View this years Nog*Fest photos HERE
Critical Mass Ride
Taking place this Friday, October the 27th at 5pm is our annual Halloween Critical Mass Ride. Critical mass bike rides take place in cities all over the world on the last friday of every month. They were designed to gather large groups of cyclist in order to bring awareness to rider safety, car pollution and alternative transport. Large group rides also allow riders to meet other bike lovers. Last year we had over 100 cyclist of all ages get together (mostly in costume) for a fun ride on Thunder Bay streets. This year we are hoping for another great party on wheels. Meet at the Agora circle (The main entrance at Lakehead University) with bikes, helmets and costumes and help support a safer, healthier, cheaper mode of transportation. Oh and costumes are highly recommended, it is Halloween time after all. There aren't too many times cyclists are encouraged to look extra strange. So live it up and get dressed up!
Can't wait to see you there, and remember... burn fat, not oil!
-any questions or concerns please contact Kelly Von Bargen at kavonbar@lakeheadu.ca
Gabicce Mare - 2007
(a number of club cyclists went on this trip over the Easter weekend week last year)
For experienced cyclists
April 5 to 14 join the organized cycle tour
April 14 to 21 train with Italian Champion Patrizia Spadaccini
$4,495 double occupancy including airfare or $2,795 for either week (same as 2006)
Sardinia - 2007
May 18 to June 2
(Lorne McDougall is hoping to go on this tour and is hopes others might be interested too)
Organized cycle every other day: off days can be organized for more informal easier, slower, more scenic rides for family members
Seaside hoiday resort suitable for family; activities for children
The French Island of Corsica is a 1 hour ferry trip from Sardinia, it offers its own unique cycling countryside, plus French cuisine
$4,495 double occupancy including airfare or $2,795 for either week
Abruzzo - 2007
September 7-15
Organized cycle every other day
Seaside hokiday resort suitable for family
Activities for children
$2, 695 double occupancy including airfare.
You can call Lorne McDougall @ 683-2436 for more information or see him at the Banquet
or call Romeo Alberico(the tour organizer) @ 1-800-461 8267
check out www.canadacyclesitaly.com
Santiago de Cuba
Let me assist you to organize your winter cycling. Cycling and training in a warm climate during winter is a dream for some but a reality for me. I am Reg McCoy, a Canadian cyclist and Cuba is my second home since 1988. I have been cycling there as well as designing and leading all-inclusive bicycle tours for over 15 years.
The undisputed best road riding and mountain bike centre in the entire country is Santiago de Cuba my home. This city is the cultural centre of Cuba and is located in a Vancouver like setting…it's on the Caribbean Sea surrounded by the Sierra Maestra mountains. This tropical location allows for cycling along rolling coastal roads, gradual climbs over the mountains to the Central Valley and beyond. Some mountain climbs will challenge even the fittest of athletes offering a start from sea level climbing to 1100m in just 11km. The challenge is there for mountain biking too!
Flights and hotel packages to Santiago de Cuba with Sunwing, a Canadian tour operator and Hotel Melia Santiago, a 5-star international hotel, can easily be booked on the Internet or with your travel consultant therefore minimizing your expenses. Package prices begin at $969 Canadian plus taxes and include your return flight from Toronto, transfers IN/OUT from the Santiago airport to your hotel and accommodation at Hotel Melia Santiago for 8 days/ 7 nights based on double occupancy. To fast track your knowledge of local cycling routes both on and off- road and an insight into the Cuban culture I offer my services at $100 CUC per person payable in Cuba.
The ideal time to be in Santiago de Cuba is from December through February as the temperature is usually 28 – 32C daytime and 18 – 22C nights. Very little rain falls during this time in this area of Cuba . While most other areas see cool wet weather you can enjoy sunny days cycling.
As for the past 9 years I have offered my all inclusive fully escorted tours available through Active Journeys Inc. but also realize that accomplished athletes need in country consulting only. My consulting services include how to organize your group or individuals while in Canada. Advise and direct you to cycling routes whether it be for intense training or more casual routes to absorb the feeling of being in Cuba You tell me what you expect and if it's possible you will have it.
Bottom line, you accomplish your riding objectives with my extensive knowledge of Cuba.
