Welcome to the South Western Road Club website. The SWRC are a friendly Cycling club based around South West London with a membership of over 150 cyclists.
Some recent photographs taken at the Club prize presentation held at The Parrott Inn in Forest Green. Niall Clutton, who has been a club member for many years, is a professional photograper, and travels the world, taking shots of iconic building interiors. He is our new Mountain bike secretary.
The active heart of the club are the four groups that meet on our Saturday rides, with rotating three monthly list of the planned destinations, which take in the roads and lanes of Surrey, Sussex and Kent. There are also midweek rides and in the summer months training sessions during the evening. You are welcome to try us out on a club ride. Use this site to find out more about us and some of the things that we do in the Club.
The Saturday Club Runs list from October 2011 until March 2012 can be found here.......
If you can't find the information about the club you require please use this contact us link to email our Club Secretary.
From October 2011 the club room will be moving. Our new home will be at the Oxshott Club, meeting from 8.30pm the first Tuesday of each month. SWRC members are also welcome to meet there at any other time of the week for a pint and a chat.
Find future events below or on the CALENDAR at the bottom of this page.
Recently some of the club gathered together to present a cheque for £2500 to Suzanne Ruggles of the Full Circle Fund. This was raised by entrants & riders during our May Flyer Sportive.
STRAVA is a new website where you can check out how fast you are around some of the local climbs. You will need a GPS on your bike to record your ride and then download it onto the clubs very oun page. Link HERE
NEW CLUB RECORDS '50 mile' – 1:47:52 and '12 hour' -- 281 miles
Colin Parkinson has improved his own club 50 mile time trial record during the BDCA event on the 8th August. This came only a few weeks after Colin improved his own 10 mile time, down to 20 minutes 16 second. On the 14th August Colin rode the CC Breckland event in Norfolk where he added a further 5 miles to his own club 12 hour record.
Colin in 50 and 10
Etape du Dales 2011
Niall Clutton was riding the tough Etape du Dales cyclosportive recently.
Barry rides Brompton World Championship
Club rider Barry Harwood took part in the recent Brompton World Championship at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. Barry's time of 25min 08 seconds was good enough for 43rd place from 763 entrants.
Evans Ride it - King of the Downs
Richard Gordon and Alan Fox recently rode the 113mile KotD sportive based on two loops around Gatwick. Here they are climbing the famous Titsey Hill near Caterham near the end of the ride. Read Richard's report on the club Blog site. HERE
If you are entering an event that you would like to be included in this Calendar then e-mail your details to Alan. Email Alan Parkinson
The SWRC have been sponsored by Evans Cycles since 1990