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American Randonneur AMERICAN RANDONNEUR VOLUME 22 • ISSUE #3 FALL 2019 RUSA volunteers extraordinaire IN THIS ISSUE This is a Great Road — BY KEITH GATES Two American Randonneurs Complete the Grand Tour of Italy — BY HAMID AKBARIAN WITH SHAB MEMARBASHI Community Salvages One Rider’s PBP Dream — BY MARY SHANKLIN SHOP HERE Edelux II Does your bike have low self esteem? When you ride, does your bike seem out of sorts, gloomy and listless? Lacking pep, and vim? Put some spring in your bike’s step with a Schmidt Edelux II headlight in one of many new vibrant colors! Schmidt; when you want your bike to know how much you really care. Peter White Cycles 24 Hall Rd. Hillsborough, NH 03244 603 478 0900 Phone 603 478 0902 Phax www.PeterWhiteCycles.com/schmidt-headlights.php WHAT’S INSIDE President’s Message 2 John Lee Ellis American Randonneur Magazine From the Editor 3 Fall 2019 • Volume 22, Issue #3 Janice Chernekoff Adventures with Team Ambivalence 4 RUSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gardner Duvall President: John Lee Ellis Vice President: Debra Banks Let It Ride: Gambler's 1000km 6 Treasurer: David Thompson Juliayn Coleman Secretary: Lois Springsteen Board Member: John Cap'n Ende This is a Great Road 12 Board Member: Nigel Greene Keith Gates RBA Liaison: Tim Sullivan Notes from North Park 600km 14 COMMITTEE CHAIRS Brevet Coordinator: Roland Bevan (chairman); Jonathan Fey Lois Springsteen, Rob Hawks, and Rob Welsh Two American Randonneurs Complete the Grand Tour of Italy 20 Medals and Awards Coordinator: John Lee Ellis Membership: Nigel Greene; Don Hamilton Hamid Akbarian with Shab Memarbashi Webmaster: John Lee Ellis Uvas Gold 200 26 Permanents Committee Chair: Crista Borras American Randonneur Committee Chair: Paul Ivanov Janice Chernekoff New RUSA Members 27 Rules Committee Chair: John Lee Ellis Team Event Committee Chair: Paul Johnson Rando Imperator Ride Report 30 Routes Committee Chair: Craig Mathews Greg Olmstead Souvenirs: Deb Banks The American Randonneur Award 35 AMERICAN RANDONNEUR Editor: Janice Chernekoff Community Salvages One Rider’s PBP Dream 36 Copy Editors: Bob Olsen, Mary Shanklin Jayne Brown, Melissa Hall, Betty Jean Jordan, and Katie Raschdorf Sunshine 1200km 2019 38 Data Collection: Lynne Fitzsimmons, Greg Olmstead Dave Thompson, Bernard Flynn, John Lee Ellis, Charlie Martin, Mary Spence Design: Mary Humphrey RUSA Board Elections 43 Advertising: Jim Poppy RUSA Awards 44 American Randonneur is published quarterly Submissions: [email protected] Advertising: [email protected] COLUMNS RANDONNEURS USA, INC. IS A TAX-EXEMPT 501(c)(3) NON-PROFIT CORPORATION UNDER REVIEW 18 American Randonneur George Swain is a publication of Randonneurs USA, Inc. PO Box 168, Lyon Station, PA 19536 ALLURE LIBRE: Thanks to Blackbeard 22 [email protected] • phone: 303.579.5866 Mike Dayton © 2019 All Rights Reserved RANDOM THOUGHTS: Wanted: New Volunteers! 28 Chris Newman COVER—Bill et Lois disent: “Allumez vos lumières, s’il vous plaît!” DR. CODFISH: The Best Time of Year to Ride 34 PHOTO DEB BANKS Paul Johnson AMERICAN RANDONNEUR • FALL 2019 1 President’s Message As this issue of American meeting old friends you may only see never would have considered on their Randonneur reaches your mailbox, every four years, you could do so own. But they achieved this! RBAs are planning their 2020 events because, as with every other PBP rider, Lone Star Randonneurs RBA Dan and submitting their calendar to RUSA. a country organization like RUSA and Driscoll is relentlessly on the hunt for It’s an exercise in satisfying your its event organizers set up qualifiers motivations to keep us randos inspired, riders’ goals and aspirations, within your for you to ride, and conveyed your whether it’s K-Hound or Rando Scout. volunteers’ willingness and capacity, results to France. And because another How many of us have been sucked in with an event flow that reflects local organization, the Audax Club Parisien, by these elusive yet rewarding goals? climate, riders’ conditioning … and the toiled mightily to organize once again If you are an RBA, you know the need for variety and fun! this huge and unique event for you impact you can have on building a These events will appear on local to experience. ridership, and providing events for club websites, be searchable on the RUSA Organizations provide a outsiders as well as your regulars. site, and be published internationally framework for such memorable events If you are a Permanent owner, by the Audax Club Parisien and to unfold, and for volunteers to make you know the value you provide to any Randonneurs Mondiaux, giving them them a reality. RUSA member to come and discover a national and worldwide audience. a nice route you’ve created, and for Individuals Make a Difference your local rando colleagues to keep