Meeting Details
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Time | |
| Duration | |
| Location | Various |
| Coordinator | Colin Sutherland |
What we do
At our first meeting held at 10.30 a.m. on Friday 21st September 2007 we agreed the name ‘Social Cycling’. We decided that we don’t just want to put our heads down and get the miles in. Instead we want to cycle in a leisurely way, stopping at places of interest, enjoying the countryside and the companionship.
Seven people attended the first meeting with 3 apologies. Initially we plan to have one ride per month from April to October.
Our first ride is on Monday 15th October when we will be cycling from Kendal to Staveley having coffee and lunch at Wilf’s Café with visits to the furniture workshop and a Pottery in between. Then returning to Kendal via Crook and Burneside.
Over the winter the six rides for 2008 will be planned. They will be varied in terms of distance and difficulty.
Reports
July 2008
The U3A Social Cycling Group now has 12 active members with normally 5 to 7 people on each ride. We started the year in April with a ride from Lancaster to the RSPB site at Leighton Moss, cycling along the canal path as far as Carnforth. The May ride was the longest, going from Underbarrow to Gange-over-sands via the Winster Valley and back via the Lythe Valley. In June we had a nice flat ride from Caton to Glasson Dock and back, looking at the Millenium sculptures on the way. The July cycle will be around the south of the Winster Valley, then down to Grange-over-sands and back via Meathorpe Fell.
Colin Sutherland
March 2008
The Cycling Group had one ride in October which was very successful. No further rides have been planned during the winter months but arrangements are being made for another ride in April. Details later. Twelve members have joined this Group.
Colin Sutherland
October 2007
Monday 16th October was our first ride. Six members, Andrew Smith, Gwen Tordorff, Colin and Margaret Sutherland with Angela and Peter Davenport on their tandem met at the Kendal Leisure Centre. We cycled first to Staveley for a coffee at Wilf’s Café followed by a conducted tour of Lucy Cooks, The Cookery School in The Lakes.
A gentle cycle up the valley took us to the Kentmere Pottery of Gordon Fox who specialises in lamps and tableware. He hand paints all his pottery, incorporating enamels and lustres and his work is widely collected. The flowers on his pots are particularly beautiful.
Sandwiches by the River Kent was followed by free wheeling most of the way back to Staveley where we visited the furniture workshop of Peter Hall before making our way back to Kendal via Crook and Burneside.
We didn’t see the sun but we only had a little bit of rain on the return journey despite the threatening black clouds that dominated the day.
A programme of one per month cycle rides is being drawn for April to October 2008. In the meantime members are keeping in touch by phone to organise rides when the weather looks promising.
Colin Sutherland