Time for a Social – Tuesday 1st November !

 

Sadly Simon’s popular Easy Tuesday rides have come to an end and we thought it would be a good idea to repeat the Pedro’s Kendal meal that we did a couple of years ago.  

The date is Tuesday 1st November 7.15pm for 7.30pm.  I have provisionally booked the back room we had last time, they prefer we opt for the sharing menu at £15 per head with gluten free and vegetarian options.  The current menu is shown below, zoom in, download as a PDF file from this link -  Pedro's Kendal Menu   

If interested please email cwood.beckhouse@hotmail.co.uk  by 11th October to secure a place.  
Advance payment is required which I will co-ordinate along with any special dietary requirements - in the meantime put the date in your diary !! 
Christine Wood (Windermere)

Pedro's Kendal Menu

Kielder Trip Update

Wednesday/Thursday, October 12/13th 2016

Thank you to everyone who has reserved a place on the trip so far, and there are more places available if any one else would like to come. It's not too late to book.

For all Kielder Forest Park information including cycling, walking, star gazing, wildlife, coffee shops, fishing and sailing, follow the link here:  http://www.visitkielder.com/ where you can also download a KFP map.

Provisional program:

• Wednesday 12.00hrs: meet at Tower Knowe visitor Centre, Kielder for afternoon ride around the lake with coffee stop at Kielder Castle visitor centre. suitable for MTBs and road bikes
• Wed 5pm arrive and settle in to Tarset Tor. Choice of eating in or out
• Thursday: MTB groups to explore Kielder single tracks and forest roads. Road bikes to sort own ride for the day
• Thursday evening: Kielder Observatory trip, or evening meal out
• Friday: further half day ride for those still enthusiastic, before heading home.

It would be fine for other KDCS members to join us for a day or part of a day, if you don't want to stay overnight, but please let me know if you intend to come.

Some of us have already booked in to visit the Kielder Observatory. It is popular and books up well in advance. Wednesday evening is already fully booked, but there are places available for the Thursday evening "Night Sky Safari". Info and booking here:

http://www.kielderobservatory.org/

Our accommodation at Tarset Tor is in the main, basic but modern, eco bunkhouse in 4 x 4/5 bedded bunk rooms, illustrated here:  http://www.tarset-tor.co.uk/cms/book.php . There is also further accommodation in the 8-bed 'bothies' (for rental at £125 each per night), if needed. I have arranged with TT that we can pay for our stay on arrival with cash or card.

Any questions or bookings, please contact me

Tim Goffe

my contact details on previous Kielder notice

KDCS October Kielder Trip

Hello everybody,

You are welcome to join us for a 2 night KDCS trip to Kielder Forest Park in Northumberland on Wednesday and Thursday nights of October 12/13th 2016. We will stay at the newly built Tarset Tor eco bunkhouse <http://www.tarset-tor.co.uk> and the trip is suitable for both MTB & road bikers, but also for walkers and spouses! There is a wealth of MTB trails in Kielder forest, a 26 mile circuit of the reservoir for road or off-road bikes, and a good network of quiet country lanes for those roadies who would venture father afield. Kielder Water and Forest Park is an attractive visitor location and has won several awards in recent years. 

http://www.visitkielder.com

Kielder should be resplendent in Autumn colours, and is also within the newly designated Northumberland Dark Sky area with the Kielder Observatory a few miles up the road http://www.kielderobservatory.org For those interested, an evening outing to the observatory is an attractive possibility (8-11pm, £18.15 each, concessions £16.50). A recently published book, The Astronomer's Tale by Gary Fildes, is by the brickie 

turned astronomer who is the director of Kielder Observatory: <https://bookshop.theguardian.com/astronomer-s-tale.html?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=email&utm_content=featuredbook&utm_campaign=saturdaynewsletter-130816&CMP=ema-2820>

Tarset Tor bunkhouse is located in the hamlet of Lanehead, 5k west of Bellingham on the approach to Kielder forest. 

https://goo.gl/maps/LDN8Lg2jL3N2 The accommodation is self-catering in 4 bedded rooms in 4 separate houses (main bunkhouse + 3 bothies) with a total of 44 beds. There are also 3 camper van hook-up spaces, plus space for camping (anyone up for camping in Mid October??). The cost is £20/person/night. 

Bellingham has 3 pubs, 2 banks, a Co-op, butcher, baker, garage and several tea rooms.

The week of 12/13th October is the week before Scottish half term and 2 weeks before English half term weeks so we should have the place mainly/solely to ourselves - there is no-one booked in yet for these dates, but booking can only be confirmed when we pay! Tarset Tor is run by Rob Cocker and his wife Claire; Rob used to live in Kendal and ran The Eclectic bar on Kirkland some 8 or more years ago, and was very pleased to hear a Kendal group might be interested in visiting them.

To reserve places please just let me know ASAP by email. To confirm places, payment will be necessary 6 weeks before our booking. If you wish to extend your stay (from Sunday to Thursday night), you may wish to take advantage of the '5 nights for 3' offer- see the Tarset Tor website for details. Please let me know with whom you wish to share a room.

Give me a call if you have any questions.

Tim Goffe, tim.goffe@gmail.com
KDCS MTB group

T: 01539821146. M: 07775636468

Thursday 4th August - chip shop ride to Arnside

If anyone fancies a run to Arnside for fish n’ chips next Thursday, we’re doing a run out from Kendal leisure centre at 6pm, we will try to make it a longish ride there and shortish ride back, maybe even via drinking hole too. Thursday 4th August 2016

Two Brooks’ ladies saddles for sale and a ladies bike now for sale at the moment ....

...full details in the Sell and Seek section --- 
Two Brooks’ saddles for sale - Finesse and Professional S ladies’ saddle;  
Raleigh Ladies Panache bike, mixte frame, 5-speed.

Sat 16th July - Early morning ride from Windermere Ferry - it's on

Meet at Ferry Nab at 06:45h for the first ferry of the morning at 06:50h and enjoy the dawn chorus along the lakeshore track to Wray.  Aiming to be at Wray for about 8am, for anyone wanting to join in then, and going on to Hawkshead for breakfast.

Leader: Martin Slader (tel:07787 20381209)

100 Cols for Cancer

Graham and Steve are now over 3000km through their 4081km trip and have today bagged the Col de la Bonette, the highest yet at over 2715m.  Read Graham's interesting and amusing blog of their trip at:

http://100-cols-for-cancer.blogspot.co.uk/

and donate to their charitable cause at: 

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/100-cols-for-cancer