Post by barky on Jan 7, 2013 23:12:56 GMT
We'll be kicking off our Saturday wheelabouts this coming weekend, this is to help the winter track racers with a fast endurance ride & also to help the potential road racers learn some skills & get some speed. We'll leave Doyles at bang on 10am. Route is 50km, goes out over the moor, right onto the main road towards Stirling, left at the Kippen roundabout, through Thornhill and west towards Port of Menteith & the Rob Roy Roundabout.
We'll be riding in close formation, so full mudguards are mandatory for this ride, anybody without full mudguards must ride at the back.
Here's what happens.....
We'll ride out in normal formation, in two's but rotating riders every couple of minutes at normal club ride pace, so you'll be about 4 mins on the front, 2 mins in each front position. The hill leading up to Thornhill will not be ridden hard, but enough to keep it all together and regroup. After we leave Thornhill we'll start wheeling about, this will be at a fast, but not flat out pace. Wheeling about involves constantly moving through to the the front of the group, in two lines, one moving up, one moving back (if you don't know, ask on the ride). The pace is expected to gradually increase all the way back. We turn left at the Rob Roy roundabout & left at Ballat Toll, hostilities end at the cattle sign before the right turn to Balfron.
This is a training ride, so you'll need to self sufficient, carry a couple of spare tubes, a pump & a phone. If you're finding yourself getting dropped soon after Thornhill on the first ride, it's perfectly acceptable to leave in a small group a few minutes earlier next week.
If you're not used to these type of rides, you'll learn a lot if you get involved, if you can't come through for a turn at the front you can switch from wheel to wheel in the shelter at the back of the group as long as you shout "up" so riders know they've to move across. You should be able to see some progress too before the Crow Road Habble start again after the clocks change. Each week we'll all find ourselves lasting a bit longer.
We'll do this ride in all weathers for the foreseable future, just avoiding any potential black ice days.
We'll be riding in close formation, so full mudguards are mandatory for this ride, anybody without full mudguards must ride at the back.
Here's what happens.....
We'll ride out in normal formation, in two's but rotating riders every couple of minutes at normal club ride pace, so you'll be about 4 mins on the front, 2 mins in each front position. The hill leading up to Thornhill will not be ridden hard, but enough to keep it all together and regroup. After we leave Thornhill we'll start wheeling about, this will be at a fast, but not flat out pace. Wheeling about involves constantly moving through to the the front of the group, in two lines, one moving up, one moving back (if you don't know, ask on the ride). The pace is expected to gradually increase all the way back. We turn left at the Rob Roy roundabout & left at Ballat Toll, hostilities end at the cattle sign before the right turn to Balfron.
This is a training ride, so you'll need to self sufficient, carry a couple of spare tubes, a pump & a phone. If you're finding yourself getting dropped soon after Thornhill on the first ride, it's perfectly acceptable to leave in a small group a few minutes earlier next week.
If you're not used to these type of rides, you'll learn a lot if you get involved, if you can't come through for a turn at the front you can switch from wheel to wheel in the shelter at the back of the group as long as you shout "up" so riders know they've to move across. You should be able to see some progress too before the Crow Road Habble start again after the clocks change. Each week we'll all find ourselves lasting a bit longer.
We'll do this ride in all weathers for the foreseable future, just avoiding any potential black ice days.
