Time for our 25 mile TT - Copythorne
Saturday May 18th, 7.30am start
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30 riders lined up for 3 laps on the P128 course - for full details please go to the link below!
http://www.slideshare.net/JulianGee1/sotonia-25-18513-start-details-21087174
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Calling the club's lady riders
A series of events for you in 2013
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| The Bournemouth & District Womens Cycling Association was formed many years ago when women were not permitted to race with the men. The
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Team Pursuit storm home
Dynamic trio take Sotonia Quiz, March 12th
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| Seven teams took on the challenge last night in the quiz, answering questions on everything from identifying bike components in close up, naming
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Harry Bulstrode has convincing win - March 2nd
Sotonia '10' goes to Peter Hansford Racing man
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| A pleasant but cold afternoon greeted the 56 competitors in the Chalkey White Memorial 10 mile time trial run on the course which
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First time trial of the season, Sunday Feb 10th, falls to weather.
Kings Somborne to Romsey road flooded
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| Unfortunately, the wet weather claimed its first race victim of the year when the opening club 10 of the season was cancelled due
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Cycling auction - Tuesday February 19th
The Sotonia Auction night is back!!
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Geoff Shergold will once again be auctioneer at this popular annual event.
Dig out those spare cycling bits and pieces from
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Paralympic gold medallist Darren Kenny
- to be guest of honour at Sotonia dinner in January
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| Is pleased to announce that Paralympic gold medallist Darren Kenny, has accepted the invitation to be guest of honour at the club's Annual
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Free rides for members in Sotonia events in 2013
Annual General Meeting report
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The club held a well attended annual general meeting at the clubroom on November 27th, with over 60 members in attendance.
Amongst
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Cady cleans up
Sotonia man takes the big awards in hill climb event 14.10.12
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Bob Joliffe reports…….
RACE favourite Ben Cady (Sotonia CC) lived up to his billing and rode away from the Sotonia Cycling Club
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Sotonia's new cyclo cross event a great success
Over 160 riders take part
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Report from Graham Robins...........
Michael Cotty (Wheelbase /Cannondale) took the honours at our new event held on the old golf course in
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Yeates crowns fine season
Another championship for rapid veteran 9.9.12
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| Sotonia’s Cycling Club’s Colin Yeates crowned a fine season of racing by scooping the club’s 10 mile championship held last Sunday on the
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New membership landmark reached 30.8.12
Sotonia membership tops 250 for the first time
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| Membership Secretary Ian Wall reports that in the past week the number of club members has topped 250 for the first time in
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Stuart smashes record
38 year old record beaten in 12 hour event
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| One of the club's oldest racing records was beaten last weekend on August 5th where veteran Stuart Martingale recorded a provisional mileage of
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3rd Heath Road Race 31.7.12
Final race in series
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| The third Sotonia Heath Road Race ran off successfully with 35 riders taking part. A report and picture from Graham Robins can be
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Want to be like Bradley Wiggins?
Here's the place start
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| All of us in the cycling community here in the UK are very excited about Bradley Wiggins Tour de France win on Sunday.
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Second race in series goes to plan
Sotonia Heath Road race report 17.7.12
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| The 2nd of Sotonia's Heath Road race's went ahead as planned on Tuesday July 17th, which was good news for organiser Simon Knowlton
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New Sotonia open hill climb this autumn
Club puts up £100 first prize
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| Sotonia is bringing a new event to the calender with an open hill climb on Dean Hill in Wiltshire and to make it
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10 mile championship cancelled
Bad weather claims another victim
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| With another evening of heavy rain in progress, club officials gathered at the start of the club championship 10 mile event at Horsebridge
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Club membership reaches record high
Over 230 members now signed up
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| The latest report to the club committee from our Membership Secretary Ian Wall reveals the membership of the club has hit an all
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In form Yeates takes championship
Second great ride from veteran Colin
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| Sotonia’s veteran rider Colin Yeates continued a fine season of racing by scooping the club’s 25 mile championship held last week on the
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Heath Road Races - July 2012 update
First two events full
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Simon Knowlton is again organising the Heath Races on the following dates.
3rd July - FULL
17th July - FULL
31st July -
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Home win for Yeates
Sotonia veteran wins his first Open Time Trial
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| The event was run off in wet and windy conditions but Sotonia CC got two 'home' wins. Veteran Colin Yeates won his first
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Results for Sotonia '25' May 19th 2012
Good conditions mean some fast rides
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| The Sotonia CC event used a new course for an open event (P128/25), based on 3 laps of a circuit based on Copythorne
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First Sotonia '25' of the season
A good win for Colin Yeates
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| A bright but breezy morning for the club's first 25 mile time trial of the season, saw a good win for Colin Yeates.
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Reliability Ride Results 26 February 2012
List of finishers
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Reliability Ride Results 26 February 2012
Chilbolton 35
Ted Knowlton
Sotonia CC
Gold
Tim Stringfellow
Sotonia CC
Gold
Mike Stringfellow
Sotonia
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Big turnout for annual awards dinner
Sold out event is a big hit
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| Sotonia's annual social highlight, the dinner and prize presentation, was a huge success with over 80 attending the sold out event at
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Saturday Clubruns
Starting on 7th January 2012
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| Start from Fleming Avenue Car Park, North Baddesley. A fixed route run for riders of varying abilities, contact Simon Knowlton on 07554
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Penny is club person of the year
Popular club secretary given the accolade for first time
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| As is traditional at the Sotonia Annual General Meeting, this year held on November 30th, a vote was taken amongst members present to
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Record field tackles hill climb
Fine autumn day sees 43 riders take on Dean Hill
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The fine autumn weather meant an exceptional turn out of club riders for the Sotonia annual hill climb on Dean Hill.
