May Means Summer at Passion Trail Bikes

This week’s news and info on May 12, 2009:

1. Wednesday Wrides: Bring Sunscreen! 6:30pm
2. Trailwork at Waterdog Monday 5/18 2:00pm
3. Time/Location Change: Midcoast Community Council Trails meeting, Weds, 5/13 7:00pm, Moss Beach
4. Access4Bikes’ 3rd Annual MTB Film Festival, Sunday 5/17, San Rafael
5. Soquel Forest Bike Patrollers Training Monday 5/18, 6pm, Los Gatos

NEW! Stuff from our last e-newsletter that we won’t repeat this week, but you can read on our website:

6. La Honda Creek Open Space Master Plan hearing Tuesday 5/19 6:30pm, HMB
7. Bike to Work Day is Thursday May 14th: Be a Ride Buddy For a Neighbor
8. Female Friday is May 15th! Bring a Friend!


1. Wednesday Wrides: Bring Sunscreen! 6:30pm
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Sunset is at 8:10pm this Wednesday 05/13/09. Twilight ends and darkness falls right around 9:00pm. Next week the Regular Ride launches at 6:30pm

This week we start gloating at our neighbors in other states where the temps are not so sublime. The National Weather Service is predicting super-pleasant weather all week, followed by HEAT this weekend. So enjoy the mid-week Wrides and put on your sunscreen!

Tomorrow’s rides include Jay leading up a SingleSpeeders ride, and an early FBG ride again like last week, featuring a very short urban clinic, focusing on skills for kids, newbies, and roadies who want to learn the secret MTB tricks for having fun on narrow sidehill strips of dirt. The FBG ride will go out EARLY at 6:00 and return around 7:30, and will not make it to Waterdog. All other rides are per usual as below.

P. L. E. A. S. E. . . . P. U. T. . . . L. I. G. H. T. S. . . . O. N ! ! ! !

Please remember to put a light on your handlebar and have a blinky ready for the ride back to the shop! CA vehicle code requires it. Don’t get caught out on the streets in the dark! Also, a reminder that we need to be super conscientious about stopping at stop signs and lights, yielding to pedestrians, and operating our bikes predictably and responsibly while on the roads and trails. Let’s be safe and kind out there.

For all the details about what makes each group listed below unique, please refer to this webpage. If your questions aren’t answered there, you can also email us for info at info@passiontrailbikes.com.

All rides start pedaling from the shop: Passion Trail Bikes, 415 Old County Road, Belmont, CA 94002 650-620-9798

Riders queuing up for the launch of the Wednesday Wride

The EARLY ride will go out at 6:00 PM.
The REGULAR ride will go out at 6:30 PM.
The SINGLE-SPEED ride will go out at 6:30 PM.
The FBG or Fat Bottomed Girl ride will go out at 6:00 PM.
The WHITE SOCKS ride will go out at 6:30 PM.
The STRAGGLERS ride goes out at 6:45 PM.
For future planning, we have the upcoming start times each week for the REGULAR ride posted on our Community Calendar

Note we may not have leaders for each ride but usually someone knows their way around. All groups will meet back here at Passion Trail Bikes right around dark for the usual story telling & beverage enjoyment. We will have stuff for the BBQ along with some carbo laden side dish, chips and fatty snacks and EANABS to pair up with the Devil’s Canyon Brewery’s Full Boar Scotch Ale, Silicon Blonde Ale, and Little Devil Root Beer. We will hang out until about 10pm, so come on down, even if you can’t make the ride! Passion Parties are better with YOU in the mix!

Riders enjoying one of Waterdog’s great trails

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2. Trailwork at Waterdog Monday 5/18 2:00pm
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Volunteers making the first cut during tread construction on the Lake Loop Trail

The next workday is a WEEKDAY! by special request. There is a possibility that City Parks staff will join us. We will work until about 6pm. Come dig a bit in the dirt and help push forward on the new Lake Loop Trail realignment project at Waterdog Lake. The rains have kept the dirt soft so we are hoping for some good turn out in the next week. We still have a long way to go, PLEASE, help out if you can.

We will be working on finishing up brushing the trail corridor and extending tread construction around the lake. The project will involve cutting brush under oaks and through a patch of chaparral, and digging dirt.

WE NEED YOU! Please volunteer a few hours to help build this great new trail!

To get involved and get details on the meeting location, please send Patty an email at patty@passiontrailbikes.com and let her know you can pitch in. She will get back to you with more information on the workday. RSVPs are important so she has enough tools to go around. Thanks so much!

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3. Time/Location Change: Midcoast Community Council Trails meeting, Weds, 5/13 7:00pm, Moss Beach
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The Coastside Trails meeting is moving to a larger venue in Moss Beach! The meeting time is now 7:00pm.

The NEW location is: Cypress Meadows Conference Center, 343 Cypress Ave, Moss Beach, CA 94038 http://www.cypressmeadows.net/
The Conference Center is located on the same property as the Cypress Meadows Flower Farm. Please park in the lot on the right side of the barn. Map Link here.

Coastside Trails MCC Meeting Agenda: May 13th 7:00pm: AGENDA

The goal of the meeting is to inform and update the Coastside community about trail progress, trail funding, trail mapping, provide resources for community involvement and to discuss the current and future Coastside Trail System.

