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2025 Club Championship

Welland Valley has a thriving time trial championship with a variety of courses and 5, 10 & 25  miles distances with competitors range in age from 12 to 80+. All abilities are welcome with riders on standard road bikes currently make up around 50% of all TT competitors.

At the end of every event there’s tea and cake back at race HQ, and the chance for a catch up with other riders.

Want to know about more about time trials? Click here for some cracking reasons to given time trialling a go

#1 Time Trial Calendar

Sign-up: You can sign-up to all events on Sign-up Genius, except Round 2 (for which entry is via the CTT website).

Results: You can see results from this year after each event at Welland Valley CC  Results .  Compiled by our results guru Mike Ives, this page also shows results and Championship positions going back to 2017.

In July and August Welland Valley CC is one of five clubs collaborating in the local ‘Round Robin‘ series  (shaded in green).  For more information on these events, which are also counting rounds in the Club Championship, click here.

 

Course Information

Want to know a bit more about our courses? Click here for a summary description for each course

#2 Event Price

Entries are payable upon sign-on via Credit or Debit Card only

  • Member*: £5.00 per ride
  • Guest: £6.00 per ride

* Our friends from Rockingham Forest, Kettering CC, Ratae RC, Hinckley CRC and Leicester Forest CC can enter our events for £5

Our  NDCA event on 6 April is an Open TT – entries for this event are £15 via the CTT page only.  Entries close on Tuesday 25th March.  All WVCC members that enter this event will get free entry to their next Club TT.

Riders aged under 18 will need to fill in and bring along a signed CTT Parental Consent Form and bring it along to their first race.

#3 Club Championship Scoring

WVCC Club Championship is contested across #26 events, and to qualify for entry you must:

  1. WVCC first-claim club member (long standing second claim members are eligible to win club trophies up to the age of 18)
  2. Completed 2x duties listed on the Marshalling Rota
  3. Complete at least #2 qualifying TTs highlighted in grey (i.e. not 10mile TTs)

When you have met this requirement your score will be based on:

  • Best two (2) scores from TTs highlighted in grey
  • Best nine (9) scores from all other events (either grey, white or green)
  • In each category the fastest rider scores 60, 2nd scores 55, 3rd 51, and then 48, 46, 44, 42, 40, 39, 38, etc.
  • In the event of a league table evens in a points tie the rider with the lowest overall time will win

2025  TT Championship and League Tables (These will be available after the first Time Trial)

  • Seniors
  • Veterans
  • Women
  • Juniors
  • Juveniles
  • Road Bike Men
  • Road Bike Women
  • Nev Brooks Memorial Trophy

2025 ‘George Halls Cycle Centre’ TT Leagues (These will be allocated in May)

  • Premier League
  • Division 1
  • Division 2
  • Division 3
  • Division 4

#4 Rules & Regulations

In the interests of both safety and the smooth running of events, the following specific rules will be rigidly enforced:

  • All riders must wear an approved hard shell helmet
  • All bikes must be fitted with a working rear light
  • All bikes must be fitted with a working front light

Additionally, under penalty of exclusion, no rider shall:

  • When warming up, pass by the start line once the event is under way
  • Perform a U-turn in sight of start or finish
  • Return to the timekeeper to enquire of their time whilst the event is in progress
  • Riders under 16 years of age may be accompanied by an adult, subject to conditions which will be clearly displayed at each race headquarters and on the club website

To be eligible for the Men’s and Women’s Road Bike Club Championships riders must indicate to officials at sign-on that they are riding a road bike and equipment used must adhere to the following:

  • The road bike can possess drop or straight handlebars
  • No tri-bars, clip-on bars or Spinacci bars are allowed
  • No disc wheels
  • Both front & rear wheels must have at least 12 spokes each
  • The maximum rim depth allowed is 90mm
  • Riders must not ride with their forearms resting on the handlebars at any time