Latest News : Roabie Robertson 10
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- 2010-09-01 22:26:26
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Just to show that St. Christies kept the best till last, there were some great times by club memebers who rode this event.
The 10 took place down at Westferry and a perfect evening saw some very happy riders at the finish.
Andy Wilson was the first club rider back with an almighty 25.25, yes that's right I said 25.25. Mike Devlin also did a 26.49 not bad considering he's 70 next year. Last but not least was Colin Meikle with a fantastic 24.27. Well done to all riders, that just leaves you all to participate in the Freuchie 50 to decide the club champion.
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| 36 | Wed, Sep 1st 2010, 22:26 | Roabie Robertson 10 |
Just to show that St. Christies kept the best till last, there were some great times by club memebers who rode this event. The 10 took place down at Westferry and a perfect evening saw some very happy riders at the finish. Andy Wilson was the first club rider back with an almighty 25.25, yes that's right I said 25.25. Mike Devlin also did a 26.49 not bad considering he's 70 next year. Last but not least was Colin Meikle with a fantastic 24.27. Well done to all riders, that just leaves you all to participate in the Freuchie 50 to decide the club champion. |
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| 35 | Mon, Aug 30th 2010, 20:22 | Meeting |
Just a quick run through of the meeting held on Thursday 26th August 1. Hill climb moved to 10th October 2. Glenmarnock 10 on 19th September, club riders welcome to support their event seeing they support ours. 3. Proposed ride and lunch to celbrate 75 years, full details to folllow. 4. Web pages that need to be filled ie club history etc to be completed
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| 34 | Wed, Aug 18th 2010, 18:38 | Club Meeting |
There is a club meeting scheduled for Thursday 26th August. The venue is the Auldhouse Arms at 7.30pm and topics will be the 75th Anniversary run and lunch/dinner. Also the filling in of the blank web pages and whatever else arises. Hope to see you all there |
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| 33 | Wed, Aug 18th 2010, 18:31 | Club Meeting |
Friends, Romans, Club members lend me your ear. There is a club meeting on Thursday 26th August at the Auldhouse Arms. The time is 7.30pm and the topics we need to resolve include, 75th Annversary run and lunch/dinner and the dishing out of tasks to fill the web pages up. Of course any other business that pops up. ndY Wilson has promised to pick up the tab.......only kiddin' Hope to see you all there |
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| 32 | Thu, Aug 5th 2010, 13:47 | Andy was robbed | Well Done to Andy Wilson who was robbed of a prize at the Stirling Wheelers 10 TT on Wednesday night. Andy done a great ride in very windy conditions and should of came 1st in his category however they forgot to subtract Andy's start time from his finishing time, therefore adding 3 minutes. It was all sorted in the end but only after everyone had left! | View Edit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 31 | Thu, Aug 5th 2010, 13:30 | St Chris and the 3 Ferries A Fairy Tale | Read all about the latest Club Run Here View There are also a few pictures in the Gallery Gallery You'll notice that Vince is missing in the Club Run picture, if you want to see what he was up to look in Vince's Gallery | View Edit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 | Wed, Aug 4th 2010, 20:25 | 100 Mile TT Scottish Championship |
A big congatulations to the club's only representative in the 100 mile TT championships. Derek McMillan flew the flag for St. Christophers and did us proud. His time of 4 hours 31 minutes and 8 seconds was good enough for 14th spot, not bad considering it was his first attempt. Well done Derek, the weekly Tuesday night TT will just be a doddle now!!! |
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| 29 | Wed, Aug 4th 2010, 13:23 | St Chris and the 3 Ferries A Fairy Tale |
Why the frog I hear you, say… read on.
The purple clad of the St Chris were out in force round the roads of Argyll at the weekend, participating in the Club’s Sunday run round the 3-ferries. Ten bleary-eyed individuals arrived at the Car Park on the Clyde Coast early and eager to start the day’s adventure. In classic T de F style the first crash of the day occurred early on, in the Car Park. Simon went down hard, seconds after getting out of his car – let’s put it down to sheer exhaustion with the long drive and early start!
The bunch set off up the road to the first ferry, creating a ‘purple haze’ in their wake. Such was the early pace set we got the 9 am ferry over to Dunoon – then the fun began.
The bunch were together setting a good pace up Loch Eck, with only a slight drizzle in their face – I think it was actually the sweat from Colin G’s brow as he tried to hold in the first of his frequent toilet stops (old age catching up). It was not long before the lone-attacks started with Colin M doing his usual breakaways. This was the start of what was to become a game of cat and mouse, with the rest of us acting as the mouse – teasing Colin to chase, an especially interesting game played by Jim.
