This year’s club social and presentation evening will be at Sitwell Park Golf Club, Shrogs Wood Road, Rotherham, S60 4BY on Friday 24 November 2023 from 7:00pm onwards.

Food will be served at 8:00pm and the following menu choices are available:

Steak pie, chips and peas
Fish, chips and peas
Vegetarian option – most likely vegetarian pie, chips and peas

The cost per head will be £14.50.

Members wishing to attend are asked to confirm numbers attending, menu choices and make payment for meals by Sunday 5 November 2023.

Preferred method of payment is by bank transfer to the club account. Payment may also be made by cash or cheque payable to ‘Rotherham Wheelers Cycle Club’ to Dave Buxton 

This has been a difficult and unusual year for all types of clubs and their members due to the covid pandemic and Wheelers is no exception. Accordingly, all rides have been adversely affected in terms of numbers for a large part of the year. A total of 22 weeks was affected by lockdown when no club rides took place including Saturday rides. This means that the maximum no of Saturday rides possible was 30.
In all, 29 members took part in the Saturday rides over the year.
There were 12 or more riders out on just 7 occasions (compared with 22 last year) and the most popular ride was on 7 December 2019 when 17 members turned out. Out of the 30 rides possible, there were no weeks where there was no turnout.

The results of this year’s Saturday Rides Trophy are as follows:-
In joint 3rd place – Hilary Dowling and Chris Last – 18 rides
In 2nd place – James Porter – 20 rides
In 1st place with 21 out of 30 rides – Steve Lee

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This years 10 mile Time Trial winners are:

Chris Last – 23.14
Paula Fisher – 25.57

The 25 mile, 50 mile, 100 mile and 12 hour trophies will not be awarded this year because of disruption of the time trial programme due to Covid 19.

Journey along the river Rhine, June and July 2019

The height of the Summer in late June and early July seemed a sensible time of year for a sedate journey along the whole length of the river Rhine. A downhill beginning from the source of the Rhine high up in the Swiss Alps would conclude – after a full two weeks of cycling – with an amble along the sea front at the Hook of Holland, where the river flows out into the North Sea. Plenty of sunshine to look forward to, although mountainous regions are prone to dramatic thunder storms and the seaside .. well, who would dare to predict a weather forecast for the seaside ?

Four intrepid, albeit ageing travellers will journey (in the first place by plane to Zurich) by the comfort of touring bicycles along what is known as EuroVelo 15. This very flat pathway manages to avoid the highways and the motor vehicles and provides a tranquil route alongside one of Europe’s major rivers, a number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (principally, the visually dramatic Rhine gorge) and through six European countries : Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Having reached the source by climbing an Alpine pass, cyclists face very few uphill gradients after that, the final one being in Holland as the route dips a few metres below sea level.

EuroVelo 15 is acknowledged to be a high quality path, available for use by people walking/rambling, on cycles of all shapes and sizes and also by people on horseback. The route has the benefit of many cafés, restaurants and sundry other watering holes, as well as cycle shops providing spares and repairs. The four of us intend making fulsome use of the former, whilst seldom needing the latter. Even the sign posts are […]

We are an official travel partner of British Cycling, the national government body of UK cycling.  Together with British Cycling, we are committed to getting more people on bikes and to spread the love we have for riding. Whether you treat cycling as an activity, pastime, sport or mode of transport, we want you to love cycling as much as we do.

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Hello all, I hope that nobody minds me posting this.
I am James from J.E James Cycles in Rotherham and I have been speaking with a club member in store today who has informed me that some of you my be interested in some support from ourselves in the way of events such as, maintenance courses, Garmin information/how-to sessions etc.
Would anyone be interested in any of the following courses?
(free of charge of course)
Any other ideas would be welcomed- we want to support our local club.
P.S The next drop of Wheelers team kit is due at the end of February, an event around then would tie in nicely.
Thanks

• Wheelers basic bike fitting, nutrition and training advice session
• Wheelers basic maintenance session
• Wheelers Zwift & Turbo trainer information session
• Wheelers Garmin Information session (how to use)

You can vote below

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