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Minutes – Oct 13, 2015

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FFBC GENERAL MEETING

General meeting was called to order at 7:45PM.

Race Team Report – Chris Menicou

Chris reviewed last month’s race team’s results.

Race Team Report for September 2015:

1.     Team Fremont Race Updates – Top Ten Rider Results

OAKLAND GRAND PRIX
SEP 20, 2015 – OAKLAND, CA

W Cat. 3/4 – Luisa Sempere1st

CCCX CYCLOCROSS #1
SEP 6, 2015 – MONTEREY

MASTERS 35+ B MEN – Damon Campbell 5th

CCCX CYCLOCROSS #2
SEP 13, 2015 – MONTEREY

MASTERS 35+ B MEN – Damon Campbell 4th
MASTERS 35+ C MEN – Brian Gokey 1st

CCCX CYCLOCROSS #3
SEP 27, 2015 – MANZANITA PARK

MASTERS 35+ C MEN – Brian Gokey 1st

CCCX CYCLOCROSS #4
10/4/15 – TORO PARK

MASTERS 35+ B MEN – Damon Campbell 8th
MASTERS 35+ C MEN – Brian Gokey 2nd

CCCX CYCLOCROSS #5
SEP 11, 2015 – MANZANITA PARK

MASTERS 35+ C MEN – Brian Gokey 1st

CCCX CYCLOCROSS #6
10/18/15 – TORO PARK

MASTERS 35+ B MEN – Damon Campbell 1st
MASTERS 35+ C MEN – Brian Gokey 1st

2.     Training and Event Update

a) Tuesday Night Training (TNT):  Meet at 6:15 PM at Genmark Automation (Warren and 46723 Lakeview) for a local ride and hill climbing workout.

b) Thursday Night Training (TNT): Meet at 6:15 PM on Eureka & Stevenson (parking lot) in Fremont for 4-corner Criterium workouts.

c) In Oct and November there will be Sunday workouts. October will start easy and November will start getting more difficult.

3.     Team Target Events

Team Target Events for Road Racing are Complete for 2015

The race calendar can be found at – http://ncnca.org/

Team Fremont Women’s Category 4 Racers placed first in 2015 in the Northern California Nevada Cycling Association (NCNCA).

The woman’s individual spring champion for Category 4 Racing was:

Luisa Sempere from Team Fremont!

 Second place Spring Cat. 4 champion was:

 14 year old Catie Melnarik who also won the Outstanding NCNCA Junior Racer title for 2015!

4.     Team Membership

 There are 76 Race Team Members for the 2015 season roster.

18 are Ladies& 17 are Juniors

Sign-ups for joining the team will begin in November

The Fremont Freewheeler Race Team website is at: http://fremontraceteam.org/

Director-at-Large – Trish Conklin:

Bike boxes available. Trish also brought all the great food for tonight’s meeting – a Chinese noodle dish and cheese platter. People were already diving in.

Treasury Report – Julia Walker:

Julia reported $57k in the bank. Julie Gilson suggested getting setup on Square/Paypal for credit card payments at the Primavera – to allow for more convenient sales.

We got a thank you note from Adobe for our donation to allow them to purchase bicycle safety equipment for their residents.

Julia reported $57k in the bank. Last month’s spending was the Adobe donation. There was some minor income – clothing.

The Club will vote on the budget at the November meeting.

Ride Coordinator – Dave Fishbaugh:

Dave gave a little background on his experience with the Niles Canyon “Roll-n-Stroll” (closed to car traffic). He met with Scott Haggerty, who said he was delighted with the turnout. Bike path plan looks like ti will be $60-100M. Scott felt there were sources for money in county and others.

Dave asked if the FFBC should take a larger role. There was no strong support for that idea.

Dave is part of the county wide bike commission. He will update the Board on the activities.

Membership – Becky Denevan:

Becky announced that there are 539 members and 406 memberships. She also announced that the picnic is in two weeks (Oct 24) and there are 85 “yes” and 42 “no” so far, and 318 no answer.

General Discussion:

Eve Ben-Ora was introduced as the new editor of the newsletter.

Julia setup and sold old stock of jerseys, arm warmers and socks. We had a lot of activity.

Bob Miller then gave a report on his August Mountain Bike packing trip on the Colorado trail. If anyone is interested he has pictures up on his website:

https://rjmiller.smugmug.com/Bike-Trips/2015-08-07-Colorado-Trail-Bike-R/

The meeting was then adjourned.

 

Minutes – Sept 8, 2015

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FFBC GENERAL MEETING

General meeting was called to order at 7:45PM.

