Due to the high numbers attending the first two beginner rides arranged over the past few weeks, it has been decided that these rides will now be held on a weekly basis, rather than monthly, for the remainder of the summer. We have been immensely encouraged as a club by the level of interest in these rides, and are grateful for the support. Thanks also to Tim Johnson and Andy Davies for coordinating and leading these rides.

Beginner rides will therefore depart from Plascrug Leisure Centre at 9.30am every Sunday morning, and the routes will be advertised beforehand under Events on the Clwb Beicio Ystwyth Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/ystwythcc/ 

This means that the club now offers three separate Sunday rides, with full details of the general pace / distance of each ride and further advice to cyclists available on the Club Rides page on our website http://www.bc-clubs.co.uk/ystwythcc/index.php/club-rides/

For those who are interested in joining the club for 2017, enabling them to buy club kit and securing local discounts, have a look at the Membership page on our website https://www.bc-clubs.co.uk/ystwythcc/index.php/membership/ 

And see you next Sunday!

For the fifth time this season, Ystwyth ladies Lois Brewer, Leah Brewer and Anita Saycell made the 200-mile round trip to Stourport-on-Severn to compete in the University of Birmingham one day stage race. Stage 1 in the morning was a 10-mile TT on a very lumpy course – Anita was the fastest YCC rider with an impressive mid 27s, Lois was just over a minute slower with Leah in the mid 29s. Stage 2 in the afternoon was a 55-minute circuit race with a field of nearly 40 women. Racing was fast and furious from the off and the field splintered into 4 groups. Leah managed to get into the 2nd group, with Lois in the 3rd and Anita in the 4th. As the race progressed, the 3rd and 4th groups joined, this larger group then worked hard for 20 minutes and finally caught Leah’s group. In the last 10 minutes, the lead group on the road lapped the now combined chasing group forming one large peloton. The last few laps were fast but the group stayed together for an impressive final sprint. Leah was the first of the YCC ladies across the line with Lois and Anita not far behind. Final times and placings are yet to be released.

Many thanks to Paul Brewer for the above report and photos.

Jon Mould o JLT Condor oedd gyntaf dros y llinell yn un o rasys lôn cynharaf y tymor, sef y Tour of the Mining Valleys, a gynhaliwyd gan Glwb Beicio Ystwyth yn Aberystwyth, Ceredigion ddydd Sul 5ed Mawrth 2017. Fe gadwodd y glaw draw am ran helaeth y ras, ond wedi cawodydd trymion yn gynnar y bore, a chyda gwynt oer yn dal i chwythu, roedd hi’n fore heriol ar y rhiwiau rhwng Aberystwyth, Pontrhydygroes a Phontarfynach.

Croesodd Mould y llinell cyn Issac Mundy o PMR@Toachim House yn yr ail safle, Edward Roberts o Team Elite yn drydydd, George Fox o Team Bottrill-HSS Hire yn bedwerydd, Daniel Bigham o Brother NRG Driverplan yn bumed a chyd-aelod o dîm JLT Condor, Ed Laverack, yn chweched, wedi i grŵp o seiclwyr dorri’n rhydd o’r peloton wrth iddynt gylchu’r cwrs am yr eildro.

Roedd y cwrs 75 milltir o hyd yn un caled, llawn rhiwiau serth, yn nodweddiadol o Geredigion. Ond mentrodd dros 60 o seiclwyr y ras drwy’r cymoedd mwyngloddio, gan ddringo’r rhiw i’r Gors deirgwaith cyn gorfod wynebu’r ddringfa filltir o hyd o Bontrhydygroes i Bontarfynach ar ddiwedd y ras. Mould enillodd y wobr am y ddringfa olaf honno, gydag Edward Roberts yn ennill y wobr am ddringo rhiw y Gors am yr eildro a Zach May o Metaltek Kuota am ei ddringo am y tro olaf.

Hoffai Clwb Beicio Ystwyth ddiolch i’r holl seiclwyr a thimau a ddaeth draw i’r gorllewin i rasio, yn ogystal ag i bawb a gynorthwyodd i gynnal y ras. Diolch hefyd i’r rhai ddaeth allan i gefnogi ar ochr y ffyrdd.