Alta Alpina Cycling Club Volume 3 Issue 6 PACELINE July 2005 Carson Valley Classic—July 30-31 Inside this issue: Seeking Volunteers Bike Spokesman 2 Jim Rhiner & Mel Maalouf, Race Directors Weekend Ride Schedule 3 In just three weeks the Alta Alpina AACC volunteers will provide all of Presidential Potpourri 3 Cycling Club will once again the event support. Many tasks can proudly host the Northern CA/NV be performed before the days of Seattle to Portland Ride 4 Masters District Championships at the events so we can use your the Carson Valley Classic. The help even if you have other plans Alpine County Kids’ 5 event consists of the Minden for the weekend of the races. Bike-A-Thon Criterium on Saturday July 30 and Remember... AACC members the Diamond Valley Road Race on Guidelines for Ride 6 seeking ride and race Leaders Sunday July 31. reimbursements can fulfill some of Rider feedback tells us that the their requirements by volunteering Board Meeting Minutes 7 racers greatly appreciate our high- at the Minden Criterium and/or the quality courses, excellent Diamond Valley Road Race. organization and volunteer spirit. It For more details, see the race depends on us to once again description posted on our website: Congratulations Juniors! make this a success, so please www.AltaAlpina.org. contribute a little of your time to Contact one of us today to discuss Sattley Time Trial make this event another success. tasks that fit your schedule and Shawndrea placed 1st As a volunteer you!ll have a interest. Micah"placed 2nd (15-16) chance to meet some of the top [email protected] Trevor"placed 2nd"(17-18) road cyclists, including former 775-783-9834 Andrew"placed 6th (under 23) Pros and Cat 1s and work with a team of really cool people. [email protected] Nevada City Classic Andrew"placed 1st"(under 23) AACC Wednesday Night Race Series Micah"placed 4th"(15-16) Trevor"placed 4th"(17-18) Troy Walters, Wednesday Night Race Director Nick"placed 6th" We!re having another great season of Wednesday night races. Remember, there are no tickets this year! Prices are $4!for!members, $7!for!non- Jr. Districts Time Trial members. Route descriptions and race results are posted on our website at Trevor"placed 4th"(17-18) www.AltaAlpina.org. Races start promptly at 6:15 pm. Be there ready to race! 7/5! Tuesday Club Challenge- 8/3! Club Challenge - East Valley Franktown RR Criterium 7/13! Blue Lakes RR 8/10! Genoa Time Trial 7/20! Diamond Valley RR 8/17! East Valley Criterium 7/27! Luther Hill Climb Time Trial 8/24! Diamond Valley RR Page 2 PACELINE BikeSPOKEsman Tim Rowe, AACC and Nevada Bicycle Advisory Board Member GET INVOLVED, BE FRIENDLY, and SPEAK OUT in SUPPORT of BICYCLING The Nevada Bicycle Advisory Board met on Thursday NBAB still needs a Junior representative – anyone June 16, 2005 at Reno Sparks Convention and under 21 at time of appointment can be considered. Visitor!s Authority (RSCVA) offices in Reno, NV. A few NBAB members went on a bicycle ride with 8 of 14 members of NBAB met and discussed many Janet Carson to tour the newly opened Verdi section of items including a report of history of recent bicycle the Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway. The First Link Completion legislation in front of the Nevada Legislature, the last Celebration will be June 17th. The new path is a great being in 1991. Signatures are still being collected for improvement over riding along I-80 with the 18- the “Bicycle Nevada” vanity plate and forms are at wheelers. Note that after the path is totally complete, many local bicycle shops and at the Bicycle Nevada (i.e. when NDOT finishes the new fencing) the path will web page: be turned over to the City of Reno. Also FHWA ! ! www.bicyclenevada.com regulations require NDOT to remove the special Please sign it and encourage others to sign it too. allowance of letting bicycles on that portion of the Bicycle Nevada jerseys are still selling well and were interstate at that time. recently sold 21 at the Lake Tahoe ride and a few at Next NBAB meeting on August 16, 2005 at Don Bike to Work event in Sacramento and more at Tour de Reynolds Center in Incline Village. Nez this week. Bicycle Nevada socks will be ordered More information on the NBAB please contact me, Tim soon. Rowe, at 267-9531 [email protected] The Nevada Bicycle and Pedestrian person, Bruce Mackey will be retiring in July – and he will be missed as he has supported bicycle safety so well the past few years. AACC Weekend Ride Schedule—July John Seher, Weekend Ride Coordinator Sunday July 17, 2005!