Please pass this information on to your club members as I do look forward to seeing them in Cuba.
Regards,
Reg McCoy
Santiago de Cuba
Third Annual Hayward Library Fall Century Tour
Library fund raising events will bookend the Hayward Fall Festival weekend with Big Top and bicycling. On Saturday September 23rd the Hayward Fall Festival Main Street will bustle with artists, crafts people and musicians.
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Friday evening Big Top Chautauqua is set to perform at Hayward High School. The weekend of fun will climax on Sunday with the 3rd Annual Hayward Library Fall Century Tour presented by North Woods Community Health Centers starting and finishing at Old Hayward Eatery and Brewpub.
For bicyclists, the Century will show the best the area offers in roads and scenery. "Last year's ride was our first visit to Hayward," said Antioch, Illinois cyclists Dan and Susan Mentgan. "The route was well marked and extra scenic and the roads were in beautiful condition. We liked the 'not too tough' terrain with the nice mix of hills and flat. The rest stops were great and the volunteers real friendly."
The 100-mile route passes two-dozen lakes and ventures into the Chequamegon National Forest on easy riding terrain. Riders also have five other routes to choose from including 100-kilometer (62-mile), 45–mile, 27-mile plus 13 or 5-mile novice and family route options. Early entry fees are in effect until September 11th.
The start/finish location is at the popular Old Hayward Eatery & Brew Pub. Every rider will get a ticket for a chance to win a new $2,000 Specialized Roubaix carbon fibre bicycle compliments of North Woods Community Health Centers and New Moon Ski Shop. Riders will also get tickets for other prizes, post-ride food and beverage at Old Hayward where the Buddy Scott Blues Band will entertain.
For information call or email the Hayward Public Library (715/634-2161, hlibrary@hayward.nwls.lib.wi.us) or log on to www.haywardareachamber.com for a printable PDF copy.
Ride for Karen
Hi Club organizers,
I want to let you know about a century ride coming up in early September. The ride attracts a good cross section of cyclists from Southern Ontario. The event will be held on Sunday September 10, 2006 and will feature two routes - a 25km course and a 160km century ride through quiet roads in York, Peel and Caledon.
Started in 2002, the Ride for Karen is a yearly cycling event that is held as a tribute to the life and legacy of Karen Tobias and to raise money for charities that help people living with cancer, and those who care for them. In the last four years the Ride for Karen has raised more than $250,000, which was used to help build and furnish new cancer care facilities, provide much needed resources for cancer support centers and send kids with cancer to camp.
Three children's cancer camps have been selected as the recipients of the proceeds from the 2006 Ride for Karen - they are Camp Quality, Camp Oochigeas and Camp Trillium.
All details of the event and registration are available online at www.rideforkaren.com. Entry fees are $75, reduced to $50 if cyclists register by August 24th. Event day registration is $100. If you raise more than $200 in pledges (which can be solicited and collected online), entry fees are waived. Entry includes lunch (for the 160km), a feed station and after-ride BBQ. The ride is supported. Cyclists should be prepared for a hilly, but fun and scenic 160km. Last year cyclists took between 5 and 7 hours to complete the ride. The largest group on the road (about 90 cyclists) finished in just over 5 hours. Check out the rider's comments section and photos from our past rides.
Any questions email me kris@rideforkaren.com or take a look at www.rideforkaren.com.
Cheers,
Kris
Kris Tobias
Ride for Karen Organizer
416 216-5173
Project Yellow Jersey
The purpose of Project Yellow Jersey is for Hope and Inspiration for
cancer patients and their families. The Thunder Bay Professional Fire
Fighters Association will be donating an autographed Lance Armstrong
Tour de France yellow jersey to Regional Cancer Care on June 20, 2006.
This jersey will become a permanent display at Regional Cancer Care
for the purpose of Hope and Inspiration for cancer patients and their
families. For three weeks prior to the presentation we will be asking
residents of Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario to share their live
strong story with us/what makes you live strong. This is not a
fundraising campaign.
The details for the "campaign" will be as follows;
Project Yellow Jersey will begin at the end of May
We will be asking residents of Thunder Bay and Northwestern
Ontario to share their live strong story with us/what makes you live
strong?
