Adopt a road clean up tomorrow, NO ROAD RIDE.
Hey everyone,
Just a reminder that tomorrow morning is our Adopt a road clean up day. We’ll be meeting at Ridge Rd and the 3rd line of Oro at 9am tomorrow, Sunday. We expect the clean up to take two hours.
We have removed the Sunday ride from the Calendar for tomorrow also.
We look forward to seeing many of you out tomorrow, helping to give something back to our community.
cheers,
robb
Announcement, Club Events, Youth Race
Volunteers Needed for this weekends Youth Race
Hello Members,
The Youth race is fast approaching, it is this Saturday. Our tireless organizers Cliff and Robb are still very much in need of more help on race day. Help would be greatly appreciated please call or email Cliff at home 705 728 9065 or email clifflilley@hotmail.com. The BCC has gained a wonderful reputation for our OCA sanctioned events since starting out with a Cross race in Sunnidale in 2007. We are one of the most well respected OCA event organizers out there.
This is one of two OCA sanctioned races our club puts on throughout the year and we would like to continue on doing even more races. However if we do not have enough volunteers we will need to cut back from doing these events in the future. Our club is shaped by our members, all you need to do is come out willing to help and Cliff will find something for you to do.
Also if you know of any High School students who need community service hours this does count towards that.
Ride safe
BCC executives
Adopt-a-Road, Announcement, Club Events, Group Rides, MTB Rides, Time Trial Series, Youth Race
Monday night MTB Rides begin Tonight, 2 Group Rides tomorrow, TT Thursday!
What a hectic week.
Yesterday the BCC hosted the first interclub race of the season. We saw about 50 racers come out on a beautiful sunny day. The race was won by our own Orrin Bowser, congratulations to him on a sandbag well played 
We also had a great Sunday morning ride, lead by its weekly leader, Tony Miranda, care of the Trek Store Barrie! Tony will be at Fred Grant every Sunday morning at 9am, ready to lead you on a great, fun, social touring ride.
Tonight we’ve got the first of our weekly MTB rides kicking off. This year, we’re lucky enough to have Bikeland rider Linnley Clarke leading each & every Monday night ride. So you’ll always have a familiar face to greet you. The rides begin at 6:30 and leave from the Simcoe County Office building in Midhurst. The ride is a social ride, and you will not be dropped. If gaps appear, the lead riders will pause and wait for you to catch up! We look forward to seeing you there.
Tuesday will be the first of our dual Tuesday night group rides. We’ve also moved to our ‘summer’ timeslot, with both rides starting at 6:30pm. The downtown, Fred Grant Square ride is our social group ride. The Tuesday night social ride will be a fun ride for all. There will be no racing for sprint signs and every effort will be made to keep the group together. As the season progresses riders’ abilities increase so as time goes on the average speed will increase. If you haven’t been on a bike yet, and it’s July, email us before coming out.
The Sunnidale Park ride will feature higher speeds, sign sprints, and possibly some paceline riding. It’s geared towards the more serious & experienced cyclists, who are looking to get a little training in during the week, in addition to a social ride. All are welcome, but you may be dropped, so ensure that you are self sufficient in terms of routing & repairs at minimum.
This Thursday brings us the first of our venerable TT series. We will be riding on the Oro Course at the 7th line and 15/16. As in previous years, we must thank Mike & Judy Doble for taking on the chore of timing the TTs, and ensuring everyone gets away in a safe manner, without their dedication, we would not be able to offer the TT series. The weather looks good, we hope to see lots of you out, setting down a baseline time, so you can watch your fitness progress over the course of the season.
Upcoming events this month are the Youth Race on May 21. This will require some volunteer hours to clean the sand from the course, and we’ve also got to clean our adopted section of Ridge Road, through the town of Shanty Bay. Stay tuned for date announcements for each of these undertakings. Thankfully, with these behind us, the rest of the summer is all about riding.
cheers,
robb
Announcement, Club Events, Interclub Race Series
Interclub Race #1 this Sunday!
Just a reminder to everyone that the first Interclub Road race on the year is this Sunday, May 8!
The first race is the Oro Short course this year, and we’ll be meeting/signing in at the Oro Fairgrounds as per usual!
The Oro Fairgrounds are located at the corner of the 7th Line of Oro-Medonte and the 15/16 Sideroad East, 3km North of Highway 11.
