Time Trials

2nd Time trial of the year- Loch eil 10…

Results from tonight’s TT. Well done to all who turned out on a lovely evening. Many thanks to Andy and Marian for organising. The next time Trial is the Laggan Dam TT on the 27th of May ( starting in Roy Bridge)

  1. Donald Paterson 22:49
  2. Oli Warlow 24:44
  3. Alastair Maclennan 24:50
  4. Henry Cairns 25:51
  5. Iona Hamilton 26:13
  6. Steve Gilbert 26:18
  7. Bronagh Wishart 27:53
  8. Andrew Moss 28:59
  9. Non Williams 29:58
  10. Ivan Doherty 30:50
  11. Emma Pearce 34:45
Committee Minutes

Minutes of Committee meeting -24/04/25

West Highland Wheelers Committee Meeting Tuesday 24th April 2025

  1. Present
    Gregor Muir, Norman Clark, Dave Parfitt, Jacqui Parfitt, Steve Bradley, Claire Abernethy, Gill Barnes
  2. Apologies – Mark Clark, Marian Austin, Karl Bungey Henry Cairns
  3. Minutes of Last meeting
    Wed nights
  • Henry to put Achaderry onto the rota .. liaise with Ruari
  • option of social ride followed by a drink in Glen Nevis/ Nevis Range occasionally
  • 2 evenings a month at Nevis Range to encourage more folk plus 1 Erracht then fourth at
    harder venue
    Time Trials
    Started, schedule planned and on website, plenty of folk turned up for 1st
    Winter league
  • Lance has offered to take over coordinating league and is liaising with Marian
    -Kids races have been poorly attended (apart from Barcaldine) so plan to stop these at present
    Kids Club
    planning on races as part of club
    starts back 3rd May
    GM pumptrack
  • SC assisting with intro races at the pumptrack. Offered to organise 1st one and provide
    timing kit
  • 1st one planned for potentially Saturday 17th May but may be running out of time to
    organise. GM to liaise with Scottish Cycling
  • Bobble hats and buffs as prizes CK to check numbers
    4 Gazebo
    New gazebo arrived, £592.99 larger than previous .. 4.5 x 3m , LSA funded 50% (£296)
    order new pack of sides action DP
  1. Level 2 Assessments
    Got 4 dates from Jules Tansy can do any, Robbie can do none, still waiting to hear back from
    Es and Shaun. If cant get a date fixed people will need to book independently
    If date fixed will request funding from LSA
  2. Shed maintenance

DP no opportunity to speak with NR about High Wire shed. Park Run also enquiring. If no
progress need to set date for shed maintenance party DL/DP

  1. AOCB
  • SB struggling to get volunteers to help at Laggan. Had tried to get involved with Badenoch
    and Strathspey but not progressing so currently liaising with Lochaber Trail Association
    regarding the possibility of operating under their MOU (Memorandum of Understanding)
  • CAK could DP talk to Nicky about the outstanding uplifts .. 2 possibly 3 still to take. If Blue
    Doon not opening could they offer something else.
  • DP still waiting to hear back from Lewis re SC providing a coach for the leaders
  1. Treasurers Report £11750 in bank account

8 Date of Next Meeting

Time Trials

1st time trial of the year – commando memorial…

Lovely evening for a time trial! Many thanks to Emma for organising it all!

Well done everyone. There were some great times.

Thanks to Ailsa and Ian for marshalling, and Andy and Henry helping Emma with the results.

Commando memorial results-

1. Donald P 44.00

2. Gary M 44.17

3. Alistair M 47.53

4. Jamie G 48.46

5. Oli W 49.43

6. Henry C 50.09

7. Neil W 50.54

8. George O 54.09

9. Steve G 56.54

10. Andrew M 58.28

11. Andy R 61.56

12. Gill B 67.01

13. Emma P 72.50

Next TT is Loch Eil 10 Tuesday 13th May.

