Edited independently in three of the CTC Wessex member group areas and publishedquarterly. Please contact your nearest member group or access the club website for

information on any eventswww.wessexctc.org for all CTC Wessex activities

CTC WESSEX SECRETARYPeter Loakes, Church Cottage, West Stafford, DT2 8AB (01305) 263272CTC BOURNEMOUTHCheryl Owen, 1 Bond Road, Poole BH15 3RT (01202) 738428Margaret Phillpotts, Onair, 9 Bucklers Way, Bournemouth BH8 0EWCTC SALISBURYAlan Clarke, “Hill House”, Kelsey Road, Salisbury SP1 1JR (01722) 322188CTC WEST DORSETAngela Price, 41 Garfield Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2EYCTC BLACKMORE VALERichard Gow, Wildfell, Crown Rd, Marnhull, DT10 1LN (01258) 821391

Main Calendar Dates For 2011

THE WESSEX NEWSLETTER

April 10th Dorset Coastlet 100km Peter Loakes 01305 263272

April 10th Dorset Coast 200km Peter Loakes 01305 263272

Apr 23rd 3D300km Audax Peter Loakes 01305 263272

May 8th New Forest Spring Challenge 50km John Ward 01590 671205

May 8th New Forest Day Out 100km John Ward 01590 671205

May 8th New Forest 150km John Ward 01590 671205

May 8th New Forest Excursion 200km John Ward 01590 671205

May 14th CTC NATIONAL AGM & DINNER AT WEYMOUTH

May 15th CTC Wessex Centenary Celebration Rides at Weymouth 01305772654

May 15th Dorset Downs 100km Justin Oakley

Sept 4th New Forest Autumn Challenge 50km John Ward 01590 671205

Sept 4th New Forest & Coast 100km John Ward 01590 671205

Sept 4th New Forest 150km John Ward 01590 671205

Sept 4th New Forest On & Off Shore 200km John Ward 01590 671205

Sept 11th Dorset Dirt 50km Off-Road Ken Reed 01305 772654

Sept 17th St Lo Twinning Meet in Dorset Malcolm Howell 01305 756094

Sept TBA Bournemouth Square 200km

Oct 9th Gridiron 100km Terry Walsh 01202 247888

3 Cycle Ink #159Keith Matthews - Editor

I write this as we are suddenly ankle deep insnow . Here in this part of Dorset this has beensuch a rare thing that it is worth the comment.Hopefully things will improve by the weekendand Joan’s Christmas Tea for our combinedgroups will not be badly affected. Now I’m apensioner I understand more why as a kid Iloved snow but my elders hated it. Mind you,my mother was probably only about 30 whenshe used to say these things. One of myChristmas events has already been cancelledbecause of it, but that was for older people atnight so probably it was sensible to do so, but ittakes a lot to stop a fit hungry bikie gettingthrough to his or her food.

That discontent about CTC Charitable Status rumbles on with the arrivalof the voting forms for “Resolution 8” in your issue of “Cycle”. Thisavenue of resolving the dispute was offered to the CTC by a number ofconcerned members, including me and many local riders, and removesthe need for CTC to have an Extraordinary Meeting. Its called a “Poll ofthe Whole Club” a very rare event, and its worth just examining thatstatement. CTC is a “Members Club”, and as a member we all have ashare in it. Each of us has about 1/60,000 of it. Not much maybe but itmakes it ours. Charitable Status removes that and changes theConstitution significantly. I take the view that CTC has survived 130years through good times and extremely thin times, but we have alwaysbeen in charge of our own destiny. Lets continue to do that please.

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CTC Blackmore Vale RidesThese take place every week alternating between Saturday & Sunday.Meet 10am, set off at 10.30am.

01963 32840 - Richard & Margaret Nicholl or 01258 821391 - Richard Gow

At the CTC Wessex AGM, it was agreed that Blackmore Vale would change frombeing an informal group and become a full Member Group. CTC Wessex will allocate£500 from their reserves to help the them get further established. They will alsoeffectively take over contacting members in postcode DT9 from CTC West Dorset as amatter of practicality.

