Useful links from Clarencourt Cycling Club
We have included some useful links here. Some of them from the associations we are affiliated with and others are of services and companies our members use in the local area and online. If you have a link you would like to include then please send it to us and will add it.
Organisations and Clubs
British Cycling
British Cycling is the national governing body for cycle sport in the UK.
Surrey Cycle Racing League
The Surrey Cycle Racing League aims to provide a full years cycle racing for all categories of riders especially at grass root level.
Cycling Time Trials
About 2000 open Time Trial events are advertised in the handbook this year. To ride in any of them you need to be a member of a club affiliated to Cycling Time Trials. There are at least that number again of “Club Events” (which are not advertised) and if you approach the club promoting one of them you could get a ride on a “come and try it” basis.
Cyclists’ Touring Club
As the UK’s National Cyclists’ Organisation, CTC has been protecting and promoting the rights of cyclists since 1878. CTC is a not-for-profit organisation that is funded through its membership and donations in return for support.
Sustrans
Sustrans is the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity. Our vision is a world in which people choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. Every day we are working on practical, innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all.
Shops
Bicycle Trailers
Why leave the kids behind when you can take them with you.
Emperor
Road/Track/Mountain Bike Building, maintenance and wheel building by a City and Guilds Qualified Mechanic.
Pearson Cycle Specialists
Pearson Cycle Specialists strive to maintain the reputation set by four previous generations, providing the very best service and advice to all our customers. Due to the rapid expansion of multiples in the cycle industry in recent years, our aim is to cater for more specialist customers, selling high specification cycles and equipment, as well as catering for high street sales. All the staff, including the owners, are keen cyclists and regularly race both on and off road. Our mail order service is playing an increasingly important role, already providing a worldwide service to many people, and now the internet provides a new and exciting means of cycle trading.
Planet X
Good value online shop.
Health
Physiobench
Online physiotherapy practice enabling people to self manage their injury with expert physio guidance.
News
Cycle crank
The place for all things cycling. Live news feeds, videos, letters and a free buy and sell sections.
A weekly newspaper style publication. Used to be just in print but now has a very good website. Also on facebook.
Corridori Cycle Sport
Corridiori Cycle Sport has a long relationship with the Clarencourt and members get 10% discount off recommended retail price.
Their shop, just off the A240 Reigate Road, caters to cyclists of all kinds and is an official Specialized ‘Body Geometry Bike Fit center’. Store owner Guy Rowland and Manager Paul Smith, between them they have over sixty years of club riding and well over forty years of working in Specialist cycle retailers. Add to that the running of their own team, “Team Corridori” and extensive touring experience both at home and abroad and you can be sure of good advice.
BikeParts.co.uk
Usefull site with lots of information. They have a great article on Road Safety – Click Here
Added bonus they are a great source for bike parts and clothing with free uk delivery. check there site out – bikeparts.co.uk
Travel, Holidays and Accomodation
Holidays
The Garda Bike Hotel
The first bike hotel on Lake Garda, Italy.
Wheeliecyprus
If you enjoy cross-country or trail riding then you will certainly enjoy Cyprus. There are literally hundreds of miles of forest tracks, trails, loose surface unmade roads and donkey tracks. Cyprus is a country that welcomes mountain biking, in fact the Cyprus Tourist Organisation actively encourages it.
Leaf cycling holidays
France, Barbados and Brazilspecialising in providing the ultimate fully supported tours.
Practice Bicycle
“Our complete cycling service offers unique trips based in one perfect location, Annecy in the French Alps”.
The Cycle People
Cycling Holidays, Cycle-friendly Accommodation, Bike Shops and Cycle Clubs.
Accomodation
Harmonie B&B
A small family run bed and breakfast situated in the foothills of the Haute Pyrenees, ideally placed for cycling holidays.
Simply Chalets.co.uk
Alpine cycling holiday accommodation for independent travellers wishing to source and package their own cycling break to the mountains.