Ride on Sunday, June 18

There will be a ride on Sunday from the Millville high school.
Meet at 8.45; ride leaves at 9.00.
We are doing  Benton, Red Rock, Lopez, Laporte, Unityville, Millville.
The distance will be around 65 miles.
Hope to see you there,

Frans

Dan Spencer Memorial Road Race Results

The results from the Dan Spencer Memorial Road Race – Pa. Masters State Championships are available from USA Cycling. View the results here.

Thanks everyone for attending this year’s race. Hope to see you next year.

Upcoming Events

A handful of events are scheduled for later this summer and fall.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Dutch Wheelman Bicycle Shop:

• August 1-2: Specialized demo truck with plenty of bikes and accessories for you to try out. If you plan on test riding a bike bring along a driver’s license and major credit card.
  Sat.: 10 a.m – 5 p.m.
  Sun: noon – 5 p.m.
• August 2: Columbia County 50 celebration ride. Calling all current and past Dutchies, family, friends, neighbors, you name it: we’re riding the old race course in celebration of the past 25 years in business. Riders will roll out at 8:30 a.m. from the Bloomsburg Town Park. This ride is free.

October 10: Ride for Awareness – Breast Cancer Awareness Ride. Trek would like to invite you to be a part of the Annual Trek WSD Breast Cancer Awareness Ride. The Dutch Wheelman Bicycle Shop is one of over 100 Trek dealers participating in this nationwide event. Rides of 10 and 20 miles will be offered.

October 11: 3rd Annual Covered Bridges Tour - The Dutch Wheelman Bicycle Shop will host the 3rd annual Covered Bridges Tour in conjunction with the covered bridge arts festival at Knoebels in Elysburg. The rides will be 25, 62 or 100 miles. The scenic routes take you by and through covered bridges in Columbia County. The 100 mile ride is considered one of the toughest with about 7000 feet of climbing.

Results for the 2009 Bloomsburg Town Park Criterium

Event Date: May 24, 2009

Results are in for this year’s Town Park Crit. Sorry for the delay in posting… it’s been a rough week. Thanks to everyone who came out this year and made the event a success. With the date change from mid-June to the Memorial Day weekend we weren’t sure what to expect for a turnout. By the looks of things, we attracted a few more riders this year than last.

Tell your friends, come again next year.

View the results.

Monday Evening Ride Time Change

Our Monday evening rides from the shop will be leaving at 6:00 p.m. instead of 5:30. See you there!

Monday and Thursday Night Rides

Please note that the Monday and Thursday rides from the shop will go at 5.30 for the next few weeks. Stay tuned for updates on weekday and weekend rides.

Renaissance Fair is coming up on April 25. Stop by the SBRT to race on the rollers. There’s some talk that there might be a prize for the best ride.

Results of the 21st Wheelman’s Cup

April 5, Berwick Test Track, 63 degrees, sunny, dry roads. Wait, this can’t be the Wheelman’s Cup. Or could it be? Yes indeed it was because once again the Lehigh put the drop on the rest of us. Lehigh dominated the TTT, took second on points during the race and then wrapped it up with most points scored on the last lap.

Here’s how it shook out:

Lehigh – 91
Sicklers – 75
Dutchies – 59
Cyclodrome – 15

Looking for the full points breakdown? Download a PDF of the 2009 Wheelman’s Cup Results.

Covered Bridges Tour

And so the day came, a cool Sunday morning, and 100 miles to go along the backroads, hills, valleys, and of course, covered bridges of Columbia County. I hear the turnout was a little light but the riding was good. Sorry I couldn’t be there this year, but Bob M. was kind enough to snap some photos along the route. Check them out at our club’s photo album.

Frans just returned from leading a bike tour of Tuscany. He’s still sorting through all the photos and as soon as he’s finished I’ll get them posted too. Also, I hope to have a little bit of news on next year’s Euro bike tour brought to you by the Dutch Wheelman Bicycle Shop.

Later,

Fred

New York State TT Championships

Leading up to Sunday’s NYSTT championships things sort of went like this…

“Hey, you goin to the TT on Sunday”

“Maybe. Are you?”

“I will if you do”

“Okay, I just registered”

“Me, too. See you at your place Sunday morning.”

Sunday morning I pull up to Bob’s house ready to tranfer my gear into his minivan when Bob runs out to tell me not to unload yet, Olympic track racing is on the tube. So, we watch a heat or two of some sort of track event, contemplate staying in and ordering up a round of bloody Mary’s and just say we road the TT. We finally loose our senses completely and decide to head out to Auburn to race the New York Sate Time Trial Championships.

Actually, I was kind of psyched to race again. Although I hadn’t pulled out my TT bike all year, but I looked forward to something different (even though the TT is by far my worst event). The weather was perfect, the venue was relatively close to home, and Bob and I hadn’t done a road trip in a while. So, all was good…pretty much.

Bob was whining as he does, that he wasn’t in the mood to put a hurt on himself, but I knew once the clock started he’d put the hammer down. The course was tough – rollers all throughout, and the wind was blowing from the left front on the way home, but hey, we put in the effort. In the 45-49 category Bob finished sixth; in the 40-44 I finished seventh. But the big bonus was seeing Bob at the end of his ride sitting on the curb looking like someone mugged him with a sock full of quarters. You see, Bob, this is why I talk you into this silly events – to see you look worse than I feel! Ha!!

Seriously, though, it was a fun day and Bob rode well in a category that was loaded with really good time trialers. And hopefully it gave us both a little more motivation to work hard enough to get us through the last few races of the season.

Great Race; Great Results

And while I was tooling around chasing a Pro race around the Finger Lakes on Sunday, Bob Shultz was putting the hammer down at the Great Race team triathlon (run-bike-canoe). His team earned a third place overall; Bob’s TT effort brought him in with the 8th best time out of a field of 236. Nice work, Bob.