Eagle Road Club

Weekend of the 26th September

This is the weekend before the Eagle Autumn 25

Chatting to some Eagle members we came up with the following idea for a nice Eagle weekend. There is an ECCA 10 on the Sat afternoon on the E2 start at 2:00 pm. As it's an ECCa event we all stand a reasonable chance of getting in for a fast time - club record could go

Then on the Sunday there is the Lea Valley 30 on the E1. I am sure we would all get into that.

So why not make this a weekend at the clubhouse? Ride the Sat afternoon, return to the clubhouse for evening meal and a spot of camping.  Then up for the 30 on the Sunday,  sounds perfect to me.

Our next event - Eagle club run from the clubhouse Mon 31st Aug

Monday 31st August - 9:00 am start

Following on from our previous clubhouse ride we are organising another one for the August bank holiday.  We will follow broadly the same format trying to get in a 3 hour ride, then back to the clubhouse for some well earned refreshment.

Guest riders are welcome to come along, we will be taking quite an undulating route so be prepared.

One or two have volunteered for some DIY afterwards, so bring along your overalls if you feel so inclined.

VTTA NATIONAL & ECCA CHAMPIONSHIP 30m TT

Message from the event organiser

Can you please let as many of your club members know please

I only have 69 solo's and 2 tandems for this event, I know there is a postal strike, but I expected more as it is open to non vets and is on one of the fastest 30 courses in the country, due to the postal strike I am leaving it open until Thursday 20th, if you fancy a ride, phone or E mail me ASAP.
I am also short of marshals if you don’t fancy riding :o)

VTTA NATIONAL & ECCA CHAMPIONSHIP 30m TT.
COURSE E2/30 SUNDAY 30th AUGUST 2009

Replaces the Leo 30, this event is open to non vets and non ECCA clubs

Hog Hill training evening

Thursday 20th August 6:00 pm

As we had such a cracking night at Hog Hill last week, we thought we'd like to get another team evening in before the long evenings prevent us.   So aplogies for the short notice but we are aiming for next Thursday, 6:00 pm.   We are not going to book the circuit, you can just turn up and pay your £3.

There will be similar sorts of events, although probably a little more informal.  If you are interested, there is a topic in the members area, or just let Tony, Phil or Chris know you are coming along.

Cippo's 2010 Training Camp

Hi all, well for our seasoned members they will Know what my training camps are all about. But for our newer members, over the last several year's i have organised a training camp in Mallorca (that's Majorca to some). It is not regimented but more of a holiday with cycling where i organise daily rides which you can join, and ride as hard or easy and for as long or short as you like.

We have established a family protocol with the staff at the Puerto Azul Hotel in Puerto Pollenca, who each year make us welcome with open arms. Couple this with fantastic scenary of coastal roads, rolling wild flowered winding roads to the hard mountains of the Sa Calobra, throw in a grate soical side from drinking in Tolos bar/restaurant to the lively bars past the witchinhg hour! It is certainly going to be a hard act to follow!

But, time has come to say "a change is as good as a rest"!!

So i am going to whisk you off to Northen Italy to Alássio the home town of our very own Italian Testosterone Tone aka Antonio Paolino, situated near San Remo!

Antonio will be going out there in September and said he is going to check out some hotels to suit our needs. I will be looking to depart Stanstead Airport on Thursday 6th May 2010, which allows us to win the ECCA Festival over the May bank holiday!!

The duration of the holiday will be for Ten (10) days. If you prefer to go for less or more days then i will leave it up to yourselves to make your own arrangements.

At time of writing i don't no if the meal arrangements will be Half Board or Bed & Breakfast only. So it is difficult at this time to give you a price on the accomdation but as a ball park figure i guess around €30 per day. We will fly Easy Jet from Stanstaed to Nice and at present the cost of flights including luggage and bike are around £130. But the later we leave booking the flights the dearer they will become.

Re Transfers to and from Nice Airport in Italy; We will look into hiring our own transport for this and keep the mini bus for thr duration of the holiday in case we want to venture out to San Remo, or Monte Carlo, etc.