Race Team Report – Chris Menicou

Chris noted that we are getting close to the end of the race season – last weekend was somewhat of a Grand Finale with the Red Kite Omnium, Masters/Juniors Dist and State Criterium and the Giro de San Francisco Criterium. We had a number of outstanding finishes in those races – see the results below.

There are two more big races before the end of the season, and then we go into the Cyclocross season. Road racing season starts in January.

November is when team members must re-up their membership.

Chris reviewed the following team results and provided the complete results later by email. This is for the last four weeks.

Race Team Report for August 2015:

1.     Team Fremont Race Updates – Top Ten Rider Results

Central coast road series – Ft. Ord – Jr. state RR champs. sep 12, 2015

W Jr. 15-16 Cat. 1/2/3/4/5 – Zahra Gill 1st

M Jr. 17-18 1/2/3/4/5 – Daniel Karpelevitch 4th

GIRO DI SAN FRANCISCO (Team Target Event)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA   SEP 7, 2015

W Elite Cat. 3 – Luisa Sempere 1st

M Master 35 Cat. 4 – Robert Gonzalez 2nd

NCNCA STATE Criterium Champs. –  PLEASANTON, CA   SEP 6, 2015

M Master 60-65 1/2/3/4 – Tim O’Hara 5th

W Jr. 15-16 – Zahra Gill 1st

M Jr. 17-18 1/2/3/4 – Conan Wen 4th

RED KITE OMNIUM Criterium – PLEASANTON, CA   SEP 5, 2015

M Master 55 Cat. 3/4 – Tim O’Hara 7th

W PRO 1/2/3 – Luisa Sempere 6th

W Elite Cat. 3 – Luisa Sempere 4th

M Elite Cat. 5 – James Marquez 1st, Alex Abaya 4th, Derek Stedman 6th

VACAVILLE GRAN PRIX – VACAVILLE, CA   AUG 30, 2015

W Elite Cat. 3/4 – Luisa Sempere 3rd

WINTERS ROAD RACE – WINTERS, CA   AUG 29, 2015

M Elite Cat. 3 – Phill Mai 4th

W Elite Cat. 3 – Zahra Gill 10th

UNIVERSITY ROAD RACE –  SANTA CRUZ, CA   AUG 23, 2015

M Elite Cat. 4/5 – Derek Stedman 7th

W PRO 1/2/3 – Zahra Gill 10th

RED KITE OMNIUM EVENT #13 – TEMPUS FUGIT INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL – CASTRO VALLEY, CA   AUG 23, 2015

M Master 55 Cat. 3/4 – Chris Menicou 2nd

SAN ARDO ROAD RACE (Team Target Event) – SAN ARDO, CA   AUG 22, 2015

M Elite Cat. 4 – Joe Rokes 9th

W Elite Cat. 4 – Zahra Gill 3rd

DUNNIGAN HILLS ROAD RACE – DUNNIGAN, CA   AUG 15, 2015

M Elite Cat. 4 – Joe Rokes 9th

M Junior 17-18 – Daniel Karpelevitch 3rd

W Elite Cat. 4 – Zahra Gill 1st

2.     Training and Event Update

Tuesday Night Training (TNT):  Meet at 6:15 PM at the Club Sport Fremont parking lot for a local ride and hill climbing workout.

Thursday Night Training (TNT): Meet at 6:15 PM on Eureka off Stevenson in Fremont for 4-corner Criterium workouts.

3.     Team Target Events

Team Target Events for Road Racing are complete for 2015!

It was a very good year:

 Total top 10’s:           181

Wins:              23

Top 3:             40

Top 5:             39

Top 10:           71

 The race calendar can be found at – http://ncnca.org/

4.     Team Membership

 There are 76 Race Team Members for the 2015 season roster.

18 are Ladies & 17 are Juniors

The Fremont Freewheeler Race Team website is at: http://fremontraceteam.org/

Treasury Report – Julia Walker:

Julia reported $57k in the bank. Last month’s spending was largely donations – all of which were done except Abode. Some paper work is required in that case. There was some minor income – some new memberships.

Ride Coordinator – Dave Fishbaugh:

Dave is focusing on the October calendar. He will be soliciting ride entries via email.

General Discussion:

Main general activity this month is the voting of the board members for the next year. A slate of nominees had been put forward at the August meeting, which was comprised of all the existing board members continuing in their existing posts. Luis asked the members present if there were any other new nominees for any positions. There were no additional nominees put forward.

