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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 23rd June 2023 - The Cycling Special with Peter Herron and Pauline Smith from the Cyclists' Touring Club, Peterborough · The PCR Sports Show

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Welcome to PCR. Sports are starting of sporting
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weekend. Stay tuned for a cycling
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special. Welcome to PCR school.
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Good evening Peterborough. It's the PCR Sports show on pc.
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R FM, the starter your sporting weekend with myself and Japan
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and Nilesh and guess what? Now, she's back after a
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three-week Hiatus, good to have him back in the studio and I
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shall miss you. How are you?
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That's good to know. Yeah, not too bad.
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Thank you. Yeah, he's been a busy old week,
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few weeks with sort of work and personal stuff going on.
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So yeah. Nice to be back in the studio
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and looking forward to chatting to our guests this evening
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indeed. Yes.
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And our guests are brilliant and very special from CTC
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Peterborough. Peter Heron and Pauline Smith
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talked about cycling. It's the first time I think
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we've featured cycling on the show, so they're very much
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Pioneers for us as guests, so we'll be hearing from more from
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them in a little while. But let's go back to the
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election unless cover off this week's Regional headlines.
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Let's switch. Well, let's see what's been
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happening in this wonderful city of ours finish choose different,
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thank you very much. I'm Start with this Speedway and
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the Peterborough Panthers dismal season suddenly shows no sign of
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abating to away meetings resulted in a double defeat this
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week on Monday. Panthers traveled up to Bellevue
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in Manchester and fell to a 5535 loss.
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And then made the shorter trip to Ipswich with it, which ended
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in a 52-38 defeat, that's nine losses.
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Now, leaving the Panthers, rooted to the bottom of the
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Premiership table. The Panthers, Panthers are back
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in action against Bellevue Aces on Monday, at the Of England,
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arena, with tapes up at 7:30 in cricket and Peterboro Town.
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Recorded a much-needed victory in the north hunts.
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Premier Division, beating getting 10 by 5 wickets
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dismissing. Their hosts, for 161 town.
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He's home with over 15 overs to spare with Carl Metcalfe, 42 and
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Captain David Clarke. 36 both scoring well, form a roundel
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player, Dan Costello and exciting.
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All Around Talent has been signed from Burley.
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To bolster the town, bowling attack weakened by an injury to
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Paceman, Nick, Green Island, or meanwhile.
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Continue to set the pace of the top of the table with a slim
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six-point lead Harrison Craig top scored in Islanders 264 9 at
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Williston with 88 from just 77 balls.
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Which included? Five sixes and followed it up
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with 351 from 15 overs. Some job is 40 Connor, Greg 31
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and Chris Murdoch 4455. Also enjoy.
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Decent days. But Alan duk couldn't finish the
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home side off. Your closed on 233. 49 pounds
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opponents in the north hands T20 championships at Milton Road.
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This Saturday are over certain Park and Williston while Peter a
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town face Williston and Overton Park in their doubleheader as
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well. In the links Premier League
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Market, deeping stupid, only the second defeat of the season
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going down by 88 runs to Bracebridge heat, despite a 32
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ball 88, including the 16's from Lee peacock.
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As expected, born were far too powerful for a spalding side who
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have started The League season reasonably well as they powered
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to their Victory. Target of 173 in just 23 overs
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at the Abbey, Lon Sam. Ever since struck 77 from 59
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balls, which included 11 fours, and three sixes, and skip it
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Jack Barry whacked 40 from 25 balls, which included seven
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fours in an opening stand of 105, deeping are at Spaulding on
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Saturday. Day.
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But born who are s are without a fixture Peterborough Sports and
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Striker been folks, has is the First new player to sign up for
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the new season at the Lincoln Road Club.
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Folks are professional chef has moved up a level from step.
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Three side lace, turn off after scoring over 20 goals for the
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club last season. He scored 50 goals in the last
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two seasons. Folks could form a new strike
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partnership with sports. Stalwart Mark Jones, who has
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extended his stay at the Not Lake North Club Defender, Ryan
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fry. It has also agreed terms for
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next season and in wheelchair, rugby format, Jack Hunt, school
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student, Lee Manning impressed on the national stage Again by
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steering Great Britain to the wheelchair basketball World
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Championship final in Dubai. GB were agonizingly beaten 67-66
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by the United States in the final after leading 43-32 at
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halftime. Co-captain Manning scored freely
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throughout the tournament claiming a remarkable 31 points
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in a group win over eventual, bronze medalists, Iran and 19
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points in the 64-54. Semi-final success against the
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same opponents. Great Britain, beat the United
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States. 6556 earlier in the tournament when Manning
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contributed 12 points and also saw off Italy and South Korea
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and will finish with a little bit of football and Peterborough
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United. We'll begin their league.
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One campaign away to reading in just 43 days and we'll be
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previewing the season ahead for the postion out of sports show
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on August, the 4th they'll face Swindon town in the first round
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at the FL cup. Then will also face Cambridge
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United. Spurs under-21s and Colchester.
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Who'll be the opponents in the ear fell trophy group stages, a
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couple of departures from the club.
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Joe Ward has left on a free transfer and has now signed for
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Darby and Nathan Thompson who was also released at the end.
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Last season is now at stevenage Borough player and that's are
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your headlines this week, Japan, and Canada.
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Share. Lots going on in our city.
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As always. Yeah, lots of good stuff
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happening in across many sports. Yeah, indeed, I'm sure there's
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plenty more to come Peterborough Sports as well.
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Will be chatting to the co-managers there.
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Luke Steele and Luke Kennedy in a few weeks as well and getting
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a preview of their upcoming season.
