On Wednesday 17th July 2013 Colne town centre again hosted the Grand Prix cycle event.
This year's Elite Circuit Series race was won by Olympic Gold Medallist Ed Clancy of the Rapha Condor Sharp team. Fellow Olympic Gold Medallist Steven Burke, from Colne, also took part in the race along with many other top riders.
The event was filmed with highlights shown later on British Eurosport. There was also live coverage on Radio Lancashire which included an interview with Burnley and Pendle CTC club president Ian Lowock and secretary John Ramsden.
Our local CTC group had a stall, within the circuit close to the VIP area, with various information & leaflets for display and handing out.
Our club again supplied a number of volunteers to act as marshalls for the event, which earns the club a contribution from the event organisers, which this year was added to our charity fund raised in aid of the disability adapted cycles used by the Pendle 'Wheels for All' scheme.
The build up to the main event included a chopper race with Le Mans style start, chopper jousting, a parade lap by the younger members of Cycle Sport Pendle, and a support race.
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On Sunday 30th June 2013 Burnley and Pendle CTC held a Charity Ride to raise funds for the Pendle Council 'Wheels for All' Scheme. The money to be used to purchase disability adapted cycles for use with the scheme.
Wayne Bowman one of the 'Wheels for All' organisers kindly opened up the facilities at Seedhill Athletics track, where we met for the start of the ride.
58 riders took part in the event, including the 14 leaders. We had set an entry fee of £5 to take part with all of these funds going to the charity. However on the day many of the riders gave additional contributions and we collected £485. A number of the riders were also collecting sponsorship. In addition Burnley and Pendle CTC and Barlic Clarion donated their fee for providing marshals to the Colne Grand Prix.
We would like to thank ALL those that helped with the organising of the event, especially Ian Lowcock for sorting out the route, Chris Marshall for his efforts in distributing leaflets and Wayne Bowman for opening up Seedhill. We would also like to say a big thank you to Cycle Sport Pendle for their support of the event and for turning out in large numbers to ride the event.
We are considering holding a similar event next year and would welcome any comments which may help us to improve on and develop the event.
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In May my cousin Lisa's 8 year old daughter Imogen approached me, wanting to do a 25 mile cycle ride to raise funds for charity. Imogen had heard that a local family were trying to raise funds to send a young boy to America for an operation and decided she wanted to do something.
The previous year I had taken Imogen on her longest ever ride of 5 miles starting on the Padiham Greenway, and then followed that up in August with a 12 mile ride through Blackpool Illuminations.
The route I came up with was to start at Glasson Docks and then use the off road cycle path up to Lancaster across the impressive bridge and onto Morecambe for a refreshment stop on the bstone jetty before continuing north up the promenade and then back via the canal and river Lune.
Nine family members turned up for the ride, some of which had not cycled for some years, and for many this would be their longest ever ride.
The day went well and finished with an ice cream by the docks.
Imogen also did some other fund raising for the same cause baking buns and selling them at school and managed to raise a substancial chunk of money for a good cause. By John Ramsden.
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The nineth Pendle Beer Festival, organised by CAMRA the camapign for real ale, was held at Colne Muni Theatre from Thursday 31st January to Saturday 2nd February 2013.
This year Burnley and Pendle CTC sponsored a barrel of beer, called 'Pale Rider' at a cost of £40. All of this sponsorship money goes to Pendleside Hospice. The sponsorship gave us some publicity as there was a sign on the barrel, one of our cycle club tops pinned up adjacent and we put a batch of our advertising flyers on the bar.
This was a popular event, with a good number of our members attending on the Thursday evening and over the weekend. We have just received the certificate above from Pendleside Hospice as a thankyou for our sponsorship and to let us know that the event had raised £6500 towards their Hospice Charity Funds. By John Ramsden.
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Wednesday 18th July was the date for this years Colne Grand Prix, elite circuit cycle race. Our club again provided a number of volunteers to act as race marshalls, earning a contribution to our club funds from the event organisers.
There was also a support race and a two lap fun event chopper race.
By John Ramsden, with photo's supplied by Andrew Walsh.
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Sunday 29th April 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the last remaining Clarion House at Newchurch in Pendle.
The CTC has had a close association with the Clarion Clubs for many years. The Clarion House at Newchurch is staffed by volunteers, several of whom are also members of Burnley and Pendle CTC.
Burnley and Pendle CTC have used the Clarion House as a venue for previous celebrations such as the 80th Anniversary of our club back in June 2007.
We decided that we would mark the Centenary of the Clarion House by providing three guided rides, Long, Short and Extra Short, each of which would call at the venue.
Unfortuneatley the weather on the day was absolutley horrendous with very strong and cold blustery wind and torrential rain. Not surprisingly, in the circumstances, the turn out on the rides was rather low. One rider from the Extra Short and two from the short ride made it to the Clarion House, and headed straight for the open fire to dry out. The riders on the long ride didn't make it back to the Clarion, having decided to cut their ride short and head home. We were joined at the Clarion by one of our members who had walked there and two couples that had driven their. The majority of the other visitors had intended to mark the occassion by walking from nearby locations such as Barley, but due to the weather conditions had ended up catching the bus instead.
After a couple of hours drying out and several large mugs of tea while chatting to the other attendees, I put my not so waterproof layers back on for the short ride back to Burnley, at least I had the wind behind me for this last stretch. By John Ramsden. Photo by Andrew Walsh.
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Burnley and Pendle CTC, again provided marshalls for this annual town centre cycle race, which attracts a contribution from Pennine Events towards our club funds.
This year the event, which is part of the Pendle Cycle Festival, began with a light hearted two lap race on Raleigh Chopper bikes, with a Le Mans style start. The field included British Cycling President Brian Cookson, and the eventual winner and former British National Road Race Champion Rob Hayles.
The support race was won by Gary Adamsom (Team SIS) in a bunch sprint, ahead of Robert Watson (RVO Racing) and Chris Lawless (Maxgear RT).
The main event, the Elite Race, was filmed by Sky sports, and featured an early attack from local rider Ian Wilkinson (Endura), who ended up in 5thplace. Another local rider, olympic bronze medallist, Steven Burke (Team UK Youth) was to finsh 6th. However the final laps of the race were to be dominated by the Rapha Condor Sharp team, with olympic gold medallist Ed Clancy winning the race, ahead of team mates Dean Downing, Dean Wilson and Graham Briggs.
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