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Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
2026- Avenue Verte
Published: May 18, 2026
Clare Croker “Crompton” cycled with the North Staffs Junior Section of St. Christophers in the 1980s. Supported by Swinnerton Cycles the Club had a reputation for encouraging young riders and introducing them to cycle touring.
With husband Simon, a successfull retired professional engineer, Clare resumed her cycle touring with a 260 mile ride from London to Paris in 7 days.
Now featured in Trials and Sportives .
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
Mayfest Spring Reunion
Published: May 1, 2026
Mayfest Spring Get together
The 2025 Christmas Dinner was cancelled and the first reunion of 2026 took place in April at Amerton Farm.
Present , Judy Hitchens, Dave Tipper, Peter Hambley, Alan Conlan and Bob Baker. Photographer Alan Preston.
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
2020-RAFA Rides Waltham in the Wolds
Published: March 8, 2026
Riders celebrate at Sugnall a successfull ride by Peter and Alan to raise money for the RAF Association.
A new addition to Trials and Sportives:
https://www.saint-christophers-ccc.com/tours/trials-and-sportives/2020-rafa-rides/
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
The Origin of the Mayfest
Published: November 18, 2025
Peter Swinden, Michael Evans and Peter Hambley.
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
Peter Hambley 90 years
Published: October 20, 2025
Derek Everton cycles to Whitebridge Cafe at Stone to congratulate Peter
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
Trials and Sportives
Published: April 2, 2025
Two new posts have been added to the Tours Section.
2017 Newcastle Staffs.to R.A.F. Cosford ; a sponsored ride supported by R.A.F.A. , 435 Squadron Air Cadets and Tri-Services.
2023 Norfolk to Holywell; a ride by Robert Collins raising money for Spuc.
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
Anniversary
Published: February 22, 2025
The St. Christopher’s C. C. C. web site has now been operating for ten years. On Google it is the flag ship for “Catholic Cycling”
The policy of plain writing and pictures has been a hallmark of simplicity in a confused and ever more complicated area of mobile phones and media.
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Enjoy some nostalgia
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
The Old Members Association
Published: January 29, 2025
In 1950 the St. Christopher’s Catholic Cycling Club Old Members Association was formed. It allowed former members to meet up and keep in touch with the Club. Social events, weekend walks, pilgrimages and memorial masses were organised.
A Members List was published in pamphlet form and updated until 2020 when the Association predominately in London closed.
The Members List is now available to be seen at The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick T.P. 02476524219 and archive@warwick.ac.uk.
In 2015 a New Members List was introduced into the St. Christopher’s Website.
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
Chrismas Dinner 2024
Published: January 11, 2025
7 members present at the Eccleshall Cafe.
Derek Everton, Alan Preston, Judy Swinden, Peter Hambley, Alan Conlan, James Hambley and Bob Baker.
Saint Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club Blog:
St. Christopher’s Long Distance Riders
Published: November 30, 2024
The Secret Weapon 4
Positioned at Central Control were a team of helpers including Mike Ralphs and Peter Hambley.
Engineer Peter had purchased a Hewlett Packhard 29 C programmable scientific calculator.
By inserting time of start for each rider, distance to Control where current time was added manually, an HMC sub routine gave speed of the rider and the additional lengths ridden could be added to give overall distance travelled.
After monitoring the riders over a number of races a pattern emerged. By studying rider speeds a decay in performance was noted and final distance predicted.
At 100 miles in the 1980 Championship John Cahill was riding at 25 miles per hour. John Woodburn was under 4 hours, 497 and 505miles were the respective finishing distances.
One rider however George Berwick Glasgow R.C. rode at constant speed throughout to complete 460 miles.
With this current information St Christopher’s had an advantage over opposing teams and it was 39 years before their record was beaten.