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Will have a posh special as well on the eve of the season for
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them in League one. And will also be catching up
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with Bobby copping. And talking about the Posh women
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who've almost Also been making waves and signing a number of
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new players for the season ahead.
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So, yeah, although it's the sort of offseason for footballer.
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So to speak at the moment, there's plenty going on in that
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particular sport are kind of offseason doesn't exist anymore
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because remember when I was growing up way back in the 80s
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going to school in that and that that end of football season used
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to be a dread. And you think I'll go it's just
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nothing for a couple of months at least unless there's a World
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Cup or Euros on whatever but now it's just it's just seems yes.
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Okay, the playing side is slightly reduced but there's
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always something happening. I know the way the media is
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these days it's more in your face and that but you don't feel
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like that the seasons sort of as finished as a speaker.
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You look at the Champions League final that only finished what
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early June first weekend in June suddenly the league one and
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League, two, and Championship players are all back for
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pre-season training this week, over the weekend as well.
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And then you've got, you know, all the other sports taking part
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in our city as well. We've mentioned Cricket there as
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wheelchair rugby, there's Athletics going on in the city.
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So, there's plenty of sport in the city and it's great that
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everybody takes part where they can at whatever ability.
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They've got yeah exactly that's the beauty of our wonderful
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City. There's something for everybody
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at whatever Talent OR level or whatever you want to partake.
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It's yeah, indeed. And I know, you know, taking
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talks a lot to page for a Town Sports Club over the over the
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last few months and years as well.
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Number of activities, they're Park row of just mentioned with
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our guests before we started this evening as well.
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So there's opportunities out there for people to take part in
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sport, whatever level, whether it be on a social level, or if
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they're good enough, and want to progress at a high level, The
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locally regionally and nationally, absolutely
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brilliant, good stuff. And one of those Sports cycling,
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like I said, it's the first time we're going to feature that on
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our show, stay tuned. We'll be back after the break,
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We talk to clubs individuals and people who are in who are
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and we get them on the show and tonight is no exception.
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We're in in the in the accompaniment of Heron and
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pulling Smith from CTC Peterborough.
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Cycling Club Peter good evening sir.
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Good evening. Welcome to the show.
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Thank you for coming in this evening.
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So, CTC Peterborough tell us more about that.
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In terms of, I mean, what does the name?
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What a CTC stand for? So there was a national club
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called the cycle touring club, which has since changed its
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name, but we didn't change our name because it just worked.
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So they now called cycling UK. And there, the UK's biggest
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cycling charity and they have a member groups up and down the
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country and where the Peterborough branch of that.
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So, people are either this members of that National
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Charity, which which campaigns for better conditions for
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cyclists and lobbies the government.
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Etc, for to improve improve things for cycling, both locally
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and nationally burning that sounds good.
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So obviously you've got, you've got the local responsibility I
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guess in terms of I'm say you as a person individually.
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But in terms of you was a club in responsible for running it
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locally but then you obviously backed by a more National body.
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That's that's your third party, Insurance things like that.
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It's quite important. So yes.
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Yeah. We got taxes space on the
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website, Etc, publicize ourselves, so, and members get
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sort of discounts in bike shops and stuff as well from from
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belonging to them. So there's a few benefits as
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well as just helping helping them to solve campaign for
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cycling, okay? Before we find out more about
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the club, let's find out bit about yourselves individually.
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So in your case Peter, so what, sure, sort of background in
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terms of what got you to where you are now, in terms of being
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part of the club, how long have you been into cycling?
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And And so yeah I started sight for him as a teenager really
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start taking it seriously never I guess as will tell you more
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about the club but I've never really been into racing.
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I'm not super fast but I just love the freedom of being on a
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bicycle in the countryside and it's a great way to explore the
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world and lucky to have a wife as into that as well.
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And then about 10 11 years ago, that guy set this local group of
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cycling UK up and I just started going with.
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It might It's were teenagers by then.
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They didn't really want me to spend any time in the dad
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anymore, you know. So I was off on my bike and
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yeah, it's been a real success. We started with just a handful
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of us and it's built up to being, you know, a regular
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fixture you think. I think it's been about 12 years
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the club's been going. Now, we've got quite a regular
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members and we run to write a week and I work, so I can only
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go on the weekend, right? But yeah, I'm out nearly every
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week with the club and it's just become a big part of my life.
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Fantastic sounds really good, Paulie, let me bring you in
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here. Welcome to the show.
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Pauline, thank you, and thanks for coming in this evening.
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Tell us a little bit about yourself in terms of your
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background in cycling and why you join the club.
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Well, I've just looked back since I was a really little girl
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to me. They've always represented
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freedom and means of getting around so transport but also
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exploring and going out and seeing the countryside touring
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all over the place. So I've had all manner of bikes.
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Over the years are different phases in my life, I've taught
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Also countries, but living in Peterborough.
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It's not near any big mountains. Thankfully, my other passion in
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life, okay? But it's got lots of really nice
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country lines. It's ideal Countryside for
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cycling out in the countryside. So and I've been a member of the
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cyclists touring Club as it originally was called, since I
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was again, quite young since I was in my twenties.
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So it was natural to kind of go rejoin, the the club and then
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look for a local group. I'm doing riding around here and
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I've been involved in various iterations of this local group.
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But the latest one I've been involved in for about the last
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sort of eight or nine years and I think you've mentioned there's
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no mountains snot really hilly around here.
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What about the other fact of the wind, you know, going out
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towards the fence potentially is that a challenge in itself?
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If it proves, it's another challenge for you as an it as
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opposed to climbing, climbing Hills.
