
Fife and Kinross CTC part of Cycling UK
Fife and Kinross CTC part of Cycling UK
The new year has started with a great attendance of 17 at our first Meet. Fantastic. It's now time to think of the Annual Lunch which will be at Louie Brown's in Dalgety Bay on Saturday 4th March 2023 at 12.30pm I'm looking for you to contact me on sec.fifeandkinrossctc@gmail.com to let me know of your interest and then I will send you a menu and request a £10 per person deposit so that you don't have to pay it all in March. Hoping to hear from you soon.
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Please remember that Covid procedures still apply and if you feel at all unwell, then please check that you are negative before attending a ride and passing on any potential germs. Please use common sense and I hope to see you at the Runs.
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In Fife and Kinross, due to the wide distribution of our members, there is no ‘HQ Meeting Place’ but we meet regularly throughout the year to enjoy cycling, not just in the local countryside, but also further afield depending on the enthusiasm of our members.
We also keep in touch electronically on our web site and our Facebook page at Fife and Kinross CTC, part of Cycling UK, sharing photographs, stories, routes, views and opinions.
How our runs are organised
We have a Covid Officer and name and contact details are to be provided at each ride. These details are retained for three weeks for Test and Trace purposes. Apart from that, we do also record your name so that we can see who is attending the rides so that they may win an award at the end of the year.
We use a system of Rendezvous runs and these take place on a Saturday and on every alternate Wednesday during the colder months then weekly from April to September. The Wednesday runs are Veterans' runs and are usually attended by retired members although all are welcome, even non members but we would eventually ask you to become a member of Cycling UK. Check out our Facebook page to see who intends to go and which route they are thinking of taking. We also have a few Sunday runs in the summer which are group runs, led by a rides leader, usually meeting in the morning at an easily accessible car park. This means we publish a Runs List (see below or to the right) which gives a meeting place and this could be in the open air, or in a café, pub, Community Hall or even in someone's home [once we have the Covid approval]. When these take place in someone's home the Host/Hostess will provide the tea or coffee and members will bring a packed lunch. Open air meets means providing ones own drink and sandwiches but tea is available in Community Halls and we charge £1 for tea and the rent of the Hall. All runs can also be group rides by communicating on Facebook who is intending to ride that day and where they would like to meet up, but this would not have a specific ride leader.
These meets are arranged all over Fife and Kinross and we try to vary these so that they involve different routes. The meeting time is usually 12.30 and for the Rendezvous Rides members make their way singly or by arrangement in small groups.
A list of our Rides for the first three month of 2023 have been compiled and I've attached them here and also as a file you can download:
Cycling UK CTC Fife and Kinross RUNS LIST 2023
January
Meet Address
January:
Sat 7th Lochore Meadows café, Country park, Lochore, KY5 8BA
Wed 11th Bridgend Garden Centre, Freuchie KY15 7HY
Sat 14th Pettycur Bay holiday park Café, Kinghorn, KY3 9YE
Sat 21st Powmill Milk Bar, Rumbling Bridge, Kinross, KY13 OQP
Wed 25th Pittencrieff Park café, Dunfermline
Sat 28th Linda and David Gibson’s house -Kinross
February
Sat 4th Peppermill Bothy, N Lodge, Blairhall, Dunf. KY129HQ
Wed 8th RSPB Visitor centre, Loch Leven, KY13 9LX
Sat 11th Tranquility Coffee House, Waverley Rd, Kirkcaldy
Sat 18th Jamesfield Farm Shop Café, Abernethy, Perth. KY14 6EW
Wed 22nd Sands Café, Hawkcraig Rd, Aberdour KY3 ORQ
Sat 25th Morwyn Porter’s House, Logie, Cupar KY15 4PZ. OS: map 59 ref NO389186
March
Sat 4th Louie Browns, Regents Way, Dalgety Bay, KY11 9UY – ANNUAL LUNCH
Wed 8th White Chimneys Tearoom, Cupar Rd, Pitscottie, KY15 5TB
Sat 11th The Red Lion Inn, Low Causeway, Culross
Sat 18th Joyce Hamiltons House, Kelty
Wed 22nd Tea House, Evans Easyspace JSPB, Kirkcaldy
Sat 25th Muircot Farm & Bistro, Tillicoultry, FK13 6LS