EASTER 2000
Boots Spurs
Official Magazine of the NATIONAL CLARION
How many Stockpokt ATRAVEs does it take to ride a bike?
WORTLEY HALL REPORTS...
NEW NATIONAL SECRETARY..
EASTER MEET...
TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS... O GRASS TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP... CYCLO CROSS CHAMPIONSHIP...
A WORD FROM THE EDITOR
Happy Millennium and all that, although by now am sure that you have had quite enough of that. This autumn/winter has been a mixture of both happy times and sad times. We had a cracking weekend away at Wortley Hall, which you can read all about if you have not heard about it from members of your section. We have also had two weddings.
Sadly our President, Bob Waddilove, died last October. did not know him very well, but he was always at both Wortley Hall and Easter Meet. am sure that everyone’s thoughts will be with his wife Audrey and his family.
You will all have been entering your first races of the season and have to say that cannot believe how fast it has all come around. It does not seem five minutes since we had our last evening 10
and we are starting again this Thursday.
Variety is the spice of life so they say and this magazine is a mixture of results, racing reports, news, a poem (a response to the last edition’s poem), true life stories and a fictional story. The magazine is what YOU make it.
lam sorry to say that will not be joining you for Easter Meet this year so am looking for a roving reporter to write me an article on the weekend.
My thanks to all of you who sent me articles for this edition of the magazine, keep up the good work.
Tracey
GREETINGS FROM THE NEW NATIONAL SECRETARY
joined Bolton Clarion on the 6th July 1949, aged 14 and started to go out on the Club runs right away. The following year rode my first 10 and 25 time trials.
The event which remember most, was riding to the Easter Meet at Durham with the Bolton Race/Sec on a 69 inch fixed
gear.
By the early 60’s family commitments took over which put an end to by cycling.
During 1994/5 joined the Clarion once again after a 35 year lay-off and now, If can as Secretary put something back I will consider the time well spent.
Frank Bibby Bolton Section
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BOB WADDILOVE
Below is a fitting tribute to our late President, Bob Waddilove.
was filled with great sadness when heard of the untimely death of Bob Waddilove. Meeting Bob was always like meeting an old friend though our paths crossed very little, Easter Meets, Wortley Hall weekend and sometimes at York Rally. Being of the same generation, ex national service and all that, it didn’t take much to spark off conversation and Bob’s recollections of his service days were as fresh and lively as mine. On all topics Bob’s sense of humour shone through, be it racing, touring or general club gossip, but he seemed to save the best for when we would put ‘on our tin helmets at Wortley Hall and our talk most of the people there. As Chairman of the
National Clarion meetings he took a firm stance and inspired confidence in the chair, only a man of integrity commands such respect. would sum up Bob as always found him, a nice man, a nice person, sadly missed.”
Tony Bowles Bolton Clarion
MARION HAROLD LAMB
Left is a picture of Marion and Harold’s resting place bedecked with Easter Meet ribbons.
WEDDING BELLS
We have had two weddings in the past twelve months: Anneatta Hemsley of the Nottingham Clarion is now Mrs Redgrave when she married Alistair Redgrave on Friday 3 September 1999. They had a quiet wedding and honeymooned in New York. Both are now based in Reading but keep in touch and often join us for social occasions such as last years Wortley Hall.
Kevin Hulbert, Membership Secretary, surprised us all at Wortley Hall by bringing his new wife with him. They homeymooned in the Phillapenes.
Congratulations to both couples.
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HOW I JOINED THE BOLTON CLARION
On Friday the 24th June 1949 it was the start of Bolton’s annual holiday week, and my school mate was away on holiday, so did his morning and night paper deliveries, for which earned 3/6 in old money now 17 1/2p.
The Wednesday after the holidays (6th July), joined Bolton Section with some of the money, subs 2/6 for Juniors.
The following Sunday (10th July) went on my first Club Run, out on the run was: Jim Collier, Bill Collier, Bert Milton, Walter Constandine, Tom Nelson, Jeff Brierley, Jeff Davis and John Gaskell.
