Manchester & District CTC Committee Minutes

Date: Thursday 8th September 2011 7.30pm

Venue: The Welcome Inn, Bury Old Road, Prestwich

Present: Phil Rigby (chairman), Peter Barnes, Laurie Green, Terry Hodges, Mike Roberts, Ian Ross, Graham Trunks, Mike Wigley,

1) Apologies for absence: Glynn Jones, Trevor McCarthy, Len Morris, Mavis Ross, Harry Woodcock

2) Matters Arising from the previous meeting: The minutes of the meeting dated 10th March 2011 were read out and were accepted as a true record.

3) Reports from Officials

a) Secretary: nothing to report

b) Treasurer: Terry reported that we have £1005.71 in the bank account which includes the grant from Headquarters (£624.56)

c) Magazine Editor: nothing to report

d) Magazine Distributor: nothing to report, although Peter added that he had received subscriptions from 2 members, which have been returned

e) Membership Registration Officer: Mike reported that we have 1649 (1624 in March) CTC members living in “our” area which is up from our previous meeting. There are email addresses for 852 of these (52%) and I’ll be inviting these to the AGM shortly.

f) Rights and Campaigns report: Mike Roberts reported some correspondence regarding the Poynton developments, where cars, cycles and pedestrians all have to share street space, there was some concern about the attitude of using cyclists as traffic calming “furniture”. Mike had also been in touch with someone from Knutsford regarding a permissive bridleway through the Peckforton Hills, and with High Peak Councillors regarding the completion of the Peak Cycle Trail

g) Welfare Officer: Nothing to report

4) Reports from Groups

a) Peak Audax Events Secretary:

We’ve had a number of riders at Paris Brest Paris. Both Sheila and Mike both ran a series of Super Randonneur qualifiers with 56 riders for the Chirk 200, 38 for the Plains 300, 37 for the Plains 400 and 36 for the Cambrian 600. We also ran the Solstice rerun (31 riders), Monty 300 (17), Llanfair PG 400 (19) and Holland 600 (11).

Our Marple Grimpeurs on the 5 Wednesdays in August were again well supported, with a record 80 entries for the White Peak (although only 55 rode, which is still a record). We can cope with these numbers - and more! Gerry Goldsmith suffered a stroke just before her event (the Staffs Peak) but we were able to take overs at the last minute, thanks to Chris who was able to look after the start, and Mike who was at the finish and able to look after the validation (Gerry continues to recover and was well enough to lead a CTC tour in Corsica only a couple of weeks later, albeit as a passenger in the

support vehicle, but she still managed some cycling).

A new event from Broken Cross was the World’s End 200 with 30 riders. John Perrin runs the 3 Loops of Cheshire this Sunday (at which I broke my wrist!).

b) Bury: usual weekly club runs with some new people joining in

c) Oldham & Tameside: usual weekly club runs. Kath is back riding with the group.

d) West Manchester: usual weekly club runs. The Beard Cup went very well, with good weather and a larger entry than in recent years. Thanks to Ian and Mavis and all their helpers.

5) Future Events

Beard Cup (3 Sept 2012)

Peak Audax events from Cheadle, as detailed in Cycle and at www.ManchesterCTC.co.uk

Walter Pilkington and Charlie Westlake Rides (4 March 2012)

6) Any Other Business: all officers are prepared to restand for their posts

7) Next Committee Meeting

AGM 22 October Manchester Friends Meeting House, room booked from 1:30 for 2pm start

Mike Wigley, Secretary