Lessons from Cycling—for Cyclists and Educators

Lessons from Cycling—for Cyclists and Educators

RESCHEDULED: RJ Rockers Spartanburg Metric Century/ 16 August 2014

RJ Rockers Spartanburg Metric Century/ August 16, 2014

• Parking at Grain District lot (same as July 4 ride) corner of Daniel Morgan and Broad St

• Sign in at RJ Rockers (not where noted in image above, but at RJR, as noted on map). RJR will be open after the ride for their Saturday beer tasting and please plan to join! Visit RJR's web site: http://www.rjrockers.com/

• Plan to stay for food and join RJR tasting from 12-4 after your ride! Food option TBD

RJ Rockers Brewing Company
226-A West Main Street
Spartanburg, SC 29306
Phone: (864) 585-BEER

• Ride time 8:30. Please sign in between 7:30-8:15. We roll promptly at 8:30. Raffle AFTER ride at RJR.

• Metric century 63.8 mis (see Ride with GPS for cue sheet):

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/5232994

Route rolls through downtown Spartanburg and then out Union St toward Camp Croft. Then we head out Southport Rd through Whitestone to West Springs, where we head to Buffalo. After the store stop in Buffalo (on Hwy 215), we return parallel to the outbound roads to Pacolet before turning onto Hwy 150 and then retracing the course back in on Whitestone, Southport, Dairy Ridge, and into town on Union St.

***Register for 6 September 2014 Tour de Paws!***

http://www.tourdepaws.info/Home.php

Preliminary plan:

• A/B group with 3 open zones:

1. Z1 - Whitestone outbound - 3 +/- mis
2. Z2 - West Springs climb/LEFT ACROSS TRAFFIC [obey traffic laws and safety; do NOT blast left if oncoming traffic because this is an open zone and not a race]/Mudbridge Rd (roll easy to store for regroup) - 7.5 +/- mis
3. Z3 - Whitestone inbound - 3 +/- mis

• B group, no zones, no drop [RIDE LEADER(S): Rick Rowe, Dietmar] - Please email ME ONLY if you can help lead this ride

• C group [RIDE LEADERS(S) Michael Powell; 28 mis route: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/5481905]

• Short route? [RIDE LEADER(S) NEEDED; email ME ONLY]

• Family/children's ride - Karl Johnson will lead this (similar to July 4)

• If you have questions, concerns, ideas, please email ME ONLY ASAP.

*** This will be great preparation for the Tour de Paws September 6, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/freewheelersSpartanburg ***

• Sponsorship and support:

RJ Rockers (http://www.rjrockers.com/)

globalbike (http://www.globalbike.org/)

Spartanburg Club Chapter (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Globalbike-Spartanburg/475255862582082)

The Freewheelers of Spartanburg (http://www.freewheelers.info/)

Boyd Cycling (http://www.boydcycling.com/)

PAL (http://www.active-living.org/)

BikeStreet USA Spartanburg (www.bikestreet.com)
106 Franklin Avenue, Suite C
Spartanburg, SC 29301
864-595-3635

Zaxby’s (http://www.zaxbys.com/) gift certificates

REVOLUTIONARY Spartanburg (www.VisitSpartanburg.com)– Tervis Tumbler; sleeve (3) Titleist ProV1 golf balls

Growler Haus (http://growlerhaus.com/) gift certificates

• NO entry fee. (We may secure a SAG, and then may ask for donations for the SAG's time and effort. As well, we will offer information for ways to donate to globalbike [https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1436263], but this is purely voluntary.)

• GOALS: (1) Promote good stewardship of the roads in greater Spartanburg, (2) increase the strong relationship between the cycling and Spartanburg communities, (3) promote awareness of cycling and the growing downtown in Spartanburg, and (4) encourage cyclists to support local businesses and organizations.

ANNOUNCING: Two Spartanburg Metric Centuries (July 4 and August 9, 2014)

Please mark your cycling calendars for TWO first-annual METRIC centuries from downtown Spartanburg.

Parking, staging area:

These rides, we hope, will become annual events, and will share the following:

• Sponsorship and support from globalbike (http://www.globalbike.org/) Spartanburg Club Chapter (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Globalbike-Spartanburg/475255862582082), RJ Rockers (http://www.rjrockers.com/), The Freewheelers of Spartanburg (http://www.freewheelers.info/) and PAL (http://www.active-living.org/)
• NO entry fee. (We may secure a SAG, and then may ask for donations for the SAG's time and effort. As well, we will offer information for ways to donate to globalbike, but this is purely voluntary.) 
• GOALS: (1) Promote good stewardship of the roads in greater Spartanburg, (2) increase the strong relationship between the cycling and Spartanburg communities, (3) promote awareness of cycling and the growing downtown in Spartanburg, and (4) encourage cyclists to support local businesses and organizations.

RJ Rockers August 9 Metric Century

• 8:30 am start
• Parking at Grain District lot across from RJ Rockers (near W Main Street and S Daniel Morgan Ave)
• Proposed metric century route (62 +/- mis): 
  http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/463057862 ; see Ride with GPS for route and cue sheet http://ridewithgps.com/routes/5232994
• Group(s) ride modeled on our usual eride format (we encourage and request B and C group ride leaders; please email ME ONLY)

We will announce better details and confirm everything closer to the events. Of course, everything is dependent on weather, etc. If you have suggestions or feedback, email ME ONLY ASAP.