—Packsaddle Pass and Sunday July 24, 2005!—Get that mountain bike Mormon Emigrant Trail Loop This is a scenic down from the rafters, and head for the hills! It!s an mountain loop on some little known roads with, even numbered day, so we can ride the Rim Trail. We unfortunately, a bit of riding on a busy highway. To ride from the Ponderosa Ranch at Incline, up the old avoid traffic, we!ll meet at the foot of old Meyer!s Grade Mount Rose Road to the Tahoe Meadows, then south where it intersects South Upper Truckee Road and on to the Rim Trail and Tunnel Creek. Meet near the leave at 8:00 am. We head up and over Echo Summit Ponderosa Ranch along Hwy 28 at 9:00 am. Riding and descend past Strawberry where we leave Hwy 50 time is about 6 hours with lots of climbing and technical for the safety of a lightly travelled USFS paved road. terrain. Bring your camera and plenty of food and This will take us over Packsaddle Pass to the Silver water. Fork Road that comes from Kyburz. We!ll then climb up to meet the Mormon Emigrant Trail, then Hwy 88 back to Silver Lake, Kirkwood, Carson Pass, and Hope Valley. We!ll take old Luther Pass and Hwy 89 back to the start. Lots of climbing and seventy Alpine June 12 some miles. Bring money to buy food along the way. Markleeville-Lake Volume 3 Issue 6 Page 3 Presidential Potpourri Jennie Hamiter Ah, Summer! Summer is in full an eye on the schedule for the Road Race on Sunday. To make it swing, and I hope everyone is Time Trials. If you haven!t raced less hectic for those of us who making the most of the longest before, feel free to start in the D help out every year, please join days of the year and the warm category, and move up if you need us! Remember that the Ride weather. I also hope you!re taking to. When I entered my first Reimbursement Program has advantage of being an Alta Alpina Wednesday Night Race, I didn!t changed to require 12 hours of Club Member! expect it to be nearly as much fun volunteer service, and CVC hours as it was. The races aren!t too count toward those 12. Contact Have you Posted a Ride on the stressful (emotionally), and if you Jim Rhiner [775-783-9834 or Ride Board? start to race regularly it feels like [email protected]] to find out Know you!re going to be doing a you!re racing your friends, and it!s what positions he still needs to fill. certain ride at a certain time? Post a pretty sociable affair (well, I!ve been told by avid racers that it on the Ride Board, and the afterward, anyway). The other both venues are among the best posting will get e-mailed to all club racers are always good sports and in the Northern California/Northern members subscribed to the Ride very encouraging toward each Nevada area, so it!s always Board. Do you find that the usual other, and often you end up surprising that there aren!t more club rides are too fast, or too long, working with a few other racers to club members racing it. Most of or just not at the right time for catch or stay away from another the races this year are district you? If so, there are probably group, and nothing will ever push championships, but there is a race other people in the club that think you physically as hard as working for Cat 3,4,5 that anyone can the same thing. Come up with the together on bikes. You!ll get a good enter. If you!re showing up every type of ride you want to do, and workout, to say the least. Wednesday Night to race, why not post it yourself. Enter a good Troy always has cookies, licorice show up for the major race event description, hit the “submit” and drinks for post-race snacks, on your home turf? button, and invite 200 of your and after a race it!s pretty easy to closest friends. Goodbye Snow, Hello High convince yourself that a little Altitude Mountain Biking I!ve had a few requests this year processed sugar is just what you for rides geared toward kids. An need. Finally, new for 2005: the It!s taken a little while longer than excellent idea! The club is made club has rented a port-a-potty that most years, but now the passes up of volunteers, and if you!d like will show up to all the races. All the are all open, and the snow is to see the club do some kids! comforts of home - come out and starting to melt off the trails in the rides, then you!re the volunteer see what it!s all about! High Sierras.