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  1. Sunday 16th: planning on a wee spin along the back roads in memory of our dear friend Davie Borland. Davie was a big fan of ‘farm watch’ rides so we’ll be seeking out some of the worst roads in the area 😅 All welcome to join me - including gravellers 😀 9.30 Miller Street. PM me if you know of any bad roads Davie would have liked (or did indeed like) and we’ll try and incorporate them!
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  2. Just throwing in some events ran in past which proved popular I used to run a two day event at Glengarnock circuit it started with a prologue TT 1.6 miles followed by a crit of an hour plus 5 laps in afternoon. Followed up by a RR at Gateside on the Sunday all done with 3 marshalls per day . We ran a series of APRs at various locations a) Peesweep at top of Braes b) Gateside 2 circuits c) Kilmacolm d) RNAD always popular events A hill climb series 4 climbs one after the other starting at Howwood then Club hillclimb then 2 climbs off Beith Road heading to RB at Lochwinnoch Hill climb followed by cyclocross event we ran this for a few years first as a confined then as an open event. Place to place TTs instead of out and back great if you ride with tail winds only or reduced distance one year we were getting great numbers at Georgetown and light was fading so we shortened distance each week down to a final 3 mile event everybody loved it . We rented a field off a farmer near Howwood and had a series of MTB races for different categories on a weekly basis ( riders paid £2 each ) before that we built circuits at Bluebell woods Elderslie , vacant ground opposite clubrooms , quarry near Georgetown road and Gleniffer braes Two ups where teams were chosen from hat on the night so you could have the fastest and slowest rider riding as a team , great for team bonding or not depending on the individual LOL We used to traditionally follow up club hill climb championship with a sports day which had slow cycle ,obstacle race , speed judging , freewheel , plus novelty events ie throwing the welly a sort of shot putt on bikes . WE invited other clubs to event , traditionally Lomond Roads and Regent. We did a couple of cyclist v Harriers events with Kilbarchan Harriers these were popular down south ( a couple took place in Irvine as well) we did try to organise a bike v horses event but failed to find a suitable circuit Sometimes you have to think out the box ie when I started the Millport events again we had a 3 up 10 mile lap of the island . Everybody told me it was too short for a team TT nobody would ride it the first year we had over 120 riders and more the next year . It was only discontinued due to island becoming too busy . The same was true of TTT championship when I reduced it from 100K to 50K everybody said it wouldnt work it went from 6 teams to 24 teams We also held open event series with other clubs ie Early season APRs at RNAD Beith 36 , 45 56 miles an extra lap per week we did that with Inverclyde Velo and Fullarton Wheelers We also ran a summer crit series at Glengarnock with Inverclyde Velo , Fullarton and Inverclyde CRT helping to run the events
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  3. A pretty spot on observation from Billy. There are currently many different small groups of people riding different bikes at different times. As club members we really should be be trying to ride together as much as possible. In the past the planned diary of club runs and events have defined what you needed to do as an active club member but that model is not getting participation and we are now looking for a new way to do things. As time is progressing on this matter I will put up a provisional diary based on what we would normally have done, a starting point from where we can work from. Quickly following on the next task is to decide what we should keep and what we should change out with. Darryl has proposed a working group for discussing this and the invite is still open to everyone. Widespread contribution is vital, we all want to ride our bikes as club members, what would get us doing it together? This may also involve doing it over a video conference call that I have zero knowledge of setting up! I would rather bribe/encourage everyone with a drink at Amaretto.
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  4. You know the problem is the club is made up of loads of different groups ( not a bad thing ) which all go out in their own separate groups and currently Traditional Sunday Club Runs and Time Trials are not really that important to the current membership . Maybe we should deliver something different and bin testing maybe do Timed Gravel Rides ( not races) would save the committee some time and stop trying to get a non racing club racing . At the moment we have one racing track , maybe one racing road and at best 2 doing time trials , we have more riding gravel than riders racing . So maybe we should focus our time getting all the bunches back out on a Sunday , jus a thought
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  5. How about a revamp of the old Tourist Trial event ?? a sort of BAR club event A) long ride of 100 miles ie 5 ferries , double Arran or nominated sportive which has to be completed in different times for each standard Gold , Silver , Bronze ( dated events to allow qualification) b) a 10 mile TT ( part of League of 10s) again with standard times c) a Georgetown TT ( Chocolate series) with standard times d) a hill climb with standard times ( 2 events to allow qualification time) possible addition of confined circuit race , APR , cyclo cross or track event Gold , Silver ,Bronze awards with Platimum for riders who qualify and also attend nominated whole club runs Separate category for e bikes as we must embrace that these bikes will become more and more prevalent in the future .
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  6. Saturday could be better , however you still loose a chunk of riders that ride with the bogs , so maybe every second Saturday, But what do I care as second claim member I can’t ride in them
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  7. Moving some events to a Saturday morning might get more along as riding confined & Georgetown league on consecutive nights is tough
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