October Youth Ride Saturday 15 October 2005 Golden Colorado Something New! October 2005 This month Front Rangers will be partnering with Team Evergreen Bicycle Club. Team Evergreen has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Front Rangers’ mission for several years, and many adult FRCC members are Team Evergreen members as well. Come ride with FRCC on the last youth ride of the season, and see what cycling can do for kids! Ride start location: Lions Park, East Pavilion 10th Street, Golden In small groups, we will ride the Clear Creek Bike Path according to the pace of each group. Mountain bikes or rode bikes are appropriate. 9:00 a.m. Youth Pick up 9:00 a.m. Adult Riders and Volunteers Meeting at Lions Park East Pavilion 9:30 a.m Kids Arrive – Instructions and Club Pep Rally 9:45 a.m We Ride! 11:45 a.m LUNCH! Served by FRCC 1:00pm Return Kids home FRCC welcomes Team Evergreen members to this unique experience. It’s an opportunity to Introduce urban youth to cycling as an alternative activity to drugs and gangs, to provide a positive role model to urban youth, and to promote crime-free lifestyles, selfdiscipline, and the value of education through example and encouragement. PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com Hey Front Rangers!!! The 17th Annual Subaru Denver Veloswap is coming up on Saturday October 22nd. As usual FRCC will have a couple adjoining tables where old club equipment as well as donated items will be sold to raise money for the club. This is a great way to help earn some additional funds for the club. Some members of the junior racing team will be helping me with the event; however, I need some additional help in the following ways: • Donations of cycling or outdoor gear, which we can sell. • Help with setting up the booths/tables on Friday evening. • Help with selling and manning the booth on Saturday, (pick a time that you can help, even if it’s just for 1 or 2 hours.) The first few volunteers will get what available admission tickets that the club receives. Please, contact me if you can help in any way! Event Information: Paul Braun 17th Annual Subaru Denver Veloswap and Sports 1) [email protected] Expo - Saturday October 22, 2005 2) 303/972-2426 home National Western Complex, Denver, Colorado 3) 303/202-4381 work Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Veloswap is the world’s largest consumer bicycle and sports expo. It is THE place to see, swap, buy, and sell every imaginable bike, part, and accessory. Held every fall since 1989, Veloswap regularly draws thousands of enthusiasts to a fantastic celebration of everything in the world of bicycling and sport. Veloswap features new and used bicycles and equipment, cycling and sports clinics, family events, cycling celebrities, product sampling, and much, much more. New for 2005 is both a Triathlon and Snowsports expo area. For more information check their website: www.veloswap.com/expo/ Please I hope you can help, Paul Reviews of the September Summit County Ride selections (given a specific budget); thank goodness for ‘Happy Meals’! We should have had more participants, but those of us that did make it had a great time. And no ER visits. We had incredible sunny skies, no threat of moisture, and 2 vans of energetic youth. The van approached saved not only money (from the big coach) but enabled the kids to interact closer with the drivers and themselves. Riders enjoyed the trails, the lake, and playing amidst the trees. And then we enjoyed a nice lunch in Frisco at a fast food restaurant of kids’ choice. It was interesting to witness what the kids chose for their PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com CYCLO-CROSS Last month’s newsletter mentioned great to do some riding on a of year for cyclocross. There are December. If you don’t race cross watch, it’s a great spectator fairly short, so you see the riders fun to walk around the course negotiate the various obstacles it’s that time of the year where it’s fixed gear bike. Also, it’s that time many races from now through like me, just go to a race and friendly sport. The courses are come by every few minutes and its watching these amazing riders and technical sections of the course. Many first timers use a mtn. bike easier to lift and run past on the non-technical portions. can’t run, but I do own a cross Veloswap. It’s a lot of fun to ride normally don’t get a chance to bike. I ride many of the trails at Creek State Parks, the Highline many dirt roads S. and E. of the metro area. but a real cross bike is way lighter, obstacles with, and is much faster Personally, I don’t race because I bike that I bought used at the the trails and dirt roads that you ride in the summer on your road Ken Caryl, Chatfield and Cherry Canal, Waterton Canyon and the Looking Back As the current master of FRCC records, I have boxes filled with memorabilia in my attic. In a recent ‘cleaning up’ moment, I came across one box filled with dated RACING EXPRESS editions, spanning the days even before ACA was our governance and BRAC was thriving here in Colorado. There are announcements of races that have long fallen from our annual calendar, shops that have closed their doors. On the other hand, it is wonderful to see the shops that continue to thrive and serve dedicated cyclists in our area, the races that are legendary, and the changes in equipment. My favourite discovery in these old issues were the pictures race results, and articles on our FRCC youth riders. We’ve come a long way over the years, some characters still on the road. Well, after spending time with these old rags, I’m glad to say I’ve placed them back in the box, sparing them from the trash. I look forward to passing them on someday, that we may all remember the great times and see where we’ve been. If you’d like a look at some of this history, give me a call! -Jim Friday Night Social Rides at Washington Park, 6 p.m. We’ve had some great turn outs this year and tons of fun riding and socializing. I hope you got a chance to join us for one of these. If you haven’t attended it maybe to late, the days are just getting short. PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com JUNIOR RACING NEWS Over the Labor Day Weekend we took a select group of juniors to the Grand Valley Races near Grand Junction, CO. They had some great results and had a really good time! These races for some of the kids will be their last for the year and what a great way to end it!!! After the second day of racing in Grand Junction we than headed for the Vail Valley to race the final day of some USCF races that where also going on the same weekend. Grand Valley Road Race 3 Sep-05 Category JM 10-12 JM 13-14 JM 15-16 JM 17-18 Place 1 2 1 1 Name Haulman, Joe Burns, Brendan Bershenyi, Gabriel Flanagan, Will More pictures of the Summit County Youth Ride Grand Valley Criterium 4-Sep-05 Category JM 10-12 JM 13-14 JM 15-16 JM 17-18 Place 1 2 3 2 Name Haulman, Joe Burns, Brendan Bershenyi, Gabriel Flanagan, Will Colorado Cup 2005 Hill Climb Results USCF 5-Sep-05 Category JM 10-12 JM 10-12 JM 15-18 JM 15-18 JM 15-18 SM 1-3 Place 5 7 3 4 5 14 Name Barney, Ryan Burns, Brendan Lawson, Bryce Bershenyi, Gabriel Flanagan, Will Thurston, Robin O PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com