Due to the ongoing situation with Coronavirus our Club meetings at the University Arms are not taking place and all our events will either have to be cancelled or postponed, we will try to keep you all updated as and when we can.
The Saturday Teacake which is obviously a well attended group ride is currently not taking place either.
Stay safe everyone.
With low attendance at the recent monthly meetings we decided at the AGM to have bi-monthly meetings this year at the University Arms and on the alternative Fridays we would arrange a ride out somewhere and have a few beers and an informal meeting.
The first ‘alternative Club meeting’ is set for Friday 6th March at the Norfolk Arms, Ringinglow.
This year’s meeting dates are listed on the MEMBERSHIP & MEETINGS tab.
With help from the Peak RC the Club will this year be promoting the ‘White Peak Road Race’ at Flagg on Sunday 10th May. The event will be an LVRC (now British Masters Cycle Racing) event and will be a counting event in the Percy Stallard series, more details will follow as they are known. 
I received news from Paul Morris last week that John ‘Jock’ Caldwell passed away just before Christmas. Not many will remember Jock but he was an active member of the Club along with his wife Betty during the 1950’s / 60’s / 70’s. I’m a little late with this post but his funeral was at Willerby on 2nd January near where he lived in Barton on Humber. I’ll send a card to Betty from the Club but if anyone else wishes to get in touch then please give me a shout and I’ll let you have her address.
For those of you that need something to start training for, entries for the 2020 North Mids Road Race League are now open…
You will find all details on the NMMRL tab to the left, on the TLI website and on the NMRRL site.
www.nmrrl.org.uk
Our Christmas fancy dress dinner at the Cheshire Cheese Inn at Hope is a week earlier than usual so that we may get a few more people there than last year.
Price will probably be about the same as last year, £20 for a three course meal payable in cash on the day.
If you need a vegetarian meal then please let me know, otherwise you’ll get a full Xmas turkey dinner.
Usual meet, 11am Bents Road for those riding out and yes, fancy dress is compulsory !
It’s 2019 … it’s club dinner time … and this year, it’s going to be a BIG ONE !!!
After quite a few years up at the Lees Hall Golf Club, this year the club dinner is moving into the centre of town at the brilliant Showroom / Workstation event space.
Saturday 16th November- 6:30pm onwards with a sit down meal – followed by a disco!
This is your Club dinner and it’s for everyone involved in the club so why not bring along your wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, partners, Mums, Dads whatever … Everyone is welcome!!!
There is plenty of room and we are wanting to make this enjoyable welcoming evening for all involved in the club!
Meal choices are,
Starters:
1.Tomato and basil soup.
2. Ham hock with toasted ciabatta and apple chutney.
3. Prawn and crayfish cocktail with mixed leaves and chive mayonnaise.
Mains
1. Oven roasted chicken breast with thyme roast new potatoes, green vegetables and a shallot sauce.
2. Roast topside of beef , Yorkshire pudding, thyme roast new potatoes, green vegetables and rich onion gravy.
3. Homemade red onion and goat’s cheese tartlet, with thyme roast new potatoes, green vegetables and rich onion gravy.
Desserts
1. Warm chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream.
2. Sticky toffee pudding with custard.
3. Eton mess served with meringue, mixed berries, and whipped cream
The dinner will be £25 per head
You can use the form below to buy tickets.
Rob is organising a curry night on either Friday 18th or the 25th Oct?
He is going to book the Curry Cottage, Stoney Middleton.
Ride out- eat and drink- slow ride home. Let Rob know via facebook or email info@rutland.cc if you fancy it!
We have a new Club ride. The once monthly “Easy like a Sunday morning” spin around the peaks (or elsewhere) is an opportunity for a chat and a catch up with other club members before well earned cafe stop. No one will be left behind and everyone is welcome. Why not come along and bring someone new to the Club with you!
The next ride will be Sunday 29th September, 10am at the Teacake meet. This allows riders to watch the Monsal Hill Climb on October 6th and save the weekend of the 12th October to support Rutland CC’s Mam Nick hill climb.
See you there!
Pete Fouldes emailed me this week to let me know that his Dads brother Jack passed away last weekend aged 97 in Rotherham hospital, he had been unwell for some time.
Jack I guess will only be known by a few club members i.e. John Clarke who would have met Jack possibly on the Saturday morning runs to Retford, attended by John , Jim & Kate Hall, Ernest Keeton, George Steers and others, also some of whom, have sadly departed.
Jack’s funeral will be held on Thursday 22nd August at 3.30pm Hutcliffe Wood.
Jack Fouldes Obituary (1922 – 2019)
Jack joined the Rutland CC pre-war (WW II) and was active keeping the club going through the war years (1939 – 1945) with regular club runs into Nottinghamshire. Jack kept the Rutland CC name on the results board down at Blyth when the sporadic, war time, events did take place and held the club record for the fastest 25 for several years.
He completed the Manchester and District 12 hour during the 1940s with little or no support, having to ride there and back from Sheffield.
Jack finished his racing years with the Scala wheelers, the top Sheffield racing team of the wartime era. During the war time years, with little or no traffic the bike was king of the road it wasn’t uncommon for Jack with the Rutland club members to come up against the Sheffield Phoenix coming out of places like Matlock and to be engaged in a kerb to kerb battle as the two clubs attempted to outpace one another. A similar competition used to occur heading to the tea stops out in Nottinghamshire where the Rutland club members would be en-mass all across the A1 in an attempt to be first into the café.
Jack in his later years went on to live in Sutton near Retford where his cycling activities included time trial marshalling and meeting up with the Saturday morning run to the café in Retford attended typically by – Jim & Kate Hall, Ernest Keeton, George Steers, John Clarke and others.