All stories will be entered into a contest with the Grand
Prize being a trip for two to the Livestrong Ride in Austin Texas on
October 8, 2006
The grand prize winner will present the Book of Thunder Bay
Live Strong Stories to the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The purpose of
this is to reciprocate the gift from Lance Armstrong.
There will be a series of other randomly drawn prizes that
will also be awarded.
Project Yellow Jersey t-shirts, yellow Livestrong bands and
other products will be made available throughout the campaign with the
intent to create a sea of yellow at the presentation
The details for the presentation of the yellow jersey to Regional
Cancer Care are as follows;
The presentation will take place at North Central Fire Station
on Water St. June 20.
Presentation/Unveiling at 1:15pm. This will include; a 5 -
7 minute video presentation, guest speakers, a survivors/live strong
story and the official unveiling and presentation of the jersey.
The winner of Project Yellow Jersey will be announced.
A "sea of yellow" will be created with over 400 people
attending the event in yellow t-shirts.
Photo and interview opportunities will be made available.
Stories can be submitted to;
Email: projectyellowjersey@shaw.ca
Canada Post;
Project Yellow Jersey
c/o Thunder Bay Professional Fire Fighters Association
P.O. Box 10187
Thunder Bay Ontario
P7B 6T7
Drop off at local sponsors;
CRC Communications, 555 Dunlop Street
SRC
Sportop Marketing
Fresh Air Experience
The Cyclepath
Petries Cycle and Sport
The Chronicle Journal
Marostica Motors
Quirion Financial Services,1085 Carrick Street
Alan Dickson Photography, 900 Central Ave.
Salt and Pepper Catering, 808 McKellar St. North
The Keg
Caribou Resturant
The Legion Athletic Cycling Camp
Alex Stieda captured the Yellow Jersey on the second day
of the 1986 Tour de France, becoming the First North American
to lead the Tour de France. He will be a guest coach
at the 45th Legion Athletic Camp.The 45th annual Legion Athletic Camp,
located on the Canadian/USA border (Manitoba/North Dakota)
at the International Peace Garden, is pleased to announce
the addition of cycling to its mulit-sport international program
and is now accepting registration for the summer of 2006.
1-204-661-5448. Deadline for registration is soon.
Contact: Curtis J. Phillips 1-780-743-4853
CYCLING AUGUST 13-19 2006
Head Coach Don Brewster 1-510-851-5112
The cycling camp is for Junior racers.The focus will be on safety
while buildiing skills and confidence. It will start with instruction
dealing with equipment, safe street riding, ride etiquette,
bike handling skills, how to avoid falls and how to fall, nutrition,
and then gradually, depending on the class, move into pack
and pace-line riding, climbing and racing skills. It will be
on-the-bike training all day and lectures/video in the evening
Six weeks of camps July 16 - August 26. A total of 12 sports offered:
basketball, advanced and beginners track and field, cycling, elementary,
equestrian, gymnastics, judo, sailing, soccer, volleyball and wilderness.
The Legion Athletic Camp www.legionathleticcamp.com is open to junior
and senior high school athletes and for some sports elementary grades.
1-204-661-5448
Niagara Frontier Bicycle Club Ride
Dear Sirs:
The Niagara Frontier Bicycle Club (NFBC), the largest bicycle club
in the western region of New York State, is hosting an invitational
multi-distance ride on Sunday, September 10th this year. As part
of our efforts to publicize this event throughout the United States
and Canada, we are asking bike clubs and bike shops to share
the attached information and registration document with their members
or customers. It could be disseminated through e-mails or websites
or posted on counters or display boards.
If you have any questions, you may contact the ride organizers listed
in the attached information and you may suggest that interested parties
also check out our club website: www.nfbc.com
Thank you for your kind assistance.
Yours truly,
NIAGARA FRONTIER BICYCLE CLUB
Camp Quality Fundraiser Fun Ride
This ride is in affiliation with Camp Quality.
Participants are welcome to give a voluntary donation.
NOTE: this ride is free so non-TBCC members are welcome.