Day Date Meet Lunch & Tea LeadSun 12th Dec Udder Farm Shop, East Stour Shaftesbury J+RSat 18th Dec Memorial Hall, Wincanton Red Lion, Kilmington RNSun 26th Dec To be announced at Christmas

Dinner on 14 DecemberSat 1st Jan Meet at NT visitor centre, at 11am

for NYD walkies.NT cafe at 1pm All

Sun 9th Jan Morrisons supermarket, Wincanton Seymour Arms PH,Witham Friary

RN

Sat 15th Jan Udder Farm Shop, Compton Abbas airfield ME-REast Stour

Sun 23rd Jan National Trust café, Stourhead Lakeside Garden Centre,Crockerton

RG

Sat 29th Jan Dikes supermarket, Stalbridge The Cake Tin, Gold HillFarm, Child Okeford

PW

Sun 6th Feb Waitrose Supermarket, Gillingham Sherborne RHSat 12th Feb Poet’s Corner café, Stur. Newton Crown Hotel PH RGSun 20th Feb Morrisons supermarket, Wincanton Brimsmore Garden Centre,

YeovilRN

Sat 26th Feb Chapel X tea room, South Cadbury(just N of A303)

Somerton BW

Sun 6th Mar National Trust café, Stourhead Cellar Café, Longleat RGSat 12th Mar ‘At the Chapel’ café, High Street,

BrutonFish & Chips, SheptonMallet

RN

Sun 20th Mar Castle Garden Centre, Sherborne National Trust café,Montacute

RG

Sat 26th Mar Chapel X tea room, South Cadbury(just N of A303)

20 Landmead, Glastonbury(Bernard White’s home)

BW

Sun 3rd Apr Waitrose supermarket, Gillingham Crown Inn PH, Alvediston ME-R

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In 2011 we have invited our friendsfrom UC Saint Lo to visit us in Dorset.It is our turn you see and it would befitting in our Centenary year. We arelooking for club members to act ashosts for an equivalent number of theFrench party. Of course, we will haveour regulars, but you can join in thefun - and be invited over to Francenext time.

The next event will be the visit toWessex of a party of cyclists from theUTC St. Lo, for the weekend ofSaturday & Sunday, 17 & 18September, next year in 2011. If youare definitely able to offer hospitality ofprobably 2 nights bed & breakfast and1 evening meal to some of thesevisitors please email me at:

Email: malcolm_howell@hotmail.com or phone: 01305 756094

I’ll need to know where you live and how many guests you can accommodate,of what gender/age, and whether you would prefer St. Loists that you alreadyknow from previous visits.

Thank you all very much.

St Lo Twinning 2011 By Malcolm Howell

Malcolm Howell (Co-ordinator)

New CafeMy husband and I own the “918” CoffeeShops in Gillingham, Dorset . Our newshop is situated within the new RiversMeetLeisure Centre, our originl one at StationRoad. We are very cyclist friendly

918@RiversMeetRiversMeet Centre, Hardings LaneGillingham, Dorset SP8 4HXTel: 01747 834 018We look forward to seeing you,

Chanel Cornelius

Riversmeet CafeOpen Monday to Friday 7am – 10pm

Saturday 9am – 6pm, Sunday 9am – 3pm

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By Keith MatthewsPalmares - 2010Each year at our AGM we have onlythree cups and trophies to award, so theyrepresent our real appreciation of theefforts of the recipients. They don’t getto keep the cups, just polish them for ayear, but their names are recorded in therecords for evermore, true immortality!

At the Bournemouth AGM, ChairmanTerry and Treasurer Mike sort out whogets which one. You can see why Terrylikes presenting to Margaret Phillpottsas she is awarded the Tourist Shield forbeing the highest placed local rider inthe CTC National Tourist Competition.

Dave Langley gets CTC Bournemouth’smost prestigious Sartain trophy,awarded for special work for the clubover the year. Despite his broken bonesand layup time, Dave organised our newleaflets and publicity drive particularly.

Mike Gordon who gets the Rider’s Cupcould not be at the AGM and so it wasarranged to make special presentation tohim later.

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This cup is awarded for the most impressive featof cycling through the year. This year thecommittee chose a rider who has undertaken anumber and variety of rides throughout the yearrather than just one. This started with ShawnShaw’s Transmarche, possibly the last of thisstyle because of the ferry service alterations. Thetop picture is of some of the recipient’s fellowriders who completed the Transmarche goinghome on the evening ferry.

The Cup was awarded to Mike Gordon on arecent Thursday Potterers club ride. Mike is seenhere riding in the “Dorset Downs 100km”.

Ride leader, John Knight, presented the Cup toMike during the ride on the 4th November at theStables at Hyde. Mike’s wife Jo admired the cupasking if a member of the committee would becoming round every week to polish it!

The Committee congratulate Mike on his award. Well done!

