Club Launch

Sunday the 30th September brought about the eagerly awaited official club launch.

The launch event was a combined affair held at the Thomas's store in Colchester. Paul Thomas had arranged for suppliers from Trek, Giant, Specialized and Look to be on hand with their latest machines for the 2008 season and it has to be said they brought some lovely machines.

We had managed to plan the launch of the club so that the clothing was in good supply and those members that had already joined would be on hand in their kit to facilitate a club photo.

Local MP Bob Russell who is also involved in both Roadpeace and Cycle Speedway attended the event and gave a few words to all those concerned.

Our sponsors, Glenn Tookey (inTechnology) and Richard Harris (Centric) also attended and took delivery of their team clothing which will be framed and put on display in their respective offices, Glenn enjoys cycling himself and will be wearing a VCR jersey when out on the roads.

We had a fantastic turn out from the members of the club and also managed to sign up a number of new members on the day, as a result Alan Lawrence had to spend the rest of Sunday evening processing the applications!

A massive thanks goes out to the Thomas family (especially Paul) who have been behind the launch of the club both emotionally and financially, and without whom the launch would not have been as successful as it was.

A local cyclist Adam kindly volunteered to be on hand with his camera, Adam is a budding amateur photographer and likes nothing more than taking photo's of nice new carbon fibre, so we invited him to the launch to get some photo's of the new bikes and to take some of the club and it's sponsors. Thanks Adam for giving up your afternoon for the sake of VCR and it's members.