April 2006 - Ride_calendar - mailman.xmission.com

[BBTC Ride_calendar] Jemison/Shields Speaking Tonight
by Dave Iltis 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

>From: "Dave Shields" <novelwriter(a)juno.com> >To: "Dave Iltis" <dave(a)cyclingutah.com> >Subject: U of U Cycling Club > > >Marty Jemison and I will be speaking at a U of U cycling team >fundraiser in the Fine Arts Building on 4/13 at 7:00 pm. They are >requesting a $5 donation from students and a $7 donation from >others. >Later, >Dave Shields ><http://www.DaveShields.com>http://www.DaveShields.com >.......__o >.......\<, >....( )/ ( ) See a review of Dave Shields's new book, The Tour in the April edition of Cycling Utah.

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] May's ride scedule!!
by Rob Y. 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hello everyone, I'm sorry I haven't posted this reminder sooner. The deadline for posting rides on the May calendar is fast approaching! The cut off for your ride to be eligible for club miles is April 15th. April's calendar comes on strong with 62 rides posted in time for club miles and a couple of late additions to add to the great variety of rides available with the club this month. A big THANK YOU to all the ride leaders stepping up to share some great rides with everyone, and welcome to the new leaders sharing rides with the club, we look forward to riding your rides. We also would like to extend to everyone to share one or more of your favorite rides with the club, the ride leading guidelines are posted on our club's website and scheduling your ride on the calendar is very simple, just click on "Schedule a Ride" and fill in the fields. All rides must be posted by the 15th of the month for the following month to be eligible for club miles. We are still in need of ride leaders for 2 of the Super Series rides, the Up & Over on Sat June 17th and Promontory on Sun Aug 20th (we are flexible with this date since the ULCER is on the 19th) Again, Thank You to everyone! Pedal Fast and Laugh Often, Cap'n Rob

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] Emigration Canyon
by Marvin the Martian 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

A few people were asking about the elevation for Emigration canyon. See attached 1325ft, 15.5mi, 900cal ----------------------------------------------- Dan Fazzini Jr., Director SafeRoute Connection, Inc. Positive Bicycle Advocacy Through Education http://www.safe-route.org <http://www.safe-route.org/>

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] Jordan River Danger
by Raleigh Fehr 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Folks If anyone on this list is planning to ride the Jordan River Parkway, be alert for a dangerous situation. The underpass at 2100 South is underwater. It looks like two to three feet deep. There isn't a posted warning and since once one enters the underpass things get dark, someone not paying attention might ride right into the water. There are two additional underpasses on the parkway underwater. Both are posted and blocked off.

