Calder dale CTC

October 2019

- March 2020

Other Cycling Clubs In the area Calderdale CTC Gazette Calderdale Mountain Biking Club October 2019 – March 2020 Weekly evening rides from Salterhebble

www.facebook.com/groups/120812281359156/ In this issue Calderdale Triathlon Club 3 A WORD FROM THE Saturday morning training rides from SECRETARY Jayne Moore writes www.calderdaletriclub.co.uk/

4 WINTER CLUBROOM Calder Valley Shred Sisters PROGRAMME Friendly female riders focusing on enduro and gravity Too wet, too cold or too windy to go mountain biking, welcoming newcomers. Instagram! @shredsisters.calder out cycling? Keep in touch with this varied programme of talks, slide shows, Condor Road Club and other events Fast(ish)training runs with a cafe stop [email protected] 6 CALDERDALE CTC SUNDAY RIDES http://condorroadclub.blogspot.co.uk/ Sociable cycling on easy, club, and Halifax Imperial Wheelers Most types of cycling long rides. Keep on cycling throughout including road racing, time trialling, touring, social

the winter rides, club runs etc.

8 CALDERDALE CTC AUTUMN TINTS 01274 604715 [email protected]

Group cycling for cyclists of any ability, www.facebook.com/groups/200963313381711/

age or gender PedalSport Cycling Club 10 CALDERDALE CTC SPECIAL Active club with members of all ages, who train and EVENTS Rides and rallies, events, ride together and compete in various events. Also a suppers, something for everybody thriving “Go-Ride” membership for young riders. 11 QUEST 79 with Mike Darke 01422 361460 https://pedalsportclub.com/

Queensbury Queens of The Mountain

Very active cycling club for women

https://queensburyqueens.teamapp.com/ Published by CALDERDALE CTC, a member group of CYCLING UK Ravenscliffe School Cycling Club Secretary Jayne Moore For disabled children and young people. 6 Ridge View Drive, Birkby, Specialist bikes for all abilities. , HD2 2EX Tel: 01422 358621 (term time only) Tel: 01484 532274 / 07765 806597 Ride Drink Pie Email: [email protected] Tuesday rides from Drink? Bar, Cyclocross, cross country, craft ale and pies This magazine is produced twice yearly and distributed free to all CTC members resident in the Shibden CC area. This is made possible through generous support MTB, Cyclocross, and road cycling for all ages from advertisers and benefactors. Facebook: Shibden Cycling Club

Occasionally there may be changes or additions to Harriers activities listed here. Up to date details are available Cycling and running on the fells and roads on our web site at: http://calderdalectc.org.uk 01706 81096 [email protected] The Calderdale CTC Gazette welcomes contributions www.todharriers.co.uk from members and friends. Please contact Chris Crossland - Tel: 01422 832853 - VS Cycles Cycling Club Email: [email protected] 01484 715230 [email protected]

