[Closed] Stourbridge cycling club?

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I've looked at the Stourbridge website a couple of times, Based in Wolvo so its nearly as close to go to the chase instead, but interested in what they have to offer!

I just wondered what rides they get up to,as you say the web site looks interesting.With the Saturday morning and mid week night rides,I need to get out more, all my riding buddys are fair weather guys,it drives me mad.

Certainly no club but we get out up the chase sunday mornings, wednesday and thursday nights and have regular away days to the peaks/lakes and welsh trail centres etc and there are a couple of unsavoury characters from great barr that ride around Sandwell valley too

http://www.wmmtbforum.co.uk/forum/index.php

They're known localy as [b]Sour[/b]bridge Cycling Club for a very good reason...

They're known localy as Sourbridge Cycling Club for a very good reason...

You pull a face when you lick them?

They're known localy as Sourbridge Cycling Club for a very good reason...

😆

I'm a member but only occaisionally ride with them. There are 3 groups who ride on a Saturday morning. The 9:15am group is generally the one I go for. Great bunch of lads - sometimes the rides can get quite slow, purely because of the amount of people who turn up for a ride. 9:30 group is more or less a pootle.

I've never been on a club evening ride as I tend to do my own thing.

A couple of members are trying to arrange club rides further afield, I've never been on one, cba if I'm honest.

TBF.
A few of the members are alright.
* waves to Lee.*

Some seem to be stuck in a timewarp though. 😉

Met a few of these guys http://www.stourbridgevelo.com/ out in majorca last month. I didn't get my bike and baggage for 2 days and one of the guys from the club gave me a load of spare kit.

Plus they are sponsored by a brewery!

Where do they ride in stourbridge?Is it canal riding or kinver and the like?

Thanks tricky but not really into the budgie smuggling roadie stuff 😉

Tricky.

All the Stourbridgevelo guys we've met have been fine.

I think they were a breakaway group from Sourbridge. 😆

Stourbridge Velo are betterer cos they have a beer logo on their tops.

Stourbridge cc are IME a bunch of tools. ("you may NOT overtake the lead rider") or words to that effect from their website.

How about Halesowen ACC? They're into MTB, plus you get access to their velodrome if that's your thing.

*Waves back at Stu*

Doesn't Velo have their club meets in the pub too?

LLama, SCC meet at the Bonded warehouse so they do use the canal to link up Kinver and the like. It depends who leads the rides as to where they go.

Bullandbladder, the rides seem to be a little more relaxed these days, although I have experienced the attitude you mention in the past.

I went with them once last year on a saturday 9am ride,good bunch of lads, but the ride was a bit boring tbh-a lot of canal and road. As Lee said though i guess it depends who leads it- the ride I went on was led by a cyclocross guy

NWAlps riders aren't far away, bunch of odd gits though, some even ride bikes with the exploding clown wheels

Where are the NWalps guys based?

North Worcestershire, t'other side of clent to stourbridge

Bromsgrove way then? Is there good riding over there? I've been to lickey and the waseleys before but couldn't find much (sorry for the slight hijack!)

Yea, good bits and pieces if you follow a local, wyre forest is 40the mins away too some great stuff there

Do you ride there much RD? I've not done an awful lot at the WF but what I have done was pretty good.

I know my way around yep

RD is probably THE local legend when it comes to knowing the miles and miles of alpine singletrack we have strewn across the slopes and valleys of the NW Alps.

Dunno about trails but i can sniff out cake from 3 miles away

for get stourbridge ,i went once unless you have the latest bike they donot want to no you,did not feel welcome at all,that was 3yrs ago,may have changed,felt unwelcome

When I first got a mtb I used to go out with them, generally its a bit dull but some of the lads were real friendly down to earth guys....I wasn't very fit (still not) but I'm all about the downs, fast, swoopy, jumpy, rooty and gravity biased riding. I was mostly last to the top and I heard the gasps of disgust as I raced past the leader on the way down. We came to a 2 foot drop.....they made a big thing of it! Says it all. BUT if you want to ride steady with others xc style (or fast xc with the later ride) its ok.

Hook up with them one time see if you like it & take it from there, might be just these type of riding your looking for.

luke, also in Bromsgrove. If you need a WF guide, then I can show you round there, or Clent/ Lickeys etc..

All the riders from around the NW alps are tossers 😡

As we're all here, who was over clent this sarvo on the orange coloured clown bike?

FS or HT? weren't you supposed to be #HONCing Houns?

Hi,

Prospective new members are always welcome to come along to any of the clubs rides to see how they get on with us. We currently run a number of XC rides on Saturday mornings starting from the Bonded Warehouse by the canal, there are also some evening rides, usually Wednesday nights. Details of all of these can be found on our website [url= http://www.stourbridgecyclingclub.co.uk/ ]here.[/url]

We are currently arranging a series of rides outside of the locally area once a month. Next one is on the 28th when the plan is to head up to the Peaks for a days riding, again details are on the forum.

As of the AGM last month we had around 160 paid up members and this will probably grow back to around 200 as people remember to pay there subs. We regularly get 50 plus riders out off-road on a Saturday and routes cover Kinver, Clent, Enville and Dudley. Turn up for one of the 9:15 rides on Saturday and see what [b]you[/b] think, we will try and make you welcome.

Jackson

HT RD. yes I was but apparently the duvet monster got me

I think i was the only NW Alps rep to ride the HONC last weekend. Piece of p*ss compared to our usual Alpine terrain... 😯

I'm regularly on the saturday 9:15 XC ride but tbh I'm only on it for the fitness training. I'm the sort of guy that will go up at a reasonable pace but will blast the downs and tbh it isn't the club for you if that's what you do. If I know the descents I am allowed to go ahead of the pack otherwise I'll get caught behind a mincer or I'll have to drop to the back and leave a minutes gap. For my fun I'll go to the dirt jumps, DH track or just an XC ride more focused on really good descents with some mates that enjoy riding the same stuff. If you're an out and out XCer you'll fit right in, I'm not and am the odd one out in knee pads and on a 160mm travel bike I still have fun on the rides. Just come along to one and see if you like it or not.

we usually get 50the plus riders out off road on a Saturday

Blimey, way to crowd out the trails, i bet other users love you lot

Are you really not allowed to overtake ?

We don't ride in one big group of 50 odd riders 🙂 , that would completely unworkable at gates and at the cafe stop half way round. There are 3 main groups, a smallish 9am group, this is the longest and fastest of the rides; one or more 9:15 groups, we try and keep the number of riders to a maximum of 15 so when we have a big turnout we will split this group into multiple rides; a 9:30 ride aimed at anyone who wants to turn up and get out on there bike, this ride has the most fixed format and is the easiest of the rides we lead.

The guidance on passing the leader from the website is:

It is courteous to stay behind the leader.

In short we try and have the minimum amount of structure in place to make these rides work for everyone who comes along.

Jackson.

scruff.

They don't like it very much when people do.

Seems to spoil their set routine. 😆

Bunch of wannabe blazer wearers.

This thread is ..... interesting

i see a lot of mtb stourbridge lads meet on the canal every weds around 6.30 nice set of lads you can ride along with them no probs.

I saw these guys, was gona ask if I could tag along but was scared I wouldn't keep up 🙁

What day do you go out?

Me? As and when. Haven't got into a routine with the bad weather, generally on better days!