Just after Strachur, the bunch split, with Dave and Robert heading down Glendaruel to catch the earlier ferry over to Bute – all this so they could get first choice of the extremely large cakes on offer at the café stop (their cunning plan worked).
The bunch split again on the road to Otter Ferry, with the fast pace set by Colin M, whilst weak bladder-boy Colin G’s stops were becoming even more frequent. Eventually, the bunch regrouped just as we started to head back inland over the first and only major climb of the day – up and over the 1,000 feet climb of the Cruach na Tarbh (locally known as road to the frog).
The climb started in the usual manor, Colin M and Simon setting the initial pace, with Mandy and Andy bring up the rear. Andy did the gentlemanly thing, and eventually dropped Mandy as she continued over the climb and into her own fairy tale… In most such tales, the princess kisses the frog, but not our quiet, clean-mouthed Mandy. As a frog lay sunning itself by the side of the road, Mandy hit the poor thing with the ‘Boak’ – yep you heard right.
The bunch was together again, on the way to Colintraive, Jim was now in his element playing cat and mouse again. However, the game was brought to an abrupt end with Colin G heading off with a mile to go.
With the bunch heading over to the café in Bute, the lure of cakes was just too much for some, and the field was split again, chasing down those trying to get some early training for the club’s downhill event.
After the lunch stop, the bunch split with six heading round the Island on a 20 mile run to the ferry and the rest heading back to Rothesay, bow-legged and full bellied. The headwind picked-up on the road from Kingarth to Rothesay and the six were split in to groups of two ‘the sprinter and his lead-out man’. The last sprint of the day came between Andy, Jim, and three wee kids on their BMX’s. Jim feeling brave took them on just as we pulled round Bogany Point; it looked closer than Cav at the finish line. Jim using his head like any good lead-out man (Renshaw came to my mind, but plastic came to theirs) was determined to win. Unfortunately, there was no photo finish… but Jim’s up in court on Friday!
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| 28 | Mon, Aug 2nd 2010, 10:49 | Club Confined 10 | The club confined 10 will be on Thursday 12 August. First man/lady off at 7.30. It will be the unofficial A77 course i.e. meeting point at the layby on the a77 about 2 miles north of the Eaglesham turn off. Fingers crossed for some good weather . | View Edit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 27 | Thu, Jul 29th 2010, 17:22 | Return to the Normal Tues Course |
The Red Road has been repaired, it's not perfect but it should allow the Tuesday night TT to return to it's "normal" route, i.e. along to the Strathaven road. For anyone new or anyone who may be consufed the route can be found here, just zoom out to see the course |
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| 26 | Wed, Jul 7th 2010, 13:16 | 3 Ferries Club Run | Just a reminder that the next Sunday run will be on 1st Aug. This will be the 3 ferries run. 3 Ferries with Cafe stop on Bute, Ettrick Bay. There is a shorter version for those not wanting to do 60+ mls. Starting at Wemyss Bay area. Colin will update the forum with start time etc. | View Edit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 25 | Thu, Jun 3rd 2010, 09:51 | Regular Friday night run | We plan to start up a regular Friday night run. The meeting point will be on the Strathaven Road at the top of the hill past the Auldhouse junction (i.e at the junction for the back road to Chapelton it's about 1 mile before Chapelton). First run will be on the 4 th June | View Edit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | Thu, Jun 3rd 2010, 09:37 | Willie raffery Results | Thank you to everyone who took part in the Willie Rafferty Memorial. Well done to Iain Mcleod (pictured here) for winning the trophy for the second year running The results can be viewed here Willie Rafferty results Pictures form the event can be found in our Gallery, select open_10_2010 Gallery | View Edit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | Thu, Jun 3rd 2010, 09:31 | Willie raffery Results |
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| 22 | Mon, May 31st 2010, 15:21 | WILLIE RAFFERTY MEMORIAL START SHEET |
WILLIE RAFFERTY MEMORIAL 10 ST. CHRISTOPHER’S CC JUNE 2ND A77 Entries avaiable on the line but please be there earily (before 6.30 if you want to enter on the day) HQ: Fairweather Hall, in Newton Mearns, just beside the ASDA car park, First man off 7.30 START SHEET
FOLLOWING RIDERS HAVE A START NUMBERS TO BE ALLOCATED, DUNCAN MCINTYRE GLASGOW NIGHTINGALE, CRAIG DICK GLAS WHEELERS, GEORGE ROBERTS VC GLAS SOUTH AND MIR SADIQ WEST LOTHAIN CLARION
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| 21 | Wed, May 19th 2010, 21:32 | Gallery now functioning | The Gallery has been up and running for a few weeks now. This is now fully functional and club members can now upload their own pictures. You can access the gallery from the link on the Home Page. | View Edit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | Thu, May 13th 2010, 17:02 | CLUB MEETING |
