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Women Only: TV Advert Casting

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Hi.  In the latest in a series of TV filming opportunities, we’ve been contacted by a TV production company looking for women cyclists to appear in an advert for Clydesdale Bank.  They would like to speak to anyone interested and get you in front of a camera.  The casting director asked if you could wear your cycling gear and have your bike with you.  It’s all very short notice as they would like to see people early next week so I’m trying to arrange some space up at the club hall on Mon, Tue or Wed evening next week for this.   The work is paid and the dates can be found below.  If you are interested then let me know ASAP either by posting up here or dropping me an email. Continue reading

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Opportunity For Club Members

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Quick note to all 2014 club members – we’re working on a promo video with a local TV channel.  Log into the website to see details but we’re needing riders to appear on camera, ideally you’ll have been involved in some club rides, weekends away or events and be keen to share your experiences of what it’s like to be part of the best mountain bike club in Glasgow.  If you’re interested then either add a comment to the original post or drop me an email.  Thanks.

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Summer social ride 31st May

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Saturday May 31st has been proposed for the summer social pub ride. Usual schedule of 10am depart from the clubhouse heading out the WHW to Carbeth, then Blanefield, lennoxtown, Kirkintilloch, Torrance and back to Milngavie around 7pm. The emphasis as always is on the social side and is a great way to meet members of the club and enjoy food and drink (alcoholic or otherwise) throughout the day. The ride is approx 26 miles off road in a loop making it easy to join or leave at whatever time suits. It’s been very popular in past years with numbers around 15-20 over the day and with the sunshine that we’ll have this year (always the optimist) I’m sure we’ll get a tan along the way. I’ll post up nearer the time but pencil the date in on your diary.

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Posting sensitive date – here & on the FB page

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Folks, we have 323 members in our club FB page (which is fantastic). We have new members contacting us and asking to join the page on a daily basis.  Unfortunately, that does come with some risk.  Especially here on the club website, where the pages are open to the general public.

The reason for this post is to ask you all of being extremely diligent when posting sensitive data i.e. Strava routes starting from your home/works address, personal locations, essentially any info relating to the whereabouts of your bike(s).

This is just a informative warning rather than you all being informed on the back of an incident. The administrators for the page are all long term club members/committee members. Whilst we vet the applications on a regular basis, the odd one may slip through. We have had an influx of undesirables recently, which we’ve carefully rejected. My own gut feeling tells me that they ain’t here to find out ideas for new trails, rather to establish the location of your prized possessions.

We have had a few members recently lose their bike to theft. Not directly linked to the FB page, we just want you all to be mindful.

Best regards

The committee.

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Selkirk MTB Marathon Weekender – Roll Call

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It’s getting closer to the time so I thought I’d post up to see who’s going and give you some details from the event organisers.  If you’ve not signed up but want more info then check out their webpage (http://www.selkirkmtbmarathon.com/).  You can sign up online until 7th May, there may be entries available on the day but they’ll be more expensive.  Here’s the timetable from the organisers: Continue reading

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Photos From Braemar Trip

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It’s probably not an understatement to say the GMBC Easter weekend was epic!

Many thanks to Tom for organising it/us, Sam & Dawn for the meals and everyone on the trip for making it an amazing weekend with tons of laughs and some great riding.  To any of the new club members who made it along, I’m really glad you came along and experienced the fun firsthand, hopefully some great memories for you.  Someone will write up the trip in more detail a bit later I’m sure but in the meantime here’s a few photos to enjoy.  Now, I’m off to find the after sun lotion…………

GMBC Braemar Photos

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Calling all GMBC master bakers

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As many of you will know GMBC is gearing up to host our second SMBO event on the 12th of April. Last year a few of our very generous members provided some home baking which went down a storm with our orienteers on the day. we would like to ask if any of our brilliant bakers would like to help us bake our way to a successful event again this year.

If your planning on baking please post up what your plans are…