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Well, it's nice actually flat round here when it comes Riding
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a bike. Okay, same discover.
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I have got this little area called the Rutland Alps, okay, I
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think I've heard of ya, people jokingly say, because it is
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quite some quite sharp hills around there, but they're not
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really very long Hills. Not compared to the big
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mountains, but the phones are on a bit of an acquired taste.
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You need a. Not too windy day for the fans.
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Really most of our rights Head West.
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Take a look at the weather forecast.
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First, there's the see which way the wind is coming in.
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We, we tend to avoid Cycles. Lynne.
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So when the whale so you get blown home when you're a bit
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more tired. Yeah, it's just simple logic.
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Yeah, I've heard that quite often actually people to look at
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the weather forecast first and see where the what the wind
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direction is first of all and take it from there first, as
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well. So seems a sensible way of doing
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it. I'm definitely in cycled in this
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afternoon this evening as well. Haven't you as well?
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Yeah. Yeah, we're really locally so is
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easiest way to get here. Yeah.
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Brilliant. Yes.
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Setting standard has you mean to carry on?
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Some. Okay, let's talk about the club.
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You mentioned briefly there as you as you give us an intro.
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There there Peters that clustering around about 12 years
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or in this current sort of iteration known as the city
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touring Club. Although he has got a nickname
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as well based on the kind of activities you do when you're
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out on your bike. So tell us more about in terms
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of what how do the events or all the routes or if you call them
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event. How does it take place?
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You said there's two to it to a week so there's two writes about
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on a site and then the weekend Saturday Sunday depending on
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which we choose and then some we've got volunteer ride leaders
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on one of those rides leaders and we set us up take it in
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turns to lead a ride and so it's actually my turn this weekend.
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I'm taking right on Sunday. So I've just looked at the wind
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as we discuss and I picked a cafe in the right direction and
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I just published that ride on Facebook.
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So you were going out and people to sign up You know, if they're
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not on Facebook, they can text text me, let me know.
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A lot of the members are on Facebook and just yeah, people
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will turn up. We go go out in the morning ride
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for a about four or five hours, Stop halfway Our Cafe, and it's
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a real emphasis on sociable riding.
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So there's a lot of clubs cycling clubs in the city.
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If you want to erase or go really fast, but as I think,
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we've just described a background, we like to see the
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countryside have a bit of company and a big emphasis on on
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A cup of coffee and a bit of cake halfway, really vital.
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So it's all about having fun. And, yeah, we're quite, I think
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most of us quite fit, but we're not kind of athletes, you know,
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we're just normal fit. So yeah, you mentioned parkrun
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and it's a bit more like, you know, you might going to parkrun
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Keen fit, you're not going to be taking part in athletics events,
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you know, none of us are doing that.
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We just out enjoying ourselves on our bikes and it's really
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nice to have some company. Yeah, it's great for you mental.
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Well-being, I guess as well as - yeah.
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You know, you're going to be looking forward to on a Sunday,
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Come rain or shine or do numbers drop off a bit hesitant.
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They're the only thing that really stops as a.
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It's, I see ya. It's not safe.
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Yeah, ice then, we were tied. Yeah, we cycle you around.
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Yeah, we have rights all through the winter.
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Yeah, we cancel a few in a very extreme weather, generally, just
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wrap up more and once you get going, you know, it's great.
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So obviously some as much nicer tend to do perhaps opposite No
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longer rights in the summer when it's more Daylight but yeah
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we're out all year round to do is ride leader.
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Then how do you plan a route then like you say, may be taken
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whether or wind direction to account slightly, but how do you
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sort of think? Okay, I'm we're going to do x
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amount of miles today. This is Direction want to go to.
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Yeah, it's this Cafe is nice cake, and coffee or we've got,
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we've got an encyclopedic. Knowledge of all local people
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because there is a cafe and then I just use, I use an online free
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bit of software. To draw a route that gives me an
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exact mileage and and then I can store that on a bike computer
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like a GPX file. You know, if you've heard of
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those and and that tells me where to go and what I'm out on
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the bike so I don't get lost and yeah, I know a lot of the roads
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anyway. Now I've been riding on them for
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years and then so unless the same with other Riley this.
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So and then I'll just, you know, make sure that the writers tend
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to be typically around 45 miles perhaps and then once a month
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would perhaps do a longer ride. The so it's just planning a
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cafe. That's roughly 20 miles away,
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right route ride out to it, have a break and then right back and
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you know we used to get quite a good number.
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Come out testing. Do you have to warn the caffeine
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advance? So there's going to be X number
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of us going to be dropping in on you there's 10 or 12 of us.
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You know. Cafes going to struggle to cope
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with that if they don't know. So yeah, I've already messaged
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the cafe for this weekend and they said, oh great, you know,
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would expect you. So, you know, it gives them a
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heads up about, obviously a lot of the cafes are An outside
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klister, you know, there's a lot of soccer clubs in the area and
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not just in Peterborough that use these cafes and they really
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keep them in business, you know? Yeah.
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How early did you start sort of morning?
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We start at 9 on the weekends. Okay, I'm a lion then and then
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Wednesday's that's it. They start at 10 just to miss
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the school run, my my and the rush hour, you know.
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Yeah course since you know, so because most of the guys on
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Wednesday on working so, you know, there are less of a rush.
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So yeah, they can take it easy some girls on Wednesdays.
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As well. Speak up for them falling.
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I said, absolutely not. No very good turnout of women
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Riders. Yeah.
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And all ages as well. Would you say or is it a little
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bit little bit older in terms of?
