Durango Wheel Club

Our crack team of IT technicians have resolved the issue! Happy trading! -SC

We are still short on volunteers to help the City of Durango count cyclists and pedestrians!

PLEASE NOTE: The counts will be made on Tuesday the 8th, Wednesday the 9th and Sunday the 13.
Not on Thursday!!! [Read more →]

Gotta spare house, room, bed, couch, yurt…?

The Single Speed World Championship will be held right here in Durango September 16 thru 20. There will be nearly 1000 competitors, and many of them still need a place to stay!

Any potential houser can contact Raequel@durango.net. She has a form to fill out for both the athletes and the host, to perfectly match the two.

Please contact Raequel ASAP if you are interested in hosting an athlete! Raequel@durango.net

SC/CC
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On Sunday, August 30th will be the 3rd Annual Tour de Farms hosted by Healthy Lifestyle LaPlata. There will be 2 rides this year: an in-town 5-mile tour that will visit school, community and backyard gardens and an Ignacio tour that will visit La Boca Center for Sustainability and Fox Fire Farms. The Ignacio ride is 25 miles.

Both rides will meet back at the Smiley Building for an all local foods BBQ with Sunnyside burgers, Carvers beer & root beer, and music by Michael Rendon’s gypsy band, “Carute Roma!”

To sign up just print out the registration form and mail it in!

SC
durangowheelclub@gmail.com

Please read the email below. It is a sobering reminder that we all need to be courteous to others wherever we are, and to represent the DWC in a positive, respectful manner when you wear the club jersey. Let’s all be ambassadors to our sport!

If you have anything to say about this issue please use the comments section below, or send me an email.

Sincerely,
Spencer
durangowheelclub@gmail.com

Dear Durango Wheel Club,

I applaud your efforts to get riders of all abilities onto bikes and into your club. Your website is well organized and very positive. I am writing to express my concern that some of your membership does not seem to share this belief. I am simply writing to suggest that some of your riders be reminded that when they are wearing a DWC jersey that they should reflect the ideals of the club.

This summer I participated in the Bicycle Tour of Colorado for the first time. My father, now 72, has been doing it for years but he is riding slower than he used to and we were certainly not the fastest people on the course (However, we did finish without once using a sag wagon). We sat down to dinner in Crested Butte with some of your clubs members and one middle-aged individual began to discuss, in front of complete strangers, his disappointment in the quality of rider in the event and it was his opinion that riders of only a high ability should be allowed to participate. In addition, he said that he had discussed this with the events organizers and thought that he would have to stop coming on this ride, as he did for Ride the Rockies, if things did not improve. I was not so upset for myself, but rather for my father, who had to endure these insults directed at him over his well-earned dinner. Two days later, I ran across the same man as I was looking to set up my tent in Buena Vista and he informed me that there were many other sites that were not near his tent that I should consider occupying.Upon recognizing him, I was happy to abide and moved off down the field.

I realize that I am writing long after the event and that your organization is not responsible for this affront, but I cannot seem to forget about this jab and I hope that writing about it will let me move past the incident. I hope that you choose to remind your riders (or at least the ones that did the 2009 Bicycle Tour of Colorado) that they are ambassadors for the club when they wear your jerseys, that their feeling of success in an event should not be hinged on the performance of others less capable than they, and that riding is a lifetime sport whose members should encourage all who participate.

Thank you very much for your time,

Geoffrey

Tonight (Wednesday 8/12) the DEVO short track series will be held by the Devas- the U19 Girls Team! Bring a friend, sport your pink + rock a smile! Prizes for male and female winners, hole shot and happiest rider!
Registration opens at 5 pm at the Factory Trails on the Fort Lewis Campus.
B race @ 5:30pm
Kids race @ 6:00pm
A race @ 6:30pm
Contact Chad for more info: chad@durangodevo.com

SC
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We still need 2-3 people to help out with the Sunday (8/9) criterium at Mercy Regional Medical Center. Arrive at 8 am, finished by 11:30. It’s easy, it’s fun, we will feed you! Please contact Spencer if you can help out!
SC
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During the Sunday Crit at Mercy we will be selling DWC T-shirts for $12 each. We have them in grey and white and have ladies sizes too! Get yours during registration from 8:30 to 9:55.

SC
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This week there were three articles in the local papers that you should know about.

On August 4th the Durango Herald reported the incident that occurred during the Saturday DWC group ride: http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2009/08/04/Driver_accused_of_road_rage/

Then on August 5th the Herald reported the details of the new Bicycle Safety Law: http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2009/08/05/Bicycle_courtesy_law_now_in_effect/

On Thursday the Durango Telegraph cover story was an in-depth report of the Saturday incident, put in context of the new Bicycle Safety Law: http://www.durangotelegraph.com/telegraph.php?inc=/09-08-06/coverstory.htm

SC
durangowheelclub@gmail.com

This year’s DWC Championships will be held September 8, 10, 12 & 13!
9/8/09; Tuesday evening MTB TT
9/10/09; Thursday evening road TT
9/12/09; Saturday morning road race
9/13/09; Sunday morning criterium
Stay tuned- details to follow!

Spencer
durangowheelclub@gmail.com