This cup is presented annually and all members are requested to inform thecommittee of possible future recipients.

The Riders Cup By Mike Walsh

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We do have one last trophy, our informal freewheeling competition, which ishotly contested. Well, we suppose that even the most unfit rider can cruisedownhill!

The winner was presented with the cup on a Thursday Potterers ride. BobCountney, who had organised the contest, provided some amusing words beforepresenting the cup to Roger Villiers in the Buttery on Lymington High Street.

Roger responded in a similar vein and much banter was exchanged by those onthe ride. Roger was this rides leader and had taken so many back doubles toLymington that Mike Barrett and myself, who had got to the coffee stop earlier,began to wonder if they would ever arrive.

Ron Cook was Wessex District Association secretary for nearly 25 years and was aprodigious mile-eater with 500,000 miles to his total. This award is named after himand is awarded to members of Wessex who spread the good name of CTC Wessexby their cycling activities. It is awarded annually at the Wessex AGM on therecommendation of the two previous award holders, often in conjunction withmembers of the committee.

This year I was awarded the trophy at the recent CTC Wessex AGM by the president

Freewheel Trophy By Mike Walsh

Ron Cook Rosebowl By Mike Walsh

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Malcolm Howell. Thank you very much; Iam sure there are others more deserving. I amvery proud to receive this award. Everythingthat I have done within cycling is upon mybrother’s shirttails from my school days topresent and as the trophy has previously beenawarded to him this is a double honour for me.

The award now resides in what has becomemy trophy cabinet. The other cycling awards and mementoes are from earlier ridessome minor but do include my ride across the States and again I owe my brother abig thank you for not only the moralsupport whilst preparing but also hisdedication to preparing my Dawes Galaxy.One aspect was increasing the brakingpower by adjusting the length of thesecondary cable. A large number of cupsof tea were drunk in devising themethodology. This proved to be anessential when starting in the AppalachiansMountains with a fully laden bike.

Upon looking at previous winners of this award outside the AGM venue with KenReed and Anne Neale they pointed out that although they were awarded the RonCook Rose Bowl in 2007 it was never actually presented to them. We corrected thatomission there and then but I did take the trophy home with me!

Thank you all very much for nominating me.

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Two of the finest things to havecome to us, in my opinion, from ourAmerican cousins are the writings ofWalt Whitman, their rugged nationalpoet, and also the title at the headof this short article.It epitomises the inner core feelingof the true Cyclo Tourist. It canseem to be a “Kop Out” but to thosewho regard the bike as far morethan just a mobile gym orfashionable clothes horse itrepresents a radically different worldview. Maybe it ought to be modified to read “ Burn down the cabin andsaddle bag the bike”.It is in part (and you need a few years experience under your belt toknow) a realisation that you cannot contain all the worlds woes andconcerns or indeed all your personal ones without frittering your lifeaway. I remember in a previous business life sat in my office, feet up ondesk, contemplating through unavoidable factors personal andcompany financial meltdown. At such times your head is spinning withideas, thoughts, recriminations and then my eye caught sight of aCycling magazine tossed onto a side table. The following day Ieschewed the company car and cycled to work and brought to the foresomething I had always known. The truly ongoing joys of life were theview from the saddle at the top of Kingston Hill, the lilt of the road onthe South Downs, the soft warm air while pedaling through vineyards inthe French countryside. The rest is garbage. True some of it isnecessary, but garbage nevertheless.It can seem naïve, in fact I was accused of this a few days ago whenasked my thoughts on Ed Miliband I apparently replied “what does heride”? Without this filter in place life can become chaotic.So now my friends you know, when life becomes joyless and worriesseem insoluble and the world drenched in despair . . . ”Burn down thecabin and saddlebag the bike.”Now, it is unfortunate that as the warm throbbing presence ofChristmas approaches, one of my favourite times of the year, I have to

Burn Down the Cabin . . . and saddle the horse.