The nominees for the board are then:

Luis Facha President
Louis Friedenberg Vice President
Bob Miller Secretary
Chris Menicou Race Team Representative
Julia Walker Treasurer
Trish Conklin Director-at-Large
Dave Fishbaugh Co-Ride Coordinator

 

The members present then voted on this slate of candidates. There was a unanimous vote to re-elect the candidates.

Luis announced that Eve Ben-Ora will be taking over for Marcella as the Newsletter editor. Eve was at the meeting and said she will be looking to possibly use social media and the website as an alternative approach of using the outside group to create a PDF file. This will be discussed further at the next Board Meeting.

Terri brought up the plan and strategy for jerseys.

At 8:10PM the meeting ended,

with quite a few pizza slices wanting for a member to stop by and eat them. That could (should) be you next time!

One Month to Go Newsletter

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If you can not ride this year…

The ride sold out in February and there are a lot of people wanting to get a registration. They have posted on Craigslist (SF Bay Area) and that is a good place, along with our Facebook page. You collect your money back from the transferee. Please, no scalping. Transferring is free. Go to https://ffbcprimavera.wordpress.com/transfer/ to fill out a transfer form and for the transferee to get a registration form. The transferee can send it in or simply go to the Transfers line at check-in. We accept faxed or scanned transfer forms. On day of, we will even accept looking at the form on your smart phone. There were a few transfers done electronically that morning last year.

The price for all but the fun ride is the same and registration is good for any route. Fun Ride registrations can be upgraded for $45, cash or check.

Get your bike in shape

Speaking of checks, it is a good time to check your bike. We will have professional mechanics at registration and each rest stop, but they should be for emergency repairs. This is a good time to get that new chain, tires, brakes, etc. See our sponsor page for excellent shops. If you join FFBC, they offer a 10% discount on most items.

Join FFBC

Speaking of joining, we have a promotion next month. All people who become a member of Fremont Freewheelers Bicycle Club (FFBC) in April will be entered in a lottery to win a pair of tickets for the Niles Canyon Railway. There are a couple of pairs of tickets to be given away. Visit www.ffbc.org

Niles Canyon Railway

Speaking of Niles Canyon Railway, they will be running the same steam engine pulling excursion cars up and down Niles Canyon on Primavera ride day. So, watch for the train while cruising through the canyon.  We have adjusted the 100 mile and 100K routes one block so the routes go right past the Sunol Train Station. The 65 and 100 K routes go past the Niles station as well. If the 100 milers don’t mind making it 101 miles, then follow the blue and green arrows at the end of Niles Canyon Road into Niles. There will be photo ops of the Robert Dollar engine at Sunol between 10 and 10:30. The train departs Sunol at 10:30, (back in Sunol around 11:50), 12:30, (back in Sunol around 1:50), and 2:30 (back in Sunol around 3:50).

If you have a significant other (or kids), they may want to take the train while you are off riding. Visit http://www.ncry.org/ .

Volunteering

Speaking of significant others, they can also have a good time that day by volunteering. Go to http://ffbcprimavera.wordpress.com/volunteers/ to sign up. They get a t-shirt that features the train at the Sunol Station, food, and a couple surprise gifts. With a little planning, they will see you on your travels.

Bird Watching

Speaking of your travels, the Eagles (the birds, not the group) have been spotted at Calaveras Reservoir. Hopefully you will see them as you ride. There are also red tailed hawks.

Wente Road Race

Speaking of things to see, this year the Wente Road Race will be on the same day. The race course is the same Altamont Loop as the one the 100 milers take from Rios Lovell Winery. This year, for safety, we will be doing the loop in reverse. We will go counterclockwise, while the racers go clockwise. They have a strict centerline rule and must stay on their side of the road. We are asking that people observe the single file rules to provide maximum separation. We also require that our riders obey the Race Marshals. There are three turns where you may be stopped as the peloton comes around the corner. We rode this change and actually prefer doing it in the counterclockwise direction. Your feedback will be requested after the ride to consider making it a permanent change.

Fun Ride

Speaking of changes, the fun ride will now go all the way to the end of the Alameda Creek Trail in Niles. No more turns to look for and no more overpass with no bike lane. We are adding a water stop at the end of the trail. As of this week, the tree roots on the trail are being cut out and paved over, so it should be a nice smooth ride. Who could ask for more?

FAQ

Speaking of asking, check out the FAQ tab at the website. If you still have questions, write primavera@ffbc.org   There will be another set of last minute instructions sent out a week before the ride. If you do not see it, just check the website and a copy will be there.