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October 2 (Sat) Standard Club Ride Meeting Time Now 9 AM Check GCCMaill ride announcements to ensure your group is using the standard time. October 23 (Sat) Nationwide Santa Fe Century Registration opens at 6:30 am (along with breakfast), ride departs at 8:30 am. See http://gccfla.org/gcf/ for more details. October 24 (Sun) Horse Farm Hundred Registration opens at 7:15 am at Loften High School and at Flemington Community Park. Rides depart at 8:30 am. See http://gccfla.org/gcf/ for more details. December 6-17 Thailand Tour Get special rates for this tour from a founding member of the Gainesville Cycling Club. For full ng Club, Inc.Club, ng info, see http://www.pedalerspubandgrille.com/gcc/thailand2010.h 2010 October tm. December 11 (Sat) Holiday Party Put it on your calendar! We have a large room in the Social Hall at the Holy Faith Catholic Church on NW 43 rd St (near 8 th Ave). Watch for full details in the December newsletter. Gainesville Cycling Festival Entry Procedure See pages 8 and 9 for full details on how to enter the Gainesville Cycling Festival. This is the biggest cycling event in this part of Florida, and it’s right here in Gainesville! If you’re riding a bike in Gainesville, you should be participating in this great event! With your help, we will be able to continue to make a $10,000 contribution to the Boys and Girls Club of Alachua County with proceeds from the weekend. You can enter by clicking on the button in the Members Area on the club web site now. GCC members get a discount on ride fees, and can order special tank top and long sleeve T-shirts, which are not available to non- members. If you do not have internet access, use the form on page 9. Volunteers, please wait until your job title is displayed in the Members Area before entering. Until it is there, the entry form won’t know you are a volunteer and won’t give you your free goodies! The Gainesville Cyclist Gainesville The The bi-monthly newsletter of the Gainesville Cycli bi-monthlyofThe the newsletter Gainesville From The Editor Roger Pierce onsider reading this newsletter online if you are looking at it in Cthe printed version. The online GainesvilleCycling Club Inc. version is in full color, which makes the Board of Directors photos more vibrant and the graphics pop. Also, we sometimes slip in extras President online that are not available in the print Bob Newman 372-8195 version. [email protected] To sign up for online only, just mark Vice President the box in the My Preferences block of Photographer Rob Wilt (386)418-3794 the Members Area. [email protected] We send out an email notification Membership Secretary when the online version is available to Newsletter Editor, Webmaster, List Manager, all club members who have given us Event Equipment & Supplies Manager, Gainesville Cycling Festival Director an email address. The online version entire afternoon! Roger Pierce 378-7063 is always available up to a week before [email protected] the paper copy hits your mail box. A Word about Adopt-A-Road Lantern Rouge Chandler Otis Web Site Over 200 GCC members have marked [email protected] their volunteer preferences indicating Regional Brevet Administrator they will help out with Adopt-A-Road. Jim Wilson 373-0023 I am frequently asked things that are [email protected] readily available on the GCC web site. After subtracting the coordinators, we Ride Leader Coordinator Sometimes, I get the question too late, need seven volunteers to do each Scott Pfaff (352)472-3325 and people miss rides and events. cleanup. A little math shows that if [email protected] I encourage everyone to take a few everyone who has volunteered takes a Treasurer minutes to click around on the web site turn, it will take SEVEN YEARS before Brad Bartlett 339-6526 to become familiar with what is there. you will be able to get another turn! [email protected] For example, if you deleted a GCCMail I am, of course, bringing this up Recording Secretary ride announcement, go to the Archive because our most recently scheduled Velvet Yates and read it there (Members Area, All pickup yielded a total of ONE [email protected] About GCCMail page). volunteer. That is not enough to do the Gainesville Cycling Festival Need to get hold of Henry who was job. It is hard for me to imagine that Gary Greenberg 871-2086 on your ride today, use the Member the other 199 volunteers all had other [email protected] commitments that prevented doing this Advocacy Director Directory in the Members Only block to James Thompson (940)206-0933 look at all members whose first name cleanup. [email protected] is Henry. Next time we schedule a cleanup, Director at Large