The run was to Chinley with dinner at Handforth Club House and tea at Broom Edge.
Bill Collier had a mini/motor on his back wheel and on the way home across the Moss and Holcroft Lane, the motor was switched on, and he went on the front and everybody else jumped on back wheels.
“Was this the first motor paced chain gang”?
Until we arrived at the George and Dragon Pub where all the ‘big lads’ went in for a pint, myself, Jeff Davis, Jeff Brierley and John Gaskell were fed crisps and lemonade outside.
The second Club run was to Brock Bottoms, on the following Sunday, (17th July), which was my 14th birthday.
(At that time you could get a knife and fork at both dinner and tea for less than 5/,, (25p). A mini/motor was a 50cc petrol engine behind the seat which drove a pulley onto the tyre of the back wheel.)
Tony Bowles Bolton Clarion
WINDY, WET WORTLEY
Antonia Whitaker and decided to get a head start on the main clubrun from Wortley to Holmfirth. had been on the enjoyable morning ramble, and just as we got back Antonia came out of the Committee Meeting. The weather seemed fine, set in shorts and it didn’t take long to get to the top of the drive-and stop for refreshments! Well, neither of us had eaten lunch. Service was a little slow, and by the time we set off we realised we only had a 5-10 minute start on the others. There was a very strong southerly wind bowing as we sped down the ‘hillclimb hill’ then climbed again to the ridge road which ran parallel to the A616. We were soon caught by the clubrun all Nottingham riders (where were the riders from other sections?) and after a few minutes they left us behind and went on their way towards Holmfirth.
A sharp descent to the junction with the A628, which we had to ride along for some time as we intended to take the Holme Moss road to our cafe stop. It was not long before the heavy rain began which, together with the wind, made riding far from pleasant. We soon spotted the others coming towards us they decided to go back once they had got wet. We two stalwarts however decided that as we were wet, we should not get any wetter continuing on our route than we would have done if we turned round. By the time we had plodded on up to the top of the hill, the rain had ceased even if the wind seemed to have got stronger. had noticed a minor road which would
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take us to Holmfirth via a more pleasant route, and as soon as we turned right to Dunford Bridge riding was much better. The wind blew us along instead of blowing us off our bikes. The sun even came out although don’t think the others believe us about this to this day! The moorland road was almost traffic free as we passed alongside Winscar Reservoir and through Hade Edge where we turned left for the descent into Holmfirth.
A stop at Peter Jacques’ cafe now why would a cyclist open a cafe where you had to lug your bike up a steep flight of stone steps? Plenty of tea to drink, and fruit pie and custard to go with it before war started to make out way back. Struggling up the hill we had so recently come down, did have to wonder about cydist’s logic. One of the reasons for not turning back with the others was that we would have to go back up the 1:7 we had so recently come down and yet, here we were having free-wheeler down an equally steep, and longer hill knowing we would shortly have to go
up it again!
Let to Victoria, then a right turn towards Pennistone took us past the wind farm with all sails turning wildly in the still strong wind. Looking upwards to the tops of the windmills when standing almost at the bose of the posts made us quite dizzy. We had intended to go through Pennistone then back along the ridge road to Wortley when we suddenly came across a disused railway. Well, disused by trains, but well used by walkers, cyclists and horse riders as this formed part of the fransPennine trail. The wonderful traffic-free route took us all the way back to Wortley, although not without one or two hitches.
Firstly, it began to rain again. Not drizzle, not even heavy rain, but a torrential downpour. It took a matter of minutes to get soaked! Never mind, it didn’t last too long and we did not have far to travel. A long tunnel covers part of the route, and it is lit until well into the evening. We emerged into a craggy cutting, the rock walls hung with vegetation. In the past, some large estate gardeners have spent fortunes trying to achieve this effect. We were then virtually at the end of the frail when-bang! Antonia punctured. We were just that little bit too far away from Wortley to consider walking, so damp though we were, it had to be mended. Isn’t it surprising how long it takes to blow up a tyre with a cycle pump when you are used to a track pump?
