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DE LAUNE CYCLING CLUB FOUNDED 1889
Sponsored by EVANS CYCLES (UK) Ltd. & SPECIALIZED CYCLES
March
2003
BILL WRIGHT IN ACTION IN THE 12th ROUND of the MOSQUITO/KINESIS LONDON CYCLO-CROSS LEAGUE at PENSHURST - 26th JANUARY BILL CAME IN 4th VET - 16th OVERALL
THE PRESIDENTS REPORTS March already, how time flies. It was only like yesterday that we had the last supper at the club room. I hope you liked the photos that Mark put in the DLN. If you would like a copy of one, please let me know and I will print one for you. This is the time of the year that the lads are getting the miles in for the coming season. You can not beat LSD (not drugs) long slow distance to build up the stamina. When you have got the miles in the bank you can then go for the speed sessions. Short bit and bit sessions on the road with a small group or better still, get on the track. (I do waffle on) I notice that some of the lads have started to race already. I hope you have got the miles in! Congratulations to Steve Price, who is one of our 'mud boys' who is doing so well, and keeping the De Laune name to the front. I read his articles with interest. He writes with so much enthusiasm that I feel I am riding with him. How is the sale of the club going you ask? Well as I write the legal papers are doing the rounds to our trustees, buyer and our solicitors. I would hope that the cheque should be in our account by March. Our Solicitor will set up a special temporary account for the money to be paid into, until we decide what we want to do with the money at an AGM. The club will receive interest from this account, and will be monitored at all times by our trustees. Please put Sunday the 6th of April in your diaries. This is the day the De Laune runs the road race on behalf of the SERRL. The event will be held on the Sevenoaks Weald course. We do need help, be it marshalling, and race official, canteen help or the use of your car. Why not make the day of it and come out. This is a lovely part of Kent. Beware; I will be on the phone to you. I would like to welcome two new members who joined our club last month. First Simon Beddow who lives in Dulwich (handy for the club room) and Mark Rossi who comes from Clapham. I have not found out as yet there interests, be it road racing, time trials, mountain bikes, track, touring, skiing, drinking or ballroom dancing. We cater for it all! Welcome to the club. A few handy names to know Road Racing James Peckham Stop Press. I have just had a look at our web site. Congratulations to Katie and Gary who now have a little son James, who was born on the 20th of February. He weighed in at 8lbs Bless him. All the best Kav. WHO IS THIS THEN?
The above appeared in the National Press and was sent in by the wife of one of our members, is she trying to tell him something. Name and address withheld. M.T.B. NEWS 2003 Gorrick MBC Exodus Spring Series R1
CYCLO CROSS NEWS
Round 13 of the 2002/2003 Mosquito/Kinesis London Cyclo-Cross League held at
Eastway, London on February 2. Organised by London Phoenix. 1. Steven Price De Laune CC Sen 1:02:27 For the personal touch here are a few words: Over the moon to get my first win particularly as my father came to watch his first cross race of the season and that the family had had particularly bad news the previous day. My disappointment of not making it to the nationals were offset by this result. Due to the pressures of work and family I had not trained for three weeks after the Foots Cray quagmire (round 11) which I was forced to pull out from and gained this result of a week of considered training. On reflection the cross season was a great success, having started the season with no expectations, to the extent that I found myself heading the field in the first race I entered, sadly I didn't finish as I punctured and was yet to acquire a spare set of wheels. I will concentrate on cross solely for the coming year and prepare with that in mind which will see me at a great many Crits in the run up to September trying to gain that edge that will make overall success in the London league a possibility. Steven Final rankings London League 2002/03 best 8 Results from 13 Rounds to count Veterans Seniors London Cyclo-cross Assoc. London Team Champs held at Eastway, London on February 9 Seniors 1. Steve Price De Laune CC S
2 large baked potatoes Bake the potatoes on a tray with rock salt (plain salt will do) in oven for 45 min. to 1 hr. then cut in half, scoop out potato and push through a large sieve leave to cool for 5 min. add all chopped herbs with parmesan and egg yolk, slowly add flour and work in by hand all should be well mixed into potato mix, taste for salt and pepper and roll out on a floured board , should be long cigar size and cut into two inch pieces bring a pot of salted water to a simmer and put gnocchi into the water when they rise to the top scoop out and into cold water. Melt butter in pot add sliced leek, cook on low heat for 15 min. add wine and stock reduce by half, add cream reduce by half check for salt and pepper. Get a pan hot, add tbp of olive oil into pan put mushroom and shallots in, cook for two min. add knob of butter add the gnocchi place cream leak in bowl add mushroom and gnocchi get a veg peeler and shave some parmesan over the top and enjoy. A NOTE FOR THE MEMBERS DIARIES. O.M.A.LUNCH IS NOW SUNDAY 18 MAY 2003 PATRICIA
CIRCUIT RACING TWICKENHAM C C / EVANS WINTER SERIES - EXTRACTS from REPORTS on L.C.S. com web site.
