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Welcome to post-it! ‘post-it’ is not a forum or the place for debates or replies, but a message board for Essex Roads cyclists and people who know us or would like to know us more. Perhaps you’ve achieved something, or have had a great time with the club, or maybe you’d like to congratulate someone because of what they’ve done. If so, then this is the place to post it! |
Just send your post-it by email with a subject to: - post-it@essexroads.com
You can choose to give your name, a pseudonym or none at all. The message will go to our post-it custodian who will check it then uplift it onto the post-it page. Please make sure that your messages are not moans or groans - but something nice for the benefit of site visitors. The custodian reserves the right not to publish any post-it note sent.
And here’s what people have to say:–
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30th August 2010 |
Firstly I would like to say a huge thank you to all my helpers today, Elaine Barrow at the finish ringing in times, Nick Hastler, and his father John, for putting out signs and pushing off, to my marshals Dave, Andy and Simon all on the turn, I do believe Mick Scott turned up too, to Ray who turned up and fitted where ever we needed him, with out you open events would not happen.
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17th August 2010 | The event is still open should anyone wish to enter. CTT Forms please. Also I still need someone to push the riders off should anyone feel they wish to help. Tea coffee and Cake will be on offer at the HQ Chelmer Club Hut. |
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17th August 2010 |
I am cycling in the 'Great British Bike Ride' from Lands End to Twickenham from the 1st to the 4th September.
344 miles in 4 days with overnight stops at Tavistock, Yeovil and Winchester.
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15th August 2010 |
Hi
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6th August 2010 |
Congrats to Jeff for a great win last night at Hog Hill. |
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5th August 2010 | I'm cycling to the cycle show in Earl's Court and back. It's on Sunday 10th October 2010 and it's a great day out to see all the new 2011 cycling kit and bikes on display. You can jump on the train for the return journey if you like. If you want to come along then please let me know. secretary@essexroads.com |
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25th July 2010 |
Hi Folks,
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24th July 2010 | Hi there, I am looking for rider(s) that would like to go out during the week (I unfortunately work at week ends) for anything between 20 to 50 miles (more is possible). I have been back to cycling since last September. I need to improve my speed and I find it quite hard on my own to progress now. So if anyone is interested, I live in Wickford but can meet anywhere around the area. I usually go out riding around the Hanningfield Reservoir/Danbury/Maldon etc. If you are interested please contact me at jeannot18@hotmail.com. Please note that I would be away for the next 2 1/2 weeks and will be back around August 16th. |
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17th July 2010 |
I noticed that there is a Tour of Britain Stage Finish in Colchester on Fri Sep 17th.
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11th June 2010 | I'd like to congratulate everyone for racing the 50 this weekend with Nick coming 2nd and wish Sandra and Nick good Luck for the Victoria CC 10.2 Tandem ride next weekend!!! It'll be Sandra's first Open as Stoker with Nick, Remember guys ride it like you stole it !!!!! |
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2nd July 2010 |
Dear All, |
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28th June 2010 |
Hi everyone
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25th June 2010 |
Dear All, |
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14th June 2010 | Congratulations to Gwen and Lea for breaking the National 25 Mile tandem record on Saturday the 12th June in the VTTA event on the E2/25. |
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14th June 2010 |
This is an odd one. |
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30th May 2010 | Trevor has asked that we circulate some form of notice about his ill health, and the fact that he might not be in appearance for a while, as stated below also his organising of 2 counties events. As I know some of our race riders read the "post it" so could this also be put on there as a hold your entries till we find out who is going to organise the ECCA events that Trevor Pedley was to organise???? I was with Trevor yesterday at the Victoria event and he is in good spirits but he does an awful lot so its going to be a tough few months ahead for us all on the ECCA committee. |
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29th May 2010 |
Thank you for a BRILLIANT, brilliant Go-Ride at Mayflower School today – we all had lots and lots of fun racing (the slow races were very tricky though!). I was really proud to see other children wearing the new T-shirt for Essex Road Juniors – I am going to tell all my friends to buy one! I am really looking foward to the next session at Lake Meadows.
