Newcastle Phoenix Cycle Club

A British Cycling 'Go-Ride' Youth Development Club

The 2010 Youth cycle race has been upgraded to a British Cycling Go-Ride mountain bike Race and is hosted in partnership with the Tyne Valley Cycle Club and the British Cycling Regional Development team.  It aims to encourage young people and their families to get involved in cycling as a fun way to keep fit, stay healthy and raise money for a charitable cause.

The 2010 Tour of the Reservoir Go-Ride Race will take the form of 2 bike races which will allow each young bike rider to get the taste for two areas of bike racing.  The races will take place within the grounds of Derwent reservoir and will take the form of an individual time trial around a set short course and this will be followed by a mountain bike mass start race on the same course. 

Age categories U16, U14, U12, U10, U8.

This is how the day will look.

• 11:00 Riders sign on in Edmundbyers Village Hall
• 11:30 Riders will be escorted to the race start within the grounds of the Reservoir
• 12:00 The first race will start.  It will take the form of an individual time trial!
• 12:30 The Mountain bike cross country races will start.  These races will be broken into age categories to make it fair for all bike riders, so every one will have an equal chance to win!!
• 14:00 We will all make our way to the dam at the reservoir to watch the finish of the 2010 Tour of the Reservoir Premier Calendar road race, another race that is apparently on the same day!.
• 14:30 All riders will be escorted back to the Village hall for the buffet.

The order of the day will be fun and a come along and have a blast attitude!

Last year’s junior event attracted many  youngsters from across Tynedale and raised money for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit ‘PICU the Penguin Fund’ at Newcastle Freeman Hospital. The charity was set up after three year old Martha Andersen from Edmundbyers Village, which is part of the race route, received life-saving treatment on an artificial heart machine before a successful heart transplant in March 2007. All monies raised from this year’s event will be donated to boost the fund and help Martha and her family to reach their £50,000 target to buy another ‘Berlin’ artificial heart machine for the Unit.

Hetton Hawks are hosting two training events for all-comers. See below for a flyer.

These two events are aimed at any rider who is looking to build up race fitness, or just try out a race-type event.

Format of the events is an Australian Pursuit, with separate events for the very young, a bit less young, then older teenagers getting a head start on the adults.

Whilst this event is supported by Newcastle Phoenix, the usual Saturday sessions will be on at Blakelaw as well.