WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN THE MONKEY HOUSE?
SPRING CLASSIC RESULTS
The full set of results are in the news section of the website if you want to check that out, but the potted highlights are:
13 teams ( and 1 person) competed.
Winning Fastest time 4:25:52 by Uno X Mobility Scooters ( Carl Pearson , James Brown and Graeame Garrett)
Actual fastest time 4:08:02 by What's Under the Hood (Paul Astin , Phil Hood and Blake Timmins ) - but they got penalised for not stopping for the required 30 minutes.
Trophy winners - All the snac(Km)s (Oli Cox , Sarah Vickers and Alix Toffin )
Honourable mentions - Maybee Not (Neil Cocklin, Rob Garratt and Sam Maybee ) and SKRorchers (Sarah Damm, Kelly Baker and Rachel Brown) - who also had the longest dossing time as they had to twice fix a puncture!
Thanks to Stuart John Bulloch for organising.
Our next club event is the GORILLA EASTER EGG HUNT - a riding challenge that is also about route planning, creativity and teamwork. They'll be a mass start on Sunday 20th April at 9am, with prize giving at 12ish that day at the Hare and Hounds ( though you can ride anytime between Friday 18th to Sunday 20th 9.30am). Full details will be posted on the website and advised by Rob Garratt later this week.
GORILLA ENDURANCE
Whilst you can see from Jemma Morrison photo that those riding on Sunday enjoyed the H&H sun terrace , there were some epic rides over the weekend.
Neil Ashton and Stafford rode the 226km Tour of Flanders Sportive taking in 2000m of elevation and notorious cobbled segments. Chapeau to you both.
Chris Mapp rode the Ronde van Brum a 242km (150 miles) route around the outskirts of Birmingham with 2700m (nearly 9000ft) of climbing , and Pete Edwards took the original Grand Day Out route from the Route Book section of the website to ride 211km solo. Well done lads.
QOMS and KOMS
Kelly Murphy picked up a couple of Strava crowns this week, Lotty Jackson picked up one and Adam Gale also picked up a KOM at the weekend. Jack Morrie Evans picked up a KOM in Ireland at the start of his cross Ireland and Scotland adventure . Chapeau.
TIME TRIALING
Both BMC and Solihull Cycling Club have released their TT schedules for the year - check out their Facebook pages for details.
BMC kick off on Tuesday 29th April at 7pm on the K1/10K circuit in Knowle ( with sign on at Black Boy car park from 6.15-6.45pm)
Their charity fundraiser - Ride for James is on Sunday 16th November
The Solihull 2 up TT - Tony Satterthwaite memorial fundraiser is on Thursday 19th June.
THURSDAY RIDES
The rides for Thursday this week went up yesterday, there are still a couple of spaces left, especially as we added an extra 16-17mph ride due to popular demand.
Ride Safe
Bruno