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page 24 page 1 MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION Subscriptions Welcome to new members DORSET CYCLISTS’ These are due on or soon after 1 Oct each year. Thank you for supporting the That covers from January to December the NETWORK following calendar year campaign for a cycle-friendly Dorset Individuals or families at same address: www.dcn.org.uk Wimborne Subs by cheque and paper newsletter £8.00 founded 1992 Subs by cheque and online newsletter £7.00 Jill Creagh-Barry Subs by SO and paper newsletter £7.00 Newsletter no 94 Subs by SO and online newsletter £6.00 Subscriptions for groups DISCOUNTS FOR DCN MEMBERS campaigning for May 2019 Contact the membership secretary BLANDFORD Off Camber a cycle-friendly Dorset Standing Orders save us work. Forms are BOURNEMOUTH Bournemouth Editorial Annual general meeting available from the Membership Secretary or Cycleworks, On Yer Bike, Primera. This issue contains information from the The 2019 AGM will be held on online at dcn.org.uk/so.doc BRANKSOME Bikes DCC website about recent cycling Third-party insurance. BURLEY Forest Leisure Cycling improvements, and work that is current Saturday 15 June If your subscription is up to date, you are BRIDPORT Bspoke, Revolutions or planned. at 2pm in the covered against claims by a third party when BROCKENHURST Cyclexperience Community Hall, Each article is headed “HIGHWAY you take part in a DCN organised ride or event CHRISTCHURCH Cyclexperience, The Quay, Wareham IMPROVEMENTS” and the name of (see page 10). Lawsons the town or area, and page titles are in Non-members welcome Bike insurance FERNDOWN Pedals Cycle Centre CAPITALS under “In this Issue” below There is advice on the CyclingUK website HOLTON HEATH Proposals for the agenda https://tinyurl.com/insure-cyclinguk Dorset Road Bike Centre Get more detail and updates by visiting must reach the Secretary at or call them on 01483 238 301. LONGHAM Bicycle World dorsetforyou.gov.uk/roads-highways- least 7 days beforehand You may have cover under your home maintenance/highway-improvements/ insurance policy, but you could also consider POOLE Ride Cycleworks, Cycle Paths, Light refreshments after the meeting Bikelab and selecting the area you are interested theft and and breakdown cover from the NB Please check SHERBORNE Riley’s Cycles in. Environmental Transport Association eta.co.uk www.dcn.org.uk/committee.html 0333 000 1234. DCN is affiliated to them, WAREHAM Cyclexperience Also featured in this issue on page 16 is giving you access to a special rate. WEYMOUTH or contact the Secretary new bike hire scheme to be introduced before June in case there has Data Protection Cycle Life, Westham Cycles very soon in the conurbation to be a change of date Your personal data is secure and will not be WIMBORNE Samways & Son shared with anyone else without your express MOTOBITZ Boscombe, Ferndown, IN THIS ISSUE consent. The Membership Secretary is our Data Winton, Oakdale Protection Officer. 2 DCN rides; 10 Cycling insurance 19 Poole schools cycle For help or queries concerning your NB Discounts vary. You must show a Bikeability training 11 Driverless cars parking; membership, please contact the Membership valid DCN membership card. 3 Other rides; 13 Road positioning Seeing smaller vehicles Secretary (details on page 23) Blandford’s Expo 14 North Dorset 20 PURBECK DCN and Dorset Cyclists’ Network 5 BRIDPORT Trailway 22 Letters Recycle your old bike 6 DORCHESTER; 15 RURAL ROADS; 23 DCN contacts; Bikes to Africa 01206 617865 are the working names of www.re-cycle.org Dorset Cyclists’ Network Limited HAM LANE 20mph limit rejected Advert rates Sherborne 01747 851397 A private non-trading company 7 CHAPEL GATE; 16 Bournemouth & Open Garden on NCN 25 www.hope2cycle.org.uk no. 07265177 Car insurance for cyclists Poole 24 Membership info; Weymouth & Portland 3R Cycles 9 Bournemouth and 17 Cash back Discounts [email protected] 07918 166168 limited by guarantee New Forest Bike Project 07818 403114 Poole (Cycle Forum) www.newforestbikeproject.org Next newsletter: September 2019. Deadline for copy 1 August 2019 page 2 page 23 DCN regular rides DCN Coordinators DCN Committee Blandford & Sturminster Newton PURBECK Freewheelers FERNDOWN County Coordinator VACANT Dilys Gartside 01258 860157 Secretary Peter Henshaw Wednesdays at 6.30pm, Sundays at 1st and 3rd third Saturdays 10am. [email protected] or [email protected] 10am on an ad hoc basis. 