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13th May 2010 |
Ian James Mashen. It is with regret that I have to announce that Ian lost his long battle with bowel cancer on Monday 10th May. He died peacefully at home in the presence of his wife Lynda and all his family. |
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17th May 2010 |
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17th May 2010 |
Congratulations to Dave Brown an excellent result in such good company in the “Andrews Trophy”
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3rd May 2010 | I would just like to say that as a club we have excelled ourselves this year at the ECCA Festival and I thank every single one of you for riding in such awful conditions this year. It looks as though we have come 2nd overall, there was still some points to come in but we look very strong. Colin Ward being our newest rider has had a fantastic 3 days, his last event being the 2 up with Colin Wilgress coming 2nd in hailstones and 4 degrees, fantastic. All the time trials were covered and our road racing team were exceptional this year too, well done lads! Gwen was an outstanding rider this year covering solo and tandem events with myself, a very challenging day but worth it and a VTTA record for us over 10 miles! To the Audax riders, you know who you are, we cannot thank you enough for turning up and making it round the 100 and 200k rides in an extremely windy day, shame our sportif riders didnt take up the challenge too! I look forward to you all riding the rest of season and making Essex Roads stand out again in the racing circle. Congratulations Team! some photo's are on the Essex Roads Face Book site. |
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28th April 2010 | Thanks to Graham and all those who made the Hog Hill day happen - it was great fun and such a joy riding on a road without cars, potholes or gravel. I just need to learn to bond with the hill!! |
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11th April 2010 |
Wanted 8 speed Campag Ergo levers post 2000,
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5nd April 2010 | Well done to Colin, Giselle and Paul as individuals and as 1st Team in this weekend's VTTA(East Anglia) 25 on the E33/25. See Results |
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3rd April 2010 |
Can you post a link to this on the website – Essex Roads CC sportive is mentioned in the last paragraph of the British Cycling page.
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2nd April 2010 | Congratulations to Matt Haigh on winning 1st handicap in today's ECCA E9/25 Event. Great Ride Matt. See Results |
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26th March 2010 | Anyone else trying to cram 5 months winter training into a week? I'm off to the Dave Lloyd sportive training week on 13-18 April in the Lakes and wondered if any other ERCC members will be there. |
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20th March 2010 |
Club Racers, the ECCA E9/25, 25 mile time trial, slightly sporting, out on the 1060 at Writtle to Dunmow and back has spaces for riders. Entries close Tuesday. There are already Essex roads riders entered, so it would be good if we could have a large number racing!!! |
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17th March 2010 | Well done to Colin W on Saturday beating double Olympic champion Rebecca Romero by 40 seconds in the 25 TT. |
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9th March 2010 |
Hi – I am the event organiser for the Race for Life events in Essex and am looking for the support of volunteers. There are two events especially we need additional support of marshalling the course. They are;
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5th March 2010 | One of my friends at work (he has joined us for the odd Sunday run) has bought a new bike complete with deep section wheels, so has no longer the need for his mavic carbons and would like to see if anyone would trade some alloy rims for them, here's his message... See classifieds |
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1st March 2010 |
Conratulations to all of the those who have done extremely well in the ELV series at Hog hill. It is really good to see the results. |
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26th February 2010 |
Is there any chance that we could post a link to the following please on the club website?
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24th February 2010 |
This might be of interest to some of the club members. It is being run by an ex member of the API team.
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17th February 2010 | Best wishes and hope to see you soon for Tom C after a nasty crash on the ice whilst training at Redbridge.
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9th February 2010 |
Redbridge CC held a speed judging competition at the end of 2009 – Entries had to nominate a chosen speed then ride a given course of undeclared distance without map/speedo/Garmin. Congratulations Chris Hutchinson, who chose 12mph (on 67” fixed) and won the event with a lucky 1 minute error over 13.8 miles!
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9th February 2010 | I guess it's about time somebody posted something for 2010... |
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27th December 2009 | Yesterday at the Boxing Day TT thanks to Graham Lee the club reached 200 members. Quite a milestone for the club! |
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26th December 2009 | Hi, |
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14th December 2009 |
Congratulations to new member Colin Ward for a fine win at Hog Hill on Saturday in only his 2nd race.