By Big Bob

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relate more serious matters. I refer to our Le Hotel du Velo Sportivresidential hotel inaugural Track Meeting mentioned in the lastNewsletter. Now I know it took place back at the end of summer, on aperfect sunny day, in our own estate grounds, after much goodwill andhard work by many people, in the illustrious presence of several of ourinvited neighbourhood worthies both landowning and otherwise.So what the hell went wrong! Even now I wake up in the early hoursand gaze into the darkness trying to make sense of the longest 12hours of my life and its aftermath. I think it started to unravel at thefinish of the 4th lap handicap sponsored by our local village chemistshop.Allen D with wife Ann, stoking on their doomed Tandem Trike, came outof the bunch going for the sprint, a truly awe inspiring sight and indeedall would have been well had Allen, while crossing the line with a cry of“Viagra for ever” not attempted that wheely.In all fairness to Allen he could not have known how lightly built thevictory presentation podium adjacent to the finishing line was. Hismomentary loss of control and the subsequent high speed taking out ofthe complete structure was bad enough but as though cursed by thegods Lady Cecilia of Compton, our patroness for the day, waslightheartedly posing on the top being photographed by the socialEditor of our local Newspaper.The demented cries of the poor old Lady, minus embroidered sun hat,in a flurry of muslin straddled across the handlebars speeding down thegrass slope toward the lake will stay with me until I die. I am stillawaiting the final meeting with his lordship over the whole sorrowfulepisode.I want now with a heavy heart to move on to the furore emanating fromthe track-side temporary Bar later on that fateful afternoon.Now, correct me if I’m wrong but the understanding was that Mike B,with 4 pints Dave’s assistance, was to be responsible for thedistribution of Alcoholic and other liquid refreshments at our crowdedrespectable gathering. So why, by all that’s holy, was 4 pints Dave tobe seen standing on a trestle table, with a beer tankard in each handand the Vicars trousers wound around his head screaming “ Come andlook at Laurence of Arabia”.The poor Reverend Gentleman was still shaking when I got him back tothe Vicarage some hours later. Thank the Lord that Jo G, our HouseMedical Officer was at hand to sedate and get him to lie down in a

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darken room after retrieving his trousers. The Bishop has beeninformed and we are still awaiting developments.Mike, the other member of that unfortunate duo, was eventuallydiscovered behind the shrubbery near the rose garden with threebottles of red, in dalliance (and as an English gentleman I use the worddiscreetly ) with Lady Cecilia’s daughter whose violent verbal attack onme for disturbing their . . . Ahem . . . communications seemed totallyout of keeping with her education and upbringing.Of the other multiple disasters that occurred on that deceptive Englishsunny afternoon one in particular concerning the track needsexplanation. Will someone tell me how Roger V, could compete in fourevents, head down, at full bore around the track going in the wrongdirection! Did no one tell him it’s anticlockwise requirement. Surely hemust have realized he was competing alone apart from a brief flurryonce a lap when he ploughed through the group the wrong way.Eventually, of course, the inevitable happened and the sight of Peter D,with an aghast expression wearing Roger’s front wheel thrust throughbaggy shorts will not go away from the minds eye in a hurry. There aretimes, dear reader, when I want to get off my life and catch one goingsomewhere else.But Christmas is almost upon us at Le Hotel du Velo Sportiv and withthe usual Cyclo’s robust emotional and mental outlook the quietsheepish behaviour of some of our members in the dining hall and bararea is disappearing being replaced by the usual good humouredfellowship in the winter evening whether watching past Tour de Francerecordings, gentle roller competitions in the sports wing or, as I, sat incomfortable armchairs around the log fire by the libraries large fireplacechatting about the days short winter run.The voices around me fade and lulled by the soft reflected firelight onthe bunches of holly festooned over the arching stone chimneybreastpast Christmas’s come to mind, past riding companions kept warm inmemory and the keen anticipation of the group Christmas day morningride to the village inn for a seasonal glass of sherry but above all themain evening meal a true celebration of all that’s good in cycling andCyclists.But I know who won’t be in charge of the wine trolley!

Ride On! Big Bob. . . now go to Page 16

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Right to Ride Network Report 17/11/10 – Poole & BournemouthConnect 2 Throop to Hurn.  A land survey has been carried out by DorsetCC.   John Hayter attended a route inspection with Sustrans and Council andhas also attended a progress meeting at Dorset CC.Horseshoe Common.  There was concern that this scheme has not been

implemented.  John Hayter has spoken to Michael Rowland who willendeavour to accelerate it in the Leisure Services work programme.Boscombe Overcliff to Littledown Route.  Complete and connecting several

schools to the spine route.Links to Schools.  Glenmoor and Winton School, Stourfield Infant and

Junior, St Peters, Avonbourne, Portchester and Bicknell will all benefit from atotal £550,000 budget this year.Bournemouth Cycling Centre.  The proposed name for the 250m banked

cycle track to be built next to Winton School.  Work started on site on 12thSeptember.  Works to be complete for May 2011.Talbot Avenue cycle lanes.  Bournemouth Council are monitoring the

success of the cycle lanes.  If you have comments about any aspect of thescheme or safety improvements please send them direct to Lucy Marstrand.Poole – Penn Hill. The cycle lanes are well used. There automatic cycle

counters placed at strategic locations around the Poole Borough indicatingcycling in the area is increasing with some routes seeing more than 500 cyclingtrips in 24 hour period.