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Yeah, right. I just promised, it's a little
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bit older as yeah, I guess a lot of the younger guys will be in
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the racing clubs, you know, and girls it really is.
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It's a matter of what kind of cycling appeals to people.
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I mean we've had sort of younger, right?
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Does we've been member since? We were younger?
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I felt so it's not exclusive but there's a bit of a tendency that
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is Pete sighs. Younger people have perhaps
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especially young guys and more into the kind of go faster thing
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and we're not into speed particularly we just about
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enjoying being together out on a ride and do you find events such
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as? Let's go from the extremes here?
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From Tour de France to the more local National events.
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Cycling events. Do you find that people sort of
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pick up on them and think? Yeah, I'd like to have a go at
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this and you sort of talk to one or two people and get them
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involved. I guess they generate interest
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in cycling generally but I suppose people who are really
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inspired within might go out with a racing Club, I don't
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know, but a lot of our members are like watching those.
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I usually watch the Tour de France and when it's on telly,
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you know. So I think there's interest it
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all generates interest in cycling, but obviously cycling
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is a really Broad really broad support from from people who
22:18
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22:20
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22:24
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22:26
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22:29
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22:32
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22:34
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In the studio with us. Peter Heron and Pauline Smith
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from the cycling touring Club in Peterborough.
25:19
It's the social based Cycling Club.
25:20
This has been telling us a little bit about what they do,
25:23
have the operate and just ask you guys.
25:26
So, obviously, if there's people out there listening, you,
25:28
perhaps want to get involved in cycling and like that, it's more
25:31
on a social basis rather than that Competitive Edge, how can
25:36
they get in touch or what, what do they need to do?
25:39
So, yeah, we've got a website, it's a just Google, CTC
25:42
Peterborough or wrong. On Facebook as well.
25:44
So quite a few people join us on Facebook and can message on
25:48
there or if they can email me through the website, I'll get
25:51
back to them, speak to them on the phone, people around me,
25:54
sometimes ask you know, if they can come out with us what we ask
25:58
details about what it's like, you know, and I'll give them all
26:00
the details to reassure them and yeah.
26:02
So it's very easy to get in touch with us exit up.
26:05
And once they start to engage and they're enrolled, what can
26:09
they expect? How'd they get the chance to
26:11
sort of dip their toe in it so to speak or what?
26:13
What what They're kind of onboarding process.
26:15
So, yeah, people people who are not members of national Club can
26:18
come out with us for up to three times and the club insurance
26:22
cover them for that. So as a guest Rider and then,
26:26
you know, I'll explain to them roughly the pace and what we're
26:30
going to be doing, but we don't leave people behind so if
26:33
they're struggling a little bit will slow down, make sure they
26:35
can keep up, you know, and I think people sometimes a bit
26:40
nervous that, you know, we're doing 40 miles but actually if
26:43
you can Do 10 or 20, you can very easily 40 and you find when
26:46
you enter a group chat into people, then I'll still go by
26:49
quickly and we were stopped halfway for, you know, for a
26:52
break. So that, that sort of makes it a
26:54
lot easier breaks it up. So, yeah, I think people are are
26:58
pleasantly surprised when you come as how.
26:59
It's not as hard as they thought.
27:01
Okay, sounds good. And obviously other than a bike,
27:04
what's the kind of minimum equipment?
27:05
Someone would need perhaps to join the club helmet.
27:14
It's probably a good idea to wear home is not compulsory.
27:17
Most of our members do wear them but personal choice that the
27:19
club doesn't insist on it. Okay.
27:23
It's on National or I thought you, I thought cycling helmet
27:25
has become a national. No, no, it's personal choice.
27:30
We do choose to most of us just because, you know, it's a bit of
27:34
protection insurance. But no, mainly a reasonably
27:40
well, looked after bike probably recommend a pair of cycling
27:43
shorts. Just because you know it's a bit
27:44
more comfortable, padded ones. Yeah and beyond that but that's
27:50
about it, we'll just start and you know people then learn good
27:54
thing about being in a club you can speak to people find out
27:57
what you need. You know people then get more
28:00
kit at end up finding that's like twins.
28:02
Not that cheaper sport because you always wanted to buy
28:04
something new but there's always better by absolutely.
28:09
So it doesn't take too much to start with.
28:11
Don't need a great deal and I guess if somebody's Who already
28:14
owns a bike? Presumably there I go out and
28:16
about on a bike and go whether they ride to work or just you
28:18
know socially or whatever. Do so they used to perhaps being
28:22
out about anyway. So this is more of an extension
28:24
of that. I guess if there's people out
28:25
there who have never ridden, all rode a bike ages ago.
28:28
For example, I want to get back into it.
28:29
Then that's a different challenge to somebody.
28:31
Perhaps already owns a bike. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't
28:33
recommend a come out with ass if they've done right at all,
28:35
little bit of a battle, I'd say, you know, but if someone can
28:39
ride on their own and get out to perhaps about 20 miles and then
28:41
they're ready to give it a Try I think because then that, as I
28:45
say, it's 20 miles to the cafe and then you have a rest and
28:47
it's 20 miles back. In is surprisingly, it's not
28:50
that hard to do if you can ride 20 miles, it's quite easy to
28:52
write 40. Yes, okay.
28:55
And in terms of the existing membership group, how many
28:57
people are members of the group already?
29:01
I think we've got about 50 to 60 looking at regular members, and
29:05
normal turnout. It is perhaps about ten or
29:07
twelve on a ride. If we get a lot more than that,
29:10
it's a bit difficult to, you know, you don't want to clog the
29:13
roads up. Very difficult for cars to get
29:15
past this excetera. So that's our normal size of
29:19
rider. That's we've had occasionally,
29:21
have numbers above 20 on the rides, but as you're saying
29:24
cafes struggle, then to get us all through, but that's the sort
29:27
of regular membership. Obviously, not everyone's free
29:29
for every ride, so you just sort of rotation.