Online calderdalectc.org.uk Cyclists’ Touring Club (Cycling UK) a Company Limited by Guarantee Twitter @ctccalderdale registered in No 25185, registered as a charity in England and Facebook CTC Calderdale Wales Charity No 1147607 and in Scotland No SC042541. Registered office: Parklands, Railton Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 9JX A Word From The Secretary rides which proved very popular, three ascents of - to name but a few! Thanks to all the Welcome to the Autumn 2019-Winter 2020 Calderdale organisers, and to the riders who took part and made CTC Gazette. The last six months have been busy with these events a success. plenty of riding, touring and socialising throughout the Calderdale CTC members have travelled far and wide this spring and summer despite mixed weather. Our Sunday year, having a good turnout at the Birthday Rides, the rides, Thursday evening rides, Wednesday and Saturday Welsh Cycling Festival and the Rally. Many have Autumn Tints rides have been generally well attended been touring in Europe and beyond. Please come along to with some new riders joining. Many thanks to our team of our Winter Friday clubroom meetings to get inspired by ride leaders for doing a great job planning routes and our own members and guest speakers as they share their making sure everyone stays safe on the rides. It hasn’t stories and photos. The programme is included in this been easy to cover all the rides this year due to illness and Gazette. injuries to some of our regular leaders who are now thankfully on the mend. If anyone is interested in We welcome new riders of all abilities, so if you have not becoming a ride leader please speak to Dave Dodwell, been out on one of our group rides yet, do come along. David Power or Colin Chapman. We offer easier rides on Saturday mornings and the first Sunday of each month. Our harder rides are on Sundays. The newly introduced easy rides programme on the first On all our rides no-one is left behind. You can join up to Sunday of the month has been very well supported. Thank three rides as a guest where you can get an idea of the you Reid Anderson for organising and leading these rides. style and pace of our rides. We are a member group of As well as our regular weekly rides, we organised a full Cycling UK, so if you then wish to continue riding with us, calendar of special events over the season, with the Spring you will be asked to join Cycling UK. (See Audax rides in April and the longer 600km and 200km www.cyclinguk.org for full details). Information about all Audax rides in June. The poor weather put off a few our rides can be found in this Gazette and on our website riders and numbers were lower than usual. Many thanks - www.calderdalectc.org.uk. We also have an active to all those who helped with organising, booking riders in, Facebook group, ‘CTC Calderdale’, which you can join for manning controls, catering and clearing up. These events ride announcements, reports and lots more. couldn’t happen without you and your support is greatly appreciated. Other events included cycling through the Jayne Moore Secretary, Calderdale CTC night to Morecambe and back, a number of car-assisted CALDERDALE CTC WINTER CLUBROOM at The Oddfellows’ Rooms on the corner of Prescott Street/Coleridge Street, Halifax.

Our weekly winter clubroom starts on 4th Light refreshments are served. Members and October 2019. We again have a varied non-members and guests are all welcome. programme. Doors open at 7.30 pm for a 7.45 There is a small admission charge (currently pm start, on most Fridays through to 27th £1.50) to cover the cost of room hire and March 2020. refreshments.

Winter Clubroom is a traditional event which A warm thank you to speakers for their time, has been going for as long as any of us can effort and nerves in preparing and making remember - an enjoyable, sociable evening their presentations. with some great speakers and an opportunity More information from Clubroom Secretary for members to share their year's cycling, as Anne Lawther on 07843 964 422 well as to learn of other people's exploits.

October 2019 4 SOCIAL & QUIZ EVENING Test your knowledge of in teams of four. Tea and coffee served but feel free to bring wine or beer to refresh your team's efforts 11 -BREST-PARIS 2019 Calderdale CTC member Greg Elwell reports back from this huge cycling event 18 CYCLING LEGENDS: TOM SIMPSON with Tom's nephew Chris Sidwells who will have copies of his book about Tom for sale. 25 HEBRIDEAN WAY Scottish Island-Hopping with Nick Marston November 1 CALDERDALE CTC ANNNUAL GENERAL MEETING Please come along and help to shape your club's future. 8 WHY MOULTON? Colin Rose explores some byways of bike design 15 ALPINE LAKES & MOUNTAINS with Jim Bowie in touring mode 22 Jade Field explains why JADE & JIM DIDN’T CYCLE TO CHINA 29 TRAVELS IN EUROPE with Martin Cruft December 6 UK COAST TO COAST CYCLE RIDES: C2C/ Way of the Roses/ Rievers / Walney to Whitby as ridden and told by Lucy Armour and others 13 THE ROCKIES & ALASKAN INSIDE PASSAGE with Carol Lister 20 CLUBROOM CHRISTMAS PARTY Festive fun and games. Tea and coffee served. Please bring food, wine, beer; taking home any left over. 27 Christmas/New Year break – No clubroom meeting - Happy holiday! January 2020 3 MEMBERS OWN PHOTOS/VIDEOS EVENING - The ideal opportunity to showcase your photos or videos for a few minutes. Please bring along your, photos, videos, laptop, tablet, disc, memory stick etc. 10 CALIFORNIA PART 2 Dave Power continues the story 17 CYCLING TALES as told by Ali Fletcher 24 ATLANTIC TO MED ACROSS THE PYRENEES Jayne Moore rides some different hills 31 SPAIN TO PORTUGAL ON A BIKE CALLED WANDA Cycling writer Andrew Sykes forsakes the bike called Reggie and saddles up for an Iberian adventure February 7 Colin Rose explores THE STRANGE HISTORY OF THE RECUMBENT BIKE 14 How Dave & Eithne Dodwell travelled the ANTRIM CAUSEWAY COAST BY BIKE 21 WILD CAMPING AND SCOTLAND with Anne Lawther 28 EQUATOR TO ARCTIC CIRCLE Adrian Lord blows hot and cold March 6 PEDALLING PROVENCE with Anne Lawther 13 CALDERDALE CTC ANNUAL DINNER - Details to follow. No Clubroom 20 MEMORY LANE - A TRIBUTE TO JOHN Hosted by John Sutcliffe 27 SADDLEBAG SALE & MEMBERS' OWN PHOTOS/VIDEOS EVENING - Please bring along your, photos, videos, laptop, tablet, disc, memory stick etc.  JOHN KEIGHLEY John to use a heart rate monitor, and its alarm was to tell him to slow down and keep his heart rate below the Calderdale CTC member John threshold. It slowed the rest of us down too. Keighley passed away at Overgate Hospice on 22 May. Before his John had background. Before a series of heart attacks he illness, he had been one of the had been a strong long distance runner with Halifax mainstays of Calderdale CTC for Harriers. The heart problem was hereditary, not acquired. over 25 years as, at various times, When he had fully recovered from the operation, his form Sunday Rides secretary and ride leader, Treasurer, on the bike was considerable and he became a regular on archivist, and clubroom technical supremo. CTC Sunday rides and Wednesday evening rides.

