Bedgebury Forest Cycle Club newsletter 1st April
Hello!

First of all a very warm welcome to those new members who have joined us at the beginning of our new membership year. Take off your sensible trousers and put a silly hat on. It’s great here – you’re gonna love it!

New Assets

It is very exciting to report the imminent arrival of some new assets to the club. The Forestry Commission quite rightly do not allow us to use power tools or motorized vehicles in the forest due to the potential dangers to the users and others in the vicinity. However this causes us a lot of very hard work when it comes to cutting the grass around the training area and racetrack, and in transporting tools and materials when trail building. So in order to reduce the labour and increase the time we spend actually building trails we have purchased three new assets. Molly and Dolly are a pair of New Romney Black faced ewes who will be responsible for keeping the grass cut and providing something soft to fall on to when we have novices practicing in the training area. We are also hoping to use them to boost club funds by offering a range of Ewes Milk dairy products such as cheese, yogurt and eggs. Fleecy saddle covers with the club logo on will hopefully be available by mid summer.

The third member of the team is an Dutch Heavy Horse called Dwaas. He is eight years old and is 15 hands tall but only has four feet. He will be used to transport materials and tools to trail build days, dramatically speeding up the opening of the new sections of singletrack. We are hoping he will be available to us for the next trail build on April 10th as long as he can complete a training day on singletrack cornering and drop-offs with Gary our head coach beforehand.

If you are near the training area, please feel free to go and see our newest members and maybe take them a carrot or two!

Trail Build

Our last trail build was a great success with nearly 20 volunteers! We were able to work on three sections of trail including Wanda and Starvegoose which are now running much better. Thank You very much for all involved and hopefully we will see even more of you on the next trail build day on April 10th.

Coaching

The new coaching season is almost upon us. We start on April 10th (busy day for the club!) with an introduction to Mountain Biking course, then on 17th April the Junior members Saturday club starts. For more information and bookings please seehttp://www.boarsonbikes.co.uk/courses.html

Demo Day Thanks

Dave Cole would like to Thank all those who helped out at the Demo day last Sunday. Feedback has been very good, and your help is very much appreciated.

Night Rides

There have been several requests to run night rides later to allow those with lives to get to them. We are delighted to announce that from next week the rides will be as follows: First Wednesday in the month is a committee meeting so no night ride. The Thursday after the committee meeting will be a “late” night ride starting at 7.30 and finishing no later than 9.00. I will be leading it so there is nothing at all to fear… Every other Wednesday in the month will be the usual night ride starting at 6.30. In both cases make sure you are on time as we lock the car park gates to keep our cars safe.

So hopefully I will see a few of you next Thursday at 7.30. Please let me know if you wish to borrow lights.

Ladies ride

Apologies to Ali, the Ladies ride is actually in the 2nd May not the 3rd as I reported in the last newsletter. Come along and meet Ali for a relaxed and friendly Ladies only ride. And Ladies if you want to bring your male partners along I’m sure there will be a few of us gents so we might as well do an informal separate male ride as well so we don’t feel left out!

Racing

We are still hoping to run some races this year and will have details shortly, but in the meantime please use these links to see details of other races organised by local clubs:

http://www.vcjubilee.co.uk/events_2010.html
http://www.southeastcycling.co.uk/racingcalendar.htm

Committee Meeting

And finally, we are holding our monthly committee meeting next Wednesday 6th April at the old pantry on the walled garden. Starting at 6.30, all are welcome.

Boris
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