Minutes of Meeting
Willingham Wheels ready to roll (again)
Contact: Paul Knighton, 07787 530394, p.knighton@runbox.com
Minutes of Meeting, March 10, the Duke, 9 pm, and Agenda for the Year
1)
Confirmation of fixed weekly rides. (Meeting place: The Green)
Tuesdays, 7.30 pm, road ride
Thursdays, 7 pm, gentle cross country and/or road, with pub visit
Sundays, 9.30 am, road ride
Ad hoc arrangements deviating from or additional to the above always welcome – just use the mailing list.
Saturdays or Sundays for socials. We agreed the need to encourage those seeking a more gentle ride to get together and come along. Fiona McGuckin indicated willingness to coordinate the occasional casual outing.
Contact: fmcguckin@yahoo.co.uk, tel. 07884 165870
2)
Website
Remarkable progress has been made in this regard, just a matter of finding the time to finalise it - with thanks to Israel for all their hard work.
3)
Social rides
Peddars Way, Sunday 28th August 2011 (Bank Holiday Sunday)
See next page for further details
Feast Ride to Ely, Sunday 9th October
See next page for further details
Bonfire night ride
Saturday 5th November, via busway to Midsummer Common, meal at Green Dragon, Chesterton
Leave Green at 6 pm
4)
End of season meal
Saturday 19th November, Duke of Wellington
5)
Sportives and social rides
The 67-mile “Richardsons Rumble” in April was fantastic. The route from St. Ives to the Oundle area and back was so beautiful that some of us took a van up there to do part of it again, two Sundays later.
We agreed that the following would be prioritised:
Sunday 22nd May 2011
Tour de Tendring
http://www.bike-events.com/Ride.aspx?id=294
Dovercourt Swimming Pool, Wick Lane, Dovercourt, Harwich CO12 3TS
20 / 50 miles circular £13
Sunday 5th June 2011
Norwich 100/50
http://www.bike-events.com/Ride.aspx?id=269
http://www.bike-events.com/Ride.aspx?id=267
Cathedral Grounds, The Close, Norwich NR1 4DH
50 miles or100 miles, circular £16/ £15 team entry
Dunwich Dynamo
From Saturday, 16th July 2011 - 20:00
To Sunday, 17th July 2011 – 09:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunwich_Dynamo
Pub On The Park 19 Martello Street, London Fields, City of London E8 3PE,
Route goes initially up the A104 to Epping.
http://www.routeyou.com/route/view/118314/cycle-route-dunwich-dynamo.en
115 miles
Sunday 7th August 2011
Suffolk Coast (Highly recommended, if only for the fish and chips)
http://www.bike-events.com/Ride.aspx?id=274
Glemham Hall, Little Glemham, Nr. Woodbridge,Suffolk IP13 0BT
35 miles or 60 miles circular Entry: £16/ £15 team entry, £8 U15’s
Sunday 28th August 2011 (Bank Holiday Sunday)
Social ride – Peddar’s Way
The Peddars Way is a traffic free cycleway/bridleway running from about 5 miles NE of Thetford through to Holme-next-the-Sea on the N. Norfolk coast, with Castle Acre being the halfway point, each section being about 25 miles. There is also a good network of country roads tracking the Peddars Way for the road-runners. There is information available to read if you ‘Google’ Peddars Way. Details of route to be announced.
Sunday 9th October
Willingham Feast Social Ride to Ely – our annual “pilgrimage”
with stop-over in the Cutter Inn for refreshments prior to the return leg
http://www.thecutterinn.co.uk/
Willigham to Ely and back 2 x 16 miles
Entry free
Other bike rides in our Area, 2011
• NORWICH 100 05 Jun
• NORWICH 50 05 Jun
• ESSEX COUNTRYSIDE 26 Jun
• LONDON TO OXFORD 03 Jul
• LONDON TO SOUTHEND 17 Jul
• ESSEX CASTLE 23 Jul
• LONDON TO CAMBRIDGE 24 Jul
• CAMBRIDGE TO NORWICH 02 Oct