29:32
If you had a few new members coming on at the same time,
29:35
would you organize a special ride, just for new members?
29:38
May be a shorter one? Or is that just kind of you just
29:40
do it on a case-by-case basis and see what your situation is
29:43
Hollywood? We have done that in the past, I
29:46
think, you know if for example if we've got a bit of response
29:48
to this program that more people wanting to kind of try us out
29:52
and were nervous about the distances, then we try and talk
29:55
no fit in a monk's. The ride leaders, try and fit in
29:59
doing a slightly shorter ride to a slightly newer Cafe.
30:02
Then you know say we won't go quite as fast and let not.
30:05
We go very fast but see you know how it goes for people.
30:09
Yeah, so yeah. Okay.
30:11
So are we obviously has flexibility there for People
30:13
deserve enroll in the right way that they feel comfortable
30:16
about. Definitely.
30:17
Yeah, but it's the same with new people coming along.
30:20
As with the regular members, everybody's got busy lives and
30:23
it can be quite difficult to know, find a date that's going
30:25
to work for people. Yes.
30:27
Yeah. And in terms of you rides, then
30:30
do they always set off from the same place in Peter or does it
30:33
depend on which direction you're traveling from to where the star
30:35
pointer occasionally? We've are it sometimes will do
30:38
an away day like we start saying it's or something just so try
30:42
some different roads and you can get the train down or drive down
30:45
there but mostly we start from what was right in Cycles.
30:49
It's tightly closed down now but we're still starting there
30:51
that's are near the entrance to the fairy Meadows on hemline and
30:55
that's quite a short ride then to get out of the city on to the
30:58
Country Roads. So we meet up there, the agreed
31:03
to start time and then ready for just a cycle out.
31:06
Along usually along the railroad or possibly it one of the other
31:09
way, South through fairy Meadows.
31:11
And yeah, get out into the country road.
31:13
Just beautiful roads around Pittsburgh.
31:16
I'm just looking down your Facebook page actually.
31:18
Here it's looking at some of your roots that you've been
31:20
taken and to say it's very much a social activities
31:23
understatement really isn't any and all I'm seeing a lot here is
31:27
pictures of cake. I'll be shops and plenty of
31:31
smiles as well. You know, really seems to be
31:33
enjoying themselves and such a social occasion that you've
31:36
created here in this club, you see, you know, depicts breasts
31:39
are. So it's got a number of cycle
31:40
clips that are all training for things and going, Seriously and
31:45
we're just psyched about me and cake.
31:47
So I'm gonna Focus, please. Yeah, yeah.
31:49
We move into a bakeries coffee shops Farm shop.
31:52
So yeah, it's very much an enjoyable activity is.
31:57
Yeah, cracking stuff. Obviously mentioned CT, CT, C
32:01
stands for cycling touring Club, but there is a nickname.
32:04
I can see it on your jersey. Peter, what's the nickname of
32:06
other links into what an election has been saying?
32:08
The joke is coffee tea and Coke, possibly Cafe to Cafe.
32:13
I see that. That is the main emphasis year.
32:16
Everybody's like, where's the cafe this week?
32:18
Yeah. I'll actually while you were why
32:20
we talked about cafes and, and for those who know not
32:23
necessary, just cycling. But if people are out and about
32:25
in the region then are there any good cafes that you'd recommend
32:29
in in the region? Yeah.
32:31
Some excellent little cafes out and about I'm trying to think
32:35
all of them. Probably you don't have singling
32:39
out. It's on the a43 actually, but
32:44
you can get to on a quiet road called a new large farm.
32:47
That's really popular as a campsite there.
32:49
There's a new one opened up. Just not far from our company
32:52
called Holly Lodge. Where they also have dog
32:54
walking. This, a people exercise their
32:57
dogs. Yeah.
32:59
That there's a quite a few and obviously, you can ride up to a
33:01
mound or Scott, coffee shops and Stamford places like that.
33:04
And if we're feeling a bit, a bit more Brave, a token places,
33:07
though, the lots of the smaller towns fraps done.
33:10
There's a cafe, so you can just cycle out those smaller.
33:13
Townsend and enjoy a coffee. They're saying, Ives, and when
33:17
she recently, by three, Soleus is a cycling Cafe.
33:19
There is nice and T meet up with other cycling clubs as well,
33:24
potentially, as sort of, sort of group, get-togethers or meet at
33:28
coffee shops. And then really, we always
33:30
bumping into other contact, the Cafe's because they were about
33:32
the same kind and you bring a head, don't you?
33:36
I guess. Yes.
33:36
Yeah we always tend to let the cafe know.
33:39
Yeah, they're not swamped but it can be quite interesting because
33:42
here you go to a If a that's relatively in the middle of
33:45
nowhere and when you get there, the recycling groups that have
33:47
arrived from all different directions.
33:49
So yeah, we'll kind of see groups of come out from Bedford.
33:52
From Kettering, if we head North Woods we might meet groups that
33:55
have come out from Nottingham. So we're not specifically
33:59
planning to meet them but it is quite fun, you know, to sort of
34:01
see the way cyclists converge on Country Cafe.
34:06
This kind of this Clique not Clique but kind of a suppose not
34:11
someone. Call it a secret club either but
34:12
it's I'm sorry. In the fraternity of cycling.
