Club Events 6th October Advance Junior Club meet at Quench Cycles 09:30 Start.

Club Ride meet at Quench Cycles 10:00 Start.

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Insomnia 2012 Cancelled It is with great regret that we have had to cancel Insomnia this year. Despite a great deal of effort from a number of people, we have been unable to sign up enough riders to run the event without making a substantial loss and enough volunteers to run the event safely.

I understand this will be very disappointing to a lot of people who have been working to promote it, training to ride it and looking forward to being involved in it. It was always going to be a big task to run an event as large as this and to even attempt to do it with a hand full of volunteer organisers and without the support of a major sponsor was always going to be a challenge. We did get very close to being able to run it and the fact that we got as far as we did is testament to the skills and hard work of the organisers. I would like to offer my thanks to those who worked so hard and got so close.

We will have a think about an alternative event for next year so stay tuned and if you do have any ideas please don’t be shy to suggest something!

Many thanks and apologies to all involved.

Boris

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New Car Parking Payment System The new Car Parking System will start on Monday 29th February.

The New System uses Number Plate Recognition. On entry STOP in front of the Barrier, your Number Plate will be read and the Barrier will lift.

When you leave STOP in front of the exit Barrier and your Number Plate will be read. If your Registration Number is on the system the Barrier will lift and you can leave.

We recommend that YOU check at the Visitor Centre Office the First Time YOU use the New System as soon as you arrive in order to avoid any problem when you leave.

All Registration numbers recorded on our Database will be automatically loaded on the System. As long as you have advised us of any changes you have nothing to do.

The New System will not let you leave if your Registration Number is not on the System.

In this case you must go to the Visitor Centre 0900-1700 show your BFCC Membership Card and Car Park Card. Depending on how busy they are they will update your record on their system immediately or give you a onetime code to enable you to leave the Car Park and update the system asap.

If you are outside the Visitor Centre hours you could try Quench who will check your Membership and Car Park Card and give you an exit code OTHERWISE you will have to pay.

If you have a Replacement or Temporary vehicle YOU will need to take your BFCC Membership Card and Car Park Card to the VC to have the Temporary Number entered for the day, or to replace your existing vehicle permanently.

Don’t forget to tell us of your New Number as well.

Remember that the Parking Pass is only for 1 Vehicle per family in the Car Park. If you use two vehicles at the same time you need 2 passes or must pay for the additional vehicle for it to be able leave the car park.

If you do not have a Car Park Pass YOU can enter the Car Park for 30 Minutes for Drop-Off/Pick-Up but this will now be strictly enforced.

If you have any questions, or you wish to update your car number plate details please contact Carol Hodgson our membership secretary on radrenner_2000@yahoo.com or 01622870276

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Bedgebury Harvesting Operation As Bedgebury is a working forest it is necessary for the Forest Commission to carry out Harvesting operations. The harvesting is due to begin from Monday 16th January for a period of 10 weeks.

How will this effect the trails??.

There are likely to be some trail diversion's put in place, if you come across these please adhere to them as they are there for the safety of all.

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Boars On Bikes Newsletter 20th September Sorry there has been no news for a few weeks but I’ve been on holiday - a week of riding bikes down in the South West.
Fellow boars Paul and John joined me for a couple of days and we explored the Quantock hills.
There is some excellent riding down there so we’ll arrange a weekend outride as some point, probably next spring.

So what’s happening closer to home then?

Insomnia!

So many people to thank here for a fantastic event so here goes:
Andy Bocking for organising the event alongside the BHF.
Paul Stevens, Gary Scott and Geoff Hodgson for grooming, repairing, painting and marking out the course.
Terry, Robin, Tally, Nigel, Paul, Geoff, Alan, Jake, Faith, Malky, Martin, Tim, John, James and Harry for being absolutely brilliant marshals and staying up all night to support the riders and making my job easy.
All the club members who rode the event. Thank you all so much guys you really did the club proud!

First Aid

Andy from Emergency Life Support Team still has a few places left on the Wilderness first aid course running 24th to 25th September.
The course is brilliant, the teacher is inspiring and with the knowledge gained you could save a life.
Don’t forget as an added bonus you get 10% off for being a club member.
Go to http://elst.co.uk/wilderness-first-aid now to book your place.

Club Shirts

The long awaited club shirts have finally landed.
I’ll be selling them this Saturday (24th) from 9.30 for quarter of an hour and from 12.00 for quarter of an hour.
If you want me to post one to you, please just let me know.
I have road shirts, mountain shirts and free ride shirt in a variety of sizes, as well as shirts for juniors.

Junior Club

Not many sessions left this year now so make the most of it.
The next one is on 24th September, gathering from 9.30 to ride at 10.00.

Coaching

The next advanced adult training course is on 9th October 2011 and there are still a few places left.
The course runs from 10am to approx 3pm.Cost is just £50 per day.
The day will focus specifically on all the individual core techniques that collectively make up the skill you wish to improve your knowledge and competence in. Initially training & assessment will be within the dedicated training area so that we can offer controlled individual coaching.
Where appropriate we will ride out into the Forest to test you new skills on Bedgebury’s’ single track.
This course is aimed at competent off-road riders with a good grounding knowledge in bike handling skills, but is looking to improve their skills or indeed tackle some of the advance skills for the first time.
Speed of development will be group/rider driven and it may take more than one session to achieve your own personal goals.
To book or for more information please contact Gary Scott on Gscot1@aol.com or call him on 0789 641 2223.

See you out soon

Boris

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