Ride Safely!
Geocities is shutting down their website this year. We will have to move our page and change our location and web address. We will plan on adopting the url: starvedrockcycling.com. Our page will move to its new home after October 26, 2009.
August News
LIB News
Kids' Bike Safety Info
LIB has won an Illinois Safe Routes to School grant to distribute its kids’ bike safety sheets. Copies will be sent to schools for every fourth grader in the state, for two school years. The sheets provide age-appropriate lessons for children with a parent letter on back.
Compute Your Commute
The Kiplinger Newsletter offers a handy tool to compare the costs of riding your bike or driving your car to work every day. Fill in the information, and see how you fare. For persons living in the Chicago area who commute by Metra or CTA and may want to commute without a mass transit link, fill in the cost of your daily rides in the box provided for toll charges. Besides any savings, there’s a tax benefit to biking to work for you and your company. after you do your calculations, you may want to consider using your bike if not five days a week, at least once or twice a week.
Bike To Metra
Could your town use a handy guide showing routes and tips for biking to your Metra station? Grant money is available for LIB to create brochures for 16 towns. Ten have already signed on: Western Springs, Bartlett, Grayslake, Maywood, Hanover Park, Naperville, Lockport, Palatine, Vernon Hills, and Crystal Lake. We'll need route advice (and photo shoot “models”) from cyclists in these towns. If your town has not signed on, ask your local officials – the local match cost is roughly $1000.
Starved Rock Cycling August Meeting:
The treasurer's report was presented at the meeting with expenses and deposits to date.
The membership 50/50 lotto drawing was for $147. Rick Virgo's name was drawn, and he received the prize.
Tim McTaggert presented the final T-shirt design. The design was approved by the club.
Discussed PPR business. We are still short on help for the Utica rest stop. We need at least one club member to step up and be in charge of the rest stop. We will be able to provide untrained volunteers to help a club member that has experience in this area. Please e-mail Marshall if you can be in charge of this rest stop.
The decision to discontinue barbeque for this ride was approved. If this ride is successful the option will be reevaluated next year. All outside rest stops will be furnished with a roaster containing soup.
Ride captains will pick up nonfood supplies for the reststops on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 by appointment or Sat., Oct. 3 in the morning at Sally's house. The water and cookies will be handed out on Sat.Oct. 3, 11:00, at Tim's church.
Jobs still needing to be filled:
Sag volunteers
Streator rest stop
Utica rest stop
Sat., Sept. 19 or Sat., Sept. 26 rain date, we would like as many as possible to meet in Allen Park by the Indian statue at 8:30am, for a photo for the local paper. We will also take pictures at the Reddick Mansion. Please wear your club jerseys or PPR T-shirts.
There is a public meeting October 1st at 7:00 pm at the City Hall in Ottawa. We would like to get as many people as possible to attend this meeting. The meeting is to discuss bicycle routes and running routes in the City of Ottawa.
NEW RIDE - Gentle Ride; Mountain bike ride for slower riders who are learning basic skills or just want to smell the roses, 10 to 12 miles per hour, 10 - 25 miles Saturday 8:30 am, Fox River Park parking lot (where the new restroom is) on Superior St. in Ottawa.
Club members are reminded that this is your newsletter. If you have cycling items for sale/trade call or e-mail [email protected] and they will put those items in the next newsletter.
Start thinking Cookies, Cookies, Cookies!!! We need at least 6 dozen per member.
It is very important that you attend the next few bike club meeting, HOPE TO SEE MANY OF YOU THERE. We need to discuss PPR items like the shirt design, any route changes, and anything else that might come up. The PPR will be here before you know it.
The next club meetings will be held on September 8, 2009 and September 22, 2009 at Bianchis Pizza on LaSalle Street in downtown Ottawa at 7:00 pm. See you there!!!
Ride Safely!