British Cycling & FCCC Flyers Summer of Cycling – Sunday 30th July 2023

As part of British Cycling’s efforts to get more people into cycling the Farnborough & Camberley CC (FCCC) are pleased to announce that our FCCC Flyers (our GoRide accredited coaching team) are offering…

An introduction to cycling  ‘Family Ride’ on Sunday 30th July – (from 9.00 am – 10.30am) 

For more details please click HERE.

It is free to join. Places will be limited due to the number of volunteers we have to support the event.

Applications to join the ride should be sent to kids@fccc.org.uk whereupon we shall send you an application form (outlining the necessary conditions to ride) to complete and sign. We will then let you know if your application has been successful in due course.

Paul Hosemann (Chair and British Cycling Coach)

Time Trialling at FCCC in 2024

As many of you already know, but for those of you who don’t, Sean Powers has recently joined the Committee and stepped up to assume responsibilities for Time Trialling at FCCC in 2024 et seq.

It is an area where I have received many questions during my time in the chair. While many members already participate we know more would like to but they don’t know how to go about it, do they need a TT bike to participate and whether there are other special requirements to do so.

These are all good questions.

To encourage more of our members to participate next year we wish to dispel the myth and mysteries surrounding this important area of cycling. Whether it is simply to have fun, improve your fitness or use it as part of your training regime TT’s are a great way to participate. It’s a great little community of cyclists which we wish to open to more of you.

I attach a link to the existing area on our website (below) which you can read to learn a little more.

As part of the AGM Twenty’24 (on Friday 23 February 2024) Sean and I intend running a short session with a Q&A for you to come to discuss TT’s at FCCC. I’m hoping Vernon will help too but I haven’t asked him yet! 🙂 Please come along.

Kind regards, Paul Hosemann (chair).

NOTE: The picture shows some of our participants at the end of a Thursday Night Club TT chatting about their PB’s and comparing notes about the route etc.. I know when I did my first TT (pictured) I spent the first 7 miles of an 11 mile course trying desperately not to be caught! Btw – I’m the geezer in the orange in the middle of the picture with a green MTB helmet proving you don’t need a fancy TT bike or equipment to have a go! 🤣

Club Trophies

For those who actively compete each year for one of the many FCCC Club Trophies it will come as no surprise that we are approaching the end of the year for which you will soon be putting your names forward for an award.

The awards are presented at the Club Night of the Year (CNOTY) each year. A tradition which has been running for decades. Personal engravings are worked on at the start of each year – in some cases being added to trophies dating back almost a century.

For a contingent within the Club, it is often true that some of our members do not even know these trophies exist or where to go to find out about them. (FYI – they are currently contained as a list at the back of our Club Rules & Regulations).

Paul Burcombe has just released the tickets for CNOTY’24 (on Saturday 31st March 2024) as the start of our annual preparations.

To make it easier for you all, and to encourage more of you to challenge for a trophy in 2024 et seq., we will shortly be sending out a new spreadsheet for you to use to see what trophies and awards are available to compete for in the hope that more are awarded for the year ahead – so they are hopefully not just gathering dust on the shelf.

Please look out for the announcements and the spreadsheet in the coming weeks.

Kind regards,

Paul Hosemann (Chair)

Please hold the date ~ Club Night of the Year 2024

Saturday March 30th 2024

As the autumn leaves start to brown and fall from the trees and as we all reflect on another year of cycling that will soon be behind us it will shortly be time to celebrate our achievements on and/or off road.

A time to meet and greet one another and take pride in our shared riding at FCCC.

Whether it was your first ride in years, the purchase of a new bike at one of our club nights or your participation in some of our weekly rides, one of our Club TT’s or a sportive around the country we are inviting you all once again to the FCCC Club Night of the Year.

In 2023 we had a marvellous turnout so we are hoping to beat that for 2024. Partners and spouses are most welcome. Those that came this year can validate that it’s more than just a gathering of club cyclists!

100 tickets will go on sale very soon.

Saturday March 30th 2024 – 7pm to 11pm is the date we have secured the hall for CNOTY’24.

Yes – we know – it is the Easter Weekend so maybe we’ll throw in one or two Easter Egg Prizes for you to take home for yourselves or your families!

Please come and help make it another great Club Night!

More details will be sent in the coming weeks.

Thank you,

Paul Hosemann and Paul Burcombe

Thank you to Keith Griffiths 👍

A BiG thankyou to Keith Griffiths for coming to tell his story at our Club Night and to the 25 of you who turned up to listen as well as to Andria, my wife, for the food (hot and cold) and looking after our guests.

The best line of the night was when Keith said ‘If you can do 200 kms you can do 600 kms. You only have to think of it as three x 200 km rides’.

Breaking it all down into bite size chunks.

For a chap that does so little training the distances he rides and his method of planning his rides (subject to the weather forecast) combined with his preference to ride at night was inspiring, charming and enlightening.

