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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine Volume 11 No.2 September 2014 !6
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Our Captain’s Observations…..

I believe our Captain was on holiday
when the copy was due, but I’m sure you
will know what he would be saying if his
words were here.

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Some other bits & pieces

Life of Brian……you may recall the humorous discourse in the March magazine about
“What have cyclists done’, which was attributed to Handmade Films - well it wasn’t! This
turned out to be a special version of the original written by no lesser person than Club
member Mr Grundy (aka Carlton Reid). He wrote it to promote a bicycle/automobile
history book - “ Roads were not built for Cars” of which he is the author.
The book, which was due for publication during the Summer makes several references to
the Pickwick Bicycle Club. So ‘Thank You Mr Grundy’ for this interesting insight, and I’m
sure he can advise on where to obtain a copy of the said book.

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Samuel Pickwick has advised me that Chris Saltrick, along with colleague Andrew Donald
completed an ‘Old Cranks Ride’ of mammoth proportions in May, when they rode the
Land’s End to John o’Groats route in just under 12 days. This may not sound so special,
except that they were riding Penny Farthings of circa 1880 origin! Amazing.
Congratulations to both on this achievement and raising over £13000 for their Cancer
Research UK Charity, which included a donation from the Pickwick Bicycle Club.