Evans Staff Show

Last week Myself and Mark took ourselves off to Redbridge Cycle Centre, just east of Epping Forest, for the annual Staff Show. Here staff are encouraged to meet the suppliers and manufacturers of the stock we sell so they can pass on this knowledge on to our customers. For many this meant trying out bikes from the likes of Trek, BMC, Cannondale, Lapierre etc around the dedicated road and off-road courses at Redbridge. To introduce staff to our new timing system we ran timed laps each day with prizes for the fastest male and female laps. Results can be found here:-

Evans Staff Show Results

There were also several races run by Go Cycle, the new electric road bike, which were fun to watch and a little exhausting for some.....

Pictures of the races and other general shots can be found here:-

Evans Staff Show Pictures

Ta
Dean

Leeds Rider Times

You can view the rider times from this weekend's rides at Harewood below -

Off Road Rider Times

Road Sportive Rider Times

This is the second event where we've used the new electronic timing system so please mail Dean on dean.stacey@evanscycles.com if you have any queries about your recorded time.

Chips

Hi All.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Leeds event last weekend. The amount of riders took us by suprise a little bit!!

Results should be up soon, MTB one's are done, working on the Road now.

We are 3 chips missing from the weekend, two I know about and one from yesterday. I will be chasing this up as promised :-) The Freepost address for these is:-


Evans Cycles,
FREEPOST SEA12922,
Crawley,
RH10 9BR

Thanks
Dean

Leeds Off Road

Today's ride was a great sunny ride with the ground conditions dry with very little mud. This is a first for this location, from our previous visits. So hopefully after tonight's rain the conditions should still be firm & fast.

We have been using our new memory map GPS units which provide full details of your maximum speed and a full speed profile for the route. Today Mark beat my maximum speed by 0.6 MPH. Yesterday Dean was able to see which shop I popped into to get some food. This could be too much like big brother. So I have a feeling the tracks may mysteriously get deleted in future :)

On the medium & long route beware of the down steps as the final step is too dangerous for most people to ride down. They will be signed.

See you tomorrow!
Tony

Leeds GPX routes

Hi.

As always the gpx routes will be published after the routes have been ridden and checked. The Off road route is being put out now and when the guys are back, washed and had a bite to eat, we will put them up. Probably about 7pm tonight.

We publish these late to make sure they are accurate. On Yesterdays road ride there was a road closure and today there was a bridleway closed. If we had already published the gpx routes, of which there are 12 different variations now, that would be a lot of extra work and anyone who didn't check back would have the wrong route.

Thanks for your patience!

Dean

Leeds on the Road

We've finished putting out the road course for Sunday and the general consensus was that today was windy!! I didn't mind too much as I was marking the long loop which ascends to the highest point of the day with a following wind, all help gratefully received :-) It did get a bit hairy on the long descent with a cross wind though......

As I mentioned below, we've cut back the distances a bit due to the amount of climbing and upgraded it to a 3 on the website. Generally you'll be going up or down, there isn't that much flat around here, although it tends to be short, sharp climbs followed by gradual inclines. If you're doing the long route there is a stunningly beautiful section along the Wharfe Dale Valley, passing Bolton Abbey in the process.

As mentioned last year, there are also some brilliant place names along the route, such as:-

The Valley of Desolation

Dibbles Bridge

Catherine or Katty White's allotments

Some other sights:-

A Chinook in Wharfe Dale

Barden Tower.

GPX routes will be up tomorrow. There are now 12 different versions, so we'll upload them all at once.

Thanks

Dean

Leeds/Harewood this weekend

A bit of a heads up on the Road routes for this weekend.

Due to the hills in the area we've reduced the length of the long and Medium routes. The Long is 73 miles and the Medium is 52, but don't think this is going to make them a breeze. The Long comes in at a tad over 7000ft of climbing and the Medium 4600ft so it's going to be a good day in the saddle!!

We'll give you some more details a couple of days before.

Memory Map Adventurer 2800.

I have 4 gps units for demo use. I will need your name, which day you'd like the unit and what route. First 4 people to mail me, get the unit for the day. I will also need a credit card to hold against the unit as a deposit.

dean.stacey@evanscycles.com.

Ta
Dean