Winter League

fINAL WINTER LEAGUE – WOLFTRAX 06/04/25

Well done to everyone who attended the final winter league round today at Laggan Wolftrax Centre. Thanks to Wolftrax for allowing us to run our race there and thanks to Lance Marshall for organising.
The junior race was won by Archie Rodgers with Correy Harper taking 2nd in his debut race
Results of the main race below
1 Alastair Maclennan 34.441st e bike
2 Liam Moynihan 39.49 1st male
3 Stewart MacMillan 42.11 2nd e bike
4 James Shirley 44.35 2nd male
5 James Tedham 50.17 3rd male
6 Scott Rodger 50.21 4th male
7 Lily Cant 50.42 1st female (and 1st U18)
8 John Landale 51.48 3rd ebike
9 Lewis Brady 55.30 5th male
10 Robbie Cant 57.15 6th male
11 Zeemon Erhardt 1.00.58 7th male
12 Isla Cant 1.01.02 2nd female (U18)
13 Ivan Doherty 1.05.17 8th male
14 Henry Cairns 1.06.27 9th male
15 Rebecca McCritchie 1.09.20 3rd female
16 Andy Rogers 1.21.09 10th male
17 Marian Austin 1.24.46 4th female
dnf John Shirley
The overall league was won by Gary MacDonald, with Alastair Maclennan taking 1st ebike and Isla Cant taking 1st female.
Many thanks to Marian Austin for organising the series again this year. Thank you to Jacqui for doing the timing (and baking) at pretty much all of the races.
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Winter League

wINTER lEAGUE round 6 – achaderry estate 16/03/25

Thanks to Ruari Watt for organing a great race today at Achaderry. Huge thanks to Jim Simms and the Simms Family for permission and support, Marian for rounding up the troops, Jacqui for parking and café, Daniel for timing, Es, Norman Nix, Steve and Andrew for marshalling, Stewart and John Shirley for course marking.

The last race of this year’s Winter League is at Wolftrax on the 6th of April.

Results below (categorys e bike, male, female,) “J” denotes junior rider

1 Alastair Maclennan – 5 laps – 1.08.41 1st E bike

2 AJ Macdonald – 5 laps – 1.10.41 2nd E Bike

3 Gregor Muir – 4 laps – 1.01.20 3rd E Bike

4 Stewart Macmillan – 4 laps – 1.08.48 4th E Bike

5 Liam Moynihan – 4 laps – 1.08.48 1st male

6 James Shirley – 4 laps – 1.08.50 2nd male

7 James Tedham – 4 laps –1.21.53 3rd male

8 Aaron Tresidder – 3 laps – 1.01.10 4th male (J)

9 Lily Cant – 3 laps – 1.01.40 1st female (J)

10 Doug Little – 3 laps – 1.03.00 5th E bike

11 Ben Miller – 3 laps – 1.03.40 5th male

12 Neil Wright – 3 laps 1.08.05 6th male

13 Isla Cant – 3 laps – 1.08.10 2nd female (J)

14 Robbie Cant – 3 laps – 1.09.35 7th male

15 Iona Hamilton – 3 laps – 1.12.00 3rd female

16 John Shirley – 3 laps – 1.15.52 8th male

17 Zeemon Erhardt – 3 laps – 1.16.43 9th male

18 Foss – 3 laps – 1.18.33 10th male

19 Ivan Doherty – 3 laps – 1.22.23 11th male

20 Rebecca McRitchie – 3 laps – 1.22.17 4th female

21 Finn Watt – 3 laps – 1.26.17 12th male (J)

22 Scott Rodgers – 2 laps – 49.45 13th male ( Youth Patrol sweeper)

23 Andy Rogers – 2 laps – 1.00.05 14th male

24 Marian Austin – 2 laps 10.10.17 5th female

Well done to the younger age kids who raced 1 lap of the course ..

1 Kai Tresidder – 23.20 (plus a second lap for fun!) 1st kids

2 Alastair Cant – 27.40 2nd Kids

3 Archie Rodgers – 27.42 3rd Kids

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Winter League

WINTER LEAGUE ROUND 5 – sUTHERLANDS gROVE 02/03/25

Many thanks to North Argyll Cycling Club for organising a great day of racing for both adults and kids in Sutherland’s Grove. It was great to see riders of all ages having a great time!

The adults race had some really close racing with Gary getting away from Matiss on the technical sections to take the win. Lily was the first woman and youth to finish after a close race with Aaron. The E-bike race was almost inseparable with Barry finally gaining a few seconds from the e-bike novice racer Gregor on the last descent.

The next race is at Achaderry Estate on the 16th of March.