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13th October 2009 |
Congratulations to Gwen Cook for setting a new lady's veteran 10 mile TT record of 22.46
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13th October 2009 |
Congratulations to Rob Young for setting a new senior 10 mile TT record of 20:28
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28th September 2009 |
Hi All at Essex Roads! |
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14th September 2009 |
Congratulations to Sonny Dawson for giving the GHS Schoolboy 10 mile championship his all and achieving a personal best time and finishing 10th overall in his age category. We are very proud of you and glad we came up to support you.
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12th September 2009 | Congratulations to Sonny Dawson for winning the regional heat for the GHS 10m TT on 20th June and winning a place in the national final, Which takes place in Stratford upon Avon this weekend (12th September) Good Luck Sonny! I know you'll give it your all! Love Mum, Dad and Rosie xxx |
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3rd September 2009 | Well done Rob - for equaling the Senior 10 mile Club Record. See Other TT Results |
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10th August 2009 |
Congratulations to Gwen and Steve on their PB's Saturday and a massive thanks for all your help Steve in getting me off the start. |
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30th July 2009 |
Well done everyone who finished last night's TT. Commiserations to those who didn't. There is no shame in not making the second circuit or indeed not starting at all since conditions deteriorated as the TT progressed, ending in a real bucketing downpour covering the road and making it difficult to see. |
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30th July 2009 | Well done to all the ERCC team who rode London to Paris for Action Medical Research last week. Brilliant company, great ride. On Route 2 we had not one puncture between 5 of us over 4 days. Has anyone else put on weight?! |
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13th July 2009 |
Thank you Rob for rescuing me yesterday in the '50' and lending me your wheel so that I could finish! It would have taken me ages to walk!!!! Cheers! Gwen #;-) |
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6th July 2009 |
I'd like thank the guys who came to Dartmoor for making it a great weekend. We had good weather and a tough route. But the banter and the jokes made the whole weekend go well. I hope all are well and not too bruised. My finger is really blue now but not too painful. I look forward to the next one. And I'd like to wish Sandy all the best and hope she regains a healthy knee so she can come and join in on our trip to Scotland next year. Oh yeah back to the mountains guys. |
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30th June 2009 | Well done Giselle - great ride on Saturday! New Lady vet club record and SO close to the Ladies club record! #;-) See Other TT Results |
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22nd June 2009 | Congratulations to Ian Randall for his 2nd place in the East London Velo road race which took him to 224 points moving him up to 1st Cat. Check out www.eastlondonvelo.cc/ for a good race report and photo finish. Dave Brown and Nick Hastler also in the points for Essex Roads. Well done to all. |
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19th June 2009 | Well done to Ben for his 2nd place at Dunton last night, Jason for a solo break of about 15 minutes and still finishing 5th, Matt Haigh for a fine 11th place in his first race at Dunton and commiserations to Trevor who punctured with a lap to go. To those who raced, there are some photo's on www.sportinpictures.com but please don't ask why I'm 2 feet off the track in the sprint or I may get upset !!!! |
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5th June 2009 |
Well Done to Rob Young, winning the Heron cyclesport go race series at dunton last night and the primes.
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2nd June 2009 |
Well done Jason - 2nd in the 50m Sunday - fab ride! #;-) |
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2nd June 2009 |
... and well done Gwen - 1 st Lady in the 50m Sunday! |
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23th May 2009 |
Congratulations to Ian Randall in taking his 1st win in the ELV race at Hog Hill last night. |
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14th May 2009 |
A big thanks to all the club members who are working so hard to make the wednesday time trial series the success that it is. The fact that this event is drawing 40+ riders every week is testament to how well the events are managed. |
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5th May 2009 | I would like to thank everybody who took part this year on the Festival weekend. I hope you all had a fabulous time as I did myself. There is still results to come in and be sorted before we find out the truth of where we came as a club. But it has been the best show of riders we have ever had. So well done everybody! |
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5th May 2009 | Just a quick "thankyou" to Giselle Devlin for dragging me round yesterday! I know you had to "wait" for me at times, but I enjoyed it; sorry we couldn't have been faster - same again next year?!?!?!?!? |
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4th May 2009 | Well done to everyone who competed in the ECCA Festival -especially those who tried something new and just 'had a go'! It was a fantastic weekend with a great atmosphere and we were proud to be members of "Essex Roads"! Gwen, Alan, Joshua, Matthew, Luke and Ruth Cook. |
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3rd May 2009 |
Congratulations to Colin Crooks (Essex roads off road secretary) and his lovely wife Toni on their recent wedding on 2nd May 2009. Best wishes for the future.
