Silverstone 2017
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Ride Leadership Workshops
What will be covered?
90 minutes interactive presentation at East Oxford Community Centre:
- Ride Preparation & Planning
- Pre-ride briefings – managing expectations
- Ride etiquette
- Safety Tips
- Ride management
The will be followed by a ride to suit your ability. This will be a chance for you to practice the skills from the workshop and, for new riders, learn an easily navigable route.
Book your slot!
Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th April (Wednesday evening workshop at 19.00 with a Thursday evening ride at 18.30)
Saturday 15th April (9.00)
Sunday 11th June (9.00)
Condors feature in Total Women’s Cycling magazine!
The Cowley Road Condors have made tremendous progress increasing female membership in recent years. So we were delighted to welcome Michelle Arthurs-Brennan, editor of Total Women’s Cycling, to come along for a ladies ride and explain all the initiatives we’d come up with to achieve this.
Read the excellent write up here
We hope that by sharing our experiences, other cycling clubs will be inspired to get more women involved in both club riding and positions of leadership. Please get in touch with us if you’d like to discuss any of our ideas or need some help formulating your own!
Women and Bicycles – Oxford cycling festival
Women & Bicycles will celebrate the many wonderful ways in which women and bicycles are changing the world with a glittering cast of speakers, including cycling celebrities and up-and-coming heroes. The Condors will be leading rides on the Sunday and our President Cheryl Reid will be part of Saturday’s panel discussions.
Returning after last year’s sell-out event, this year’s promises to be bigger and better!
Speakers will include author and veteran cycle tourer Josie Dew, children’s bicycle revolutionary Isla Rowntree, award-winning cycle trainer Maryam Amatullah, designer and founder of Findra clothing Alex Feechan and founder of the Cycle Touring Festival Laura Moss, with many more to be announced.
There will be practical workshops to help you put your cycling ambitions into action, guided rides for all levels, yoga classes for the flexible and inflexible, delicious food, a chance to try out clothing and accessories designed for women, and socials where you can meet new friends and riding buddies.
We welcome all genders, ages, shapes and sizes, keen cyclists, aspiring cyclists, and the bike-curious alike. We aim to give all guests a chance to try something different, learn something new, push their boundaries, face their fears, or just sit and listen to some really good stories.
When: 4th & 5th March
Where: East Oxford Community Centre, 44 Princes St, Oxford, OX4 1DD
Tickets: Weekend and day tickets available here (hurry – early bird tickets will sell out fast)
More info: See the Women & Bicycles website or contact [email protected]
The Alps 2016
Derby Velodrome 2016
Bike Oxford 2016
Bike Oxford 2016
August’s Ride Leader of the Month
August’s ride leader of the month – Sam Elliott
As well as leading some social and medium rides over the season, including a great Saturday spin to Henley, Sam’s a man for the big rides.
This month’s ride leader shout out goes to a man who thinks nothing of a century. In fact it doesn’t take much for him to suggest twice that – he was the mastermind of the Cambridge and back ride earlier in the month, though sadly a spill forced an early turn for home.
One evening, sipping a beer in Morzine, Sam suggests leading a ride the next day. It’s a century he says, we’ll go to Geneva for lunch. Gulp, this is the Alps. Right, I’ve plotted it. It goes via the Col de la Colombière…
Chapeau Sam!
And a special mention goes for ride leading with a twist…
…Cheryl for the utterly inspired Tour de Charity Shop which raised £348 for Helen & Douglas House. And saw several male Condors riding in tutus. Now that really deserves a chapeau!
Helen & Douglas House 2016 Tour de Charity Shop
