In attendance:
Robin Jones, Tony Vaughan, Stu Southan, Paula Moseley, Luke Moseley, Phil Mason, Mike Stephens, Clive & Helen Beacon, Ben Dale, Kate Wheeler.

1. Approval of minutes from last meeting
Minutes were approved subject to the following changes (meetings are to be bi-monthly).

2. Velodrome BCF Coached Track (Clive Beacon & Luke Bradford)
We have booked the track at Newport velodrome for COB members. This is an excellent way to keep your cycling form over the winter and also learn some new skills. It is open to Novices and experienced track riders, the coach will be able to cater for both. The confirmed dates are:

Sun 5th Oct 10am to 1pm
Sun 9th Nov 9am to 12pm
Sun 7th Dec 10am to 1pm
Sun 4th Jan 9am to 12pm

These sessions will be FREE to all COB members, all you will have to pay for is the hire of a track bike £7, and £10 to join the club (If you are not a member). Your COB Club & The COB shop have kindly paid for everything else…… so if you are already a member then it will cost you £7 for a bike, or £0 if you have a track bike!!!!

You must contact Luke Bradford at the COB Shop 01432 261211 to put your name down for this event. We are limited to 20-30 riders max, so be quick! If you are not a member of the COB club I will be bringing membership forms to the track so you can join on the day.

3. Shropshire Triathlon 28/9/08 (Ludlow Tri Club & COB Club)
We need marshals for this local triathlon on Sun 28/9/08. Last year we made ~£600 for helping to organise and marshal this event. Please could all members help out with marshalling this event. Meeting time is 8am at Ludlow sports centre. If you are cycling to the event please let Mike Stephens know in advance. Finish time will be 1pm, but if you can cover just a few hrs this will help!

Please contact Mike Stephens via the COB website forum he has posted a thread. Or phone him 07866847249. Your support is VITAL!!!!

Remember… we have organised a prize draw this year for all marshals. A number of great prizes will be presented at our Xmas dinner to those members who have given up their time and volunteered to help raise money for your club.

4. Autumn 2/11/08 COB Reliability Race (Clive & Robin)
Date confirmed for Sunday 2nd November 2008. Clive & Robin have sorted the route (~55miles). Start time 9am at the COB shop, 8.30am register. Robin will look into advertising the event in Cycling Weekly, Hereford Times, BCF Everyday cycling. We also hope a number of local riders from Hereford Wheelers and Hereford Triathlon Club will be joining us!

Stu Southan will be providing direction arrows for the event. We hope to put these out the day before to help with directions!!!

5. COB Club Xmas Dinner 7/12/08 (Ben Dale)
Ben has organised a new venue for our Xmas social at the River Bed in Fownhope on Sun 7th Dec 2008 at 4pm. He will be meeting the manager to confirm details next week. A choice of menus will be available and the Club is subsidising every member £5 pp. Forms will be available at the shop, on COBCC website and can be posted to you if requested over the next few weeks. The cost is approx £20 pp. It will be a great event.

Xmas Marshal Prize Draw. Clive & Helen Beacon (COB Shop) have kindly offered to donate 3 prizes; Tony Vaughan (CSS) has kindly offered 2 prizes & the COB Club funds will contribute to the rest. Paula Moseley has offered to coordinate this nearer the time.

6. COB Club Awards 2008
It was agreed that this will be decided by the COB committee. Any suggestions by COB members will be greatly appreciated. Just email your nominations to Luke Moseley. These awards include:

Best overall Time Trial Result (Stu & Tony to organise trophy)
COB Member of the year (Martin Grimes 2007?)
COB Rider of the year (Mike Stephens awarded 2007)
Performance of the year (Luke Moseley awarded 2007)
COB Team of the year (Mayhem team 2007?) Helen will check at the shop

If any other members have missing trophies please let us know, thanks.

