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JULY 2009 cycling utah.com 1 VOLUME 17 NUMBER 5 FREE JULY 2009 cycling utah 2009 UTAH,IDAHO, & REGIONAL EVENT CALENDAR INSIDE! •Utah, Idaho, and Regional Calendar of Events - p. 22 •Complete Triathlon Calendar - p. 26 •Speaking of Spokes - p. 2 •Little Red Riding Hood - p. 4 •Touring Book Reviews - p. 6 • Shop Directory - p. 8 •Results - p. 9 DIRT •Compression Wear - p. 10 •Route 211 - p. 12 PAVEMENT •Commuter Column - p. 13 •High Uintas - p. 14 ADVOCACY •Escalante's Great Western Trail - p. 16 •Pedalfest - p. 17 RACING •WickWërks Profile - p. 18 • Little Mountain Road Race - p. 19 TOURING •Mechanics Corner - p.20 •Hoodoo 500 Preview - p. 28 MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN WEST CYCLING TRIATHLONJOURNAL •Hydration Guide - p. 29 •Grand Canyon Connector Tour - p. 30 2 cycling utah.com JULY 2009 SPEAKING OF SPOKES Meeting the Challenge P.O. Box 57980 By David Ward Murray, UT 84157-0980 Publisher www.cyclingutah.com You can reach us by phone: The promotional flyer was effec- (801) 268-2652 The Rotary Club tive. A picture of the Wasatch moun- Our Fax number: tains with a deep blue sky punctuated (801) 263-1010 of American Fork proudly by pure white clouds and the com- announces the Utah... mand, “Let’s Keep This Perfectly Dave Iltis, Editor & Clear”. From there, I went on to read Advertising Join Us about the Clear The Air Challenge and then visited the website. [email protected] It’s simple. Race 21 miles and see who is The concept is simple: Set a July 11, 2009 the king donut! In circuit style, ride 7 miles, goal to eliminate, during the period David R. Ward, Publisher 9:00 am at then eat as many donuts as of June 1 - July 10, 2009, a certain [email protected] number of vehicle trips per week. To Greenwood Elementary School you would like. No limit. For each achieve the gold level, eliminate 12 Contributors: Ben Simonson, donut eaten trips per week; at the silver level, 8 Michael Gonzales, Lou Melini, Then, ride 7 more miles, you’ll get a 3 50 East 200 South • American Fork trips; and at the bronze level, 4 trips. Andy Singer, Tom Jow, Lukas eat more donuts, then minute time Brinkerhoff, Tyler Servoss, Greg deduction! A vehicle trip is any trip from point A ride the last 7 mile lap. to point B. If you combine two trips Overton, Scott Kelly, Charles Questions? Pekow, Dylan Brown, Lynn Ware Glory and adulation are into one, such as going to the store on your way home from work instead of Peek, Ashton Clawson, Robin Call waiting for you at the Finish Line. driving there after you arrive home, Perkins, David Anderson, Gary you have saved a trip. If you ride a Bird, Scott VanDenHeuvel, Eric 801 763-1216 bike to make a run to the store, you Jeppson, Steve Kodad, Jeremy Smith, Barbara Sherwood ation have eliminated two trips. There is a ore inform set of rules, but you get the idea. Visit www rdedonut.com for m Distribution: .utahtou I have been a bit of a laggard Dave, Karma, and Marinda Ward, Doug when it comes to reducing my car Kartcher, David Montgomery usage. Only sporadically have I cho- (To add your business to our sen to make a run to my grocery store, free distribution list, give us less than a mile away, on my bike. a call) That trip is often made at the end of Administrative Assistant: the day when I am feeling lazy. Lindsay Ross And I can easily ride a bike the Editorial Assistant: 5 flat miles to my office, but I have Ashton Clawson, Dylan Brown usually chosen to drive. This will sound somewhat flimsy and vain, but cycling utah there is no shower in our small office is published building, and I do not like what the eight times a year beginning helmet does to my hair. I know, I in March and continuing know. One hardly notices the small monthly through October. waves in my hair once I have combed it out, but I do. As for the shower, Annual Subscription rate: that is a little more serious issue. $15 But I was motivated by the (Send in a check to Challenge. Nothing like a little orga- our P.O. Box) nized competition to get me moving. Postage paid in Murray, UT And this was the best kind of com- petition - only against myself. So I Editorial and photographic con- decided to sign on. tributions are welcome. Send I looked at my situation to decide via email to dave@cyclingutah. what level to sign up for. My ego com. Or, send via mail and please said gold, but reason won out. On include a stamped, self-addressed