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] What's happening this week!!
by Rob Y. 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hey BBTC, I hope everyone was able to get out and enjoy the great weather this weekend! Jen had a great turnout for her new series "So You Want to Ride a Century" and Doug's Layton deli ride brought out many riders as well. Here's what's happen' in this week : Monday Apr 10 06:30 AM Early Morning Wake Up 11/C-D/5/c 50 minute loop to get the morning started. Meet at: Roosevelt School, 3225 S 800 E Sandy Levenson 487-0540 Monday Apr 10 10:00 AM Watering Tree Ride 70/O/2-3/b Tour from the famous North Ogden watering tree to Brigham City to Wellsville and return over scenic Sardine pass (8 mile climb each way). Meet at: Take I-15 exit 349 east to Washington Blvd. Park in Acres market lot at Mickie D end near the watering tree. Tom Coffey lech2zurs(a)msn.com 737-3241 Monday Apr 10 05:30 PM changing a flat tire 15/D/5/c learn how to change a tire along with a short ride Meet at: Sugarhouse Park 1300 E 2100 S Mary Margaret Williams bicycleutah(a)msn.com 641-4120 Tuesday Apr 11 05:30 PM Emigration Canyon 16/O/2-3/c Ride to the top of the Little Mountain Summit and back. Meet at: the parking lot east of Hogle Zoo on Sunnyside Ave. Penny Perkins 801 486-8140 Wednesday Apr 12 06:30 AM Early Morning Wake Up 11/C-D/5/c 50 minute loop to get the morning started. Meet at: Roosevelt School, 3225 S 800 E Sandy Levenson 487-0540 Wednesday Apr 12 04:00 PM Wednesday Paceline Trainer......................Double Open 32/A-B-C/5/c Training ride to fine tune your group riding skills. A-B pace riders can hone chops, and make sure our clubbies are all on the same page. C pace riders can learn the skills to move up to B pace. Second day we'll ride an "Double Open Paceline" Meet at: 2200 West N Temple - Weather Bureau building John McCool McCoolthecyclist(a)yahoo.com 220-0677 Thursday Apr 13 10:00 AM Golden Spike Road Runner Coyote Trainer 60/O/4-5/b Ride a quiet country route from Brigham City to Golden Spike national monument. Mostly flat with one 2 mile climb. Meet at: Take I-15 exit Forrest Street (Brigham City) east to city pool / park complex. Park behind pool near ballfields. Tom Coffey lech2zurs(a)msn.com 737-3241 Thursday Apr 13 05:30 PM Thursday Night Bike and Brew 20/A/3/c Good climb up Bengal Blvd. to Wasatch, over to Evergreen and back. A different way to loop the valley. Bring $'s for brews and/or bites after the ride. Riders choice of several close brew pubs (usually Hoppers!) Meet at: Canyon Sports, 1844 E. Ft Union Blvd. (7200 So.) Doug Jensen slccycler(a)netzero.com 815-3858 Thursday Apr 13 06:00 PM Jordan Parkway Beginner Ride 5/D/5/c 5 Mile out and back on the Jordan River Parkway. Slow, Easy, Flat! Helmets required Meet at: Meet at Riverfront Park, go west on 10600 So until you see Mulligan\'s - turn south on Riverfront and go one mile. Parking lot is on East side of road by the fish ponds. Shelly Jensen sjenson(a)kimballinc.com 801-755-0906 Friday Apr 14 06:30 AM Early Morning Wake Up 11/C-D/5/c 50 minute loop to get the morning started. Meet at: Roosevelt School, 3225 S 800 E Sandy Levenson 487-0540 Friday Apr 14 07:00 PM T.G.I.F. spin 32/A-B/5/c Join McCool for a spin out to the Marina. perfect way to end your work week, or start your weekend. Lights absolutly required in April. Meet at: 2200 West N Temple - Weather Bureau John McCool McCoolthecyclist(a)yahoo.com 220-0677 Saturday Apr 15 08:00 AM Willard Bay - Super Series 100/O/2-4/b Join us for the first of our super series rides and ride a great flat route to Willard Bay and back the same day. Meet at: Centerville Jr. High School, 625 S. Main St, Centerville. Take Exit 317 and head east to Main St, follow Main north to the Jr high. Craig Jacobsen jakesaj(a)msn.com (801) 910-5623 Saturday Apr 15 10:00 AM Farmington Ride 40/C/5/c Don't feel like doing a century today? Don't want to ride with those who do? We'll do a flat 40-mile route from the state AG building to the Farmington courthouse and back. And, we'll do it at a pleasant C pace, too! Meet at: the state AG building,350 North Redwood Road Robert Turner r46turner(a)uofu.net 801-355-9617 Sunday Apr 16 10:30 AM Dimple Dell Tax Ride and Easter Egg Hunt 42/B-C/3/c Be the first to find the Easter egg and win a prize. Then it's up to Wasatch, past La Caille, over the hump to 1700 East. Then back north on Dimple Dell Rd, through Cotton Bottom and home. Blow off steam after the final tax push. Remember, if the Easter Bunny sees his shadow, Tax Freedom Day is still 6 weeks away. Meet at: the 1500 E entrance to Sugarhouse Park. Timothy Shea shea_16000(a)msn.com 801-598-0294 Pedal Fast and Laugh Often Rob Y.

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] bike & brew/Jordan Pkwy Ride
by slccycler＠netzero.com 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Due to generally terrible weather all day, the Thursday Night Bike and Brew and the Jordan Parkway Beginner ride are officially cancelled! Hopefully this is not an omen of weather yet to come. Hope to see you on the road soon Doug and Shelly

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] Bonneville Shoreline Trail needs your help!
by Raleigh Fehr 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi folks, Following is a recap of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Open House. This was a working meeting designed to get input on completing an almost 25-mile section of the BST from the mouth of Parley's Canyon to Hidden Valley Park in Sandy. You can view a map of the proposed alignments at http://soboko.com/bst/bstmap.jpg. The Forest Service said they should have the whole BST plan available on their website for viewing by next week. There were about 60 people at the meeting. The meeting was facilitated by Baer West, a consulting firm that is performing the same function as Landmark Design has done on the Emigration project. The format of the Open House was similar although more organized. We were split into three groups with moderators who elicited and then wrote down comments. The comments were almost identical to those we have heard on our project. In fact, I could have stood up there and written them down myself. The NIMBY mindset generates a very specific set of self-serving concerns, some of which are valid, many were not. Some of these concerns included "undesirable people coming into our neighborhood", "our streets weren't built to handle the parking", "it will bring our property values down", etc. The same group also voiced environmental concerns - "what about the wildlife", "we live in a flood plain, what about the erosion, there will be too much scarring of the hillside." Of those attending, I'd say that a majority were opposed to building the trail, period. Most of those opposed were property owners near Olympus Cove and the mouth of Millcreek Canyon. I expected a far better showing from bikers, hikers, and outdoor enthusiasts in general to be there, but there were just a few of us. Given that the proposal to complete this section of trail would allow trails enthusiasts to ride, run, hike or bike from North Salt Lake all the way to Sandy, I would have thought there would have been more people there in support. In talking with some of the Forest Service personnel and other land managers from the area, it is becoming quite clear that if trail users do not start speaking up, access to public land and open space is going to be decided by those who are lucky enough to live adjacent to it. Please take a second, right NOW to send an email to the addresses listed below stating your support for: 1) The completion of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail as a needed county-wide recreational amenity. 2) The need for more trails and more trail funding in Salt Lake County and the state. 3) The preservation of access to public lands and open space at the fringes of our communities. We simply cannot afford to be complacent and let these decisions be made for us. If we do the access to the outdoors we have always enjoyed and has made this place a great place to live will go away. Soon we will be nothing more than a city of concrete and fences next to the mountains. Comments regarding the development of this 25-mile section of the BST are being taken until April 17th. Please send your comments to: comments-intermts-wasatch-cache-saltlake(a)fs.fed.us. They can also be sent to Steve Scheid, Environmental Coordinator for the Salt Lake Ranger District, at sscheid(a)fs.fed.us. We all owe the people who have helped to create the Bonneville Shoreline Trail we now enjoy and they deserve our support. They have helped me a great deal in getting the Emigration trails proposal to where we are now. Please send in your comments TODAY! Sarah Bennett Alley Friends of Emigration Canyon Trails & Open Space 64 N. Silver Oak Rd. SLC, UT 84108 H 801.583.8144 C 801.550.0676 _______________________________________________ mbac-list mailing list mbac-list(a)aros.net http://www.aros.net/mailman/listinfo/mbac-list SLC Bike Page: http://www.slcgov.com/bike Salt Lake County Bike Page: http://www.slcbac.org/