No more problems were encountered, and we were back in good time to shower and change before tea, having had a lovely ride which we both agreed we would not have missed even if we could wring out our socks when we got back. What about the others all men of course! Well, they did get to Holmfirth although by motorised transport. Shame on them!
Kathy Smith Nottingham Section.
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NATIONAL HILL CLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP 1999
As usual the National Clarion Hill Climb Championship was held during Wortley Hall weekend, on Sunday 31 October. The results are as follows:
Place Rider Section Time min sec 1 Simon Whitaker Nottingham 2 52.4 2 Tim Fahy Nottingham 2 662 3 Martin Smith Nottingham 2 58.1 4 Dave Smith Nottingham 3 03.5 5 Phil Hurst Nottingham 3 12.5 6 Paul Mitchell Nottingham 3 55:5 7 Roger Shayes Birmingham 5 02.0
Whilst the number of entrants was disappointing the title was keenly contested with last years winner, Martin Smith, being relegated to third place commendably with no excuses. Dave Smith was awarded the fastest veteran prize in a time as close to son Martin as Martin was to the winner. It was most pleasing that Roger Shayes the man behind the formation of the new Birmingham Section rode. His ride was splendid for a 67 year old and he was a worthy Lantern Rouge.
think the event made a significant contribution to the weekend, enhanced would opine by the prize presentation which seemed to go down well. Last year we had awards for fastest lady, fastest rider on fixed wheel and rider on a fully kitted touring bike but other suitable awards might be the rider with the greatest improvement and for record breakers of various age categories. What would you like for the event? Alll ideas
and comments would be gratefully received.
Peter Roscoe Bury Section
EASTER MEET 2000 SKEGNESS
Well, it’s 2000 and nearly Easter, so it must be time for the Easter Meet again.
This year, we are going to Skegness, but due to a small demolition problem with the Embassy Centre, we have had to re-locate to the Crown Hotel on Drummond Road. This Means we are nat quite in the centre of Skegness, but if you get accommodation on the South Shore, particularly Drummond Road, then you will be handy for everything.
The Crown Hotel will be the centre for all our social activities this year, (see the map), and they start off on Friday night with a quiet evening in the Coronet Bar, where you can sign on, collect your ribbons and year bars, have a quiet drink, renew old Clarion friendships and get yourself into the mood
for the weekend. MAP
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too early. This year we have a sporting circuit time-trial for the trophies, 18.4 miles for the Kenneth Humphries Memorial Trophy for the mens team, and 9.2 miles (one lap) for the Bert Brown Trophy for the ladies team of two. The usual medals will also be awarded.
These events are organised by the Cherry Valley R.T., and we have requested a start at the latter end of the field, i.e. at about 11.00 am. Please send entries to: P Wakefield, 15 Poplar Rd., Healing, Grimsby, N.E. Lincs, DN41 7RE., as per RITC Handbook.
After this excitement, the afternoon holds two options:
1. For those who didn’t ride the Time-+rial, or are very keen, there will be a gentle ride starting from the Clock Tower at 2.00 pm.
2. Annual Conference. This will be at 2.30 pm and will take place in either the Council Chamber at the Town Hall on North Shore.
On Saturday evening we have our usual Disco and Fancy Dress competition, which will be held in the large function room at the Crown Hotel. There will also be a buffet at about 9.30 pm., and the bar will be open to around 12.30.
Sunday will once again offer everybody a chance to ride their bikes, with fast and slow clubruns starting from outside the Crown at 10.00 am. For the more sedentary among you, I’m sure the shops and pubs of Skegness will offer much in the way of entertainment, and there is also the
Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve just outside of town.
Sunday evening will take a slightly different format. We will assemble again at the Crown Hotel, at 7.00 pm, for a Club Dinner, which will be served at 7.30 pm.
