Frequent Rider Club

There’s never a better time to get your name in the frequent rider club and earn the respect and awe of fellow members along with your custom BIKES patch kit, 500- or 1,000-mile prize.     

Just remember the basic goal: Get out and ride!

New Members:

BIKES would like to Welcome the following New members;

Laurence Harris,   Richard Burrows,

Tone Hutton,   Mary Andrews,

Janet Heineck,   Jim Ketchum,

Alana Meyer,   Mike Stann

   We hope to see you on a ride soon!

BIKES would like to Welcome the following Renewing members;

Bev Rossiter,    Dan & Mareda Cornelissen,

Gary & Joanne Sauter,    Richard Junkins,

Shirley Slade,     Dave & Nina Johnson,

Peter Pisani,    Ginny Conley

 We hope to see you on a ride soon!

Summer of the Century

New B.I.K.E.S. Club member soliciting interest in training for late summer century riding this season. Riders should be committed to brisk paced strenuous group training rides with limited stops. The distances and terrain difficulty will increase gradually while leading up to 6-7 hour endurance levels needed for brisk paced 100 mile tasks with limited stops. Your commitment should also include motivated individual training to fill-in the gaps between participating in group training rides.

In order to maintain the necessary exertion level to complete this type of activity, developing an endurance fueling regimen that works for your individual physiology should be a key component to your commitment package. Without endurance fueling, the odds for
success diminish dramatically. There are volumes of resources on the subject of endurance fueling. The method that has proven itself for me can be investigated at:
http://www.e-caps.com/downloads/fuelinghandbook.pdf.       (http://www.e-caps.com)

The beauty of endurance fueling is that many facets of the techniques apply to all exertion levels and task durations.

If you are interested in this type of training and riding, please contact me at eric@troili.com.   Eric Troili  425.355.4458

Looking to ride your bike, but the rides that are listed are too slow or too fast or
know of a special bike route you would like to share?

Maybe you would like to lead a ride,
but are not sure about what is involved.

An experienced BIKES Club ride leader will ride with you on your ride and show you what is needed to lead a successful bike ride.  We are currently looking for members that want to lead a leisurely paced ride.  That’s right.  There are plenty of nice riding days this fall and winter.  It’s a great way to meet other people and talk over lunch.  Days and weekends are available! And it’s free!

Contact me tcjkwise@verizon.net to pair you up with a ride leader.

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Advertise in the Newsletter!

Here is a new section of the newsletter to advertise something to sell or buy.  Based on monthly available space, the listing priority will be as follows;

Priority 1; Club member selling or buying a bicycle related item.

Priority 2;  An associate of a club member selling or buying a bicycle related item.

Send an email to the newsletter editor at

bikeseditor@gmail.com