Race starts at 10am, please arrive by 915 to get signed up, warmed up and to put your numbers on.
Looking forward to seeing lots of you there.
We do need at least 4 volunteers to ensure a safe race, so please contact me if you can help!
cheers,
robb
Announcement, Club Events, Learn to Group Ride Program
Learn to Ride (in a group) Clinic Information
The Barrie Cycling Club is excited to offer a 4 week, learn to ride in a group program beginning this Saturday, April 30 2011. The program is designed to help you build your confidence to a point that riding on the road is no longer scary, and riding in a group feels natural.
The learn to ride program will roll into a rider development course over the four sessions. Our mandate is to provide cyclists with the skills & experience so they can continue to improve their fitness levels and cycling abilities. Our club goal is to provide the knowledge & camaraderie for a healthy and fit cycling lifestyle whether it be for the beginner cyclist or competitive racer.
We’ll be hosting the event at St. Vincent Park beginning at 9:30am on Saturday April 30, Saturday May 7 & 14. Then we break for a week while we host our Youth Race, then the following week, on Saturday the 28th, we’ll have our final session which will focus on bike repair, and maintenance, to ensure you’re always riding a safe bike.
The learn to ride clinic is open to any Barrie Cycling Club member, and registration is available by emailing learn@barriecycling.com
See you on Saturday morning!
Announcement, Club Events, Group Rides
First Group Ride, Tonight!
Join us tonight at 6pm, at Fred Grant Square for our first group ride of the season.
Social pace, nobody will be left behind. We’ll probably ride for about 1.5hours, about out to the 9th line and back on Ridge Rd.
Membership cards will be on hand, so please bring your forms if you haven’t sent them in already!
Announcement, Club Events, Cycling News, Social Night
Upcoming Events!
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!
Announcement, Club Events, Meeting, Social Night
NEW DATE!!!Club Social night, Jan 11 @ Pie Wood Pizza!
Wow, where has the time gone?
I hope that each of you has had a wonderful holiday spent with family and loved ones.
As we enter into a new year, we thought it would be a great time to get together, reflect on the season we’ve had, dream of the season to come. Order some club clothing, and enjoy some delicious wood fired pizza.
So, we’re going to have a Club Pizza/Social night on Tuesday January 11th beginning around 6:30, or 7pm, whenever you can arrive!
Our friends at Pie have offered to feed us all night long, for a flat rate of $15/person not including beverages. I think this is a pretty great deal, and intend on eating my fair share!
I hope to see logs of you there, feel free to shoot me an email to let us know you’re coming, so we have some idea of numbers beforehand.
Wishing all of you happiness, success & luck in 2011, see you then!
cheers,
robb
Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Charitable Events, Clothing Update, Club Events, Club News, Cross Race, Group Rides, Interclub Race Series, Learn to Group Ride Program, Meeting, MTB Rides, Time Trial Series, Youth Race
AGM Update/President’s Report
Welcome to the 2010 AGM, and this year’s version of the President’s report.
Thank you for being a part of the club, it’s been a really great season.
2010 was a year of firsts. Our first youth cup race, our first weekly club MTB rides, our first weekly learn to ride program, our first attempt at 2 Tuesday night rides with differing start points, and our first baseball cross race!
One event we had committed to take part in, a charity ride for the local MS Society, was put off until 2011, as a result of our contact at the MS Society getting married. Hopefully we can see this ride through to fruition next summer.
In 2010, the club also became political. Becoming involved and taking part in several committees focussed on road safety, and active transportation. Through these initiatives, Barrie held it’s first ever cycling safety week. A tradition which we hope to make yearly. The opening event featured almost 40 riders of all types cruising down the lakeshore together. Good times. We’re also part of the City of Barrie’s active transportation committee, adding input, and keeping up to date on local policy and potential infrastructure improvements.
The club grew it’s membership in 2010, for the first time in a couple of years. this is encouraging, even more so, is the number of youth members who joined. We would like to make youth participation a priority in 2011, potentially beginning by creating a youth development director tonight. Our 1st annual youth race was a huge success, with 55 riders, and their parents in attendance. The town of Oro, and the OPP were key players in helping us to promote a safe event, it’s great to have community partners so willing to work with us.
