email (17 Feb 2015) from Jacqui Rolfe

Sorting through my overflowing inbox I came across this and realised that I should have blogged it at the time.  Mea culpa!

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Subject    Barry’s Funeral

From     Jacqui Rolfe <jacquirolfe@icloud.com>

To     chris@jeggo.org.uk <chris@jeggo.org.uk>

Date     2015-02-17 22:46

Can you please pass on my thanks to you and the other cyclists who came to the funeral last Friday for the lovely comments everyone wrote in the book of condolence. I didn’t have any time or opportunity to meet with you as I was surrounded with so many people who had come to remember him and pay their respects .

I would have liked to meet you as he often spoke of you all and he enjoyed riding with your group for nearly 10 years as he got his 10 year CTC certificate at Xmas before moving to Poole last March.

I did meet several members in France a few years ago when he did the Semaine Federal and indeed we did our second one together last year on our new Roberts tandem. Unfortunately I don’t know how I will ride it now he has gone and he has a garage full of his bikes which I need to get valued for his estate.

Once again please pass on my thanks to everyone and if you have any thoughts on bikes or indeed any nice stories you have of Barry I would be grateful to hear them. I still can’t believe he is gone as he was so full of life and it was totally unexpected. The only consolation is he died happy without pain and doing what he loved doing and he would never have wanted to be ill or a burden on anyone.

Regards

Jacqui Rolfe

 

35 mile Reliability Ride ~ 12 April 2015

Spring weather doesn’t come much better than what was dished out to us today; I trust everyone who didn’t take part in this event had something equally good going on – if you didn’t, you missed a perfect cycling day.

It’s a lovely route, tried and tested over the years, with the bonus in recent years of a good café stop at Kirdford. This is the route.

35 mile Reliability Ride Route

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks, Hilary (to coffee) and Laurie (the whole way) for your company, particularly Laurie for your excellent pacing. The headwind home was challenging, particularly when you haven’t ridden a 50 mile ride since last year; suffering has never been so pleasurable. And I did just manage to make it up my hill without getting off – hurrah!

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Sunshine ride

Typical 100k six hour ride also including coffee stop in Savill Gardens, pub lunch and 5 miles of Thames at Henley towpath. Glorious!  Even time to stop In Windsor Great Park to allow the photographer (Chris Ball) to record the scene.
West Surrey CTC near Windsor

John Weatherburn’s American Trip

Many of you already know, eith er from my words at the annual dinner in February, or the Latest News post on 19 March, of John Weatherburn’s plans to to cycle 4,200 miles across America in May this year.  However, others have asked for details of how to access his blog which can be found:

http://www.92daysinthesaddle.wordpress.com

I would certainly suggest that even those who have visited the blog before do so again now, and feel even more committed to supporting him by visiting his site:

Just Giving page