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seconds, averaging over 28

mph and he came 2nd in the

Shropshire Cycling Time Trial

Championships. Since then

he reckons it’s all been down-

hill (the cycling analygy should

be up hill), and an injury last

year curtailed his achieve-

ments of the previous year.

Training involves a holiday to

Majorca each year and around

7000 miles of riding in a good

year, plus eating lots of cakes!

He still enjoys touring and

have toured Cuba and India

(Sikiim in the Himalayas) this

year (2010) and am going

away to Argentina and Chile to

see their lake district and the

Andes this January.

David always enjoyed cycling

as a sporting activity, he

regularly went off touring

covering many miles each

time. However, in 2007 he

started taking his hobby

very seriously and started

racing. He took part in the

Paris-Brest-Paris race that

year. This race precedes

the Tour De France,

although the idea for the

amateur is just to make it

round the circuit! David

actually completed 1200 km

in 80 hours including about

10 hours of attempts at

sleeping! He also set a

club record for a 24 hour

time trial of 403 miles in the

same year!

David’s fastest race was in

2008, he managed to ride 10

miles in 21 minutes, 23

Out of hours …

On ya bike Gostelow!

Louise’s lucrative lunch Louise doesn’t usually come up

for air as she’s talking all the

time! However, one boring,

rainy lunch time in March she

decided to stay at her desk with

a cup of tea, her favourite buttie

and read a copy of the ICB

Yearbook that was lying around

on her desk. She spotted an

interesting article entitled

“Technology—Investment,

innovation and enterprise in a

wobbly year” (pages 4-10). She

was particularly interested to read

a section on Carpet waste

recycling. It was about a new pile

removal system that has been

developed by Sellers Engineers.

Sellers was already creating

widespread interest in both the

carpet manufacturing sector and

the waste recycling industry. It

was then that Louise decided to

carry out some research. The

company details

appeared on our database,

however, we had not contacted

them for a while and had in fact

been previously qualified out by

Marketing staff. Louise called

them up for a general catch up

and enquired if they were looking

to review their business systems

and sent some information about

Syscom. By June our (then) new

sales guy, Mike Podmore was

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In short ...

Workwear Show 5-6th April 2011 at the Ricoh

Arena, Coventry

Webinars Dynamics AX—13th April

ERP—11th May

Spring/Summer Corpo-

rate Newsletter due

out soon

John McAlinden takes on a triathlon for

charity in September. See Syscom News out

soon for details!

introduced to Sellers and he attended a

site meeting on 9th July. The rest as they

say is history! The deal for 10 users of

Microsoft Dynamics AX was signed up in

November! Well done to all involved—

terrific teamwork!

http://www.sellers-uk.com

David won his age group section of the

National 12 hour championships with an average

speed of more than 20 mph for 12 hours.

Syscom Supated’s holiday snaps &

winner of the snap happy teddy

competition is announced!

See page 2 for details...

Louise taking a break from her favourite

read—the ICB Yearbook!

Syscom Supated’s global adventures 2010

This year’s prize goes to

Graeme Winterburn who wins

the prize of a bottle of wine

and box of chocolates for his

picture of SupaTed chilling in

the Caribbean sunshine.

Congratulations to Graeme -

keep snapping everyone!

New York

Caribbean Cruise

Kefalonia, Greece

Thailand

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Syscom SupaTed has

travelled far and wide

during 2010, he has been

as far afield as Thailand,

NewYork, Greece, France,

Coventry and even a

Carribean Cruise! Lucky

Ted!

Don’t forget to book him a

place in your suitcase when

you go away as you may

win a prize as twice a year

a spot prize will be

awarded for the best photo.

Prize Winner

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Syscom Christmas Meal 2010 Dunsley Hall Hotel, Kinver

Thanks to John and Chris allowing us an afternoon out of the office, those who attended, enjoyed another

relaxing festive afternoon of Christmas fayre and cheer on 16th December, at our favourite country hide away

for the 2nd year running - Dunsley Hall Hotel, Kinver. The after dinner party carried on well into the evening

thanks to some hard core individuals who shall remain nameless. They enjoyed themselves immensely and

managed to turn up for work the next day, despite being a little worse for wear!

Well done to all of you involved, it was good to see so many people enjoying themselves after an extremely

challenging year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. If you have any ideas for topics to be included in the next

Syscom Shuttle please email details to: marketing@syscom.plc.uk

Next issue …

For sale / wanted

Send info to :-

Kayleigh.McCaffer@syscom.plc.uk

Company 2011 direction statement

New product announcement

Workwear Show 2011

Out of hours - focus on what our

colleagues get up to in their spare

time

Syscom supports—Recommend a

charity that we could support as a

company during 2011. Suggestions

to info@syscom.plc.uk

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