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I'm standing for a directorship of the London Cycling Campaign.
I would hope to get more attention to the outer London boroughs.
Most of the other candidates are from inner London.
 
So please VOTE for me
 
To be tactical, only vote for me!!!!!!!

Hillingdon Sky Ride

Sky Ride is coming to Hillingdon for the first time this summer!

Harrow Cyclists will be leading a feeder ride to Hillingdon departing
from Harrow-on-the-Hill station @ 10am.

All are welcome, and we could especially use a few experienced
marshalls to help out!

http://www.goskyride.com/Hillingdon

Under One Sky

Under One Sky
Harrowcyclists will have a stall at the Under one sky festival at Kodak sports Ground Harrow View. We will be there from about noon to 5pm and would welcome any members to our stall.
 
  

Monthly meeting and social postponed: Now Wednesday 20th April

Dear all,
 
Due to a large number of Harrow Cyclists being unable to make the planned meeting and social on Wednesday April 13th, we have rescheduled for Wednesday April 20th. This will be held at the Village Inn, Rayners Lane from 7:30 for 7:45.
 
Apologies for any confusion or annoyance.
 
Best wishes,
Tony
Harrow Cyclists Co-ordinator

February Meeting - Minutes posted

 The monthly meeting of Harrow Cyclists took place at 7:30 on 9th February at the Beacon Centre. The minutes can be found here.

Helmet cameras capture bad driving

"With more cyclists than ever on Britain's roads, an increasing number are coming into conflict with other road users.
Their latest weapon is wearing a miniature camera attached to helmets or handlebars, to capture bad driving.
Ben Porter, a stagehand from London, bought a camera to show incredulous friends and family just how dangerous his daily commute could be.
Like many others, he uploaded clips of the worst driving onto YouTube and would discuss them on cycling forums like CycleChat.

Harrow Cyclists AGM

The Harrow Cyclists AGM will take place this Wednesday 12th January. It will be at the Beacon Centre (Scott Crescent, HA2 0TY) which is near Rayners Lane.

The meeting starts at 7:30 and has the following items:

-Talk by Tom Bogdanowicz. He is author of "The London Cycling Guide"  as well as being the LCC's Campaigns and Development Manager.

-Election of Committee members. This includes Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Campaigns, Press Officer and Rides. All positions will be up for election.

-Report on activities of 2010 and a debate on what activities the group should focus on in 2011.

Then at 9:00 we'll end the meeting and head down to the Village Inn pub for some refreshments.

 

New Year Ride Report

Ealing ride along the canal

Whilst a sunny July day brought out some 13000 cyclists for last years Ealing Skyride, the mixed groups of London, including Harrow Cyclists attending a HAWOG lead ride on a cold but dry 2nd January did not quite reach this number. However some 62 people turned up for this special opening of the year ride making this a personal record for our ride leader, Brian.

 
Apart from Harrow Cyclists, people came from London meet up groups, the Perivale Gang, Watford Spokes, Harrow and Wembley Outdoor group and a very large number from Ealing cyclists maybe partly inspired by the Skyride. Our leader took us through the back streets and paths of Ealing out west via Greenford and Southall to Hillingdon Cycle circuit in Minet Park. This is a 0.93 mile closed road circuit designed specifically for cycling and so participants shot off to do their best on one or two laps. It is a bit exposed and some of us noticed the cold as we turned up the speed. Brian then led us off through some parkland with some of those gates that are made for walkers and cyclists to go through separately and not together. On the far side of this was a BMX track, perhaps not so good for the road and mountain bikes but a good place to wait whilst the rest of the group caught up after the exhilaration of the circuit.

Cancelled - Christmas Lights Ride (Sunday 19th December)

Ride Cancelled

With regret I have decided to cancel tomorrow evenings Christmas Lights ride. Todays snow and round the clock sub-zero temperatures have lead to road surfaces that would be too treacherous during tomorrow evenings ride.
I wish all Harrow riders a Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing you at the AGM or one of our rides in the New Year.
All the best,
Colin.

Harrow Cyclists goes Facebook!!!

Hi
 
I've just opened a facebook account for Harrow Cyclists. 
 
I'm hoping this will lead to:-
 
-Increase the number of members, targeting the younger generation
-Directing new facebook members to the website and to sign up to the e-mail lists
-Give ride leaders abit of indication of the number of people going on the ride.  This works by having facebook group members responding to an event as to whether they can attend the ride/ social. Members attending on the ride can also ask any question about the event and contact myself.
 
It’s only in its early stages, so please bear with me as I try and improve it!
 
Anyone who had a better picture, please send it to me!  I'm also having a small issue with the searching function in facebook.  It is only possible to find the group typing, Harrow cyclists.  By a user typing in Harrow cyclist, the group won't appear.  Any ideas?
 
Feel free to post pictures, videos or anything of what we do to give the facebook users a small taster of what we do!
 
So if you have facebook, please join the group!
 
The name of the group is Harrow cyclists LCC group
 
Hopefully we can have a busy facebook group, and then we can invite friends/family interested in cycling. Otherwise if we add them now, the group looks abit empty with only 2 members!
 
Simon
 
 
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