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So the 2011 schedule is off to a dodgy spot but I WILL be adding rides soon.  My bike has been down for a couple of weeks due to some fairing repairs I’ve been making.  Dads bike was tore down to make massive repairs to his fairing.  My bike will be back on the road by the end of this weekend.  I hope to have his fairing painted and ready by month end.  Stay tuned for updates!

 

Thanks always,

 

Bob Jr.

 

Update: I’ve already gotten a couple questions on why the fairings need to be repaired.  First of all our bikes are old.  My bike is old enough to drink, my dad’s is old enough to cut back on drinking.  Plastic that age gets brittle.  But beyond that there is more history.  My Dad’s bike is easy.  The previous owner put the sidecar on after he put the bike down, fairly hard and did a poor job of fixing it.. but it seemed to weather it pretty well.    But mostly before my Dad bought it and after it got the sidecar what it did was sit parked.  Dad started taking it on our rides and as a result the vibration and distance took a higher toll and the damaged fairing just started to fall apart.  Dad bought it with the damaged fairing.  My bike is a different story.  It had been put down before I got it with some minor damage but I spent a lot of time and effort fixing it.  However one day last year when I stopped at the Minneapolis VA hospital someone knocked it over on its side while I was in the hospital for quick business.  I fixed it last year, I had thought, but I missed some damage and even worse the adhesive used was not the right one.  Since my bike is also my everyday commuter when ever possible (and by Minnesota standards my notion of possible is pretty broad), “some damage” turned into quite a bit of damage due to wind and vibration and I had to pull it down.  I have one last repair to make and she should be back on the road late tomorrow.

And thanks to Chris from EveryDayRiding for the tweet…

 

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I got this from the Twin Cities Motorcycle Club. It is a nice short basic group riding guide.

TCMC-Group Riding Primer

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We’re going to make supporting us as easy as possible for everyone involved.  We do not want to collect any money directly.  Instead we are asking you donate in our name at the American Cancer Society.

Sponsors

We are following the “bike-a-thon” model used by a couple of fund raisers when I was a kid, the difference is that we will know the mileage traveled in advance of the event.  What we’d like you to do use the form attached to the ride information and let us know what rider you want to sponsor and for how much mile per mile per ride.  For the city ride, the mileage is low so a larger pledge would be in order, perhaps 25¢ a mile. The some of the other rides are much longer so 5¢ a mile is probably more in order

Do I have to pledge by the mile?  No. But encourages there to be more riders.

Do I have to pledge by ride?  No, you can pledge by the rider for the rest of the season.  This will encourage the riders to ride make the most by attending more rides.  Of course this also means you are guessing how much a mile to pledge by trying to guess on how many rides they attend.  And we will be adding rides over the course of the riding season.

Riders

There are few rules necessary to join our team.  Aside from the ACS rules we ask that you be responsible, mature and polite.  Thus far there are people fairly diverse backgrounds that will be riding with us, please be respectful. We have a guide on group riding we’d like you to read.  Ideally we’d like all riders to join our ACS team.  Please go to the ridetofightcancer.org team page and join the team.  There is a $25 donation required by the American Cancer Society to join a team.  If you do not join the team you are still welcome to join us on our rides.  Use the “I want to ride!” page we’ll add your name to the ride list as a non-team member.  Anyone who chooses to sponsor you will be donating to the team at large.   All you need to do is tell family and friends you are riding and ask them to come here to this site and sponsor you.

What if rider only joins up at the last second and is not listed on the page in time, or I’m the rider and joined to late?  What if the rider has not joined the team?

This is not a problem.   Sponsors will just to donate to the larger team for that riders activities.  Donate here!

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We will be posting several events for summer 2010 shortly.  The first ride will be the city ride.  This will be the first ride every year we run and is designed to get the riders into the habit.

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