After the Dinner, the prize presentation will take place, followed by a disco and of course raffle. The Meet levy will include the Discos, buffet, Dinner and ribbons and has been set at £20.
Time-table at a glance
Friday: evening Meet in Coronet Bar Saturday: 11 am Kenneth Humphries Memorial Trophy Bert Brown Trophy 2 pm Club Run or Annual Conference evening Disco, Fancy Dress Buffet Sunday: 10 am Club Run 7 pm Club Dinner Prize Presentation
Any queries concerning the weekendshould be directed to Merlin Evans, 3 Green Lane, Heaton Moor, Stockport, SK4 3LE. Tel: 0161 442 8441
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RESPONSE TO PUZZLED BOLTON CLARION MUM
To Bolton Mum, read your plight, My sympathies send, The racks, the rollers, helmets shoes on, will it ever end?
But imagine my plight, won't you? The lycra, equipment and strife not only a Sunderland Clarion Mum, but a Sunderland Clarion wife!!!
Yes, twofold are the muddy strips, Twofold the frames and wheels.
How love the racing season, It really is just Heaven On a precious Sunday morning off The alarm screams out at seven.
Oh, know the trips to Hardisty’s Keep them out of trouble But each trip deletes the bank account, in this case, always double!
Still, the guys are fit and healthy with their lives as eager wheelers.
And their interest could be much worse Drug pushers or Arms Dealers.
Life’s one big ‘Tour de France’ but in duplicate, it feels.
Their bits of bikes live here and there, Gill Coates All over are their wares. Sunderland Section try to be cool and rational, BUTa colnago on the stairs?!
A WINTERS TALE
It was cold, almost dark, the last of the light striking stars off the frosty road ahead.
Steven could see his breath, hanging in front of him like a white cloud, leading him on, as he leant lower over his tri-bars and dug in for the last five miles of the ride.
“It’s the normal 10 route” Alex had said as they warmed up before the start of the race, “straight along the road, left at the big island, round through the village and then back along the straight to the small island, over that over the level crossing and then a good level last three miles to finish outside the White Swan”.
Steven, as the latest Clarion member was on his first race, the traditional Christmas Eve Ten, with a large turkey for the winner and drinks all round afterwards in the pub.
He kept trying to recall Alex’s words as he pedalled, hoping also to see another rider in a red, qreen and white jersey in front of him at some point, a bit like a familiar landmark in an unfamiliar landscape.
Several people had gone past him Steven would be the first to admit he was probauy aiso the slowest rider in the club at this moment, but he had rather thought he would catch up one or two of those who started before him.
The blood sang in his ears and tiny flakes of ice in the wind made his eyes run. He lowered his head and dug deep into his inner resources to force his legs to keep pedalling. He could hardly feel his feet at all, his hands were totally numb and the only sound was the chattering of his teeth.
A road sign loomed up at him out of the darkness a round-about. “Straight over the small island, over the level crossing and then three miles to the pub” he muttered to himself.
He was almost on the roundabout when he saw the figure standing on the edge, a young man in cycling tights, the familiar club jumper and a yellow marshal’s vest. A knitted cap pulled low over his forehead and ears obscured his face, but Steven caught a glimpse of dark moustache and wide apart green eyes as the marshal signalled left “Change of route” he shouted, “the level crossing is out of action, too dangerous to ride over
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it. Go left, then left again, keep going not much further!”
Seven raised a frozen hand to signal that he had understood lowered his head and pedalled into the wind, ignoring the ice flakes which now felt like needles being forced into his face.
His route took him down narrow country lanes, no lights anywhere, no road markings, not even any cats eyes to mark the centre of the road. His breath began to catch in his chest, his eyes were streaming and he was just beginning to think he was lost when he rounded a bend and saw the lights and sign of the White Swan beckoning out of the darkness.
