May 15, 2025 is Proclaimed: City of Fremont Fix Your Bike Day
Fremont Freewheelers Bike Club
Hi Club Members,
Headlight Give Away Season has begun. Given to cyclists without headlights. They will be easy to spot. Come and lend a helping hand. Weather permitting, dress warm, club vest provided.
Jan 23 Warm Springs BART 5:30-6:30
Jan 22 UC BART 5:30-6:30
Jan 21 Fremont BART 5:30-6:30
Jan 16 UC BART 5:30-6:30
Jan 15 Fremont BART 6-7
Jan 14, 2025, Warm Springs BART Station, north side, 6:00 PM.
Jan 8, 2025, Union City BART Station, 5:30 PM.
Jan 6, 2025, NW Corner Walnut & Fremont Blvd (Target) 5:30 PM then moving to Fremont BART Station East side.
Jan 2, 2025 Southwest corner of Mowry & Paseo Padre (Social Security) 5:30-7 PM.
Dec 30, 2024 Fremont BART West Entrance 5:30-7 PM.
Wynn Kageyama
FFBC Cycling Education Chair
From Barry Saeed, our FFBC Ride coordinator:
Even though we have limited FFBC group rides, we can still have fun as a club. Whether road bike, mountain bike or e-bike, real-world or virtual, FFBC’s Strava and RideWithGPS groups offer us ways to stay connected and celebrate our members’ accomplishments.
Strava: Many members (and non-members) have joined Strava’s open, unmoderated FFBC club (https://www.strava.com/clubs/ffbc). Strava’s FFBC club has weekly leaderboards showing distance, elevation gain, number of rides, etc. (Unfortunately, Strava limits its Challenges to corporate sponsors so FFBC cannot have its own challenges.)
RideWithGPS: RWGPS has a members-only FFBC Club, and it is our main repository of club routes. RWGPS allows FFBC to create its own “Goals” for distance, elevation and moving time, similar to Strava’s Challenges. They aren’t really goals in the sense of having numerical targets, but they do have leaderboards to see how club members (and some lapsed members) are doing.
As an experiment, I have set RWGPS goals for June. To join RWGPS’s goals, sign into your account, click on any link below, and tap Join. You may join all three goals if you’d like.
Once you join the goals, you will see them on the right side of your RWGPS dashboard.
If you’re not quite sure how to set up and load rides into Strava and RideWithGPS, see the tips below.
Did I mention this is an experiment? We may have some rough spots with RWGPS goals the first month; contact me directly if you experience problems. If the service works well, and if more than a handful of club members join, then we will try again in July. (Maybe, in addition to our regular group rides’ Pedal Pounders, we’ll celebrate some leaderboard accomplishments at the end of the year, but, for now, let’s just have fun experimenting.)
Happy, safe riding!
Barry
Join Strava’s FFBC Club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/ffbc. After joining the club, on your Strava dashboard, you will see “Your Clubs” on the right with an image. Hover over that image and it says “FFBC.” Click on the image to see the club leaderboard.
Join RideWithGPS’s FFBC Club: You must be an FFBC member in good standing to join. To do so, click this link. After registering, you will find our club logo on top-right of your RWGPS home page. Click on it to access the club site.
Load your rides into Strava: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/223297187-How-to-get-your-Activities-to-Strava.
Load your rides into RWGPS: https://ridewithgps.com/help/connected-services. (RWGPS does not easily import virtual rides so you’re better off loading them to Strava and following the exporting/importing instructions below.)
Automatically import rides from RWGPS into Strava: https://ridewithgps.com/help/connect-with-strava.
Manually export a ride from Strava and import into RWGPS: Strava does not enable automatic imports into RWGPS so you must do each ride manually.
WARNINGS: Do NOT use Strava’s bulk download option as this will export ALL your Strava activity. If you use RWGPS’s “Connect with Strava” feature, you’ll end up with duplicate ride on Strava that you’ll need to delete.
At the upcoming club meeting on Sept 11th, there were be a vote on the 2018-2019 Club Board members. The following people have been nominated for the 2018-19 term:
President: David Walker
Vice President: Glenn Kirby
Treasurer: Rob Tashjian
Secretary: Randy Fewel
Ride Coordinator: Dennis Dong
Race Team Liaison: West Kurihara
Director-at-large: Open
If anyone would like to fill the Director-at-large position, let me know.
It should be a good program as well. We have Matt Bomberg, senior Traffic Engineer for the City of Fremont. Come armed with questions!
David Walker
Meeting:
Second Tuesday of the month, 7:30 p.m.
Meetings are held at the Fremont Adult School (Room N6)
4700 Calaveras Ave
Fremont, CA (map)
If you are interested on being on the 2019 Primavera Committee, please email
Also, anyone is welcome to show to our first meeting without any commitment
The meeting will be Wednesday, August 29 at 7PM at Jay and Julie Gilson’s
House with big white truck in driveway and 2 large magnolia trees at curb
It is a good bunch of people and we don’t have very many meetings
Andy Sass
2019 Primavera Chair (unless someone else wants that position)
primavera@ffbc.org