7:00pm Call to Order

Council member self-introductions

Community Forum
Organizations and Agency Introductions
Nine Presentations:
The following organizations/agencies will give presentations, each presentation will be 15 minutes or less.

Coastal Conservancy: http://www.scc.ca.gov/

Coastwalk: http://www.coastwalk.org/

San Mateo County Parks: http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/portal/site/parks

Golden Gate National Recreation Area: http://www.nps.gov/goga/

Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST): http://www.openspacetrust.org/

Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: http://www.openspace.org/

California State Parks: http://www.parks.ca.gov/

Bay Area Ridge Trail Council: http://www.ridgetrail.org/

Caltrans District 4: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/

The presentations will include:

Overview of each agency and organization
Highlight past, current or future trail projects west of Skyline in San Mateo County to the Pacific Ocean
Discuss linking the California Coastal Trail, the Highway 1 parallel bike/ped trail, foothill trails and ridge-line trails
Discuss location of future Coastside trails and trailheads
Show trail maps on video projector
Discuss the Half Moon Bay Highway 1 parallel bike/ped trail map and how the future HMB trail will connect to the future Midcoast Highway 1 parallel bike/ped
Discuss the future trail connection from Montara to Pacifica
Give update on new trail projects
Inform the community about volunteer opportunities

Question & Answer Session: MCC requests that questions be held until after all the presentations are finished.
Meeting Adjourned

Trails provide demonstrated benefits to individuals and communities, health and fitness, active transportation, economic development and environmental stewardship.

Trails:

Increase transportation options and reduce auto travel.
Offer opportunities to observe, learn about and care for the environment.
Offer economic benefits such as increased tourism and increased property values.
Provide opportunities for solitude, passive and active recreation, including promoting fitness through healthy exercise.

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4. Access4Bikes’ 3rd Annual MTB Film Festival, Sunday 5/17, San Rafael
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www.access4bikes.com

3rd Annual A4B Mountain Bike Film Festival and Party

Sunday, May 17, 6:30-9:00 PM (happy hour begins at 5:00)

Join Bicycle Trails Council of Marin at the San Rafael Community Center for an exciting night of food, drink, live music and movies provided by independent filmmakers and bike enthusiasts.

about a core group of riders who evolved from covertly building rogue and unsustainable trails, to creating a precedent setting relationship with the Forest Service and creating some of the best Freeride trails in the country. Also, many local, international and student shorts, including Bridge to Forest City, Girl Meets Bicycle and Sixer at Six will be shown.

for bikes on the public trails of Marin. Access4Bikes and IMBA are working with California State Parks and the Marin County Open Space District to expand Marin’s trail network for mountain bikers.

• When: Sunday May 17, 2009
• Where: San Rafael Community Center, 618 B Street, San Rafael, CA 94960
• Films begin: 6:30 pm -­ 9 pm
• Happy Hour: 5:00 – 6:30 with beer from our finest local breweries – Broken Drum, Lagunitas and Iron Springs, buffet dinner and live music by Red Paint
• Cost: $25.00 donation includes everything! Dinner, beer, live music (Red Paint) and films!

Tickets are a $25.00 donation and proceeds from the event will benefit non-profit International Mountain Bicycling Associationaffiliate organization that is working to establish equitable access

Info: www.access4bikes.com, 415-686-1526, access4bikes@gmail.com

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5. Soquel Forest Bike Patrollers Training Monday 5/18, 6pm, Los Gatos
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We are reenergizing the National Mountain Bike Patrol at the Soquel Demonstration State Forest, and we could use your help!! The patrol is a vital part of the volunteers who love riding there and would like to keep the technical trails at the Demo open for all users. The patrol is the eyes and ears of the managers of the forest. Thom and Ed who work for Cal Fire are the forest managers and they have many responsibilities besides managing the forest. If we can help in educating, assisting, and informing trail users of the Demo their burden is lightened and we get to keep riding awesome trails.

If you’re interested in being a patrol member please come to our training session Monday, May 18th at 6:30PM in Los Gatos at the Community Center. Please email me at daryl@gotocamp.org for more details and to let me know of your interest.

For more information about what the National Mountain Bike Patrol involves please visit this website :
http://www.imba.com/nmbp/index.html

This patrol is generously sponsored by the Responsible Organized Mountain Bikers also known as ROMP. They have generously agreed to reimburse most of the patrollers expenses who complete all the training and perform their duties of patrolling the forest on a regular basis.

Thank you for considering joining this worthwhile and valuable organization.

Daryl Breuninger
NMBP@SDSF, Director
Vice President, MBOSC

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Stuff from our last e-newsletter that we won’t repeat this week, but you can read on our website:

6. La Honda Creek Open Space Master Plan hearing Tuesday 5/19 6:30pm, HMB
7. Bike to Work Day is Thursday May 14th: Be a Ride Buddy For a Neighbor
8. Female Friday is May 15th! Bring a Friend!


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To contact us, email us at info@passiontrailbikes.com, or call the shop at 650-620-9798.

Happy Trails, the PTB crew
Charles, Patty, Berry, John, Bret, Sterling, Daryl, Peter, Reba and Buster