20 miles. Geoff Symonds 01202 813776 30 Hunts Mead, Sherborne DT9 6AJ John Thraves 01929 554550 [email protected] Bournemouth VACANT 01935 389357 [email protected] [email protected] Bridport VACANT Membership Secretary: Gerry Bannister WIMBORNE Christchurch and Highcliffe 12 Farm Lane, Christchurch, BH23 4AH SHERBORNE Thursdays 6pm Sundays monthly John Simpson 01425 279653 [email protected] Some Sundays 10am 2 to 3 hours incl. lunch stop. 01425 275109 [email protected] Treasurer & Webmaster: Phil Wilson Peter Henshaw 01935 389357 10.30am from Walford Mill Dorchester Roland Tarr 12 Sandford Way, Broadstone BH18 9NW [email protected] dcn.org.uk/wimbornerides.pdf 01305 262359 [email protected] 01202 601107 [email protected] Mondays and Fridays East Dorset Judy Windwood Others: (details in column 1) POOLE 1st Saturdays April to October. 10.30am from Walford Mill 01202 885075 [email protected] Dilys Gartside, Roland Tarr, Ken Cook, Short, easy cycle rides from Upton Friendly and gentle Stewart Sinclair, John Thraves, Ken Reed, House. 2-3 hours including coffee stop. One to two-hour rides with coffee stop. Poole Stewart Sinclair Judy Windwood Meet outside the Peacock tea rooms 07919 136038 [email protected] 01202 743477 [email protected] Other contacts courtyard and NOT in front of Upton Purbeck John Thraves Bournemouth Cycling Forum House STUR NEWTON/BLANDFORD 01929 554550 or 07904224191 John Hayter David Anderson 01202 697376 IS IT Wheely Wednesday ? [email protected] 01202 510706 [email protected] [email protected] 1st Wednesday of month on North Sherborne Peter Henshaw Gillingham: Colin Parks Dorset Trailway at Shillingstone Old 01935 389357 [email protected] 07974 703836 [email protected] Station. For slower or less confident Weymouth & Portland VACANT Weymouth & Upwey: Ron March Riversdale riders wishing to improve their cycling Acting Coordinator: Ken Reed 01305 813935 [email protected] skills. Ride your bike, get fresh air, have 01305 772654 [email protected] Founder and newsletter editor Guest House a chat. Coffee stop, back by lunch. £2 Michael Evans QPM 33 Poole Rd, Contact Dilys Gartside NSTQ Farrs Coach House, Wimborne BH21 4EL Wimborne, BH21 1QB [email protected] 01258 860157 ADVERTISING with DCN 01202 880966 [email protected] welcomes cyclists! Bikeability Training Prices are for one year (3 newsletters) Owner and keen cyclist Charles Glide offers plus a link on the DCN web site OPEN GARDEN details of local routes and safe storage for CTC Wessex Cycling are planning to run Commercial adverts bicycles, tools for emergency repairs a bikeability training course in April or Sunday 7 July, 2pm to 5pm Full page h. 18 cm w. 12 cm £50 and pressure-washing for mountain bikers May and places are available A wildlife friendly garden by prior arrangement. ½ page h. 9 cm w. 12 cm £25 with tea and cake Close to the Castleman Trailway and a The course will take place in the ¼ page h. 9 cm w. 6 cm £12.50 Farrs Coach House pleasant stroll into the town centre. Wimborne Bournemouth area and be run by Life Minster is an ideal base for a pleasant off road Cycle. It will take place over four DCN members’ adverts Cowgrove Road, Wimborne cycle to the coast or inland rural Dorset. NCN 25 near Vine Hill Charles is also happy to provide maps and consecutive weekdays (full days) and is Free quarter page and web entry help co-ordinate short guided rides around being funded by CTC Wessex Cycling. Donation welcome if you make a sale £3 singles, £5 couples Wimborne. Why not make Wimborne a base To attend this course please contact children free for your cycling holiday? Stephen Gray at. Advertising manager: Joan Fordyce in aid of Dorset Wildlife Trust [email protected] 30 Greenhayes Rise, Wimborne BH21 1HZ 01202 884528 01202 848861 [email protected] Cyclists welcome. Car parking [email protected] available if you have to! www.riversdaleguesthouse.co.uk page 22 page 3 Poole Other rides Coordinator: Stewart Sinclair These rides are as sent in by the organisers. DCN does not accept responsibility for their accuracy. Please report errors to [email protected] The Poole cycling officer needs someone to From Phil Burgess, DCN Wimborne take minutes for CLAG meetings. Contact me Hi Michael, Kingston Lacy New Forest (see p.23) or [email protected] if you Well done on your successful lobbying for Thursdays Saturdays 8.45am from Waitrose, could help. access to East Borough in Wimborne. 9.30am 1-hour “Health Ride” Christchurch or 9am from The Oak, Poole intend to keep this post in the new Ever since the entrance became “closed” for Moors Valley Country Park Burton. Back at noon council in order to put local cycling needs. It is cyclists (I ignored it of course) I have been hoped that schemes will no longer end at Wednesdays No need to book. incensed at the short-sightedness of the powers borough boundaries, for example that Magna that be. I did nothing about it, so thanks to you 10am 1 hour “Health Ride”. Road improvements would not end before the CHARITY RIDES for continuing your vital work. Saturdays: Bear Cross roundabout. Bike Fit & children’s sessions Ride East Africa Work continues from Hunger Hill to the old I’m doing more cycling than ever now, and I did 8-night cycling challenge through Kenya’s Poole Bridge.