Place Bib Name Category Gender Lap times Finish time   Difference   % back   % winning time   % average time   % median time   Start time  
1 8 Barry Ferguson E-Bike M 43:55.8 –
2 62 Gregor Muir E-Bike M 44:04.3 +0:08.5
3 56 Stuart MacMillan E-Bike M 47:59.3 +4:03.5
4 3 Paul Bailey E-Bike M 48:54.2 +4:58.4
5 4 Gary MacDonald Bike M 49:24.9 +5:29.1
6 5 John Landale E-Bike M 51:17.1 +7:21.3
7 1 Matiss Robertson Bike M 51:52.8 +7:57.0
8 51 Donald Paterson Bike M 55:41.9 +11:46.1
9 7 George Gage Bike M 57:29.8 +13:34.0
10 54 Lily Cant Bike F 58:57.1 +15:01.3
11 11 Ben Miller Bike M 59:22.7 +15:26.9
12 65 Aaron Tressider Bike M 1:00:52.8 +16:57.0
13 53 Ben Dignan Bike M 1:02:03.6 +18:07.8
14 2 Steven Groom Bike M 1:02:04.8 +18:09.0
15 6 Kris Rancevs Bike M 1:05:20.6 +21:24.8
16 60 Robbie Cant Bike M 1:06:55.5 +22:59.7
17 64 Ian Clunie Bike M 1:09:31.8 +25:36.0
18 55 Isla Cant Bike F 1:10:36.1 +26:40.3
19 13 Rebecca McRitchie Bike F 1:12:53.3 +28:57.5
20 12 Robert Wilson Bike M 1:13:56.6 +30:00.8
21 9 Liam Orr Bike M 1:15:54.5 +31:58.7
22 61 Nicola Foster Bike F 1:17:37.6 +33:41.8
23 58 Andy Rogers Bike M 1:30:19.9 +46:24.1
24 10 Rory Dowd Bike M -1 lap –
25 57 Adam Richards Bike M -1 lap –
26 63 Benita Hensman-Martin Bike F -1 lap –
27 50 Martin George Bike M -1 lap –
28 52 Scott Michie Bike M -1 lap –
29 59 Marian Austin Bike F -1 lap  

 

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Committee Minutes

minutes of committee meeting 11/02/2025

West Highland Wheelers Committee Meeting Tuesday 11th Feb 2025

1. Present

Gregor Muir, Henry Cairns, Norman Clark, Marian Austin, Dave Parfitt, Jacqui Parfitt

2. Apologies – Steve Bradley, Claire Abernethy, Mark Clark

3. Minutes of Last meeting

Wed nights

– Date tbc for Weds evening ride at Achaderry in the spring, Ruari Watt liaising

Winter league

– No one has volunteered to take over from Marian as coordinator yet

– NACC S. Grove 2nd March – kids race tbc (Sam Wood)

– 16th March Achaderry then Wolftrax 6 April – potential prize giving (last one) – Lance org. permissions in place

Kids Club

– Potential start after Feb half-term tbc…

– NR funded uplift days can’t convert to coached days …potentially 2 days…ask again in the Spring…

3. Replacement gazebo leg

– we think it’s been done by CW

MA BC affiliation all done

– BC dashboard management changing but unlikely to affect us much

GM pumptrack

– Chris doing intro 17th Feb (Adult) 6:30pm – 8pm

– Annual maintenance done

– Spring Jam 28th Feb (everyone) bikes, ramps, music

– Adaptive sessions for summer

– Action GM chase school/Eric Groat about adaptive bike sessions

MA Neil at Scottish cycling has changed job, Lewis is now contact, Dave has spoken to him already. Marian has not had response from MW re races so it was agreed we would look to organize kids race as part of a North series. DP to liase with Lewis re SC involvement and to see if Neil already had a plan in place for this?

4 Gazebo and Flasks

– New gazebo NC to find details of last one ? LSA funding DP

– New catering flasks x 2 JP

5. Level 2 Assessments and 1st aid

– Anna Trafford has done 1st Aid

– KB Organizing another course in October tbc KB to inform club when date confirmed

– L2 assess. Candidates x 4 (Cameron B. another possibility) hopefully date end of March, CA coordinating with Tansy, Es, Robbie, Sean. ? possibility of a 5th (/Cameron) JP to check

6. LSA funding

– Gazebo, flasks, L2 course DP

7. AOCB

– PVG ok

– Get back to Lewis re SC providing a coach for the leaders DP

– Karl is now a Bikeability trainer and is also undertaking a study on the peninsular regarding provision for cycling within the community

– ‘Shed Maintenance Day’ – date tbc, DL to liaise with Stewart re suitable date as would be good to have Stewart along to help with roof

– Potential of HWA shed? DP

8 Date of Next Meeting

– Thurs 24th April

Winter League

Winter league round 4 -strontian 02/02/25

Well done to everyone taking part in today’s winter league.Many thanks to Karl Bungey for organising and to Jacqui for once again doing the timing and also organising refreshments. It was great also to see Daniel helping with the timing despite his recent injury!

