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Seat By Roy Hooper By the nice turnouts we have for our rides and the comments I have received it seems that most of you are happy with our Club.  I have a rule of listening to our Members so let me know what you like about our Club and things that we could improve on. Let me know in person or through an email. At our lunches at Sal's in Oxnard and at Bocalli's in Ojai our Members decided to show their appreciation to me for running the Club by chipping in one dollar each which paid for my both of my lunches. To that I say a big THANK YOU! This means a lot to me and 2 free lunches is plenty. Thanks again. Got any places you think would be ideal for a Club ride? Send me your ideas of where you want to go and the place you suggest for lunch and a route. If you don't have a route then I can work with you to be sure we don't miss any nice roads. Please check out our Ride Calendar and help me fill the remaining 5 months of 2009. We have an opening for the Ride Captain position. The Ride Captain sets up routes and places to visit for our monthly rides, assigns a sweeper for each ride and makes sure the rides go smoothly. I use Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 to create routes and will teach the new Ride Captain how to use it. You can also use another program if you choose to. This is an important position and I know we have some Members that would make a very good Ride Captain. Right now in addition to running the Club I also do the web site, the newsletters and schedule the monthly rides so having a Ride Captain would help me greatly. On Friday night August 22 our Member Tim Bates died of a heart attack in his Carpenteria home. Tim was a long time Member and was also involved with the FJR club. Please visit TwoWheelNut.com for his memorial. CCR Back to top |
Group Riding Video I have run across a video by MSF that demos how to group ride. I would love everyone to view this so we can all be on the same page and it will explain why I do certain things on the rides. View video here. July Ride Pine Mntn. Club By Roy Hooper Our July ride had us going to the Pine Mntn. Club in Kern County with about 6 members of the Blue Knights joining us.
You can see more ride photos in The weather up there was great but this stubborn rain cell just stopped on Lockwood Valley Road daring us to cross its path on the way home. We talked about our options and the majority said let's take I-5 home. Well there was its brother cell waiting for us too and it just dumped on us as we rode south on the 5. Even though some riders never rode in the rain before, they made it unscathed and more experienced! Good job.  (Photo by George Crespo) our Photo Gallery.
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August Ride Murphy Museum By Roy Hooper The August ride was suppose to take us to the new Murphy Museum in Oxnard but we had lots of riders again and time became an issue. So instead of trying to rush things we opted to let everyone enjoy each others company and just reschedule the Museum for 2009. We had a great lunch at Sal's in Oxnard and we were served by SuperWaitress. This ride also had 4 gals riding their own bikes- Teresa, Alison, Carla and Suzana.  (Photo by George Crespo) You can see more ride photos in our Photo Gallery. CCR
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