A meeting has been arranged to discuss the club's 75th Anniversary celebrations and also to go through the Willie Rafferty memorial open 10. The meeting will be held at the Auldhouse Arms this coming Monday evening 17th, time 7.30pm. All are welcome to attend. |
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| 19 | Mon, May 10th 2010, 18:57 | Willie Rafferty Memorial 10TT |
It's that time of year again, on the Wednesday the 2nd June we will be holding the Willie Rafferty Memorial 10TT on the ever popular A77 course. All right, its not the most popular course in the world, but I think you will agree the purvey after it has to be one of the best. As this is the clubs 75th Anniversary, included in the prize list will be a £75 prize for the course record being broken, 19.56. The event starts at 7.30 and the cost is £9. |
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| 18 | Sun, Apr 25th 2010, 16:48 | VC South 2 up, 17th April 2010 |
Two riders from the club, David Turner and Jim McAneny rode this recent event at West Ferry. Around 25 teams took part. The first half was hard going with a stiff breeze in your face most of the way. Once the turn was reached however everyone got a flyer. David and Jin's time was 28.49. Not bad considering the conditions and this was their first attempt. |
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| 17 | Thu, Apr 22nd 2010, 21:33 | Auldhouse Results for Tuesday 20th |
You can view the results for the first Auldhosue League Event here |
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Why the frog I hear you, say… read on.
The purple clad of the St Chris were out in force round the roads of Argyll at the weekend, participating in the Club’s Sunday run round the 3-ferries. Ten bleary-eyed individuals arrived at the Car Park on the Clyde Coast early and eager to start the day’s adventure. In classic T de F style the first crash of the day occurred early on, in the Car Park. Simon went down hard, seconds after getting out of his car – let’s put it down to sheer exhaustion with the long drive and early start!
The bunch set off up the road to the first ferry, creating a ‘purple haze’ in their wake. Such was the early pace set we got the 9 am ferry over to Dunoon – then the fun began.
The bunch were together setting a good pace up Loch Eck, with only a slight drizzle in their face – I think it was actually the sweat from Colin G’s brow as he tried to hold in the first of his frequent toilet stops (old age catching up). It was not long before the lone-attacks started with Colin M doing his usual breakaways. This was the start of what was to become a game of cat and mouse, with the rest of us acting as the mouse – teasing Colin to chase, an especially interesting game played by Jim.
Just after Strachur, the bunch split, with Dave and Robert heading down Glendaruel to catch the earlier ferry over to Bute – all this so they could get first choice of the extremely large cakes on offer at the café stop (their cunning plan worked).
The bunch split again on the road to Otter Ferry, with the fast pace set by Colin M, whilst weak bladder-boy Colin G’s stops were becoming even more frequent. Eventually, the bunch regrouped just as we started to head back inland over the first and only major climb of the day – up and over the 1,000 feet climb of the Cruach na Tarbh (locally known as road to the frog).
The climb started in the usual manor, Colin M and Simon setting the initial pace, with Mandy and Andy bring up the rear. Andy did the gentlemanly thing, and eventually dropped Mandy as she continued over the climb and into her own fairy tale… In most such tales, the princess kisses the frog, but not our quiet, clean-mouthed Mandy. As a frog lay sunning itself by the side of the road, Mandy hit the poor thing with the ‘Boak’ – yep you heard right.
The bunch was together again, on the way to Colintraive, Jim was now in his element playing cat and mouse again. However, the game was brought to an abrupt end with Colin G heading off with a mile to go.
With the bunch heading over to the café in Bute, the lure of cakes was just too much for some, and the field was split again, chasing down those trying to get some early training for the club’s downhill event.
After the lunch stop, the bunch split with six heading round the Island on a 20 mile run to the ferry and the rest heading back to Rothesay, bow-legged and full bellied. The headwind picked-up on the road from Kingarth to Rothesay and the six were split in to groups of two ‘the sprinter and his lead-out man’. The last sprint of the day came between Andy, Jim, and three wee kids on their BMX’s. Jim feeling brave took them on just as we pulled round Bogany Point; it looked closer than Cav at the finish line. Jim using his head like any good lead-out man (Renshaw came to my mind, but plastic came to theirs) was determined to win. Unfortunately, there was no photo finish… but Jim’s up in court on Friday!