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Big Bike, Tomorrow. Club Kit now online, and BCC/Team BTG Announcement

Comments Off 09 May 2012

Dear Members,

Tomorrow is the BIG BIKE Race, raising money for the Heart & Stroke Foundation http://www.heartandstroke.com. We are SHORT 12 riders for TOMORROW’S race vs the Baydogs TRI Club. We are doing this for a good cause, please ADD YOUR SUPPORT. WE NEED YOU.

The Race is at 7pm, at Georgian Downs Racetrack. Please arrive at 630, wearing Club Jerseys, or Blue shirts!

Click this link to join NOW: http://www.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=1006860&lis=1&kntae1006860=6C44B131B35A44819AF56B5466B678AF&team=5033277

We have also received a delivery date for our 2012 order of CLUB KIT. I have gone ahead and added all of the items to our online registration system. This includes up to date inventory levels. Once the kit is gone, it’s gone for the year. Please don’t hesitate, make your order early, to ensure you get the size you need.

You can order today, and your kit will be ready for pick up on June 22, or we’ll ship it to you the following week. If you have feedback or questions, don’t hesitate to reply back to this email.

https://reg.ccnbikes.com/index.php/event/barrie-cycling-club-membership/store

Finally, We have some HUGE News in regards to our future direction:

The executive of BCC and Team BTG are stoked to share some exciting information with you.

Over the winter months we have been working together to develop innovative partnerships so we can achieve shared objectives and invest in the future of cycling in our community.

With a renewed vision and leadership, we are pleased to communicate that BCC and BTG are working together to integrate the two Clubs as one. While we continue to work on the timelines, this transition will be of great benefit to the cycling community in Simcoe County.

As you know, the focus for both clubs has been to increase youth participation, community awareness and cycling opportunities for all. By increasing awareness of the sport it is our objective to personify the health and character building attributes that cycling can bring in our community. We are building the culture of the sport through a structured approach, linking fitness, sportsmanship, discipline, fortitude, humility, leadership, and strength of character.

We also intend to provide awareness and support for cycling by helping local athletes’ progress through the sport of cycling from grassroots participation through to the elite level Provincially and Nationally.

Our efforts to date have resulted in being named the Ontario Cycling Associations first “Youth Certified Club” and the creation of Team Centurion Development Canada consisting of young riders from both clubs.

Over the season you’ll see the Blue / Red of Team CDC, Blue / Black of BTG, and the Blue / Yellow of BCC on the roads and trails together.

Scheduled club rides are posted online and members of both clubs are welcome to attend any or all, we really look forward to growing the size of our rides & events through this partnership.

If you have any input, comments, or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact myself, or Kelly-Anne. It’s going to be a great season, I look forward to seeing all of you on your bikes!

Yours in Sport,

Barrie Cycling Club

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Upcoming Events!

Comments Off 29 January 2011

NEWMARKET EAGLES WINTER MEETING – BIKE ENGINEERING, WATT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2011 (NOTE CHANGE OF DATE) – 7:00 PM, NEWMARKET PUBLIC LIBRARY*

PRESENTER: Damon Rinard – Race Engineer for Garmin-Cervelo Team and Senior Advanced R & D Engineer at Vroomen-White Design

*438 Park Ave Newmarket, ON. L3Y 1W1. There is some parking near the library or you can also park where we meet for Saturday and Sunday rides – walk up to Main St and crossover to Park Ave.

You will receive the SAME answers delivered by Damon Rinard to the Garmin Cervelo Race Team at their recent training camp in Spain:

- How does your power get used up?
- What are the important source of resistance? (worth spending your own – or the sponsor’s – money on)
- What are the unimportant sources of resistance? (save your money – unless you ride for Garmin-Cervelo)
- Who is responsible for creating the incredible pun in the title of this talk?

NEXT NIGHT!

We all enjoy cycling and we’d all enjoy the Tour de France — let’s take
up this opportunity to watch the Highroad HTC team CHASING LEGENDS in
the 2009 tour !

It’s showing Wednesday Feb 2 at 7pm.