Almost falling off his bike as he pulled on the brakes, he dismounted and left it leaning against the wall along with several others. He recognised Alex’s distinctive red Aende frame and concluded the rest must be in the
bar. His legs like lead, Steven pushed open the door into the public bar and fell rather than walked into the room.
The heat hit him like a furnace and noise seemed to pour over him in a vast wave of sound after the silence of the lanes he had been riding down.
“Steve!” Alex raised a frothing pint glass and gestured to a seat at the side of the open fire. “We were just about to organise a search party for you! What kept you, Mate?”
Steven took a deep swallow of his beer before replying. “The change of route. Good thing that marshal was on the last roundabout, or would really have been in trouble.”
“Marshall?” Alex looked puzzled.
“We don’t use marshals on this race, Steven”. Jim the race secretary joined them. “We all know this route, no need to use marshals. Good thing you found another route, though, the lights on the level crossing went down just after five this evening. Hell of a mess if you’d have tried to get through, its’ the main line to London and there is a train along every five minutes.”
Steven looked mutinous. “But there was a marshal on that roundabout, young chap about my age, with a moustache and green eyes. He was wearing the club jumper and l......” his voice petered out as he saw the look on Jim’s face.
Jim swallowed hard, stood up and went to the bar. He spoke in low tones to the landlord, who briefly turned to look at Steven, his face as white as chalk. The landlord nodded, and vanished into the back to return a few moments later carrying something, which he handed to Jim.
Jim resumed his seat and passed the object to Steven. It was a photograph in a frame, a 10” x 8” colour photograph of a young man wearing a Clarion jumper and holding aloft a large silver trophy.
Steven looked at the photograph. “That's him, where is he? Is he here? owe him a pint for standing out there ona night like this, he must be frozen to death by now, if was last man in.”
A strange silence had fallen on the little group of cyclists huddled round the fire. Jim cleared his throat and took the photograph out of Steven’s hand.
“His name was Rick Anderson. He was the landlord's son and one of our best riders. He was killed in an accident on the level crossing, doing the Christmas Eve Ten five years ago. The lights were out, he went over the crossing, straight into the path of the London express.”
Alex was just in time to catch Steven as he slid slowly off the bench to the floor.
Kim Mack Nottingham Section
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COME TRY IT TIME TRIALS
The RTTC will give approval for events in which cyclists who are not members of a club can ‘have a go’ at time trialing. The organisation for these ‘Come Try It’ events is just like a club event with entries being taken on the line. All that is needed is to get the usual approval from the RTTC by writing to the club events secretary of the relevant district council.
For the past three years Bury section has been incorporating these events in its annual club hill climb. It is run in conjunction with National Cycling Week as this is advantageous from the publicity point of view the public liability cover, though, is from the RTTC and not the Cycling Week organisation. It would not be claimed that the events have been an outstanding success but we have recruited two members as a direct result of running these events.
It is noted that the RTTC are now approving events of any distance so very short events could be organised in an attempt to interest non-club cyclists in a section’s locality to have a go at time trialing.
So why is your C AC not prepared to make one of your club events into a ‘Come Try It’ event in an attempt to recruit more members? After all if you are already organising a suitable club event the only extra effort is that of the timekeeper.
Peter Roscoe Bury Section
A BRIEF STORY
There are two sorts of people in this world.
Those who wear something under their cycling shorts because it’s more hygienic, comfortable and potentially less embarrassing in the event of an accident, and me. Why deny your bum the fine experience of contact with soft chammy and make more washing that’s what say. Well accept that this may be something of a minority view and when tell you of a recent experience you may understand why.
Getting the right stuff ready for a ride is always something of a gamble. Which bike to use, what to wear, drink and eat are all subject to conditions over which you have little or no control. But when it comes to making the right choices, admit to being one of life’s losers.
pack sun cream instead of overshoes and it pours down. wear fleece-lined longs, carry a thermos flask of tea and within half an hour the sun is cracking the flags. ride five hundred trouble free miles carrying three inner tubes, a spare tyre, pump and puncture repair kit and the day left the whole lot behind my tyre exploded.
