Hilly 50 Saturday 4th March 2017

Correction to the January/February Sou'Wester. Please note that the entry fee for this year is £7 and not £5 as stated. This will include route sheet and down loadable PDF. Signing on will be at Rykas Cafe opposite Burford Bridge Hotel at bottom of Box Hill from 9.30am with a start time of 10am to finish at the top of Box Hill by 2pm. All entry fees go to St. Raphael's Hospice Cheam.

Award of the Arthur Jessop Shield

Congratulations to Shirley Quemby on receiving the Arthur Jessop Shield for outstanding achievement and contribution to the activities of the SWL CTC. She has been a tireless supporter and activist in promoting cycling in the Sutton area and beyond particularly in regard to Dr. Bike and the activities of the beginners group based in Nonsuch Park Cheam at 2pm on a Saturday afternoon. As Jeff Tollerman said it is amazing that Shirley has not been awarded this shield before and it is very fitting that her name will now follow on from last year's award to David Aylett who also championed the beginners cause for many years.

The picture shows Chairman David Vine presenting the shield with group secretary Tim Court in the background.

~ Mike Morley

KPRC plans to honour Frank Cubis

Dave Vine contacted Brian Powney, President of Kingston Phoenix before our AGM to ask if there were any developments in the investigation of Frank’s tragic collision. This is the substance of his reply, some of which Dave mentioned on Wednesday, and includes a kind invitation to their club Dinner Dance in February.

Brian confirmed that the investigation remains with the Police. “The only information we currently have is that Frank was hit by, what is being called a Flat Bed Van that I understand pulled out of a road onto the road Frank was on.  The Police reported Frank was fully visible as they have seen him on Bus and Bus Stop cameras,”

“It should never have happened and yes I still half expect Frank to turn up at club sometime.”

“But we must go onwards and upwards, as they say.”

“So some news on fundraising for Frank and his family.  They are supporting the Air Ambulance and Brake - a road safety awareness charity.  And together we will purchase a hardwood park bench in memory of Frank and the aim is to place it at his favourite spot in Richmond Park.  I'm aiming to have this ready by next May and we'll have a ride there arranged for an unveiling.”

“The Kingston Phoenix will work on plans over the Winter for a long distance ride - current thinking is Cardiff to London - one of Frank's National trike records.  This will be a one day ride and we'll work on other clubs to get involved and sort a "Just Giving" page.  We are considering a 25 mile TT in his honour but this may well be 2018 by the time it gets off the ground.   Lastly, the easy one - the club's 12 Hour Trophy will be renamed the Frank Cubis Memorial Trophy - Frank still held that club record at the time of his death, with 256.92 miles.”

“Amazingly his record was broken this year by Dale Lush who rode 265.95 miles.  Such a shame that Frank will not be at the club dinner to present the Trophy.”

“We will have a presentation to Frank's daughter at the club dinner on February 25th 2017 and his friends from the CTC section are welcome to attend the dinner dance.  Please therefore find attached details of the club dinner as it is all now arranged.”

“Lastly, "Frank's Bucket" will be at the club dinner and people can make further donations to all of the above.”

“All the best and see you soon,

Regards, Brian.”

Dinner/Dance Invitation

Dinner Menu

Booking Form

~ Tim

Notice for 2016 AGM

The AGM for CTC South West London will commence at 11:00 in the Hersham Amenity Hall on Wednesday 9th November.

Signing in sheets will circulate once you are sitting down. The Agenda, Minutes of the 2015 AGM, Treasurer's Report and our Annual Report will be available for you to read.

If you would like to commend someone for the Arthur Jessop trophy for Outstanding Achievement in the club please notify the secretary.

Please be considerate about where you park your bikes.
 

Click to preview the agenda

Click HERE to read the 2015/2016 Annual Report which will be presented to the meeting.