See the trailer here:

http://chasinglegends.com/trailers

http://chasinglegends.com/film_tour/

Chasing Legends, a highly-anticipated bike movie focusing on the 2009 Tour
de France through the eyes of Team Columbia-HTC, will be shown across
Canada during a special one-night screening. The high-definition film will
be shown in 43 theatres Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. See the list below.
Synopsis
There is no greater sporting event in all of cycling than the Tour de
France. Chasing Legends touches on the rich history, passion and true grit
of the Tour, as seen through the eyes of Team Columbia-HTC, along with
commentary from Phil Liggett, Paul Sherwen, Eddy Merckx, Jens Voigt and
some of the sport’s most prolific heroes. With a stunning array of HD
cameras and poignant and touching interviews, Chasing Legends will take
views deeper into the pro peloton than ever before on a roller coaster
ride of action, drama and emotion.

Playing at the Galaxy Cinema in Barrie on Wednesday night at 7pm!

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Safe Bike Week 2010

Comments Off 26 March 2010

We’ve been working with the City of Barrie Police Department and the Simcoe County District Health Unit on putting together an official bike safety week in the city of Barrie, and potentially the surrounding communities as well.

We’ve been targeting the week of May 30-June 5, 2010. This morning I received a phone call from Simcoe County, where they expressed an interest in helping us to make this a County Wide Bike Safety Week!

Initial plans are for a ‘car free’ day in downtown Barrie on Sunday, May 30, and an official ride to work/school day on Weds, June 2.

If you are an employer in the region, or if you are employed in the region, please let us know if your company is willing to sign on as a community partner. Ideally we’d like them to support the bike to school day on Weds, by potentially allowing parents to arrive late, on bicycles after they’ve ridden their children to school.
If you can help out, or want to join onboard, please contact me via email. My email address is robb at barrie cycling dot com.

Thanks!

Cycling News

Our Bike Racks, Ourselves: Crowdsourcing Two-Wheeled Parking

No Comments 26 November 2009

From an article in Wired Magazine…

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Every cyclist has been there: Standing on a street, looking for a rack to secure their steed with nothing in sight but a parking meter. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

Fixcity.org is changing that by tapping the cycling community to identify prime locations for bike racks. The experiment in crowdsourced cycling infrastructure is run by the Open Planning Project, which is testing it out in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint-Williamsburg neighborhood before rolling it out elsewhere in the Big Apple and perhaps beyond.

“We’re currently still working to get FixCity working for all of NYC, but would love to expand it to other cities as well,” spokeswoman Lily Bernheimer said.

So how’s it work?

Let’s say you think there oughtta be a bike rack outside that taqueria down the street. Click Fixcity.org’s “Suggest a Rack” link to mark the spot on the map, then upload photos of appropriate locations. The next step is verifying the rack will actually fit in the spot you want it — for example, it’s gotta be 15 feet from a crosswalk or bus stop, 8 feet from a fire hydrant and so forth. Verifying your location is a snap because Fixcity provides handy guidelines you can print out (.pdf) and consult while doing recon. Still need help? There’s a video you can watch to walk you through the process.

Although Gotham has seen a big increase in bicycling, a dearth of secure, legal bike parking keeps many from city trekking. Transportation officials running the CityRacks program no longer accept one-off rack requests from the public, making it tough for individuals to take action. But with Fixcity bringing together community organizations and individual riders to suggest and verify locations, the city can accept “bulk orders” for racks spanning several neighborhoods.

More than one hundred rack sites have been suggested to far, and there’s a push to get 300 racks mapped out in Brooklyn. FixCity launched earlier this fall and says it can take up to six months for CityRacks to approve and install racks once it gets a bulk order.

Want to launch FixCity in your city? Bernheimer suggests doing some homework first. The first step is ensuring the requirements for bike rack placement in your town are the same as those in New York. Then you’ve got to figure out how racks are installed in your city, whether there’s already a mechanism for suggesting rack locations. A local variation of FixCity would have to be adapted to suit your city’s regs

Thanks to reader Andreas K. for the tip.

Photo: Flickr / Tom Simpson


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