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October 2009

10-1-2009 2010 Calendar I've already had some inquiries about the 2010 calendar. I will usually start posting races around Nov. 1 and update again around Jan. 1 and Feb. 15.. The calendars will change drastically between now and then, so I don't put them up until they are somewhat stable.

Last Roswell Ride TONIGHT From Bike Roswell:  Come ride with Bike Roswell and the Thursday Night Crowd for a FREE (donations accepted) police supported ride. That's right the traffic lights will be manned to allow us to ride through and get back before dark. The ride leaves from Riverside Park 575 Riverside Road, Roswell, GA 30075 at 6PM sharp! There is a cost. So your support $5 or
whatever you can give makes a big difference. We will roll out and tay together until the climb up Eves. The RPD will be manning the
stop lights to let us through and man the return light at HWY 120 and Willeo on the downhill. So pack the bike tonight in the car for a joyous final ride of the weekly rides of 2009. This is a great ride after 6 GAP or Augusta Half Ironman or a great way to enter the off season. If you're not riding you're ....

Beautiful 21 and 26 mile options along the River flats and up the hills with 1500+ ft of climbing. Beautiful neighborhoods and scenery.
 

King and Queen Ride The Dunwoody King and Queen ride will not be held again this year because of the fading daylight. It will resume in the spring.

10-2-2009 CVV Autograph Session From Roswell Bikes: Autograph Session with Christian Vande Velde
One of the world's top cycling talents and Garmin-Slipstream team leader Christian Vande Velde, along with pro cycling commentators Robbie Ventura and Joe Silva, will be at Roswell Bicycles on Saturday, Oct. 10th at 12:30PM for an autograph session! Christian, Robbie and Joe are flying into town to participate in the AT&T Beat the Heat Challenge, a multisport extravaganza in Ellijay, GA and to show support for the 2010 Tour de Georgia. Christian and Robbie are picking up their Felt bikes for the event at Roswell Bicycles and will stay a short time with us to sign autographs and spend a little time with their fans. We suggest you get here early on Saturday for the autograph session.

A Life Of Bicycling In Roswell This is a great article by Roswell Mayor and cyclist Jere Wood.

10-5-2009 TRISH IS LOOKING FOR A FULL TIME JOB! With some changes around the Albert household, I am looking for a full time job. I am in IT and am qualified for desktop support, remote support, application support, hardware support, and more. I am A+ and HP certified. If you company has an opening, please email me at sttarlite@hotmail.com. I'll be happy to send you my resume. Thanks!

Georgia Cross Videos Check em out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUq0X_vEwoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ItcNa6aRN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XfpYSVOlAc

Georgia Cross Photos My Macon Cross Photos are up at http://sadlebred.smugmug.com. Lots of photos of the Masters Men, Men CX4, Men CX 1/2, and Women B/Juniors/Single Speed. Oh yes, they are for sale! You can buy them from the website!

GBRA Meeting GBRA Meeting I attended the GBRA meeting Saturday night. The following were elected for 2010:

Board of Directors:
At Large: Jeff Blau (Aaron's ELITE Cycling)
Coach/Official: John Johnson
Club: Dan Coy (GTC)
Riders: Eric Murphy (UHC)
Promoters: Chris Murphy (Rome Velo)
Velodrome (appointed by velodrome director): Jeff Hopkins

Officers:
President: Dan Coy (GTC)
VP: John Patterson
Secretary: Carol Miniutti (Sorella)
Treasurer: Chip Davis

DLV News Work Day, Saturday October 10th 9am

Come and give us a hand working it as we get the velodrome prepped and ready for Halloween's Psycho Cross race.