Tim Court
Secretary

Advance warning: website changes

At the end of August our current website hosting facility will be withdrawn, so the website will change.    Three things you should know:

1. The website address will be the same: http://www.cyclingswlondon.org.uk/
2. The website will have the same contents - blogs, rides lists, etc
3. It will look different, and things will be in different places

We hope you like the new site, which will appear in a couple of weeks.

Tri-Vets ride 15 June: Rider briefing

We are looking forward to welcoming you on June 15th.  This post should give you the information you need for an enjoyable and safe ride.   The ride is now closed to new entries.

The Base: Brockham Cricket Pavilion, RH3 7JT

The pavilion is the base for signing on, where you will receive an audax-style brevet card which will be stamped as proof of passage. It is a 3 mile ride from Dorking station. Limited parking is available at the pavilion, otherwise please park considerately on the side streets, leaving Middle Street clear. The pavilion is ¼ mile south of Brockham village centre, opposite 29 Middle Street, Brockham. You can find it here on Google Maps.

The pavilion will be open from 7.30am serving tea and coffee until 11am; sandwich lunches will be available from 11-3pm, and cake and finisher's certificates will be served until 8pm. If necessary the base will then re-locate to The Grumpy Mole in Brockham.

The Ride

You will have been advised of your group and start time – please arrive 20 mins early to allow time to sign in and for a cup of tea. Many of you will be experienced at riding in groups, but please take a minute or two to read our Group Ride Guidelines, which cover not just the safety of those in the group, but what to bring on the ride.

You are welcome to do a self-guided ride, but please inform the leader or back-marker if you don’t plan to ride with the group, or decide to leave the group. If you are worried about keeping up with the group, then we suggest you bring the ride card and a map, in case the group has to press on and you need to complete the ride independently. Leaders will try to avoid this but need to bear in mind the time limit for the 100 mile ride.

And please do check in at the base when you finish, or inform control if you decide to abandon the ride.

Links to route cards and gpx files are below.

Refreshments

Your entry fee covers tea/coffee at the start, a sandwich lunch, and more tea/coffee with cake at the finish. The 100 mile and 100k group rides will stop at a café half-way round each loop where you can purchase extra refreshments.

Tri-Vets Badges

Badges are available to ‘veterans’ (over 50) who complete the 100 mile course in 12 hours, evidenced by a brevet card which will be provided on the day. These cost £4 for the badge, or £2 for a ‘year bar’ if you already have a badge.  You can order badges at the finish.

The Routes, and group start times

100 miles: route book and gpx
100k: route book and gpx
50k: route book and gpx

For maps and some additional information, see the original announcement here.
Rider lists with start times are here.

And Finally...

If you enjoyed the day, why not join us for more rides: details on our website here.

Fancy a job ?

Terry has brought our attention to this job advertisement:

From: Alex Jones [mailto:alex.jones@kingston.gov.uk]
Sent: 29 April 2016 14:25
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Become a casual supply cycle instructor at Kingston Council

The Sustainable Transport Team is seeking to recruit new Cyclist Training Instructors to deliver training to children and adults. The main area of operation will be Kingston although opportunities exist in Sutton, a new shared service area. As one one of our professional trained instructors you could expect to earn up £188.96 to deliver our standard 10-hour Bikeability course.

If interested, find out more information and apply here:

https://jobs.kingston.gov.uk/jobdetails.asp?jobid=14481

Alexander Jones

Sustainable Transport Officer

Highways & Transport

Kingston & Sutton Shared Environment Service 

Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames

Hilly 50 2016

And once again thanks to the fantastic support from  V C Londres.

Hilly 50 even more finishers

More finishers in the Hilly 50

Hilly 50 Thanks to all!

I will try and publish all the photo's at start and finish with accreditation later. Thank you all again for turning up and making the event a continuation of a well established event. If all the non starters feel that a contribution is worthwhile to St. Raphael Hospice please let me know! There is no obligation whatsoever and I fully understand that the weather forecast would put you off! I am sure I would have felt the same. Even more reason to congratulate those who braved that, rode and I gather enjoyed it!

