Rallies

Jean-Francois Helias continued his history of MC Dragons' rallies with a report of the second Vercingétorix in 1971.

Like the first episode, it is illustrated with photos from his long-time friend, Gilles Gaudechoux who also provided photos for Francois' Rallye Neiges, the winter rally organised by their club under the leadership of Christian "Kiki" Blanchot.

Also from Francois were a dozen F Rally Badges that we posted to bring the page up to 803 badges for 245 rallies.

Hans Veenendaal sends Rally Listing updates early every Monday morning, so there have been two batches added to his list since the last News. About forty will take place before the next News, then you must trawl through the other 1400 events to find something to give you an excuse to party.

Speed 2

The Speed series by John Ellis continues with the Tale of a Tiger Cub.

John's youthful adventures are destined to run and run at a steady pace.

Club Badges

There is no end to the Club Badges we have to add to the website. The 51 we recently added take the total to over 2000.

Hidden within our reports are a few histories of appropriate rallying clubs. If you want to pay tribute to your own club's legend, send us what you know or can remember, the people, the events, photos of places and badges. Or links to where the history is recorded on the web.

Club Night

If you want to catch up with the Leicester Phoenix MCC this week, you better be quick. Their Tuesday meeting is at the Black Horse, Sheepy Magna from 7.30pm. Next week is still anyone's guess during their nomadic season.

On Easter Sunday the club had a traditional club run to a pub (where else?) and the ride was captured on video by Mark Taylor.

This professional quality movie perfectly captures the spirit of club runs and rideouts that will be familiar to members of all clubs and all decades. It is on YouTube and we took the liberty of adding it to our Runs page.

Virtual Club Night

Next Virtual Club Night is on Wednesday, 22 April. We are standing by for the latest weather news from Alan Jarvis in Canada, who is bouncing between spring and back to winter.

Our new Jitsi system works fine so long as you click this link or the button that rolls out on Wednesday evening — or the text link on our Virtual Club Night page: if you click the big widget on that page you will be limited to five minutes.

Come to think of it, that may be more than long enough to suffer our aimless drivel.

Embers

So far April is running to plan with 12 Embers riding 939 miles to date. Our report for April contains an account of our trials — last week was especially punishing, apart from our lunch break.

We are hoping for an easier day on Thursday, 23 April when we will be riding from Huncote and back in time for ... er ... lunch.

Next week we meet at Melton Country Park and try to avoid getting ensnared in their new bypass or falling down the Vale of Belvoir.

If you are not local, Belvoir is pronounced "beaver".
Strangely, it is pronounced the same if you are local.

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