It didn’t come as too much of a surprise then when checked the contents of my saddlebag for the third time and couldn’t find what was looking for. The ride to school had been uneventful if a little rushed and this combined with the unusually high June temperature had left me slightly redder and stickier than usual. No matter, a quick wash, wipe and change and would be ready to face the world. Ready that is if could remember where I’d packed my underpants.
At ten to nine officially called off the search and resigned myself to spending the day in a smart two piece suit from Burton’s with a matching foundation layer of six panel lycra shorts from Jacks. What a prospect.
Looking back, suppose what really cheesed me off was the impossibility of being able to remedy my situation through improvisation. Only the night before I’d watched fascinated on TV as some clever Johnny was deposited in the middle of the jungle with a kitchen knife, a safety pin, half box of smarties and no bus fare home. Within a few hours he’d built himself a very acceptable three bedroom gites complete with veranda and was putting the
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finishing touches to a state of the art kayak while preparing a small dinner party for the locals.
Well don’t know about you, but there’s very little of my route to school which passes through what could be described as equatorial rain forest, so much of what had been gleaned from the programme came under the heading of interesting but useless.
I toyed briefly with the possibilities presented by two paper towels and a handful of paper clips but that's as far as got.
The children filed into the school hall for assembly and took up my usual position at the front.
With each extra body the temperature seemed to rise by one degree. By the time all 260 were in was hotter than a vindaloo and about as comfortable as the baker from Pudding Lane giving evidence at the enquiry in the Great Fire of London.
Every eye in the room was fixed on me as the beads of sweat gathered together on my brow and began to dribble their way slowly downwards. In desperation plunged my hand in to my pocket and with one extravagant motion wiped my face dry with my underpants!
Kevin T Lawman Bolton Section
NATIONAL CLARION TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS 1999
EVENT 1 FLYING 200 Duncan Hewitt Stock. Brett Stinton Tees. 12.20 Dave Langlands Fen. 12.45 EVENT 6 VETS DEVIL Martin Smith Nott. 12.50 Peter Smith Tees. Duncan Hewitt Stock. 12.60 Dave Smith Nott. Colin Ray Stock. 12.70 Tim Duckett Fen. 12.81 SENIOR DEVIL lan Clarke Fen. 12.94 Martin Smith Nott. Will Sanderson Stock. 12.97 Duncan Hewitt Stock. Julian Mortel Stock. 13.07 Peter Smith Tees. 13.08 EVENT 7 1 MILE SCRATCH Andrew Clare Tees. 13.10 Martin Smith Nott. 2.07.90 Damon Smith Tees. 13.22 Julian Mortel Stock. Dave Smith Not. 13.25 Steve Pollitt Bolton Paul Way Bury 13.55 Steve Pollitt Bolton 13.95 500M. HANDICAP Bob Duckworth Bury 14.61 Tony Bowles Bolton 35.79 Richard Brown Stock. 15.03 Tony Bowles Bolton 15.09 Andy Genever Fen. 15.14 EVENT 8 SPRINT FINAL
Dave Langlands Fen. 12.57 EVENT 2 VETS UNKNOWN DISTANCE Beat Pete Smith Tees. 3.17.81 Martin Smith Nott. Dave Smith Nott. Steve Pollitt Bolton EVENT 10 TEAM PURSUIT Bob Duckworth Bury Fenland beat Stockport 4.54.69 Andy Genever Fen.
EVENT 14 5 MILE SCRATCH
EVENT 4 8 LAP HANDICAP. Dave Langlands Fen. 10.46.52 Martin Smith Nott. 2.37.51 Paul Way Bury Will Sanderson Stock. Duncan Hewitt Stock. Paul Way Bury lan Clarke Fen. Steve Pollitt Bolton Martin Smith Nott.
