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DE LAUNE CYCLING CLUB FOUNDED 1889
Sponsored by EVANS CYCLES (UK) Ltd. & SPECIALIZED CYCLES
Roy Savery - Photo by kind permission of Mike Peel
October
2004
THE PRESIDENTS REPORTS First I must apologise on behalf of the committee for the letter sent to the DLN with regards to Roy Savery's weight problems. This should not have been printed and I was surprised that Mark let it go through. I know Roy was upset. I managed to stop him resigning from the club but quite rightly he has cancelled his special order for club clothing. If you should require a pair of racing shorts (the huge size) please let Stax know. What a busy month for the club. We had our first Club Triathlon championship. This was run by Harry Corbett. A full report should be in this edition. On Saturday the 11th of September we had our OMA 10 on the Ashford Road. It was not the best of days for this course but fast times were recorded. The OMA was won on age standard by Roy Savery and oh boy did he try. 1st Roy Savery +4.40 (Actual time 27.15), 2nd Malcolm Adams +4.20 (Actual time 26.40), 3rd Clif Pendleton +2.11 (Actual time 28.05). It takes the OMA 10 to get the old riders out of the woodwork. Dave Burfoot and Lenny Brown were two. Lenny, where did you get that old De Laune racing vest from? The Ark! It was good to see Clif Pendleton riding. He came all the way from Grenoble, France to ride. We went for a ride in the country lanes the day before the event and he said I am not happy riding on the left hand side of the road. Do you know as soon as he had said it; he went straight into the ditch. I could not believe it. It was also good to see our new young riders battling it out. Nathan Palmer 26.39, James King 26.44 and Sam Fensterheim 27.04. We did not have a junior prize but on this occasion we will be giving a special prize to fastest junior, Nathan. Well done. I would like to thank our timekeepers Val and Tony Peachey and our marshals Stax, Titch, John Dods and our photographer Mick Peel. (Have a look on our web site they are good shots) It was all down the pub after the event. How we squeezed in about 30 people in that back room I do not know! (See the full result in this issue) The next day in conjunction with other clubs we had our club track championships at Herne Hill. I could not attend but was told we had a good turn out with plenty of De Laune vests up front and again our young team having a go. Sunday the 19th of September. The club Autumn 25 on the Horsham/Worthing road, when I saw the result I could not believe it. We had Sam Fensterheim first with 1.0.30 and James King second with 1.1.49 but then we found out that they had missed out a section of the course. Little devils. (See racing results). Thanks to the old faithfuls for helping out - John Dods, Stax, Titch, Dave King, Nigel Scales, Little Burt and our timekeeper Mike Peel. After the event it was all down to the cafeteria for breakfast at Tescos. Do you know you can get a fried breakfast for £1.49 in this café. I wonder if they can handle a Belgium night! We all know that Nigel Scales broke his arm coming down Alp d’Huez in France and Alan Rowe came a cropper landing on his head, also in France. Now we have got James Lyon breaking his thigh in Switzerland- this has got to stop. At least when Nick Butler broke his pelvis it was in Richmond Park. Our next promotion will be the Downhill at Tilburstow Hill at Godstone at 12 noon Sunday the 3rd of Oct. I hope to make it an inter-club event with the 34th Nomads so we need all the gliders we can get. Another date for your diary is Sunday the 10th of Oct, which will be the club hill climb championship up Titsey hill, not far from Tatsfield. If you fancy your chance, this is the time to ride as our big gun Mat Goodes will not be riding as he will be flying the flag for the club elsewhere. Before I finish, half the tickets for the Belgium night have gone. Please let me know if you want to go. First come, first served. Kav. STOP PRESS In the World Vets Track Championships at Manchester Bryan Dacey has won two gold’s medals and Peter Jenn has won a bronze. Well-done lads, I hope Mark has found more information for you on the web.