I first met John on one of my first rides with what was then With more experience he took on more responsibility and Halifax CTC. About fifteen of us were riding up the Cragg became a quiet but driving force to the benefit of all our Vale climb and every few minutes an alarm rang out. riders and members. It goes without saying that he was a John's wife Linda told us all not to worry. John had devoted family man, but if you were a Calderdale CTC recently undergone a quadruple bypass operation and the member during the years we enjoyed with him, he made consultant had warned that during recovery he should not both your cycling and your life better. exceed a particular threshold rate. Linda had persuaded Chris Crossland

  Calderdale CTC SUNDAY RIDES October 2019 - March 2020

Dave Dodwell writes Welcome to the Winter programme of Sunday Rides. Our main aim is for riders to enjoy the scenery and have time to chat. We will not leave anyone behind. NEW RIDERS ARE WELCOME on all our rides, and you can take part in three rides before we ask you to join the club. You may want to phone the ride leader to get more details of the ride, or you can contact me, Dave Dodwell, at [email protected] NOTE: Ride leaders may change the route on the day, depending For further details concerning a particular on the weather and the people on the ride. For latest information, ride or event, please contact the designated please phone the leader (see the ride leader box opposite), or visit ride leader or organiser, who will be pleased Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/ctccalderdale/ to answer any enquiries. If you want to join Start times a particular ride, and can’t make it to the For most Winter rides, meet at 9:15 am, for a prompt 9:30am start, start point, or would like to meet the other unless indicated on the runs list opposite, and on the Special Events riders en route, maybe you live somewhere page. near the route, please contact the ride leader. Ride Duration and Speed Regular Sunday Rides will be about 40 miles, with a refreshment REID ANDERSON 07763 328 804 stop part way round. Morning rides will be about 20 miles. We CHRIS CROSSLAND 01422 832 853 tend to average 10-12 mph riding speed, (depending on hills. We DAVE DODWELL 07931 284 843 aim to get back well before dark, but it is advisable to take lights. ALI FLETCHER 07789 506 169 Easy Rides PETER HOWELLS 07761 850 192 The format will remain the same as over the summer: easy paced, GRAHAM JOYCE 07713 242 345 around 3 hours in duration (including coffee stop), no-one left GEOFF & HELEN PEARCE 07881 874 713 behind. Meet on the 1st Sunday of the month, at the same time DAVE POWER 07761 166 743 and venue of the regular Sunday Rides (i.e. Barum Top at 0915 for KEITH ROBINSON 07802 923 547 a 0930 start) unless otherwise indicated, e.g. Sunday 6 October ALAN SIMPSON 07443 895 430 JOHN SOUTHWORTH 07791 210 922 from Brighouse. For more information, contact Reid Anderson on DARREN WALKER 07780 882 133 07763 328 804. Car Assisted Rides enable us to go further afield, and are usually MEETING POINT DETAILS for all rides easier-paced rides in less hilly terrain. See the Special Events page Please note that the times given on the rides for more details. If you need – or can offer – space for bikes or lists are the times to meet and that the rides riders please contact the organiser. start promptly 15 minutes later. Start Points Unless otherwise stated, the start points for our Sunday Br BRIGHOUSE Bethel Street car park rides are as follows: (if the weather is particularly inclement you BrRB BRIGHOUSE Ritz Ballroom, Road may find us inside Wetherspoons!) Hx HALIFAX Bull Green, Barum Top 1. 