Will Sanderson Stock. EVENT 5 INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT 4000M. Dave Langlands Fen. 4.59.11 Martin smith won the sprint final. Beat
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NATIONAL CLARION RACING AWARDS
The following awards have been claimed for 1999.
Novice Champion Robert Hodgins Bolton 1-07-49 Fastest 25 miles x 3 1-05-44
1-05-34 Lady Time Trial Champion Alison Ede Fenland 10 24-26 Highest av. speed 10,258&50 miles 25 1.03.31
50 2-15$2 Junior Best All Rounder Jamie Williamson Crewe 10 22-10 2232 Highest av.speed 2x10, 2x25 miles 25 58-03 59-49 Veteran Time Trial Champion Alf Howarth Crewe 25 1-12@3 Over 40 Best All Rounder 50 2-23.30 25/50/100 miles on V.T.T.A standard 100 5-16-32 The Rylance Linklater Ogden Trophy —_—Nick Barker Crewe 1-56-47
Fastest time in an open 50 mile T.T.
Road Race Points Champion Keith Haddon Teeside 300 Poirés Most B.C.F. points in road circuit races
Junior Road Race Points Champion Tom Butterworth Bolton 42 Points Most B.C.F. points in road circuit races
National Clarion Track Champion Dave Langland Fenland 104 Points Dove Memorial Trophy
Most points according to Rule 12.3
(B.C.F track events)
TOM GROOM AWARD
The following sections have been nominated for the Tom Groom Award:
Fenland, Bolton and Heanor.
The winner, along with Club Man and Club Woman will be announced at Easter Meet.and selesequently published in the next edition of Boots Spurs.
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FOR SALE
National Clarion bib shorts are now available ata price of £28.00. There are a variety of sizes and should be obtainable from your Section clothing secretary. (If your Clothing secretary does not have any contact Grahame Pearce).
TROPHIES
Polite notice Please return your trophies, well cleaned, to Frank Bibby as soon as possible.
Thankyou
THE CLARION NEEDS
you
TO RIDE THE FOLLOWING TWO EVENTS
CLARION CYCLO CROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Heanor Clarion Cycling Club are incorporating a Clarion Cyclo Cross Championship within their Notts Derbys League Promotion. There will not be a special levy to support the National Clarion Racing Team. It is being incorporated with another event as their would not be enough Clarion riders to organise an event solely for the Club and we would not cover our overheads.
Cyclo cross bike racing is a mixture of riding the bike and running on a closed circuit traffic free course between 1.5 to 3 km.
The terrain can be either very hilly or fairly flat with a mixture of tarmac roads, grassland and trails compacted dirt, gravel or stone with man made obstacles to ensure that riders dismount on various sections of the course.
Dependant on the category there is a difference in regulations. International, National and A class series events come under U.C.I. rules. Only dedicated Cyclo Cross bikes can be ridden these are exactly the same as for road racing only they normally have a triple chain set and the clearances between the fork crown and rear stays are wider to prevent mud clogging up the wheels and special tyres. The date of the event is Saturday 30 October 2000 and will be held at Holme Pierrepont
Category Start Time Duration(approx.) Entry Fee
Youth 12:30 30 mins £2.00 Under 12’s 13:30 7 mins FREE All Others 14:15 50 mins £6.00
Advanced entries only and there will be a presentation evening from 7:30 pm. The organiser is Terry Taylor who is contactable on 0115 9135348, Please note that the wearing of a helmet is compulsory.
