Not Yet Indian Summer at Passion Trail Bikes

This week’s word on the trail, on Sept 23, 2009

1. Demo Days! Free Test Rides on Cool 2010 Bikes Oct 3&4
2. Wednesday Wrides: Saddle Time Starts at 5:30pm
3. High School Kids Ride, Skeggs, Rescheduled for Sat 10/10, Adults Too
4. Summer Jerseys, On SALE now! Save 20% to 40%!
5. Tour de Fat, Golden Gate Park, 9/26, Volunteers Needed!
6. Women’s Weekend Sunday Ride and Brunch 9/27
7. ROMP’s Annual Picnic and Pumpkin Ride, Kings Mtn to HMB 10/24
8. Passion Candlelight Halloween Party Thursday 10/29 (another date change)


1. Demo Days! Free Test Rides on Cool 2010 Bikes Oct 3&4
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Today Charles is at Interbike working with our vendors to nail down a list of bikes for our demo event. We don’t have everything confirmed yet, but here’s the 411 on Santa Cruz:

TallBoy in M, L, XL
Blur XC in S M
Blur LT Carbon in S, M, L
V-10 in M
Driver8 in M
Heckler in M, L
Superlight in M, L
Bullit in M
Nomad in M, L

Stay tuned for the lists from Specialized, Giant, and others! Now, before you jump the gun, we will start taking reservations later in the week, and YOU WILL GET our announcement on how to make your test ride reservations on this list FIRST. It’s our way of giving our loyal customers first dibs on some awesome demo bikes to ride.

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2. Wednesday Wrides: Saddle Time Starts at 5:30pm
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Sunset is at 7:06PM this Wednesday 09/23/09. Twilight ends and near-darkness falls right around 7:40PM.
Next week on Sept 30th the Regular Ride launches at 5:30PM.

Well that terrible heat wave that was predicted last week seemed to fizzle out with a little morning fog cooling things off. Have no fear, though, we will get our Indian Summer, LATER. Usually in October or November we get a couple weeks of heat mixed in with the crisp feeling of fall that makes us all revel in the goodness that is Northern California weather. Who can complain when your summer goes all the way to Thanksgiving??

Perez railing the skinny

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.

The EARLY ride will go out at 5:15 PM.
The REGULAR rides will go out at 5:30 PM.
The WHITE SOCKS ride will go out at 5:35 PM.
The FBG or Fat Bottomed Girl ride will go out at 5:35 PM.
The STRAGGLERS ride may form and start chasing around 5:45 PM.
For future planning, we have the upcoming start times each week for the first wave of 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 to eat plus 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!

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3. High School Kids Ride, Skeggs, Rescheduled for Sat 10/10, Adults Too
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Due to some scheduling conflicts, the kids ride had to be rescheduled. Patty is going to lead a casual ride for high school riders on Saturday 10/10 at El Corte de Madera Open Space in Woodside (aka Skeggs Pt.). The route will include some mellow and some challenging singletrack and a few solid climbs but will be at a casual pace. She’s looking for another adult or two to join in on the ride.

There will be a carpool forming at Passion Trail Bikes, please arrive no later than 8:30. We will load and go and try to arrive at Skeggs Pt. about 9:00am. From there we will explore the redwood forests until we have adequately exercised our smile muscles. Depending on when people need to return we will either finish up around noon and return to the shop by 12:30, or possibly stop at Alices’ Restaurant at Skylonda for burgers around lunchtime, and return to the shop around 2pm.

Please RSVP so Patty can coordinate carpools and ride leaders. Send her an email at patty@passiontrailbikes.com and let her know if you or a parent can drive, number of bikes and passengers your car can handle, and any other info.

NorCal League Racers at the Start

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4. Summer Jerseys, On SALE now! Save 20% to 30%!
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Just a short little note without pictures to let you know that if summer has beat down your favorite lightweight jersey, now is the time to freshen up your wardrobe, since we are marking down our summer jerseys between 20% and 30% off. Get ‘em soon, and enjoy, since the weather should be great for a few months still!

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5. Tour de Fat, Golden Gate Park, 9/26, 10 to 5
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Special Request from the Ridge Trail! Volunteers Still Needed! Free T-Shirt! Fun Times! Contact Joel from the Ridge Trail at Joel at volunteer@ridgetrail.org if you can help. Thanks!

This year we are warming things up as Tour de Fat moves from foggy July to sunny September!

