Annual Dinner 2025

In March, we held our Annual Dinner and Awards evening. It was the first one that I’d been to as the new Chair of Alton Cycling Club (following Guy Henshaw’s impressive 5 year chairmanship!). We organised a fantastic evening with Kelvin on the saxophone to kick the evening off, tasty catering and great service from Anne at Plan B, and then Alan Jacob, our new President, handed out special thank yous and trophies. The Alton Cycling Club trophy winners from the 2024 Hill Climb (that tough long Brockham Hill Lane out of Holybourne) were Simon Potter and Freja Halliday. Simon also won the men’s Strava segment challenge and Ruth Stratford won the women’s Strava segment challenge. Really impressive efforts!

Our evening was topped off with Josie Dew sharing photos and talking about her cycling adventures over the years – an impressive range of countries, cycling in […]

Curry Night, 3rd April, 7.30pm

 

Our next club social evening will be on Thursday 3rd April at the Curry Palace in Alton. Large selection of dishes to choose from, including a vegan menu. Arrive by 7.30pm

https://www.currypalacealton.co.uk/

 

Alton CC Photography Competition

Our Club Dinner included presentation of prizes for the Alton CC Photography Competition.
In first place was Becci May with a great shot of Owen’s bike in the Atlas Mountains Race and a supporting shot of coffee and cake!

Second prize went to Charlie and Sarah Williams who submitted a huge selection of images of UK cycle sport.

Third place went to John Heath for his wonderfully evocative image of L’Autobus from the 2002 T de F on La Plagne…

Thank you to everyone for your photos!

Alton CC Club Dinner 2025

This year’s Alton CC club dinner will again be held at Beech village hall, at 7.00pm on Friday 7th March.

We have organised a great evening:

  • A cashless bar (card only) managed by our lovely bartenders.
  • Drinks and canapés.
  • A 2-course dinner served at your table (using the great caterers we had last year, menu to follow).
  • Awards – trophies and medals for our high achievers from 2024.
  • Musical accompaniment by Kelvin Parker.

As well as a great, informal evening with your Alton CC friends, we are very lucky this year to have the inspirational Josie Dew as our guest speaker:

http://josiedew.com/

Josie Dew has racked up 350,000 miles and counting on her bike – that’s the equivalent of doing the Tour de France more than 150 times, so she’s got plenty to say about cycling!

Buy your tickets for £22 per person, which includes canapés, a main course and desserts, great company and […]

Alton Cycling Club kit night: Try Before You Buy, Thu 6 Feb, 7.30pm, French Horn

Club kit night 2025:  Don’t miss your opportunity to try out the new club kit on offer from Bioracer. AND we’re being offered a 10% discount on all Alton Cycling Club kit orders placed between 6th and end of February!!

For our club night on 6th Feb, at the French Horn (function room), Russell from Bioracer is making a special trip to Alton, bringing sizing sets to make sure that if you’re thinking of buying Alton Cycling Club kit, you order the correct size and make sure it’s the right shape for you before ordering. You can get a feel for the garments before you buy!

Bioracer have also launched a new gravel kit range, and Russell will be bringing samples down with him for us to take a look at.

Even if you’re not interested in buying kit for now, please just […]