Please note that David H can now be found in the Workshop on Saturday mornings 8am - 1pm instead of Friday mornings as previously.
Following a recent chain-jamming incident which wrote off two front rings, can we ask for better communication between all front and rear riders when using the front chain ring. Rear riders cannot be expected to know when the front rider is going to change down or up, unless they are told. The front rider could either warn the rear rider verbally a few seconds before moving the lever, such as "Ease off, we're changing down" or physically reduce the pressure on the pedals. This would save unnecessary and expensive repairs having to be carried out.,/p>
Our AGM will take place on Friday, November 19th. 2004 in the Waterloo Public House, Manchester Road, Bury at 7.30pm. Please make all nominations for Officers, Agenda items for inclusion at this meeting and apologies for absence in writing to the secretary before Friday 29 October, as explained on the enclosed sheet.
A FREE pie and peas supper is available for members after the meeting. As the caterers need precise numbers, please inform Joyce AS SOON AS POSSIBLE - by November 14th AT THE LATEST if you wish to partake.
PLEASE ask friends, neighbours, work colleagues to consider if they or someone they know would like to become a front rider.
In order to attract more members through our website, we need more member profiles. Would you be prepared, please, to write one short paragraph about yourself, including how you heard about our Club, why you joined, why you like it (you couldn't possibly dislike it!) and why we need more volunteers etc. John will put it on the web page.
You should already have paid Dave J your RiderBike subscription by the time you read this!!!!! Monies were due by 29 September at the latest (See the July edition of Spoke).
(a) The Wright brothers who achieved the world's first controlled aeroplane flight in 1903, were cycle mechanics, not aeronautical engineers.
(b) Only 1 in 350 emergency admissions to hospital are due to any kind of cycling injury; around 1 in 1000 are due to head injury.
(c) London has around 500 police on bicycles and in central London, the ambulance service is supported by a fully equipped cycling paramedic team.