Ayr Burners Cycling

Sportive, Cyclocross, Youth, Adventure

The past, the present, and the future – news roundup

With so many rides and activities going on you’ll forgive us please for neglecting our news feed a little! Anyway, here are some of the exciting things that have been happening: Pedal for Scotland Our @wulljackson0512 on the Carmichaelberg @PedalScotland #bigbelter pic.twitter.com/zuVIydoDeP — AyrBurnersCyclingQTS (@AyrBurners) September 6, 2015 Will Jackson was one of several Burners…

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The Best Of the FPP Ayrshire Alps Friendly

Phew! We had a truly wonderful day of cycling at the FPP Scotland Ayrshire Alps Friendly. As the dust settles and we catch our breath, we take a look back at 10 of the highlights of the day. 1. The Riders When we first launched the idea we were expecting half-a-dozen riders from Walkers, Ayr…

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Ayrshire Alps Friendly – the countdown begins!

We are now just days away from our first official ‘open’ promotion, the FPP Scotland ‘Ayrshire Alps’ friendly reliability trials. We’re really buzzing by the response we’ve had to the event and to the prospect of a big day our climbing 6 of the Ayrshire Alps! Full course information, including routes and handbook can be…

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FPP Scotland Ltd sponsor Ayr Burners events

Ayr Burners Cycling are delighted to announce FPP Scotland Ltd as a sponsor of upcoming events including the Ayrshire Alps Friendly Rides in August. Operating out of Glasgow, FPP Scotland are a specialist supplier of pipeline products and construction materials. The company prides itself on working proactively with customers, and are at the forefront of supplying innovative…

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Tour Fever! Weekly round up

Where to start this week? We had a record breaking turn out for our third Balance Bike session, we saw Joanne beat the boys in the Summer Series, and our new Tour de France inspired Strava Series kicks off tomorrow. Sparks in Belleisle After a night of rain, the sun came out once again for…

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Well done Harry!

All the Burners are delighted for 13year old Harry McGarvie who won the youth hill climb event on the Isle of Cumbrae yesterday. Racing is not one of our key focuses, but it is something Harry really enjoys and we’re glad to support our racing members where we can. Not only did Harry win the…

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The longest day: big mile munchers

It creeped up without any warning from the weather gods, but the Summer Solstice has been. With it came some cyclists taking on biiig mileage days in the saddle. Christopher JG has a look back. 300km I was watching Alex Hamilton’s quest to complete the Chase The Sun  event from the Isle-of-Sheppey to Burnham on Sea…

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6 months old and 100 members!

Ayr Burners are celebrating two important milestones today;  It is now a full six months since Rod Henderson and Christopher Johnson signed the constitution to create a group that would promote recreational cycling across Ayrshire and develop the Ayrshire Alps Cycle Park. We marked our 100th member when young Kenneth Dixon and his parents joined….

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Sparks in the Sun: Twitter News Round Up

As we come to the end of another big week of action for the Burners lets turn to twitter to catch up:   Burners complete the Prestwick Cycle Challenge The Prestwick Cycle Challenge (PCC) started on Wednesday, taking riders from Fort William to Inverness via the most amazing scenery Scotland has to offer. Representing the…

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And pause…. Scheduled website maintenance

We are in the process of migrating our web hosting for both the AyrBurners.org and AyrshireAlps.org websites.  This is expected to take approximately 48hours and we may experience some downtime. In the meantime keep up to date with us on Facebook and Twitter Big thanks to our supporters Digital My Way for sorting this out…

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