Round 2 held at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit, Saturday 23 November Round 3 held at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit, Saturday 30 November. Round 8 held at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit, Saturday January 4. Round 9 held at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit, Saturday January 11 Round 12 held at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit, Sunday January 26 Round 14 held at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit, Saturday February 8. The 15th and final round of the Twickenham CC/Evans Winter Series held at
Hillingdon Cycle Circuit, West London, on Saturday February 15. Overall Ranking after 15 races, best 10 scores All the above results and reports were copied from the LONDONCYCLE SPORT.COM web site ROAD RACING
This is me in the support race, nice bike finished building it that morning. This was taken as I was trying to bridge the gap to a break with 5 laps to go. Managed to just get on to the leader but my lack of recent training paid its penalty as I could not sustain it for long and dropped back into the bunch with 2 laps to go. After a reasonable sprint managed 11th overall. After not racing all of last year with my broken leg pretty pleased with the result. Suffered yesterday training with James Lett so have decided to pull out of the Simon Hook, concentrating instead on the Wally Gimber.
Simon Hook, 1st March: Danny Rudd. (up against Tanner and co) James Peckham Volunteer Required A volunteer is required to organize the De Laune edition of the SERRL event. All pre-booking has been completed only requirement is management of signing in, food and marshalling. The volunteer needs to be a BCF member, preferably not a team race member as I want to get the team racing in our event. April Road Race Diary The De Laune/Evans/Specialized road team will be entering the following events in April. Any person wishing to ride in a specified event needs to contact James Peckham, 020 7847 6448 (wk), before March 17th otherwise you will need to organise your own entry. April 5th - HH Track Meet April 6th - DE LAUNE CC SERRL SEVENOAKS WEALD 2,3,4 09:30 April 12th - HH Track April 13th - SERRL Tenterden 1,2,3,4 09:30 April 18th - Good Friday Track Meet April 19th - 21st - Surrey League Easter 3 day 1,2,3 April 26th - HH Track Meet April 27th - SERRL Brenchley 2,3,4 09:30 WANTED ASAP those wanting to ride Cycle Kingdom 2 day and Easter 3 day. Clothing NEW IN De Laune POLO tops £17:50 each + P&P Summer delivery of clothing due in late March order now!! James Peckham Dear Mark. I found the website of the De Laune by chance on the Net and it has bought back many fond memories. Both my father and I were members back in the 60's when the club rooms were I believe in Nelson St in Kennington and the club had a hut at Herne Hill, we lived in Herne Hill at Half Moon Lane. My father was a club official, what I can't remember now, possibly some of your older menbers may remember him, Ron or Peter Itter. He was also in the NCU and the BCF. Looking through your website the names spring out and I remember people with great nostalgia, names too numerous to mention, some were "honoury uncles" Ken Hill Ernie, Chippendale, Wall Gimber, Denis Tarr, Brian Dacey, to name a few but I can go back to Mrs Faunce De Laune and Fred Le Gryce. My father died back in Nov 2000 but was still interested in cycling and British achievements over the years. I am glad my old club is still going strong and I shall look at the website with interest. Good luck for the future and maybe one day will visit at H-H. Best regards, Martin Itter. Mark Thanks for the reply so prompt, I was born in '48 and dad was then probably in the Dulwich Paragon, club names spring to mind 34th Nomads, Kentish Wheelers Norwood Paragon and many many more. Where are they all now I wonder? I shall look forward to the next DLN with anticipation, maybe some one may wish to contact me I am in contact with some of dads old friends that are still alive and will pass on any news from "old-timers with pleasure, mum is still alive and hold the family collection of old cycling photo's, so maybe I could scan and attach to an e-mail for publication if you are interested. Martin As far as I know the Kentish Wheelers folded some years ago, the 34th Nomads are still going strong, Dulwich Paragon (wallygimber.freeserve.co.uk) Norwood Paragon (norwoodparagon.co.uk) can be found on these web sites. And yes if you like to let me have some of your photos I would be pleased to put them in the Mag. Mark Thanks for the reply and information, I'm amazed Wally Gimber is still going, how old is he? I will contact him and tell him about Dad. I remember Wally, when I was a kid, racing at Herne Hill. He was one of the racers I used to trail round the track in the vain hope of getting some of the "magic" never did and I gave up the idea of track racing for road racing and then to my Dads dismay discovered motorised transport and never rode a bike again, shame I had hand built Holdsworths. Still my two sons, who are 31 and 25, indulge in some hard Mountain Biking and both when in the Scouts entered at County level Cyclo-cross events. Regarding photo's I talked to my Mum last night and mentioned you and the photo's. First of all she send her regards and best wishes, she remembers you well and talked a lot about you and Dad. She will dig out the photo's and so will I look through my old ones and see what I can come up with. I'll then scan them in and send them to you as an attachment to an e-mail you can then insert them in the magazine. Martin I don't know if Wally is still alive, they use his name for their Web Site.