Hilly 50km Sat 5 March w2016

Just a short note to say that despite the weather which out to be literally a snow storm half way through 33 riders signed on and started. An amazing achievement under the circumstances and thanks to so many that turned up at the start to help with signing on.
I arrived 8.45am at Ryka's followed shortly thereafter by Geoffrey Shields a real stalwart who also helped with the sign on last year and he did a good job with the signing on! Carolyn & John Beer were the next to arrive with their dog and made a great contribution, Carolyn collecting all the money and managing the till very efficiently. Dave Vine was also early to arrive along with Ken Day and I started to feel comfortable that I was not on my own, in fact I took little part in the actual signing on. Terry L was also there in support which was a moral boost.
My main concern was should we allow the event to proceed as when I came over Box Hill the temperature was zero but the roads were dry and free from ice! At this time the snow had not started. In the end we only had 33 starters on the line with very few of the pre- registered turning up!
At around 10.20am I decamped to summit Box Hill and it was bitterly cold. Joined by son Tim & little Florence on her bike age 3 I felt well supported but a little concerned about the snow storm that now developed. I stayed at the finish untill 1.30pm when I was pretty certain that all the riders had finished, notably one 13 year old form V.C. Londres who were as always in recent years our most ardent supporters. More about that later with photo's but for now I will retire to bed.
Dave Vine & Ken Day were one of the last to arrive and it was amazing that such mature gentlemen managed to stay the course. Dave commented that conditions were grim but not dangerous and remarked that even Logmore Lane which I had reccied on Friday was safe by previous years problems. Whereas last year we had a few riders finish in under 2hrs, the best time this year was around 2hr. 27mins by last years first finisher from Kingston Wheelers.
Pictures and more analysis to follow. Riders and donations this year will be about half 2015 so a little disappointing but I think an achievement in view of the conditions and a remarkable result to all that rode!
Thank you all on the committee that helped me so much to keep this event alive!

Tri-Vets Ride, 15 June 2016

This blog post contains information about the arrangements for the rides, the routes, how to get to the start, refreshments, checking-in, and expected conduct for riders.

Updated information is contained in a subsequent post here

Tri-ennial Veterans' rides have been organised by CTC groups since 1928, and are intended as a sociable, non-competitive day out in the Surrey countryside. We are offering three distances: 100 miles, 100km and 50km. All routes are figures of eight around the base at Brockham, with light refreshments at lunch and at the end of the ride. A CTC badge is available at a cost of £4 to riders over 50 who complete the 100 mile route in under twelve hours. All riders will receive a finisher's certificate.
The

The number of riders is limited to 80: please register with Simon Lambourn. The entry fee of £5 covers costs, including refreshments at the base. An entry form is available here: please register first to check places are available.

The Base: Brockham Cricket Pavilion, RH3 7JT

The pavilion is the base for signing on, where you will receive an audax-style brevet card which will be stamped as proof of passage. It is a short ride from Dorking station (3 miles). Limited parking is available at the pavilion, otherwise please park considerately in Brockham, leaving the main road clear. The pavilion is just south of Brockham Green, a right turn off the main road, opposite 21 Middle Street, Brockham. https://goo.gl/maps/BRyGyYPDPMD2.

The pavilion will be open from 7.30am serving tea and coffee until 11am; sandwich lunches will be available from 11-3pm, and cake and finisher's certificates will be served until 8.00 pm. If necessary the base will then re-locate to a pub in Brockham.

