Enjoy Your Cycling More by Joining Crawley Wheelers.

Crawley Wheelers is open to cyclists of all abilities - in Sussex , Surrey and surrounding areas, from beginners to leisure and racing cyclists. We hope you find this site useful and if you require further information or are thinking about joining our club, please do not hesitate to contact us or click HERE to Join Online now.

IMPORTANT - Have you Paid your Sub for 2010 ?

Subs for the 2010 season were due on Jan 1st. If you haven't paid yet, please do so as soon as poss. Thank you. Remember you can't compete in any Club Events until you've paid up! DO IT ONLINE NOW - see link below.
 
Renew Your Sub Online NOW by clicking HERE.
You can now pay online using our secure payment page with Comodo SSL or via PayPal. You don't need to have a PayPal account to pay on PayPal - you can use any normal credit/debit card or Amex.

Click HERE to Renew Your Subscription for 2010 NOW.... Please!  

Click HERE to Join as a NEW Member
 
Membership Rates for the 2010 Season are:
Senior: £18 - Junior: £9 - Juvenile: £7.50 - Family: £25 - Senior citizen (over 65) £9

A Membership Renewal Form  can be downloaded here. If you still haven't renewed your sub, please complete it and send to Dick Crane, Crawley Wheelers, Hurst House, Common Road, Copthorne, West Sussex, RH10 3LG. asap.
N.B.
You cannot enter club events until you've paid your sub!

Dinner & Dance and Prize Presentation 2010

The Dinner, Dance and Prize Giving went very well on Saturday evening. It was good to see so many members, partners and guests there. Please let

Rupert have any feedback. The "official" photos, taken by Steve Johnson, who very kindly gave up his evening to record the happy event, can be ordered by Clicking HERE.
 

 

Social Rides

Mark Penfold and Trevor Montague have been running a series of social rides aimed at anyone that wants to ride with other like minded people. The rides are suitable for any type of bike although we request that you do wear a helmet. The rides are usually around two to two and a half hours in duration and the speed is set according to the capabilities of the riders.  At present we are unable to accept under 18s who are not accompanied by an adult. The "official" Saturday social rides have now finished for this year although an "Unofficial" social ride is still leaving from Virgin Health Club on Crawley Leisure Park at 09:30 most Saturdays. Next Spring we hope to run the rides again, every Saturday morning.

Please contact Mark Penfold at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information or to register your interest or take a look on the Forum to check what other rides are happening during the winter.

Cyclo Cross

We promoted our first ever cyclo-cross race on Sunday 14 February using Great Walstead School as a base and a course through woodland in the surrounding area. With the exception of one racing accident the event went very well with over 140 riders competing across the categories, and the feedback we have had from riders and London League officials has been very positive. I have attached a document containing some of the feedback we received. Doug took on the majority of the organisation and I would like to thank him plus all the people who gave up their time both prior to the day and on the day itself for putting on such a professional event.
Results are on http://www.londoncyclesport.com

Despite many of our riders being on marshalling duties we managed to get one team in the race. All four riders rode strongly Doug, George Higgs, Nigel Langridge and Rich Hemsley was the order in which they finished and they took 6th place from 24 teams after riding very strongly.

Order Your Club Clothing Online

Order new club clothing now - in time for the 2010 season ...
Stewart Marshall has taken over the club clothing and will shortly be placing another order to ImpSport for Crawley Wheelers' kit. You can now place your orders online by Clicking Here  He will be ordering some extra stock of the popular items - but these usually sell out quickly so it's best to get your order in quickly - because there's a six week delivery lead time.

More Website Improvements!

The Club website continues to turn heads and is getting lots of hits! New members can now join the club online and existing members will be able to renew their membership online for 2010 via our secure payment facility ! And we also now have a Club Shop - so you can order CW kit at a discount on normal ImpSport prices. 

For those interested, the CW website now uses Quikstore e-Commerce software, (BTW, if you need e-Commerce functionality for your own company's website, this is a great product - at a really affordable price - see Quikstore.com for more info).

By registering online for a Member Login, members can have access to the Forum and contribute blogs, links and images. In the members' section we have also now implemented a Live Chat Room.

Have you tried the Forum yet? It's a great way of keeping in touch with other members and fixxing up rides, etc. If you would like to contribute something to the site or use the Forum, just click on the Register link under the CW Members Login heading and create a user login and password for yourself. I had to remove the open registration page because it just gets hacked by all and sundry. So now all new registrations have to be approved by one of the site "Moderators". It's quick and quite painless!
Dick Crane

Club Runs.

Mark Penfold and Phil Smith have updated the club runs list. Club runs start at 09:30, every Sunday morning from Virgin Health Club, Crawley Leisure Park. Check out the runs list HERE.