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Club Social Nights • End
of Term Socials • Sports
Federation Awards Dinner •
Christmas
Dinners • Varsity
Dinners
The Oxford University
Cycling Club has a rather notorious history in terms of social functions.
There is the club social night every other Wednesday, as well as
events at the end of each term, the annual Christmas dinner, and
the Varsity dinner when we host.
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Latest News - Christmas Dinner 2006 
The 2006 OUCC Christmas Dinner is on Wednesday 29th November 2006 (8th week) - those who have already given cheques and menu choices to James will be enjoying fine food at Pierre Victoire from 9pm - if you're not coming to dinner but would like to come for a drink before hand, we'll be meeting at the Duke of Cambridge (Little Clarendon Street) from 8pm. Dress smart for dinner (black tie optional). Ho ho ho.... |
Club Social
Nights, Freshers Drinks and End of Term Socials
Thursday 3rd week - 26th October 2006 - 8pm - KIT SOCIAL
A chance to try on the club kit before you place your order - from 8pm in Brasenose College - bring OUCC Nalini kit for others to try & any random kit you want to swap or sell. Plus, bring some drinks, nibbles & money for take-out pizza, if you want some.
Club Social Night
These Wednesday night meetings begin at 7 pm, invariably in the
Kings Arms, except on special occasions like the end of term socials.
In the recent past, social nights involved broken bones and altercations
with moving cars. This past year, however, things settled down a
bit and the average social night involves an hour of drinking at
the KA and then a meal at any one of a number of spectacular Oxford
eateries. After dinner, the social night usually continues either
at a pub or at one of the embarrassingly cheesy clubs that Oxford
has on offer. Be advised that if you attend a club after a social
night dinner, embarrassing photos will quickly surface of you dancing
badly.
Freshers Drinks Michaelmas 2003
First week 2003 saw the first OUCC pub stage race. Like a pro cycling
grand tour, the pub stage race was one for only the hard men and
women. The main difference between the pub stage race and a grand
tour is that in a grand tour pro athletes show their impeccable
physical conditioning, while at the pub stage race, OUCC members
just showed their ability to competitively drink copious amounts
of alcohol.
The pub stage race kicked
off with a prologue time trial in the King's Arms; like a grand
tour, the prologue was short and sharp: a vodka shot. We then proceeded
to the turf for the first road stage, what promised to be a sprinter's
affair but was taken in great rolleur fashion by a suicide break
(Miles, I believe, drank his pint really quickly, rather than waiting
for drinking-up time). The next stage was a boat-race style team
time at the Lamb and Flag. This was followed quickly by a tough
mountain stage at the Eagle and Child, where a formidable pint of
stout was tackled by the competitors. I'm a bit hazy about the last
stage (or whether there was one) but I know we passed through the
feed zone on Broad Street, fortifying ourselves with high-tech energy
foods at the kebab van. A victor may have been declared but I've
since forgotten; I think Miles may have taken the sprinter's jersey,
and Lucy may have taken the polka-dots, but, again, I'm a bit hazy.
I'd say it was a pretty classic OUCC night out.
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End
of Term Socials
The end of term events are a bit more special
than the club social. We meet at a cocktail bar rather than the
KA, and awards that make a stab at cleverness are dispensed.
End
of Trinity 2004
>> AWAITING REPORT <<
Sports Federation Awards Dinners
Sports Federation Awards Dinner 2004
>> AWAITING REPORT <<
 
Christmas
Dinners
At the end of Michaelmas term we will have the Christmas Dinner.
The Christmas dinner is as classy as the club gets and involves
black tie, speeches, and a meal of multiple courses. This, too,
eventually devolves into drunken clubbing but at least the evening
is classy until 11:30.
Christmas
Dinner 2004
Provisionaly booked for
Monday of 8th week (29 November 04) at Lincoln College. The college
asks for all the money to be collected before the event so I could
do with a estimation of the numbers. Typical 3 courses with wine
is £20-25 pounds, four courses £22-28 pounds. If you
would like to come please
email me, including any dietary requirements.
Tim Wallis
Christmas Dinner 2003
The Christmas Dinner was a rousing success this year, even compared
to other Christmas Dinners from past years. The black-tie event
began with drinks at local posing paradise the Duke of Cambridge,
before continuing on to the Department of Continuing Education for
dinner. The three-course meal was served in a private hall that
allowed for all the expected rowdiness that a Christmas Dinner entails.
The annual awards were,
as always a highlight of the evening. Honorary memberships to the
Future Fat Testers Association and the Belgium in Training Velo
Club were given to Ian Shapiro and Alex Rowe respectively, and Kat
Smart received an award for service from the vulcanizing industry,
among other awards.
After the conclusion
of the meal, the party continued at the only club in town where
it's acceptable to be seen off one's face in black tie: the Purple
Turtle. The party continued until the early hours, aided by copious
alcohol and a large inflatable chili that somehow appeared in the
PT. Click here
for more pictures!
Eli Lassman
Varsity
Dinner
The Varsity dinner, though it celebrates the Varsity match between
Oxford and Cambridge, is effectively an Oxford event. Cambridge
does not know how to plan a dinner, their members can't make speeches
and they definitely don't know how to go to a club. Fortunately,
we attend the Varsity dinners as well, so the evening is a success
even when Cambridge 'hosts' the dinners. We know how to throw a
party and we will be hosting the black tie Varsity event this year.
The Varsity dinner end up being similar to the Christmas dinner,
as the Tabs will go to bed after dinner, by 9:30.
Varsity Dinner 2004
This year's Varsity Dinner celebrated an extremely successful Varsity
Match, in which Oxford's testers handily dispatched Cambridge's
motley squad of also-rans. Matters continued in the same vein at
the Varsity Dinner, as Cambridge could manage only a miniscule squad
of revellers (in their defence, it WAS as Saturday night and that's
only two nights before a school day, so who could blame the tabs
for wanting to be in bed by 9:30?). As always with these types of
events, the black-tie dinner kicked off with drinks at the Duke
of Cambridge. We continued on to dinner at Pierre Victoire. All
enjoyed the sumptuous three course meal. Speeches followed; our
president Tom gave a well-oiled speech congratulating Oxford's champions
and consoling the broken-hearted tabs. The trophy was not present
but then we knew all along that there was no reason to take it out
of the display case at the sports fed, except to add another three
Oxford names and give it a bit of a dusting.
The revelling continued at Freud's where the Varsity Dinner party
were the last people standing on the dance floor and closed down
the club. Some retired to bed at this point, while others went back
to London road and welcomed the sun on the first day of another
year with Oxford as Varsity Match champions.
Eli Lassman
It would be great to have
some picutures up from the varstiy dinner. Can you
email me them?
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