2nd Sunday of the month: Brighouse Bethel Street car park Hx Minster Cenotaph by Halifax Minster (opposite Wetherspoons‘The Richard Oastler’). MyCC MYTHOLMROYD Mytholmroyd 2. Last Sunday of the month: Mytholmroyd Community Centre car Community Centre, Caldene park. Avenue 3. All other Sundays: Halifax Bull Green Car Park (opposite Wetherspoons ‘Barum Top Inn’) Standard Rides & Audax events offer the chance to ride a set distance inside a generous time limit on a more sporting basis, but not as a race. Date Start Time Destination Leader October 6 Br 09:15 BRETTON PARK Dave Power 6 Br 09:15 EASY RIDE Reid Anderson 13 MyCC 08:45** SEASON OF MISTS 105 km Audax** ) Entries to 13 MyCC 09:45** MELLOW FRUITFULNESS 55 km Audax** ) Chris Crossland 20 Hx 09:15** Group Ride and Freewheeling Competition** Reid Anderson 27 MyCC 09:15 GAWTHORPE HALL Reid Anderson Date Start Time Destination Leader November 3 Hx 09:15 John Southworth 3 Hx 09:15 EASY RIDE Reid Anderson 10 Hx Minster 08:45 REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY RIDE Dave Power 17 Hx 09:15 YEADON Darren Walker 24 MyCC 09:15 EDENFIELD Ali Fletcher December 1 Hx 09:15 Dave Dodwell 1 Hx 09:15 EASY RIDE Reid Anderson 8 Br 08:45* CAR ASSISTED RIDE to TOCKWITH CAROL SERVICE* Reid Anderson Joint Ride with Huddersfield CTC 15 Hx 09:45* to CHRISTMAS LUNCH* at Crow Nest Park for 12 noon Dave Dodwell 22 Hx 09:15 KEIGHLEY Peter Howells 25 Wednesday Hx 09:45 IMPROMPTU CHRISTMAS MORNING RIDE See facebook Visit CTCCalderdale facebook group for latest info. 29 Hx 09:45 IMPROMPTU SUNDAY MORNING RIDE See facebook Visit CTCCalderdale facebook group for latest info. January 1 Wednesday Hx 09:45 IMPROMPTU NEW YEAR'S MORNING RIDE See facebook Visit CTCCalderdale facebook group for latest info 5 Br 09:15 NEWMILLERDAM Keith Robinson 5 Br 09:15 EASY RIDE Reid Anderson 12 Hx 09:15 TONG Alan Simpson 19 Hx 09:15 STEETON Peter Howells 26 MyCC 09:15 ROUGHLEE - CLARION CLUBHOUSE Reid Anderson February 2 Hx 09:15 SCAR TOP Alan Simpson 2 Hx 09:15 EASY RIDE Reid Anderson 9 Br 09:15 SHELLEY Keith Robinson 16 Hx 09:15 Dave Dodwell 23 MyCC 09:15 HAPPA Cafe, HAGGATE Ali Fletcher March 1 Hx 09:15 Anne Lawther 1 Hx 09:15 EASY RIDE Reid Anderson 8 Br 09:15* CAR ASSISTED RIDE - BACK AND FORTH OVER THE WHARFE* Keith Robinson 15 Hx 09:15 TRAWDEN Graham Joyce 22 Hx 09:15 Darren Walker 29 MyCC 09:15 BARROWFORD - PENDLE VISITOR CENTRE Reid Anderson ADVANCE NOTICE April 5 Hx 08:45 ** CALDERDALE CTC / HUDDERSFIELD CTC RIDE-OUT LUNCH** For 12 noon at AddinghamVillage Hall Details from Geoff and Helen Pearce 19 Hx Odd 07:45 ** THE RED ROSE RIDE 200 km. Audax** Entries to Dave Dodwell 26 MyCC 08:45 ** SPRING INTO THE DALES 115 km Audax** ) Entries to 26 MyCC 09:45 ** LEAP INTO THE AIRE 58 km Audax** ) Chris Crossland