From Chris Kemp and family. |
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30th April 2009 | Images of some of your riders going through Arkesden on hilly time trial April 2009. See flickr website. |
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6th April 2009 | Fantastic ride - enjoyed every minute (apart from the ones spent going up North Hill!). My first sportive and I found everything to be very well organised from the incredibly efficient people registering riders to the top quality bread pudding. Feed stops were positioned just where and when I needed them. A big thank you to everyone who organised and planned the ride. |
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29th March 2009 |
Nick Hastler gave himself an early Birthday present when he won the Ciclos Uno Road race today. |
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22nd March 2009 | Thanks to Simon for a great ride to Thaxted as preparation for the Spring Lambs. Thanks lads, for getting me home and sorry you all had to wait so long for me!! Got home eventually (113 miles) my longest ride ever. Still a great ride and superb weather. Giselle xx |
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22nd March 2009 | Many thanks to Simon Macfeeters who has been leading some very enjoyable club runs using his encyclopedic knowledge of the lesser known roads of Essex. I'm sure we all appreciate the effort that Simon has made to plan and memorise some new routes to save us having to cover the same ground week after week. Great effort mate, keep it up. |
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19th March 2009 | Another blow out at Turbo Training last night. Courtesy Dave Taylor. See another Picture |
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12th March 2009 | Members were given a surprise, last night at the club evening, when the club room echoed with loud explosion. During a particularly vigorous section of the Turbo Training session a tyre had burst. Matt Haigh stated, the tyre had been punctured a number of times. Well it is now! See Picture |
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10th March 2009 | Thank you to everyone involved in organising the Champions Night on Friday - it was a really good evening and we had a great time! |
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23rd February 2009 | Congratulations ! To James (Jim) Killen for great results including a 2nd place in The Hog Hill winter series moving him up to a third Cat. Hopefully a sign of things to come for Essex Roads racers this season. |
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23rd February 2009 | Thanks to Roy and the lads on the front for looking after me on Sunday. I enjoyed the ride and the cafe stop and look forward to coming out next time I am in Essex. You should be proud of a very well-organised and friendly club with an equally impressive website. Neil Eccles, Crosstrax Leeds. |
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11th February 2009 | Neil Eccles Crosstrax Leeds. In Ilford with relatives from 19.02 and would like a Sunday Ride 22.02. Usually do 50-70 miles at about 20mph and it would great to ride on the Essex roads. Mail to equilibriumpt(replace by "at" symbol)tiscali.co.uk. Surely no snow left by then! |
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7th February 2009 | Hog Hill will be cancelled this Sunday due to the conditions. It was still snowy on Thursday and the defrost has re frozen making the new tarmac really slippery. Tonight we are due another heavy frost. Perhaps we will try again next weekend? as I do not think it will de frost enough by lunch time?? |
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29th January 2009 | To anyone who fancies a ride round Hog Hill, Sunday 8th February. A group of us are going up to ride round it. If it is frozen in the morning we will of course go up in the afternoon. I will be ringing to find out if it is rideable that morning though as less people go up training Sunday mornings. anyone can ride round it, if you havent a bike they have them up there to hire. Dress warm as its very open up on the hill. there is a cafe there, but we usually take our own food and drinks. There is also changing rooms and shower facilities not to mention a gym. |
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30th December 2008 |
A big thank you to all you lovely people who organised the Boxing Day 'Race'! Ruth and Luke really enjoyed riding round the course... they were well chuffed that we 'beat' some riders (I haven't reminded them that we started up to 22 minutes before the others!)
Thank you again, and Happy New Year to you all!
