Presidents Report
While we had a regular start to the year with some lovely rides enjoying our continuing fabulous summer, our rides and events have certainly come to a grinding halt now! It was so sad to be at home when our Bush Railway ride was meant to be on and at last we had a beautiful fine day for when it was scheduled!
Reflecting back on a ride in February I observed we are lucky to have such an eclectic mix of members from so many walks of life. In just one cycle ride there can be so many stories shared like a member deciding one day to run the New York marathon and then training for it even though they’d never run a marathon before or a member who built their own boat to sail around the world. Another member finishes the ride and goes off to kill the lamb for the freezer. And another on a training ride ready to head off to ride the Rainbow and the Molesworth. And plenty of ribbing goes on, it doesn’t take long for new members to realise we don’t take life too seriously! All of this just on one of Bill’s beautiful rides in the Southern countryside.
As mentioned we had a very brief online Zoom AGM and I believe I might have got the award for the fastest one yet!! All went smoothly and we elected the new committee which is largely the same as last year.
The outgoing committee had achieved a great deal over this past year and it’s been a pleasure working with them. Simon has been our social convenor and as a result, we have had more social events which is great. Unsurprisingly, we enjoy each others company on and off the bike. Ron Smith has been a stalwart on the committee for more years than I can remember and he continues to make sure that key bike shops are aware of ACTA’s existence. The 70th-anniversary sub-committee were impressive in arranging our anniversary events last year. And the programme from the Tours sub-committee had many new variations!
Thanks for the feedback on whether we should alter the starting time of our rides during the summer period, the committee will review this but on an initial look at the results, it appears the majority are happy with the current times. Hopefully by next summer things will be back to normal for our rides.
The next months will be hard for ACTA members who are missing their social rides, but at least we can get out locally, whatever that means, and enjoy the pleasure of near traffic free rides on roads. We are all missing our times with our buddies out on our bikes so do please check in with everyone, particularly those in a bubble of one!! NB: Below picture is of me in my Bubble of Two in Buenos Airies in Cycle Times!
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