Psycho Cross Saturday October 31st from 1pm We'll be hosting our first ever cyclocross race, aptly named Psycho Cross, in leiu of its date on Halloween!! Racing begins at 1pm with main events going from 3:30pm till around 7pm. We'll have the usual awesome food supplied by CakeHag.com, beer will be flowing, Bruce Dickman on the mic and plenty of music to go around. For those racing, registration is now open online and you can do that from the Psycho Cross page on our website.
This event will also be the final round of the South Eastern Women's(SEW) cycling series. Info on SEW Cycling can be found on their website, sewcycling.squarespace.com. Spectator entry is $5, families $10

As always we do needs some volunteers to help the event run smoothly, so if you are available, please drop a line to Jeff Hopkins, jeff@dicklanevelodrome.com .

Silver Comet Updates There are are Silver Comet updates here and at WSB Radio. Bottom line, it's still closed and will be for a while from the Hiram trailhead to the Tara Drummond Trailhead. There is a bypass put together courtesy of atlbike.org here. Click on the Seaboard to Seaboard SCT bypass.

Marietta Crit The Marietta Crit is now starting at 6:15 pm.

10-6-2009 Eastside Time Reminders From Mark Linenberg:  Reminder- 5:45 PM this week. Sunset- 7:14-7:12pm
Week of 10/05/09 - sunsets 7:00s- Start times for Northlake (Tuesday) and Pizza (Thursday) will move to 5:45 PM. The Northlake ride- we will do one counterclockwise intermediate loop. The Pizza loop will be one large clockwise 8.75 mile loop.
Week of 10/19/09 - sunsets 6:50s- Start times for Northlake (Tuesday) and Pizza (Thursday) will stay at 5:45 PM. The Northlake ride- we still do one counterclockwise inside small loop (4.75 miles). The Pizza loop will be one counterclockwise inside small loop (4.75 miles). .
Week of 10/26/09 - sunsets 6:40s- This will be the final week for the Northlake (Tuesday) and Pizza (Thursday) rides - all start times and ride routes remain at 5:45 PM.
Sunsets for each specific day can be found here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=25&month=8&year=2009&obj=sun&afl=-11&day=1

Macon MTB Skills Clinic From SORBA OMBA:  The guys at Bike Tech of Macon are partnering up with the SORBA Chapter, OMBA, to host a Skills/Repair clinic at the Georgia Industrial Children's Home (A.K.A. The Pig Trail) on Sunday October 18th at 2pm. Come by for an afternoon of lessons on trailside bike repair, routine bike maintenance and skills for beginners and beyond. Depending on the total amount of people that show up, we will divide everyone into smaller groups to make the lessons more specific to the rider's abilities. This will be a great clinic for anyone, regardless of your knowledge or skill level. For those with more experience, we will have some advanced instructors out there to work on more technical skill development. Along with the instruction, there will be refreshments and door prizes given away. Hope to see everyone out there!! Tell your friends.
Address for the Georgia Industrial Children's Home (PIG Trail):
4690 North Mumford Road
Macon, Georgia 31210

Outspokin Customer Appreciation Day Oct. 15 3 pm til ?? Please RSVP to josh@outspokinbikes.com or by calling Out Spokin' Bicycles at 678-483-0200 so we can have plenty of goodies for everyone! See you there!
 

10-7-2009  Greenville, SC CX The Greenville Spinners will be putting on a weekend of cyclocross races Oct. 17-18. Details are here: http://spinners.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=296060&module_id=40449

SEW Series Finale Form SEW: Due to the rain out of Thomsen, LTD. presents 'The Madison', the conclusion of the South Eastern Women's (SEW) cycling series has been switched to the first ever cyclocross race at the velodrome...Psycho Cross on Halloween, Saturday October 31st. SEW is really excited about partnering with the Dick Lane Velodrome on this event. It's the first event of its kind at the velodrome, and it's something that everyone can participate in...so come out and be a part of history in the making!  Halloween costumes are not mandatory for Psycho Cross...but definitely encouraged!

http://sewcycling.squarespace.com/index/2009/10/6/sew-cycling-finale-switched-to-psycho-cross.html

Gainesville College Work Party From SORBA Gainesville. The Tumbling Creek 6 Hour Race is coming up and we need to do some trail maintenance on the "College Trail" to get it ready.

