Scenes from a ride in Italy with Edoardo Bianchi, the oldest bicycle making company still in existence. Photo from Amy Neches

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The Annual FFBC Picnic October 1, 2016 at Quarry Lakes

THANKS TO JUNE RIDE LEADERS

Al Quintana

Alan Cookson

Amy Giles

Andy Sass

Becky Smith

Carrie Payne

Chris Menicou

Colin Moy

Conni Smith

Dave Fishbaugh

David Walker

Donna Kaplan

Garry Birch

Jay Gilson

Jim Fehrle

Julia Walker

Ken Lew

Linda Fung

Lori Sommer

Louis Friedenberg

Michelle Dudley

Paul Andrus

Prashant Singh

Robin O’Hara

Sydney Friedenberg

Terri Yi

Tim O’Hara

Vanessa McDonnell

West Kurihara

JUNE CLUB MEETING

Come to a FFBC Meeting and learn about interesting rides and maybe even win something!

Amy Neches presenting her slides about two amazing bike trips in Italy.

YOUR PHOTOS FROM THE ROAD

Peggy abd Byron enjoying the wonderful framed pictures. Thanks to Becky for the frames.

All good things must end sometime! Saying thanks to Byron and Peggy and farewell to Crank2 for their 10 years of supporting the cycling community. Thanks to Walt Thomas for the photos and Lori Sommer for the contribution.

West Kurihara and his daughter Tara doing repeats up Mt. Hamilton in preparation for a race up Mt. Haleakala. This is an annual event for them!

Becky Smith took on a new challenge this year when she trained for and participated in the Team Fremont Calaveras Time Trial. Photo 1 shows Becky lining up for her start. She shows us her excellent number placement. She started well and finished strong. Way to go Becky!

DSC03887 - Copy-2 — Tuesday, June 7 Show-N-Go at Mission Coffee. From the left: Jon Graff, Becky Smith, Louis Rosenbaum, Sydney Friedenberg (holding Jon’s drawing of a triceratops), Herman Rosenbaum, Donna Boomershine and Lambert Caulfield. Photo by Jon Graff.

Laura and Daryl Spano did a wonderful century ride in Hayfork, CA called the Bigfoot Century. It was one of the best century rides out there! They had such a great time that next year they want to get a group of riders together to attend. There were only 72 riders total (and about 30 on the 115 and 126 mile routes). In the first 70 miles they only saw 7 cars! A local reporter saw them on their tandem and added the to an article she was doing on the ride.

The pictures don’t do the views justice! Hayfork is locatted on the edge of the Trinity-Shasta National Forest and if you look close you can see Mt. Shasta in a couple of the photos. Photos and story from Laura Spano.