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2021/01/24

Latest riding guidance

The official government advice at the moment is here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home British cycling: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20200512-about-bc-news-British-Cycling-Updated-Coronavirus-Guidance-0 Cycling UK: https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/coronavirus-qa-cycling-guidance The basic restriction is ride locally, ride once per day and with maximum one other person. The key point of contention is what are the actual restrictions of riding locally? The organisations above have requested clarification on this point – Read more…

2020/10/05

Race Updates

Please share race news, write-ups etc here. CX, road, track – all welcome.

2020/07/10

Club Guidelines During COVID19 Pandemic

What are the current club guidelines? Summary At the current time, taking into account the government guidelines, GS Avanti Cycling Club does not deem it appropriate to return to regular organised group cycling activity. This position will be reviewed regularly and updated as and when possible. The inter-club time-trial competition for 2020 has been abandoned, – Read more…

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2020/10/05

East Kent Cyclocross 2020 – Round 1 – Sandwich Tech

October 4th saw this season’s East Kent Cyclocross league get underway at Sandwich Technology School. Series organisers VC Deal have clearly done the hard yards to put on their usual five-race calendar in a way that complies with current restrictions, and it was a very grateful bunch of cyclocross enthusiasts who showed up on Sunday – Read more…

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2020/09/29

HHV – Sprinters League 2020

As 1st and only HHV – sprinter league race of the year was sold out and had a few unfamiliar faces having travel some distance to take part. Thankfully unlike last week, Saturday Evening was warm and the bar was open to keeping the spectators lubricated. Due to new social distance measures, all rides where – Read more…

2020/09/14

Vinnie’s Ride To Lithuania

What an effort! Avanti member Vinnie – who some of you will know from Endurance X Nature and Cycle42 has been training during lockdown and has cycled from Orpington to his hometown of Vilnius in Lithuania to raise funds for a charity very close to his heart – Cancer Research UK.. Check out his updates – Read more…

2020/08/07

ClubNoPinz is live!

GS Avanti is proud to announce that our new supplier of custom – Club NoPinz –  kit is live! See the kit page on our website for more info.

2020/04/03

BC South East Zwift Racing

Introducing:  BC South East Interclub Competition on ZwiftDear Club Secretary, We’d be very grateful if you could share this announcement with your club members please… For all of you on Zwift, the national delivery team at British Cycling (BC) has set up a number races/rides/meet ups and workouts. They have also added a filter so that you – Read more…

2020/03/17

Bike servicing

With club runs currently on hiatus and the worst of the winter weather behind us, now is the time to give your bike some much deserved TLC in time for summer.  For £50 I will give your bike a full strip, clean and rebuild and get it working like new. I am up in Biggin – Read more…

2019/10/18

CX 2019

This area is a gathering of photos, info and race reports for the cyclocross 2019-2020 season. Google Photos Full Link

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2019/02/08

G2 Sunday Ride Leader Rota

Updated 9-1-19 Based on FeedbackDate Lead One Lead Two 06/01/2019 Chris Moss Graham Channon13/01/2019 Hamish Brown Neale Napier20/01/2019 Richard Bingham Chris Dines27/01/2019 SW Reliability03/02/2019 Old Ports RR10/02/2019 Graham Channon Jim Nightingale17/02/2019 Neale Napier Chris Moss24/02/2019 Richard Bingham Hamish Brown03/03/2019 Kentish Killer (Avanti helping)10/03/2019 Jim Nightingale Chris Dines17/03/2019 Chris Moss John King24/03/2019 Hamish Brown Steve Rodgers31/03/2019 – Read more…