Committee Minutes

minutes of committee meeting 04/06/24

Minutes WHW committee meeting Tues 4th June @ 1930:

  1. Present Jacqui p Marian A, Gregor M, Doug L , Gill B, Claire AK, Henry C, Mark C, Norman C

Apologies

Dave Parfitt, Sam Potter, Steve Bradley, Mandy Watson, Karl B

  • Minutes of last meeting / actions:

Mini DH (AW)

Race went very well, thanks to Mandy for organising

Costs

Timing £384.00

Medical cover £420

Bc levy £93

Food for pack lunches £54.64

Commissaire expenses £92.31

Commissaire accommodation £82.80

Medals £74.35

Number boards £44.90

Total spend £1210

Total income £2440

Funds to club £1230

Committee keen to explore running one again next year

Winter League / TTs (MA)

  • Thanks to Karl for putting on a good race at Strontian, nice to be back to the venue
  • Thanks to Lance and Doug for putting on Wolftrax
  • Thanks to Mark for putting on the finale at his croft, Norman for running the BBQ and everyone who has turned up to race and helped throughout the league
  • Insurance due for renewal, Marian will look into it for next year… agreed we need winter league on insurance
  • Next year permissions will need to be asked for earlier
  • Action DP  Put Winter league on agenda for next meeting

Time Trials

  • Happening some really busy some quiet
  • Actions HC  Send club email 1 week before each race and put on Instagram as well as facebook 

Wednesday Nights

  • Discussed rota with Gregor, all keen to retry Duror as a venue
  • Actions MA Ask Ben M if he can lead an evening at Duror

Distillery Access

  • Distillery path currently on back burner with access officer

L1 / L2 Training & Assessment

  • Sam Wood has completed his L2 and taking kids club group
  • Teenagers struggling with time and commitment at present so no L1 planned

New Jerseys

Thanks to Claire for hard work with these, al ordered jerseys distributed, spares available, looking good

  • WHW run sessions at the bike park  (GM)

Norman is now the  liason between whw and bike park. The bike park committee would like to see WHW running adult, ladies and kids intro sessions, the foxes are currently running ladies ones but query also sessions aimed at “older” ladies

Possibility of running kids sessions on the bike park in the holidays ? whether through active schools.. summer sessions still in planning stage but if not possibly through kids club

Chris Waters is looking at running adult male sessions.. to discuss further

Wednesday night ride is at the pumptrack on 26th June can we advertise it better to encourage more folk along

Agreed there is a challenge to finding leaders with extra time available, Norman is able to be there some evenings to give advice

Actions HC advertise 26th June pumptrack evening on facebook Instagram and in newsletter

NC/GM liase with Chris Waters

CAK/DL check with active schools re kids sessions/ organise kids club session

  • Bank Balance (GB)

£9683.64

5. AOCB

AW talking about pumptrack racing with Scottish cycling  and when she gets more info and a plan will be in touch,

Had email from British Cycling to say they have  opened up tender process for national dh events in 2025.. agreed we are not ready for this (yet!) and leave with SDA organising

Fort to Fort Doug put the date in last year

Action DL  contact again to check we have  permissions,

    Whitebridge access is there any resolution, are the road bridge works finished and pavement open?

Action JP … ask Bridget whether the road bridge pavement is now accessible/ any progress on old bridge access

Kids Club (CAK)

Going well, another group of 8 year old boys will hopefully start after summer. Approx 64 kids at present

Lochaber sports association (DL) no longer getting funding but have some money left .. max £500 per club and needs match funding ? use for 1st aid course.

Could use M and S dental practice or? yacht club over a weekend as venues

Action DP Speak to MF re possible date and costs

Action JP Check with KB re course in Strontian

LTA (MC)  dig at the end of the month , Sunset now open and running well

If anyone is keen to help run digs please get in touch with LTA..

