London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

I'm west and in Willesden and Rollapaluza. Willesden rides leave from Denham, west of Uxbridge.

Interested in Willesden, but can't seem to get the site to work, any more info?

Would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Anyone racing at Hillingdon tomorrow?

Works for me: http://www.willesdencyclingclub.co.uk/
Also: http://wcc-events-diary.blogspot.com/

I think the guy/s and gal/s updating the site might be away during festive season so the calendar is out of date. 9.30am Sunday's they meet out near Denham.

We are West London's largest Cycling club with over 200 members making us one of the largest clubs in the UK.

Originally founded in 1926, We have recently been awarded the prestigious Club Mark status, highlighting our commitment to youth development in our sport. This together with our Go-Ride accreditation not only demonstrates our proficiency in safeguarding young people, but also in Coaching, Club Management, Sport Equity and Ethics. Through our club's resources and working practices we have the organisation and flair to deliver safe, fun and challenging cycling activities for people of all ages.
We are a wide ranging club who strive to cater for every level of cyclist. Our "Squadre Verde" racing squad take part in local Road Races and our recently established "Squadre Rosa" team aims to develop our female riders to the highest level. We are a dominate force in long distance cycling disciplines of Audax, with out riders regularly taking part in events over distances between 100 and 1400 kilometres. Time trials, Tract racing, Triathlon and Duathlon events complete our competitive urges. If you want to ride purely for fun then we have club runs every Sunday, Mountain bike outings as well as touring and social events through out the year.
To ensure that we perform to the best of our potential we have a impressive team of British Cycling qualified coaches to help you realise your full cycling potential.
So now you have found us, why not join us! Come along to one of our club nights to find out more or simply e-mail us to arrange a time to talk.

I went on a club run with Kingston Wheelers, all the guys I spoke to were very friendly and chatty.

Beautiful day for a ride, 50 sunny miles in the Surrey Hills.

One of their riders had a stunning white Hetchins track bike with a chrome fork, it was pure porn, gutted I did not take a photo.

I'll defo join them again for a run out.

big group? spotted some KingstonW jerseys in one group I passed on my way back from box hill bout 1000 this morn. wouldve been about 8 or so in that bunch.

great day to be out today. felt like summer

That was the fast training group. We got to box hill approx 12:30. Long cake stop ;)

Yep, I was cooking in my winter base layer and spring jacket.

rollapaluza cc... been checking out the various cycling clubs, as recommended here, and thinking of joining rollapaluza

I believe Hippy and others here are members, so just wanted to ask about the club runs - when they take place, start point, distance...

also is the club by any chance going out this coming Sunday (21 June). 'er indoors has given me leave for a solid ride, seeing as it's Father's Day, but my usual companions are off doing London-sodding-Brighton which frankly I don't fancy.

Most of the organising of rides and stuff happens over here.. join up..
http://www.rollapaluza.cc/forum

Hippy also has his own cycle squad...

www.midget-ryders.cc

Shhhh..

apparently they have really good kit.

join up*

*you have to be a midget (no dwarves)

I fink I will.

had a look at the site, but I can't tell from the forum when the next club ride is happening...

do you know if anyone there's a ride out to Essex/Herts this weekend, Hippy?

There's not a regular clubrun. It's very ad hoc.
It's full of non-committal miscreants who don't like a strict timetable :)
I most certainly am not riding in Essex this weekend, being a Westie and all.

Rides are relatively ad hoc. People arrange and post on the forum. In the summer, because people are involved in sportives, races and track, organised rides are fewer but still take place. Join and organise. Riders will come.

so how does one find out more about cs grupetto? seems there is no info available about how to join or is it invite only?

I think you can just sign up on their forum. I trust you've tried that avenue...

well it just looked like a bike forum but i couldn't see any 'new members info here' or a bit more info about the club

The willesden one is like literally 15mins away from me, interesting, will remember for the future.

Yeah the only info I could find was the 'Welcome to...' bit. Maybe once you've signed up there are other threads for that stuff?

they have been in touch.
i'll report back if the initiation is successful

Good luck, smiffy.

i'm in. just wait until they find out i'm a random fixie skidder with no road sense

I need to join a club, need to get some geared miles in this summer.
Not sure which club to join, I can only do a club run sunday morning and weekday evenings. Kingston wheelers sounds good, but I live in New Cross and its 15 miles just to get to the start of the ride.
Dulwich Paragon is pretty close to me but there sunday morning ride is something like 70 miles - which i don't know if i could jump straight into at the moment. I ride pretty much everyday, but haven't done any long rides for ages (except the london to brighton on fixed).
Rollapaluza is kinda close, but they don't seem to have a regular ride.