* More details in Special Events on Page 10 ** Denotes a ride or event in the Calderdale CTC events programme. More details on Special Events Page and at www.westyorkshiresr.org.uk Calderdale CTC AUTUMN TINTS RIDES Group cycling for cyclists of any ability , age, or gender

Colin Chapman writes: The Calderdale CTC Autumn Tints outings, aimed at providing gentler social rides, continue to be well supported, attracting riders of all levels and abilities eager to enjoy the spectacular and varied terrain of our region. any queries, please ring me or the designated ride

We also ventured outside of Calderdale with car- leader on the numbers listed. Or email assisted rides, tackling the GHS Memorial Challenge [email protected] for further ride to Pocklington, visited the Tissington Well information.

Dressing in the , and also a group Christmas Dinner camping and caravanning weekend at the York The Tints Annual Christmas Dinner has been Cycle Rally. booked for Wednesday 11th Dec at the Windmill

Thanks to all participants for your continued Court. Full details, menu, cost etc., will be support and to all ride leaders and group helpers. circulated shortly, when available. Pre-booking (and Calderdale CTC Autumn Tints draws upon the payment) essential. Email: history and tradition of the Autumn Tints Cycling [email protected]

Comrades which was originally founded to attract Start Points cyclists over 50 to ride together. GB Godley Bridge, New Bank, Halifax In line with the open ethos of CTC activities, we SBB Baths, Station Rd. now invite cyclists of any ability, age or gender SBL Sowerby Bridge Library, Hollins Mill to join us on our organised, led rides, and offer a Lane warm welcome to all, whether an inexperienced SHL Salterhebble Locks (Basin), Halifax rider or someone who would like to try riding WVGC West Vale - Garden Centre within the safety and friendship of a group. WC Windmill Court, Causeway Foot

Rides are held every Wednesday and Saturday, at a Contacts steady pace and, wherever possible, on quiet and Colin Chapman 01422 834342 often very scenic routes, and include morning Paul Barnes 01274 670958 coffee and lunch stops. Carol Hare 01422 340638

Destinations for all rides are listed below. Should John Schorah 01422 345170 you wish to join us, just turn up, or, if you have John Southworth 07791 210922 John Sutcliffe 01422 365420 DATE Start TIME COFFEE STOP DESTINATION LEADER OCTOBER Wed 2 nd WVGC 09:30 Kelly's Café, Birkby SHELLEY Dearne Lea Café Colin Chapman Sat 5 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden KEIGHLEY Cliffe Castle John Schorah Wed 9 th SBL 09:30 Watergate. Hebden Bridge Villette Cafe Colin Chapman Sat 12 th GB 09:30 Café CC, Scholes OAKWELL HALL John Schorah Wed 16 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden CC CLUB ROOMS Paul Barnes Sat 19 th SBL 09:30 Craggies, Colin Chapman Wed 23 rd WVGC 09:30 Cookhouse Café, Corner House Café John Schorah Sat 26 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden SHIPLEY GLEN CAFÉ Carol Hare Wed 30 th WVGC 09:30 Cookhouse Café Slaithwaite DELPH Edna’s Café Colin Chapman NOVEMBER Sat 2 nd GB 09:30 High St. Cafe, Queensbury BINGLEY Five Rise Locks John Sutcliffe Wed 6 th WVGC 09:30 Kelly's Café, Birkby OSSETT Wellgate Cafe John Schorah Sat 9 th SBL 09:30 Watergate, Hebden Bridge TODMORDEN Morrisons Carol Hare NOVEMBER continued DATE Start TIME COFFEE STOP DESTINATION LEADER Wed 13 th GB 09:30 Café CC, Scholes Marina Cafe John Southworth Sat 16 th SHL 09:30 Wetherspoons, Brighouse TONG GARDEN CENTRE Colin Chapman Wed 20 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden OTLEY CC Club Room Colin Chapman Sat 23 rd WVGC 09:30 Kelly's Café, Birkby HOLMFIRTH Corner House Café Colin Chapman Wed 27 th GB 09:30 Café CC, Scholes TONG GARDEN CENTRE Colin Chapman Sat 30 th SBL 09:30 Watergate, Hebden Bridge HOLLINGWORTH LAKE Visitor Centre Cafe