Coming out
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Win for Jenkinson
BBAR wins Autumn '25'
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| The Sotonia CC Autumn ‘25’ on Sunday September 18th was run off in dull and slightly damp conditions on the P612, Andover –
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Hitchings and Jardine-Skinner take 2nd place
Sotonia team runners up in TLI 2-up championship
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| Ollie Hutchings and Evan Jardine-Skinner took a fine 2nd place in the 20km TLI 2-up championship held on a circuit based on Timsbury.
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First open time trial win for Andy Bryson
- continues his good form after a 2nd place the previous day
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Andy Bryson continued his rich vein of form with a win in Sotonia's Test Valley 10 on Sunday 17th July.
Despite the
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Bryson again in 10 mile championship
Andy Bryson continues his excellent season with a decisive win in Sotonia's 10 mile championship held on the P140 course, north of Romsey.
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| On a pleasant evening but with a testing breeze on the return leg, Bryson’s time of 21 minutes 45 seconds was just a
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Finale of the Heath Road Race Series
Read the story and see the pictures of a fine solo win
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Another great report and pictures from Graham Robins here: http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/road/article/roa20110706-road-Edgell-takes-Sotonia-Heath-Race-title-0
You'll also find some really good shots of the race from Mark
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Successful 'Come and Try It' event
Many new time triallists give it a go at Sutton Scotney
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| A very successful event held on the 10 mile circuit north of Winchester saw 11 novices try their first ever time trial -
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Another great race - 2nd Heath Road Race 21.6.11
Read the report and see the pictures from Graham Robins
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Report on another fine Sotonia promotion here:
http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/road/article/roa20110622-road-Bowers-Sontania-Heath-Glory-Road--Bowers-claims-Sontonia-Heath-glory-0
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First Heath Road Race attracts big field
Read Graham Robins' report
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| The first of a series of three races held at this venue through the early summer drew a full field of fifty riders
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And the winners are.........
The Crabby Codgers!
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The inaugural Sotonia Cycling Quiz took place last night at The Rockingham Arms in Wellow.
Teams answered eight rounds of questions on,
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We've joined Twitter
http://twitter.com/SotoniaCC
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| We've just added a Twitter feed to means of communicating with members about our activities - sign up to be kept up to
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See time trial action
- new video
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A video of the 10 mile time trial held at Copythorne on May 19th has been posted here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLoFP0i2gt8
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Rear light use in Sotonia events
- compulsory in all our club events
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| At the recent committee meeting it was agreed that we would continue the practice adopted this season of making a working rear light
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Another great promotion
Open '10' Time trial 26.3.11
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Ian Wall and team ran another excellent promotion on the new variation of the Copythorne circuit.
The weather was great for the time
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Another winning evening
Auction a great success
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| The auction of cycling equipment which took place in the main hall at the clubroom on Tuesday 22nd February was a resounding success
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Rear Lights in Time Trials
All competitors in Open and Club events in South District are required to have a rear light fitted to their machines and switched on.
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| Following the unanimous vote at the South District AGM, all competitors must have a rear light fitted to their machines and switched on
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Club Run Meeting Place
- we've moved our meeting place
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| Please note we have now moved the club run start point from the car park of The Baddesley Arms pub, on Botley Road,
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Club TT Secretary's report October 2010
A roundup of the year from Norman Harvey
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Club Time Trials Secretary’s Report 2010
There were 17 events scheduled. All were satisfactorily completed, although due to the poor condition of
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Sotonia 'Paragon' 25 TT result 26.6.10
Some great performances on a hot day
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Full result:
Place Rider Club
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Flying the flag for Sotonia
Impressive display at the Big Bike Celebration June 13th Riverside Park, Southampton
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As you can see in the gallery the club put on a great display at this event run by Sustrans in Southampton.
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Tom Knowlton wins the Sotonia Heath Race!
Tom takes the win in an all round successful night for Sotonia
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| A great night all round with good weather, a full field, and some great racing for the 1st Sotonia WXCRL Heath Road Race.
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Another successful promotion
Sotonia Middlemarkers '10' - full field struggle on a tough day
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| An easterly wind made the going tough for competitors on Saturday with only one rider, Peter Lawrence VC10, beating the 22-30 limit with
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CTC Individual Third Party Insurance
Time to join or renew your membership
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| The Club’s CTC affiliation fee is due at the beginning of June. Would those of you who wish to join the CTC
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Road Race Results
Road Race Secretary to record the Club's road racing activity during year
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| Could all road racers please keep me up to date with any road races you have ridden, the position you finished and any
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Road Racing Success
Sotonia gets off to good start to the year yet again!
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| Sotonia has got off to a good start to the year again, with a number of points scored and one win in the
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Sotonia '25' championships - in glorious colour
Another video
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| The captions are a little dodgy but the action is good - nearly all 25 riders who started are in here somewhere! And
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2 up to victory
Norman and Mary win National Vets Championship Tandem 10
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| Our Chairman, Norman Harvey and Hon Treasurer, Mary Corbett won the National Vets Championship Tandem 10 on Saturday 30th May 2009 which was
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The Forum
Why not join?
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| If you have access to the web then I cannot recommend joining the Forum enough. There is simply not enough time to
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More Sotonia racing successes
The points just keep coming
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| Colin took 4th in the sun at Thruxton today, gaining him and Sotonia a further 6 points, and now a 3rd Cat Licence.
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Sotonia Road Race Update
Update 11 March 2009
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Sotonia Road Race Update
Sotonia are off to a good start this season, we currently hold the following placings in the British
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Website of cycle routes
Share your cycle routes
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| www.bikely.com is an interesting site that allows cyclists to share routes with one another. It is free to use and you can
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