Know any South Wales Valleys Clubs ?

philspeck

Anyone know of clubs in or around the Pontypridd area? They don't have to be close, I will travel around!

I'm knew to all this and am looking for a club who are accepting of a real novice to group riding...
I cycle all the time on my own and am doing 2 events this year so far... the forest of dean spring classic and the tour of pembrokeshire, all in the run up to 6 days of cyclign and climbing in august to raise money for help4heroes

any good suggestions would be really helpful...

sub55

http://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/Default.aspx?&gv498__gvac=2&tabid=118&gv498__gvff1=17&gv498__gvfl1=8

benno68

http://www.cardiffajaxcycling.co.uk/

Sunday ride is a good place to start, usually 3 groups. Meet at Maindy Leisure Centre for 9:30. They're a good bunch of people and you're sure to find a group to suit your ability.

All the best

Ben

chrisw12

Few clubs in cardiff as suggested above but if you want to come up the valley then have a look at Acme wheelers. If you're into timetrialling then you could try us at Porth and district.

philspeck

thanks for those names
much appreciated - no doubt I'll see about going along to one of them!

prb007

If you fancy a spin on Saturday...
http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12765722

dru

Benno68 wrote:

http://www.cardiffajaxcycling.co.uk/

Sunday ride is a good place to start, usually 3 groups. Meet at Maindy Leisure Centre for 9:30. They're a good bunch of people and you're sure to find a group to suit your ability.

All the best

Ben

+1

I'm, a member of Ajax and think its great.

Sunday ride is an excellent place to start. Steady group will do 50-55 miles with a cafe stop, we regroup at tops of hills and like the marines 'leave no-one behind'

Middle and Fast groups will go longer, further but also stop at the cafe. They have a slightly different attitude and will not necessarily wait for mechanics etc etc but that is fine as people are informed of this upfront.

My recommendatino would be to go with the slow group for a few weeks, just to see how you get on, also with riding within a group etc etc.

If the pace is too slow or you think it's too easy, you can always work harder by sitting on the front for longer

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Dru

prb007

Where were you, Dru, for our charity Bwlch?rhigos trainng ride?
We eneded up doing 111m, after all was said and done :shock:
8 of us out, 16mph avg spd.

SteveR_100Milers

If you are in pontypridd then you have a good choice, the bvious is ACME wheelers, or Porth CC. Cardiff Ajax and JIF worth considering, though JIF is more race orientated. Cwmcarn is a lareg club not too far away, and of course the mighty pontypool massive !

Lazarus

I live in Pontypridd and joined Acme several years ago on the recommendation of ChrisW and have never regretted it at the moment there's a wide variety of cyclist in the club whose's interests vary from Time Trials , Road Races, Sportives and of course the stalwart cafe run group .

It's a pity i didn't notice this thread earlier because i managed to get a club run to start from pontypridd today you could have tagged along and had some fun.

http://www.acme-wheelers.co.uk