Meet at the lower side of the new parking deck at Gainesville State College (accross from the MTB trailhead) at 9:00 AM. (Sat., Oct. 10) Bring work gloves and enough water and snacks for four hours of work. Please wear closed toe shoes, hiking/work boots are recommended. Tools and lunch will be provided. Bring your bike - We'll ride the trail afterwards. Thanks for your support!
Steve Johnston Secretary - Gainesville SORBA

Arrowhead Work Party From SORBA OMBA: The first major work party for the new trail system at Arrowhead will be on Saturday, Oct. 17th at 9 a.m. The corridor has been flagged and we will be clearing the path. The place is currently a massive jumble of downed trees and underbrush so this is a big undertaking. Please come help us get this project started right. Please bring water, gloves, sturdy shoes, bug spray, water, and any appropriate tools that you might have. The OMBA chapter will supply food and drinks.

This is the first of several work days that will occur throughout the winter, so if you can't make this one you will have other opportunities. We plan to have the first loop of the new system open for riding before summer of next year. Bike Tech of Macon will also be hosting a beginners and advanced riding clinic on Sunday at the Georgia Industrial Children's Home.
Don't forget about the Middle Georgia Mountain Bike Festival and the Dirty Dauset Duathlon on Nov. 14th and 15th.

10-8-2009 Beat the Heat Cancelled?? Roswell Bicycles is reporting on Facebook that the Beat the Heat ride has been cancelled. I cannot confirm this as their website is still up. "The Christian VandeVelde Autograph session and Beat the Heat Ride have both been cancelled this weekend. Sorry if any of you have worked your schedules around this, but we were just informed a moment ago that the ride was cancelled and the Pro's would not be coming to town as a result."

Trish's note: I have gotten several reports from reliable sources that this ride has been cancelled. Maybe the organizers will put something up on their site---or take it down.

10-9-2009 Blanket's Creek Improvements From SORBA Woodstock: Blankets Creek to get better parking lot amenities via County Commissioners/Park Bond
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009 AT 8:01AM
Thanks to the park bond referendum that Cherokee County voters approved last November and with help of Karen Bosch - County Commissioner, Blankets will have better amenities. The county commissioners approved this week the purchase of the land next door to Blankets. This is the 5 acre tract located between Blankets Creek Parking Lot and Sixes Presbyterian Church. This will allow parking lot expansion, permanent bathrooms, pavillion, etc... A big thanks to Karen Bosch for making Blankets Creek even better!
 

Here is the original Cherokee Tribune Article.

Chris Baker Memorial Ride From Outback Bikes:  It has been a year since our good buddy Chris passed after being hit by a car. In his honor we are meeting at the Little 5 Points store on Sunday October 18th at 9am for the Sunday Ride that he lead.
Chris had another passion other than Cycling and that was rescuing feral cats. A donation to the Atlanta Humane Society would be welcomed.

SCT Partial Reopen From atlbike.org:  According to details provided by the Chain Station, the SCT is now open from Weddington Rd to the East.  Bypassing the current detour is easy.
From the caboose, head south to Oak St. ~1blk
Rt to Traffic Light, cross GA92, descend hill (watch speed) to bottom.
"T" into Dallas St, Rt merges w/ Weddingto to the left.
Short climb to the Silver Comet Trail.
The Brushy Mtn tunnel is probably still very muddy. Use caution, slow speed in this area. Slow speed will save on cleanup time too.
http://bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=87121

10-12-2009 Pisgah Stage Race Singletrack.com has in interesting article on the Pisgah Stage race, which is this week.

Bama Cross Photos I put up some photos of the Bama Cross race in Birmingham up at http://sadlebred.smugmug.com. There are pics of the Masters and Men's A races.