Tour de Fat, Saturday, September 26, 10am to 5 pm

It’s time to oil your chain, press your polyester and fluff that feather boa because Tour de Fat rolls back into town next Saturday, September 26 with its ballyhoo of bikes and New Belgium Brewery beers!

Two parts bike rodeo and one part circus, this all-day, all-green festival is full of fire-jumping bike acts, bicycle games, a bike parade through the park, live music from Sean Hayes, March Fourth Marching Band, Handsome Little Devils present: Squirm Burpee Circus, and The Dare Devil Chicken Club Presents: Honeymoon Cabaret, tasty eats and of course, great beer! 

10:00 am – 11:00 am: Register for Bike Parade

11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Cruiser Bike Parade – costumes highly encouraged!

12:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Commence Revivalation! (Beer served to those 21 and older with ID).

Come on out, and have a good time for a great cause (New Belgium Brewery donates the proceeds of the day to the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council and San Francisco Bicycle Coalition). Don’t forget to ride yer bike to the show! Complimentary valet bike parking provided (of course).

Get a FREE beer token at Tour de Fat! Are you, or someone you know, not yet a member of the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council? Get a free beer token AND help get more miles of mountian bike trails around the Bay when you become a member of the Council at Tour de Fat!

Trade in your car for a beautiful bicycle and make Tour de Fat a day to remember! The SFBC (along with New Belgium Brewery) will gift you a brand new shiny bike if you are ready to go car-free. And, not just any bike, a New Belgium, fully-loaded, hand-crafted, Fort Collins-built commuter bike and trailer! Interested?! Submit a video of two minutes or less with your story and desire to be car-free. Complete details can be found at newbelgium.com/trade
 

Volunteer! We need YOU to make it a day to remember! It takes over 150 volunteers to make it happen—volunteer to do outreach at the Bay Area Ridge Trail tent, check IDs, sell drink tokens and valet bicycles. All volunteers get a free Tour de Fat T-shirt! Sign up at with Joel at volunteer@ridgetrail.org

Location:
Bike, walk, run, muni or even drive to Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park (North side of the park, east of Spreckel’s Lake, between 25th and 30th Avenues).

Visit New Belgium Brewing Company to learn more.

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6. Women’s Weekend Sunday Ride and Brunch 9/27
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Female Friday is moving to Sunday Morning! We will gather at the shop at 8:30am, sip a cup of coffee and take a little nibble on a muffin or bagel, then gear up and head out for a ride at Waterdog in the morning light. After a few good miles of singletrack stylin’ we will return for a brunch and social hour in the lounge just before noon.

Patty is recruiting for helpers to set up and YES, we still need a volunteer (hint, hint boys) to concoct something yummy to eat for brunch on Sunday 9/27.

Please RSVP if you can make the ride, and also if you have interest and availability for doing something with brunch. Drop Patty an email at patty@passiontrailbikes.com so she can set things up all fancy and fun.

Patty hands out maps before the Female Friday Ride

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7. ROMP’s Annual Picnic and Pumpkin Ride, Kings Mtn to HMB 10/24
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Save the date for two super fun annual fall events on the Peninsula: On October 24th the ROMP Fall Picnic and Pumpkin Ride, staged near the top of Whittemore Gulch Trail at Purisima Creek Open Space Preserve, costumed riders will descend to Half Moon Bay to select pumpkins for the holiday. Here’s the blurb from the ROMP website:

Pumpkin ROMP and Picnic! Meet at the Kings Mountain Community Center and Firehouse, 13889 Skyline Blvd Woodside, CA at 9:00 AM for a mountain bike and road ride through Purissima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve down to Arata’s Pumpkin Patch near Highway 1. Pick your pumpkins and ride back up for a picnic / pot luck starting after noon at the Community Center. Easier rides available for youth and the less mad. Prizes awarded for best costume, best pumpkin, most pumpkins in weight hauled up, largest single pumpkin, and stuff like that. Or just come out for an afternoon of hanging out in the redwoods with some old friends, or ones you have not met yet.

ROMP is requesting RSVP’s for the picnic, so they get the right amount of Jamaican BBQ roasting to refuel the hungry hordes. Go here to sign up!

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8. Passion Candlelight Halloween Party Thursday 10/29 (another date change)

We decided that it’s more fun if we don’t compete with Beer Friday so, come join us on Thursday, October 29th, when we will be hosting our annual candlelight costume party. The flourescent tubes will be off and the wax will be on, so start planning your best disguise for the dimly lit but warmly welcoming evening of tricks and treats!

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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