Welcome to the Dundee Thistle Road Club.

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The Dundee Thistle Road Club recently celebrated its 75th aniversity. Today the club is active in all areas of cycling, running the thistle 2 day road race, a yearly track meeting hosting the scottish 15K championships, and a multitude of other activities includuing cycle weekenders, mountain bike weekends and other social events. The club is happy to welcome newcomers and cycle runs can be on for all levels.

Informal meetings are held at 8.30 every Thursday at Lochee Boys Club with a general meeting held on the first thursday of each month. A training run is held every thursday night before the meeting in winter and complemented by training at the local hard track at caird park in the summer months.

Club runs leave every Sunday at 9.30 from Camperdown Country Park gates where a number of clubs meet and there is time for a bit of friendly chat. The Camperdown Country Park can be found just off the Kingsway at the UGC cinema. Typically the club runs will vary in length from 50 to 80 miles and usually will have a cafe stop. Most runs head west towards the A9 towns of Dunkeld and Pitlochry, with a nice cafe stop at Kate's tea rooms which are very accomodating to bikes and have a good selection of cakes for those needing an energy boost!

Mostly we put on road runs all though we have always organised off road runs and can introduce you to some excellent local routes around the sidlaws which is the hilly range just north of dundee

Directions to the camperdown gates are shown below

Location of Camperdown Gates

The thursday night training run sets off from the boys club, out past longforgan, up through knapp village to tully and back into dundee, setting of at 7pm sharp and taking around 1hr 10mins depending on the conditions! To reach the Lochee boys club take Wellbank Lane first left off Loons Road just off Lochee Bypass / Lochee Road. A map of the showing the location of the clubhouse is shown below. Click on the map to view on multimap.com

Location of Lochee Boys Club