17/12/2009 by Simeon Orme.

Lancaster City Council Cycling Team are now organising the 5th Lancaster Bike Film Festival for April 2010 and are looking for ideals about themes /people to present talks, slideshows etc. If you any ideals you can contact them at celebratingcycling[at]lancaster.gov.uk

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17/12/2009 by Simeon Orme.

Its nice to see that membership of the Rough-Stuff Fellowship stand at 580 members, this as been the highest its been for some time! It would be great to see the membership stand at 600 members at the start of 2010, so if you looking for christmas present for someone interest in off-road cycling or mountain biking why not buy them membership of the Rough-Stuff Fellowship for Christmas, you can find out more about joining here.

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17/12/2009 by Simeon Orme.

Dear Simeon,

The reason I’ve emailed you on this occasion is to ask for your, or your members’ help…

I’m lucky enough to live in Troutbeck in the Lake District, directly opposite the Garburn Road, the famous and historic track that links Troutbeck and Kentdale valleys across the 1500 foot high Garburn Pass.

This unpaved (and now badly eroded) track is much used by mountain bikers and walkers, and until recently was also heavily used by motorised cycle ‘trail riders’ and 4×4 ‘off-roaders’, who were widely blamed for the destruction of the track itself, and ofits peace and tranquility.

The Lake District National Park Authority was successful a couple of years ago in banning these motorised vehicles from Garburn Road, but in the last few weeks this ban has been overturned by a legal challenge from the Cumbria Trail Riders Fellowship. The trail riders have successfully exploited our country’s byzantine legal framework for regulating country byways, and apparently the Planning Inspector’s final decision on Garburn Road will be based on weather motorised vehicles were its first public vehicle users (as claimed by the trail riders), or whether it can be shown that other non-motorised vehicle users (ie carts, carriages or bicycles) pre-dated this use.

Hence this post! I am looking for documented evidence of use of the Garburn Road by cycles before 1930!

If any of your members can help in any way with this quest — ideally with evidence such as written journals, published maps, guides, photos etc — or can point me in the direction I might look for these, this would be a great help!

We’re up against a deadline — written objections have to be lodged by 7th January 2010!

Best regards

Brian Liddell

Brian e-mail me above on the 16th December 2009, if you can help you get in touch with Brian by e-mail at brian[at]liddell.co.uk and also post comment on this blog. I would ask other webmasters of cycling websites to post above on your site.

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13/12/2009 by Simeon Orme.

Please note that the University cycle path that comes onto campus from Bailrigg Lane round the back of the Croft and out on Bailrigg Drive will be completely closed off to all cyclist and pedestrian traffic from 7.30am Monday 14th December till 5.30pm Friday 18th December at all times.

This is to resurface the path and provide drainage improvement works. This will reduce the risk of cyclist falls on the tight bend, of which there was several occurrences over the Summer due to the poor state of the surface condition. The likelihood of infrequent flooding will also be reduced as a result of the drainage improvement works.

Cyclists and pedestrians will have to use an alternative route, the most applicable being the A6 and then into campus.

We apologise for this inconvenience that this will cause next week but the quality of this section of the cycle path should be greatly improved by end of next week.

Best regards

Phil (Travel & Enviroment Co-ordinator for Lancaster University)

The above was forward to me via Mike Hutchinson of Lancaster & South Lakes CTC Group

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