DECEMBER Colin Chapman Wed 4 th SHL 09:30 Wetherspoons, Brighouse OSSETT Wellgate Cafe Paul Barnes Sat 7 th SBL 09:30 Craggies, Cragg Vale TODMORDEN Morrisons Colin Chapman Wed 11 th GB 09:30 INFORMAL RIDE with coffee stop to Christmas Dinner Carol Hare WC 12:00 for 12:30 CHRISTMAS DINNER Windmill Court, Ogden. Details to follow. Sat 14 th GB 09:30 Café CC, Scholes Cherry Tree Tea Rooms Colin Chapman Wed 18 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden OTLEY CC Club Room Paul Barnes Sat 21 st SBL 09:30 Morning-only Coffee Run via to HEBDEN BRIDGE Watergate Cafe Colin Chapman Wed 25 th No Ride today (Christmas Day) Sat 28 th GB 09:30 High St. Cafe, Queensbury BINGLEY Five Rise Locks John Schorah JANUARY Wed 1 st No Ride today (New Year's Day) Sat 4 th WVGC 09:30 Cookhouse Cafe, Slaithwaite Ivy House Café John Schorah Wed 8 th GB 09:30 Café CC, Scholes OSSETT Wellgate Cafe John Southworth Sat 11 th SBB 09:30 Just Scrumptious, Rishworth HEBDEN BRIDGE Watergate Colin Chapman Wed 15 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden OTLEY CC Club Room Colin Chapman Sat 18 th GB 09:30 Café CC, Scholes TONG GARDEN CENTRE John Sutcliffe Wed 22 nd WVGC 09:30 Ambry’s Community Café, SHELLEY Dearne Lea Café John Schorah Sat 25 th SHL 09:30 Wetherspoons, Brighouse DEWSBURY Marina Cafe Colin Chapman Wed 29 th SBL 09:30 Watergate, Hebden Bridge HAWORTH Villette Cafe Colin Chapman FEBRUARY Sat 1 st GB 09:30 Café CC, Scholes Taylor's Cafe John Sutcliffe Wed 5 th WVGC 09:30 Bolster Moor Farm Shop Cafe MELTHAM Ivy House Cafe John Southworth Sat 8 th SHL 09:30 Wetherspoons, Brighouse OAKWELL HALL Carol Hare Wed 12 th WVGC 09:30 Kelly's Café, Birkby HOLMFIRTH Corner House Café Colin Chapman Sat 15 th SBL 09:30 Bob's Tearoom, Booth TODMORDEN Morrisons John Schorah Wed 19 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden OTLEY CC Club Room Paul Barnes Sat 22 nd GB 09:30 Café CC, Scholes TONG GARDEN CENTRE Colin Chapman Wed 26 th SBL 09:30 Watergate, Hebden Bridge HOLLINGWORTH LAKE Visitor Centre Cafe Colin Chapman Sat 29 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden SHIPLEY GLEN CAFÉ John Schorah MARCH Wed 4 th GB 09:30 High St. Cafe, Queensbury BINGLEY Five Rise Locks Paul Barnes Sat 7 th WVGC 09:30 Kelly's Café, Birkby MIRFIELD Taylor's Cafe John Sutcliffe Wed 11 th SBB 09:30 Just Scrumptious, Rishworth DELPH Edna's Cafe Colin Chapman Sat 14 th GB 09:30 Cafe CC, Scholes OAKWELL HALL Carol Hare Wed 18 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden OTLEY CC Club Room John Southworth Sat 21 st SHL 09:30 Wetherspoons, Brighouse HECKMONDWIKE Cherry Tree Tea Rooms Colin Chapman Wed 25 th WC 10:00 Windmill Court, Ogden SHIPLEY GLEN CAFÉ Carol Hare Sat 28 th SBL 09:30 Craggies, Cragg Vale HOLLINGWORTH LAKE Colin Chapman Calderdale CTC Sunday 15 December Calderdale CTC CHRISTMAS LUNCH SPECIAL EVENTS at Crow Nest Park Golf Club, Hove Edge, Brighouse. October 2019 Advanced booking is essential. Contact Dave Dodwell [email protected] . – April 2020 Meet at 9.45 am at Halifax, Barum Top, for a leisurely ride there. Christmas Lights and Fancy Dress optional! Friday 4 October SOCIAL & QUIZ Friday 20 December EVENING CLUBROOM CHRISTMAS PARTY The start of the Winter Festive fun and games. Tea and coffee served. Please bring Clubroom season at the food, wine, beer. Oddfellows' Rooms, Unity House Coleridge Street, 7:45pm at The Oddfellows Rooms, Unity House, Halifax, at 7:30 pm Test your cycling and general Coleridge Street, Halifax knowledge in teams of four. Tea and coffee served; feel Details from Anne Lawther 