Happy New Year to all our members. Looking back over the last year, we went on a lot of rides in 2021, held our Old Bike Gathering in July and a bike meet in October. We’re starting 2022 as we mean to go on. We had our first ride-out on News Years day and have lots more planned. Check out the events here.
We managed to go on lots of rides this year. You can download a booklet (and print it out if you want) by clicking on the button below.
A group of our members rode together on the annual Reading Toy Run (see here for details). We met up about half a mile away and then rode together to the start point where we joined up with hundreds of other bikers, many in fancy dress with decorated bikes, for the ride from Reading to Wokingham where we dropped off toys to Barnado’s.
With temperatures below freezing as we got up in the morning and around 1 degree C when I left the house, I was not sure how many people would be turning up for our Sunday ride-out. However, six hardy bikers shrugged off the freezing conditions and met up at Cobbs Farm. The temperature had risen to a cool 2 degrees as we set off for the Court Hill centre near Wantage. The roads were mercifully dry, so we did not encounter any ice and arrived for coffee and cakes at the Court Hill centre with nothing more amiss than freezing hands and feet.
On the Thursday 16 December we will be having a Christmas special evening at our club night starting at 8pm at the BCSA. Its open to all Branch members and their partners and there will be a free buffet of festive food, Christmas music and a raffle. The bar will be open as usual. So come along and enjoy a yuletide evening with fellow Branch members.
Our Branch Curry Night on the 25 November was popular. There was choice of three curries to order and a self service choice of side dishes with some Ravi Shankar albums played through the sound system as background music. Around 30 members and partners came along for enjoyable winters evening.
On a bright, but cold morning, we set off from Three Mile Cross on a short ride for breakfast at the Iron Bull Inn near Old Basing. We were then warmed up enough to ride on to Loomies at West Meon where we saw an extraordinary bathtub bike decked out in poppies. Despite one member going to the wrong start point and another getting lost on the way to Loomies, we all managed to make it to both cafes for another enjoyable Sunday out.
Our Lunchtime Bike Meet on 9th October 2021 hosted around 70 bikes and was a very enjoyable day out for all who attended. It also raised £200 for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance, who provide a vital life saving service.
Thames Valley Air Ambulance sent us a certificate of thanks. We would like to pass on their thanks to everyone who came on the day and made a donation to this great cause.
If you want to know more about the great work the Thames Valley Air Ambulance do, just click here.
The draft minutes for the Branch Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 28 October 2021 are shown below.
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