There are particular difficulties were the River Stour crossings and gettingcyclists through the pedestrian areas of The Square, Boscombe Precinct andPier Approach.

If there is a route that you would like to see developed please e-mail:Lucy.Marstrand@bournemouth.gov.uk or s.funnell@poole.gov.ukto the Cycling Forum bournemouthcyclingforum@yahoo.co.ukor to me, Paul M Turner, Right to Ride Network, madcyclist5@yahoo.co.uk .

Campaign Trail By Paul Turner

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Breamore Big Meet By Mike WalshAt the suggestion of Alan Clarke theWessex Member Group (DA) arranged ameet of all subsidiary member groups(sections) within the Wessex area. Thiswas held on the 26th September atBreamore where a steam festival wasbeing hosted. The core time wasbetween 1:00 and 3:00.None of the Bournemouth sections hadincluded the Big Meet on their runs listso belatedly I put on my first section rideto arrive at Breamore for lunch. Westarted from Hurn Stores with eight ridersheading for Sherfield English for coffee.I had intended to use Bailey’s GardenCentre but we arrived two seconds afterover 20 Woman’s Institute members

arrived and as they were unsure as to who would sit with who and where to sit werelocated to the fishing centre a few yards back down the road. What a chance,Sotonia were usingthis coffee stop fortheir club run andwhere those on theirearlier time trial hadretired to discuss themorning’s efforts.There must have beenabout a hundredriders. The numbersfilled the place but wewere served quitequickly and found atable.Onwards to Breamore during which two of the quicker riders became a vanguard.Thankfully they were ahead of the rest of us as they met the Salisbury and WestDorset representatives who were then cycling away from Breamore. When the restof us arrived we found that the Dawdlers had changed their lunch stop toBreamore. We also discovered that the Christchurch Bicycle Club hadalso been at Breamore earlier. Both groups left together but split beforeFordingbridge.I had a grand day and I understand that everyone else did.

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PETER TINDLEY- ObituaryWe lost one of our more distinguished members when Peter died, on thefirst Sunday in August, aged 76 as the result of a tragic accident during atime trial near Poole.After serving in the Navy, in charge of instruments mapping the floor of theAtlantic Ocean, Peter had a career as a project manager with BritishAerospace. He used his retirement to devote more time to cycling. His aimwas to ride 100,000 miles in 10 years. He joined CTC West Dorset in1995/6 and enjoyed their relaxed Saturday rides and longer Sunday andWednesday rides.But he soon felt the need for a bigger challenge and joined CC Weymouth,quickly becoming involved in time-trialling. He persisted with training, gothimself a time trial bike and was soon entering local open time trials. He didso well he was soon up with the best in the Veterans on Standards races, infact he won the club Vets on Standard every year since they started. Hisbest season was at age 70, with best times of 24.18 for 10 miles, and 62.30for 25 miles. He was easily the most prolific racer in the club. Alwaysserious about his riding, but cheerful and positive, he never lost his sense ofproportion. His balanced approach was an example to all. He was respected and held in great esteem by club members, and fellowcompetitors around the region, and was an inspiration to many. He alsoundertook some serious touring trips, on the continent, across America,through Death Valley, and through Yellowstone National Park. He’d cycledparts of Australia, and most recently with Martin Greening throughVietnam. He tried mountain biking in the Dorset Dirt, and the Vias Verdesin Spain, on a borrowed bike. Of course he did well but decided that to takeup mountain biking would interfere with his time-trial training.He was also gifted in music, and couldn’t pass a piano without giving aquiet demonstration of how well this initially self taught skill wasimproving with training, lessons and practice. My abiding memories of howhe combined the disciplines of music and cycling include those occasionswhen I, severely out of breath on a hill climb would be passed by Peter, 5years older than me, whistling gently to himself. We reckoned he practicedwhistling on the inlet as well as the exhaust stroke. For that reason I usuallypreferred to see Peter cycling towards me. He had such a distinctiveposition and cadence that you could identify him miles away. We salute hisachievements, and will miss his cheerful companionship, I shall also missmost those chance encounters on the road, which light up your day.Malcolm Howell