Results of Questionnaire on Members views Response to the questionnaire was a little lower than expected, however I would like to thank those who did provide their views on how they would like to see the club evolve going forward to serve members needs as far as possible. The Committee were as surprised as I was with the consensus but will be actively involved over the winter , looking into how best to implement the majority’s wishes within the existing Club framework. It may not be easy - none of us knows very much about BMX , but if that’s the way you want us to go…
No – that wasn’t the conclusion, but if you were bothered by the thought and haven’t sent in your thoughts you only have yourself to blame! Obviously we never expected 100% response – but the actual number of responses was below 20%. I can understand a high level of apathy when it comes to General Elections but we’re involved in this for fun! Most of us, Committee included, probably expected the result to be largely in favour of the status quo, with desire for improvements in a few areas – and on that basis it’s easy to sit back and think your opinion won’t make a difference. The risk is that if you don’t express a view, the opinions of those who feel strongly enough about something to respond will have more clout. It’s also a way for you to make sure that the Committee bases it’s decisions on your actual interests rather than an incorrect assumption – psychic powers not being a requirement for election! To give an example, prior to analysis of the survey responses, the Committee had the impression that there was only one member interested in Cyclo-cross. In fact two members expressed interest in this discipline – 15% of respondents who expressed a view. If you haven’t responded yet, it’s not too late. The results will be kept updated as new members join and when existing members leave or just send in forms. It’s your Club – let the Committee know how you’d like to see it proceed. And so to the real results. So far 16 members have responded to the Questionnaire – thank you for taking the time to provide your input. Three older members chose not to express a view as they preferred to leave it to “active” members to determine the direction for the club. The remaining results were fairly predictable. (I’ve expressed them as percentages, despite the low “turn-out” as I’m hoping this will improve over time and it will make interpretation of the results based on a larger number of responses easier.) There was most interest in most of the traditional cycle racing events (Road 39%; Time Trial 31%; Track 31%; Hill Climb 31%; MTB 23%) and slightly less for Cyclo-cross (15%) , Triathlon (15%) and Duathlon (8%). As Triathlon/Duathlon are new ventures for the club and Cyclo-cross has always tended to be a specialist winter interest and competes a little with MTB for participants these results are not surprising, though as noted above an even lower figure was expected for Cyclo-cross. A number of members expressed interest in riding Team Time Trials and in the Club promoting one, this took the Committee a little by surprise and obviously bears further investigation. Interest was also expressed in the club continuing to promote Road Race, Track and Cyclo-cross events and 15-39% of respondents indicated willingness to marshal the various types of event. (Some were willing to help generally, others tended to link it to the events they had expressed interest in.) A couple of people were willing to help in organising events and to provide transport for members to events they were riding/involved in. Other areas where interest was shown included the Club bringing in new members and doing more to attract young riders and help them progress (something the Committee was already conscious of needing to focus on). Other suggestions included organising participation in Audax/Mini Gran Fondo events, an annual club championship awards dinner and the Club organising outings to cycling/non-cycling events. The above results were discussed briefly at the September Committee meeting. The results were, generally, not too far off the expected outcome but did highlight some areas where we need to think a little about what can practically be done. As I said earlier, it’s not too late to send in your views. Nigel Scales Hello this is Alan Rowe You all probably know by now about my unfortunate accident in France so I will not bore you anymore with the details, but I would like to say how my limited season went for me before the accident. First of all I rode the West Kent RC 10ml. on the Harrietsham course and did a rather poor time of 25:39, but I won the over sixties first prize. Secondly I rode the GS Invicta 10ml. On the same course and improved to a 24:29 not very impressive yet but I won another over sixties first prize. Then I rode a further 10ml. on the same course and improved yet again with a near personal best for this course of 24:03 (PB for the course is 23:58) and yet another vets prize for first on age standard. Then I moved up to the Eastern Counties Course E2/10 which was used for the National champs about 4yrs, ago, it was the Shaftesbury RC 10 and I was off at 18:45 a very good course and I got to within my all time PB by 12secs and did 22:57 no prize this time but hey I was pleased with the time. The last event I rode before falling off was the Wigmore 25 on the Brenzett/Ashford course, a course I do not like too much my best on there is 1:03:15 but this year I did 1:03:24, so I was looking to have a good season and had big plans if things went well, well they didn’t did they so I will have to wait until next year now. I would like to thank all the club members who visited me in hospital here and in France, and for all the cards and inquiries about my progress; it really helped my progress to know how much people were thinking of me. I would like to say a special thanks to two club members who helped in other ways, first our president John KAV Kavanagh and Malcolm Adams for retrieving my bike from the kind French lady in France who offered to look after it, and also for Linda & Malcolm along with My wife Jean and a CCCP clubman Phil Puttick who made over 100 telephone calls in trying to get me back in England and informing people of my progress. Thank you all hope to see you at the forthcoming Belgium night.
ALL THE RACING RESULTS The Bank Holiday Southend Crits held on August 30 at Eastway Cycle Circuit, London LVRC
cat F WLCA 10 18th September
2004 Southern XC Series R6 5th September
OMA 10 result 11th September
Roy Savery takes the Vets record for his efforts beating John Giles' standard time by 23sec.
SEEN AT THE START OF THE O.M.A. “10”  BRIAN SAXTON SEEMS TO HAVE FOUND HIS VOCATION AT LAST NEW BROOM SWEEPS CLEAN
Autumn 25 - 19 September 2004
Roy Savery beat John Giles' age standard record of 1.13.08 for a 68 year old - 3 GONGS in 8 days can't be bad!
