Black Canon Collective

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  • Bike Radar Live

    Dear Black Canon Collective

    We would like to invite you to BikeRadar Live 2010 (see www.bikeradar.com/live). Now in our second year and at a new venue in Kent – we’d like to offer all of your members and colleagues 20% off event tickets.

    Please ask your members to use promo code (see the forum for the code) to receive their 20% discount at www.bikeradar.com/live or by phoning 0871 230 1085 before the 28th February 2010.

    We’ve got a fantastic array of attractions including cross country mountain bike challenges, Hot Laps for the speed demons, workshops, exhibitions… anyway – I’m sure you’ll acquaint yourself with our website for further info on what will be a fantastic summer weekend of cycling and fun.

    Thanks,

    Bike Radar Live

  • TickerTape + Dig Day dates up now!

    After a very hectic first two months for the committee we’re chuffed to be getting back into the swing of things with Dig Days and TickerTapes returning to their rightful places on the BCC events calendar. Check it out to see what’s going on and when…

  • Stolen bike – keep an eye out and keep your ride safe

    Could everyone please keep an eye out for Marjory’s Specialized Epic WSD which was stolen from her garage on Saturday night.

    The silver Epic ‘WSD’ is an unusual model and a ladies Medium size, it has a Fox / Specialized brain shock.

    The drivetrain is complete XT and only a few months old with little use.

    The wheels are early Hope Pro 2 hubs on black Mavic 717 rims with DT black DB spokes (very little use).

    The forks are Rockshox Tora, these were the next item Marjory wanted to upgrade so not in as good condition as the rest of the bike.

    If you’ve seen or been offered the bike or any of the bits please e mail simon.truelove@blackcanoncollective.co.uk. We will handle any information with complete discretion if needed. Please don’t try to e mail or PM Marjory at the moment as she’s still without internet access.

    Here’s another picture from the Specialized website – please note Marjory’s had a completely different spec but the frame is identical.

    Thanks for reading.

  • The Extra Mile

    As most of you will probably know a group of us from the club will be attending the Megavalanche in l’Alpe d’Huez, France this summer. This is a mass downhill race held high up in the Alps competing against hundreds of other riders – sounds like fun!

    If that wasn’t enough I thought that it would be a fantastic opportunity to raise money for charity as well. The charity that I – and we as a club – have chosen to raise money for is Re~Cycle who ship unwanted, second-hand bicycles to Africa for the people there to use.

    The reason I feel strongly about this is that the work that Re~Cycle does helps to empower people by providing them with transport that is low-cost and easy to maintain, and this gives them the chance to raise themselves out of poverty – all through something as simple as a bicycle.

    It goes without saying that all of you reading this love your bikes (maybe a little bit too much!) and the sense of freedom that they can give us, so by competing in the Megavalanche we are using the thing that we get so much enjoyment from to give something back and make a difference to someone’s life. We get to use our bikes for fun but for some people what a bike actually means to them is the difference between spending half a day collecting water going by foot – or – a considerably reduced journey by two wheels. Or it can mean the difference between not going to school – or – being able to go and get an education with all the benefits that entails. I think you get the idea!

    So how can you help? Well I have set up a JustGiving page, this is a really easy way to donate money to Re~Cycle and they give a 100% of the money to the charity plus Gift Aid. Please take the time to visit the page and make a donation.

    http://www.justgiving.com/megavalanche2010

    I’ve set the bar high with a target of £1000! However I think that you will all agree that this is a worthy cause and there should be no limit set on ambition. So dig deep, raid the piggy bank, look behind the sofa for those pounds and pence, make a donation and do something amazing!

    Thank you for your support and generosity.

  • 3 welsh cakes

    Saturday morning mini trip to Cwmcarn with Marjory, Andrew & I:

    3 x “M” bike checks

    Star jumps, a bit of marching drill, some route planning, diet advice, then a family medical history questionnaire.

    2 x leisurely laps + 1 x extra lap of the skills area.

    3 x punctures – (including a wicked pinch flat by Marjory the downhill diva !)

    2 x ham, egg & chips

    1 x faggots & peas

    3 x welsh cakes – (Burp!)

    Good times!

  • 12/12

    Take 1 converted pottery barn in the heart of Wiltshire

    Mix in 9 raw, and 3 half baked BCC members ,

    add 2 CTC Trail Leader Trainers ,

    some home-cooked cakes,

    17 ltrs of lush tea / coffee,

    14 bikes,

    and oodles of mud.

    Heat gently with a wood burner, and wait about 60 hrs.

    That’s how we made 12 qualified MTB Trail Leaders.

    Beans.

  • "…it's all about dropping your wrists…"

  • Transition Bikes – how to ride corners…

  • Communication

    Communicating with our members is really important and enabling our members to communicate with each other is very important too. Over the next few weeks there’ll be a few changes made to how we achieve each.

    Along with our existing projects, we’re working on a new club forum that’ll be part of this site, a frequent newsletter that’ll be produced in-house, and a Facebook fan page that will update automatically when the site is updated. Once in place these three changes will make it far easier for us all to keep up to date with what’s going on, and stay in touch with one and other.

  • Ride Leader Training is go!

    We’re thrilled to confirm that the BCC is training up 11 of its members as Ride Leaders.

    After 40 hrs of training, held over 4 1/2 days, the candidates will be CTC qualified MTB Trail Leaders carrying the ITC Outdoor Activity First Aid certificate also.

    Being able to provide professional quality guided rides will help stimulate the local MTB community, and will also enable new riders to come along and try the sport out in a safe and enjoyable way.

    The training will be completed by the 28th Feb, and the newly qualified Ride Leaders will start immediately in march.

    It’s taken some time to get to this point, but we’re really excited, and of course very grateful to Marion Liquorice (Elizabethan Evening) and Marjory Hatvany (awesome fancy dress evening!) for their charitable donations and fund raising efforts that have made this possible.