Bedgebury Forest Cycle Club Newsletter 23rd Feb Yay! The forest sell off has been dumped (for now), so well done and thank you to everyone who signed petitions, wrote to their MP’s and generally made their feelings known. There is one downside though; I had a cracking April fool planned for this newsletter involving the new owners of Bedgebury (an Arabian Sheik), a billion tones of sand, a huge parasol, and a herd of camels to assist with trail building. Oh well, back to the drawing board…


Membership Renewals
You should all by now have received your renewal forms for the coming year. Happily the price has stayed the same as have the benefits, so you still get free showers, bike wash and 10% discount at Quench cycles as well as free parking (if you go for that option). This really does represent excellent value and can deliver big savings for regular visitors. Please send your forms back as soon as you can, so Carol and Geoff can get the new car park passes out to you before the end of next month. With over 250 members they really don’t want to be trying to process them all in the last week!

Nightrides
Nightrides should be a bit more regular now thanks to Ollie Ireland and Chris “Barkie” Barker, offering to help lead the rides. Many thanks chaps!

Trail Build
Thanks to those who rolled up their sleeves and helped with the trail build. We resurfaced the black run and it should be open again soon.

Coaching
Details of this years coaching courses including Junior club will be on the website any day now, so keep your eyes peeled for the opportunities for develop your skills whatever your age or riding abilities.

Outrides
This Sunday 27th sees the first outride of the year at Swinley forest near Bracknell. The postcode for satnav users is RG12 7QW. The meeting point will be at the Pagoda just outside the Look Out Discovery Centre at 10am. You will need to pick up your day permit to ride the forest which costs a couple of quid from the centre or you can save time on the day and buy in advance from https://sslrelay.com/www.mbsawebsite.com/sess/utn154d64f80c27cd1/shopdata/index.shopscript

Bedgebury Demo Day
This Saturday 26th February sees Specialized, Giant and Trek come to our forest with some of their great bikes for us to get all muddy for them. Details at http://www.thedemoseries.co.uk/

Best wishes,

Boris

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