The Bugle | Blast 300

Friday 8th September 2017
 

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
 

BICYCLIST & BUGLER OF THE WEEK

Why? Well he leads two rides a week. That's two days out of his life plus all the planning, constructing GPX tracks and finding new mountains to conquer. Plus the pressure of trying to herd the Anerley into a coherent organised group. Ok, that's still a work in progress (since 1881).

Oh, and having the driest sense of humour this side of the Purley Gates.

But the main reason is, despite all that, he is going to find even more time to compile next week's Bugle while I and two others from the club enjoy a week cycling France. So - all news and reports to Mark V please. TIA.

BICYCLE  OF THE WEEK

Another variation on the tandem theme dedicated to buttock-hating stokers. Side by side?

Two too few? On the left you can just discern a green 7 seater. Six (three each side) pedal a central shaft with a rider at the back with a proper steering wheel. Pictured at a crazy Belgian bicycle museum & workshop this summer

 

TURNBULL TOURS: INDIA 1995

The fifth in John's series of global adventures this time accompanied by John D. They do Delhi, the Himalayas, fight off elephants, chase tigers, blessed by gurus, kissed by maidens and even take time to have a puncture: https://anerleybc.org/turnbull-tours-india-1995/

Previous tours:
https://anerleybc.org/turnbull-tours-the-galibier/
https://anerleybc.org/turnbull-tours-czechoslovakia-1988/
https://anerleybc.org/turnbull-tours-denmark-sweden-1987/
https://anerleybc.org/turnbull-tours-japan-1984/
 

THE SATURDAYS RAISE £400 FOR WHIZZ-KIDZ

Pete S writes: 
A special thank you to all the Anerley riders who took part in and helped Marshal the London Prudential Free ride cycle from Croydon on 29th July. Thanks to your efforts we have raised and donated £400 to help Whiz Kids provide mobility equipment to disabled children and young people.

More on Whizz-Kidz here: http://www.whizz-kidz.org.uk/
 

GROWING OLD DISGRACEFULLY

Did you know Agde  & Anji were really 93 & 94?

Well not quite but cycling does really stop you ageing. A couple of my friends of a certain vintage were involved in a study at Kings College on the effect of cycling for a group of 55 to 79 year olds. They found that many had levels of physiological function that would place them at a much younger age compared to the general population; debunking the common assumption that ageing automatically makes you more frail.

They also found that people of different ages within the study group could have similar levels of function such as muscle strength, lung power and exercise capacity.

In other words outside the pages of Peter Pan - cycling is the most effective way of not (or at least dramatically reducing) ageing in your sixties and seventies.

Not that should come as a surprise to the more juvenile members of the Anerley. After a fast and hard ride across northern France we sat round a table on the ferry behaving disgracefully and added the ages of the four of us. 268 years! 

Or is it you lose the ability to count? More here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2015/January/Exercise-allows-you-to-age-optimally.aspx


 

RECENT RIDE REPORTS

Sunday Ride 3rd September: We find a new hostelry (above) to the Anerley roster of places to eat and drink in Surrey. The faster people with things to do had already left us on our return from the Conservatory at Horsham: https://anerleybc.org/sunday-ride-3rd-september-2017/

Tuesday Ride 5th September: Meike reported that it was rather damp returning from Edenbridge - and John and herself were in their car. No other report.

Thursday Ride 7th September: John E was taking the speedies to Tilford for lunch. The itinery looked ambitious. Did they succeed? Again, no report.

UPCOMING RIDES

Saturday Ride 9th September: 10:00 Shurguard/501 Brighton Road: Pete S returns to lead the ride to Tanhouse Farm for tea stop and then back via Charlswood and Redhill. Pub stop The Wattenden Arms, Kenley. 50 miles.

Sunday Ride 10th September: 10:00 Shurguard/501 Brighton Road: Tom leads to  Cafe 1804 at Hildenborough followed by the Royal Oak at Crockham.

Tuesday Ride 12th September: 
'A' Ride [12mph] 09:30 Shurguard/501 Brighton Road: Tom V to Painshill
'B' Ride [10mph] 10:00 Shurguard/501 Brighton Road: Peter R to Painshill

Thursday Ride: 14th September: 10:00 Shurguard/501 Brighton Road: Mark H leads somewhere.

FINALLY

Happy Cycling!