Speaking of community partners, the level of support, and encouragement from City Staff involved with the recent Baseball Cross held at the Barrie Sports Complex are truly second to none. The City moved dirt, rocks & fences to make a better race course, and they’ve already expressed interest in helping make it even better for next year! I will let Andrew Watson comment on this year’s event in his recap, but suffice to say we put on a great event, one that the racers, and spectators truly seemed to enjoy.
Our Time Trial series saw many riders out, but the numbers are down a bit from the year before. I am sure that Mike Doble will express some thoughts of his own, but we are looking at pairing up with the Barrie TC Baydogs for a joint time trial series that would run every week next summer, at a location that’s closer to town. Hopefully this is enough to see some more people come out to challenge themselves. I know for me personally, not being able to TT all summer was probably the worst punishment to take. I look forward to having more opportunity to ride them next season.
Our first attempt at splitting up the Tuesday night group ride seems to have really been enjoyed by most everyone. The hammerheads got to enjoy ripping each others’ legs off each week from Sunnidale park, and those less concerned with paceline riding got to enjoy a wonderful social ride each week from Fred Grant Square. We look forward to continuing this new tradition next year, it’s important that we keep a Tuesday night ride that is open and accessible to both newer, and or younger riders, encouraging them to come back each week. This is essential to ensure the club keeps growing, and people feel comfortable coming out. Brad & Barb Watts have offered to be the leaders for the downtown social ride in 2011, which I am very thankful for!
For those riders who were so new to cycling that the Tuesday night ride was too intimidating we launched our first learn to ride program in the spring. We introduced several new people to group riding via these sessions. Most everyone went on to enjoy a Sunday cruise, or a Tuesday night ride with the rest of the club. For next season, we really want to ramp this program up. Marc B. has already offered to lead a 6 to 8 week learn to group ride course, beginning in May. I’m really excited that we can offer this, and hope that it can lead to some more rider development initiatives by club.
Our participation in the Interclub Road Race series remained strong this season, with BCC members making up a substantial portion of the series. This year Mountainview Cycling Club from Midland joined the series, and special provisions were made with the OCA to keep Owen Sound’s riders involved also. This year brought some new, and great race courses to the calendar, that were enjoyed by all. The interclub races are a great way for people to get introduced to road bike racing in an environment that’s not terrifying like an O-Cup race. I hope that we continue to participate in this series through 2011 & beyond.
We did not make a clothing order in 2010, but our supplies are virtually non-existent, so tonight we will begin preliminary discussions, with the intention of making an order by Jan 10, 2011. I expect we will order from Sugoi again, as our last order from them seems to have been well received by everyone. Perhaps this year we’ll look at getting Jackets, or leg/arm warmers made for the first time if there’s enough interest.
For 2011, the Barrie Cycling Club intends to file expression of interest forms for a Youth Cup Road race, and a Southern Ontario Cup Cyclocross race, these will be submitted tomorrow morning.
Thanks again for making 2010 the Barrie Cycling Club’s best yet, now’s your chance to have input into what we do for 2011!
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I’d like to thank Steve Homenuk for unexpectedly deciding to return to the executive next year. He will return as Secretary, but will also serve as our Director of Club Communications & Volunteers.
New to the executive, I’d like to welcome Shane Hollingshead to the role of Treasurer, replacing Orrin Bowser.
In some newly created executive positions, I’d like to first welcome Cliff Lilley, as our Director of Racing Events, he’ll help ensure that next year’s Youth Cup, and Cyclocross race are even better than the ones held this year. Additionally Cliff will help ensure our interclub continues in the safe fashion it’s always been run.
We are also welcoming Brad Watts to the executive for 2011, Brad will be our Director of Social Rides. He’ll be taking on the downtown Tuesday night rides all year, along with his wife Barb. Together they will ensure the Tuesday ride remains welcoming to newer riders, and still enjoyable for the advanced recreational riders among us. They will also help to see the club provide a monthly long touring ride, from 100-180km from May-Sept.
Finally, we welcome Andrew Watson to the executive as Director of Youth Development. We are really excited to have an athlete of Andrew’s calibre as a club member, and now he’s going to help shape the future direction of our young rider development efforts from a grassroots, community level, but also the experience of competing at a World Cup level. I personally am thrilled to have Andrew aboard as we seek new directions to grow the sport and share our passion in 2011.
Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting tonight, and thanks to everyone who rode with us in 2010. 2011 is going to be even better!
cheers,
robb
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