Somerset Road Club
The Home of Cycling in Taunton
Welcome
Somerset Road Club has members drawn from Taunton, Bridgwater and the surrounding area, with wide ranging interests and abilities. Although we have a strong allegiance to racing, promoting road and circuit races and time trials, the majority of members don’t race and value the social aspect of cycling in the club and love a good cafe stop. For more information about our rides, check out our Club Rides page and FAQ section.
As well as road cycling, we have members competing in cyclo-cross and mountain biking and welcome new members of all ages, interests and abilities.
If you are interested in joining our cycling club, please see further information under the FAQ section or email our Membership Secretary for further details.
In addition to this website, we also have a Facebook Page and Facebook Group where more information is posted about current events and ad-hoc rides.
We are proud to have a long established relationship with our sponsor The Bicycle Chain, who have stores in Taunton, Bridgwater and Weston-super-Mare. Please support our sponsor and ensure these local cycle stores continue to thrive.
Posts from our Facebook Page
Eleven and a half hardy riders enjoyed the annual pre-Christmas EOSR yesterday to cafe 750 @ Haynes Motor Museum to be treated to a free coffee or tea courtesy of SRC.
Roads were damp but the sun was out and the floods were avoided.
Highest mileage award goes to Mark Deakin with 82miles! 💪🏻
Thanks to all that made it along. Merry Christmas!
🎄🎅 🥂
As a result of a productive committee meeting last night, I’m pleased to bring you 3 dates for your social diaries!
🍻🥗🍛 18th October - Autumn club social evening - drinks and meal
🚴🏻♂️🚴♀️☕️🍰 21st December - our annual ‘End Of Season Ride’ / Christmas coffee gathering
🍷🍕🗣18th January - Club Annual Dinner and Awards presentation with ‘special guest’ talk
More details to follow, look out for individual event listings, but for now save the dates.
All events will be available to current members and, again, heavily subsidised by SRC proving as ever how great value your membership to SRC is!
😆🤩 We also have some really exciting news for spring 2020, so look out for that once it all comes together.
Mike W (social sec.)
Our club Chairman Adrian Reynolds did a bit of light touring over a couple weeks this summer!!
EPIC sums it up rather well. Please join us in sending him some big, fat kudos. 👍
Disciplines
Somerset Road Club members participate in all forms of cycling including road and circuit racing, time trials, track, touring, sportives and leisure riding. Check out the brief details below for more information.
If you are new to cycling or perhaps thinking of purchasing your first bike you might find visiting The Bicycle Chain stores in Taunton, Bridgwater or Weston-super-Mare a great help or talk to some of our members.
FAQ
Yes, you can join us on one or two club rides on a come and try it basis. If you enjoy these rides and would like to continue riding with us, we ask that you join the club. We have rides of varying distance and pace, please contact the Membership Secretary before joining us so we can ensure you join a suitable ride and that we know to expect you.
We welcome members of all ages. However, we require that parents or guardians of young people taking part in all our club activities complete our parental consent form. This form should be completed by the parent/guardian of anyone under the age of 18 years wishing to take part in Somerset Road Club activities.
In addition, riders under the age of 16 years must also be accompanied by a parent/guardian or a nominated accompanying adult provided on this form.
We have a range of rides leaving the Taunton and Bridgwater area most Saturday mornings (see the Club Rides section). Up-to-date information on rides is posted on our Members Only Facebook Group and the Membership Secretary can provide you with temporary access to give you a flavour of our activities if you are interested in joining.