So does anybdy have experience of either - how often Rollapaluza go on rides or what the dulwich sunday morning ride is like? I just need some riding buddies as none of my mates down in London ride :-(

I ride at Dulwich Paragon, if you can do weekday nights the Wednesday chaingang is a good place to start, its where I started. The Saturday run is probably the ideal place to start as its easy paced and no ones dropped, the Sunday run is fast but all you have to remember is the worst that happen is you get dropped so bring a map incase!

I can't remember the last time we did a club run at Rolla. Most of the regular-ish rides were winter/early spring. Lots of members are now concentrating on specific road or track events so there are fewer club rides right now.

Kingston are also very good. As are Dulwich. PM "Dulwichrider" on here for more info about them, although Tom is a big trackie these days.

Thanks guys, I might try the Wednesday night ride then this week with Dulwich. I'll give them an email first to see whats what. Anybody else have experience with Dulwich?

been on several of the saturday runs and they are a very friendly lot. haven't made the chain gang (as weekdays are a bit too busy) or the sunday one, though. the routes are on the website, so you can do a dry run of either the saturday or sunday rides at your own pace first.

i'd be up for a few sunday rides, if we can't make the official leaving time with the club.

You have already been "inspected". Do you think I was really at your place for bike parts?

You will find many Rollapaluza riders kicking arse at HH veledrome most weekends and Monday and Wednesday nights if that is your thing. The organised road rides were really good last year. We went out most Sundays. But for some reason, they stopped

i cried after you left.

Apparently you can race for grupetto now. Totally 531.

Grupetto challenged the Rollas to a track meet but then fizzled out.

I'm going to stitch my Rolla and Grupetto kit together to make some kind of odd waynedesigns amalgam..

I think you'll find it was the other way round Clive… Winston got a bit nervous when I mentioned that Chris and Vic would be racing for us

[don't tell him that it was Christopher Bigggins and Vicky Pollard]

It is unkind enough to refer to hippy as Christopher Biggins (even with an extra "g") but I do not think that you should or could refer to any of your women members as Vicky Pollard.

Yeah but, no but, yeah but.. what-eva!

Clive, BDW was clearly referring to hippy as Vicky Pollard and to you as Christopher Biggins. It is, admittedly, easy to mix up the two.

Oliver, I would never pretend to be able to qualify for Grupetto membership and would certainly think twice before undertaking the initiation.

we've almost finished digging the initiation pit for ya Clive…

He's thought twice, hasn't he? ;)

I'm up for that

Does anyone ride with a club in North London? Again, one not too formal or stuck-up etc etc. More specifically, and I I'm guessing I'm asking in the wrong place, but do any women have experience of club riding in London? Not being sexist or owt but the ones I've observed whilst out seem pretty male, and I wouldn't want to be holding them back etc. I have no idea whether I'd be totally out of my depth or fine. I did 70 mile runs fairly regularly in Scotland but haven't done much since being in London, except endless fucking Regents' Park laps.

Nhatattack has started a Sunday club on here that might suit you.

Aye, I'm going to go on it. It hasn't really got off the ground recently; I missed the first couple.

I sort of thought a 'proper' one might do a bit more than a thirty/fortyish mile ride once a week/fortnight? Maybe they don't.

most big clubs do a sat and sunday ride plus a midweek ride. (there must be a list of london clubs somewhere).
there are a fair few people on here that ride on the road why not hook up with them ( some are rollapaloser/grupetto riders)
if you were doing 70 milers in scotland then you should be good for a standard 15-18mph paced 'club run' without any problems?

Ta. This is why I was wondering about levels, really. I think I'm *alright* but I have no idea whether club standards are way out of my league. I'm just sick of not getting out of the city since moving down here, and riding on my own round and round is getting a bit dull. I suspect I'm a bit too rubbish for the whole proper malarkey; I just want some miles.

check out grupetto they have some strange members lacking in social skills but a relaxed attitude to cake/flapjack intake and the best looking kit in london.
or rollapaloser with the second best kit in london.

The motherlode!

Join Rollapaluza CC.

we are a proper club, with the best kit, and we cover the whole of London, not just a small part of west putney ;) we have the best parties too.

I am a member of Rollapaloosers, Grupetto and VCL, though 1st claim is RP so the others I guess are 2nd claim or "social" memberships