Hello everyone,

Thanks for showing such an interest in the Cycling Club over the past two days at the sports fayre!

Freshers Rides

Saturday 17th September, 9am meet at the University Main Gates. We are running two rides, one road and one XC mountain bike ride on Saturday morning. We hope that these will give new-comers a taste of what we do as a club and the chance to meet the committee and some of the current members. The mountain bike ride will either be to Mugdock country park or Pollock park, depending on fitness and ability of who turns up. The trails will NOT be super-technical or difficult but a decent, working mountain bike will be required. As for the road ride, the current intention is to head south of Glasgow at a fairly relaxed pace avoiding any monster hills and busy roads. Again, while this is an easy paced social ride, a well maintained road bike will be needed as well as the usual water bottle, puncture repair kit etc. Lycra is optional, as are shaved legs (for the boys at least..!) We don’t anticipate this ride being any further than a 30 mile loop, max.
Please come along and give us a try, I promise it will cure your hangover, and if you’re not having fun then you can always cut the ride short and head home.

Glentress/Innerleithen Weekend Trip:

As we may have mentioned at the sports fair, we are planning a weekend trip to the Tweed Valley, the countries top mountain biking destination. This is open to everyone and will give the chance to explore some of the best man-made mountain bike trails in the country at Glentress and Innerleithen. Riders of all abilities, and disciplines(downhill and cross country) are welcome and there is even a good bike hire at Glentress for people who want to try the sport out for the first time. Obviously, roadies are also welcome.

We are still ironing out accommodation and transport but it is hoped that this trip will run in mid October, details will be available soon!

SSS Mountain Bike XC Championship

After an extremely successful event last february, SSS Cycling (Scottish Student Sport) will be running a one off cross country mountain bike race, this time at the brilliant venue of Drumlanrig Forest in Dumfries & Galloway. This is a lap race of a small circuit open to all students in Scotland and can be taken as seriously or as casually as you like. The proposed date for this is the first or second Saturday in November but further details will be published in the coming weeks. We will be looking for a big GUCC team for this!

For more details check our forums or our the GUC facebook page.

Hugs and Kisses

GUC Committee