07843 964 422 free to bring wine or beer to refresh your team's efforts. Wednesday 25 December Details from Anne Lawther 07843 964 422 CHRISTMAS DAY RIDE Morning only. Meet at Halifax, Sunday 13 October AUTUMN AUDAX RIDES Barum Top at 9:45 am. SEASON OF MISTS 105 km. Challenging touring in the Wednesday 1 January December Yorkshire & Lancashire hills. Meet at 8:45am NEW YEAR'S DAY RIDE Morning only. Meet at Halifax, MELLOW FRUITFULNESS 55 km. Not quite as hard, Barum Top at 9:45 am. really! Meet at 9:45am Both start at Mytholmroyd Community Centre, Caldene Sunday 8 March Avenue, Mytholmroyd. CAR ASSISTED RIDE - BACK AND FORTH OVER THE Contact Chris Crossland 01422 832853 WHARFE Meet at Bethel Street car park Brighouse at 9.15 am for a 9.30 am drive to Thorpe Arch, for a Sunday 20 October 11.00 am start. An easy 25 miler with 1 tough(ish) climb GROUP RIDE & FREEWHEEL COMPETITION and a combination of established traffic free tracks, Meet at 9.15 am at HALIFAX - Barum Top pleasant villages and a . Please contact Keith PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE AND START TIME Robinson 07802 923547 if you would like to come along Contact Reid Anderson 07763 328804 Friday 13 March Friday 1 November Calderdale CTC 93rd ANNUAL DINNER & AWARDS Calderdale CTC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NIGHT Details to be announced. Booking essential. 7:45pm at The Oddfellows Rooms, Unity House, Details from Anne Lawther 07843 964 422 Coleridge Street, Halifax Details from Jayne Moore: 01484 532274 / 07765 Thursday 2 April 806597 OPENING THURSDAY EVENING SUPPER RUN To ride to the supper destination, meet at 7:00pm at Halifax Pool. Sunday 10 November Details to follow. Contact Dave Power 07761 166743 REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY RIDE Meet 8:45am at the Cenotaph, Halifax Minster, visiting Sunday 5 April the memorials at , Brighouse and Southowram, CALDERDALE CTC / HUDDERSFIELD CTC RIDE-OUT finishing at Halifax Minster in time for the 11:00am MEET at Addingham Village Hall 12:00 noon. To ride ceremony. there, meet 8:45am at Halifax, Barum Top. Tea, coffee, Enquiries to Dave Power 07761 166743 soup, cakes etc., provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Contact Geoff & Helen Pearce 07881 874713 Sunday 8 December CAR ASSISTED RIDE for an easy ride to the TOCKWITH Sunday 19 April CAROL SERVICE. Meet at 8.45 am at Bethel Street Car THE RED ROSE RIDE 200 km. Audax Park, Brighouse. Depart from Tadcaster Car Park 10.00 Long distance cycling to the West Coast and back. am Please contact Reid Anderson 07763 328804 if you 7:45am at The Oddfellows Rooms, Unity House, would like to come along Coleridge Street, Halifax Details from Dave Dodwell [email protected] Wednesday 11 December Calderdale CTC AUTUMN TINTS CHRISTMAS DINNER Sunday 26 April SPRING AUDAX RIDES at Windmill Court, Ogden, Halifax. Details from Colin SPRING INTO THE DALES 115 km . A test for all keen Chapman 01422 834342. racing, touring and fitness cyclists. Meet at 8:45am. To ride there, meet 09:30 at Godley Bridge, New Bank, LEAP INTO THE AIRE 58 km. A scenic ride for club and Halifax (Ride Leader Carol Hare 01422 340638) leisure cyclists. Meet at 9:45am Both start at Mytholmroyd Community Centre . Contact Chris Crossland 01422 832853 QUEST 79 with Mike Darke normal life as far as possible, and as a worldwide explorer she often has the Royal Geographical Society May I thank all those members of Calderdale CTC & as a support. and fellow cyclists of local clubs who sponsored me to She says she has my genes and its my