PLOMESGATE CYCLING CLUB
PLOMESGATE CYCLING CLUB
John Chalker will be running an off road orienteering type event on February 25th.
Start will be at 10.00 am at Sizewell Café Car Park, where the event will also finish.
2001 Membership Renewal
Many thanks to all of you who have already renewed your subscriptions. To those that are still outstanding you have until February 28th.
The rates have not been changed and are:
Over 18s £10. Under 18s £5.
Cheques can be made to Plomesgate CC and handed to the secretary:
Trevor
Figgitt, 15 Surrey Close, Framlingham, Suffolk. IP13 9SJ.
Tel~:01728 723701.
e-mail: trevor.figgitt@btinternet.com
OR/ subscriptions can be handed directly to the Treasurer Steve Jones, 4 Leicester Close, Ipswich,
01473 603710.
Dates For The Calendar
Here are a few forthcoming events at which there may be a Plomesgate CC presence :-
18th
Feb. Stowmarket & Dist CC Reliability Trials - Red Cross Centre. 09:00,
09:30, 10:00, 10:30.
3rd March CC Breckland 10 mile TT. Scoulton.
4th March Ipswich Reliability Trials. Playford - see below.
10th March RT East Hardriders "25". Stoke By Nayland
11th March Diss & District Medium Gear "25". Scole
17th March. West Suffolk Wheelers "25". Bury St Edmunds.
18th March. Ed Taylor Memorial RR. Thurlow.
Prize Presentation
Don't forget the new date is Saturday March 3rd.
The Lighthouse restaurant in Aldeburgh has been booked for 7:30pm.
The club will be subsidising the meal so it will only cost £10 per person. Drinks etc will be extra though.
Please let me know if you are coming , I (Trevor Figgitt) would like to know by the 25th February.
2001 Racing Handbooks
I now have copies of the RTTC Handbook containing entry details for all open TTs in the UK.
Cost is £4.00 payable to Plomesgate CC.
I have not yet collected the East District Handbooks, but I hope to have them before the prize presentation on March 3rd.
The East District Handbook contains details of all club events and some other events throughout Suffolk and Norfolk, priced at £1.60.
BCF Membership and/or Racing Licences
Thanks to all of you who returned your application forms promptly. This has enabled us to get them off to the BCF and the licences and membership cards should be back by the beginning of March.
Forthcoming Reliability Trials
These are on Feb 18th starting from the Red Cross Centre in Stowmarket ( I think this is near the Railway Station - Trevor).
The rides are various distances and start times are 09:00, 09:30, 10:00 and 10:30.
The Ipswich rides are on March 4th from Playford Village Hall.
100km at 09.00
70km at 10.00
45km at 11.00
Organiser: Kirsty McLaughlin on 01473 832948.
Coaching
John Gabriel has just completed the BCF Level 2 Cycle Coaching Course and in order for him to complete the qualification he needs to submit an amount of weekly training plans. As a result John is able to offer coaching to a few local cyclists.
The coaching will be free however he is primarily looking for committed cyclists, not necessarily racers, who are prepared to define their aims for the next 6 months and work to an agreed training plan. There may be a need for a Kingcycle (or similar) test which may have a cost element.
If you are interested in this offer contact John by email (john.gabriel@btinternet.com)or by telephone on 01394 278473.
Places will be limited.
Cyclists Do Well in BT Awards
It was pleasing to see two familiar faces appearing on a notice board in BT for their achievements in an annual competition for scientific papers.
In premier place was Stephen Thompson, a regular CTC rider and local competitor in TTs usually seen in his Lakes RC colours. Receiving a Highly Commended award was our own Dr Richard Tateson for his work on "Dynamic Channel Allocation - Fruit Fly Bristle Growth";
Well Done guys.
Eastern Region Winter MTB Races
Robert Robinson has been riding the winter series in Thetford Forest. He finished a creditable 26th in the last event in January.
Wolsey RC Prize Presentation
Well done to Hils whose speech at the Wolsey RC dinner and prize presentation went down a storm apparently. A spokes-person from Wolsey RC described the speech as different and very entertaining !
Whose Da Man ?
The man of January has got to be the great man himself, none other than Eddy Merckx.
I was fortunate enough to attend the RTTC Champions Night at Derby in January where guest of honour was the legendary Belgian. He is definitely larger than life and gave a good account of himself. I also managed to get autographs for Chris Boardman and Yvonne McGregor.
Eddy was then present at Interbike the next day signing autographs. Jim Ingram managed to fight his way through the crowds and got the "Cannibal's" autograph.
The big question that always gets asked is who was the greatest bike rider. Well if you ask me it is Eddy Merckx. He was still competing when I started racing as a lad although coming to the end of his career, but I had read and heard of his exploits as he was a household name for much of my childhood. The older guys around still tend to favour Fausto Coppi and of course I am always willing to argue about it...