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Archive => Archived Boards => Local Issues => Topic started by: wadsterboy on September 15, 2015, 06:18:15 PM
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For anyone into road cycling, there are plans afoot to start a new group called The SK6 Spinners Cycling Club. It's planned that it will have a social feel at first with the emphasis on participation and will also aim to reduce the impact upon family time by starting early on a Sunday and later on a week night. A Facebook group has been established for interested parties; https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=428952687288715&tsid=0.4547489327378571&source=typeahead
Best wishes, Alex
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Pleased to report a turnout of around one dozen for our first ride at 7.15am today - not bad for a Facebook group that has only been going a couple of weeks, and a few notices in shop windows!
Next group ride 7.30am, Sunday 18 October.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/428952687288715/
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My husband went on this ride and really enjoyed it.
Could I make a tiny suggestion? Is it possible to use a local cafe eg 'All things nice', or 'cloudberry cafe' instead of costa. Thus supporting a local business?
Glad you had such a good turnout :)
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I'm all for supporting local business but "All things nice" isn't open on a Sunday and Cloudberry Café is only open 10.00 -16.00 on a Sunday ,were as Costa is open 07.30-18.00 , how does that fit in with the cycling clubs arrangements ?. They cant be expected to arrange meet times/days etc around "local" business hours.
keep peddling :) ;D
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Of course I wouldn't expect any club to rearrange there meetings. It was only a suggestion.
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Costa is a local cafe - it maybe a big chain - but it employs local people and pays local business rates.
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Costa also pays its fair share of corporate taxes - unlike Starbucks.
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Thanks for the suggestion on using local businesses. I would actually prefer us to use another coffee shop (although I assume Costa is a locally owned franchise), such as All Things Nice or Cloudberry, but as already indicated, by the time they open we are finished and home! Having said that, I am informed Rick at ATN is open to ideas so we may look at doing a special post ride breakfast once in a while - probably once we have more members and can guarantee 20 or so people for him. In the meantime, I have had some preliminary discussion- with the cricket club about possibly basing the Spinners there, on the assumption they buy a good coffee machine! And just finally, we encourage Spinners to use local bike repair companies such as Pedal Power and Recon.