2010 Great Western Bicycle Rally
Memorial Day Weekend

May 28 - 31st, 2010

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What? Mountain Biking at the Rally?

The Wine Taster's Tour - A Favorite Ride

Do you like to mountain bike too? The Paso Robles area has some beautiful back country to riding. This year we are adding a couple of guided tours provided by our sponsor K Man Cyclery and Sport in Atascadero.

Riders will meet at the shop in Atascadero at 9am Sat. and/or Sunday. The rides will be between 10 and 15 miles. Maps to the shop will be available at the rally headquarters.These rides are included in the Rally Fee.

We also have non-guided route maps availabe if requested.

This ride has been a Rally tradition for a number of years one form or another. The current version cuts out some of the hills to give you more wine, and less whine. It gives you a chance to visit five local wineries: Peachy Canyon Winery, Castoro Cellars, Donati Family Vineyard, Norman Vineyards, and Halter Ranch Vineyard.

By arrangement with these wineries, if you choose to purchase any wine during your visit, you don't have to carry it on your bike. The Rally will pick it up for you and you can retrieve it Sunday evening at Registration on the fairgrounds. Even if you don't stop to taste the wine, this is a pretty ride. Some of these wineries will be providing wine for tasting at the Saturday night wine and cheese party at the Rally. Note: The late suggested start time is because the tasting rooms often do not open until 11:00am

Did You Know This About The Rally?

Freedom form Training Wheel Clinic

Saturday at 1:30 pm in the Frontier Village Area, bring your little ones that have yet to ride without training wheels.

Taught by Dane Clark, Teamwork Tandem Bicycle Club

CABO Meeting

The California Association of Bicycle Organizations meets each year at the Rally. CABO (the "A" is pronounced long) fosters and promotes a favorable climate for bicycling in California by representing the interests of cyclists before the appropriate governmental bodies to protect their rights and promoting laws, policies, and actions that treat cyclists equitably.

When? Saturday between 1-4pm at the Special Events Center

We Are Forever Grateful - Loyal Rally Volunteers

We have many events at the Rally and many volunteers help to run them. Be sure to thank them if you partipcate!

Valley Spokesmen Touring Club: Not only do they ride down to the Rally they also help us with our Sunday night cook-out and donate leftover food from the Cinderella Classic.

Almaden Cycle Touring Club:The club is invaluable as they help set up and work the Wine and Cheese Social. By this we mean they set up the tables, do the decorations and prepare and serve all the food (with Laverne Boethling). A monumental effort!

Grimes Getaways Bicycle Tours: For the first time, they will running the Hill Climb. For many years Cherry City Cyclists has run the hill climb. Grimes Getaways is committed to providing carefree, fully supported, camping-bicycle rides through some of the most beautiful areas in the western United States

Best of Bike Show: During the Wine-Tasting Social

For those who put more effort into making their bike look beautiful than they do riding, there is the "Best of Show" Contest. Entrants have their bike placed on display Saturday evening to allow Rally participants, as they are strolling and sipping, to vote for the best looking bikes in the following categories: Open, Vintage, Tandem, Recumbent, and Unusual. Enter your bike into the contest by registering at 6pm at the Rally Headquarters. The votes are tallied and the winners are announced Sunday evening.

Fun Rides and Training Events

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Northern California: Saturday, April 17: Mr. Frog's Wild Ride:Wildflower-full April is a great time to get into the frontier spirit evoked by Mark Twain in his “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” This is a springtime ride in the Sierra Foothills.

Very Northern California: Sunday, May 2, 2010: Shasta Wheelmen Jamboree Century: The 40th Annual sign in at the famous Sundial Bridge. Also offered are 25, 66 and family trail rides. You can register the night before if you want to make a weekend out of it!

San Luis Obispo: October 23, 2010: SLO Gran Fondo Over 100 miles on a challenging ride from SLO up the beautiful central coast to Piedras Blancas and back. The popular ride “Pedal to Pier” has moved to the fall and will become a gran fondo. This inaugural SLO Gran Fondo enables cyclists of a wide range of abilities to join members of Team HTC-Columbia and other guest riders while supporting Alpha, a local, nonprofit agency serving families in San Luis Obispo County.