Katie and Gary have a son James; born at just gone 3 a.m. on Thursday 20 Feb at home. He weighed in at 8 lbs - congratulations! Surfing the Web the other day, not something that I do very often I found the following. RUFUS WHEELER 25 1 Mick May SC Clarion C & AC 1:04:25
Dave as he was known to us was active in the 50s and was Club Captain, I see that he intends to do another charity ride, could we beg, borrow or steal a De Laune vest for him! This article appeared in Barclays Bank Pensioners Magazine, and sent in by another ex Barclays man Don White. It looks to me that those three guys need to lose a little weight, that not how I remember Dave, they must be spending to much time at the bar of the Conservative club, and not enough on their bikes. Ed The Memorial Clubroom Cont. Jack Young November 1970 I hope there will be other articles in this issue of the DLN, but would like to make a few points myself. It should be appreciated by now that a few, so very few, club members are giving their time and energy to this immense task of getting our new clubroom into usable edifice. Clearly many hours have been put into the hard and filthy jobs involved impartial demolition and site clearing, most of which is now completed and at long last re-development has started. While it is understood that not everybody can give time to put in an appearance at the site to 'have a go' there are many who could quite easily spare an occasional hour or two and we are going to need more help than has been forthcoming so far, especially if the work is to be completed in a reasonable time. If you cannot or will not help in the manual work so vital to conserve our available funds for purchase of materials and professional services will you please put all efforts into our scrap paper drive. Since the scheme started we have collected…………… In 1969.. £86. 1. 00 All from the sale of old newspapers and magazines, etc. It is obviously going to be vital that this source of revenue continues and if possible be stepped up to enable us to meet costs we shall incur. A FEW ITEMS OF INTEREST TO DATE Sale of lead, etc. salvaged from building £29. 02. 09 Memorial Clubromm Donations for 1969 were £74. 16. 09 CLUBROOM WORKERS Excluding the paper collection work the following have put in time and effort at the new clubroom. REGULARS Ken Fuller, Ken Hill, Graham Crocombe., Chris Chalet, Len Double, Jack Young. WELCOME OCCASIONAL WORKERS E. Carlton; F. Carlton; K. McNeilly; J. Valentine; W. Miles; M. Peel: M. Ballamy; G. Sinnet; R. McFarland: B. Shambrook: B. Saxton: B. Dacey; T. Hookings; C. Carlton; J. Sims; R. Meadows. VISITORS H.Thomas; J. Foley: G. Starsmeare; A. Starsmeare. WORKERS - BACK ROOM Chip; Don White Great tribute should be paid to Ken Fuller without whose help and guidance and know- how we should not have made a start. TODAY WE ARE VERY PROUD OF WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED EVEN IF THE PLACE STILL RESEMBLES A BOMBED SITE! EDITOR'S NOTE
PRODUCED
by MARK & JASON BALLAMY ***end***
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This
is the DANNY RUDD STORY
The season is
underway, hoorah! Danny (on left),racing in the main event, showing his
excellent form driving a 4 man break. For company Hoy (eventual winner), Baker
and Andrews, unfortunately Danny pulled out suffering the effects of flu. With
next weeks Simon Hook part of the BCF circuit series it will be good to see
Danny performing again, with a good chance of a top 10 judging by Saturdays
race.
Race Entries March:
David Griffiths, former Project Office Manager in IT, based in
Poole, to raise money for the Lewis-Manning Cancer Trusts David organised- and
participated in - a 33-mile sponsored cycle ride with three colleagues from
Westbourne Conservative club. They raised £734, including £367 from Barclays
under the £ for £ scheme, the money will go towards the care of cancer
patients. I hope to raise another substantial sum for the British Heart
Foundation, Says David.