Ayr Burners Cycling

Sportive, Cyclocross, Youth, Adventure

Youths win the Summer Cross

Round 6 of our 2017 Summer League featured a short CX course at Rozelle Park, made all the more fun by a welcome visit from Dunlop CC! The handicapped format gave the u14s a 4 lap head start on the seniors.   The seniors were originally split into two groups based on experience.  However, the…

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Schemes and Dreams: 2016 Activity Calendar

As the clocks are set to change, so too are our diaries as we get set to become busy busy! We published our draft 2016 events calendar back in November and since then we’ve been plugging the details into the website.  As well as our weekly social rides, monthly kids clubs, and regular adventures, we have…

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Summer Series Round 7

The penultimate round of The Summer Series brought all the #TPBGs (Top Performing Big Guns) out to play with a view to either bolstering or salvaging their positions on the hottest cycling leader board around. Scott Knox was as cool as a series leading cucumber at the Grande Departe in Troon, whilst the Coylton Massive…

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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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Troon Treasure Hunt – Damp but Awesome!

As the station clock ticked towards 7pm there was a small but committed group assembled for the Troon Treasure Hunt.  However, for those present it meant the chance to pick up big series points.  Ignoring the fine and solid drizzle (warm rain – Scottish Summer at its finest!), the riders took hold of their maps…

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Summer Series 3: Rozelle CX

Once again the sun shone bright for our Summer Series. This week we were in Rozelle for summer cyclocross event using a new and untested 1.4km fast and flowing circuit. As we gathered at 7pm the course crew were running a little slow, but with all hands on deck we had ourselves a marked out…

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James Edwards wins the Stair Fayre: Summer Series 2

Despite the ominous conditions throughout the day we got away with it and enjoyed another great summer series event. 11 Burners met at Auchincruive for the ‘Annbank and Stair Fayre‘ Strava Ride – a 35km rolling social ride around the backroads of Annbank and Stair, but with the option to challenge over 5 strava segments….

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Gary Currie wins the Barnweil Grand Prix!

Finally we’ve been greeted with good weather conditions – our Summer Series has begun! The Barnweil Grand Prix is the first of eight mid-week events we are running through to August, with everything from strava-rides to treasure hunts.  The Barnweil Grand Prix followed a time trial format, but with a difference.  After a qualifying round…

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ABC Summer Series

Our 2015 Summer Series features 8 mid-week mini-competitions over a variety of cycling disciplines, each in a location chosen for quiet roads and accessibility.  As evening events these are short and should be as much about banter and fun as they are about testing skills and going quick. As well as traditional road and cross…

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