Location: The Allotment

Description: The first of the BCC dig days to clear up and renovate one existing trail so that riding can resume sooner rather than later. Stay tuned for details….

Date (s): 2008-06-14 & 2008-06-15

There will be no club meeting this week (29/05/2008).

Instead the committee will be conducting more risk assessment work at the site to speed things up a little.

Some of you will know that we’ve enlisted the help of a friend of mine - Joe Duhig - to design our club logo.

Joe sent me this mail earlier today with some initial rough ideas.

Right, finally got a bit of stuff for you to look at; they’re just some initial ideas and still very rough, so I’ve attached some of the stuff I’m using for reference to hopefully give you an idea of the kind of direction i’m heading in.

basically I’ve started working using two monastry/churchy window formats, a circular one and the standard 3 arches, but I’m trying to use silhouettes of bike parts to construct them and form the logo.

I’ve also attached some reference for fonts and how the type might look.

it’s all still at a very early stage, but don’t hesitate to voice any queries or concerns, or add any thoughts/ideas of your own!!

We are all really grateful to Joe for doing this in his spare time, and thrilled with what he’s come up with so far.

Please give some constructive feedback by leaving a comment bellow.

We’ve just launched our new and improved club website (you’re on it now!) . Its two main purposes are to inform people of who we are and what we’re doing, and to give BCC members a place to share and communicate club information. We are planning to add a photo and video gallery, events calender, and a building blog in the very near future.

We hope you like it.

07:30 this morning Neil, Ben and I met up with Rodney Garton, Head Forester at the Longleat Estate, for our site walk. The point of this meeting was simply to establish which parts of the site we can use at the moment and when the rest will be free from forestry activity.

We are pleased to say that there is a relatively large area that we can begin working on, once we have completed the risk assessment, and so are working flat out to get this finished!

A map will be posted up shortly to give a clear picture of the planned areas of felling and associated times…(this has now been done - see here)

We now have 8 temporary signs in place around the site which will shortly be replaced by permanent signs.

We hope that these signs will inform people of our existence and point them in the direction of this site where they can learn more .

We now have the licence back from the Longleat Estate; this means that we’ve succeeded in saving the site and will be able to ride there again soon! There are still many things to do before we can though; complete the risk assessment, repair the tracks and wait for the felling to stop but this is a major step.

We are trying to raise peoples awareness of the BCC and so we’ve printed off some business cards to give out to local riders. If you’ve received one of these then you’ve come to the right place. If you have run out of cards then please send us an e-mail and we’ll send you some more!

I am pleased to announce that the BCC has today accepted a £500 donation from Mr Graham Batt.

Graham (father of Ben and Tim) approached the club about a month ago, asking if he could help in some way by making a donation.

This most generous donation has been made specifically to help the club get up and running by bridging the gap between our start up costs and current bank balance.

On behalf of the club and all its current members I have said a big thank you to Graham, however please leave any comments bellow and I will make sure that Graham receives them.

Grahams Auto Repair business can be found here