Bath University Cycling Club

Club member John Whittington binned his normal Saturday diet of miles and instead ate up Park Street in Bristol to claim 2nd place behind Wiggle Athlete Ben Simmons.

After qualifying in the morning, John was selected to face off against the Redbull invited pro riders. Dispensing all comers John made the final and put on a great show for the thousands of specators that showed up. Nice one #Johnlad.

Earlier in the day, Mark Bleakley grabbed himself an unexpected 2nd place at the Ludgershall Winterseries. This puts him 1point away from gaining his 3rd Cat license. It is unclear how many gels Mark used in the process.

Next week the off road bunch are off to tear up the Forest of Dean. Boom.

Well the website is back online. Cheers for bearing with us!

Exams are in full flow so not much riding is getting done, but we are looking toward the light at the end of the tunnel. So much infact we are going to smash this up in Bristol in Feb…

So we’re holding the annual club Hill Climb next Sunday the 30th October. As it is every year it is quite a chilled out affair and the main aim of it is to have a bit of a laugh – but with a competitive edge. Because it’s Halloween next weekend there is a special Halloween fancy dress category, as well as the usual ones:

Fastest Road Bike
Fastest XC Bike
Fastest DH Bike
Fastest Fresher
Fastest Singlespeed
Best Halloween Fancy Dress

Big thanks must go to Road.cc our club sponsors who are providing us with a bag of stuff to give away as prizes. You legends.

The meeting time will be 10am at the bottom of Bathwick Hill by the bus stop. The course will run right to the junction of North Road, and after everyone who wants to has been up the hill we’ll go to Parade on campus for coffee and cake.

If you plan to ride or have any questions then hit us up on twitter @bathunicc, it should be a lot of fun.

Format will be classic TT start with riders starting off at specific time intervals. Please bear in mind this is not a race – purely a challenge with prizes  

Non students are welcome to tag in, but keep in mind this is very unofficial and organised by students and not to be taken seriously, otherwise we’ll make you buy cake at the pub.

Small print…

As we are riding on public roads, you must obey the highway code and ride sensibly. The club will disown you and have no sympathy if you hurt yourself riding like an idiot.

Doug and Ed have been hard at work documenting the month of October for the club…

Feast your beautiful eyes on this bad boy.

We’ll be filming stuff for the next installment at the Hill Climb, so if you’ve got a rad idea then let us know…

No, not the one in Munich that lasts for two weeks, But the equally challenging 8hour end of season Enduro at the excellent Ashton Court trails of Bristol.

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