WHO ARE WE?

We are a student-run club for students and staff of the University of Exeter. Our road team race in local events and races across the Southwest and South regions, including inter-university races (BUCS) throughout the year.

WHERE WILL THE MONEY GO AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT

• To refurb and care for our club road and MTB bikes which need a fair bit of money put into them to make them really good bikes.
• To purchase Club Track bikes to increase involvement in the discipline as well as help us out at BUCS competitions as you have to have your own bike to compete.
• To offer more skills sessions for those just getting into cycling to improve confidence on the bike, confidence in a group and all-around bike handling skills.
• To provide sessions with a professional to help improve bike maintenance for people who have bikes in the club.
• To subsidise a training camp abroad - altitude training as well as a trip to some of cycling's famous venues. A cycling-focussed trip like this would help improve skills throughout the club and bond the different disciplines more closely together.
• To provide women's only sessions, possibly with support from other south-west clubs as we have had communications with other female cyclists about this.

HOW WE ARE TACKLING THE CHALLENGE

Through Sports Challenge Week we plan to run two road club sessions with three rides going out on each of those. We will also run two mountain bike sessions. We will add in to the schedule additional sessions throughout the week including a women's only ride and potentially a gravel ride.

Members of the club go out every day in an unofficial capacity so we can make sure this is organised to maximise involvement. We could also look at running a social/t-shirt ride which will be very relaxed and which anyone can come along to. These miles are easily tracked for us through Strava which we can then transfer to the main online portal. We will also use university watt bikes and look to incorporate miles accrued in the gym.

FOLLOW US HERE

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfExeterCyclingClub

Instagram: @exeterunicyclingclub

Follow our journey and progress through challenge week!

HELP US SUCCEED

We would love you to donate as much or as little as you are able and any donations are hugely appreciated. Your donation could also help us unlock fundraising challenges which will help us reach our goal even faster (you can see these on the challenges page).

If you are looking to support an individual athlete or challenge, please put a message with your donation saying who!

Alternatively, if you are unable to donate then please do spread the word by signing up as a Challenge Week Ambassador for our club and sharing our social media posts to your own socials so as many people as possible can read about our efforts! OR why not take on your own mileage challenge and ask friends and family to donate to our page to support you (and us!)