Chain Chatter Rocky Mountain Cycling Club December 2004 For People Who Love to Ride Page 1 The 2005 Schedule Notice of Dues Change by Tom Foss Club Meetings: Attached to this month's newsletter is the Club meetings are 2005 schedule. The schedule is very similar Effective for 2005, the RMCC family held on the first to last year, featuring the same rides we all membership fees will be raised by $10, from Tuesday of every $25 to $35 (individual memberships will be month at 7:00. All love, along with a full schedule of brevets and populaires. unchanged). If your family membership is members are due for renewal after January 1st, your invited! We meet There are a few changes to note: In at the Denny's at I- terms of scheduling itself, some rides were membership fees will increase. 25 and Park switched around to make for a smoother RMCC pays an additional surcharge for Avenue since that mileage progression in the spring. The each family member for liability insurance. In is a central location. Foothills Climb Fest is now earlier in the year the past the club has paid the extra premiums to avoid the summer heat. Also, the without passing the added cost along to a populaires have been concentrated in the family membership; with the projected Membership: earlier part of the season in order to better increase in insurance rates in 2005, the club Cost is $25 per year serve as preparation for riding brevets. can no longer afford to do this. If you for an individual The Exit 243 start location has been currently have a family membership and you and $35 for a moved. It is still at that exit, but it will be at are the only person in your family to ride with family, which goes the Conoco station instead of the John Deere the club consider changing to a single toward printing membership to avoid the increase. program parking lot. information, For the time being at least, we've given newsletters, up on using the Air Force Academy. To bikes, from makers such as Litespeed, Kestrel, insurance, and compensate for this, a new ride out of Look, Cannondale, Parlee, and Independent other club Larkspur going southeast has been created. In Fabrication. And, of course, they carry activities. Contact: this area, we will again use Spruce Mountain mountain bikes, and a good assortment of Tom Foss Road as it has fresh pavement. accessories, clothing, and nutrition products. 7301 W. 32nd Ave. Several changes were made due to Big Ring is a smaller store with Wheat Ridge, CO safety/traffic concerns. County Road 13 80033 experienced employees. Every person around Firestone, Frederick, and Dacono will working there has been in the industry for ten be avoided due to increasing traffic counts. or more years, so you know you'll be working RMCC Online: McCaslin Blvd. from US 36 to South Boulder with someone knowledgeable when you go in The best place to Road has been taken out. there. They have a Serotta certified fitter who get any late A big “thank you” goes out to those on has been doing fits for eleven years, so they breaking news with the schedule committee who put in many can get you on a bike that fits you. And, of the club is to check hours to give us the premier slate of rides in course, they will competently service your us out on the web. Colorado! bike—I have used them in the past for mine Our address is: www.rmccrides.com and have been very happy. Shifting to the Big Ring Scott is very excited about some of the 2005 bikes he has in. With mountain bikes, he Returning as a club sponsor in 2005 will says that the new suspension bikes from Giant be Big Ring Cycles. Scott Morman is the sole and Cannondale with intertial valve owner of the store, which he has been technology are “unbelievable.” With road involved with for six years. Scott has been bikes, he spoke most highly of the new carbon involved in racing in the past, and has had fiber frames from Scott and Parlee (which is many roles in the bicycle industry, working what he personally rides). for Giant Bicycle as well as in bicycle Big Ring is located at 2401 Ford Street importing. in Golden. They can be reached at 303-216- The store carries a wide variety of road 2000, and are on the web at www.bigringcycles.com. Chain Chatter Rocky Mountain Cycling Club December 2004 For People Who Love to Ride Page 2 Take the Year-Rounder Century Challenge killed by a school bus. For a profile of Schwartz go to: by John Hughes and John Lee Ellis www.ultracycling.com/about/hof_schwartz.html To get started, join or renew your UMCA Century-length rides are the highlight of many membership at: www.ultracycling.com/about/join.html, endurance riders' seasons: the fun of a day on the bike add in 10 bucks for the Mileage Challenge, put on your with friends and the challenge of riding 100 miles. And, wool jersey and head out the door! at least for the day, an unrestricted diet! The UltraMarathon Cycling Association's new Larry Rules Summary Schwartz Year-Rounder Century Challenge is for century riders looking for a new challenge: Consistent An "Organized" century is a ride with: a name, performance throughout the year. Can you ride a century designated start/finish location and starting time(s), route every month of the year? You can maintain your fitness plan, organizer, and advance publication of the ride or and have more fun cycling. ride series in club newsletters, etc. (RMCC club rides fill We RMCC members are fortunate: while the that bill.) RMCC doesn't offer any “century rides” as such (like the A "Personal" century is a personally designed ride. Elephant Rock), the RMCC calendar offers 35 rides over For credit, you must complete at least 90 miles in an 11- 90 miles, starting with the New Year's Day Century. Any hour period including off the bike time (and maintain an of these can be used for the Year-Rounder. For months 8.33 mph average after that). Personal centuries provide such as February and March with no 90+ mile rides on century-length riding opportunities in seasons or locales the calendar, you can ride a "Personal" century of your where Organized centuries are sparse. own design, alone or with friends. Any Mileage Challenge ride counts in the Year- The Year-Rounder is a division of the UMCA Rounder - brevets, double centuries and ultra events. Mileage Challenge. All you need to do is sign up for the We like to keep the holidays free for time with the Mileage Challenge and submit your rides—the UMCA family, so the Mileage Challenge and Year Rounder will does the rest. (See the Mileage Challenge info at end on December 21, 2005. www.ultracycling.com/standings/umcrules.html for how For complete rules and ride documentation form, go to: to submit rides.) Rides can be either Organized events or www.ultracycling.com/standings/umcrules.html Personal rides that you design yourself (explained below). Mileage Challenge participants receive: --an e-book Century Tips on training, nutrition, New Year's Day Century Coming! equipment and technique; --an e-newsletter, sharing tips and stats; A few years back, Val Phelps came up with the idea --a bi-monthly Year Rounder column by Crista of having a club century ride on New Year's Day. That Borras and Chuck Wood, who ride centuries every first year, a hardy group of riders braved cold weekend; temperatures and snow flurries and completed the ride. --a section at ultracycling.com devoted to the best Last year, the weather was beautiful and there was a large century stories sent in by riders; crowd. --a rider with at least 1000 miles in the Mileage The New Year's Day Century is in its third year this year. The ride starts at 8:00 at the Wagon Road Park and Challenge gets a discount on Accelerade and EnduroxR4. th If you reach the goal, you will be awarded a Year- Ride (120 and Huron). The ride will proceed provided Rounder medal. Although the goal is a century a month, the roads are safe for cycling. This is a fun event and a there are situations where it might be too snowy or icy good way to start the Year-Rounder Challenge (see some months; so they allow two make-up rides. For above) for those who are so inclined. The ride is a flat-to-rolling ride—it leaves from example, if you get snowed out in January, just do two th centuries in February. Northglenn going west on 112 , by the Jeffco Airport, In the Mileage Challenge a Century is a ride of 90 to down the “Wall” to Superior, then goes up to Jay Road 149 miles, thus including rides billed as centuries but that and over to US 36 into Lyons. Once in Lyons, the route fall just short of a 100 miles. goes through Apple Valley then back east on Highway The Year-Rounder honors Larry Schwartz, who 66, going past I-25, back down county road 19, then back won the UMCA Mileage Challenge in 2001, was second to the park-and-ride. Options are available to shorten to in 2002, and was leading in 2003 when he was struck and route if you want to ride but don't want to do 100 miles.