34:15
There's obviously this thing about going cafes and absolutely
34:18
lips tend to Coffee. You know, cyclists in the coffee
34:22
is a big thing with cyclists. Yeah, it's the caffeine and the
34:25
energy they give you to continue in terms of any sort of
34:31
memorable trips that you've done.
34:32
Any favorite trips, you have that or writes that you've done
34:35
in the area? Any ones that stick out for you,
34:37
that you think I'd look forward to that one.
34:39
Yeah, we've done some some nice away days so I think Cambridge
34:42
to have that, Solar system way, they're like, a few months back
34:46
last year, wasn't it? Oh, yes, yeah.
34:48
And one of my guys organized that so we add a sort of the way
34:51
they drove down to the, the guided busway cup akise knives
34:56
and then cycled into Cambridge. And that was really nice.
35:00
Just just some different roads. I don't know.
35:04
Last year, we organized a way trip as well down to Ken.
35:08
There's a cycling UK who we belong to of done, some national
35:12
roots, I've done this one called a can tra way that the kind of
35:16
jobs an ancient tribe in Kent and I believe and it's stuff.
35:19
180 mile Route Around. Okay, so we did that, over two
35:22
days 160 miles. I think I missed growing but
35:26
hey, it was a tick. Tock is an awful lot.
35:30
Stay tuned. We stayed in a hotel in, in
35:33
Dover and destroy that. Say, it was, it was really nice.
35:36
Yeah, really exciting. Except so, I was glad you
35:38
mentioned obviously away days and then that I was going to ask
35:41
was going to ask actually, do you know you've got things.
35:43
Things like the London to Brighton rides and presuming.
35:46
There's other rides like that in the country.
35:48
Are there ones in this region? That are of that ilk, you know,
35:50
they're kind of specialized rides or the ride.
35:53
I think I've had the last one this year salary but the right
35:55
ride came but she was running out of the show ground so quite
35:57
a few of our members took part in that.
35:59
So that that was a really good event.
36:01
I think think with the showground closing I think they
36:04
decided not to pursue its really.
36:08
Yeah I think there's there's been some national rights
36:13
Lincoln as well, which I've taken part in one of those.
36:15
So you can go along and sign up for like a what they call a
36:18
sportive, which is like it is for the non competitive
36:22
Competitive Cyclist, if you're not.
36:23
I mean, it's that they have like a proper road race and then the
36:26
next day they had, like the amateurs.
36:27
Have a go. So, there's things like that you
36:29
can do. Yeah, brilliant.
36:32
And do you ever do kind of one-off say, longer rides that I
36:36
don't, perhaps, you're raising money for charity or enter to
36:39
Mark certain times times a year. Anything like that.
36:41
Yeah, do it, do it. We've done a few nitrides.
36:45
So you start in the middle of night cycle, through the night
36:47
though. So I think we haven't done one
36:50
since covid actually bit where we cycled down to London over
36:53
the night, and then got the early train back.
36:55
So that's quite fun because the roads are pretty quiet.
36:57
I don't mind in the middle of summer when the yeah in London.
37:06
And I think you mentioned earlier about someone who, And
37:13
was riding the coast to coast. We chase the Sun.
37:17
So a few of us in the club of done, that, that's a 200-mile
37:21
Coast-to-Coast, ride the hands of this time of year, learish,
37:23
that things happening this weekend.
37:26
So what part of the countries that goes to goes?
37:27
Where would you do that? I did one from time mouth to, to
37:31
the air and Scotland. And this also one that goes from
37:34
from, I think Essex across to the West Coast.
37:39
So that's like a, quite a commitment to hundred miles in
37:43
from the Dawn till Dusk. You have to try and get you have
37:45
to do in one day. Yeah a trying to get there from
37:47
sunrise and get there before the sun sets.
37:49
Yeah. Wow.
37:51
And so the chase the sun he took talking of rides and again just
38:00
looking down your Facebook page a which is absolutely fabulous
38:02
just to read the positive comments and engagement that
38:05
you've got there with everybody and Monopoly ride Monopoly on
38:09
the month and ride. Is that some think but is
38:13
anything Thing, two of them knobbly board game or anything
38:15
like that. So I've got to be honest, I
38:16
don't really learn that. Okay, that's fine.
38:18
Is that rude involved order or the order sort of value?
38:22
The destinations are on the Run Monopoly board.
38:24
Maybe maybe maybe. Yeah, there's something Central
38:26
London ride. Yeah, something like that.
38:28
That was just looking down here. But yeah, there's plenty of cake
38:30
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pulling Smith from the city. Sorry from the cycling tour in
40:56
club as I mentioned. So again, just a reminder for
41:02
the listeners or if anyone's join the show late, if anyone is
41:04
interested in joining up with a club and wants to take up
41:07
cycling more on a social basis, or on a competitive basis.
41:10
So what can they do, what they need to do?
41:12
So yeah, just get in contact with this on our website.
41:15
If the Google City, see Peterborough or our Paige just
41:19
look it up on, they're probably very easy to get in touch with
41:21
us on Facebook, just messages. And or they can they can email
41:25
me through the the website and we'll get in touch.
41:29
And I know you are responsive because I messaged you for this
41:32
show and you are back to me very quickly so I can certainly vouch
41:35
for that. And in terms of the is a kind of
41:41
age restrictions running on the memberships that you have what
41:44
what kinds of kinds of types of people can join.
41:47
We have all sorts of Members young older, middle-aged know
41:53
male female yes different sort of diversity of basis and
41:58
everything else. Yeah.
42:00
So put everyone in here but we do know.
