KDCS – The Kendal & District Cycle Scene

Lancaster CTC are organising two C2C rides along Hadrian’s Wall in aid of the Coronary Care Unit at Lancaster Royal Infirmary –Bowness on Solway to South Shields (95 miles in 2 days) on 26 & 27June and Ravenglass to South Shields (175 miles in 2 days) on 3 & 4 July.

• Fabulous Historic Hadrian's wall
• Great companionship and a brilliant sense of achievement
• Everything organized for you by service team
• Only £60 to enter (sponsorship optional)
• Transport all included
• Service team with minor bike maintenance & Physio for massages.
• Feed stations supported by SIS (Science in Sport) with Go drink supplements & snacks all free
• Event photographer
• Checkpoints along the route for easy navigating.

To join the June event, contact Ian Mercer on i.mercer@lancaster.ac.uk.

To join the July event, contact anne.brookes.xtra@btinternet.com.

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CTC Lancaster will once again be organising the North Lancs Cycleway & Bowland Forest Populaire Audax event on Saturday 13 June from Bull Beck car park, near Caton. This is a challenging route of just over 108km (67 miles) and, with over 1,700 metres of climbing, some may find this to be a useful test of their climbing ability. Starting at 09:00 the route will be the same as that used last year:
 
Bull Beck – Millennium Way to Halton, through the Kellets, Capernwray, Docker Park, Arkholme, Gressingham, Hornby and Wray before Millhouses, Low Gill and Slaidburn. After the Slaidburn check on to Newton and Dunsop Bridge before turning south and on to Chipping via the Bowland Wildboar Park. Then over Calder Bank to Oakenclough, Harrisend Fell, Quernmore and back to Caton.
 
Total distance 108km (67 miles) with generous time limits allowing riders to finish between 14:27 and 17:43 – requiring an average speed of between 12.5kph and 20 kph overall.

Entries should be sent to: Mike Hutchinson, Heatherdene, 9 Whinfell Drive, Lancaster LA1 4NY, (01524) 36061, mikehutchinson@fastmail.fm

Entry fee: £5 [£3 for members of the CTC or Audax - the extra £2 for non members covers essential Third Party Insurance for the duration of the event]

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For the 5th year running the Duke’s Theatre in Lancaster is running a Bike Film Festival from Monday 12 April to Thursday 29 April, with a range of films and talks plus a family bike repair day on Saturday 24 April. For more information, ring the Duke’s box office on 01524 598500.

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If you commute between Staveley and Kendal or Staveley and Windermere on your bike, and would like to encourage others to do likewise, join the BikeTrain on the third Friday of each month. It will depart at 8am and return at 5.15pm from Friday 23 April. For more details on the various ‘stops’ and to download a leaflet visit the website of the Staveley Green Travel Initiative.

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The 2010 Coast to Coast Cycle Challenge charity ride in aid of the RNLI will take place on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 July.

The cost is £75 per person and this includes transport to the start of the ride, early on Saturday morning. Parking will be included, as will baggage and bike transfer plus campsite. All you need to do is
get to Sunderland and be ready to leave by 7am. The organisers will then take you by coach to Whitehaven where you will be reunited with your bike. They will then take your tents, sleeping bags and overnight
gear to the campsite at Alston, Britain’s highest market town, where you will all have a jolly evening before completing the ride on Sunday morning. We will be on hand to give you a hero’s welcome when you
reach the finish at Sunderland Lifeboat Station! Free parking will be provided near the finish line.

All cyclists will be encouraged to raise money for the RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards. Anyone pledging over £100 in sponsorship will receive a FREE RNLI T-shirt to cycle in, and we will
be there throughout the weekend to support you. For further details and to enter online please see www.cycle-challenge.co.uk. To request your RNLI fundraising pack please email lisa_rutter@rnli.org.uk or call 0161 787 8779.

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The next KDCS Slides Night will be held at the Riverside Hotel, Beezon Road, Kendal on Thursday 15 April at 7.30pm. The main speakers will be Ian Jones on Cycling in Tibet, and Dick Brown on Cycling in Cuba. We hope to have some snacks available as before. As the room is free we are expected to buy a few drinks on the night so please come prepared to help out with that duty. Anyone else wanting to show a few pictures or talk about anything please let Andy Mason know on 01539 739119 or 07766 036037 or andyandmaggie@talktalk.net.

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Ultra-endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont will be appearing at The Platform in Morecambe on at 8pm on Saturday 20 March 2010. The Man who Cycled the World is a remarkable story. In 2008, he broke the world record for cycling solo around the world, an epic journey of over 18,000 miles, cycling 100 miles per day for over half a year. In 2009, Mark set out on his second ultra-endurance solo challenge; to cycle the length of the American Cordillera. On this 13,000 mile expedition, Mark will not only be cycling down the longest mountain range on the planet, but will also be climbing the continents two highest peaks, Mt McKinley in Alaska and Aconcagua in Argentina, making his second self-filmed documentary for BBC1 ‘The Man who Cycled the Americas’.

Tickets are £13 (£12 concessions). To book call 01524 582803. (But if you send your name and contact details to celebratingcycling@lancaster.gov.uk by Friday 5 March you’ll be in put in a draw for two free tickets!)

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Bookings are now being taken for the next Indoor Manchester Velodrome Cycle Jumble on the 24 January. There have been some slight changes to the day to encourage more visitors, these include:

-The addition of family themed events
-Tickets on sale before 11am (entry time) to reduce queuing
-No changes in the prices for buyers or sellers

We are hoping this year’s event will see the largest number of visitors and
stalls. For more information and a booking form go to: www.bikecreche.co.uk