Action MC to email club info and can be included in next club email(HK)

Glencoe House (GM/DL)

Have new adaptive bikes they cant use as no level 2s to help out. Looking for level 2 to volunteer to take out children that attend Glencoe House in school time. ? start with a 1 off session before summer holiday to get an idea of needs and commitment

Action JP Contact Melissa at Glencoe House and suggest second last Wednesday of term 4  bikes and 4 kids  11.15 to 1 (approx.) JP DL NC GM all agreed to help if date and time suit

Pumptrackathon (GM/CAK) 22nd June

Challenge to cover distance needed to climb various things of increasing height (from Cow Hill to Everest) booklets produced to get laps stamped as work way through. Looking for adult teams as well as kids, £40 min sponsorship

Action HC include appeal for adult teams in newsletter (HC)

          Skate park.. NC liasing with Craig about coaching for skate park, JP contacted Unit 23 re BMX coaching but  no response to email

Action NC  liase with Craig to see if any BMX  coach suggestions

  • Date for next meeting  Thursday 8th August 7.30 Marians
Time Trials

3rd Time Trial – Laggan Dam 28/05/24

Laggan Dam Time Results

Well done to the 7 riders who took part in tonight’s TT. Some fast times and, great racing!

1st – Donald Patterson 35.59

2nd – Henry Cairns 41.29

3rd – Neil Wright 42.44

4th – Colin MacTavish 43.55

5th – Olivia MacRae 47.11

6th – Gill Barnes 54.44

7th – Emma Pearce 60.45

Many thanks to Alastair for marshalling at the turn point. The next TT is being run by Vince at Invergarry on June the 18th.

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Time Trials

2nd gravel/mtb time trial – cour loop 21/05/24

Great gravel rides tonight on the clockwise Cour loop.

1st Donald Patterson 47.44

2nd Aaron Tressider 50.51

3rd Gregor Muir 52.19

4th Colin MacTavish 55.13 despite a detour to the Spean circular loop due to a wrongly construed arrow on a very fast junction.

5th Emma Pearce 72.23

Many thanks to John Shirley for organising. The next time trial is Laggan Dam on 28/05/24

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Time Trials

2nd time trial – Loch eil 10 07/05/24

Results from tonights TT – Loch Eil 10. Apologies for any misspelling. Some close times! Another great turnout on a lovely evening. Many thanks to Andy for organising. Next time trial is Laggan Dam on 28/05/24.

1.Robin Downey 23:03

2. Donald Paterson 23:12

3. Dave Buckett 25:15

4. Alastair Maclennan 25:27

5. Ian Pooleman 26:31

6. Tom Pearson-Collins 26:35

7. Ed Daynes 26:42

8. Jamie Gall 26:56

9. Brian O’Rourke 27:00

10. Henry Cairns 27:18

11. Colin Mactavish 27:59

12. Mairi Meldrum 28:02

13. Fos 29:50

14. Ailsa Pooleman 30:07

15. Kathryn Marley 30:12

16. Olivia Macrae 30:19

17. Ryan Stewart 31:09

18. Nix 31:11

19. Steve Essex 31:18

20. Steve Gilbert DNF – punctured.

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Time Trials

fantastic results for club members at the World cup

What a weekend of racing at Nevis Range. Things started off well on Saturday with Lily Cant Mia Jackson and Isla Cant putting wheelers on the top step of the podium in all 3 female categories in the mini downhill. Charley and Archie Kennedy, Liam Vance, Archie Rodger and Kian Springett all put in great performances as well. In the main races Mikayla Parton qualified 5th in the elite semi finals to earn a well deserved place in Sundays final, Daniel Parfitt had an amazing run to finish 1st in the junior qualifiers to secure his place in Sundays final and Sorley Swabey had a great run, just missing out on a place in the finals with a 29th place in his first ever World Cup.

Things only got better on the Sunday with Daniel holding his nerve and putting in an amazing run to finish 3rd in the Junior race. A great result for all of the hard work and dedication that he has put in to get to this stage. Mikayla also had a great race to finish 9th in the Elite Women.