GRASS TRACK RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
The above event is to be held on Sunday 18th June 2000, from 1 pm until 3 pm, at Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham. The event is 1 mile long, at 4 laps and about 3 minutes duration, long enough to be an interesting and short enough not to shatter riders for the other events on the programme. There will be medals for Ist, 2nd and 3rd place and the event will be restricted to
Clarion members only. Events
1. 500 metres handicap 2. Devil take the hindmost (for riders not reaching 500 h/c final) 3. 2 lap Scratch 4, Clarion Championship 5. Course des Primes (for riders not reaching 2 lap final) 6. 20 lap Scratch 7. Junior 2 lap 8. Junior 4 lap
Prize Values
Ist 2nd 3rd 50 20 10
15 10 5
40 20 10 Medal Medal Medal £2 each lap
40 20 10
15 10 5
15 10 5
The whole programme costs £6 for the day or £1 just for the Clarion Championship and entries must be submitted by 29 May
2000 to: Roger Shayes,
19 Princethorpe Close, Shirley, Solihull B9O 2LP. Tel: 0121 603 7536
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SECTION INFORMATION
The following are names and telephone numbers of all Clarion sections throughout the country. Why not try to organise inter-section events, such as club runs, meeting half way between sections, or inter-club time trials. You may wish to invite them to your social events, club dinners etc.
Scotland
West of Scotland Clarion George Mackay Glasgow-ish 01389 874131 North-East
Sunderland Clarion Allan Smith Sunderland 0191 584 8948 Teeside Clarion Colin Armstrong Middlesborough 01947 880488 North-West (Cheshire Lancashire)
Bolton Clarion Amy McLarty Bolton 01204 491595 Bury Clarion Sylvia Roscoe Bury 0161 761 6856 Clitheroe Clarion Edward Ireland Clitheroe 01200 442609 Crewe Clarion Wheelers Andy Grace Crewe 01270 841836 Stockport Clarion Julian Mortel Manchester 01625 575959 Wyre Clarion Carl Taylor Lancaster 01524 39453 Yorkshire
Calder Clarion Joan Milsom Wakefield 01924 274087 Leeds (Yorkshire) Clarion Dave Binns Huddersfield 01484 648144 York Clarion Angela Beardshall Wakefield 01924 264898 East Midlands
Heanor Clarion Fred Lambert Newthorpe 01773 713946 Nottingham Clarion Tim Fahy Nottingham 0115 981 1938 South and East
Fenland Clarion Ken Clarke Peterborough 01733 562217 London Clarion Peter Shepherdly Hounslow 0181 572 9672 West Midlands
Birmingham Roger Shayes Solihull 0121 603 7536 Herefordshire Peter Cowan Kington 01544 340690 Wales
Gwynedd Robin Hartley Bangor 01248 371797 Central Section Brian Burchell Devon 01404 891740
If you know of people who are not near a local Clarion Section then we are always interested to help establish new sections. All we need are three founder members to begin a new section. For further information please ask them to contact the National Secretary.
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CURRENT CLARION OFFICIALS
Secretary Frank Bibby 130 Crompton Way, Bolton, BL2 2SB 01204 393065
Minutes Antonia Whitaker Secretary The Hazels, Plumtree, Nottingham 0115 937 2775
President VACANT
Racing Frank Bibby Secretary 130 Crompton Way, Bolton, BL2 2SB 01204 393065
Easter Meet Merlin Evans Organiser 3 Green Lane, Heaton Moor, Stockport, SK4 3LE Committee Member 0161 442 8441
Membership Kevin Hulbert Secretary 1 Ferndale Court, Coventry Rd, Coleshill, Birmingham, B46 3EZ Committee Member 01675 460466
Records Audrey Waddilove Secretary 36 Brookland Drive, Sandbach, CW11 OLX 01270 761446
Wortley Hall Brian Ann Birchell Organisers 2 Wulphere Close, Dunkeswell Honiton, Devon, EX14 OUU 01404 891740
Racing Team Graham Pearce Manager 70 Springdale Gardens, Didsbury, Manchester, M20 2SS Committee Member 0161 448 1928
Newsletter Tracey Auty Editor 68 Park View Court, Bath Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DE 0115 959 8093
Treasurer Nick Biden 0161 4855437 50 Highfield Road, Cheadle-Hulme, Stockport
Committee Ken Hemsley 0115 987 3118 Member 117 Southcliffe Road, Carlton, Nottingham, NG4 1ES
Press Officer Peter Roscoe Bury 0161 761 6856
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