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schedule is posted and available at http://surf-ici.com/chaingang/Schedule/RideSchedule.htm
Thanks to Nacho the November ride schedule is posted at the URL above. Don't forget about the time change for the Sat. Nov. 6 Mountain Bike Sedona ‘FALL COLORS ride. The time was changed from 8:00AM to 9:00AM. The Palo Verde Century is this Sunday and I have been hearing from a lot of you that you are planning to go. If you are still undecided just remember the hardest part of any ride is getting out the door. Once you start riding you will be glad that you went. The December 4th Christmas party is coming together. This is Cindie's event and she is temporarily out of town. All questions should be directed to her. I have repeated the ride and party description below. Sat. 4 It’s Party Time!!! ‘POTLUCK’ Spin the Spars The Christmas Party for the Prescott Chain Gang Cycling Club is scheduled for December
4, 1999. Saturday afternoon at 4:00 PM at Max Davenport's house. The party is a pot luck
with meat and drinks provided by the club.
If you have never done EL TOUR DE TUCSON this is the time to go. They have 25, 50, 75, and 110 mile rides. While many race the challenging 110 mile course for time and placing others enjoy one of the best fun rides of the year. The course is lined with well stocked sag stops and the police literally stop traffic at every intersection for racer and recreational rider alike. You just ride through! It is as if bikes rule for a day. The event is a little expensive but extremely well put on. I think that last year they had over 4,000 riders. Last year was our first and we raced it with all that we had. We did not get off except to push the tandem through the dry washes. After 5 and 1/2 hours of riding and driving a 10 ft bike in a sea of singles I was very happy to eat the free lunch/party after the ride. We had our best day on the tandem and really came together as a team. It is our goal to break 5 hours this year. Fun can be had in many different ways.
The Adopt a Highway cleanup on October 16 had a good turnout. We had enough people to get done quickly and go out for breakfast afterwards. I always wonder what people think when they drive by and see the Chain Gang sign and then see us in blaze orange picking up trash. We usually have some sort of amateur archeologist discussion about what we find and human behavior. It is always amazing what people throw out the window of their car. Some people must be incredibly stupid or selfish. Boy, would I love to see them get caught. One person noticed that several of the cigarettes had burned all the way down to the end. Since no one smokes all the way to the filter it probably means that it was lit when it hit the ground and smoldered a while. Scary. Jokingly, I said that we should get credit for all of these community service hours just in case we get in trouble in the future. Maybe if one of us got a lot of speeding tickets the rest could donate our hours to pay there fines.
Have you noticed the new email sign up link on the club's site? (http://www.prescottyellowpages.com/chainform.htm) I should have done this a long time ago. I have had several people sign up in the short time it has been up. They are surprisingly mostly locals who frequent the site but several are from around the state and a few are even from foreign countries. I would like to WELCOME all new readers and hope to see you on a ride some day. I always welcome articles written by others. If you received this Chain Mail you are already on the list and do not need to fill out the form. Soon I will have email sign up sheet in some of the bike shops around town. I already put some printed copies of this newsletter in these shops and have received very positive responses. If this sign up sheet works out as well as the one on the web site I will be very busy adding names.
Cycle computers are wonderful little items. Way back when I first started riding I would go from my house to the Safeway store and around the side streets of Chino Valley and back home without knowing how far I had gone and I didn't care. Then the course was not long enough, I'd get home with lots of energy still left. So then I started going out farther and getting a good workout. As I would go around the corner up the street, where I live, I'd wave at Mr. Abbott, he was always working out in his garden. Now, he had a garden. He'd yell out as I went by "you're too old for that kid's stuff". I'd laugh and really kick it into gear. Then about fifteen minutes into the ride there was Mrs. Mintzmyer. She had a bunch of cats or so it seemed. "Slow down" she'd say,"my little Boots is out playing". Chino Valley is a rather friendly town, you know. All this time I had no idea as to my mileage or how fast I went. All I knew was that it would take me x number of minutes to do this ride or x number of hours to do that ride. Then one day this friend of mine, Gary Lopez, tells me there's a sale on this little computer for your bike. Huh? Computer? You can actually see how far you've gone and how much time it took to ride the course. Well guess what, I bought one. The one I got told me the distance for the ride and also keeps track of my total miles like an odometer. Not only that but I can see what my speed is during the ride and on top of that, it will average my speed for the whole ride. If I want to know what was my fastest speed it will also tell me that and what the time of the day is. Last, but not least it will tell me how fast my feet are spinning, rpm. I mounted this gadget on my bike and went for a ride. You know that one hour ride I was doing not knowing how far I was going? Well it turns out I was going fifteen miles. Now I can do that route in less than an hour, only by a minute, but still under an hour. So I got one for my road bike also and you know what? To Hell Canyon and back it's only 33.1 miles. If I stop quickly, without making a face implant, I can keep my average speed up, for those stop and go situations. So there I go, nose to the handle bar stem with my eyes fixed on the computer, can I break my record from that last ride? As I would ride with some of the guys, they would tell me to keep my eyes on the road not on the computer, I guess I wasn't paying attention to my fellow riders. They took my computer off my bike and threw it out in a field, it took me hours to find it. I did find it and I looked around and they were gone and so was the summer. I had missed the summer. I was too focused on the computer and didn't see spring change into summer and it was in the process of changing into fall. Mrs. Mintzmyer's cat, Boots, had kittens and they were full grown cats by the time I noticed. I also missed out on watermelon, corn and squash from Mr. Abbott's garden. Whoa, how could this have happened? My whole summer...gone! There's a knock on the door, I just got a package, the UPS guy brought me my new Heart Rate Monitor! I gotta go ride. See ya. Nacho Reyes nreyesno smamgoodnet.com
PHYLLIS BORIS Dear friend: Tim Thank you for your past support, and now there is a short time left before the 2 November General Election. I will not only appreciate your vote for me for Prescott City Council, but also if you can tell your friends and write a letter to the Courier on my behalf. I would also be grateful if your friends will call others and encourage similar letter writing. As you know, I have been active in the city for many years. I have proven leadership abilities and many ideas for the future of Prescott. If you, or any of your friends would like to discuss my visions with me, I would be delighted. Since there are two very important Yavapai County issues in addition to the two seats for City Council, I know you will be going to the polls and again I am soliciting your vote. I am confident I can perform more efficiently, with a more open mind, and more experience than several of the other candidates. Thank You Warmest regards Phyllis Boris Phyllis recently responded to our "Bicycle Related Questions for Prescott City Council and Mayor Candidates" See her Questionnaire Responses Tim
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analysis. I would like to be a sponsor of the club by offering my services to
members at a substantial discount. I will offer club members a dietary analysis for
only $30. This is 40% lower than the normal $50 fee. The overview of the
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