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) ; 6 6 8 ) t r e Club Happenings b o t s c October 1 (Sat) Saturn Santa Fe Century Q i Registration starts Friday at 6 pm at Saturn of Gainesville. Registration and breakfast open at l 6:30 am at the North West Boys Club. c October 2 (Sun) Horse Farm Hundred Register at the Santa Fe Century, or at Morningside Nature Center starting by 7:30 am or at y Flemington Community Park (for the Horse Farm Tours). October 8 (Sat) Standard Club Ride Meeting Time Now 9 AM E As always, check email ride announcements to ensure your group is using the standard time ) October 30 (Sun) Eastern Standard Time Returns e Fall back, set your clocks back one hour, gain an hour of sleep. If you fail to do so, you’ll be l way early for your ride! l 4 c i n November 13 (Sun) Adopt-A-Road Cleanup K ) 2 b Meet at 3 pm to get organized for a 3:15 pm sharp deployment. Park on CR 234 just east of u v l Micanopy near our sign. Please don’t be late; it’s hard to get you supplied and assigned after E ) we have started. We need about 14 people for an optimal crew. Please RSVP to g [email protected] or call Diann at 378-7063. The club will help pay for dinner after the n s i l cleanup. c y E ) e December 10 (Sat) Holiday Party e l l i v Put it on your calendar! Details in the next newsletter. s n e n i i a I ) e h a t ) f o ) r e t I t e l ) s w e n ) e y l h Gainesville Cycling Festival t n h o preparations underway! m 3 i b ) e V h V ) From The Editor Roger Pierce r i s bit sparse as we put our energies into GainesvilleCycling Club Inc. Williams getting ready for the Gainesville Cycling Board of Directors Kh a s Festival. checked in with We expect to resume our bike store President t h e l a t e s t series with the December newsletter. George Edwards 333-3184 person to be If you have something that your [email protected] profiled, club would like to see in print, don’t hesitate Vice President stalwart Leslie to drop it into an email and send it to Rob Wilt 380-0561 [email protected] F o l k e r t h . me: [email protected]. Membership Secretary Otherwise this Newsletter Editor, Webmaster, List Manager issue may be a Gainesville Cycling Festival Director Roger Pierce 378-7063 [email protected] Treasurer Lee Edwards 333-3184 [email protected] Lantern Rouge Chandler Otis [email protected] Recording Secretary Bob Newman 372-8195 [email protected] Adopt-A-Road Director Diann Dimitri 378-7063 Gainesville Cycling Festival [email protected] Off Road Director Roger Pierce, Director Leslie Folkerth 367-3856 [email protected] Ride Leader Coordinator ecord. That is the word that is fingers!). Maria Fiedler 214-0756 most likely to define this year’s We expect that the Santa Fe Century [email protected] Regional Brevet Administrator RFestival. will probably break their all time record Jim Wilson 373-0023 For starters, we have a record turnout (345), and put over 400 riders [email protected] number of volunteers helping us out, 74 on the road. at last count helping on the weekend, The Horse Farm Hundred has seen and a number of others helping record turnouts in the last two years beforehand. We can’t say many thanks (465), but this year it is possible that we Support Persons too many times. could double those numbers! Our registration count is astounding Office Manager us (and wearing out Lee Edwards’ Barb Thomas University of Florida Liaison Ben Fein Sounds Roger Pierce, Gliders Group Captain [email protected] Membership Card Lamination Event Supplies Manager s we ride along with the wind The most important sound-alikes Diann Dimitri 378-7063 [email protected] roaring in our ears and with are “car” and “clear.” Not knowing Aother sounds of nature and which of these is being called can get industry around us, you may have you killed. That is why we prohibit the GCC Web Page noticed that the spoken word is use of “clear” on Gliders rides, and gainesvillecyclingclub.org difficult to understand. Words that discourage others using it as well. gainesvillecc.org have clearly distinct sounds and The only sound we want to hear gccfla.org meanings in normal conversation spoken when crossing an intersection become sound-alikes out on the road. is one of warning; other calls can only confuse or drown out the warning. ))))))))8 Vhe)Iainesville)Eyclist Qctober)866;)))))))) IeXf\WXag%f EXggXe Dear Friends: new asphalt of the Downtown Trail. This