42:02
Welcome people whatever I say if I love bicycles it's one of the
42:06
great things about cycling. As you've got that common
42:08
interest and you it's one of the nice things about the group.
42:11
As you meet, all sorts of different people from different
42:14
walks of life and different backgrounds.
42:16
And you've got that shared love of riding a bike.
42:18
But he's important just stipulate that you write our up
42:22
to around 40 miles when you do them.
42:23
So, it's got to be someone who's relatively practiced on a bike.
42:26
Isn't it? That the the yeah, we're not a
42:28
flute beginners. Yes, we would sort of say, you
42:31
know, make sure you. You've got a reasonable bike.
42:34
It's in running order, the tires are pumped up and you've got a
42:37
little bit of repair kit, although we do have one of the
42:39
nice things of riding with a group is that you do have people
42:42
around you, if you have 0. So lucky as to have a puncture,
42:44
there's lots of hands to help you fix it.
42:47
But yeah, people do need to be We probably able to ride sort of
42:50
20-ish miles and feel, they can do that and then come out with
42:54
us and you'll find it's easy to do much more.
42:57
I was gonna ask how you raised the point.
42:58
They're actually about obviously punchers, or maybe bikes
43:01
breaking down Howard. You kind of cope with that.
43:02
And obviously, you'll have a lot of experience and with people
43:05
who are perhaps Hands-On with bikes, but most of us will cut
43:08
carrier, you know, an inner tube and a pump, you know, and a
43:11
futile leaders and stuff. But yeah, there's a couple of
43:14
guys in the club on one of them is bit more into fixing bikes so
43:18
we're using Don't weave, occasionally had the odd
43:20
Mechanicals, very rare don't get many punctures even you know,
43:22
actually ties these days are really good.
43:24
And, you know, you don't get many punctures, but if you do,
43:27
we'll fix it. You know, we've had odd.
43:30
Things chains breaking on things but we've managed to fix it and
43:32
get people home. And so there's usually somebody
43:34
on the ride and the right leaders are usually pretty good
43:37
will help you out. If anyone's having difficulties
43:39
always waiting for people, you know we don't we don't drop
43:42
anyone leaving behind we're not that sort of Club so you know
43:45
we're will all stop and watch. If someone has a puncture, you
43:47
know, And how quick you can you change a tire or fix a poncho,
43:52
is it isn't a Formula 1. You have to really get into and
43:54
try and doing the quickest time possible.
43:58
We go as fast as become but yeah, I guess it takes 10-15
44:00
minutes, usually, and if anyone knew joining in, you mentioned,
44:05
obviously have a bike that's in good working condition.
44:08
For any particular type of bike is preferable to another mean,
44:11
you know, somebody rocking up on a BMX perhaps wouldn't will
44:13
struggle riding 40 miles one they are mostly riding riding
44:17
sort of road bikes. Yeah, We've had a few people,
44:19
come out with this start on hybrid.
44:21
It's Uptown bikes are a little bit heavier and the find it a
44:26
bit hard going. So we recommend, you know, Vine.
44:29
You don't have to spend a fortune but a reasonably good
44:32
quality road bikes ideal. Most people are riding thanks
44:36
with those sort of drop bars like that.
44:38
People call them races, but they're not.
44:39
Yeah, not really for racing. Only, they're quite comfortable
44:42
for long distances and and they're nice and light.
44:44
So you don't take so much effort to get there and what at
44:47
mountain bikes what they do. The job or not really a bit
44:50
tough because they're heavy and the tires are wide.
44:53
And yeah, it would be pretty hard work to do what we're
44:55
doing. And I think, you know, most
44:56
mountain bikes are not doing 40 miles to use it in a shorter
45:00
distances on rough tracks, you know.
45:02
So, so you could be a bit of a battle indeed.
45:06
Indeed, and conduct with us, you'd find choosing to change
45:10
your bicycle quite rapidly. Yeah, we had a guy.
45:13
We've had several people join, and they write them quite
45:15
ordinary bikes with hybrids, or kind of lightweight mountain
45:18
bikes and That you find. If they stick with us, their
45:20
thoughts quickly talking to all the guys in the club back.
45:24
What kind of bike do I need? And upgrading to kind of a
45:28
slightly faster barks, it's going to be easier to do the
45:31
kind of riding we do because we're not going off road.
45:33
There might be a little bit of gravel, but we're normally
45:36
riding on tarmac. So you want a bike that sort of
45:39
able to go Fairly kind of easily on tarmac?
45:41
Yes, it's terrain smooth, isn't it?
45:43
Most part. So you want that outside bike?
45:45
Tours are potholes obviously. Yeah, there was a guy say.
45:48
It's bad enough. Driving around some of the areas
45:50
around here pretty rough in places but yeah, generally it's
45:54
comfortable. We're not we're not riding big
45:56
big room country of tracks or anything, you know.
45:59
So yeah. So yeah, you're okay in that
46:01
sense, dude. I mean, in terms of the, the
46:05
club itself that the organizational structure, how
46:07
does that operate? You have like a chairperson
46:09
secretary kind of person type of setup pauling's, actually first,
46:13
okay, tell us about the club in the structure.
46:16
Okay. Well, as Pete said, All in the
46:18
program with I'd like all branch of or Affiliated to a National
46:23
Association but are kind of particular Peterborough Branch
46:26
we have a chair a secretary or Treasurer and then most
46:30
importantly a kind of a ride lead organizer and a whole bunch
46:33
of people who are ride leaders. Yes and that's the core of the
46:36
club is the people the guys and girls who lead the rides and
46:43
we're not really very formal. I mean we have an AGM once a
46:45
year you know, every so often we choose a new chair.
