Brighton Mitre Cycling Club

Friday 25th Awards Night – Beer and quality pizza involved

Tickets in the kit shop

Take part – race or help or both

Full on local bike racing. Part of London x league this event is hosted by Brighton Mitre so come down and support. Kids racing too some come and see it. The Cafe will be open all day.

Got a few spaces on the event team, in the morning or afternoon so get in touch and join in the fun. Email cx@brightonmitre.co.uk on contact Clare on social media. Helpers will be looked after with food and maybe a cheeky beer.

If you want to race entries go live on Sunday 23rd October…If you have never tried CX why not give it a go! Gravel bikes and MTBs permitted.

www.londonxleague.co.uk

Many of you will have started your Mitre ‘career’ with one of our Sunday rides expertly organised by Alison May Lewis. Alison initiated the Sunday ride programme back in 2015, prior to which the only weekend rides were on a Saturday. Since then, she has worked with diligence, and indeed love, to maintain the ride leader pool and ensure that a route into group riding existed for any bike-curious individuals in Brighton.  After many years of hard work, Alison is stepping down from this role at the end of September to make more time for her other cycling commitments training new ride leaders for British Cycling and the Breeze programme.  We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude for her endeavours and so I am sure you will all join me in offering the heart felt thanks of the whole club.

We are, however, equally lucky that Alison is being replaced by the multi-talented Suzanne Romney who has kindly agreed to fill Alison’s shoes – not an easy task given their metaphorical enormity for a pair of size 39s.  I’m sure you will all want to congratulate Suzanne and wish her well in her new role.

Huge thanks to both.

Last Sunday was the Brighton Excelsiors 25 mile Open Time Trial on our local G25/93 course in Steyning.

Three Mitres turned up with Cris Coxen coming 2nd over all , Jack Smith coming 7th and myself…I can’t remember but I got a reasonable time of just over the hour. With our combined times, we clinched the Team Prize.

After Bob had handed out the prizes he asked us all to encourage others to try TT’s as both the Open (weekend) and the more informall evening TT’s are well down in numbers comared to 2019. The turn out this Sunday was very low with only one female rider who obviously took first place with no one to compete against.

The photo below shows the Mitre turnout one Tuesday a few years ago, It can be a great evening out as you can ride out together, race then ride home together and possibly even sneak into the pub for a swift recovery drink.

Time trialling will massively benifit your over all riding. Please don’t think its elitist, you don’t need a TT bike, you are released 1 minuite apart, and the only time you need to beat is your own PB. (Very safe too isn’t it? Ed.)

To enter open TT’s you need to register : https://cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/

The evening TT’s are on Tuesdays and Thursdays and do not require pre-entry with Tuesday probably the more friendly roads.