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Southport Cycling Club meet in their clubroom in Victoria Park, Rotten Row (by the entrance opposite Beach Road) every Monday evening at 8:00 pm. New member and vistors are welcome to attend the informal gathering.
To find the location of the club room the postode PR8 is 2BZ.

The weekend clubruns will depart as usual from the Plough bus stop, Preston New Road. The Saturday Sociable run leaves at 9.30hrs. and is suitable for beginners. The Sunday run leaves at 9:00hrs. and is for harder riders typically covering 80 miles, with one cafe stop.
The weekday runs also depart from the Plough bus stop; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30hrs . The Saturday and weekday runs are covered at a more comfortable pace, so if you're new to cycling these runs are the way to start.
The Saturday morning club run of about 30 miles leaves the bustop on Preston New Road, near the Plough Hotel roundabout at 9:30; pedalling through Banks village to Tarleton at a lesuirely pace, and through the quite back roads to Croston village and on to the cafe stop at the Fettler's Warfe near Rufford for a brew. The return route over the moss arrives back in Southport by about mid day.
Anyone with a road worthy bike is welcome to join in.
For more adventurous cyclist the Tuesday run leave the same bustop at 9:30 for a ride to Scorton, Chipping or Rivington. The round trip is about 50 miles and includes a stop for coffee.
Sunday club runs leave the bus stop at 9:00. with a higher tempo. See the reports on the "Club Runs" page.

Club nights
Members and anyone interested in cycling and wishing to join SCC are welcome to visit the club hut in Victoria Park from 8:00pm onwards. There is a link to a map showing the location of the clubroom at the top of this page.

Club Secretary
Ken Beck is the club secretary and can be contacted on 01704 228 968. or kenbeck18@btinternet.com
Ken will be happy to answer any questions about the club, membership, buying club kit etc.
or provide contact details of other club members who could assist.

SouthportCC are running the 2008 edition of the Bill Bradley Rides on 27th July.
The routes, maps and entry details are on the 2008BBradleyRide page on this site.
A list of entrants are on the bb_entries page.

The result of the North West School Peoples Area Championships held on 26th April at Victoria Park Southport are now on this site. If you have any digital photographs of the races and/or presentations, and are prepared to share them, please could you e-mail copy to kenbeck18@btinternet.com

Southport Cycling Club are hosting the North West School Peoples Area Championships on 26th April at Victoria Park Southport.
The first race starts at noon. There will be no entries taken on the line.
A list of riders etc. is on a page on this site NW Area Champs.
At approx. 3:00 pm on the same day there will be a one lap race around the park for members of SouthportCC with the first prize of the SouthportCC Centenary Shield and £50; second prize is £30 and £20 for third.
A map of the circuit is on the MAPS page

Results for the SouthportCC - Terry Dolan Cycles schoolpeoples races for weeks 1, 2 and 3 are now on this site together with some photos of the yellow jersey winners for each age group.

110 riders competed in the races held over 3 consecutive Saturdays .
SouthportCC would like to thank the sponsor Terry Dolan Cyles , Argyle Financial Group and Gaynors Printers for providing support and prizes; marshalls for helping on the day; the judges, handicappers and recorder for the administration duties and the tea brewing-up people for their efforts
Maps of the circiuts used for the races are on the page MAPS

Entry forms for the Merseyside Wheelers event, "The Lancashire Lanes" to be held on 11th May are one the Lanky Lanes page and can be downloaded.

News is on the News page

For information about road, track and mountain bike racing see http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/bchome/home.asp

Photo Competition
A couple of photographs have been sent to the site, see Happy Snaps page.
Do you recognise anyone ? More old photos have arrived see Happy Snaps 2, 3 and 5

A break for the peleton: Southport CC riders at Scorton Cafe

There are a couple of short videos about some of the club's activities on
www.youtube.com/southportcc
don't forget to turn your speakers up.