Minutes of the Manchester & District CTC Committee

Date: Thursday 10th September 2009 7.30pm

Venue: The Welcome Inn, Bury Old Road, Prestwich

Present: Peter Barnes, Glynn Jones, Trevor McCarthy, Phil Rigby (chairman), Mike Roberts, Ian Ross, Graham Trunks, Mike Wigley

1) Apologies for absence received from: Dave Butler, Laurie Green, Terry Hodges

2) Matters Arising from the previous meeting: The minutes of the meeting dated 11th June 2009 had been distributed prior to the meeting and were accepted as a true record

It was minuted that details of the CTC National Council meeting held in Manchester on Saturday 4th April had not been published in Cycle magazine. This was incorrect and Mike Wigley had not spotted that Dave Robinson had promoted this in his column in Cycle. There may well be future such meeting, so keep your eyes peeled.

It was minuted that Bury CTC is celebrating 100 years. Incorrect! Those whipper-snappers are only 80 years old.

3) Reports from Officials

a) Secretary had been contacted by West Yorkshire CTC requesting that postcode area OL14 (Todmorden) be transferred from our area to theirs. The area is totally within Calderdale local authority and such a move would be in line with CTC’s current policy of aligning our districts along local authority boundaries, for better campaigning purposes. The meeting unanimously approved the move. Mike will contact Chris Crossland (West Yorkshire CTC) and Adrian Lawson at National Office.

b) Treasurer Terry Hodges was not present at the meeting but we’ve still got money n the bank so all is well.

c) Magazine Editor/Publicity Officer/Membership Registration Officer

Graham had brought the latest Northern Wheel to the meeting for distribution.

There is £2037.37 in the Northern Wheel bank account with £28.23 in cash

He has lost AJ’s as an advertiser - they’ve had to move from Henbury but are expected to relocate so we hope to gain a cycle-friendly cafe elsewhere in Macclesfield. Gawsworth Hall are a new advertiser and their venue may be of use to various events as a start location.

Graham is now receiving the membership lists regularly following his comment at the previous meeting that they weren’t. We have 1374 members in the M & D area.

d) Magazine Distributor: Peter Barnes

Subscribers 285 (includes 5 new subscribers) Complimentary copies 2 2nd letters to be sent out (Autumn edition) 14 Renewed from 2nd letter (Spring/Summer) 4 with 4 non renewals) Deceased 0 Non renewals from 1st letter 0 Due to renew from next edition (Autumn) 56

Mike asked where else Northern Wheel was available (he occasionally gets queries from people without internet access about what cycle groups there are in the area and their runs lists). He’ll add the list to the website

Altrincham Bike Shak

Biking Cycles (Bolton)

Bicycle Doctor (Rushulme)

Harry Hall Cycles (Manchester)

Eddie McGrath Cycles (Urmston)

Neil Orrell Cycles (New Moston)

Gerry Shields Cycles (Failsworth)

Geoff Smith Cycles (Bolton)

S Threadgold (Wythenshawe)

Wills Wheels (Heaton Chapel)

Withington Cycles (Withington)

e) Rights and Campaigns report: No report

f) Peak Audax Events Secretary: Mike Wigley reported that we’d lost one of our regular riders in Robin Smith of Merseyside CTC. Robin has ridden all five of the hilly audax rides into the Peak District run from Marple, but he died of a heart attack aged 69 the day after one of these this August.

g) Welfare Officer: No report

4) Reports from Groups

a) Bury: reported the sad loss of Walter Pilkington, a former section President,a founder member, and a regular member of the section until 1994 (nearly 50 years!). Walter died 27th August 2009 at the age of 87.

b) West Manchester: Ian reported on the Beard Cup, this year won by Blackburn & District CTC so well done them. Adam Pindar broke the course record. Thanks go to timekeepers Mavis Ross & Mike Carr, Robert Browning for pushing off, Phil Rigby for collecting the finishing times and presenting the prizes and many thanks to Eddie McGrath Cycles for their very generous help with the prizes. Again we were lucky with the weather when you consider how bad it had been the preceding week. The results will be displayed on the website shortly.

5) Future Events

Beard Cup, probable date 5th September 2010

Peak Audax events from Cheadle (Eureka 200, Cheshire Safari 150, Mere 200, Mere 160, Newport 200 and Audlem 150) and from Bredbury (Winter Solstice 200 and Whitegate 120)

6) Any Other Business

7) Next Committee Meeting

March at Welcome Inn - see website nearer the date.

Manchester & District CTC AGM; October 31st at the Friends Meeting House Manchester