Latest News

  • The club AGM was held on Monday 30th January. See who's on the new committee and check out the latest rules, with a new rule 3.8 and amended 6.2
  • Need a 3-bike carrier for your car? Hardly used; price £30. Contact Mr. Smith on (01788) 569097
  • Club Clothing has now arrived - please bring with you the means to pay! Go to Clothing page to see list of items on general sale to club members.
  • We now have our 2012 events confirmed by the CTT. They still need to go through thr police approval stage, but assume for now this is the list we will be using. Go to 2012 events.
  • Fancy a London-to-Paris charity ride next September? Click here to read more.
  • The Club Hillclimb was won by Matt Jones by 7 seconds from last year's winner Matt Plant. It appears Matt's time was not a club record, now lets see if someone can go back pre 1990s.
  • The club now has a forum, courtesy of James Heaton and Craig McKee. This looks very professional and in time might replace our message board. To view go to Rugby RCC Forum.
  • Another link you may find useful is Best of Rugby which is an index of what's happening in Rugby and you can test it by checking out Rugby RCC.
  • Now the season's results have been calculated it's clear that John Gabriel has again won the Vet on Standard competition, breaking his own record in the process. Go to 2011 Vet on Std, or go to TT Results to see all the results for this and previous seasons. There's also an updated list of all the award winners.
  • Phil Scott wins our the 4-Hour time trial. Go to 4-hour for provisional results, now with the handicap & vets results.
  • With the 4-hour time trial completed it's now possible to calculate the BAR winner based on club events. Who could it be............?.
  • Our final evening time trial was won by David Lane making his 'debut' in a club event - see results. Go to go to Results Index for reports of all the season's events and the final Points tables.
  • Rugby RCC put 6 teams into the Bicester Milennium CC 4-up event. Go to 4-Up to see results and pictures.
  • Late in the season maybe, but on rejoining recently Dave Overton became our 100th member this season.
  • Matt Clinton (Mike Vaughan Cycles) wins the Rugby RCC Open 10 in a time of 19-57. Go to Open 10 results or go to Open 10 Index for Vet on Standard and Teams. Go to photos to see pictures of the winners of the mens/ladies events. (Also results now tidied to show where positions are equal).
  • The annual interclub event was won by Rugby RCC making it 6-4 in the series. Prizes for the first five riders were provided by the BikeYard of Leamington. Individual members donated £106 for the air ambulance, Ken Rushall's nominated charity. We have a page about Ken and a picture of him competing.
  • Read an account of Rugby RCC members who rode the end-to-end last year. Is this a record?
  • To encourage members to ride in open time trials the committee are proposing an award for the best average times based on three 10s, two 25s and one 50, over the season. For the current season events already entered will be counted. Peter Wright will coordinate, more details later.
  • Booking system update: A potential problem has arisen when two people are logged in and try to reserve the same number simultaneously, resulting in one overwriting the other. There may eventually be a solution in the coding to prevent this, meanwhile we recommend after selecting a number and logging out, click on View Bookings to see if your name is where you expect it to be. If it is not, then login again via TT Bookings and select another number.
  • Group photo taken before Lawford time trial - now with Dave Newton in club colours! (See also caption below photo).

Diary Dates

  • Next Committee meeting - Monday 13th February, 8 pm, at Bruce Townsend's house.
  • First evening time trial - Wednesday 28th March, 6.30 pm.
  • Rugby RCC Open - Saturday 28th July, 2 pm, on K11/10T

Please let us know if any of these links fail to work, or if there are other links you would like to see here,

Club Clothing

Our club clothing design
- introduced for the 2007 season

Click here to go to our clothing page

Other News......

  • All fees frozen for 2011 at £10 membership (£5 unwaged), £30 season's TTs, £3 season's teas, or pay for each event £1.50 on the night (£2 private entries). Click here to see the season's fixtures. Safety is becoming a big thing and all competitors wil be required to sign to say they've read the guidelines which can also be seen here.
  • The latest CTT handbook shows no increase in levies for 2011, so club events will be unchanged for the coming season. Click here to see all club fees
  • A few rule changes following the club AGM. Go to Club Rules and check out rules 3.3, 3.6 & 5.5. It appears the distinction between first and second claim members has confused many members. Click here for an explanation.
  • Weekend training rides are being organised - go to Club Runs for details
  • We now have a club mobile phone which will be switched on during events, so if you have a problem you can let us know. You may like to save the number: 07761 084 794
  • Mike Bloom recently made a solo round trip from Daventry to the Humber Bridge in 25 hours. He explains the challenge of these longer rides.
  • A few gentle reminders to club time trial competitors.
  • Explanation on field placement in open time trials
  • See James Heaton's pictures of the first 3 riders at Braunston.
  • The Mids CTT is piloting a new ranking system for open events, similar to British Cycling's Elite, 1st Cat, etc. To show how this works results have been calculated using 2009 results and these can be viewed on a new website:
  • Mike Bloom sets a +12-47 for a 30 mile Vet on Std. As we have not had a 30 mile record in this category we must assume this establishes a club record, unless someone can produce a counter-claim.
  • Historic table of Club events updated to include 2009 winners.
  • Stuart Sherriff, age 73, breaks his own end-to-end record and actually rides twice the distance! Find out how, with his own record of day-today progress. Go to Stuart Sherriff does it again for all the details.

General Information

  • Anyone need alterations to their cycling clothing? Alex Laycock is a qualified theatrical costume maker and provides an alterations service to fellow cyclists. Visit her website on www.alexlaycock.co.uk or send her an email on alexinstitches@googlemail.com
  • Is your bike insured? You may want to take up Kenny Robinson's suggestion on bike insurance.
  • A collector in South Africa bought a badge which appears to be one of our old club badges from the 1930s. Click here to take a look. Update - we've now acquired this badge and some say it's genuine and others say it's not the same "RRCC". Any further views?
  • Club Clothing - You can order Rugby RCC clothing direct from the Impsport website - but you will need a password. Go to our Impsport Direct page for more information. Click here to go to our clothing page to see what's in stock. Contact Laurie Bird for more information.
  • Historic table of Club events updated to include 2009 winners.

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