Club trip

Dagworth and District Gentlemen’s Cycling Society


2025
2026

September

Monday 29th

V-CC Flat Section monthly meeting—Plan B2, which is like Plan B but goes somewhere else, possibly Roydon White Hart.

October

Saturday 4th

Train (and bus) trip to Whittlesea for the V-CC Old Soke Section Cycle Jumble and The Letter B; jumble starts at 11:00am at St Andrew’s Parish Room, Whittlesey, PE7 1BZ (TL267969).
Pitches: £10; Entry £1.  Cake (and other refreshments) available.
The bad news is that—again—there are no trains to Whittlesea on this day; it’s a rail replacement bus service from Ely.  Leaving Stowmarket at 8:09 gets us there at 10:30 or leaving two hours later gets us there … two hours later.

Wednesday 8th

V-CC Flat Section Marriots Mardle No2
Gather at the ‘Refectory’ café in Norwich Cathedral close before departing on the ride through the Erpingham Gate at 10:00, riding through medieval Tombland to the Marriots Way Cycle Path.  The path follows the Wensum valley to Reepham.  After lunch: onwards to the market town of Aylsham and the Bure Valley Railway Path to Wroxham.  Both Marriots Way and Bure Valley paths are fairly smooth to ride on but there are sections with loose stone and exposed tree roots.  Return from Wroxham to Norwich can be via a 10-mile partially off-road ride or by train.
Please contact if you are going and for ride details.

Thursday 9th

Meeting at West Suffolk Pub of the Year, Rattlesden Five Bells, starting at about half past eight.

Saturday 18th

V-CC Flat Section Lamplit Ride: Oil, gas and candle on period cycles preferred.
16:00 at the Assembly Point at Marlinspike Hall (TM367745) for an 18:00 depart on the eight-mile ride to Sweffling White Horse.

Monday 27th

Train trip to the Norwich Beer Festival (Episode 1).
We″ll get the ten to three train from Stowmarket to take advantage of the ‘get in an hour earlier if you’re a CamRA member’ session.
This first part of the festival is at the Adrian Flux Waterfront.  Part two starts on Thursday in Castle Mall Quarter but we haven’t decided whether to go to that too.

Monday 27th

V-CC Flat Section monthly meeting—Plan A.

November

Thursday 6th

Monthly meeting: we will meet at West Suffolk Pub of the Year, Rattlesden Five Bells, from 1pm.
By 2pm, depending on rain, wind, & enthusiasm, we will decide to stay where we are or cycle further afield.

Monday 24th

V-CC Flat Section monthly meeting (Black bikes)—probably not Plan B.

December

Any day during December, January, or February

Snow ride.

Wednesday 3rd

TA East meeting at The Three Horseshoes, Cockfield.
We assume this starts at 12 noon, because that’s when the pub opens.

Thursday 4th

Monthly meeting: we will meet at West Suffolk Pub of the Year, Rattlesden Five Bells, from 1pm.
By 2pm, depending on rain, wind, & enthusiasm, we will decide to stay where we are or cycle further afield.

Saturday 13th

Cambridge Winter Ale Festival.
We'll probably go to this—Saturday looks like the best day because, unlike on Thursday & Friday, it doesn’t close in the middle of the afternoon.

Friday 26th

V-CC Flat Section Mick Madgett’s Boxing Day Ride starts from Mick’s shop in Diss.
Mick will lead us on an interesting route to a pub open for lunch.

January

Any day during January or February

Snow ride–if there is any.

Thursday 1st

New Year’s Day Ride to (probably) the Middy’s New Year’s Day Steam and Light Festival.  This is also the Thursday nearest to the full moon, so it will take the place of our normal monthly meeting.
The Middy Bar will be open (and, if it’s bucketing down with rain, you can avoid cycling: there will be a free bus from Stowmarket railway station at 10 o’clock, 11 o’clock, and ½ past 12).

Monday 26th

V-CC Flat Section monthly meeting—it would be foolish to try to predict where it will be..

Thursday 29th

Monthly meeting: we will meet at West Suffolk Pub of 2025, Rattlesden Five Bells, from 1pm.

February

Any day during February

Snow ride–if there is any.

March

Sunday 1st

V-CC Flat Section The Boot & Back from Rattlesden Five Bells.
A speed-judging ride on a five-mile course with first rider away at 11:01am.  There’s also a cycle jumble on the pub’s meadow before the ride.

Thursday 5th

AGM: we will meet at West Suffolk Pub of the Year, 2025 (and probably our last meeting before West Suffolk CamRA names a new PotY), Rattlesden Five Bells, from 1pm.

 

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