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Bicycle month! What a busy but fun time!

Ride with Mayor Marsh on Friday, May 10 to downtown and enjoy treats with other riders at Ride to Work Day.  The start is from Plantation Coffee on Floyd and Roselle At 7:15.

The next day, May 11, is Ride for Mom. If you are not riding, I need volunteers in several areas. Last year, RFM was a donor to our Share the Road signs, helping us purchase 42 signs! Please help support them again this year.

Later that week, Bike Week, is the Ride of Silence on May 15. This is a ride to remember bicyclists who have been injured or killed while riding. We still need a leader for this memorial ride. If you would like to choose a route and lead the ride, I can help. Let me know.

On Saturday, May 18, SCBC has a booth at the Family Cycling Event. I need riders willing to share bicycling information with others at our booth. Many of us also help with the Modesto Crit that same day and with the Modesto Road Race on Sunday. Working these events is a fun way to learn about them and to help spread the fun of cycling.

Join in!

Susan

Some of my wishes for riders in Stanislaus County are coming true!!  It is an exciting time to be watching it.  I hope you will help celebrate as we watch Share-the-Road signs going up in Stanislaus County.

SCBC has purchased signs and poles, etc. and the County will be placing them along roads (6 have been chosen as a start) as they do maintenance on those roads.  Hip, hip, horay at long last!

Thank you to Chuck & RJ (and others) who have represented us on the STANCOG Bicycle Advisory. They have been working on this for years.  Also, Ride for Mom donated $2,500 towards these signs and SCBC had set aside $4,000.  I can’t wait to see them on the roads!

Another milestone is the formation of a Modesto Bicycle Advisory group.  We meet with Mayor Marsh every other month.  One of our first priorities was to apply to the League of American Bicyclists for the designation of being a Bicycle Friendly Community.

I am proud to say that Modesto made Honorable Mention on our first application.  Not only that, but now the MBAC is working towards following the recommendations of the report from LAB and continuing to move Modesto towards an even better review in the future.

And now for exciting news on our Fruit Yard Century.  Linda Johnston, our chairperson, and all our committee are already working on making the FYC the BEST!  We have joined with The Chef’s Association to help raise funds for Second Harvest Food Bank.

How would you like a chef to cook for you as you ride and know that as you had a fantastic ride, your money was going to help feed others in Stanislaus County?

Now we can RIDE TO EAT and RIDE TO HELP OTHERS EAT, too!  Help spread the news of the FYC and get all your friends to ride and choose their favorite chef and rest stop.  Top rest stop and chef will win a prize!  This will be a yummy ride!

This month, help is still needed at the Turlock Road Race on April 14 and Earth Day on April 20.  Also, the Bob Paris Ride on April 20 needs registration help. And on April 26 bike repair is needed at the Modesto Gospel Mission Open House.

Next month, make sure to mark your calendar for Ride-to-Work Day with the Mayor on FRIDAY, May 10.  Mayor Marsh will be at Plantation Coffee (Roselle & Floyd) at 7:15 a.m.  The ride will leave for downtown at 7:30.

Ride for Mom will be the next day, May 11 and I need volunteers for everything!  Let me know if you can help: president@stancobike.org

This is riding season & SCBC is BUSY! : )

Get a ride in, too!

Susan

We had a wonderful SCBC Coast Tour. I hope we can have more multi-day tours planned.

The Lighthouse/Hostel where we stayed in Montara

It really brought us together as we learned about each other and how to take care of each other on the road.

Thank you to Lindy & Lois, Mike & Trudy, who helped plan and set-up reservations and to the riders who took turns driving SAG. We really needed them!

We lost a rider this month and our prayers and thoughts are with Ruben’s family. We had a memorial ride on Sat., Aug. 4th where approximately 50 riders came. We were able to make a donation to his memorial account after the ride. We will always remember his enthusiasm for riding.

Please plan on helping SCBC this month by volunteering for our Fruit Yard Century on Sept. 8 and the Cancer Awareness Run & Ride on Sept 15.

You can e-mail me to volunteer for either of these and I’ll make sure your name gets to the right person: reach1@sbcglobal.net

Keep riding safely,

Susan

The Fruit Yard Century is coming next month!

We need volunteers and cookies! Let John Field (john_field@stancobike.org) know if you can help.

Modesto now has a Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee! We will be meeting quarterly. Let Susan or Chuck Shoup know if you have anything you want to be brought up about cycling in Modesto.
At the start of this committee, we applied for designation as a Bicycle Friendly Community from the League of American Bicyclists. We’ll let you know how that turns out and what may be next on our list of imporvements for riding in Modesto.

As I wrote some of the anwers to the questions on the application, I was really excited about how much SCBC has helped to further this goal. We have become a great source for helping strengthen safe riding in and around Modesto.

Keep up the good work and thank you!

Susan Dion
SCBC President