colours of the previous jersey, so why not? It was Stan Hughes who finally said have green dragons, you can have the third colour without incurring any extra cost. So, the green dragon club came into being. To some orientals, dragons had always been green, anyway. It’s strange that very few cycling clubs have green jerseys or jerseys with some green with a contrast colour like purple or orange. This applies too to soccer and rugby teams. In our locality green is the colour of the uniform of Holyhead Secondary School – our club should have had green jerseys at its formation when we recall that ‘schooldays are the happiest days of your lives’. The addition of green in the dragons, three on the jersey, may have had some sentimentality attached to it therefore as we remembered the old school on the hill and the wonderful time we had there. Holyhead’s connections with It’s quite easy to paint things green – some time before most road signs in Wales had green paint daubed on them as a protest – so our dragon could have been painted green also as a protest, or was it a sign of something new? Dragons in the jungles of long ago were most definitely green, with perhaps a yellowish tinge. Green has always been associated in nature with new beginnings and gives hope in precarious times to the future of the club and the green dragon is displayed on the new shirts and jackets recently introduced. May the Holyhead C.C. dragon remain ever green. R.E.Hughes
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CLWB SEICLO CAERGYBI - HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB CLUB 15 MILE CHAMPIONSIPS AUGUST 17TH 2009 6 RIDERS COMPETED IN THE CLUB 15 MILE CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD ON THE ABERFFRAW - ENGEDI - ABERFFRAW COURSE ON A BLUSTERY SUNDAY MORNING. OVERCAST CONDITIONS AND AN UNPREDICTABLE STIFF BREEZE GREETED ALL THE RIDERS ALONG THE COASTAL COURSE. GARETH BLACKSHAW TOOK GOLD WITH A TIME OF 38.56 WITH THE EVER-IMPROVING PAUL MARTIN NOT FAR BEHIND IN 2ND PLACE WITH 39.45 TO TAKE HIS 3RD MEDAL IN ALL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES THIS SEASON. THE SHOCK OF THE DAY CAME AS VETERAN DAVE BACH WILLIAMS RODE HIS WAY INTO A BRONZE MEDAL WITH A TIME OF 42.03. DELWYN WILLIAMS AND MARK BOWMAN BATTLED IT OUT FOR 4TH AND 5TH POSITIONS WITH DELWYN TAKING 4TH WITH A TIME OF 43.57 FOLLOWED BY MARK IN 45.16. DEWI JONES FROM ENERGY CYCLES SADLY GOT STRUCK BY THE DREADED CRAMP AS HE CAME HOME IN 6TH PLACE.
GARETH BLACKSHAW COLLECTS HIS GOLD MEDAL FROM CHAIRMAN ERIC HUGHES
PAUL MARTIN COLLECTS YET ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP MEDAL
DAVE BACH ( OR IS IT CAV ?) GETS BRONZE !
ERIC AND MARCO IN GOOD SPIRITS
A VERY BIG THANKYOU TO THE TIMEKEEPER ON THE DAY ERIC HUGHES AND TO RACE MARSHALL'S RENS THOMAS AND RICH AMLWCH FOR HELPING OUT.
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PAUL MARTIN'S LE TOUR DIARY
Day 1
Well I'm back after successfully climbing the Col de Romme and Col de la Colombiere. It was by no means easy. The sudden sharpness when you start the ascent at the foot of the Romme takes you by surprise and demands a spontaneous shift to the lower chainring. You soon realise you should have had a couple of extra croissants at breakfast to cope with excessive use of energy. After getting some rhythm going, the sweat droplets from your helmet start to hit the road faster than the people cycling downhill and you're glad you brought 2 water bottles. Shouts of Allez! Allez! inspire you to reach the top before you make the descent to the bottom (sometimes hairy in places, but not for John Paul!).
Once you've meandered through dense forests, you finally reach Le Reposoir. The view from here is incredible as it lies in the wake of the Colombiere shrouded by it's dark clouds...Why didn't I bring my cape with me??? After chants of Allez Wales! You're ready to start the climb up to 1618 metres. The clouds look darker and more ominous the closer you are to the summit. You are met by more chants of Allez Allez and it's time to dance like Lance. You get to the top and you are greeted by the wrath of a storm for your efforts. Bin Sacks are snatched from the barriers and used as raincoats. The only restaurant was like an Irish Pub on St Patrick's day with every square inch of floor space occupied....even by three members of Energy Cycles!
Day 2
On the 50k route from Cluses to Annecy, the small group of riders from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland and Wales set off. The group maintained a steady pace while farmers stopped their tractors to wave. There was plenty of Commonwealth banter along the way. The coveted Holyhead Cycling Club Jersey eventually got to Annecy just in time for some well earned refreshment.
TO SEE A FEW PICS OF MONSIEUR MARTIN CLICK HERE
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HOLYHEAD C.C. 2010 TRAINING CAMP CLUB EVENT'S ORGANISER DAVE 'BACH' WILLIAMS IS LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF ARRANGING A WEEK LONG TRAINING CAMP FOR OUR MEMBERS SOMETIME NEXT YEAR ( POSSIBLY APRIL OR MAY ). HE HAS OBTAINED INFORMATION ABOUT CYCLING TOURS/HOLIDAYS IN THE ANDALUCIA REGION IN SPAIN AT AN EXCELLENT COST INCLUDING B&B,PACKED LUNCHES,TRANSPORT AND A TOUR GUIDE. ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN ON A DAVE BACH TRIP WILL CERTAINLY NOT WANT TO MISS OUT ON THIS ! FOR FURTHER DETAILS FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW OR CONTACT DAVE BY E-MAIL davebach2@yahoo.com
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CLWB SEICLO CAERGYBI - HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB RIDER PROFILES
MARK BOWMAN Name:MARK BOWMAN Nickname: MARCO Age: 20 X 2 Club(s) ridden for: CRM, HOLYHEAD C.C. ( AFTER A BIG MONEY TRANSFER FROM TEAM TELEKOM ) Years you have been cycling: 12 YEARS Bikes you ride: FORT AND (LAM)BORGHINI Favourite Rider: JAN ULLRICH ! FAVOURITE TRAINING RIDE - AMLWCH-MYNYDD PARYS - RHOSYBOL - RHOSGOCH - AMLWCH LOOP Main cycling activities: TIME TRIALS,AUDAX'S AND HILLCLIMBS Hobbies outside of cycling: CARPENTRY AND MAINTAING MY YACHT IN PORTH AMLWCH. Best cycling moment: BEATING MARK CAVENDISH IN GUERNSEY ISLAND GAMES....EASILY ! Worst cycling moment: Goes without saying. Favourite food: CHIPS FOLLOWED BY GUERNSEY GASH Favourite café: Ann’s in Newborough. Best excuse for poor performance: MY WHEELS WOULDNT TURN FAST ENOUGH ! Favourite music: ROCK, ACDC,PINK FLOYD,BLACK SABBATH AND A LITTLE BIT OF MOZART. Training tip: DONT FOLLOW DAVE BACH'S WHEEL. Pets: I HAVE 20 PETS, PEBBLES MINI ROTTWEILER AND 19 FISH.
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CLWB SEICLO CAERGYBI - HOLYHEAD CYCLING CLUB **** CLUB LEISUREWEAR **** CLUB POLO SHIRTS AND STORM JACKETSARE NOW AVAILABLE. WILL ALL THOSE WHO HAVE PLACED THEIR ORDER PLEASE CONTACT PAUL OR GARETH TO ARRANGE COLLECTION.
OR GARETH AT waenfawr@btinternet.com
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