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Time Trials

Gravel/mtb Time trial 30/04/24

Time Trial Gravel and Mt bike results.

What a great turn out for our first summer venture into this sort of event.

Thanks everyone for the great riding and healthy competition. A big thanks to Emma for getting it up and running

Thanks to Alice for timing.

1. Donald Paterson 38.45

2. Ed Danes 43.14

3. Ian Pooleman 43.27

4. Jamie Gall 44.05

5. Ben Dodman 44.17

6. Gregor Muir 46.20.

7. Aaron Tressider 46.32

8. Charles Truman 46.33

9. Lily Can’t 46.57

10. Colin Mactavish Snr 47.15

11. Spook Munro 47.30

12. Robbie Can’t 47.55

13. Fiona Tinnion 48.28

14. Jane Hughes 48.59

15. Nathan Marsh 49.11

16. Ailsa Pooleman 51.40

17. Colin Mactavish Jnr 52.50

18. Nix Forster 54.02

19. Anna Harrod 54.44

20. Donald MacPherson 57.06

21. Gill Barnes 1.00.06

22. Jenny Beattie 1.10.57

John Shirley time ?

Pete Wilson dnf (puncture and safely home now)

Next TT

Loch Eil 10 (Road) Tues 7th May (Andy)

Gravel/Mt bike 21st May (we need an organiser).

Kid's Club

RETURN OF KID’S CLUB SAT 20/04/24

It was a lovely sunny morning for the first kid’s club session of the year. Great to see over 50 kid’s out and about on the trails at Nevis Range having a blast. Great also to see a good number of the newly designed club tops proudly being worn.

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Time Trials

first time trial of the year -commando memorial 16/04/24

Commando Time Trial results

What a fantastic turn out tonight for our 1st TT of the season – 20 riders – and a great atmosphere!

Thanks to Dan, for the timing, and to Iain and Ailsa as ‘turnaround’ marshals.

Results

  1. Robin Downey 43.47
  2. Donald Paterson 46.45
  3. Alistair MacLennan 49.31
  4. Oli Wardlaw 52.07
  5. Iona Hamilton 52.25
  6. Ruaridh Oliver-Jones 52.50
  7. Ben Thompson 52.54
  8. Dave Smith 53.06
  9. Spook Munro 53.23
  10. Gregor Muir 54.51
  11. Sam Potter 54.52
  12. Pete Wilson 56.33
  13. Foss 57.50
  14. Bronagh Wishart 58.30
  15. Steve Gilbert 59.40
  16. Nix Forster 61.09
  17. Olivia Macrae 61.25
  18. Gill Barnes 64.04
  19. Andy Rogers 64.12
  20. Non Williams 67.32

Next TT is gravel bike/off road Leanachan loop April 30th, and Road Bike TT May 7 Locheil 10.

Winter League

Final WINTER LEAGUE RACE – GLEN LOY 14/04/24

Thanks to Mark Clark for organising a great race for the final winter league and thanks to everyone for coming along be it to race, help out, provide a taxi service for kids or cheer folk round the course.

The kids race created a great finish to the league in the under 10s with Harris Thompson taking the win with Alistair Cant close behind throughout in 2nd place. This meant that the overall league title was shared 3 ways between Kai Tresidder, Harris and Alistair, well done boys, great racing throughout the league series this year. In U12s Kaiden Springett took the win and overall u12 league winner. Big well done to 3 year old Inga giving the race a go on her balance bike too.

In the main race Stewart MacMillan (on his ebike) was the only person to manage 9 laps taking victory and winning the ebike category in the league, Liam Moynihan, with 8 laps, was the fastest non ebike and 2nd place overall, the win placing him 1st in the series. Lily Cant held her dad Robbie off throughout the race to finish 8th overall and 1st female, taking the league series title. Robbie held on for 9th place which was enough to give him joint 3rd in the series with James Shirley (4th overall today and 2nd non ebike) (Ben Miller was 5th overall today/ 3rd non ebike and placed 2nd in the league series) Isla Cant took 2nd female… great to see junior girls racing in the main race and and Katy Maclennan took 3rd female giving her 2nd place in the series overall.

