From the President 

 Next Club Meeting September

At PUD, 2320 California, Everett.

Club Picnic June 17

Plan on enjoying a summer’s day at Jack and Janell’s place along the Stillaguamish River with your B.I.K.E.S. Club friends on Saturday, June 17. If you don’t have any B.I.K.E.S. Club friends, come to the picnic and you will. B.I.K.E.S. members are an
extremely social and welcoming group, so come play, eat and be a part of Snohomish County’s bicycle club.

Please come over any time after 12:00 noon. Have lunch or bring one to enjoy here. The club meal will be an early dinner scheduled around 4:00 to allow for some of the other activities we hope to enjoy.

Your presence at the picnic is especially important this year because we will be voting on the club name and hope to have a quorum (about 20 members).

For the picnic, the club provides quality hamburgers, bratwurst, vegetarian options and non-alcoholic beverages. You bring a salad, side dish or dessert to share. Bring your swimsuit and tube, too, if you’d like to float down the river before the meal. There’s also volleyball and other games to keep us entertained, plus a raffle of some B.I.K.E.S. club collectibles and bicycle-related gear.  We will also celebrate Dan Scott's retirement.

If you’d like to make a night of it, Jack and Janell welcome you to camp overnight on their beautiful grounds. Please call to RSVP and for directions: 360-435-5978

 Lance Armstrong Foundation Ride for the Roses Sept. 24, Portland, Ore. www.livestrongride.com

Got a Pet Peeve?

If you see a road hazard for cyclists you’d like to report to the proper authorities, start with www.bikewatch.org. It’s a new website set up to report problems in Washington State.
 

Club News

Club Name Vote June 17

The “polls” will be open again throughout the club picnic in Arlington on June 17. All current club members are encouraged to come to the picnic, enjoy the games and barbecue and have a say in the club’s future name. Or just come and vote. Sorry, but our bylaws don’t allow voting by proxy.

We currently have about 133 members. To change the club name takes a turnout of 15% (about 20 people) and an approval rating of 65%. We met those hurdles during the McClinchy Mile “primary” voting and came up with the top two choices for this runoff election:

1. 1. Snohomish County Bikes Club

2. 2. B.I.K.E.S. Club of Snohomish County

Unfortunately, the following ideas for a new club name came in too late for consideration. They were submitted by the first man of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington Andy Culp (married to BAW executive director Barb Culp) at the McClinchy Mile.

1. 1. Bicyclists: Inform Kids – Energy Savings

2. 2. Bicycles Inspire Kindness Especially in Snohomish

3. 3. Bicycling Inspires Kisses and Extraordinary Sex

4.     Bicycle Incredible Kilometers of Extraordinary    Snohomish

Thanks for the fun ideas, Andy, but the idea here is to adopt a new name that you can say in one breath and that gives us a clear geographic identity. A reporter asked me recently what B.I.K.E.S. Club stood for, and when I told him, he wondered if we had some kind of fitness test to see if you could still say the full name three times fast after topping a hill or racing to the city limits sign.

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