Brighton Mitre Cycling Club

Time trialling resumed in earnest in the late summer with lockdowns eased in the south east and most events being able to run. The isolated nature of time trialling proved to be a popular way for members to pin on a number and turn the pedals in anger whilst other racing was cancelled.

Here are the club championship winners as well as a few other notable results by club members.

1^st in Veterans Time Trial Association (Surrey/Sussex) “30”  Don Parker

1^st team in Veterans Time Trial Association (Surrey/Sussex) “50”

                                John Marinko, Don Parker + Robin Johnson.

“10” Championships:  Men – Mike Coyle  23  42

“25” Championships:   Men – Mike Coyle  1  0  17 (he says it’s his slowest “25” ever.)

                                            Women – Katerina Avramides  1  15  46

1st team in Brighton Mitre open hill climb on Steyning Bostal:
Cris Coxon, Laurence Rose, Joe Walker

3rd Woman in Brighton Mitre Open “25” – Anouska Greenaway 1 05 53

Weekend rides are now operating at the old new normal level of groups of six riders again. You can book your place on a Saturday ride at 22, 24, 27 or 30 kmh and on the Sunday CATI and Steady Social Rides. Booking is via Love Admin.

Bookings will open for the Saturday rides at the start of the week and will close at lunchtime on Friday. You will receive an email with details of your ride and the other members of your group.

Unfortunately, the restrictions imposed under the terms of the latest government lockdown limit outdoor sporting activities to no more than two people not from the same household.  Clearly this means that we can’t continue with the current groups of six or fewer that we’ve managed to reintroduce over the last few weeks.  But we can keep riding in pairs and we plan to use the Love Admin system to facilitate this process.

This is how it will (hopefully) work…

I have created new ride groups at 22kmh, 24kmh, 27kmh and 30kmh on both Saturday and Sunday.  If you would like to ride at this pace, but haven’t found a ride partner, then sign up to the group at the pace at which you would like to ride on the day that you would like to ride.  If you want to ride both days then sign up for the ride groups on both days.  I will close the rides on Friday lunchtime and allocate everyone a partner to ride with at the same pace as them.  Clearly if there is an odd number of riders then it will be first come first served so I can’t guarantee to be able to match everyone up.  I will email out a list of partners on Friday afternoon and it will then be up to you to get in touch with each other and arrange your starting point and your route – the ride schedule is still on the website so you could use those routes.  The groups are all listed with a nominal start time of 8.30 but when you actually start is entirely up to you – ideally pick a time and place that you don’t think other pairs will pick.  If you don’t like the partner you’re allocated then you will need to get in touch with them to tell them that you are swiping left.  Similarly if you need to cancel for any other reason.  As this system relies upon me sharing your contact details with other riders, you will need to have approved this in your personal settings.

It’s not ideal but it’s the best we can do under the current circumstances.

I hope everyone is bearing up OK, not where any of us would have chosen to be right now.

Happy riding,

Andrew

We have moved over to the new LoveAdmin platform on Monday. Current members should have their details automatically uploaded/ported over. If your renewal is due and/or your membership has expired, please wait until Monday to renew/rejoin on the new system. Renewals/rejoins/new members WILL still have to pay the £20 membership fee – but your renewal date will be January 2022, along with everyone else. This is a new system for all of us and migrating has been quite a complicated process, so please be patient during the transition process – everything will get sorted and ironed out, but it might not be instantly! I will be reviewing all memberships on both systems (RiderHQ and LoveAdmin), so no-one will fall between the cracks.

Unfortunately, like almost everything else, our time trial calendar has been massively disrupted but time trials have now been given the green light to return!

You can see the list of events below. All are open events, so entry is needed 2 weeks prior to each event, as per Cycling time trials website.

August 29 Club championship “10” (with Sussex C.A. “10”) G10/45 Loxwood 1000

August 31 Club championship “25” (with Sussex C.A. “25”) G25/49 Loxwood 1000

September 19 Club championship “15” (with Sussex C.A. “15”) G15/92 Washington 0700

October 10 Club championship hill-climb (with open hill-climb) GH/92 Steyning 1100

October 10 Afternoon hill-climb GH/94 Shoreham 1430

October 18 Open “25” including G.Jackson “25” G25/93 Steyning 0800

Working rear lights are compulsory.

Unfortunately the August club “10”s and hill-climbs have been cancelled as a result of being unable to control social distancing at these popular events.