It’s a been a busy weekend for ELV riders so far with many competing in the San Fairy Ann Spring Circuit Races (results below) at Hog Hill and at the Milton Keynes Bowl.
Anna Grundy, pictured on the right, below continued her impressive winter form to take third place in a sprint finish at the MKB. [...]
The Final series standings and results are now available.
East London Velo would like to thanks all the riders for making it a great winter series.
ELV Updated Series Standings - 21/02/09
ELV Updated Series Results - 21/02/09
Report by our Time Trial Captain Simon Gent - Some more pictures from the day can be found in the Gallery
Of the eleven who signed up to ride this event, we managed nine to ride on the day (bad luck Dave Bamford regarding your Achilles and good to hear it’s on the mend).
The entire course [...]
The final race of the Hog Hill Winter Series saw 114 riders turn out on a lovely day. The Circuit was in good condition and many thanks for staff of RCC for their 2 1/2 hours sweeping epic of the circuit to enable a safe ride. There was some Quality racing with BMC UK RT [...]
Following on from the success of last year’s dramatic inaugural event, our good friends at London Phoenix are holding their 2nd Easter Classic Reliability Ride on the 13th April.
There are two routes on offer - 114km and 55km - with fast times expected. Both routes will be fully signposted, and any pain should be eased [...]
The final race of the Hog Hill Winter Series takes place on Saturday 21st February.
The is no series fee for newcomers, all you have to pay is the race entry fee.
With final placings still to be decided it’s looking like it’s going to be an excting day.
The series prizes have been confirmed as follows and [...]
We have the last round of the Winter Series on Saturday and there are a number of positions to be decided in the Overall Series Standings, which should make for some exciting racing.
If you haven’t raced in the series so far, why not come along and try the famous Hoggenberg for yourself.
As with last week, [...]
……..It’s East London Vélo’s Javier Garcia of course.
More pictures from the Round 10 of the 11 Week Series, courtesy of Taka Wu can now be found in the gallery.
14th February 2009
Updated series standing available here
We are very sorry to have to announce that East London Vélo’s Ruth Middleton came off her bike in the tenth race of the series. She has broken her collar bone and so will be unable to ride again for several weeks.
Ruth, however has been crowned as the Winter [...]
The 2009 East London Vélo membership form is now available for download. It can either be filled in and returned by email to our membership secretary Leon (the chap in the middle, below) or you can print the form and post it back. All the relevant details are on the form, but if you do have any [...]
East London Vélo News Update
Unfortunately due to adverse weather conditions, today’s racing at Hog Hill has been cancelled. There is thick ice on both hills leading up to the top circuit that is unlikely to clear by this afternoon.
We hope the weather improves next week so we can get back on track and we look [...]
There was an Inspection today at 12.00. Circuit clear of snow, checked there was no ice on North circuit, however the bottom circuit is flooded at the moment but could be clear to use by tomorrow. Water is draining away. However, this is all dependent on no further bad weather today/tonight. We will complete inspections at regular [...]
Hog Hill earlier this week.
31st January 2009
Pictures courtesy of Taka Wu, are now in the gallery.
Updated series standings are available here for download.
96 riders
Regional C+
The full circuit was in use this week, in an anti clockwise direction. The mud and standing water from the previous week had been cleared away.
The race started off fast, helped by a tailwind up [...]