Have you moved? Go into the jump in and grab a slot, knowing that Dan Perrine 870-7877 Members Area and change your you won’t need to do it again for a long [email protected] address (save the club forwarding time (unless you find you enjoy it and postage, which can be $1.50 for a continue to compete for future slots!). newsletter!). A stroll in the countryside with Support Persons Phone number for a bike store? friends, followed by a subsidized dinner Look at the Phone Book under Club at a good restaurant, is not an Adopt-A-Road Director Information (main menu). Bike store unpleasant way to spend an afternoon. Ally Gill 338-1914 web site? Look at Links, Gainesville [email protected] Links. Bike Store Liaison Membership Card Lamination There’s a lot of stuff there, so budget Diann Dimitri 378-7063 your time or you’ll wind up spending an [email protected] Office Manager Barb Thomas GCC Web Page gainesvillecyclingclub.org gainesvillecc.org 2 The Gainesville Cyclist October 2010 President's Letter he last of the overly oppressive hot record. days seem to be behind us, we I would like to thank everyone who Tnow enter into what most people has volunteered so far to help with this consider the best cycling time of the years Cycling Festival. This event has year. grown into one of the major rides on For many people the highlight of the Florida Cycling Calendar. Such an their cycling calendar is the undertaking would not be possible Gainesville Cycling Festival which is without your support. We still can use just around the corner. Both the Santa help and those of you that may wish to Fe Century and the Horse Farm volunteer can do so by contacting Hundred (or parts thereof) can be Roger Pierce at 378-7063. Before ridden by the most demanding cyclist calling, check out what is needed on or the more casual one. If we all obey the GCC web site (http://gccfla.org/). not only cycling laws but use common Your additional support can help fill sense and courtesy this and all of our out the numerous positions needed for rides will be much safer. the festival. I would like to ask all riders to be I hope to see you on the road… aware of Florida cycling laws (which can be found on the club's web site an inadvertent clash with a motorist or under the "Bicycle Law" on the left another cyclist. hand side of the screen) and strictly Remember, helmets are mandatory Bob Newman abide by them. Especially with the and mirrors recommended on all large groups that will be on the road it Gainesville Cycling Club rides. Let's is easy to stray too far from the right strive to make this Festival the safest side of the road or bike lane and as well as the most enjoyable one on cause Here Comes PBP! by Jim Wilson aris-Brest-Paris is the oldest, means completing the equivalent of you though, in the few weeks after you regularly-scheduled cycling four double centuries on consecutive finish one ride, you'll begin to wonder Pevent in the world. First held in days. The course is hilly. The slowest if you can go just a little farther in the 1891, this 750-mile race featured the riders get very little sleep. next. new-fangled safety bicycles , and In 2007 the weather was miserable: For more about PBP: several riders eschewed solid rubber 5300 riders started; 3600 finished. tires in favor of the just- invented To participate in the upcoming http://www.rusa.org/pbphistory.html pneumatics. August 2011 event, a rider must Lately, this event is held every four complete a series of four brevets http://www.carsstink.org/peterson/pb years as a randonnee (an extreme (qualifying rides) starting in January. pstory.html tour), and professional riders have Gainesville Cycling Club holds a been banned since 1951. Although a complete 4-ride series each spring. And about the Gainesville Brevet few still strive to finish first, most are This year we begin with a Series: content with beating the 90-hour time 125-mile/13.5-hour ride on January 15 limit. Finisher names are entered into and end with a 375-mile/40-hour epic http://gccfla.org/brevet/brevets.html the Great Book , maintained by Audax adventure on April 9. Club Parisien, in alphabetical order. If you survived the Horse PBP is not an easy ride. Finishing Farm Hundred and are looking for another challenge, try these longer rides. The first is only a little bit longer than a century. I must warn 2007 PBP Start 1901 PBP Start October 2010 The Gainesville Cyclist 3 Biking the Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island by Melinda Koken ots of time spent pouring over Nova granite on which it is built, gives hints of from their land to heat the house in Scotia by Bicycle , and the earlier times, both human and geological.