The events:

1st globalbike Spartanburg chapter July 4 Metric Century / 2014

PLEASE plan to join us Friday July 4, 2014 for our 1st globalbike Spartanburg chapter Metric Century. The ride has no entry free but we encourage you to visit globalbike (http://www.globalbike.org/) and consider making a donation soon (https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1436263). The event details:

• Sponsorship and support provided by globalbike (http://www.globalbike.org/), globalbike Spartanburg chapter (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Globalbike-Spartanburg/475255862582082), RJ Rockers (http://www.rjrockers.com/), The Freewheelers of Spartanburg (http://www.freewheelers.info/) and PAL (http://www.active-living.org/)
• NO entry fee. (We may secure a SAG, and then ask for donations for the SAG's time and effort.)
• GOALS: (1) Promote good stewardship of the roads in greater Spartanburg, (2) increase the strong relationship between the cycling and Spartanburg communities, (3) promote awareness of cycling and the growing downtown in Spartanburg, and (4) encourage cyclists to support local businesses and organizations.
• 8:30 am start
• Park in Grain District lot across from RJ Rockers (near W Main Street and S Daniel Morgan Ave)
• Metric century route (62 +/- mis): http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/442982462. Route may be marked by ride day, BUT come prepared to know the course!
• Group ride modeled on our usual eride format (we encourage and request B and C group ride leaders; please email ME ONLY).
• After the main ride leaves, Karl Johnson will lead a FAMILY/CHILDREN'S ride to Duncan Park.

This event is NOT A RACE, and we will be riding OPEN ROADS. All laws must be obeyed, including stopping at stop signs/red lights, remaining 2-abreast, not crossing the yellow line, and above all else, riding safely and with due respect for the local roads and motorists.

PLEASE register at the sign-in table between 7:45 - 8:15. The Freewheelers and PAL will monitor sign-in and we hope to have some goodies at the table (stay tuned).

PLAN to visit our great downtown Spartanburg after the ride! We are working on securing some incentives for you to patron local restaurants, etc.!

My Assault Results

Can't find everything, and my artifacts (patches, t-shirts, Freewheeler links to past results) are contradictory, but here is what I have cobbled together:

Assault on Mt. Mitchell

Year, Time, Place

1988, 7:11, 342

1989, 6:57, 352

1990, DNF

1992, 7:13, 213

1993, ?

1994, 6:34, 107

2004, 7:58

2005, 7:34, 88 (117-mile edition)

2006, 6:09, 59

2007, 5:57 (best time), 62

2008, DNF

2009, 6:25, 93

2010, 6:10, 75

2011, 6:22, 123

2012, DNF

2013, 6:16, 86

2014, 6:23, 58 (best place)

2015, DNF 

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See links to past results for the Assault here.

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Respect the Road. Respect the Ride.

Respect the Road.

Please read the following and note that all posted rides (and any time a cyclist is riding on open roads) are bound by the need for cyclists to respect the laws that govern the use of those roads, to consider how cyclists present themselves to motorists and the public, and to honor the safety of fellow cyclists:

Changing Group Road Ride Behavior, Richard Fries

Respect the Ride.

As noted in Cycle Safe and Civil: A Statement of Joining Posted Group Rides, any cyclist who joins a posted group ride is accepting the ride as posted and is expected to conduct him/herself within the guidelines of that ride. Every cyclist at a posted ride should seek to help ride leaders maintain a safe ride that fulfills the parameters of the ride posted.

Cyclists with individual training needs may not wish to join structured group rides, and are asked not to seek ways to turn structured group rides into his/her own training event. Anyone is free to post his/her own ride, as well, if the structure of existing rides is not suitable.

Joining group rides also requires more than fitness from any cyclist: know how to handle safely your bicycle in a group setting, be properly fit on your bicycle and have the bicycle in proper working condition, be self--sufficient (spare tube, CO2, cell phone, etc.), and know appropriate group and fast-paced cycling etiquette (do not ride more than 2 abreast, do not cross the yellow line, do not make sudden movements, etc.).

Tuesday Zone Rides 2014 during DST

Tuesday Zone Rides 2014 during DST

http://bicyclelust.blogspot.com/2014/03/tuesday-zone-rides-2014-during-dst.html

Standing 6 pm start time throughout DST -- WEATHER PERMITTING 

Respect the Road. Respect the Ride.

PLEASE READ: http://bicyclelust.blogspot.com/2014/03/respect-road-respect-ride.html

TAIL LIGHTS REQUIRED, LIGHTS SUGGESTED 

Tuesday Zone ride will leave from behind KFC in the Cedar Springs Shopping Center at the intersection of Union St/Southport [Hwys 295/56]

(Hardee's and across that corner, McDonald's are your main landmarks)

Ride START will be out the KFC exit on Union St on the south side of the Southport/Union St intersection toward Pauline/CampCroft

3 OPEN ZONES

Zone 1: Whitestone outbound

Zone 2: Hwy 9 

Zone 3: Whitestone inbound

Cycle Safe and Civil: A Statement of Joining Posted Group Rides