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] Cactus Hugger & Club Mileage - A Question and a Comment (Note: Please delete this email if you're not interested in these topics!)
by Greg McMurdie 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

I thought I would put a question and a comment to the board about club mileage. I've cc'd the mailing list only to provide a public forum in case others have suggestions or comments they would like to make about the content of this email. And as a friend of mine at work would often say, "I have no personal attachment here - feel free to criticize." If I remember correctly, I noticed that last Saturday's Cactus Hugger 100 was not listed in the ride schedule (I don't have my copy anymore and couldn't find April's newsletter on the web site) and wasn't on the website until a week or so before it took place. I assume it was not in the newsletter since it wasn't submitted before March 15th. My question is - Do we have an official policy for situations such as these? I don't think it's really any big deal, but I posted a question about this same situation last fall and never got a definitive response; e.g. rides scheduled after the 15th of the month (although my specific question was about rides scheduled from October through March). When will exceptions be made and if so, what is the criteria for making exceptions? I also want to make a suggestion about club miles, if only to put it out as a straw man. On a ride over the winter with a couple of "polar bears", we talked about what the club could do to encourage people to ride more. A suggestion was made that we should look at all the different levels of mileage people ride in the club and provide incentives or rewards (just as we do now w/ jerseys, etc.) for those who improve upon their previous year's total. For example, let's say a person rode 240 miles last year with the club. This year, they ride 480 - a 100% improvement from the previous year. Then let's say that there are 500 mile thresholds for giving out rewards - 500, 1,000, 1,500 and so on. Since this person rode 480 miles by the end of the year, they would be eligible for some type of reward for riders who rode less than 500 miles. The person who had the highest percentage increase would receive some type of benefit. One pro to doing something like this is that it would encourage active participation among all levels of the club, not just the top few who log a lot of miles with the club. Another pro is that it encourages personal fitness and allows people to set and achieve personal mileage goals. Perhaps the greatest drawback is administrative - e.g. at the end of the year, calculating everyone's total. However, since not everyone is interested in club mileage, we could ask that only those interested submit their mileage achievements for a quick review before the year end banquet. Thanks in advance for any comments by the board. I appreciate all the work all of you do to help run the club. And it already looks like the club is going to break another club mileage record this year with over 26,500 miles recorded and we're not even into spring form. Greg McMurdie

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] Bicycle Commuting and Maintenance workshop
by Jonkmanj＠cs.com 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hi, SLC Bike Collective is teaching a “how to” session on bicycle maintenance this Saturday. 12:30 at West High School. So come by if you wish you knew the ins and outs of keeping your bike on the road but don’t. Please pass the attached flier on to others who might be interested in this or the other sessions listed. Here's the Bike Collective's website: www.slcbikecollective.org They are looking for instructors to teach a bike safety course and for volunteer bike mechanics. It is also a great place to donate your unused bikes and parts. John Jonkman

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[BBTC Ride_calendar] Cactus Hugger
by slccycler＠netzero.com 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

First: If anyone rode the Cactus Hugger that we did not get any contact with, first I apologize, we tried to really look through the croud to find everyone - but it was a little nuts that morning! So, if we missed you, let me know and we will get your mileage sent in. So, to answer McMurdies questions. When we arrived on Friday, we went to the expo thinking we would register and then the rains came. So, after the past few years riding conditions we decided to hold off and see if we were actually going to get to ride the next morning. Friday evening it continued to rain - but come Saturday morning the heavens cleared and the sun came out!!! All in all it was a perfect day to ride. There were some cold spots, but just to get out of Dodge made it all worthwhile! Sunday morning, was another beautiful morning. We wish you all could have come. We should try to get together for another ride in Southern Utah before it gets too hot - it is certainly beautiful there, and worth the trip.

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