Dagworth and District Gentlemen’s Cycling Society

News

Awards

At the end of March 2025, our HQ: Rattlesden Five Bells was awarded West Suffolk CamRA’s Rural Pub of the Year—not only that, but it also picked up the overall West Suffolk Pub of the Year award.

40 Glorious Years

Technically, our 40th Anniversary Year lasts until the AGM in March, but we’ve done nothing so far to celebrate it and it's unlikely we'll think on anything now.

AGM

The Annual General Meeting will be at HQ on 4 March, starting at 1pm.  There’s a rumour that someone might actually propose a motion this year.

Boot Results

The results of the 2025 ‘Boot & Back’ are here…  This year it will be on Sunday 1 March.

Our Meetings

As usual, our regular meetings are on the Thursday nearest the full moon.  We are now on the winter schedule, which means we’ll gather at Rattlesden Five Bells at about one o’clock.  However, it's not quite that simple: the Thursday nearest the full moon at the end of January is the date of our trip to Colchester Winter Beer Festival, so we'll go there instead; the next Thursday nearest the full moon isn’t until March—and that will be the AGM.  In April we should return to the summer schedule, unless the AGM decides something different.

Flat Meetings

The Flat Section of the V-CC monthly meeting schedule alternates between:

• Plan A—head for the Cretingham Bell for 19:00 where a table will have been booked for 19:30.
• Plan B—This plan is harder to define; it will be at a suitable pub on the northern borders where Suffolk meets Norfolk.  It keeps changing because so many pubs fade in and out of favour—to be in favour the pub should serve food on a Monday evening.  For precise details on where to pedal …

… contact Mick Madgett on or Cally (at a push) on .  Those not on the regular monthly Flat Section e-mail postings may wish to make contact in order to join in—or any newcomers best to check before setting off!

The V-CC Flat Section’s Flatter Subsection also has monthy meetings.  These are on a Wednesday or Thursday around the middle of the month, at lunchtime or in the evening, at an unknown location—except when they″re not.  It's probably best just to ask .

Gallery

We’ve been digging out old photographs of our events and, should you have nothing better to do, you can see them in our photo gallery.

Aims of the Society

The pursuance of cycling in the leisurely fashion of days gone by.  The appreciation and conservation of the countryside and its way of life.  The enjoyment of local public hostelries and their ales.

Officers

A Catalogue of Vice

All our Vice-Presidents this century:

★ Although this century didn’t start until 2001, 2000’s vice president still counts a bit because he was still in office until March 2001.