A close look at ourselves as a club.
With the Bolton Sky ride impending and Peter receiving emails and information on the event, discussion took place among members with a view to taking part.
Taking heart from the fact that we have already been blessed with several new members it was decided that we would take up the offer of a gazebo dedicated to Bolton clarion on the day of the event.
At fairly short notice members set about contributing to a display, runs Sec. Mike Singleton drew up a flyer, Peter took up the organising, Frank Bibby displayed a colourful collection of clarion jerseys while I drew from a collection of photos ( Rodney Bryan collages) depicting the clubs diversity of cycling and past personalities.
The time for setting up our gazebo coincided with the time and place for departure of our usual club rides, the town hall square, 8.30 am. Mike Singleton re-organised the clubrides of the day so that the club could participate in the event while still fitting in the all important club run.
A beautiful sunny morning was a preamble to the days events, a bit of a chilly wind being a bit of a minus but with the club wholeheartedly supporting the our input it also meant that our great new club strip dominated the busy goings on. A chance of one of our best photo calls advertising Bolton clarion was not to be missed, our facebook page would be bang up to date this evening.
As the event started the town hall square was full of enthusiastic mums dads and youngsters and by mid day there was hardly room to move. One person who did manage to remain mobile was member Ian Littlewood, busy doing the rounds as official photographer, I would love to see an album of things from Ian. Ian himself was photographed, he was surprised at the result of the Polaroid image from the retro camera from the charity shop.
From time to time it got very cold as cloud covered the sun, Bill McFadden went home to change into warmer clothing coming back in a fleecy winter jacket. Peter Moore and Dave Bisset jumped on their bikes every now and then to do a circuit of the short Sky Ride to restore circulation. The sausage rolls and coffee certainly kept Dave on the go, I think he set a record for the most circuits.
The lads off the Rufford ride re appeared, after enjoying an apparently rapid run, they crowded round the clarion gazebo, this encouraged passers by to stop and look at what we had to offer
It was good to meet interested members of the public, one or two were of particular Bolton clarion interest, one lady showing interest in our old photographs turned out to be non other than the niece of Sid Clemmet, the Sid Clemmet award is our most prestigious trophy only awarded for outstanding merit.
David Wolstencroft, son of Frank Wolstencroft, former long time member member who's cycling has been cut short due to arthritic problems. It was good to catch up on an update of David's brothers Stephen and Mark, both former club members, and Frank's brother Peter, we all went back to Leigh Premier road club years as well.
In terms of the event being good for Bolton clarion it will be a case of wait and see, will our positive efforts return positive results, one thing is for sure, the event has reinvigorated the will of the members to progress the club in the community. I think the day has been a success.
As the event started the town hall square was full of enthusiastic mums dads and youngsters and by mid day there was hardly room to move. One person who did manage to remain mobile was member Ian Littlewood, busy doing the rounds as official photographer, I would love to see an album of things from Ian. Ian himself was photographed, he was surprised at the result of the Polaroid image from the retro camera from the charity shop.
From time to time it got very cold as cloud covered the sun, Bill McFadden went home to change into warmer clothing coming back in a fleecy winter jacket. Peter Moore and Dave Bisset jumped on their bikes every now and then to do a circuit of the short Sky Ride to restore circulation. The sausage rolls and coffee certainly kept Dave on the go, I think he set a record for the most circuits.
The lads off the Rufford ride re appeared, after enjoying an apparently rapid run, they crowded round the clarion gazebo, this encouraged passers by to stop and look at what we had to offer
It was good to meet interested members of the public, one or two were of particular Bolton clarion interest, one lady showing interest in our old photographs turned out to be non other than the niece of Sid Clemmet, the Sid Clemmet award is our most prestigious trophy only awarded for outstanding merit.
David Wolstencroft, son of Frank Wolstencroft, former long time member member who's cycling has been cut short due to arthritic problems. It was good to catch up on an update of David's brothers Stephen and Mark, both former club members, and Frank's brother Peter, we all went back to Leigh Premier road club years as well.
In terms of the event being good for Bolton clarion it will be a case of wait and see, will our positive efforts return positive results, one thing is for sure, the event has reinvigorated the will of the members to progress the club in the community. I think the day has been a success.
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