| UPCOMING EVENTS | |
If you are not a current PV member, please renew your membership!
PV 2010 CLUB CENTURY
July 24, 2010
REGISTER NOW - DEADLINE IS JULY 19!
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Thanks to Dean Lee and the rest of the team, it will be a great event - with your help. If you or family members can volunteer, email Mitch Gold.
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CHASING LEGENDS - July 22 at the Clinton Street Theater. Ticket information and trailer, click here.
********************** BIKE BEAVERTON - August 1Join your Beaverton neighbors for a fun community bike ride. Volunteer to be a bike marshall! Email Mike Mulligan if you can help. PROVIDENCE BRIDGE PEDAL - AUGUST 8
Are you & the family planning to ride the Providence Bridge Pedal AUgust 8? Portland Velo gets a discount on registration. Details here. CPR Training - If you are interested in attending an all-day course yet to be scheduled, email Linda.
We need your skills:
Webmaster - Many of you have web skills, so please let us know if you are interested in this critical role.
If you are interested in volunteering to help out Portland Velo,
If you have a story of an epic race, ride, cycling trip, equipment review, or an article idea for VeloCITY, please email Linda. |
| UPCOMING RIDES |
Here is your very own 2010 Ride calendar - click on links for more info:
Check out the ride schedule on the Portland Velo Calendar. There is also a calendar at ORBIKE. |
| UPCOMING RACES |
| Come out and support your race team. For those interested in racing (women and masters categories open), please contact Matt D'Elia.
Full results & racing schedule can be found here:
| | KEY CLUB CONTACTS | Here's a handy little directory to help you figure out who to hit up for questions:
President/Director
Kevin Rhea aka "KRhea"
Treasurer (until June 30) John LucasTreasurer (after July 1) Todd Hubbell Membership Liaison Portland Velo website
currently vacant
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Cycling Community news | |
by Sharon Fekety
July 2010
Highlights:
New Bike Boulevard, Gibbs Street Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge, Broadway Bridge Construction, and closure of Vancouver Avenue Bridge over the Columbia Slough Read More...
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Portland Velo Saturday Signature Ride Format
KRhea in his Shop of Many Bikes | Thanks in part to the steady and incredible growth of our club and more importantly our Saturday club rides, it's time we made a few simple changes to our Saturday ride structure. It's important that we're able to provide a safe and enjoyable ride experience to as many members as possible, and the following changes will allow this to continue. Beginning on Saturday July 17th we will institute the following group ride structure Read More...
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Matt D'Elia  | RACE TEAM UPDATE - by Matt D'Elia The team has had a busy June and start of July. Summer has finally arrived, and
with it the first of the OBRA Championship races. To kick off June, we had a
small handful of racers in the first major stage race of the summer, the Mt Hood
cycling Classic. Brendan Treacy gutted it out in the pro race, with Alex Kroman
and Mitch Lee in the Cat3, and Jeff Pollock in the Cat4. Mitch placed 6th in
the GC which was enough for him to receive his upgrade to Cat2. Mitch is the
first home grown Cat2 from PV, and we are incredibly proud of his achievement.
Jeff Pollock took 2nd on the GC in the Cat4 race, which combined with his strong
showing the rest of this year earned him his Cat3 upgrade. Congrats to the both
of them! Read More... |
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT ON: Javad Simonsen Javad, ready to race  | Javad is one of those people who obviously knows a lot about cycling, and it
shows in his riding, but he's humble about it when you talk to him. I've tried
on several occasions to keep up with him on the Thursday SE rides, and it's just
not possible 100% of the time, but Javad knows every single bike path, road,
shortcut and bike route in the Portland area. It's obvious he has been riding
these roads for years. But there's a real excitement in his eyes when he talks
about mountain bike racing and cyclocross, and it's evident he loves to ride in
the dirt (and get dirty! You know, like the video.) He's got a great sense of humor and is
always willing to help, even answering some of my dumbest questions, (sometimes
without laughing). Read More... |
And now, a word from our sponsor, by Gordon Haber of Lakeside Bicycles
Lakeside Bicycles |
After working our way
through a truly excellent Giro d' Italia and a monstrously wet June we
now
find ourselves arrived a the height of Summer and the height of the Tour
de
France. Earlier we were lead to understand that this year's
Tour would be run without race radios. Which I believed was a good
thing. With the introduction of Motorola 2-way radios in the 80's there
has been a steady movement of tactical decisions away from the peloton
and into
the team cars. Why this matters is similar to why the 'designated
hitter
rule' matters to professional Baseball and relates to the fundamental
purity of the sport. Read More...
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Cycling and the Benefits of Massage, by Laura Green, LMT
Our bodies are miraculous. The number of feats they
must accomplish, Laura Green, working at Pain on the Peak 2009  | moment by moment, to keep us alive and well is stunning. For
the most part, we live blissfully unaware of the galaxy of wonders spinning out
inside us - and that's probably for the best. There are so many things
outside one's body to deal with; things you can see and have to attend
to, like your children and your carbon footprint and what's for dinner - it
makes sense to let meiosis just happen and not think too much about it.
But you are a cyclist. You spend hours bent
forward over your handlebars with your neck extended, your hips flexed, pumping
your legs tens of thousands of times. Your core and lower body provide most of
the power that moves you forward and the muscles of your thighs and hips are
most likely to become cramped and hyper-tense, but your upper body isn't off the
hook.
Read More...
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