Saturday, 3 March 2012
Pendine: Beach race goes west for the weekend | This is Sou...
Pendine: Beach race goes west for the weekend | This is Sou...: Beach race goes west for the weekend | This is South Wales : "PETROLHEADS need not despair after the cancellation of a motorcycle race in Sw...
Pendine: Daffodil Classic - March 4th
Pendine: Daffodil Classic - March 4th: Daffodil Classic – St David’s Day Cyclo Sportif 2012 Registration, will still be at the Coffee Shop. Breakfast is offered at the Ca...
RACE FOR SPEED RECORD - 2 - British Pathé
RACE FOR SPEED RECORD - 2 - British Pathé:
Here is some interesting trivia for you. On this day 85 years ago (1927) J.G Parry Thomas was killed on neighbouring Pendine Sands while trying to regain his own world land speed record that had been broken just weeks earlier by Malcolm Campbell on the same beach. He was suffering from influenza and turned down a lucky black cat charm from a little girl, announcing "I will put my faith in my maker!" His Liberty-engined car, Babs, used exposed chains to connect the engine to the drive wheels, and the high engine cover required him to drive with his head tilted to one side – the right. On his final run the right-hand drive chain broke at a speed of 170 mph (270 km/h), causing a fatal head injury. Parry-Thomas was buried in St Mary's Churchyard in Byfleet, Surrey, close to the Brooklands Circuit. His car was buried at Pendine Sands close to where he died. Some 40 years later, and not without controversy, it was recovered and over the next 15 years restored by Owen Wyn Owen. It is now on display at the Pendine Museum of Speed, Carmarthenshire, and occasionally at Brooklands Museum.
Here is some interesting trivia for you. On this day 85 years ago (1927) J.G Parry Thomas was killed on neighbouring Pendine Sands while trying to regain his own world land speed record that had been broken just weeks earlier by Malcolm Campbell on the same beach. He was suffering from influenza and turned down a lucky black cat charm from a little girl, announcing "I will put my faith in my maker!" His Liberty-engined car, Babs, used exposed chains to connect the engine to the drive wheels, and the high engine cover required him to drive with his head tilted to one side – the right. On his final run the right-hand drive chain broke at a speed of 170 mph (270 km/h), causing a fatal head injury. Parry-Thomas was buried in St Mary's Churchyard in Byfleet, Surrey, close to the Brooklands Circuit. His car was buried at Pendine Sands close to where he died. Some 40 years later, and not without controversy, it was recovered and over the next 15 years restored by Owen Wyn Owen. It is now on display at the Pendine Museum of Speed, Carmarthenshire, and occasionally at Brooklands Museum.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
More motocross planned for sands after city race axed | This is South Wales
More motocross planned for sands after city race axed | This is South Wales: "AFTER motorbike racing returned to Pendine for the first time in 20 years in January, fans have not been made to wait too much longer for the next event.
In fact, bikers will take to the sands again this Sunday.
The January race event at Pendine, attracted hundreds despite dismal weather, marking the return of beach racing for the first time since the winter of 1989/90.
Cross Inn-based Anthony Roberts, of the Dredgers-Laugharne Motocross Club, said Sunday's race in Pendine was not a direct replacement for a cancelled event in Swansea, due to take place the same weekend.
"The one that was cancelled up in Swansea was advertised for March 2-4; that was the date we had originally thought of when I went to meet the council in Pendine.""
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In fact, bikers will take to the sands again this Sunday.
The January race event at Pendine, attracted hundreds despite dismal weather, marking the return of beach racing for the first time since the winter of 1989/90.
Cross Inn-based Anthony Roberts, of the Dredgers-Laugharne Motocross Club, said Sunday's race in Pendine was not a direct replacement for a cancelled event in Swansea, due to take place the same weekend.
"The one that was cancelled up in Swansea was advertised for March 2-4; that was the date we had originally thought of when I went to meet the council in Pendine.""
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Sunday, 26 February 2012
Beach race goes west for the weekend | This is South Wales
Beach race goes west for the weekend | This is South Wales: "PETROLHEADS need not despair after the cancellation of a motorcycle race in Swansea — because one is taking place in Carmarthenshire instead.
RHL Activities Ltd had been intending to run the Welsh Beach Race on Swansea Beach from Friday, March 2, through to Sunday, March 4.
But the race has now been delayed to allow time for further environmental safeguards to be put in place.
However, a motorcycle beach race is now taking place at Pendine Beach in west Carmarthenshire this Sunday, only the second time in 20 years the sands, famed for their use for land speed record attempts, have been used for such an event.
The motocross beach race, organised by the Dredgers Laugharne Motocross Club, follows on from an event held in late January."
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RHL Activities Ltd had been intending to run the Welsh Beach Race on Swansea Beach from Friday, March 2, through to Sunday, March 4.
But the race has now been delayed to allow time for further environmental safeguards to be put in place.
However, a motorcycle beach race is now taking place at Pendine Beach in west Carmarthenshire this Sunday, only the second time in 20 years the sands, famed for their use for land speed record attempts, have been used for such an event.
The motocross beach race, organised by the Dredgers Laugharne Motocross Club, follows on from an event held in late January."
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Thursday, 23 February 2012
Daffodil Classic - March 4th
Daffodil Classic – St David’s Day Cyclo Sportif 2012
Registration, will still be at the Coffee Shop. Breakfast is offered at the Café from 8.30 a.m. Gilbert's Cafe has now been renamed 'The Coffee Shop'. The cafe is situated at the bottom of the hill in Pendine
The course is exactly the same as last year. A short but tough course coming in at somewhere between 45 and 48 miles depending on whose computer you read!
There will be a refreshment stop, if needed, at Trelech (16.6 miles). Tea and cakes will be served! There will also be water available. A broom wagon for those who are suffering will be on hand and there will be first aid cover on board and also at the refreshment stop.
All monies collected will go to the Carmarthenshire Children’s Centre http://www.canolfanplantsirgar.org.uk/
If anyone is looking for accommodation then the following link will help you out:
http://www.morfabayadventure.co.uk/daffodilclassic.php or phone Jonathan:
10.30 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. – Registration at The Coffee Shop, Pendine (at the bottom of the hill!)
12.00 p.m. – Start
12.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. - 70km Bike Ride – ‘THE DAFFODIL CHALLENGE’
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