Midlothian Cycling Club

Spring has sprung so it must be time to forget the winter sports and get the bike out. Whatever your interest we hope you're looking forward to this cycling season, here's a quick preseason update on the clubs activities.

We'll be continuing to run our regular Tuesday evening off road training rides and lots of weekend rides throughout the year. Come join us and stay fit, we'll be posting a few public rides so you can come and see what we get up to on a rides so watch this space.

We'll be supporting our junior members improve their skills and helping the local BMX club by running a weekly training session (probably Thursday) at their recently revamped Musselburgh track from now till October. Separate announcement on this to come.

If you have any questions about what we do, comment below or send us an message and we'll be happy to help.

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If anyone is in need of something to keep you warm this winter then get on your bmx, Cumbernauld centurions are running a mid week winter series at their floodlit track. It's a great facility for keeping you fit during the winter.

BMX RACING - NIGHT SERIES 🚵‍♂️⚡
Our BMX Winter Series starts on Wednesday 28th November and will run until March with four separate race nights.
Each race night will run from 7pm - 9pm with a practice session and race session taking place.
Race entry is £5 and can be paid Broadwood reception.
Email [email protected] for more information.

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Climbing out of Polton on the MCC Tuesday night shift before the sun set and the lights had come out. The newly resurfaced path round Roslin has solar lights which make for an unusual riding experience.

We don't always climb the hills for the descents, sometimes we climb the hills for the glorious Scottish views.
Let us know below where will your ride take you this weekend?

More track building happening tomorrow night and Friday at Musselburgh - Monarchs BMX Club. If you can help they'd really appreciate it. It's almost rideable and it's looking fantastic, can't wait to see it open.

Good morning, Musselburgh - Monarchs BMX Club has reached out to us to ask for help finishing off the BMX track this coming Sunday 12th of August from 10am.

We went to the the track last night and it looks amazing. This is a race standard track that will serve the cycling community of the lothians for years to come and it has plenty to offer all levels of cyclists.

The layout with the heavy machinery is all done and now the manual surfacing is ready to go. All the materials are on site and we just need lots of volunteers to help spread the surface material. The task is large, OK its massive, but with enough hands on Sunday the job can be done.

Once the surface is on the track will be rideable and if we get enough people there on Sunday we reckon it could be completed.

The whole project has been done on a shoe string budget using every penny of the clubs funds, track material from East Lothian Council and most importantly hard graft by the clubs members.

Please come and help if you can, and if you have any tools such as a shovel, rake or a wheel barrow then please bring them if you can. We'll have lots of tools there but if we get a large turn out then the more the merrier.

Hope to see you there this Sunday 🚲 🚲 🚲

Looking good at the BMX track.

Progress continues at Musselburgh. The track shaping has now been finished. Our track builder Johnny Hamilton has done an amazing job for us. There are plenty of jumps on it so it will be fun to ride. It’s now onto the hardcore and top surface whilst we have the machines on site this week. Thanks to ELC for supplying the materials and also to our group of Volunteers who have been a god send. If you’d like to help out, please get in touch!
“Many hands make light work”