Hi folks. I’m wondering if anyone has ridden the La Sal loop, Moab, 65 miles that includes the little and big nasty climbs? How does it compare to any rides around here (or the Iron Horse ride.) contact me at juliejacobs2303@yahoo.com if you can tell me about the ride. Thanks

I took my mtn bike and two more road bike projects to sincere bicycles and they did a great job and at a great price. I highly recommend them. Bailey the owner and mechanic is very knowledgable. FYI

I would like to thank everyone who opened their hearts and wallets to provide bicycles to people like Ethel. World Bicycle Relief helps people in the long term, not just for a day, or even a year.

https://give.worldbicyclerelief.org/team/334567

I just saw this article on the Cycling Weekly website:

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/e-bike-rider-died-after-his-brakes-failed-on-yorkshire-descent-486191

Apparently the rider crashed when his brakes failed during a 16% descent.
But the kicker is, he knew that his brakes were defective and rode anyway.

I was told many, many years back in regard to automobiles, to never take chances when it comes to tires or brakes. This advice obviously applies to bicycles as well. Replace your tires regularly before they suffer a catastrophic failure on a fast descent. Check that your brakes are in good working order often.

And pray for some decent riding weather!

We SOBs revel in the healthy exercise and recreation of riding our two wheelers around. Folks in poorer countries use and need bicycles for transportation to school, work, the markets and for transport of food, water, supplies, and everything else.

World Bicycle Relief manufactures and distributes sturdy, low-cost Buffalo bicycles to people throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Just $147 puts a brand new bike in the field and forever changes the trajectory of an individual’s life.

If we all could make just a small (or large) contribution (suggest $25 each) we would give pedal power to 10 or 20 people and their families and transform their lives.

Please consider supporting the Santa Fe Seniors On Bikes fundraising efforts to help mobilize individuals in rural developing countries.

To make a contribution go to:

https://give.worldbicyclerelief.org/SFSOB

Spread the word by sharing this page with others who may want to donate to help individuals challenged by distance.

Thank you for your support!

Hi Everyone, I want to wish you all a very Happy Holiday! This has been a challenging year for the SOBs and everyone else. But I think we have all made it work. A special thanks to our Leaders who have stepped up to guide each of our groups. I will miss seeing you all at our annual Holiday Party, but I think we are finally on the right track to get us back to a new normal. I hope for us a new year of hope, joy, spending lots of time with family and bicycling with friends.

Frank Battaglia, an early member of the SOBs, died of heart disease on November 29. Frank has not been able to ride with SOBs for about 3 years due to his condition. He and Susy had their primary home in Corpus Christi, Texas, though they enjoyed their frequent stays in their Santa Fe home very much. Frank’s last visit to Santa Fe was in late Auguest, 2019. A complete obituary can be viewed at

Frank was fun to be around! He was a friend to all and enjoyed riding with the SOBs for many years. Frank rode most of the extended rides each September, the last one being the ride from Trinidad, CO via Cimarron, Angel Fire, Las Vegas and home. I had the pleasure of riding with Frank on these trips and often sharing hotel rooms. The hills were often steep and long, and Frank and I would talk to each other, wondering what the fronts of the jerseys of the other riders looked like. But we made it. Probably the most difficult was Slumgulion Pass. By the time we arrived, the wine and crackers and cheese were already spread out and we could dig in quickly.

Frank was very generous and often surprised the group with sandwiches and drinks at the Santa Fe house where Susy welcomed us all. Frank also paid for the motel rooms of all the Texas 4000 riders for several years, and he donated the same amount to the group this past year when COVID forced them to cancel. Frank never attended the University of Texas and I asked him why he was so eager to support the Texas 4000. One of his sons graduated from UT, Frank said, and he wanted to show his appreciation for the university.

Frank served on a re-fueling tanker in the Navy. He said he was glad to serve on that ship because it would never “run out of gas in the middle of the ocean.” His service took him to most of the major ports in Europe and South America.

Frank was very tight with his family. Susy and three sons and one daughter and four grandchildren survive him. Frank’s father was an immigrant from Italy who lived to a little over 100 years old. On a trip a few years ago, Frank and Susy spent time on Sicily where his father had lived. “No,” Frank told me, “my father was not in the Mafia. But Susy kept a gun under the mattress just in case.”  Frank and Susy were devoted to the Roman Catholic Church and on another trip actually had a brief visit with the Pope– a highlight in their dedication to that faith.

Frank is one of those one meets in life whose friendship one savors for a lifetime.

Frank, if you are listening, your friends in Seniors on Bikes salute you!

