Parent/Guardian README.

The Parent/Guardian readme file… The aim of this short note is to let you know of some ways that you can help us to make Saturday sessions run smoother and hopefully increase the time that your child spends cycling and reduce waiting time. For many, most of these points are familiar Read more…

Chapeau (2)

And a SECOND excuse to use my picture of a hat! Lewis Stewart has been picked to represent Scotland at the Sainsbury School Games in the track team in September and Innes Johnston is the reserve for the team. Also Lewis has been selected for the Inter regional road team Read more…

Chapeau

We are delighted to be able to congratulate ex- Glasgow Riderz member Jack Carlin on his podium finish yesterday. Chapeau Sir.   https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/article/20150714-Home-Page-Great-Britain-take-their-first-medal-in-the-UEC-Under-23-and-Junior-European-Track-Championships-in-Athens-0      

British Telecom

We are delighted to announce that BT have become a supporter of the club by providing a  significant donation towards coach training. The training of coaches, both initial and ongoing, is vital to the continued success of the club and we are delighted to receive this generous support.

On entering races.

There are 2 excellent articles here on entering races – both found on the West Lothian Clarions website. Thoroughly recommended reading, especially if you are thinking of entering your first race this year. http://www.westlothianclarion.co.uk/entrycrit.html http://www.westlothianclarion.co.uk/entrymtb.html    

Club Calendar.

There was a discussion at the AGM this year about how to encourage members to use the British Cycling club calendar for booking – this is incredibly useful for the club when it comes to making sure we have enough coaches in the right place at the right time. (We have Read more…

Coaching Guidelines.

Happy New Year! We’ve added British Cycling’s Coaching Guidelines to the resources page which includes a great summary of the cycle coaching – not just for the coaches but for parents too.  (If you can call a 76 page document a summary). Resources Page Coaching Guidelines

Thank You.

A big thanks to The Sports Council of Glasgow for their continued support of the Club. We have just received a grant from them to cover our recent purchase 3 sets of Rollers.

Hotdog Party!

The Club will run its final Saturday session on Saturday (22 November) at Nether Pollock playing fields, as a mixed club Funday, 10-12. There will be 3 skills bases- Water bottle pick up, Skinnies & slalom followed by a race gridded by kids’ actual skills. We will not to run a Read more…