cycling ride 79 miles for my 79 years as part of my daughter experience which she suggests has been behind her Karen's attempt to raise £79,000 for the Spinal Injuries cycling adventures, from first going to Iceland Association. The number 79 has figured in her life in a mountain biking with a friend when she was 17 years few ways; apparently it is the atomic number for gold, old, and then western China with the Yorkshire and she won the 79th Olympic medal at Rio. My fund Schools Exploration Society. Since her accident remains open for the moment and so far I have raised amongst her adventures she has hand-cycled the around £800. Reid Anderson & Graham Joyce kindly length of Japan, cycled the Himalayas twice including came with me and we rode from Mytholmroyd to the Hindu Kush & Tibet. Her book “Boundless” Whalley and Ribchester for dinner at Longridge, then describess her other various non-cycling exploits. Her through the lanes for a slice of cake and a cuppa at third book Quest is really a compendium. It is written St.Michael’s on the Wyre. Refreshed we rode the final for business or sport, and explores alphabetically the miles through the lanes in the northern Fylde to Pilling, qualities needed for success, like A for Aptitude, D for across the bridge over the Wyre, then north to Determination etc. As part of Quest 79 she has hand- Fleetwood before an about-turn into the wind to cycled through six continents with various friends, . The weather could have been better as it covering 9,000 miles. She rates Ethiopia and southern was largely dull, but fortunately not wet. The last Chile (including the Patagonia mountains) as perhaps twenty miles were relatively unpleasant due to traffic, the most stunning. wind and Graham having a spoke problem. Nevertheless, we had a pleasant day with fish & chips She says it was me and my cycling activities that gave in Blackpool before the train home. her the motivation to take up hand-cycling. This culminated in her becoming an Olympic Silver & later Anyone can participate in Quest 79. You don’t have to Gold Medallist for the Time Trial. Sometimes one has cycle; any activity will do such as read 79 pages or to remind oneself of her adversity. The stroke walk 79 steps, sell 79 cups of coffee to friends etc. consultant told me I would never cycle again. As a As many of you will know, Karen was paralysed from former distance athlete from a very early age, and still the chest down when she was 21 years old following a a cyclist, it is my own adversity that drives me on. I had climbing accident. After her PhD she worked as a to learn to talk, sit down, stand up, walk & write again. geologist for Shell in Aberdeen but she found the job As many of you may know, I have very poor balance, too restrictive given her adventure & explorer instincts, cannot stand on the pedals, and avoid riding alongside and finally resigned. She founded her own company anybody else. The handlebars give me stability but and particularly now does motivational speaking often getting on and off the bike does cause a problem. worldwide. However, life could be a lot worse and Karen inspires both me and many others. She was very lucky to survive her accident and particularly to have no injury to her brain. She spent We hope it inspires you to continue cycling. over eight months in hospital recovering and learning You can contribute to Quest 79 at her new life in a wheelchair. However, she lives a https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/karen-darke

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