DE LAUNE TRIATHLON CHAMPIONSHIP
SWIM 426 metres – BIKE 21 km. – RUN 5 km. The overall winner by 10seconds was Geoff Heaton, the reason he was a little quicker than Sam Baxandale was his swimming is more competent. Although I took a wrong turn on the run and went an extra 800 metres I would have still been third of the three of us. This was a great sunny morning at this well organised event and all three of us and two hundred plus of the others competing had a good race. I think Sam and Geoff show signs of having a more dynamic and successful second season. It was a shame Rupert was unavailable due to holiday commitments. Harry Corbett
Dacey roles back years 15-09-04
VETERAN CYCLE STAR GOES IN SEARCH OF EVEN MORE GLORY AT a time of year when most over-65s would be relaxing in the garden or perhaps enjoying a round of golf or a game of bowls, Brian Dacey has been on a racing cycle putting in the miles in races and time-trials on the roads of southern England or lapping the track at the Herne Hill Velodrome. Dacey is a multiple cycling track-racing world champion and will be defending his world age-group titles this week in the World Masters over-30s Championships at the Manchester Velodrome, where Britain's successful Olympic team trained. He was a successful racer back in the Sixties, winning road-races and road time-trials, as well as track races before retiring from the sport. Dacey did most of his track racing at Crystal Palace and it was there that he won many big events, including the King of the Palace title in 1967. However, Dacey was inspired to make a comeback in 2001 after helping at the World Masters Championships. Dacey said: "Cycling is very tough and it took time before my body readjusted properly to the demands of the sport and he really started to get results." In October 2002, he competed in the World Masters Games in Melbourne, Australia an event held four yearly representing more than 20 sports with in excess of 25,000 competitors and unofficially known as the "Masters Olympics". He rode in all the cycling events four on the velodrome, plus the road-race, criterium and time-trial in the 60-64 age group with a best placing of fourth, being beaten in the bronze medal ride-off in the pursuit by the reigning world champion. Dacey, who has spent much of is life living in south-east London, also made it to the sprint final with four other riders two Australians, an American and a German all of whom were either current or past World Masters Champions. He finished fifth, but was still pleased with this result in his second year of competition. Dacey added: "My enduring memory of the World Masters Games is of three Australian riders tearing round the velodrome in fierce competition, who were born within three months of each other in 1920!" Wins on the purpose-built Eastway Road racing circuit in east London for Dacey, were followed in May 2003 by an outstanding performance in the British Masters National Track Championships. Here he won the gold medals in the 65-69 year old age group of all five events 2,000 metres pursuit, 750-metre sprint, 500-metre time-trial, 10km points race and 10km scratch race. In July of last year, he showed his all-round ability by winning the National Masters Road Race Championship for the 65-69 age group over a 100km course. Then, last September, Dacey went a stage further, winning gold medals in the pursuit and the points race, as well as bronze in the sprint, at the World Masters Track Champ-ionships, also held at Manchester Velodrome. His campaign to defend his titles in this year's World Masters Track Championships has gone well. He added: "I had a number of victories in road races at Eastway and elsewhere and a good performance in June at this year's British Masters National Track Championships, where I retained my sprint, points race and scratch-race titles." Dacey also took silver in the pursuit covering the 2,000 metres in 2 minutes 47.399 seconds, just 2.210secs slower than the winner, and another silver in the 500-metre time-trial where his time of 41.031 was only 0.118 seconds behind the gold medal winner. The icing on the cake was his Streatham-based club-mate Peter Jenn taking the pursuit gold medal in the 60-64 year-old category. Jenn will also be riding at the World Championships so Dacey will have a De Laune club-mate for company in Manchester. De Laune CC is a cycling club originally founded in 1889, with its headquarters now at Herne Hill Velodrome in south-east London. It has members active in road and track racing, time-trials, mountain bike racing, cyclo-cross, and triathlon. Although south-east London is its home, members are spread across the capital and the south-eastern boroughs. More details can be found on the website at: www.delaunecc.org Mens Pursuit 60 – 64 Denis Fahey of Australia claimed the Gold medal when he completed the distance in 2.30.811 minutes. The Silver medal was won by Graham Webb of Great Britain when he crossed the finish line in 2.39.859 minutes. PETER JENN, also from Great Britain, achieved the Bronze medal by completing the distance in 2.43.105 minutes. Mens Points Race 60 – 65 The 65-69 Men's Points race was won by Brian Dacey of Great Britain when he scored 18 points and completed the race in 14.24.635 minutes. The Silver medal was won by Luigi Fabbri of Uruguay with a score of 12 points. Roland Crayford of Great Britain scored 8 points to take the Bronze medal.
Mens Pursuit 65 - 69
The 65-69 Pursuit was won by Brian Dacey of Great Britain when he crossed the line in 2.38.999 minutes. The Silver medal was claimed by Roland Crayford of Great Britain with a time of 2.43.241 minutes. The Bronze medal was won by Victor Possee.
NOTICE BOARD
From:
Harma Hill To the De Laune CC: Just read your site, familiar faces and names. I was never a member but always had a lot of respect for the De Laune. Alan Jackson who picked me up from my home quite a few times the summer of 1956 to the 'coast and back' I sure picked up a lot from Alan. Racing with Brian in Switzerland and Germany. And Brian, remember the GP Paris with Roy Lockyer as our manager? John G, are you out on the bike....? many more and of course the ex KW John D. Greetings from Vancouver. Ex KW, Norman Hill Congratulations! 
Just to let you know that Tracey had a baby boy, Angus 9lbs 1/2oz, at home on
Thursday morning 26th August at 1:45am.
DATES TO REMEMBER
PRODUCED
by MARK & JASON BALLAMY ***end***
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