January Meeting

Happy New Year! The EACC crew wants to see you at more meetings in the New Year so we’re asking you to help us plan a schedule of meetings and workshops that will bring you out after a long day. We’ll finalize the schedule at January’s meeting.

Here’s what we have so far for meetings and workshops:

  • Jan: Business Meeting: Elections, schedule decisions, and ride updates
  • Feb: Bruce Herbitter: Randonneuring and 650B Conversions
  • July: Le Tour at Red Clay Brewery
  • Sept and Oct: Johnny Ray Century planning and review.
  • Dec: Holiday Gathering

Workshop/Experiment: “How Many Gears Do You Use?”: Tim wants to conduct an experiment to uncover just how many gears we use in a typical ride and how many do we really need? Tim will add clarity and details at the next meeting.

We have six (6) open months. Here are some ideas we’re floating. Please indicate your preference and especially please add your ideas for meetings and workshops. (PLEASE NOTE that we have NOT YET contacted any of the people mentioned.)

  • Captain Tommy Carswell: Cycling and the Law
  • Brandy Ezelle: Effective Cycling (possibly a workshop)
  • Disk Brakes (looking for a speaker)
  • Mike Hogan: The Campy Mystique 
  • Jay Sandefur: Frame Building 
  • Tim McDonald: Bike Rodeo and/or Parking Lot Exercises (bring your bike)
  • CVT Transmission
  • John Little/Carolyn Donnelly: The Lure of Touring 
  • Danny James/Philip Darden: James Bros Opelika!: What’s Hot; CAMP/Chewacla 

YOUR IDEAS HERE:

Please tell me what you like and what you’d nix in the list. Be sure to add your suggestions. Thanks and we wish you the most wonderful new year! Angela (lakwete@gmail.com)

October meeting

Another Johnny Ray is in the books! Thanks to all the help and support that YOU the membership gave to this event, it just doesn't happen without you. There will be a lot of post discussion on the event so come ready to tell your tail and hear others. I'm sure we'll hear all about the "chip seal" again.
Also the post wrap up and I believe some talk on vintage bikes.
Sound be a livejy meeting at the Church of the Highlands at 7:00pm on October the 12, like how I fit that in. So don't miss this one!
Dave

Johnny Ray a huge success

Wow! We had an incredible 13th annual Johnny Ray Century. Thank you to all 250 riders, our generous donors, and fabulous volunteers for making it such an unbelievable success. Please stay tuned as the bean counters total everything. Forthcoming, expect to hear how much you all raised for the Davis Phinney Foundation, a ride debriefing, rider evaluations and all that rich ride wrap up stuff.

In the meantime, if anyone has pictures they’d like to share of their 2015 JRC journey I’d love to post them on our website. Send them to johnnyray@eastalabamacyclingclub.com.

 

 

Johnny Ray pre-Century

EACC Members & JRC Volunteers: Pre-Ride the Johnny Ray Century

7 am, Saturday, 19 Sept. 2015, Trinity United Methodist Church

This from the indomitable Tim McDonald:

There are many perfectly legitimate reasons for not riding the Johnny Ray Century on 26 September. Maybe you'll be out of town cheering on your heroes in Richmond as they chase the rainbow jersey. Maybe you're a fan of finger foods and beer and want to spend that Saturday with 100,000 of your closest friends. Maybe you just don't like to be interrupted by so-called 'rest stops' on your long bike rides.

Or maybe, just maybe, a certain Angela has twisted your arm and you've 'volunteered' to take one for the club and be one of those people whose service it is that makes the JRC such a standout in the ABC Series and one of the finest bike rides in the South.

Whatever your excuse, there's simply no excuse for missing the JRpC, aka the Johnny Ray pre-Century, this Saturday, 19 September. Come join us at 7:00 AM at the Methodist Church in Opelika as we of the EACC grandly depart the parking lot for 105 miles of simple pleasure over simple country roads, without all those speedier out-of-towners constantly passing us by and then having to breathlessly chat with them at the next rest stop about their $10,000 bicycle - ugh.

Those helping out on JRC Saturday AND completing the JRpC will be rewarded with an ABC Series medal. What's not to like about that? Join us for a more relaxed century!

                                -Tim-