Axe Valley Pedallers are a community based cycling club based in Seaton on the beautiful East Devon coast. We pride ourselves on catering for all levels of cyclist. If you ride a bike with a shopping basket on the front or the latest TT machine dripping with carbon you are welcome and most importantly you will never be left behind.
Alistair 'Madal' Cope of Axe Valley Pedallers was delighted to be representing The Prostate Cancer Charity at the recent launch of Team Qoroz 2010, which was held at Qoroz HQ near Stroud.
The young riders of the South West Bike Academy were given a positive and enthusiastic send-off. The U23 team comprises of Ben Stockdale, Matt Ullmer, Hugh Wilson, Josh Yetman, Luke Dunbar and Tom Stockdale, with female rider Greta Junker, who started the Axe Valley Pedaller Round the Block Round the Clock charity ride last year was unavailable to attend. The team displayed the new team issue bike, the Race Won, as well as new kit that will be easily spotted in the peloton this year.
France welcomed ten enthusiastic AVP cyclists with a frosty but gloriously sunny morning for our annual weekend cycling tour.
Concerns for a rough crossing after the previous week’s gales and floods disappeared as we arrived at Plymouth Ferry Port on Friday evening and wheeled our bikes on board the Bretagne. Thanks go to Ketchup for organising parking permits which meant that we also avoided queuing, being the first people on the boat.
Those of you who spent your summer evenings last year racing round the Merryfield Airfield at Ilton will be well aware of the fantastic buzz you get from riding in a bunch on a traffic free, closed race circuit. Those of you who haven’t just need to ask a Pedaller who did to see their eyes light up as they recall the thrill!
Wouldn’t it be great if we had such a facility closer to home and a race series strictly for novices and beginners? Even better if there were coaching from a British Cycling coach and you didn’t need an expensive race licence to take part. Well, guess what..... we have!
We have some exciting plans for the year ahead and to enable AVP to peruse these new opportunities we are affiliating to British Cycling.
By way of an introduction to BC we are lucky enough to have the newly appointed Regional Events Officer Andy Parker join us for a Thursday night ride on the 11th of March.
Keen to support other like minded community based social cycling groups Axe Valley Pedallers recently joined the newly formed Honiton Cycling Club for a joint Sunday ride.
AVP is a comparatively young club on the Devon cycling scene yet already has a significant membership and caters for a diverse range of cycling interests. One of the motivating factors that led to the formation of Honiton's new club was to provide the same inclusive cycling opportunities for all that has proved such a success for the AVP.
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