Coventry Rd Club Charity Reliability Ride

[Deleted member 1258]

Sunday 03/02/13 starting from the Guy Salmon Jaguar Showroom Fletchamstead Highway (A45) Coventry CV4 9XH, organized by my club, The Coventry Rd Club, there's a choice of routes, 53 or 27 miles, long route start time 09:30, entry fee £5, £3 going to charity, main charity will be Help For Hero's. More Details here.

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[biggs682]

is there parking nearby ?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

is there parking nearby ?

yes

http://goo.gl/maps/GI0ga

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Guy Salmon have very generously offered to cover all the catering costs in terms of tea, coffee, cake, etc so the £5 entrance fee will be split £3 to Help for Heroes and £2 to Air Ambulance.
Doors open at 9:00am, the long run leaves at 9.30am and the short run leaves at 10am.

 

[CopperCyclist]

I plan to be there. Just given the nice bike a clean, but if its too wet may turn up on the cyclocross. Bringing the father in law too. Look out for me on either a Focus Cayo or Boardman CX with the father-in-law on his red Scott CX. Will be doing the long ride, and think its going to kill me after getting far too unfit this winter!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Weather don't look too bad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/cv6
My fixed has been cleaned and checked ready too go

 

[Norry1]

Would love to make this one - but its my partner's birthday. Let me know if your club have any other rides.

Martin

 

[ColinJ]

Weather don't look too bad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/cv6
My fixed has been cleaned and checked ready too go

Have fun!

I don't think that I'm ever likely to be down in Coventry in February for this particular annual ride because I usually come down at Christmas or New Year and it's a bit too soon after that for another visit.

 

[CopperCyclist]

Weather wasn't bad at all. Not sunny, but no rain and nice and cool. Was a good route and a good cause :thumbs up:

 

[Deleted member 1258]

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A cold grey day with a strong wind made for a hard mornings cycling. but it was fun, the course was good, it was all for good causes and it was well organised, not only that I met Copper Cyclist. The turn out well exceeded the organisers expectations with well over 200 riders out. I'm knackered now but its happy tired.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The final figures are in now, short ride, 27 miles, there were 64 riders out, the long ride, 53 miles, the one I did, there were 127 riders out, total number out 191 riders, which is a superb turnout on a cold morning in February.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Many thanks to all who attended the Reliabilty Ride on Sunday. Scores on the doors are:
Short Ride - 27 miles - 64 Riders
Long Ride - 53 miles - 127 Riders
Total 191 Riders
so that's £955 raised for charity. Well done to all who turned up and big thanks to all the staff at Guy Salmon who offered their facilities, resources and their time in abundance

 

[ColinJ]

Many thanks to all who attended the Reliabilty Ride on Sunday. Scores on the doors are:
Short Ride - 27 miles - 64 Riders
Long Ride - 53 miles - 127 Riders
Total 191 Riders
so that's £955 raised for charity. Well done to all who turned up and big thanks to all the staff at Guy Salmon who offered their facilities, resources and their time in abundance

That's a pretty decent turnout and a sizeable charitable donation!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Coventry Road Club / Guy Salmon Jaguar Reliability Trial.

Prior to the event we had agreed with Guy Salmon Jaguar MD, David Burton, to split the full total of all the entry fees and any other donations we received amongst our chosen charities; Help for Heroes and The Air Ambulance Service.

Today we got to handover our "share" of the money generated by all those riders that took part in the Coventry Road Club / Guy Salmon Jaguar Reliability Trial.

The picture shows Phil Evans and Dave Miller presenting the £500 cheque to one of the Air Ambulance Service Pilots.

A big THANK YOU to all those who rode the event and contributed to its success. We look forward to seeing you there next year.
Phil.