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17th December 2008 | Am Yorkshire club rider with in-laws in Ilford. Looking for Sunday Ride on 28.12 as am down your way. Usually do 50-70 at about 20mph with tea stop. Could I join you? Neil Eccles, Crosstrax, Leeds. |
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As a fellow cycling enthusiast/racer and member of the Warwickshire Roads
Club, I tried to source a copy of this title as I had heard what a great
read it was. |
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24th November 2008 | Is hardy a euphemism for totally insane ? |
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24th November 2008 |
Well done all those hardy members who turned up in the snow yesterday and endured first the sleet and later the rain. |
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10th November 2008 | I would like to congratulate our Junior Riders for putting a tremendous first season into racing, on the road time trialling and closed circuit road racing. Sonny and Bradley showed skill and determination on all the courses they raced this year including the new Hog Hill Circuit, The Redbridge Cycling Centre. I hope they have been encouraged to keep training and come out next seaon with what they learnt this year to be up there getting a name for themselves in the sport. Congratulations boys! Perhaps our new junior members that have joined this year would like to come out and try next season with the boys making us have a strong junior club team. |
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16th October 2008 | Seeing Vic Gibbon's Rory O'Brien in John's collection brought back many memories of when I was a member of Brentwood Road Club. Anyone who takes the trouble to preserve such pieces of nostalgic history surely deserves a photo of Vic riding a race back in the days when he was BBR champion so I attach one from my collection taken during the 1954 Essex Roads '12' at about 220 miles (it might not be the same frame but I believe the same Chater Lea chainset can be easily recognised).  Vic Gibbons_BBAR Champ1953.jpg |
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28th September 2008 | A massive thanks and well done to Mark Stanbury and his entire organising team for putting on a fantastic event today. The route was excellent, the signage perfect, the catering great. The unusually good weather was the finishing touch. Next year's event is going to attract a large entry. See Results at the Essex Sportive website. |
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12th September 2008 | Hi, also wanted to thank Colin Crooks for organising the brilliant Cairgorms trip and Tim the guide. A challenging but very enjoyable mountain bike ride that every cyclist should try. Thanks also to the rest of the gang for a great laugh both on and off the trails. Had a great time and hope to do plenty more in the future. Chris. |
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11th September 2008 |
Just wanted to say a big thanks to Colin Crooks for organising a fantastic mountain biking trip to the Cairngorms. |
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27th August 2008 | Congratulations for Sonny Dawson as he came 4th in the under 14s at Hog Hill on a very windy bank holiday. He was very proud to fly the Essex Roads colours but gutted to miss out on the prizes, next time champ, next time! |
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18th July 2008 |
Well done - Paul Barrett takes another win at Dunton after a perfect leadout by Jason Chester, Peter Grundy 3rd. |
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17th July 2008 |
OrchidCycle Essex Initial Report. Dear everyone - I am so very happy to report that this year's OrchidCycle saw 709 riders and has already £24,500 raised for the Orchid Cancer Appeal. This is already our best record so far! |
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28th June 2008 | Hello! Just got back from riding the off road route around Ditchling Beacon. What great day. Perfect route, perfect weather & great company. It makes it all worth while when I see the guys having so much fun. Colin. (Off-Road Secretary) |
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28th June 2008 | Just wanted to say that Ian Randall had a very brave race at Dunton on Thursday night. After a nasty crash (with lots of blood) got back on to come 5th. |
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23rd June 2008 |
Well done and congratulations to the following:
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16th June 2008 |
Just wanted to pass on all our thanks on behalf of East Essex Tri Club, for a great day and the best cycle event we have ever been involved in. |
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13th June 2008 | Guys, it seems that this is going to be the most hotly contested trophy this year. I have to say I think throwing yourself off a mountain is taking the competition a little too seriously though. Please let's all be careful out there! |
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12th June 2008 | To our wonderful club members - Thank you - to all marshals, helpers and cyclists at Essex Roads. You have made OrchidCycle 8 the best charity event we've ever had. We had over 650 cyclists on the day and hope that we might raise over £30,000 with luck. You helped me pull the stops out and I am indebted to you all. |
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10th June 2008 | Thank-you to all those who helped rescue me when I fell off the mountain in the Pyrenes. Special thanks to all at Allant for looking after me afterwards, and sorry to Roger (who was brilliant) if I gave him a shock with all that blood. |
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2nd June 2008 | Well done Giselle - a brilliant first 50 mile time! 8 minutes off previous Club Record!!! Only the 10 and 30 mile to go and you'll have replaced the lot! See Results |
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