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Hello Riders,
Women's Ride Takes Shape: Saturday at
8:30am.
Come ye all
women! Ride 40 miles and have fun while riding with the Women's Bicycle Team at
Bicycle John's. Any and all levels of riders are welcome as we will have ride
leaders in the front, middle and rear to ensure that no one is dropped. A
clinic will follow and will cover topics such as safety, nutrition,
riding necessities, must know maintenance, and women's fit on bikes. In
addition to the clinic and ride, Bicycle John's will sponsor a women's tire
changing contest. Three prizes for the contest to be handed out to first,
second and third places. In addition, each participant will receive a goodie
bag.
Bicycle Fits Available
Be comfortable
on your bicycle! Take the pain out of your rides! Get max power out of every
pedal stroke!
Sandra Kolb of
Bicycle John's will be doing neutral bike fits at the Bicycle John's Booth at
the Vendor Market. Sandra is Slow-Twitch certified and has been fitting
cyclists and triathletes on bicycles for 3 years. The neutral fit ensures your
knees are lined up properly, your seat is at the right height, and your stem is
the correct length. You will leave with a fit card of your proper measurements
and fit recommendations. The cost for a neutral fit is $35.
Ultra-Distance Competition
Each year, we
provide a way for some riders who attend to really kill themselves and put in
as many miles as they can during the Rally. And you too, can participate. For
this, prizes are awarded to those entrants who ride the most miles from
Saturday morning until 5 P.M. on Sunday. A bicycle odometer is required to
enter this competition. Simply sign up, record your starting odometer reading,
and then ride your hearts out for two days and then check in with your
finishing odometer reading. Sign up on Friday evening in the commerical
building.
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Geo Cache Ride - What is that?
This is
a high- tech version of hide and seek, geo caches hidden all over the globe, 40
are hidden within 10 miles of Paso Robles. Caches are hidden and contain a log
book for you to register your find. Some are large enough to have small trade
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If you take an
item, leave something else in its place. You will need a GPS receiver and a pen
for this ride. The coordinates for each cache are listed along with a unique 6
digit “waypoint” identifier for that cache. Once you return home, log
in your finds using the waypoint identifier on the computerized database at
www.geocaching.com. The ride is put
together by Rally participants Jeff and Mike Bailey. NOTE: This route is NOT in
your route packet. Pick it up at the registration table.
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Clinic-Training Wheel Freedom
Is it
time for those training wheels to come off? Dane Clark of the Orange County
Wheelmen has designed a short 30 minute course to get kids off their training
wheels. Saturday 11am - 12pm.
Want to Ride with A Group
Leader?
This is
a terrific way to meet some other riders attending. Stay tuned as to when these
rides are. If you would like to volunteer as a group leader we'd love to have
you. Please email sharon@greatwesternbicyclerally.com
 Cup O' Brew at the Rally
Start
your day out right! If you are not in to making your own coffee, here are some
options. Kenetic Koffee will be serving coffee during vendor hours and in the
morning at 8:00am in the commercial building. Jumping Java Bean will be on hand
Saturday and Sunday mornings at 7am with Espresso drinks, muffins
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Tales From the Road
Saturday night
Michael Quileza will be speaking about “Tales from the Road”. Michael
is the Multi-Service Technical Representative for Shimano and has been coming
to the Rally for the last 15 years. He and Josh Borgmeyer from Trek have been
at Riverside Gate offering support and bike fixing. Michael will be talking
about stories from past major cycling events from across the county.
We need volunteers!
It's fun to do and a
great way to meet other people.
Sign up
here
We look
forward to having you for the weekend! Please call us or email us if you have
any questions or suggestions.
Thank you to our sponsors!
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Great Western Bicycle Rally: May 25-28,
2007