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Week of Sept 14th

There will be lots happening on campus this week with the UA Cycling Club.

• Tuesday, Sept. 15th (9am-12pm): We'll be out at the Bike Station with Parking & Transportation Services helping out students with their bikes.
• Thursday, Sept. 17th (7pm-8pm, Campus Rec Center): A guestspeaker will talk about defensive biking skills, group riding etiquette, and your rights and responsibilities as a bicycling road user. There will be snacks and time for questions. You will need a CatCard for entry into the Rec Center unless you send me a note with your name using the 'contact' page of this website.
• Friday, Sept. 18th (9am-5pm): Park(ing) Day Bike Fix-It. Volunteers needed! The club will be 'adopting' a parking spot along University Ave. and use the space to provide the local community with basic bike maintenence services for free.

Spring 2009 'Bike Fix-It'

First Race Weekend Coming Up!

Next weekend is the first race weekend of the '09 Collegiate MTB Season. Everybody is welcome to come and race and enjoy some camping Saturday night. It'd also be great to have someone come along who's not racing to help with feeds. From what I've heard, I expect about 8 people to go, but more would be great. We're going to try and leave Saturday with enough time to pre-ride the course, camp, and race Sunday morning. A car could also leave later if some people are working Saturday. Here's a little information about the event, cost, camping, licenses, and carpools.

• Please let me know this weekend if you're thinking of going so we can set up a separate e-mail list.
• General race info: http://nmors.org/
• Map to Las Cruces, NM: http://www.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=E+University+Blvd,+Tucson,+AZ+(University+of+Arizona)&daddr=Las+Cruces,+NM&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.826758,79.013672&ie=UTF8&z=8
• Trip cost: $25 (registration fees + gas+dinner)
• Camping: Last year we camped at the race venue which worked out great. If you don't have any camping gear, you can rent some equipment from Outdoor Adventures at the Campus Rec: http://campusrec.arizona.edu/outdoor/equip.html . Some of us probably have some extra equipment, so don't let the camping keep you from going.
• Carpools: We'll work this out later, once we know who's going. If you end up driving, you won't have to pay as much for the trip.
• Collegiate race licenses: You need one to race. The license will cost between Free-$30. If you have another USA Cycling license, it's $15, if you purchase another licence you can add the collegiate license on for free, or it's $30 all by itself. Here's where you start: http://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=579

If you want to go, or are thinking about it, please e-mail me your name (first and last). Thanks,

Chloe

'09-'10 Membership Interest Form

Thursday, Sept. 10th, 6:30pm, Student Rec Center

That's the next meeting, so make note and come on by. We'll be discussing the upcoming mountain bike season, putting together our members roster and organizing our events for the season. We'll also have clothing for sale, so bring a checkbook!

Here's a quick agenda

• Park(ing) Day, Sept. 18th - Club involvement? Sign up to get involved!
• Horny Toad Hustle MTB Race, Las Cruces, NM - Everyone welcome and we'll talk about race licenses and logistics.
• Training ride dates
• Sponsors/Donations - The club needs your support.
• First Clif Bar order will happen on September 14th (checks due by then)!
• Campus Rec Forms - Turn them in, please.
• Free CarbBoom! gels.
• Officer elections! The club needs a Records Officer, Public Relations Officer, and many ride leaders.

Thanks everyone for joining us on the Labor Day Ride. More than 20 people came out for a casual ride out Mission.

Ride safe,

Labor Day Ride

Let's meet at 6:30 Monday at the flagpole for an easy getting to know you ride. We did this last year and it was a great way to integrate the new Cycling Club members. I know you all come from a great deal of different experience levels (road and mountain), so we'll ride at an easy pace (no getting separated, no running stop signs or stoplights, etc). The route:

1) Ride W of campus on University, end up on St Mary's;
2) Turn S on Grande, take Mission and turn W on Ajo;
3) Turn S off of Ajo and proceed to either Irvington or Valencia;
4) Turn N on Mission, ride back to campus;
6) End up at Cafe Paraiso for coffee, etc.