Along with Andy’s health issues this year’s event was to clash with the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire and the Vets Tour of the Abberleys so it was decided to postpone Minty’s event until Sunday 6th September when hopefully there will be a few more Club members around to help promote the event.

Neil Cross has been in touch today to inform us that his father and long-time Rutland member Malcolm Cross passed away yesterday (4th Nov 2014). Many people especially the older members will know that he had a stroke 7 years ago, but had been living independently since. His health deteriorated recently and he had to stop doing his 15 mile hikes in the peaks last summer. He did take his bike out a few times after his stroke (one-handed and partly one-legged) which only stopped when he failed to mend his puncture and was probably a good idea all round.
Known as Koj to a lot of people Malc was part of the old Thursday night gang along with John Barnsley, Malc Pearce, Malc Elliott, Johnny Bargh, the Pickering brothers Les and Brian and Malc Chattle.

Malcolms’ funeral will be on Monday 17th November at St Timothy’s Church on Slinn Street, Crookes at 2.15 followed by the burial at Crookes Cemetery about 3ish, and then up to the Norfolk Arms at Ringinglow from 4.30pm onwards. Any flowers to John Heath and Son.

It was reported that one our ex-members Barry Crowther passed away on Sunday 2nd November 2014, it is understood that Barry had suffered a heart attack whilst out on his bike near Baslow. Barry was a member member of the Club during the late 90’s and did some fast times on his tandem with Dave Clarkson.
Our thoughts are with his wife Janet and their daughter Joanne.
The funeral will be on Friday 14th November, 3:30pm at Hutcliffe Wood and then afterwards at the White Hart in Greenhill.

Thanks to everyone for coming!  Results and report are here:  http://thelowthorpe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rutland-CC-Hill-Climb-results-2014-1.pdf

First and foremost the date has changed from Sunday 10th August to Sunday 3rd August.
Steve has kindly agreed to move our event forward a week so as not to clash with the newly organised Pontefract Grand Prix on the afternoon of the 10th.
With the recent trouble we’ve been having with road race courses in Nottinghamshire Steve is hoping to run Tumby’s Road Race on a larger circuit at Braithwell that is also used for the Out of the Saddle Road Race later in the year.
With the bigger circuit also comes the need for more marshals so I’m asking now rather than a week before the event, if YOU can help Steve out and not leave it to him to rally round his family and friends at the last minute.
This is the second of four events that the Club is promoting this year so please try and do your bit and keep this and other events going for the future of our sport.
It’s a 10 o’clock start and the event is 68 mile so it should be all over by about 1pm.
Steve can be contacted by email, pigeon post or the good old dog and bone, his details have been circulated via email but contact us through this website and we’ll forward your details.

Had an email from the organiser of this event and the prize list looks very impressive… anyone riding??

The Sleaford Wheelers Nev Crane Memorial 25 mile TT is once again on the horizon. The date is 20th July. Since this popular event first appeared on the Calendar it has been arguably the richest and best supported TT in Lincs DC. It is now its 8th year and it is hoped that another fine entry will happen. Usually the event attracts around 100 riders.

Last year Matt Bottrill lowered his course and event record for the single carriageway C25/35 course to 50:04. With three 49 minute rides in the previous months National 25 in Lincs District, Matt’s time is the 4th quickest ever recorded in the County.

Once again the event offers around £900 in prize awards with £200 being ring fenced just for the ladies.

I hope that I have aroused some interest. The Prospectus and Details of how to enter are as under:

Sleaford Wheelers Cycling Club sponsored by Chandlers of Grantham-Mitsubishi-Solo Club of Sleaford promote the Nev Crane Memorial 25 Mile Time Trial, July 20th 2014. A Prize List of over £900, £200 of which is ring fenced just for the Ladies.

£100 Fastest rider going down 10 places
£50 Fastest Lady going down 5 places
£30 Fastest Junior going down 3 places
£30 Fastest Juvenile going down 3 places
£10 Fastest Vet in 5 year Age Bands
£10 each Fastest Team of 3 Riders
£10 Fastest rider slower than 1:00:59 and each minute down to and including 1:11:59
£50 if winner breaks Course and Event Record. (Matt Bottrill 50:04)
£50 if winner does a 49 or better.
£50 if Fastest Lady breaks Ladies Course record. (Wendy Houvenaghel 54:17)

Internet Entry or by Post
On CTT Entry Form along with Entry Fee £8 (Cheques payable to D. Laidlow) and
sent to: Doug Laidlow, 17 Fen Road, Little Hale, Sleaford, Lincs. NG34 9BD
Tele: (01529) 461018. Email: douglaidlow@btinternet.com
Closing date for entries is 6pm Tuesday July 8th.

A BIG BIG THANK YOU to EVERYONE that came out to help at Minty’s RR at Serlby Park – Glynn Singleton, Ray Newton, Roger Hearsum, Pete McNally, John Downing, Phil Greyson, Barry Ferguson, Pete Ryalls, Gordon & Barbara Scott, Andy Sedgewick, Paul Gilbert, Paul Ogle, Prince Gavbert, John Smallwood, John Albaya, Willy Ekkerslike, Andrew Ralph, Nick Latimer, Alain Gordon-Seymour, Dave Webster, Geoff Hague, Andy Smith, Helen Ephgrave and Amy and a special thanks to Chris Broadhurst and Stephen Ellis for trying to get the results in some sort of order. Hope to see you all again next year, hopefully on the same course (fingers crossed).

Thom at MAMNICK got in touch recently to see if Malc would be up for answering some Q & A’s for his website….here’s the results.
http://www.mamnick.com/blogs/journal/13121849-local-riders-q-a-malcolm-elliott