Weekly Outlook for August 17th

Hope you're getting out and riding! The Tour de Fat heads our way in 19 DAYS! Yep, that’s 19 DAYS! If you’ve already signed up, THANKS! If you haven’t, we need your help. Please sign up to volunteer for a shift or two or three. Volunteer sign-up has been pretty light so far. Please rally some friends and family members and sign them up! We have plenty of slots open for people who don’t want to get TIPS trained. Then again, we have plenty of spots open for people who are TIPS Trained. (TIPS Training info is also on the sign-up page.) Thanks again! And if you haven’t gotten your costume together yet, get on it!

The Trail Day on Shoreline turned out to be a huge success. If you’ve been out there since Saturday afternoon, you’ll have noticed a big difference. We no longer have to worry about someone falling off the side of the earth as they zip along the trail. Working together with Todd, Richard, and Dan from the Larimer County Trail Crew, members of Team BOB, the CSU Cycling Team, the UNC Rec Center, New Belgium Brewery, and Overland Mountain Bike Club, moved a 350-foot section of trail up the hill about 10-20 feet in order to mitigate a constant erosion problem, help the trail drain better, and make using the trail a bit more pleasant. Thanks to everyone who came out and got dirty with us. Also, a huge thanks to Backcountry Provisions in Old Town for donating awesome, tasty, mouth-watering sandwiches for lunch.

The Silent Auction at Peloton Cycles for Stu Culp raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $4k. Check out Your Group Ride for updates on Stu and Dr. Tim. Thanks to Dan at YGR for keeping us all up-to-date.

And now for this week’s events:

Wednesday, August 19th – Singletrack Social Group Ride. Meet at the Maxwell Trailhead to ride by 6 p.m. Meet at Josh Shafer’s house to socialize afterwards. Please bring drinks or a snack to share. By the way, we had a season high 20 riders show up and break into two groups last week. These rides are turning out to be quite fun and break up the week quite nicely. I’m sure we’ll be riding the re-route on Shoreline this week. Please join us!

Thursday, August 20th – Bike-In-Movie at New Belgium Brewery. It’s back again and will be better than ever! Grab your cruiser, your bar bike, your fixie, your trike, load the fam in the burley trailer and head on over to New Belgium at dusk every Thursday for films, brews, and good times. The way they were meant to be - car free. This year NBB supports Wolverine Farm Publishing and Bike Fort Collins with our beer sales. So come support your local community.
This week’s movie – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the THIRD KIND

Saturday, August 22nd- Singletrack Social at the Soderberg Trailhead. Team 4 Hosts this week. Meet to ride by 9 a.m. Come and check out the work the county did on Loggers and Carey Springs. I’m curious to see what it’s like.

Monday, August 24th – Monthly Meeting at the Tap Room at Catalyst Coffee. Tour de Fat pre-game planning, socializing, trail talks, etc. Bring a friend. See you there!

Points Update: As of Monday morning, the points competition looks like this:
Overall Points Leader – Pete Skram with 142 points. Doug and Mary McCartney aren’t far behind
Patrol Points Leader – Joe Perrin has leapt onto the scene with a whopping 68 patrol points and 21 patrols.

That’s about it. Enjoy the ride and the week. See you at the trailhead or at the meeting! And don’t forget to sign-up for your shifts at the Tour de Fat!