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Outing: A Journal of RecreationFounded in Albany, New York in 1882, “Outing: A Journal of Recreation” was apart of a new trend in catering to leisure time activities, such as fishing, bicycling,and yachting. Whitman published "The Voice of the Rain" in August 1885, after“Outing” had merged with “Wheelman,” a cycling magazine. Whitman's firstchoice for "The Voice of the Rain" had been Harper's, he noted in his daybook, buthe sent it next to “Outing” and received a payment of $12.00.THE VOICE OF THE RAIN. By Walt WhitmanAnd who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:I am the Poém of Earth, said the voice of the rain,Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely formed, altogether changed, and yet the same,I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn,And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it:(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering, Recked or unrecked, duly with love returns.)

Poetry & Prose

Michael & Guy left Oxford in the mellow time of an afternoon in earliest August and cycledlazily along the Cheltenham road. At nightfall, just as the stripling moon sank behind aspinney of firs that crowned the farthest visible dip of that rolling way ahead across the wold,they turned down into Wychford. The wide street of the town sloped rapidly to a valley ofinter-twining streams whence the air met them still warm with the stored heat of the day, yethumid and languorous after the dry upland. On either side as they dipped luxuriously downwith their brakes gently whirring, mostly they were aware of many white hollyhocks againstthe grey houses that were already bloomed with dusk and often tremulous with the voyagingshadows of candlelight. At the Stag Inn they found a great vaunted parlour, a delicate roast oflamb, a salad fragrant with mint and thyme, cream and gooseberries and ale.

"This is particularly good ale" said Guy"Wonderful ale" Michael echoedOnce again they filled their pewter mugs."It seems to me exceptionally rich and tawny," said Guy"And it has a very individual tang," said Michael, "Another quart, I think, don’t you?""Two almost," Guy suggested, and Michael agreed at once."I vote we stay here," said Guy. Compton Mackenzie - "Sinister Street" 1913

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As president I have as yet had very little to do, most of my activitieshave been as Chairman of CTC West Dorset, where I cycle with mostof the groups apart from the Saturday Saunterers. I did organize thewake for about 50 cyclists after the funeral of Peter Tindley atWeymouth Crematorium, since his very widely spread family requestedthey should eat together. For those of us who cycled there it did seem alot easier using Chafey’s roundabout and the associated Granby Way.The Wednesday Wanderers are a Wessex wide group and continue toattract 15- 20 riders, going up to 23 to 27 on fine days, for destinationssuch as Lulworth or Puncknowle. The Thursday Folders, usually trainassisted, continue to be popular and attract a dozen or more from allacross Wessex. I attend meetings of Purbeck Action for Cycling Team,where I meet Adam Bowes, a cycle using transport strategy planner;and can report that the A351 cycle path, Wareham to Bakers Arms isnow in the design stage, which as we know can take a very long time.The Bere Regis & the fantastic Wool by-passes have fallen victim tothe cuts, and been replaced by improvements to the railway link toSwanage, and encouraging more sustainable bus, walking and cycling .I’ve attended Highways Agency consultations over the improvementsto the Stinsford & the Stadium roundabouts. The cycle paths to andfrom the latter are rapidly appearing now, and although the crossings +refuges will help, I did point out that most cyclists would avoid the latterby using the Herringston Road entrance to town. There was mention ofseeking a bridge or underpass solution for cyclists needing to crossStinsford roundabout to reach Kingston Maurward College.Crossings + Centre road Refuges are also promised in the plans for thedangerous crossing of A354 at Winterborne Monkton. So far only thedropped kerbs have appeared, so we’re keeping an eye on that one.On the integrated transport front in Dorchester, I can report that as partof the Brewery development, the new cycle path from Culliford Roadbridge to access the new Dorchester South station is actually in place,though the solar powered station has yet to appear.I have also been in touch with UCT St. Lo to fix their visit here for theweekend of Sat & Sun, 17 & 18 Sepember, 2011.

CTC Wessex President’s Report By Badger

Malcolm Howell

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Informal Wayfarers Rides to BurleyThis ride happens every Saturday and is completely informal. There is no leaderand no back up, but generally an experienced cyclist somewhere around. Theroute is designed for beginners but joined in by all abilities.

Start 08:45 at Waitrose Supermarket, Christchurch every SaturdayOr 09:00 at The Oak PH, Burton

Or just make your own way to the NewForest Tea Rooms, Burley for 10:00