START DATE: May 26
START TIME: 5:30pm
START PLACE: Ontario Government Building
END PLACE: Neebing Roadhouse
WHAT:
-FREE and NON-COMPETITIVE bike ride of 17 km. (short option of 4km)
WHY:
-Promote fun, friends and fitness. IT IS NOT A RACE and the event is FREE!
-To raise funds and awareness for Camp Quality in Thunder Bay
WHAT ELSE
-Bring your bike and helmet (helmet is mandatory we
will have extras if you don't have one)
-Free refreshments part way through the ride
-Free draw prizes for participants and volunteers
-Free LIVE music!
-order from menu at the Neebing
MORE INFO: call Frank at 475-1250 or 476-4596
In Motion for the Missing Charity Cycle Tour
Hello,
I am contacting you in hopes of encouraging your membership to support the cross-Canada In Motion for the Missing charity cycle tour, in benefit of The Missing Children's Network Canada and Child Find Canada. Two of our volunteers, Brian Potter and Tom Ropeleski, retired teachers, are undertaking the monumental task of cycling across Canada in aid of The Missing Children's Network Canada and Child Find Canada. We are extending a welcome invitation to the Thunder Bay Cycling Club to help us with this worthwhile cause.
The Missing Children's Network Canada and Child Find Canada are humanitarian organizations dedicated to the search for missing and exploited children and to the prevention of their disappearances through safety education programs reaching thousands of Canadian schoolchildren yearly. The Missing Children's Network Canada and Child Find Canada receive no governmental funding, and thus rely on the generosity of our corporate and individual sponsors to help us continue our important work. Please feel free to learn more about this organization at www.missingchildren.ca
The Missing Children's Network Canada is kindly asking the Thunder Bay Cycling Club to consider holding a charity fundraiser (perhaps a cycle-thon, mass garage sale, car wash, spaghetti dinner, etc.) to help us raise the necessary funds to support Brian and Tom as they pursue their dream. We would also encourage your members to cycle with Brian Potter and Tom Ropeleski for a few kilometers as they come through your area on Tuesday, May 30, 2006! We would gratefully acknowledge your generosity in supporting this most special event by placing thanks and a link to your website on the official In Motion for the Missing website at www.inmotionforthemissing.ca
The Missing Children's Network Canada sincerely thanks the Thunder Bay Cycling Club for considering to help us light the lamp of hope across Canada, for missing children everywhere.
With regards,
Susan Senyk
Coordinator, Special Events/ Coordonnatrice des événements speciaux
The Missing Children`s Network/ Le Réseau Enfants Retour
(514) 843-4968 ext:230
events@missingchildren.ca
www.missingchildren.ca
National MS 150 bike tour info
This is an invitation to be on our Team for the National MS 150 bike tour (previously called the Best Dam Bike Tour). The ride is August 5-6, we head out on Friday Aug 4 at around 5 pm.
Captain Harry Lum and his sidekick, Kay.. lead this team on a weekend of fun! Our team name is the Positive Pedalers.. we are sickeningly positive. The
only requirement to be on our team is a positive attitude, and you must also raise a minimum of $300 for Multiple Sclerosis. Its easy to raise $300 or
more.. you just have to ask and/or come up with creative ways to raise the money.
Sign up today at this address (Be sure to click the team registration box... its cheaper too). Sign up as a member of the Positive Pedalers.. Harry Lum is
captain:
Sign-up here
We wear smiley face helmet covers and this year as an added bonus we have JERSEYS! Don Becker, a local lawyer and all around good guy, wanted to help us help our cause and has graciously donated money to help us get some jerseys! I designed them and am attaching a pdf with all the vital information about the jersey!
If you want a jersey... You MUST sign up for the ride, and you must tell me that you want a jersey and what style and size by JUNE 15th.
(see pdf).
AFTER YOU SIGN UP.... Tell me.... so I can add you to the list. Also tell me if you are a newbie and need a helmet cover. We have helmet covers and clickers... there is a $5 fee for the helmet cover and clicker to help cover our costs. (you can pay me at the ride).
The MS ride is from Waukesha to Madison, overnighting at UW Whitewater. Each day you have a choice to ride 62, 75 or 100 miles...so there is something for
everyone!
Have a positively golden day!
Kay Lum
