In it: Banquet, Cyclocross Report, University Hill Project Update, Classified
In it: Banquet, Cyclocross Report, University Hill Project Update, Classified
The ride leader for this weekend, Joe Mautz, called the ride for this Sunday as it looks to be drier. The ride is OLP-3N, (a part of) Joan’s Breakfast Ride. It starts at Onondaga Lake Park.
Hi everybody, Saturday morning looks to be a bit warmer, so —– we leave from Marcellus Park at 11:00 AM. The map is Mar 5 - a nice fall ride for a nice fall day. 31 miles with a mapped leisure ride around half of that. If you eat too much Halloween candy you can go around twice, and for anyone feeling frisky you can detour down Churchill and up Moon Hill. There might be some wet leaves on Churchill and that would certainly getthe heartrate up. See you there - Dave Baker
Dear OCC Members,
The 2008 edition of the Syracuse Grand Prix Cyclocross was a great success; it never would have been possible without the proactive support and help by our volunteers. You folks did a fantastic job. I received many thanks from the racers which I want to pass on to you who deserve it: David Baker, Anthony Baleno, Marlene Cleary, Andrew D’Agati, Chuck Dominick, Bill Goffe, Don Healey, Adam Luban, Eddie Luban, Mike Lyon, Al Martinez, Wayne Miner, Kristin Mullally, Kate Stewart, Rich Veenstra, Katina Walker, Jeff Walker, Erik Wennberg, and Kathe Woicke.
Also, I want to thank in the name of the OCC the local bike stores who contributed prizes to our event: Advanced Cyclery, Bicycle Alley, Bike Loft, Bikery, and Wayne’s and Meltzer’s Syracuse Bicycle. This help significantly eased up the financial burden on our club. Without it, the expensive chip timing probably would not have been possible. Last but not least I want to thank the Speed Skate Club (and Pete van Zwehl) for lending their lap counter, which looks so cool and professional.
By the way, all who did not come out to the park missed a lot! What a great fall day with excellent sport to watch in a beautiful park!
Again, thank you all very much and I hope I can count on you next year,
Jochen Woicke
In the printed ride schedule, the time for this Sunday’s ride is given as 2:00. It should be 11:00 instead (as the on-line schedule shows). If you’re curious, in the middle of October ride times change form 10:00 to 11:00.
Many have likely seen that the weather forecast is excellent for this weekend. Also, historically speaking, this is about the peek time for leaf colors.
- Bill Goffe
september08 In the newsletter: Ride Reports, the 2008 Syracuse Grand Prix Cyclocross race, Mid-Season Mileage and Points Report, Classified
The Fall Century currently has a $25 registration fee. That will go up on Monday to $35. You can now sign up on-line with BikeReg (there is a processing fee of $2.80) or you can print out this form and mail it in in the old-fashioned way. More information on the century can be found here.
- Bill Goffe
The ride this Wednesday, 8/27, is in Chittenango (Chit-4 to be precise). The on-line schedule is correct (thanks Marcello!) but the printed one has a typo.
Also, the ride is at 5:30. Days are getting shorter…
- Bill Goffe
Sponsored by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children/New York (NCMEC/NY), the Finger Lakes Ride for Missing Children is a 100-mile ride made by bicycle riders or “Friends of Missing Children” that raises funds to support prevention education programs and to remember all missing children. More than 2,000 children are reported missing in the United States each day, some in our own community. For most families, this is only a brief scare as the child turns up in a few minutes or hours. But for some, the nightmare of a missing child becomes a grim reality. NCMEC’s mission is to help recover missing children, protect all children from sexual exploitation, and assist in the prevention of these crimes.
Funds raised by the Finger Lakes Ride for Missing Children remain in the local community to provide case assistance and spearhead prevention education services across upstate New York. During 2006 NCMEC/NY:
Funds raised by the Finger Lakes Ride for Missing Children remain in the local community to provide case assistance and spearhead prevention education services across upstate New York. During 2006 NCMEC/NY:
This is not a race….. We ride together as a Team - averaging 15-18 mph on the flat portion of the course escorted by members of the New York State Police, local police and sheriff’s departments. This means traffic is halted for the riders! Our destinations along the route are designated schools where our arrival is the highlight of a safety education program that has been attended by the children of each school. Imagine the impression the riders make on the school children as they see over 100 bicycle riders, riding 2×2 escorted by several police cars with lights flashing and sirens blaring! The visits are electrifying as hundreds of children and adults cheer the riders as they enter the school grounds
For online registration/donations and additional information visit our website at: www.fingerlakesride.org
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Rides Reports, Advocacy, the Bill Johnson Memorial Fall Century