Bike / Stuff/ People Mover

So not long ago I posted about the fact that we as a team need a bus. Like a Thomas school bus. I did not get any responses unfortunately so I will try again however with a slightly different request along the same lines. Really as the team goes it would be incredible if we could get a truck with a full set of back seats so 6 people total could pile in and we could load the bed with bikes and gear. I would love to be able to limit the number of cars that have to make the trips all over the state and hopefully beyond so we do not have to ask so much of the parents.
So the request an affordable really donated four door truck that works real good. Remember we are full fledged 501c3 non profit and it is completely tax deductible. So anybody, anybody..............I mean I know my van is like the greatest ever but we need one more.

El Grupo Events 2009

September-- GABA Blue Loop

October-- Epic Rides Tour of the White Mountains

November-- El Tour

December-- Hell Week with camping overnight trip

January-- TBD

Feb-- Epic Rides 24 Hour Race

March-- Hermosillo, MX Track Trip

April-- Spring Break Bike Tour

Tour of the Tucson Mountains

May-- GABA Luna Lake Bike Tour

June, July, August--- TBD

Also a big thank you to everyone who came to the meeting last night. I am super excited about the upcoming year and really look forward to having a great time. Thanks and yes there is still plenty of time to tell more friends to come and join the team. The more the merrier.

This list only includes the "big" team events. This does not include the USCF bike races that we will do, as the 2010 calender has not been made up yet.

However we most certainly will do the TBC, U of A Crit, Colossal Cave race and many others.

Ignacio

Whole Team Meeting

August 26th Wednesday, 6:30pm at the Club House

This meeting is mandatory as mandatory can be. This is for all "old" riders and all new prospective riders. So this is a great time to bring a friend, family member, or neighbor that might be interested in riding with the team. Feel free to bring a snack to share with the rest and please bring your questions, concerns, and comments.

Also please let me know via this blog if you are coming. I want to know if you are and how many of you actually read this thing.

Thanks
Ignacio

Blue Loop Information

So this Labor Day weekend I have been hoping that most the "old" team will ride with GABA on their bicycle adventure called the Blue Loop. I know there are a lot of questions out there and so I want to try and answer most of those.



A bunch of info is here on there (GABAS) web site:

http://bikegaba.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=160&year=2009&month=09&day=05&Itemid=34&catids=37



I would like to leave on Friday after school as early as we can, so like by 4:30 5pm on the 4th so September. We will then come home on Monday after the ride and be home by late afternoon ish, just in time to watch the Florida State Game, they play Miami and yes I really want to watch it.



$50 is going to be the total cost for the whole weekend. Food, travel, the whole shebang. Cash is best but a check will also do. $40 is for food and 10 for travel.



I will have a gear list ready for the riders on the 26th during the whole team meeting.



Please ask me questions if you got em. I will be riding all three days, as will Nelson and about 50 other folks. Daniela will be coming with Damiano, and we hope to have the whole "old" team around. Really this is like one of the coolest adventures I can offer and want as many to go as possible.



Ignacio

GABA Worktrade Tuesday night

Hey Guys,
Sorry for not getting this info out sooner however, if you want to ride the Blue Loop coming up it is very important that come and help Tuesday night. We will be helping GABA and Larry Robinson clean out the storage shed that they have so they can get everything ready for the ride. We will be helping from 5-7pm at night. I will be leaving the club house around 4pm to get there on time so if you want to ride with me you are welcome. I will post a map tomorrow about this on the blog so you all know where we are going but it is roughly at Stone and River.
Please call me with questions and I hope to see you all there
Ignacio

THIS JUST IN FROM LARRY
Address is4555 N.1st Ave. On the west side north of the bridge but south of River Road. Try to make it there early or at least on time . The place closes at 7:00pm.

Whole Team Meeting

August 26th Wednesday, 6:30PM at the Club House

This meeting is mandatory as mandatory can be. I am hoping that we can get all parents and riders together to talk about the upcoming year. Please feel free to bring snacks, invite new prospective riders and your questions and ideas. I am hoping for a big crowd. Please RSVP so I know that everyone is on board and can put it on their schedule.
Ignacio

Tuesday Night Bike Ride

WOW!!! This was pretty exciting to read. The Tucson Bike Lawyer or Erik Ryberg as some of us know him is a good friend of mine and really any cyclist in town. Well he keeps a blog on this web site tucsonbikelawyer.com where he is always advocating for cyclists rights and keeping cyclists up to date with humor, style and reason. The reason though that I mention this is that on his blog the other day he was mentioning that the Tuesday night ride this week is going to be a fun special one in which the founders of the ride are going to come out and ride again. So you should go. But this is not the exciting part, the cool part is that one of the comments posted was one about how someone was going to raffle off a bicycle and was going to give the proceeds to El Grupo. Totally exciting. So if you read this and like the team then please go out and ride bikes with all your friends and buy a raffle ticket.

Thanks Coghauler who ever you are!!!


Eriks' Post
Tucson bike lawyer, regrettably, is in Colorado and won’t make the Tuesday Night Bike Ride this week, but you should. The Tuesday Night Community Bike Ride is still going strong after two years and this week many of the founders of the ride will be there to celebrate. I think they are even going to give a speech.
So go say hello! 8 PM at the flagpole at Old Main. Just East of the main gate at University and Park. If you don’t know, the TNCBR is a slow-paced ride through town every Tuesday night. It is attended by hundreds. Come on your coolest bike. Bring a bell. It’s like a cocktail party on bikes, and you should go!
–Erik Ryberg


The comment
Win a bike on Tuesday night at theFounders ride!!! You read it right…Coghauler, in an effort to make theFounders ride a more significantevent, will raffle one of his bikesfrom the closet with the proceedsgoing to El Grupo Youth Cycling.El Grupo, if you don’t know, is agroup of jr. high and high schoolstudents coached by Ignacio RiveraDe Rosales learning the variousaspects of the sport of cycling.And getting some great physicalconditioning in the process withhill climbing, time-trialing, roadracing, mountain biking, velodromingand El Touring and I’m so darn proudof them I could just spit.So…bring $3.00 for a chance to wina bike (or $5.00 for 2 chances) andget these young cyclists some cash tobe able to go to the places they needto go and some equipment they need to doit. The bike will be cool…definitelyTuesday-Night-Community-Bike-Ride worthy.***SPREAD THE WORD***And Thank You for Your Support