Regarding the daily rides; whilst i will not be able to take you around Italy like i can Mallorca, Antonio will be at our disposal and has assured me there will plenty to enjoy from coastal rides to Monte Carlo, San Remo and inland and upwards into the moutains!!

So a rough idea to cost will be between £450 ~ £500 but does not include your personal insurance. You will need to arrange this yourselves.

To be fair on Antonio, i need to give him a realistic number of members including WAGS if you wish, so he can negotiate a good deal on the hotel. With this in mind can you all have a VERY SERIOUS think on it, and give me a definate YES or NO if you wish to come along and enjoy the Cycling Holiday, No May be's or yeah probably, i'll let you know, it's a definate yes or no please.

I am sure it will live up to our Mallorca camp, and therefore look forward to you confirming your place by the 31st August!

Please note that i will require a £100 deposit to secure your place.

Numbers are not limitted to this holiday but i do need you to confirm quickly.

As the Italians say, CIAO

Cippo

Eagle evening at Hog Hill

The Eagle RC had a cracking evening at Hog Hill yeterday. Over 20 riders turned up for an evening of short, sharp, fun cycling events organised to cater for all abilities. We had booked the lower circuit at Hog Hill which is a kilometre in length and conveniently misses out the hill.  It's still a stiff test though as the circuit is quite exposed to the wind, but last night we enjoyed a pleasant summer's evening - barbeque weather.

We started off with Club Champion Chris Baldwin taking the under 10's through their paces with several fun events through the cones.   You can see more pictures of the evening by clicking the link here. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/londonbal ... directlink

The adults took to the track at around 6-30 for a warm up and some through and off practice. This was quickly followed by the most painful of events - the 1 lap time trial.  Our organiser Phil, had this idea that the times for the time trial could be used to sesd the riders into three groups for the later events.

Several scratch races later, we all took part in the closing handicap race. This gave us all a chance to put the through and off riding into practice to see if we could hold off the scatch boys.   

All in all a very enjoyable evening and so good to see so much blue and gold on bikes. Some of it brand new kit too thanks to Damien.

Phil Hersey wins the Blackpool Nocturne

Outstanding writeup already on British Cycling - photos as well. Heroic stuff!

Quotes: "The Cycling Weekly sponsored support event got the racing underway, with Eagle RC rider Phil Hersey winning from a solo attack. Hersey attacked from the start and managed to keep the whole field at bay to take a superb win in front of a huge crowd on the Blackpool Promenade."

and our reputation precedes:

"Phil Hersey of the Eagle RC follows in the tradition of their riders winning races with long lone time trials at the head of the race"

This is in the national press folks, Eagles creating a legend for 2009 and beyond . . . .

http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/road/a

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Wilsher 50

The Wilsher 50 was run as part of the 32nd Association 50 with the results as listed below. Repairs to the level crossing at Six Mile Bottom caused a revised course to be used measuring just over 50 miles.

Once again Chris Baldwin turns out the fastest time, and again beating the 25 mph barrier by some margin. John Beaufoy tried his hand at the distance in this his first year of racing and returned a fine ride. Special mention also to new member Dave Clarke, actually joining the club today, and taking on a 50 as his first event - unfortunate not to finish but looking forward to the next club event.

Pos	Rider	Club	Time
1st	C Baldwin	Eagle RC	1:57:00
2nd	M Howard	Shaftsbury CC	1:59:56
3rd	B Robinson	Shaftsbury CC	2:03:57
4th	D Burner	Shaftsbury CC	2:05:07
5th	L Bellamy	Shaftsbury CC	2:11:02
6th	W Greve	Shaftsbury CC	2:12:44
7th	T Whittock	Lea Valley CC	2:16:55
8th	J Beaufoy	Eagle RC	2:17:10
9th	C McSweeny	Victoria CC	2:17:19
10th	A Clements	Shaftsbury CC	2:27:52
11th	T Paolino	Eagle RC	2:34:20
12th	J DeGiorgio (L)	Victoria CC	2:37:21
13th	S Hodges	Eagle RC	2:37:26
14th	M Keen / S Keen	Lea Valley CC	3:17:56

Open Day tomorrow

A family day for members, their families and any friends of the Eagle. You’ve only to look at some of the old photo’s to see that it was a very popular event in the clubs social calendar.