46:48
New secretary and everything, but the main structure of it is,
46:52
you know, Pete does a lot of work as the secretary to keep
46:54
the information flow going the ride lead, organizer make sure
46:58
the ride leaders are yo programmed in.
47:01
So there's somebody to lead a ride every weekend and otherwise
47:06
we're just sort of, you know, get on with it.
47:08
So that's, that's really the structure.
47:10
Yeah. So quite a supported by cycling
47:12
UK and we got a couple of members who are really good
47:15
publicist, like you said, on our Facebook pages, Bolted and Jamal
47:20
who are always taking pictures and posting on there and a few
47:22
other members as well. So people are always posting
47:25
pictures on the site, so, helps or publicize it and, you know, I
47:30
think it's a true reflection. Yeah.
47:31
It is. And it seems to come across that
47:33
way, and it's also just individuals is taking
47:35
responsibility and just bringing people together as well.
47:37
It's not reliant on, Pauline, for example, I yourself Peter in
47:41
that way to, you know, try and cajole, people, everybody seems
47:44
to be posting about all I've done this ride or I've got this
47:47
issue with my bike. Anybody help?
47:49
It's very much a social Community as well.
47:50
Absolutely. Yeah, it's a real, the whole
47:52
emphasis the club is is sociable, you know, having some
47:55
company for writing Berlin, just sharing that interest and love
47:59
of riding a bike. But sadly comes through in your
48:02
enthusiasm for you. So.
48:04
So if it is anger, The Sound of Silence slightly silly question.
48:08
But obviously, you explain the structure of the organization
48:10
that is. So could potentially somebody
48:12
join and volunteer, not actually write and help out in other ways
48:15
with the club if they need it wanted a always an opportunity
48:17
to that, in that sense. I guess they could.
48:20
I don't think anyone has yet. I guess we've got a few sort of
48:26
people turn up her to some of the social occasions who
48:28
practice Partners, right? Yeah.
48:31
I mean the could do, but yeah, I'm not.
48:33
It tends to be people that have got involved and then a few of
48:37
them will get their confidence up and, you know, volunteer to
48:42
lead riots whatever will get will give a lot of help to start
48:46
with until the Gap. The confidence up, you know.
48:48
Yeah, sounds good. And in terms of sort of future
48:52
of the club, any kind of plans ideas, what you want to do, sort
48:55
of ongoing and grow the club or change anything.
48:58
Yeah, we're always trying to grow.
49:00
So we have a sort of, you know, people come and people go in
49:03
terms of membership that it's always good to have a good.
49:07
And if we have, you know, a big surgery members of be good to,
49:09
we could offer more rides at weekend.
49:10
We could offer a shorter riding along the ride, things like
49:12
that. So, there's always ideas that we
49:14
could do that. Yeah, but I think we've got
49:18
quite Successful formula referring to writes a week.
49:21
So, the typically around 40 to 50 miles.
49:24
That seems to be really popular with, with our members.
49:27
It's not, it's not too hard and also if you go out nine o'clock
49:31
on a Saturday, you'll be back home by 2.
49:33
So you haven't lost the whole day, it's important to people
49:36
people working or in a week, so they need that time.
49:39
Yeah. Because some people, I mean,
49:41
some people that we've got a few couples but mostly it's sort of
49:43
one member of a couple that rides.
49:45
And the other partner is at home doing Nelson wants their husband
49:49
or wife that, yes, it young children, perhaps, as well.
49:52
Yes, people are balancing their busy lives with all these other
49:56
things. Yeah, certain future plans.
49:58
I think our ride leader, David. I think he's thinking about
50:02
planning, another. I mentioned the trip to Ken.
50:03
I think is to think about planning a trip to Norfolk
50:06
probably later in the year possible.
50:08
It's not, there's not firmed up yet and we offer a century ride
50:13
every year in September that's 100, Miler.
50:15
So that's that's for sure. And get the sort of newer
50:17
members to Yeah, it's quite a big thing to do.
50:21
Your first hundred miles done before so we get them to train
50:24
up. And so we offer that every year
50:27
we doing that, I think as an example where if you've been on
50:30
last year's hundred minor for example circular route such.
50:34
I'm struggling to think we're a long time ago.
50:39
Now I've certainly seen rides such clubs from within out to
50:43
Beaver. Okay, that's all.
50:45
Yeah. Fox 10 lakhs.
50:55
Yes. Yeah.
50:56
So places like that. Yeah.
50:58
Yeah right time is called us up. It's been fascinating chatting
51:02
to you both. Thank you Peter.
51:03
Thank you. Pauline.
51:03
Thanks for coming in and chatting to us since the
51:06
wonderful thing the club is doing.
51:07
So yeah. So thanks very much and
51:10
continued success with what you do.
51:13
Thank you very much. Good to have you back, sir.
51:15
Cheers to come. Thank you.
51:16
Next week, we've got, we've got Bob Topping on from Peterborough
51:20
United women. And we'll be talking about the
51:23
developments of the club there and also his foundation The
51:27
Becoming Foundation, right? So many great look for watching,
51:29
definitely right. So we're finished, we'll be back
51:32
same time. Same place.
51:33
As now, I just mentioned 627, be listened to PCR Sports from
51:36
Peter of em, have a great weekend.
51:38
What are we doing? Sporting wise?
51:39
And maybe if you fancy cycling, get in touch with the guys at
51:42
the cycling touring Club, CTC Peterborough, and they'll help
51:45
you out. So, other than that, have a
51:46
great weekend and we'll see you next week.
51:48
Take care. Care.
51:48
Bye. Bye.