Calderdale Area Calderdale CTC Gazette Calderdale Mountain Biking Club October 2019 – March 2020 Weekly Evening Rides from Salterhebble
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Calder dale CTC October 2019 - March 2020 Other Cycling Clubs In the Calderdale 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 Mytholmroyd 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. Huddersfield, HD2 2EX Tel: 01422 358621 (term time only) Tel: 01484 532274 / 07765 806597 Ride Drink Pie Email: [email protected] Tuesday rides from Drink? Bar, Hebden Bridge 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 Todmorden 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 Brighouse 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 England 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 Blackstone Edge - 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 York 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 Yorkshire in teams of four. Tea and coffee served but feel free to bring wine or beer to refresh your team's efforts 11 PARIS-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 KEIGHLEY 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.