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Welcome to the Royal Dean Forest Cycling Club website
FEBRUARY / MARCH RIDES 2010 |
| Date |
Terrain |
Time |
Start Point |
Ride Leader |
| Wednesdays |
Road |
10:00am |
The Fountain Inn, Parkend |
Martin Green 07747023948
Bring Tea Money |
| Sunday 7th February |
MTB |
8:30am |
The Fountain Inn, Parkend |
Rob Newth - 01291 689853 |
| Sunday 14th February |
Road |
8:30am |
The Fountain Inn, Parkend |
Matthew Heaman - 07765404709 |
| Sunday 21st February |
MTB |
8:30am |
The Fountain Inn, Parkend |
Turn up & Ride |
| Sunday 28th February |
Road - "Recovery Ride" |
8:30am |
The Fountain Inn, Parkend |
Martin Green - 07747023948 |
| Sunday 7th March |
MTB |
8:30am |
The Fountain Inn, Parkend |
John Linden - 01594 562578 |
| Sunday 14th March |
Road |
8:30am |
The Fountain Inn, Parkend |
Alistair Willis - 07771803467 |
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Royal Dean Forest Cycling Club
We are a Friendly Club, who's main aim is to enjoy cycling.
The Club has many members covering the entire age
spectrum and most cycling disciplines: off road, audax, time trial,
racing, track and leisure rides.
The Club was founded over 50 years ago in the very same
pub that meetings are still held at today - The Fountain Inn, Parkend -
for like minded souls to get together and talk about all things 'bikey'
and a few more things besides. The Club still enjoys the active
participation of a few of those founder members today.
If you are a visitor to the area and wish to discover
the magic of the ancient Forest of Dean, or even if you live in the Forest
and would like to join in on a Sunday morning Club ride then please do not hesitate to contact anyone on our
Contacts
Page for more information.
We also hold a monthly committee meeting on the first Wednesday of every
month at 7pm followed by a general Club meeting (to which everybody is welcome to attend) at 8pm at the Fountain Inn, Parkend.
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FACEBOOK
We are now on FaceBook! Andy Lock has set up a page on FaceBook for Club Members.
Please click on the link below
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MTB Night Rides
MTB Night Rides started on Thursday 10th September 2009, from The Fountain
Inn, Parkend.
Meet at 6:45pm for a 7:00pm start. LIGHTS are essential.
More details are available from Andy Lock on 01594 840410 or 07888 703766
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Vintage Tankard Sunday 14th October 2007
The traditional annual Vintage Tankard Time Trial took place on Sunday, October
14th between the Newport Phoenix, Forest of Dean and Ross on Wye clubs. The event was hosted this year by Newport Phoenix & took
place on the club's 25 mile Llangibby to Glascoed TT course, unfortunately shortened to 20.4 miles (due to roadworks
between Llanfrechfa and Ponthir on the return leg), by cutting through the lanes from the crematorium back to the Caerleon -
Usk road near the Cwrt Bleddyn hotel.
Despite a dampish looking start to the day the conditions were to prove ideal for Time Trialling, with hardly a breath of wind to
trouble the 21 riders taking part. Both visiting clubs fielded strong teams as usual in this keenly fought but good humoured contest,
with Forest of Dean to be eventually declared the winning team with a clean sweep of the five fastest times.
In first place was Colin Parry with an excellent time of 47.50 minutes,
followed by Andrew Jones in second place with 50.54 minutes and Bob Parry in third spot with 51.19 minutes. Just two seconds were
to separate the next two placings with Alistair Willis in fourth and David Evans in fifth place.
The Ross on Wye club's best finisher was Jerry Roberts in sixth place with a time of 51.59 minutes, with Newport Phoenix's 2007 TT points champion Richard Lawton posting the fastest time of 55.40 minutes for the home club. The other Phoenix riders were Paul Anderton with a time of 57.35 minutes, Paul Monger with 58.28 minutes and the Club's 2007 Ladies Points Champion, Susan Burnett with a time of 1.06.27.
For full results click here
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Vintage Tankard Sunday 8th October 2006
RDFCC won the Vintage Tankard by 4:11 minutes from Ross and Distric CC.
The Vintage Tankard is an annual inter-club event involving RDFCC, Ross & District CC and Newport Phoenix.
On a bright morning, seventeen riders faced the timekeeper for the 52nd running of this event. This year the event was held
over the testing Cannop circuit with the riders facing 3 laps of the 6 mile circuit. The start is at Boys Grave and runs up
to Speech House before dropping down to Pigmy Pinetum and then on to Parkend past Cannop Ponds before the lung bursting 1 mile
ascent up to the Barracks and back to the start.
Sadly Newport were not able to field a team this year. The Forest and Ross Clubs took up the challenge and with riders
starting at 1 minute intervals there were some close battles and excellent times throughout the field.
The first three were Colin Parry (RDFCC) in a new course record
time of 47:37, Andrew Jones (RDFCC) 49:00 and Hefin Jones (Ross) in 50:15. The Vintage Tankard is awarded to the Club
with the lowest aggregate time for their first six riders and on this occasion RDFCC regained the trophy with a winning margin
of 4:11.
Following the race the riders and officials retired to the Fountain Inn, Parkend for some well deserved refreshments.
RDFCC top six riders time was 5:12:07
Ross & District CC time was 5:16:18
For full results click here
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Vintage Tankard Interclub Time Trial - 3rd October 2004
This trophy event is an interclub time trial between Newport Phoenix CC, Ross-on-Wye CC and Royal Dean Forest CC.
The trophy which has eluded the RDFCC for several years is now back in our possession, thanks to the six rider team. First home for the
Forest (and event winner) was Jon Batts (53:41), followed by Kerry Trigg
(54:33), John Moth (54:33), Andrew Jones (54:50), Matthew Heaman (56:54)
and Ian Spencer (57:05). Well done to all who rode on a tough, windy
day.
Overall Results: (aggregate times)
1st Royal Dean Forest 5hrs 31mins 36secs
2nd Ross on
Wye 5hrs
48mins 47secs
3rd Newport Phoenix 6hrs 18mins
14secs |
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