The Transcontinental Race – an illustrated talk by 2015 participant, John Weller – Wednesday 20th April
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Re-branding the Cyclists’ Touring Club
Concerned about our Club’s re-branding, I sent this e-mail – in a personal capacity – to our National Chair and our Chief Executive Officer:
To: David Cox, Chair of National Council, Cyclists’ Touring Club
Paul Tuohy, Chief Executive Officer, Cyclists’ Touring Club
Dear Sirs,
You have announced that you will be going ahead this week with the rebranding of the Cyclists’ Touring Club.
To do so would be profoundly undemocratic.
This is because you have received a petition – some weeks ago – signed by a sufficient number of members of the Cyclists’ Touring Club to demand a poll of the whole Club on this issue.
I therefore call upon you to:
- cancel the rebranding, and
- announce, via “Cycle” – the magazine of the Cyclists’ Touring Club, the arrangements for the conduct of the poll of the whole Club.
Yours in a spirit of democracy and transparency,
Ian Macsporran
Cyclists’ Touring…
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Back to the Fridays
Thursday Night’s Ride to Southend-on-Sea and a great description from Skirtbike!
For those that don’t know there is a group of people that have been riding out of London to a coastal resort most months of the year, aside from the deepest darkest winter ones, for maybe ten years now. I forget when they first started, as I wasn’t on the first couple. A very good friend of mine told me about them and their leader, Simon, who is a character and a half I can tell you. I think it was sometime in 2008, or maybe 2009. Simon has done a lot more in his life than the Friday Night Rides, but they remain the bit in which I was most involved over the next few years.
So, back to the FNRttC. Well, yes, my good mate took me along, introduced me to Simon, the leader and a few other people and so it started. Although Simon ran them every…
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The Errandonnee: Ride or Run and Get Stuff Done
Hey winter, stop bossing me around. It’s time for a March challenge designed for the utility cyclist and transportation runner with errands to do, even during cold winter days– the Errandonnee!
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The Brompton Folding Bicycle: A Factory Visit
Lucia Joyce lies alone but not forgotten. My Diary piece from The Irish Times
Particularly good to see the acknowledgement of Peter Mulligan!
An Irishwoman’s Diary
Mary Russell
The town of Northampton, in England’s southern midlands, is an unlikely place to find a Joyce connection. Yet one of its cemeteries – Kingsthorpe – is the final resting place of Lucia Joyce, the tragic daughter of James and Nora.
Postwar Trieste, Lucia’s birthplace, had been claimed by Yugoslavia which is why her grave is located in the eastern Europe section of the cemetery and surrounding headstones are inscribed in many of the Slav languages. Lucia’s says, simply: “Lucia Anna Joyce, Trieste 1907, Northampton 1982.”
Her mental disturbance, thought to have been schizophrenic (one doctor noted she was neurotic rather than lunatic) started to manifest itself when she was in her early twenties and the resultant erratic behaviour and violent outbursts made her difficult to live with. She severed the phone lines in her parents’ apartment at a most inopportune moment – just when the…
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My blog goes official for #30DaysOfBiking
Really excited! My blog for Day 20 of 30 Days Of Biking has been published by the official blog out of Minnesota!
Please have a look: http://30dob.tumblr.com/tagged/Ian-Macsporran
Day 16 of #30DaysOfBiking
To my local branch library to return a set of OS maps from my last little adventure and borrow some more for my next!
Route here on RideWithGPS.
Day 15 of #30DaysOfBiking
Up and down The Centurion Way, Chichester’s equivalent of Northampton’s Brampton Valley Way – a disused railway line converted into a linear recreational area (and with a stream flowing alongside!
A junk-sculptured centurion!
Triumphal arch at the entrance to Chichester!
Route here on RideWithGPS.
Day 14 of #30DaysOfBiking
Along Southsea prom!
Up Hill And Into The Wind 