COMMITTEE 2016-2017
Club Captain
Discipline: Road and Track
Rides: Exclusively Cannondale Favourite beverage: Doombar Favourite Road: A6 Manchester... I have the KOM Biggest crash: Bike Park Wales, day 1, straight over the handlebars, red downhill Best Club moment: Battling up the slopes of Covadonga for my first ever HC climb |
Vice Captain
Discipline: Cross country and Downhill
Rides: Lapierre Zesty Favourite beverage: A pint after a ride! Favourite Trail: shooting cabins DH Biggest crash: Getting chucked over my handlebars at the top of a drop, landing on a rock and breaking my collar bone. Best Club moment: Brecon beacons weekender mud fest! Coming back to the wood burner at the farm. |
Treasurer
Discipline: Road and Track
Rides: Fuji Transonic 2.5 & Dolan Track bike Favourite beverage: Gin & Tonic Favourite Road: Any road without a headwind Biggest crash: Getting stuck in the tram lines on the way to placement Best Club moment: Making a promotional video on training camp with the girls |
Road Captain
Discipline: Road, XC, being rad
Rides: Trek 2.3, Trek 8000 Favourite beverage: Espresso or Butty Bach Favourite Road: Brechfa or the Golf Links in Rhaeadr for MTB, Panes gorge in Spain for road Biggest crash: Snapping my chain in a bunch sprint in front of the Eiffel tower (not in a race though) Best Club moment: Tresviso cheese after the Sotres HC |
Mountain Bike Captain
Discipline: Mountain, Race Enduro, but will ride anything my wheel points at!
Rides: Santa Cruz Nomad CC Favourite beverage: An ale brewed local to whichever watering hole I find myself in Favourite Trail: Secret trails- Near vertical switch backs on the finest loam you've ever encountered. Competitor even, for Canadian dirt. Biggest crash: Standard over the bars which resulted in the annihilation of my wrist. It was over 12 months, 17 x-rays, 3 CT scans, 7 casts, 5 operations and 2 consultants before I was back riding. Best Club moment: Having a duck eat bread off my crotch. |
Track Captain
Discipline: Road and Track
Rides: Colnago AC-R & Marsini Pista Track bike Favourite beverage: Gravy Favourite Road: Quibell Track in Scunthorpe Biggest crash: Dislocated jaw in cyclocross race Best Club moment: Plan A |
Road Race Captain
Discipline: Road and Track
Rides: Giant Propel and Planet X Pro Track Favourite beverage: Off the bike - San Miguel On the bike - San Miguel Fresca Favourite Road: Hillingdon Cycle Circuit (Spillingdon) Biggest crash: Me? Crash? Never… Best Club moment: When my rear mech snapped less than 10 meters into training camp. Good times. |
Vice Road Captain
Discipline: Road & used to do a bit of MTB
Rides: The one I ride Favourite beverage: Good coffee during/after a ride Favourite Road: Something hilly in the Peaks (I'm not well travelled) Biggest crash: Probably something from my MTB days, I wasn't the best Best Club moment: All of it! |
Vice Mountain Bike Captain
Discipline: Cross Country and Downhill (plus dabble in Street, BMX Race, BMX Park and Trials)
Rides: Ibis Mojo HD, Orange Patriot, 24seven DJ, Onza trials, Viking Peloton Favourite beverage: Hot Chocolate Favourite Trail: Steel City at Grenoside Biggest crash: Overshooting a jump into a rock. 3 days in hospital and surgery to chop out the dead flesh (I love you NHS!) or the time I taught Isaac to drift his car, only for him to drift into a tree and get stuck Best Club moment: All the shenanigans, it's all awesome! |
Mountain Bike General Sec
Discipline: Trials, all mountain and as of a week ago, road!
Rides: Norco Sight, Inspired Fourplay, Pinnacle Dolomite Disc Favourite beverage: Frothy lattés Favourite Road/Trail: Ham Hill, Somerset. Tiny and tame by most standards but it was my local and I love it. Biggest crash: I went over the bars during the *warm-up* for my first DH race last year leading to a complete shoulder separation, torn costal cartilages and a scaphoid fracture. Best Club moment: Has to be club BMX sessions at the national cycling centre's indoor track. We get a great turnout, and seeing roadies try out BMX for the first time brings joy to my heart. |
Media & Social Sec
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Kit Sec
Discipline: Road and Track
Rides: Cannondale Favourite beverage: Obviously gin and tonic! Favourite Road: Anywhere with beautiful views Biggest crash: Women's Team Pursuit Minor Final at BUCS Track Best Club moment: Representing the club at BUCS Track and 3UP TTT |