The Rides

All rides will be largely on the Surrey Cycleway, which is a network of pretty lanes with little traffic. It is not flat - Surrey isn’t - but it’s certainly not a hilly route, as none of Surrey’s famous hills is included. Based on the Cricket Pavilion at Brockham, the first riders will leave at 0800. For each distance, there will be led rides of small groups, with the normal leader/back marker/corner marker arrangements. Draft times for these led rides are as follows:

0800: 100 miles, 12.5 mph
0830: 100 miles, 13.0 mph
0900: 100 miles, 13.5 mph

0930: 100 kms, 12.0 mph
1000: 100 kms, 12.5 mph
1030: 100 kms, 13.0 mph

1100: 50 kms, 10.0 mph

To join the event you do not have to participate in a led ride - you can ride by yourself, or with a couple of friends, if you prefer. Route cards and GPS files for those who want them will be available below. Every rider will have an Audax-style ‘Brevet Card’, that is stamped as proof of passage. This will serve as evidence for CTC Badge Claims, but it is not meant to be a rigorous thing. It’s a ride with friends and clubmates - claims are made on trust.

The 100 mile and 100k group rides will stop at a café half-way round each loop where you can purchase extra refreshments.

Ride guidelines

In the interests of our safety and enjoyment, we expect all participants to follow the rules of the road and be considerate to other road users. If you plan to ride in a group please take a moment to study our Group Ride Guidelines.

In particular, if you leave the ride for any reason, please notify the group leader or back marker; or inform the base, using the number on your brevet card.

The routes (DRAFT)

For the latest information see the later blog post here

100 miles

<link to GPX file and route sheet here> Refreshments at Lingfield and Bramley

100 km

<link to GPX file and route sheet here> Refreshments at Horley and Capel (shop).

50km

<link to GPX file and route sheet here> pm refreshments at Tanhouse Farm

Hilly 50 km Saturday 5th March Starting at Ryka's

The first and foremost Sportive of the season to get your legs going and your hearts thumping! The following has been sent out to over thirty cycling clubs and eating establishments to publicize. It can be a forerunner, though some say more challenging than a Tri-Vet a series of which are planned by CTC in June.

Please promote when you can if you see likely lads and lasses out on their bikes, they too might like a challenge, so challenge them to ride - yes even press gang!

HILLY 50 KM SPORTIVE IN AID OF PROMOTING CTC AND ST. RAPHAEL HOSPICE CHEAM

Forgive me for being so bold but would you be so kind as to promote this event as an early season warm up. Entry is £5 payable on the line which will all go to St. Raphael’s. Signing on is at Ryka’s cafe car park Burford Bridge/Box Hill from 9.30am Saturday morning with prompt start at 10am. Pre-entry will be helpful. Go to www.cyclingswlondon.org.uk  On the home page you will see “Entry Form” on the LHS and the routes/map can be found in the centre of the yellow background page. Alternatively just turn up on the day. This is a sporting challenging unsupported ride and few will complete it in under two hours. Now there’s a challenge! The event has been running for over 30 years and is supported by a well tried route sheet  finishing at the Cafe on top of Box Hill by 2pm.

Alternatively go direct to the CTC events page for a fuller description and entry.

http://www.ctc.org.uk/event/hilly-50-kilometre-0

  

Some of the finishers at the 2015 event.

Signing on at Ryka's 2015. 

Minutes of AGMs and Committee Meetings

Due to the demand for greater transparency and the insatiable curiosity of club members your committee decided recently to publish the minutes of our meetings.

You may have already spotted Graham's addition to the menu on the left hand side of our website's front page:




 






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From the list select the document you want to read, or in the case of committee meeting minutes select the folder for the appropriate year.

To navigate back to this base list click on
"> Meeting minutes for publishing" at the top of the page. The documents are all in PDF format so you will need a PDF reader on the PC or device you are using to open these docs.

We don't have a specific post of Welfare Officer in the club. It was agreed a few years ago that the committee would cover this function collectively. So at the meetings there is always a slot to discuss the wellbeing of club members who are ill or have been involved in an accident. The full versions of the minutes include a summary of these conversations but these publicly available documents exclude this section of our meetings.

Happy reading!

Tim