Submitted by Bill Pollock

I’ve been meaning to post this for months now, but keep having those SOB moments.

https://www.portsmouthctc.org.uk/a-fighter-pilots-guide-to-surviving-on-the-roads/

One of my favorite charities.

https://worldbicyclerelief.org/

Wesley Horner was a member of Seniors on Bikes about 5 years ago. After a cycling injury he moved to Boulder, CO and resided in a retirement community. Rennie Finney has learned that Wes died October 27 in Bozeman, Montana where he was living with his daughter who worked at the university there. Wes rode usually in the C and B- groups. Wes retired from teaching at Santa Fe Prep where he taught science–geology being his field of study. On one of the SOB rides, the group went to Cafe Fina for lunch after the ride. While there, a young woman probably in late 20s approached me and told me that she was so glad to see Wes, because he was one of the best teachers she had ever had in her education.  I told Wes about her comment and he was very pleased and still knew her background and her work. To a teacher, no compliment can be better.

Submitted by Bill Pollock

Quartermill Gallery, 10 Via La Puente, Galisteo.  10am to 4pm

click to view PDF flyer

Day of the Tread ride in ABQ is not a live or in person event anymore. They’re going virtual due to the virus. Query day of the Tread for more info

Used this stuff to clean our bikes yesterday:
https://us.muc-off.com/collections/bicycle-step-1-clean/products/nano-tech-bike-cleaner

1. Rinse the bike
2. Spray on cleaner
3. Let sit for 5 minutes (out of the sun)
4. Rinse off
5. Clean bicycle!

Highly recommended!

Ride in ABQ in October is still on. virtual and live. Oct 25. See dayofthetread.com

We learn something new every day:

Save the Gaiters!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/well/live/coronavirus-gaiters-masks.html?referringSource=articleShare

Dr. Scrase, DOH Secretary, presented the below very helpful summary of the Duke University study at the Governor’s press conference today. As you can see, N95 masks and surgical masks are best. Various other cotton masks are pretty good, capturing 70-95% of droplets. Double layer bandanas capture only 45%, no mask captures 0, and neck gaiters not only don’t capture but create 20% more droplets than no face covering at all. Dr.Scrase said that there was no public health order regarding neck gaiters or bandanas yet, but he personally would stay away from people wearing them just as he stays away from people with no face covering. 

I’m sure that many of you have seen the articles alleging that wearing a gaiter is worse than useless. The media likes sensationalism and doesn’t like nuance. Take a look at this article which provides a more balanced view before deciding whether or not to wear your new SOB buff.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/08/gaiter-study-flawed.html

Santa Fe Seniors on Bikes

Board Meeting

July 27, 2020

On July 27, 2020 the Santa Fe Seniors on Bikes held a Board Meeting via Zoom Meeting Service due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic.  Those participating via Zoom were Judy Costlow, Bob Bogart, Lynn Pickard, Ian Norrish, Steve Gitomer, Michael Knarr, Lore Thorpe, and Christine Van Dornick.  The meeting began at 3:35 PM.  All participants were asked to mute themselves except when speaking.

Lynn Pickard began the meeting by asking how those who are currently participating in ad hoc ride groups are complying with the Governor’s latest Public Health Order.  To be specific, that means wearing masks, keeping social distance, and keeping the group size to 4 persons or less.  Several board members expressed concern in wearing masks during all parts of the ride but focus on wearing them when in locations where there are more people around.  Some groups are starting at more remote locations to avoid close contact with other people.  Some people wear masks all the time when riding; others wear them all the time except when riding uphill; all wear masks at least near the downtown in Santa Fe and at any location where cyclists are entering a building.  One group was observed riding too close together and seen wearing the SOB jersey.  Ride leaders should continue to inform participants of the latest Public Health Order.  Lynn will update language that will be placed on the ride guidelines page on the website.  In general groups will continue to communicate and schedule rides via email, and will strive to limit participation to 4 or less, practice social distancing, and wear masks. The language regarding out-of-town travel will also be modified in the SOB guidelines.

Michael Knarr stated that a new bike shop had opened at 411 Water Street Suite B near the downtown business district.  Sincere Cycle is primarily a mountain bike shop with parts and accessories geared to mountain bikes.  Michael asked the owner if they would like to be a sponsor of the SOBs.  The rules for a shop to be listed as a sponsor are that the shop agrees to a 15% discount for merchandise, not on labor or on the purchase of a bicycle.  The Board agreed to add this shop to the list of sponsors by consensus.

Steve Gitomer stated that the insurance company issued a refund on the premium, apparently  because of few events and less participation in rides during the pandemic.

A screen shot was taken during the Zoom meeting with all Board Members wearing their SOB jersey and a mask.

Bob reported that the SOB buffs were realistically arriving in the first week of August.  All paid members will receive one and be able to purchase more at $9.00 each if there are enough left over after the paid members take theirs.  More information will follow on the website once the order is received.

