Blaydon Cycle Club have teamed up with Bikmo to get an exclusive 5% discount on their cycle insurance for our members.
A very quick reminder about your online safety and security.
There’s recently been a few cycle thefts in the north east and one avenue thieves use is your online presence to gather intelligence on where you live, when you’re out and what bikes you might have.
A new tactic seems to be Setting up false online profiles to find out more about riders and their habits.
Here’s a few points to consider:
It’s come to our attention a few people are confused as to what they have to pay, hopefully we can clear this up.
ALL Blaydon CC fees are due this is the money that goes direct to us, you either paid us £10 last Jan-June or £5 later in the year. Basically everyone with a 2015 membership is ‘reset’ on 1/1/16.
2016 rates have increased to £15 a year (or £25 joint) which is great value still. This is in line, if not cheaper than many other clubs of a similar size and it 2016 we have some big events and need capital to host them, In turn this helps the club grow, 2016 is going to be our biggest year and it’s going to be a lot of hard work behind the scenes above what you may see on the ground! (some say it’s a full time job running a club, it really can be!)
Some of you may have to re-join British Cycling this can be any time of the year, for some it’s the same day as you joined the club because you joined BC with a Blaydon CC Discount code for your first year. We of course recommend you ALL join British Cycling for a number of reasons. (legal cover and development of the sport for two), please not your British Cycling expiry date will be on your dashboard and membership card, again this is highly likely to be different to your club membership.
Any questions please shout up
Good afternoon everyone, just a very quick post to wish our members and everyone else who’s been a part of the club in any way a Merry Christmas and our best wishes for the new year.
2015 was probably the first ‘big’ year for the club, we’ve had great success with our club, development and easy wheelers ride, we’ve had success in Time Trials and races and we wish to grow on that in the new year. We’ve been to Scotland ‘on tour’, been abroad, we’ve cycled the length of England on the coast to coast. and done many many events.
We’ve loads planned for next year so keep your eyes open on our news feed. For now, enjoy Christmas and we’ll see you all soon.
We’ve had a few people ask how to join. It’s very easy! Click the button below!
2016 is going to be a great year for the club, with 2 strong years behind us we’re up to a shed load of great stuff as we continue to push forward to making BCC one of the largest growing clubs in the region. Membership is £15 for an individual or £25 for a couple. in 2016 we are also for our first year ‘adopting’ a charity and we’ve picked one close to cycling community which is the Great North Air Ambulance (GNAAS).
our membership year is 1st January until 31st December, so why not make it your new year resolution to join us, or renew and get the year off to a good start.
On behalf of the BCC Committee I’d like to announce the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS)
as the Club’s adopted charity.
As a cycling club we are all too aware of the risks the roads and hills present and, sadly, many of us have at some time witnessed or known an occasion when the Air Ambulance has saved the lives of loved ones, friends and acquaintances.
We are all very aware of the fantastic service they offer and know that one day it might be our turn to be saved.
The JustGiving page can be found here and will be open for donations at any time: www.justgiving.com/blaydoncycling or bit.ly/blaydoncharity
Events and appeals will be organised throughout the year, so please give as generously as you can. Details of these events will be published in our usual way through our social media channels.
We hope you are all as enthusiastic as we are with the decision to support them.
Regards,
Blaydon Cycle Club Committee
to find out more about the GNAAS, where it covers, and what life saving missions they fly with your donations visit their website at www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk/ – The Great North Air Ambulance is a registered charity operating three helicopters, operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year responding to over 1000 incidents per year.
We’re almost at 500 facebook likes, please spread the word visit us at facebook.com/blaydoncycling.
Here you will find the clubs main social media presence, we offer rides for riders just starting off right up to budding racers, we have over 100 members and counting and we’re making noise with some great achievements over the season in various disciplines. We’re very laid back and have a thriving and active membership both on rides and on our members on-line chat areas.
If you or someone you know is into cycling, or would like that little push to get into it, come and join us for a ride and see what we do. We’ve grown from an initial 9 members in 2013 to 100+ with people of all abilities, all interests and all with a wealth of things to share.
as the traditional ‘off season’ starts we’ll still be here building up to the start of the 2016 season where we have big plans in the making. There’s never been a better time to become a part of a North East club that’s getting bigger, and better every time a new member signs up. You can be a part of it and we look forward to seeing you. We’re going places.
We meet at multiple times through the week check bit.ly/blaydonevents for a full list of club activity within the coming weeks.
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If you have submitted an order via the endura online portal, or via this website for casual wear all orders have been submitted.
Endura are processing the art work and will be back with numbers for us to okay this week. Ev2 Casua wear is invoiced and in production.
Please read before you order:
KIT UPDATE: if you want it you have two ways of getting an account…
1) post below your email address and i’ll add you to the club wear database. (please ONLY comment with your email so no none if lost in chat, please discuss clothing and sizing in a new thread, i will then LIKE your post to confirm I have added you and you should have an email with your code to get in unique to you.)
2) if you would rather. INBOX me. I will then simply reply ‘Done’ when I have added you as means of acknowledgement.
I do hope I can get a link in the next day or two for you all to sign up yourselves but for now this is your means to sign up.
Sizing can be found at: www.endurasport.com/custom/
click WT for race fit, Classic for everything else. and womens for womens.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
1) I have to do this manually (add you) so it may take a few hours or more, please don’t keep emailing me if I don’t do it immediately
2) Take note of the bank details on your order screen you’ll need these to send us payment (we pay as a club at the end)
3) by ordering you confirm you have READ sizing information
4) Deadline at present is 30th Sept. (enough time for another pay day)
5) we need FIFTEEN items in total and THREE of each item
6) If an item is not listed and you can get 3 orders raised amongst yourselves contact me and if there is AT LEAST THREE of a non-listed item we can give consideration to adding this to the inventory (for example if 3 people wanted MTB jerseys) this is a ‘we will consider it’ and by no means a guarantee we will or can order it this time or in the future.
7) all prices are BEFORE VAT (unless stated) so you’ll have to add 20% on top of your order total.
Any questions please ask outside this post please, again this is just for account generation. If you have that, well done, you’re well on your way to ordering the best club kit around. Thanks to Endura once again for being our supplier.
please find attached the provisional *dates for the Nothern Audax rides that run out of Kirkley Cycles.
I’m posting these dates in advance as I know there was interest in Audax riding within the club after two of us completed the “Mosstrooper”. Hopefully over the club can get more involved in the Audax scene if there is sufficient interest.
* these events are externally run. Full details and confirmed dates will be published at http://northern-audax.org.uk Venue, start times and routes subject to change.