Work to Live, Live to Bike, Bike to Work at Passion Trail Bikes

1. Bike to Work Day is Thursday May 12
2. Weds Wrides, Now Starting at 6:45
3. Pastravaganza and FBG Returns for Wrides Next Week
4. Waterdog Trailwork: Tonight! Tuesday Eves, Weekend Morns
5. Ales and Trails Saturday May 21


1. Bike to Work Day is Thursday May 12
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As usual, we will be sponsoring goodies at the Belmont Caltrain Energizer Station, with Paul Wendt being the kind soul who mans the station and helps cyclists on their way. Also, one thing we can do is to really encourage YOU, the cycling enthusiast, to ride your bike to work and to help another person try out riding to work for the first time.

Please consider sending co-workers a note letting them know you can help with route planning, wardrobe suggestions, and so forth, so that their experience is a positive one, like yours is.

The SF Bike Coalition has a great website with all kinds of information on Bike to Work Day, and while you are there you can subscribe to their excellent e-newsletter

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2. Weds Wrides, Now Starting at 6:45
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This week we have one of the finer combos of sustenance known to the hungry cyclist: Pizza and Beer. Oh, yeah.

Express yourself at the Wednesday Wrides!

Tomorrow the Wednesday Wride will launch at 6:45PM. Sunset is at 8:07PM on Wednesday 05/11/2011. Twilight ends and near-darkness falls right around 8:50PM. The following week the Sunset is at 8:013PM and the Wride will launch at 6:45.

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, CA 94002 650-620-9798.

The FRISKY ride will go out at 6:40 PM.
The REGULAR ride will go out at 6:45 PM.
The WHITE SOCKS ride will go out at 6:50 PM.
The FBG or Flabby Bellied Guy ride will go out at 6:50 PM.
The STRAGGLERS ride may form and start chasing around 7:00 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. Depending on group consensus and size, we may order pizza, or burritos, or who knows what. We will have chips and fatty

snacks and EANABS to pair up with the Devil’s Canyon Brewery’s Full Boar Scotch Ale, Silicon Blonde Ale, and Devil’s

Canyon Organic Root Beer. We will hang out until about 9pm, 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. Pastravaganza and FBG Returns for Wrides Next Week
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Word is that Patty and Reba are returning from Reba’s great southwest vacation and will be hosting Patty’s famous pasta feed after the Wride. The following week Patty will be leading the FBG wride, with coaching and other fun stuff for newbies. We are looking for volunteers for food that night, so step right up and send send Patty an email at patty@passiontrailbikes.com. Or, if you just can’t do it yourself, we encourage you to recruit your favorite wrider to be our next chef.

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4. Waterdog Trailwork: Tonight! Tuesday Eves, Weekend Morns
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Miro attacks encroaching brush with the loppers

Kevin Sullivan reported that as he was riding about Waterdog the other day, he was complaining that really!! whoever is in charge of trailwork should really get out there and start doing some brushing! And then, he realized, oh, yeah. $&* That’s him. :-P

So, Kevin is seeking your help in opening up some sight lines and getting a little more passing room on some of our favorite, sweet sinuous singletrack. Please join him for just a few hours after work next Tuesday, or pick a weekend day from the list below. Please send Kevin an email at ksullyman@yahoo.com if you want to lend a hand on the trails at Waterdog. Shoot him your contact info and he will hook you up with the details on where to meet.

Tue May 10 6pm – 8pm
Sat May 14 9am – 1pm
Tue May 24 6pm – 8pm
Sun May 29 9am – 1pm
Tue Jun 7 6pm – 8pm

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5. Ales & Trails, China Camp, Saturday May 21
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Ales and Trails Famous Gourmet BBQ
Prepared by Chef Patrick Clark Instructor, Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena

Save the date! It’s the funnest way to support IMBA-California!

Ales and Trails BBQ:
Patrick aims to use organic, locally grown and raised meats and produce for the Ales and Trails BBQ. This will be Patrick’s fifth year generously donating his time and expertise in planning, preparing and serving his famous gourmet bbq lunch to help support IMBA California.

2011 Menu:

Dried Cherry Barbecued Free Range Chicken
Whole Roasted Beer Belly Farms “Mulefoot” Hog
Andouille Sausage and Shrimp Gumbo with Dirty Rice
Couscous Salad, Dried Fruit, Almonds and Scallions
Cucumber & Avocado Salad with Cherry Tomatoes and Dill
Classic Ceasar Salad, Toasted Garlic Croutons, Parmesan
Pasta Salad Tapenade,Basil and Roasted Peppers
Fresh Fruit Salad, Yogurt and Granola
Semifreddi’s Handcrafted Bread
Corrie’s Gourmet Cookies

About Patrick Clark:

Before joining the faculty at the Culinary Institute of America, Patrick Clark was the chef at the critically acclaimed Sutro’s at the Cliff House in San Francisco, CA. A member of the American Culinary Federation, Chef Clark has won numerous medals in competitions around the world, including eight team gold medals at the 1992 Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt, Germany as a member of the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs Culinary Team USA. Patrick is also an avid mountain biker, who gets his ride serviced at Passion Trail Bikes!

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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, from the PTB crew
Charles, Patty, John, Bret, Sterling, Will, Patrick, Peter, and Reba