The Board agreed to meet again on August 24 at 3:30 PM via Zoom.  The meeting adjourned at 4:10 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Christine Van Dornick

Secretary

Hi all, hope you are all being safe and having fun out there. I was surfing YouTube lately and found this video very interesting. After having accumulated a couple sets of carbon rims, the video made me to rethink the importance of lightweight wheels and tires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QDnUkUaQfk.

Ed

June 29, 2020
Sante Fe Senior’s on Bikes Board Meeting
Meeting Minutes
This meeting was held via Zoom Meeting Service online due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. Those participating via Zoom were Judy Costlow, Bob Bogart, Lynn Pickard, Ian Norrish, Steve Gitomer, Michael Knarr, and Christine Van Dornick. Please note that Michael Knarr was experiencing technical difficulties and disconnected at 3:10 PM and rejoined the meeting at 3:22 PM. Lore Thorpe was absent.
Lynn began the meeting at 3PM and asked for participants to remain muted unless they wanted to speak and to then raise their hand. The purpose of the meeting was to consider the proposal that was sent by email from Judy, Bob, and Lynn to all board members on June 24, 2020, to open the SOB club in limited fashion. The proposal contained guidelines for the reopening with consideration of the current pandemic. Board members were asked in the June 24 email to consider the proposal and reply to all with any particular concerns about the content in the proposal. Lore Thorpe agreed with the proposal by email. Board members at this Zoom meeting agreed to the proposal by consensus. Michael Knarr was not connected to the meeting at this time and later stated that he was not in favor of the SOB’s opening up in any fashion.
Lynn suggested that the proposal should be placed on the website blog. All board members present agreed to this action. Lynn suggested the following language to accompany the proposal on the blog being “The following guidelines apply until further notice”.
Moving forward with the limited reopening proposal, ride leaders should ask any ride participants if they have both paid their membership dues and signed the standard SOB waiver and the COVID 19 waiver. To date Bob reported that there are approximately 114 members who have signed the standard waiver and paid their dues. There is a list of members on the website. In June, there was a notice posted on the blog that small groups were riding on a regular basis and a form attached that anyone accessing the blog could respond to a request to participate in a group. Additional ride leaders may be necessary to keep group sizes small per the current State of New Mexico CDC guidelines (5 or fewer). Bob and Judy will contact ride leaders to lead other groups as necessary.
The next item to consider was to purchase buffs with the SOB logo. The buffs are a yellow background with the SOB logo in various sizes and the chain logo. The board agreed to order 150 buffs.
The board agreed to meet again by Zoom on July 27 at 3 PM. The meeting adjourned at 3:37 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Christine Van Dornick
SOB Secretary

Santa Fe Senior’s on Bikes
Board Meeting
June 12, 2020 via Zoom Meeting Service
This Board meeting took place via Zoom because of the current pandemic of the COVID 19 virus. In attendance via Zoom were Judy Coslow, Steve Gitomer, Ian Norrish, Bob Bogart, Lynn Pickard, Lore Thorpe, Michael Knarr, and Christine Van Dornick.
Judy called the meeting to order at 3 PM. The first issue was a review of the COVID 19 waiver that was prepared by Bob Bogart. All Board Members voted that this waiver language seems reasonable. After the Board reviews the current situation of the virus and the SOB rides resume, then this waiver will be placed on the website and there will be a reminder for all members to sign online before they participate in the regular scheduled rides.
The second issue was a review of the application of existing liability insurance for the current state of unofficial rides that existing members are coordinating by email. This discussion took place after a motion was made that insurance should apply to members who are participating in unofficial rides at this time. After this discussion, no agreement was reached. Since time for the meeting was running out, the discussion was put off until the next meeting.
The third issue was when the SOB would resume regular ad hoc and Thursday group rides. Currently, due to the pandemic, the regular ride schedule had been suspended. As stated, there are known groups of A and B group riders that are organizing unofficial rides by email contact. It was generally agreed that the current ride situation would continue (I.e. be unofficial rides). Judy and Lynn will organize C group riders via email for the last two Thursday rides during June and lead those rides. If any guest riders come to a particular group, it is recommended that the individuals sign the regular SOB Waiver.
The SOB Board agreed to meet via Zoom on June 29 at 3 PM to see if the current situation on the spread of COVID 19 has changed and to determine if the regular ride schedule or some variation of it will resume.
Meeting adjourned at approximately 3:35 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Christine Van Dornick, Secretary

Seniors on Bikes has hosted in Santa Fe one of the three rides of the Texas 4000 challenge for the past 5 years. Students from the University of Texas leave Austin and ride to Anchorage, Alaska,riding 4000 miles and raising about $1 million for cancer research. Our members have met the Sierra Route on their arrival in Eldorado and escorted them to their motel in Santa Fe. We join them for dinner at the Los Compadres Country Club and a presentation by the students.

