This is what a BDN ride is all about
Excellent weather to enjoy a BDN ride on the beautiful South Downs, though with a strong north-westerly winds. Messrs Bang-Sorensen, Budd and Thomas set out from Findon intending to get onto the SDW and go over to Bury Hill, round to Whiteways and back down to Houghton, North Stoke and back to Findon. However, a…
Read MoreNot Gala Night at The Gurkha Tandoori, Worthing
Another excellent evening celebrating the fine achievements of members of the FGCC over a superb Nepalese dinner lubricated with oceans of Gurkha beer and plenty of entertainment by members awards presentations. At the Gurkha Tandoori, Worthing
Read MoreNot rain at last
A great BDN ride for Messrs Bang-Sorensen and Thomas on 18th January with not a cloud in the sky for once:-
Read MoreAnnual planning meeting
And the FGCC 2015 Bulldog Bling award goes to …. Mr Roy Kruger. In a glitzy award ceremony in the Village House Hotel, Findon, surrounded by throngs of celebrities and hoards of paparazzi the 2015 bling award for the most rides in 2015 was presented to Mr Kruger by Mr Thomas, previous holder of this…
Read MoreAnnual Planning meeting notification
The next FGCC annual planning meeting has been called for this Friday 8th January 2016. Look forward to seeing members at the Village House Pub from 8.00pm onwards for an entertaining evening of planning and generally talking b******s.
Read MoreFGCC Gentleman, Roy Kruger, and work colleagues on Hindhead to Land’s End charity ride.
Updates from Roy as he progresses – assuming he has enough energy. Day three and final 100 miles – Day started off with us all going the wrong direction, but after doubling back and climbing the ex’s of all ex’s we managed to make up a bit of time. Hard first third, fairly flat second…
Read MoreFollow Mr Budd’s Pacific adventure
You can follow Chris Budd’s Pacific crossing on his friends’ yacht via this link: Www.afarvi.blogspot.it
Read MoreNot Gala Night 2015
Eight gentlemen of the FGCC met at the Gurkha Tandoori on Friday 20th February for our annual celebration of all that the Findon Gentlemen’s Cycling Club represents, to present awards for great achievements in the previous year, and to enjoy the Gurkha fare – as one gentlemen (PT) later commented “Not Gala Night was, as…
Read MoreThe 2014 bling award
On January 9th PT circulated the statistics of attendance on 2014 rides as follows:- So the bling award returns to RT and was presented during breakfast at Julia’s Kitchen in Findon after the Saturday morning ride on 10th January. Whilst RT was honoured to receive the award again, especially as 1.67 Everests takes him higher…
Read More2015 APM
The 2015 Annual Planning Meeting was held at Nepcroft at the start of New Year’s Eve celebrations. Apologies received from PT, we were still quorate with Messrs Mead, Allen, Roche, Kruger and Thomas present, assisted by a polypin of Dark Star bitter sourced by Mr Roche. A video conference with Mr Budd in Italy established…
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