average, I have 2 - 3 days a week I envelope to return unused mate- do not need a vehicle during the day rial. Submission of articles and accompanying artwork to and so can ride to work. That would cycling utah be 4 - 6 vehicle trips. My errands is the author’s warranty that the material is in from home that I could do on a bike no way an infringement upon the are at best one or two a week. I find rights of others and that the mate- nothing causes me to lose interest rial may be published without faster than a goal I quickly realize additional approval. Permission is unattainable. So I opted for the is required to reprint any of the silver level. contents of this publication. I realize, of course, that my vision was somewhat myopic. I confined it cycling utah is printed on 40% to trips I could eliminate by riding post-consumer recycled paper my bike. The Challenge’s website with soy-based ink. offers up many more ways that trips cycling utah is free, limit one can be eliminated. But being the copy per person. cyclist, and having aspired for some © 2009 cycling utah time to be more of a bike commuter, Pick up a copy of I focused on eliminating trips with cycling utah at your a bike. favorite bike shop! First, my vanity. My wife often tells me when something bothers me, “Get over it.” So I did. I comb my hair, and then just do not think of it Cover: again. No one has made any nega- The Little Red Riding Hood tive comments about my coiffure, Century was held June 6th in and I do not appear to have lost any Wellsville, Utah. With 2700 business. women riding it, it is probably the largest all women's ride in the As for clothing, I leave a pair of country. Photo: Robin Perkins Continued on page 27 JULY 2009 cycling utah.com 3 4 cycling utah.com JULY 2009 JULY 2009 cycling utah.com 5 TOURING Little Red Riding Hood - 2700 Women Raise Funds for Cancer Riders and volunteers wore festive costumes. Photo: Robin Perkins By Ashton Clawson dated nearly 2700 participants this year, up from 400 participants just Helmets with Hawaiian flow- four years ago, according race direc- ers, some topped with margarita tor Penny Perkins. glasses, palm trees, or superhero The ride began with registration, capes, dotted the crowd on an early costume contest and breakfast. While Saturday morning in Wellsville, UT. Bonneville Cycling Club’s Little Red Continued on page 6 Riding Hood, one of the largest all- women’s benefit rides, accommo- 6 cycling utah.com JULY 2009 BOOK REVIEW Touring 101, is meant for the person obviously not complete; only 8 pages the information that you get may be worth buying. If you are looking for who wakes up one day and decides are devoted to Canada, The Pacific worth exactly that”. Though I am the opinions of bike touring experts to be a bike rider or has minimal Coast Highway and the Great Divide personally a bit lost when it comes to then, again, consider buying these Two “How-to” cycling knowledge. Section 2, Cycle trail. computer searches, one would hope Touring 102, focuses on how-to bike From an excerpt in the Bolivia that a critical analysis of bike-touring books. If you are not big on reading Books for the tour. For someone who has decent section: The most dangerous road websites would be better than dis- books and are not interested in what bike riding experience but no or little in the world descends 3400 meters missing them outright. other bike tourists have to say (in a touring experience, this section can over 65 km northeast of La Paz. In One may wonder why should a Bicycle Tourist book), then save your money and go be of help. As an experienced bike Bolivia, traffic drives on the right. book be purchased when there are Review By Lou Melini tourist, I found the information a bit However from Chuspipata traffic websites with information for free. to a bicycle touring website. I liked superficial and short on detail. I did drives on the left to give downhill Adventure Cycling Association has both books, but I liked Mr. Lord’s drivers a better view of how close an excellent “How-to” tab. In addi- Advice for bicycle touring was find a few items to incorporate into book better despite his sometime dif- their wheels are o the edge. Every tion there is BicycleTouring101.com, essentially nonexistent when I rode my REI bike touring lecture, but not year many people plunge to their BicycleTouringPro.com, and even a fering opinion on a few topics. across the United States in 1975. The much.