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2008

Cheddar Cyclo Sportive Event

Cyclo Sportive return in a slightly changed two day format, the ride now offers 270k of mendip riding. The first of the two days a 110k ride through striking mendip scenery with some tasty climbs. Followed by the near same route as the previous year for the Sunday. Click here to get an entry form.

Cheddar Bikefest

The Bikefest is back for its second year also, this year with a slightly changed setup and a new course. The event will grow frow 8 hours on Saturday to an into the night 10 hour race, Sunday will grow to 5 hours with a new novice 3 hour race. NiteRider have offered up more prices for the night time trial which will now take place on the Friday. For more information or to get an entry form visit the Cheddar Bikefest website.

2007

Cheddar Cyclo Sportif Event

A new cycle event created by David Moore of Broadway House and Paul Baker of the Cheddar Cycle Store will have its first airing in September 2007. The Cheddar Cyclo Sportif will be a challenging 160km road event based around Cheddar. For more details see the Cheddar Cyclo Sportif page

Cheddar Challenge video

For those of you considering the Cheddar Bikefest for 2007, a short video is available for download, showing elements of the 2005 event.

Bye Bye Cheddar Challenge

The Cheddar Challenge has now become the Cheddar Bikefest. The same excellent mountain biking friendly venue with a grueling course.

The Cheddar Challenge website will become an information site for cycling in and around Cheddar, the Mendips and Somerset.

"Man on a bicycle can go three to four times faster than a pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries 1g of his weight over a kilometre of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories.

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well." - Ivan Illich.

Clearly Ivan has not tried the Cheddar Course!