7. Cyclocross Training Sessions (Luke & Paula Moseley)
We will be organising a regular meet on Thursday evening at the Hereford race track from Oct 2008. Start time 6-6.30pm. Luke will be organising a coached session including interval training and Cyclocross techniques to help improve your CX riding. All COB members are welcome. We will also be attending a number of the Welsh CX series over the coming months if anyone is interested. You can use a MTB or CX bike for all these events. Please contact Luke or Paula Moseley if you are interested.

8. Membership Update (Kate Wheeler)
65 COB members to date. We have email contacts of most members, but we are missing a few. Please could all members check that they have given us their email address. Email and COB CC website is our main form of correspondence. If you have not been receiving emails please send your contact details to Luke Moseley.

9. COB Road Race 2009 (Phil Mason & Mike Stephens)
We are planning to organise the COB RR closer to Hereford in 2009. 2 race circuits have been proposed and we await approval from the West Mercia Police. These include a circuit North of the River heading towards Burley Gate and back through Sutton St Nicholas, or South of the river heading towards Brewardine and back through the Golden Valley. Alex Haines at the Leisure centre has kindly offered use of their facilities for a fee, so this may be used as our head quarters. Committee members are also investigating the use of Sutton St Nicholas Village hall, or Kingstone school. The race will be open to 2/3/4th cats and we hope that a large number of our own COB members and local cyclists will be racing!

Of course we will also be needing marshals on the day, but this time it will be local. So if you are not racing then please come along & marshal to support your club and people racing! A date for the event will be decided next year.

10. COB Marshalling Kit (Mike Stephens)
Mike Stephens has received several quotes for marshalling safety vests with COB and Marshall printed on front & back. We have suggested a budget of £150. He has agreed to spend up to this amount on equipping the club with safety equipment.

11. Reliability Ride February 2009 (Clive & Robin)
It was decided that the COBCC ride in February 2009 will be an organised Reliability Ride instead of a Cyclosportive. Unfortunately, it was felt that time was a limiting factor in organising a successful Cylcosportive. This will be revisited again in 2010.
12. Treasures’ Update (Stu Southan)
The COB Club currently have £2957.14 in their account. ~£500 has been budgeted for the velodrome, ~£350 for the Xmas meal and £150 for marshalling and safety kit.
13. Social Events (Ben Dale)
Go-Karting at Weobley on 12th Oct 2008 at 2pm. Ben Dale has kindly organised a COB Go Karting session cost ~£40. If you are interested please contact Ben via the forum, or email or phone. He will need to know number ASAP.

14. AOB
COB Club Kit & sponsorship. The new club kit will be decided by the committee for 2009. The general appearance/design will remain the same and approval will be needed from committee and Clive/Helen. Sponsors kindly donate money to the club and are advertised on our team strip. It was highlighted that the Club would benefit from a PR person to promote the club locally and to generate more sponsorship (note: it costs £30 to add new sponsors to the kit and monies would need to reflect this). If anyone would be interested in this role please contact Luke Moseley

Easter Training Camp in Mallorca. Luke & Paula Moseley are going on a training cycling camp from 10/4/09 to 19/4/09. A lot of cyclists will be going so there will be a variety of abilities. If you book through the same agent guided group rides will be included in the cost, plus hotel half board and transfers. If you are interested contact Luke or Paula Moseley.

Luke Moseley is currently collecting any old cycling kit for young riders at his School. Any old unwanted cycling kit & shoes will be gratefully received. Thanks

AGM. Proposed date is 5th Jan 2009. All members are invited to attend at the Rowing club 7pm. All committee members are expected to submit a personal report for 2008 to our Chair Luke Moseley by the next meeting (3/11/08). A social event will be organised afterwards!

15. Date for next committee meeting
Monday 3rd November 2008 starting at 7.00pm at the Moseley household.

(Any problems or Qs regarding the minutes please contact Paula Moseley).

Any member who would prefer a copy of the minutes posted to them, please send a SAE to:

Paula Moseley
21A Ryelands St
Hereford
HR4 0LA