Blanket's Creek is OPEN! Yes, Blanket's Creek is OPEN! Check the SORBA Woodstock page for updates this week as the forecast calls for lots of rain. http://www.sorbawoodstock.org
 

10-13-2009 Outspokin 5 Year Anniversary Celebration Come join us on October 15th from 3pm-until ??? for our Customer Appreciation Bash and 5 Year Anniversary Celebration! We'll be celebrating all day long with special sales and discounts on bikes, accessories, and more! Try this one on for size... -EVERYTHING IN THE STORE 10-50% OFF!!!- or this one...
-UP TO $1000 OFF SELECTED 2009 BIKES!- We'll also have other SECRET SALES that are so ridiculous, you'll just have to show up and take advantage of them to believe... If all that doesn't get you fired up, maybe some FREE SWAG GIVEAWAYS will get you excited! We'll have raffles going all day long, trivia questions, and our first annual Out Spokin' Olympics, with special sports and feats of strength for prizes! Not interested in AMAZING discounts, fun games, raffles, and free swag... we'd still like to feed you. We'll have a smoker going all day with some killer BBQ and fixin's. We've also got some beverages, courtesy of New Belgium Brewing Co., for adult refreshment. Several of our manufacturers' representatives will be on hand to showcase their new 2010 products and hang out with us for the day. If you've ever wanted to ask someone directly from a bike company those burning questions you've got... now's your chance!
Please come join us THIS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15TH FROM 3PM UNITL ??? for the biggest event we've ever hosted!
Please RSVP to josh@outspokinbikes.com if you plan on coming, so we'll know how much food to prepare!
Thanks for your continued support! You, our loyal customers, are what make Out Spokin' Bicycles one of the best shops in the Metro Atlanta area!

GBRA Website is UP! From Dan Coy: The Georgia Bicycle Racing Association website is coming together and the forum is now up and running. You may want to register and start tossing out ideas and thoughts regarding 2010 season. Many other states have an overall series, some better than others, and GABRA is wants to get something in place for the 2010 road season, constructive input is welcome.

http://gacycling.org 

10-14-2009 Paris Mtn. DH Race From the organizer: Paris Mountain is once again hosting an exciting downhill MTB race this Saturday, October 17. The race is sponsored by St. Francis Sports Medicine, SORBA (Southern Off-Road Bike Association) and the Greenville County Recreation District. Don't miss this chance to test your downhill skills against the clock or just come out and watch those that are willing to test their skills. Barley's Taproom is hosting a huge pre-race party, 6-9pm on Friday, October 16 that is open to all area cyclists. RJ Rockers Brewing Company of Spartanburg and New Belgium Brewing Company are providing the beer. Registered competitors and race volunteers drink free, while others are welcome to make a one-time $5 donation to SORBA to help improve the trail system at Paris Mountain State Park. Your $5 donation also gets you a raffle ticket good for numerous prizes that will be attractive to any cyclist. It's a great cause and should be a lot of fun.

Whether you are a downhill racing fan or planning to participate in one of the awesome cycling activities in Greenville this weekend (Paris Mtn Downhill, Greenville Spinners Cyclocross Races, Caesar's Head Slog Fest or other), kick off the weekend by joining the Pre-Race party at Barley's on Washington St. in downtown Greenville! The sponsored beer is free, the pizza is tasty and you could win some cool prizes. See you at Barley's 6-9pm Friday, Oct 16.

For more information on the Paris Mountain Downhill Race, visit: www.parismountaindownhill.com

10-15-2009 Conyers Work Party From SORBA Atlanta: SORBA Atlanta is hosting a work party at the Georgia International Horse Park on October 24 to repair some of the erosion damage from the September storms. When: Saturday, October 24 at 9 a.m.
Where: Steeplechase parking lot of GIHP (www.georgiahorsepark.com) Bring your friends. Please send bresmith@mac.com a message if you know you're coming to help me know how many tools to have on hand. Regards, Brett.