Kingston Wheelers 14

11th Feb at 8.30


£6 to Peter Anderson 28 Wolsey Rd, Hampton Hill, Middx, TW12 1QW
Closing date 2nd Feb
Check on www.kingston wheelers.com

Flo and I are doing it. There is a team prize, so any one else?
Jake

South Western Road Club 100K Cyclosportive

http://www.swrc.org.uk/spring_sportive_mar07.html

This is the web site to preregister £5 or £7 on the day.
Meet Fetcham village hall on sun 5th March at 9.15 to leave 9.30

I fancy doing it, anyone else?

F H Pratt Cycles

Nostalgia publication - recently released by the V-CC, ‘Frederick H. Pratt & Son – Complete Cycle Engineers’. This shop at Salfords on the A23 main road which many of us will have known, was sadly closed during last year. The 55 years history was written into a book by the V-CC’s ‘Media Watch’ reporter Alvin Smith and was funded by the John Pinkerton Memorial Publishing Fund.
Its an interesting story of the demanding fight by Fred and his severely disabled wife Joan who was a sister to the famous Claud Butler, together with their son Noel, to keep the shop at Salfords alive. Fred was employed by Claud Butler in his frame building workshops where he was responsible for the design of the patented Claud Butler Ultra Short Wheelbase rear bracket for tandems developed in the mid – 1930s. The USWB Tandem was owned by a number of members of this DA. Derek Robinson has recently reconditioned his fine example of this famous design tandem. Fred promoted and built frames from Salfords with the unusual design concept which he developed and called 'The Jack Knife'. The book refers to ownership of Jack Knife frames by a number of Redhill Cycle Club and Kingston Phoenix Road Club members which included owner Noel Pratt and writer Clive Oxx who is pictured in the book riding his first Time Trial looking very youthful and described as ‘one of the new likely racing lads in 1952’.
For anyone interested, a copy can be obtained via Clive by telephoning 0208 647 0766

Majorca Update

The balance is due for Majorca by the 1st Feb

Pete, Andy, Jackie, Andrew and Gary owe £240.
Grant, Flo, Heather and Jake owe £211

15kg allowancefor bike is included

FlightEasy Jet 5205 Dept 11.45 am 22/4/07 South Terminal
Ticketless booking ref EC4L TQP and EC4 KPKS

Can you send cheques to me made payable to Gary Smith by end Jan please?
Thanks Jake

Next committee meeting - Jan 07

Next Committee Meeting is to be held at Ron & Doreen's on January 12th.

As decided at the last committee meeting, we will have "nibbles" first, so don't have a big dinner 5 minutes before leaving for the meeting and then look surprised when you get there.....!

Agenda Items:

Menu for Dinner?
Confirm as members our latest applicants


etc.

Lisa

DA Competitions

The first submissions of their 2006 mileage are on the mileage table .

Send your totals to Pete Mitchell for inclusion (by email, text or phone).

And don't forget the Photographic competition - Pictures to your section Sec if s/he will take them or else also to PeteM.

Lisa

New Year Eve Party Rock Chicks Rule