Results

1 Stewart MacMillan 9 00:44:40 1st e bike
2 Liam Moynihan 8 00:40:53 1st male
3 Lance Marshall 8 00:41:48 2nd e bike
4 James Shirley 8 00:43:23 2nd male
5 Doug Little 8 00:44:45 3rd e bike
6 Ben Miller 7 00:44:28 3rd male
7 Ben Thompson 7 00:45:30 4th male
8 Lily Cant 6 00:40:07 1st female (junior)
9 Robbie Cant 6 00:40:19 5th male
10 Gregor Muir 6 00:43:04 6th male
11 Isla Cant 6 0:43:19 2nd female (junior)
12 Damien Forster 6 00:44:22 7th male
13 Zeemon Erhardt6 0:46:27 8th male
14 Nix Forster 6 00:47:40 3rd female
15 Katy Maclennan 5 0:41:41 4th female
16 Andy Rogers 5 0:41:02 9th male
17 Henry Cairns 5 0:42:24 10th male
18 Fiona Thompson 5 0:43:27 5th female
19 Bronagh Wishart5 0:46:42 6th female
20 Gill Barnes 5 00:47:26 7th female
21 Marian Austin 4 00:42:14 8th female

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Winter League

Winter league round 6- Strontian 24/03/24

WINTER LEAGUE: STRONTIAN RESULTS

A big thanks to the Bungey family for putting on such a great race at Strontian. Some great weather and fantastic racing from everyone.

YOUTH RESULTS

A hard fought battle all the way to the line for 2nd and 3rd places.

13.53 Kai

14.53 Harris

15.00 Alistair

17.35 Kaiden

ADULT RESULTS

I hope these are all correct. Do contact me with any errors (I think there is one in there) and I’ll correct them.

Some close racing that saw lap positions change quite frequently and a few sprint finishes that changed final positions.

7 – 1.03.50 Ben Miller 1-1-1-1-1-1-1

7 – 1.06.09 Doug Little (eBike) 4-4-2-2-2-2-2

7 – 1.06.31 Alastair Maclennan 2-3-3-4-3-3-3

7 – 1.06.59 Ben Thompson 3-2-2-3-4-4-4

6 – 1.01.36 Alexander Pervan 5-5-5-5-5-5

6 – 1.01.45 Aaron 6-6-6-6-6-6

6 – 1.03.01 Gregor Muir 7-7-7-7-7-7

6 – 1.05.54 Lily Cant 9-9-10-10-10-10

6 – 1.06.03 Nathan Marsh 8-8-8-8-8-9

6 – 1.06.10 Zeeman Ealand 11-11-9-9-9-8

6 – 1.08.01 Robbie Cant 10-10-11-11-11-11

6 – 1.12.34 Katie Maclennan 12-12-12-12-12-12

5 – 1.02.46 Ivan Doherty 13-13-13-13-13

5 – 1.05.54 Ava Marsh 14-14-14-14-14

5 – 1.07.59 Isla Cant 15-15-15-15-15

5 – 1.08.00 Charlotte Cant 17-16-17-16-16

5 – 1.09.35 Gill Barnes 16-17-16-17-17

3 – 53.14 Laura McConnachie 19-18-18

2 – 37.41 Cohen McConnachie 18-19

Thanks also to Jacqui, Doug, Mairi, Laura and Cameron for marshalling/lap counting/course marking/hot drinks/etc.

The next race is the final one of this year’s Winter League and will be held at Mark Clark’s croft in Glen Loy on Sunday the 14th of April. It will be followed by a BBQ and the prizegiving.

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