Warm Noons and Cool Eves at Passion Trail Bike

This week’s news and info on July 21, 2009

1. Special Trail Work Day with Media Coverage this Saturday 7/25, 9:30am
2. Wednesday Wrides: the Good Stuff at 6:30pm
3. Female Friday is July 24th, 6:30pm – Cook Recruiting too
4. San Mateo County MTB High School Club/Team


1. Special Trail Work Day with Media Coverage this Saturday 7/25, 9:30am
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We just got word that a reporter wants to come out to do a story on the new trail we are building around the lake at Waterdog. We need people to show up and help out!!! Volunteers are needed for Saturday 7/25 at 9:30 am to be photogenic and chatty and fun as we work to finish construction on a number of retaining walls and to push through the trail to the first bridge site on the north side of the lake. Please consider taking half a day to help out on this important project! Volunteers will be treated to coffee and bagels in the morning and will head back to the shop for some burgers and beverages afterwards as a nice reward.

Please RSVP to Patty at patty@passiontrailbikes.com so she can get a firm head count for tools and refreshments.

Drawing for a large retaining wall below some oak trees

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2. Wednesday Wrides: the Good Stuff at 6:30pm
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Sunset is at 8:27pm this Wednesday 07/22/09. Twilight ends and darkness falls right around 9:15pm. Next week the Regular Ride launches at 6:30pm

All the usual rides will go out. See below. This week’s food fest will include the fabulous pizza pies from Mountain Mikes. Please remember to feed the tip jar to defray the costs of putting out the yummy stuff.

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

Sweet Singletrack on the Wednesday Wride

The EARLY ride will go out at 6:15 PM.
The REGULAR rides will go out between 6:20 and 6:35 PM.
The FBG or Fat Bottomed Girl ride will go out at 6:35 PM.
The WHITE SOCKS ride will go out at 6:35 PM.
The STRAGGLERS ride goes out sometime around6:45 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!

A little bit of balance on the Lower Creek Trail skinny

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3. Female Friday is July 24th, 6:30 – Cook Recruiting too
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We thought we had a cook lined up for this Friday, but do NOT yet. Men are highly encouraged to apply and return the favor for all the women in your life who feed you. We expect about 40 women and need a light and well balanced meal, served around 8pm. No oven available. If you’d like to do the food for the ladies, it’s sorta like doing Thanksgiving, but without the fancy table cloths and stuff. Please send Patty an email if you’re up to it, at patty@passiontrailbikes.com.

Save the date and tell your girlfriends!. The ladies will gather, pedal about the open space, and return for social hour and fine victuals. Great fun for all the dirt loving women in our lives!

Female Friday rides staging

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4. San Mateo County MTB High School Club/Team

We know it’s still the middle of summer, but it turns out we have some serious interest in putting together a Club and/or Team for High School kids who want to ride mountain bikes and maybe race this coming school year. We a pretty sure we will have kids from several schools involved, and a variety of interests. We now have an email distribution list going so we can figure out who wants to be a part of this and how we are going to pull it off. If you’d like to be involved, please drop Patty an email at patty@passiontrailbikes.com.

We’ve also put out a jar for donations to help get the club started with some basic expenses, and we are continuing to take donations of new and used cycling equipment, parts, bikes, accessories, clean new or newish clothes, etc. Feel free to bring us your unused stuff and make space in the garage and closet. It’s way easier than selling on Ebay and you can write it off, too.

NorCal League racers giving it

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Read back issues of the Passion Trail Bikes Community e-Newsletter on our website.

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, Daryl, Pancho, Will, Peter, Reba and Buster