Willing to sleep in bus stops or on people’s lawns or in open doorways or garages left deliberately open with mattresses on the ground shows the lengths these Audax riders go just to sneak a 10 or 30 minute Power Nap 😴..

Audax in Latin means ‘audacious, courageous… spirited… foolhardy… presumptuous and rash’.

These are the ways we will now consider Keith forever!

Thank you, Keith, for being a great final guest for me to close out the series of “FCCC’s An Audience with…”

Many people have said how much they enjoyed your story!

Kind regards,

Paul Hosemann (Chair)

Thank you… plus a few other pictures from the night.

Further Changes on the Committee

Dear Members 

I am grateful to Neil Lister for offering to assume the role of Road Secretary. 

The Committee voted on his appointment at our meeting on Monday 25 September, in which we discussed a few areas within FCCC where we would like to make a few changes. 

It is clear many of us would like to see a greater consistency of attendance at road rides and ride leading, so Neil has kindly offered to help the Club with this being his primary focus. 

I’m hopeful several of you who already help lead rides for FCCC will continue to work with and help Neil in his new role going forward.

Neil has been a ride leader, riding mainly in the mid-pace group, so he is relatively well known within this area of the Club

I am confident his affable personality, dry sense of humour, plus his desire to get involved will be a useful contribution and addition to the Club. 

Please join me in welcoming Neil to the Committee. 

May I also take this opportunity to thank Gareth Davies for his contributions to the Committee and the Club during 2023, who is stepping down at this time. His work on gathering small portfolios of our weekly ride photos back in the spring being one item I would wish to particularly highlight. No doubt his passion for photography will be something we’ll see more of over time if his schedule permits.

Paul Hosemann (Chair)

FCCC CLUB HILL CLIMB CHAMPIONSHIPS – 10.00AM SATURDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER 2023

The FCCC Hill Climbing Championships take place at 10.00am on Saturday morning 23 September on the 1 Mile HHC018 course (follow this link for the course map https://www.plotaroute.com/route/198880), starting at the junction of Church Lane, Howards Lane and Brockham Hill Lane in Hollybourne.

Club TT events are open to all but only First Claim FCCC Members are eligible to win the Ladies, Mens and Veterans trophies that are up for grabs.

Entrance is free to club members and £5 to non-members (payable at sign-on).

Sign-on is from 20 minutes prior to the start time and will close 5 minutes prior to the start time.

Riders are encouraged to park away from the start and then ride up to the start area.

Helmets, front lights and rear lights are now compulsory to participate in any TT event – make sure you have them all or you will not be able to ride.

There is no pushing-off.

We are using the Resultsheet app for live results this year – you can view these in real time by saving this link to your mobile device’s internet platform:

https://resultsheet.app/rsd/1694974157318×494553693643079700

Or easier still by scanning this QR code to your device.

FCCC TT 25m CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS H25/88 – SATURDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2023 AT 10.00HRS

The next Club TT for 2023 is the Club 25 Mile Championships on the H25/88 course (follow this link for the course map https://www.plotaroute.com/route/275405), starting at the River Lane junction on the eastbound A31 at Farnham, on 9th September 2023 at 10.00hrs.  . 

Club TT events are open to all but only First Claim FCCC Members are eligible to win the Ladies, Mens and Veterans trophies that are up for grabs.

Entrance is free to club members and £5 to non-members (payable at sign-on).

Sign-on is from 20 minutes prior to the start time and will close 5 minutes prior to the start time. 

This is a “turn up and ride” event but field sizes may be restricted so entry is on a first come, first served basis.

There is no parking at the start or finish areas so please park and then ride up to the start area at the junction of River Lane and the westbound A31.  The best place to park is the eastbound A31 lay-by just past the now closed Bull pub.

Helmets, front lights and rear lights are now compulsory to participate in any TT event – make sure you have them all or you will not be able to ride.

There is no pushing-off.

We are using the Resultsheet app for live results this year – you can view these in real time by saving this link to your mobile device’s internet platform:

https://resultsheet.app/rsd/1693941454304×598589164814598100

Or easier still by scanning this QR code to your device.

FCCC Final Thursday Club TT 10m HCC216a – THURSDAY 24th AUGUST AT 19.00HRS

Our last Thursday Club TT for this year is the 10 mile HCC216a course (follow this link for the course map https://www.plotaroute.com/route/198873), starting in Franklin Avenue, Hartley Wintney on 24th August 2023 at 19.00hrs. 

Club TT events are open to all/.

Entrance is free to club members and £5 to non-members (payable at sign-on).

Sign-on is from 20 minutes prior to the start time and will close 5 minutes prior to the start time.

Riders are encouraged to park away from the start and then ride up to the start area.

Helmets, front lights and rear lights are now compulsory to participate in any TT event – make sure you have them all or you will not be able to ride.

There is no pushing-off.

We are using the Resultsheet app for live results this year – you can view these in real time by saving this link to your mobile device’s internet platform:

https://resultsheet.app/rsd/1692523847193×523237053610328060

Or easier still by scanning this QR code to your device.