Following the 70th anniversary ride which is starting and finishing at Betteshanger on Sunday 9th July there will be a hog roast taking place by the hut. This is in place of the summer barbecue that normally occurs at Bell Meadow. The hog roast is being supplied by Coastal Roasters (the same as at Colin […]
After a couple of weeks of fine weather, the wind returned to Betteshanger CP with a vengeance for the latest evening time trial. The strong south westerly meant that it was a struggle down the main straight, and temperatures fell away sharply as the sun dropped. There was a field of 7 juniors, 29 seniors […]
So much racing TRC riders are involved in and difficult to keep a track of all results so if I miss anything please let me know. London Nocturne TRC had four riders in the support race at the Nocturne in field of 90. The race was extremely fast at 27mph average on 1km lap in […]
Link to photos of The Ray Jessett Memorial Open 10m TT 10.6.17 A great event with a good turn out. Really nice to see Ray’s own granddaughter, Miriam of The Tyneside Vagabonds, being brought down by Ray’s son Cliff to ride. Miriam got a PB. https://www.flickr.com/photos/davealexrob/albums/72157682009467213 Find out all about Ray Jessett and the stories […]
Lots of further racing at the weekend which I’ll try and summarise On Sunday was the SE youth championships on the crit course on Eastbourne front. Max Robinson rode very strongly to take the win to become SE champ. Also Lance Childs rode very strongly to just miss the podium in 4th with Jack Hill […]
Huge well done to Jenny Fearn and Adrian Hawkins for qualifying for the UCI masters time trial championships in Albi in France. The qualifying event took place at the tour of Cambridgeshire chronic TT on Saturday on a sporting 16.5 mile course with a tough wind. Also 4 other Thanet RC members took part who […]
The latest club evening time trial was held at Betteshanger CP over 25 miles. The weather was not typical of BCP with sun, warmth and light winds, which resulted in a number of PB’s and youth age related records. Only 3 of the 4 juniors who signed on finished, with George Bussey suffering a puncture. […]
It has been a busy weekend for club riders with members taking part in time trials, road races, omniums, audaxes and sportives. The club had a good showing of riders in the KCA 50 mile time trial on the Hamstreet-Brenzett-Camber-Lydd course, and were treated to reasonable conditions, except for the poor road surface in several […]
Toby Perry continued his fine run of results with another fine win in the 3-4 race at Cyclopark last night. Toby again went for a long attack with 2 laps to go to hold on comfortably at the end. Toby now moves onto 37 BC points so nearly 2nd cat. Also in the race riding […]
After a few weeks away from Betteshanger CP, we returned back there for the latest Wednesday evening time trial. The weather was not the usual mix of wind, rain and cold, but sunny with warm temperatures and fairly light winds. In spite of the good conditions, a relatively small fields of 42 riders signed on, […]