Fall Colors Ride

Fellow Cyclists,
This weekend, Sunday November 1st, Hopkins Cycling is hosting our Fall Colors Ride . For those of you who have never participated, it is our biggest group ride of the year, and generally has a relatively large turnout–last year, we had several dozen cyclists come out. We would like to encourage a very welcoming and no drop atmosphere. The summer season is well over, the weather is finally starting to change, a few leaves have fallen, and its time to enjoy a few relaxed months of riding, before winter is upon us, and base training begins again.

This year, there will be two rides:
1) The Caves Road loop is the easier option. Leader is TBA, so if anyone can volunteer, it would be much appreciated. The route is approximately 28 miles round trip from the Hopkins campus, at a very easy pace.

2) I will personally lead the longer ride, which will be some variation of the Park Heights loop–depending on the atmosphere of the group, we may
head up longnecker, piney grove or dover . Once again, it will be faster than the Caves Road group, but will still be fairly relaxed. Solid base mileage. So please, no hotshots or heroes. The ride will most likely be between 45-60 miles round trip from the Hopkins Campus.

We will be meeting at 9:40 at one world café,
Here's the google map's location, for those of you that aren't familiar with it.
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officia&channel=s&hl=en&q=one%20world%20caf%C3%A9&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
We plan to get to Joe's Bike Shop on falls road by 10:00

Hope to see everyone on Sunday,
Sterling

hopkins cycling pres
845 702 6161

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No Group Ride Today

39 degrees and raining...this week i think i'll pass on the hypothermia.

see you next sunday!

-Ster
hopkins cycling pres

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10/11 Group Ride

Here's a cool image Liam took of our most recent group ride. As you can see, we're a motley crew of Hopkins faculty, locals, grads and undergrads.
Come join us! Every Sunday at 10AM leaving from Joe's Bike Shop in Mt. Washington.
Also, in the coming weeks (definitely before November), the Fall Colors Ride will be announced, we're hoping for higher numbers–last year we had over 20 riders show up... I'm just waiting for the trees to get suitably colorful.

-Ster
hopkins cycling pres

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Listserv Politics

Members of the Hopkins Cycling Listserv,

First of all, I am sorry for technical difficulties with unsubscription requests. Basic commands that I have typically used, for a reason that eludes me, have not been working. However, I am finally figured out how to manually unsubscribe people.

So, If you want to be taken off the list, NOW IS THE TIME.
If you want to be removed: send an E-mail to ME, Sterling Kouri, sterling.kouri@gmail.com
and I will happily remove you!


Finally, please acknowledge that this forum has 193 subscribers. If a fiery debate begins, please restrict it to those involved–DO NOT SPAM THE ENTIRE LISTSERV. Try to maintain the same level of manners that you would extend to strangers in face to face conversation, and, although I am not trying to infringe upon first amendment rights, just keep things civilized. If you somehow feel that a controversial/sensitive issue provides perfect support for your cycling related argument–think twice. If it has the potential to offend other members of this diverse group of nearly two hundred students, teachers, and alumni, it would be best to keep it to yourself.

To end on a positive note, I am happy to say that the Sunday 10AM group ride is gaining a steady following, and there is promise of a regular Thursday afternoon ride. We began this Sunday with 5-6 and picked up two locals on the way. I will continue to send info to local clubs and hope to get a consistent field of 10 people in the group ride by the end of fall.

Big ups to the new club members who are getting out there with us, we are happy to see you out on the road.

-Ster
hopkins cycling pres

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