new rail-trail may see Connector leading from Boulware paving start as early as next year. want to thank all of you who have Springs Park into the center of Bicycle/Aviation Trivia Department: volunteered to work the Gainesville Gainesville. By the time you read this Tom Crouch, Superintendent of ICycling Festival in all its manifold (we hope) the bridge over the Collections at the Air and Space jobs. Your efforts are key to making Sweetwater Branch will have been Museum of the Smithsonian and major this event, and in fact all GCC delivered, and the rest of the paving historian of the Wright brothers, once programs, the successes they are. will have been completed. Now we said "their orientation to bicycles wait for the construction of the Depot probably gave the Wrights the insight park, and the last little link on to the to aircraft control, which was their Depot Avenue Trail. great contribution". The Wrights are And for even more good news, there often credited with inventing the is word of progress on the right-of-way powered airplane (they didn't), but their for the long-discussed 6th Street Trail. real contribution (and their main The Office of Greenways and Trails patent) was the three-axis control and the Trust For Public Land recently system, which is what keeps the met with the Gainesville Police airplane on an even keel. Drop that Department to discuss the routing of one in your next cocktail party this trail around GPD headquarters. conversation. With some luck, and a lot of hard work, this trail may also become a Cheers, reality. Thanks to Craig Lee you are Tr|Ätr-U;-RqÖnÄqÅ At the Labor Day picnic many of us up-to-date on the starting of had a chance to put our wheels on the construction of the Palatka-Lake Butler 4th Annual TOUR DE FELASCO January 14, 2006 Registration forms available around October 1 at www.sanfelasco.net Get your registration form in early! For more info, contact [email protected] or call Leslie at 352-367-3856 ))))))))Qctober)866; Vhe)Iainesville)Eyclist 9)))))))) )IEE)Rider Kris Williams Reporting trails, a big success. Leslie Folkerth Leslie Folkerth is uniquely qualified to support the Park. She started riding iding the switchbacks of San her bike as a child on the country Felasco Hammock under the roads near her home, graduating to light of the full moon, Leslie racing mountain bikes in Indiana and R Ohio. She met her husband, Doug, Folkerth is enjoying the 20 miles of the "best single track in the United States." through the Ohio State Cycling Club. Off-road riding at night gives Leslie, on Instead of an engagement ring, she her Gary Fisher Procaliber, an received a proposal and a tandem opportunity to see the park's nocturnal road bike. They've covered thousands wildlife and escape the heat. She of road and off-road miles together, supports the San Felasco trail system from cross country jaunts to racing a number of ways-as a board member events. a n d w e b m a s t e r f o r www.sanfelasco.net, volunteer with the fundraising tour and general park advocate. One can understand why-the hammock provides beauty and the opportunity to visit unique ecosystems Mountain Bike Park. Look her up on while challenging one's fitness and www.USACycling.org and you'll see coordination. From a one-mile her excellent standings. Now Leslie beginner's trail (the Cotton Tail) to the has left the racing circuit for a while, four-mile intermediate level Cellon but she still rides, especially in the Creek Trail, to the eight-mile Tung Nut early mornings and on weekends. She Loop that features hills, log bridges sets her own hours as a fundraiser and spectacular prairie views, San and database manager for a Felasco Hammock provides an consulting firm supporting Greek outstanding place to ride. Connectors ( s o r o r i t y a n d f r a t e r n i t y ) to other trails provide an extraordinary foundations-allowing her time to ride, opportunity to host the Tour de read, go boating, play the occasional Felasco-in 2005 over 400 people, game of ice hockey, and enjoy inline riders and volunteers, turned out to skating. She is enthusiastic about make the event, and its fifty miles of Leslie and Doug moved to GCC, especially for the new rider Gainesville five years ago to retire, but starting out, as a way to find people of that never really worked out. Both similar interests and speed, creating found jobs and places to race.