The next race in the Winter League is on the 2nd of March and is being run by NACC at Sutherland’s Grove

 

Categories.. male female junior and ebike

Time … minutes : seconds

1st Foss ( 1st e-bike) 68: 52 8 laps

2nd Gary MacDonald ( 1st male ) 69:25 8 laps

3rd Stewart Macmillan ( 2nd ebike) 64:17 7 laps

4th James Tedham ( 2nd male) 67:16 7 laps

5th Lance Marshall (3rd ebike) 67.20 7 laps

6th Alastair Maclennan ( 3rd male ) 68: 45 7 laps

7th John Landale (4th ebike) 70:47 7 laps

8th Lily Cant ( 1st female) 71:24 7 laps

9th Ben Dignan ( 4th male) 62:52 6 laps

10th Doug Little ( 5th ebike) 65:08. 6 laps

11th Robbie Cant ( 5th male) 66:28. 6 laps

12th Gregor Muir ( 6th male) 69:52. 6 laps

13th Isla Cant (2nd female) 71:54. 6 laps

14th Zeemon Erhardt ( 7th male) 73:02 6 laps

15th Rebecca McRitchie ( 3rd female) 63:05 5 laps

16th Ivan Doherty ( 8th male) 63:32 5 laps

17th Paul Bailey ( 6th ebike) 69:10 5 laps

18th Andy Rogers ( 9th male) 72:45. 5 laps

19th Marian Austin ( 4th female) 67:36 4 laps

Junior race. (. 1 lap)

1st Alastair Cant 18:21

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Winter League

Winter league round 3 -cour loop 19/01/25

Well done to everyone who came along to the winter league race, thanks to Dave P for organising and to Jacqui for timing and organising refreshments. Thanks also to Lance and Doug for helping with course marking and sign collecting and to all the cake makers.

Kai Tresidder (12 mins 28 secs) and Alastair Cant (14 mins 39 secs ) battled it out for the junior race, thanks to Fraser Cran Crombie for sweeping at the back.

Main race results below (overall placing, actual time and category place). Next race is 2nd Feb at Strontian

1 Alastair Maclennan 47.03 1st e bike

2 Gary MacDonald 48.44 1st male

3 Lance Marshall 54.12 2nd ebike

4 Shane Wasik 54.15 2nd male

5 Paul Bailey 55.29 3rd ebike

6 Neil Wright 56.07 3rd male

7 Fraser Mackenzie 56.31 4th male

8 Ben Miller 56.34 5th male

9 John Landale 57.20 4th ebike

10 Ewan Thorburn 57.30 6th male

11 James Tedham 57.58 7th male

12 Isla Cant 59.53 1st female

13 Ben Dignan 59.56 8th male

14 Angus Cameron 1.00.54 9th male

15 Gregor Muir 1.01.10 10th male

16 Stewart MacMillan 1.02.00 5th E bike

17 Jamie Gall 1.02.11 11th male

18 Robbie Cant 1.02.21 12th male

19 John Shirley 1.06.18 13th male

20 Rebecca McCritchie 1.06.30 2nd female

21 Nix Forster 1.07.28 3rd female

22 Zeemon Erhardt 1.09.53 14th male

23 Ivan Doherty 1.11.49 15th male

24 Andrew Moss 1.19.29 16th male

25 Andy Rogers 1.20.18 17th male

26 Gill Barnes 1.22.19 4th female

27 Marian Austin 1.29.08 5th female

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Winter League

round 2 of the winter league – “The memorial…

Thanks to everyone that made it along to ‘The Memorial Race’ today for Rd2 of the WHW Winter League.

Our annual collection for a chosen charity was for Macmillan Cancer Support, raising £51:54 which has now been paid into Macmillan donations 🙏🏻

The Racing

Was exciting, with the weather holding out!

Well done to all riders 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Alastair Maclennan achieved his aim and lapped the entire field on his E-bike 💪🏻

James Shirley led the Adult male until lap 6 when he went down hard, heeling vibes to James 🤕.

This left Gary Macdonald way out in front to take the overall win 👌🏻

Great battle in Adult Female with the top 3 all within 2 minutes of each other, Nix coming out on top 👏🏻

Well done to the juniors that made the effort Fraser and Finch 💪🏻👏🏻👌🏻

Many thanks to Vince for organising everything and to Jacqui for helping out with timing, baking and ambulance duties.

The next race of the Winter League is the Cour Loop on Sunday the 19