At our PInehurst Community Meeting on Monday, Cindy Riskin spoke about a bicycle club that she organizes for non-competitive riders. A number of people were interested in the club, so Cindy forwarded this information for anyone who is interetsed in joining.
My bicycle club is Seattle Easy Riders Bicycle Club.
You can learn more at: http://seattleeasyriders.net/
You can also e-mail Cindy at: cindyri@speakeasy.net
I have an e-mail list of >150 riders and will be starting rides again in a couple of months at the latest.
We run rides between 2.4 and 30 miles long and try to minimize hill climbing, except for a beginning hill climbing class that I’ll offer again late spring and summer.
Our motto: Get Back in the Saddle. It’s for people who are returning to bicycling or for any reason want a kinder, gentler ride. We are not competitive and don’t drop people unless absolutely necessary, like they just can’t go on (but this has never happened).
I’m trying to get a booth at the Bike Expo, Mar. 14-15, in Magnuson Park.
I’m also setting up events with Metro Transit where people can learn about putting their bicycles on the bus (all Metro buses have bike racks) and try it for themselves.
Hi, Neighbors:
Seattle Easy Riders is starting to ride again, spring 2010. In addition to short, easy, and flat-as-possible rides, I’ll be running two other kinds of rides this year:
“Spokespeople Connector” rides: These rides will run from our area of North Seattle to adjacent neighborhoods, showing best routes and some little-known routes to get to places like Greenlake, Haller Lake, and even downtown. Hills may be involved.These rides will be based on the successful Spokespeople rides, at http://spokespeople.us.
Longer Easy Rider rides: Participants have asked for somewhat longer–but still flattish–rides. So I’ll be looking for rides in the 15-30 mile range (when I can ride that far.
To find out about all our rides, you can sign up for our e-mail list by e-mailing me, at cindyri@q.com.
You can also find Easy Rider rides (a) on the Cascade Bicycle Club free daily rides page, at http://cascade.org/EandR/Activities_Calendar.cfm?query=cascadefreedailyride, or on (b) http://seattleeasyriders.net (which will be up-to-date by the end of this week).
Hope to see you soon!
Cindy