Organizations Make a Difference I’ve said before that you can up their goals, be they R-12, P-12, To me, this illustrates in one small make difference. My point here is that K-Hound or an equally valid unnamed way the value of organizations, and the an individual’s or small group’s ideas personal goal. void that would be left without them. and work can be magnified in an All of this is either made possible, If you participated in Paris-Brest- organization. or magnified, because we’re a part Paris this year, perhaps making new One person—Bill Bryant of a successful, well-conceived friends from across the globe, and (RUSA #7)—brought the R-12 and organization, one that a half dozen P-12 to RUSA members. These are real individuals chose to create at an challenges you can achieve without lots important, transitory moment in of miles per year, sleep deprivation, or August 1998. And one that many nighttime riding. You just need grit— dedicated volunteers have painstakingly against the chill, the sleet, the rain, cared for in the ensuing years. the torrid heat, the winds—and I speak from the heart on this, as determination. It brought a new type one of those riders and one of those of rando into our randonneuring fold. volunteers. One person—Sophie Matter— I hope that you, like me, have spearheaded the ACP’s Super found reward in belonging to our Randonnée 600 permanents program. organization, as rider, route designer, It’s a relatively small program, but RBA, or any other role. global, engaging riders and route designers for that special challenge. —John Lee Ellis One that many “Super Six” finishers [email protected] After a big snowfall on Mt. Lemmon. —PHOTO JOHN LEE ELLIS 2 FALL 2019 • AMERICAN RANDONNEUR From the Editor You’re reading this issue online, Gambler’s 1000, describes the and we appreciate your patience and satisfaction of riding lonelier roads and support as the RUSA Board resolves the beauty to be experienced in quiet the financial issue that has brought us places. Keith Gates enthusiastically to this temporary solution. I hope to describes the joys of gravel riding return to the print issue very soon. that often takes riders back to less I am grateful as well for the continued populated spaces. Riding on gravel support of our advertisers. If you need may be slower, but getting away from new gear, a new bike, or a gift for a suburbia and busy roads and back to cycling friend…please check out their more scenic vistas makes this kind of products and services and support riding enjoyable. Riding "little" PBP the companies that support our Because of the distances (Princeton-Belmar-Princeton). publication and sport. randonneurs cover, every ride is an —PHOTO DAWN ENGSTROM PBP 2019 has transformed into adventure. Paul Ivanov describes a stories of epic adventures…some of 200km ride in the Bay Area in which we will publish in the winter December. Gardner Duvall chronicles Finally, Mary Shanklin explains issue. A huge congratulations to all this year’s (mis)adventures of DC fleche how randonneurs helped another ancien(ne)s on your accomplishment! Team Ambivalence. If a 200km can randonneur achieve his dream to Chapeau as well to all who showed provide excitement, a 600km is sure to qualify for and attend PBP (talk about up for the event even if you did not provide surprises. Over this distance, it Plan B!), and columnists Chris Newman earn an official finishing time. Your is certain that one will experience highs and Paul Johnson reiterate the need commitment, hard work, and courage and lows, it is certain that the weather for and the value of the volunteer work are commendable. will not be wonderful the whole time, that makes randonneuring happen. One Accomplishments of riders and it is certain that the experience will activity that receives little recognition completing other challenges are be memorable. Jonathan Fey writes but is crucial to AR is the work done by chronicled in this issue. Shab a fine report about a 600 traveling the magazine’s columnists. Four times Memarbashi and Hamid Akbarian through Colorado and Wyoming. Greg a year these writers take time to write present a report about the Grand Tour Olmstead details the experience of something that informs or entertains of Italy, a series of four challenging completing a challenging 300km in us or perhaps spurs us into action. I am rides, each of 1200km or more, offered Italy, and several participants in this grateful for the commitment of these sequentially, but only one per year. year’s Sunshine 1200 join Dave randonneurs and friends. Paul Johnson Congratulations to Hamid Akbarian Thompson in remembering the has been a key AR columnist for years; and Bob Brudvik, the first Americans highlights of this epic event. however, he is stepping away after this to complete the whole series.
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