Ride Updates and More

Starting Next Thursday, August 28th, ride will leave at 5:30pm

Ride Monday, Aug 26th will be the last 6pm ride of summer.

After that Monday rides will leave at 5:30 (No official ride the following Monday due to Labor Day, but if folks want to show up at 5:30pm and ride by all means do.)

Tuesday Womens's ride and the Wednesday ride (from South Portland High School) will start leaving at 5:30 after Labor Day and continue until mid-September.

Saturday rides continue at 8am.

Monday's and Thursday rides will continue into November, weather permitting.

Now that we are heading into fall it is time to start up the Sunday morning rides again. They were such a blast last year.

Here is how they work: each week a different club member designs a route and lead the ride. Usually they leave around 10 from the shop but they don't have to. Longer rides or departing from other locations are acceptable.

So dig out your maps or go to MapMyRide.com and design your dream ride, then pick a Sunday in the next 2 or 3 months and send start time location and approximate distance to me (kris@gwi.net) and Dana (dmcewan@maine.rr.com) so we can post information in newsletter and on our blog site.

Also it is time for our Annual CCCP End of the Year Party which we want to do in September this year. We are looking for someone with a yard and friendly neighbors to host it. CCCP will pay for expenses and food will be potluck. Date of event is flexible.

Don't forget that Loon Echo is coming up Sat, Sept 20th:
http://loonecholandtrust.org/html/hike_n__bike_trek.html

and Cadillac Challenge century on October 5th:
http://web.mac.com/zorbathegeek/Cadillac/Home.html
(A group of us are talking about going up to Bar Harbor Sat 4th and staying in a motel or rent a place then riding on Sunday. Let me know if you might be interested. These are the 2 prettiest centuries in Maine!)

A special thanks to Greg Fisher, Richard Hutchins, Russ Boisvert, Rick & Shannon Goduti, and Bryan Lewis for hosting the last several apres rides in their back yards. This has been a nice touch to our fun Monday night rides. This week ends the apres ride series and will be hosted by John Tabb. Meet at the shop after the ride and we'll ride together to John's, who doesn't live far from the shop. After Labor Day we'll head back to Forest Gardens for the apres ride festivities, where we hear we are missed by the bartender.