This year, the group altered the route and instead of Santa Fe, follow I-10 basically to Phoenix and then ride vans to San Diego and ride north from there. But today, May 13, the Texas 4000 has made the difficult decision to cancel the entire ride due to the complications of COVID-19. They postponed the decision as long as possible, but in the end, the logistics of hotels, restaurants and other support necessities are too unstable.

The students each year on the ride will have spent two years preparing for the ride. They work a raising funds, learning how to address large groups of strangers in various settings, learning how to ride 100-mile-day rides. Of the 2000 students each year who join in the program, only 100 are selected for the actual ride. We can empathize with them in this decision, which must be devastating to them

Submitted by Bill Pollock

Last chance to get your order in.  Store closes Mon May 4 end of day.

Click here to go to the SOB store.

Hi all, as you know, our club has a big group of road riders, a smaller group of dedicated mountain bike riders and folks that regularly ride both road and mountain bikes. So that got me wondering, where does that put some of us that like to ride on paved surfaces as well as on gravel roads? Gravel riding seems to be very different than what is considered tradition mountain bike riding and as a result gravel mountain bikes are normally quite different beasts.

You have probably noticed the trend in recent years for dedicated road riders to start to include the possibility of riding on roads that are not paved. Hence the popularity of “gravel” or “all-road” segment of the bike market. A all-road or gravel bike is essentially just a road bike that can take wider tires may have a somewhat more relaxed frame geometry. Cyndy and I got new all-road bikes recently that replaced an older carbon road bike and a steel touring bike for us respectively. I think both of us got them primarily for road riding, but Salsa Warbirds are very versatile bikes that seem equally at home on paved or unpaved surfaces  https://salsacycles.com/bikes/warbird/2019_warbird_carbon_105_700. 

I do enjoy the lack of traffic found on most of the gravel roads I ride. Unlike the 5x normal riding speed seen in the timelapse Gopro videos I have been making, the pace on gravel roads lends itself to being more relaxed, giving you a chance to enjoy the scenery and not worry about traffic as much.  I got out this morning and did a little longer ride, at least for me these days: https://ridewithgps.com/trips/47910424 that went up the winding road in Apache Canyon. But unlike when the club rides out there and turns around when the pavement ends, I kept riding along the unpaved section of Highway 51 which runs about 20 miles along Rowe Mesa. I saw one car along the 8 miles of the gravel road on the way out and none on the way back, fun stuff

Highway 51 Part-1 5x Timewarp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AyGNzvkG1U&t=1s

Highway 51 Part-2 5x Timewarp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXY7-NUb5ks

Hi all, I’m still playing with the new GoPro on the Rails to Trail if anyone is interested in that sort of thing. I went out this morning and rode the rest of the improved section of the Santa Fe Rails to Trail route. I rode south from the house along the Eldorado section of the trail and then along the two miles or so of the very nice, new section of the trail that extends the route from Eldorado to Spur Ranch Road. Mike emailed me and suggested I try the timelapse mode on the GoPro, which I have never played with before, so I googled how to do it. The GoPro 8 has something called “Timewarp” mode that applies image stabilization to a video made up of individual timelapse images. The result is a video that runs at about 30x normal speed.

I set the GoPro to Timewarp mode and rode from the house along the southern section of the Rails to Trail. I just took a look at the resulting timelapse video when I got home, and it’s too fast to follow for my taste. I will see if I can set the camera to grab images more frequently, which should effectively slow the timelapse video down next time. BTW, as timelapse mode is based on a series of individual photos, there is no way record audio while the images are being captured, so there is no audio in the resulting video. Or at least no audio without without post-production video editing, which I don’t know how to do yet. On the other hand, for some reason I was a chatterbox on the normal video I shot when riding the route north, ha.

When I got the Spur Ranch Road, I set the camera to normal video mode, but this time at 4K to see if that would improve the image quality when the video is uploaded to Youtube. So the first 3 videos listed below are with me chattering away while riding north on the Rails to Trail route. The fourth video is the “Timewarp” video riding south on the trail from the house. And the fifth video is a link to a fellow named Darwin that Rich and I follow who has a very active Youtube channel riding the Santa Fe Rails to Trail back in 2016. I added a link to Darwin’s video as he has hiked and biked all over the country and he was still very impressed by our little Rails to Trail route. BTW, if others have video cameras mounted on themselves or their bikes, please share your rides with the club during this time of social distancing.

Santa Fe Rails to Trail 4, riding north-a,  4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmHq_P2atFE&feature=youtu.be

Santa Fe Rails to Trail 5, riding north-b, 4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhHSILcZSpY&feature=youtu.be

Santa Fe Rails to Trail 6, riding north-c, 4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvF6nhgyizc&feature=youtu.be 

Santa Fe Rails to Trail “Timewarp”, riding south: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=521xMMjf-Wg&feature=youtu.be

Darwin’s 2016 ride on Santa Fe Rails to Trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHd_5gg488E

Hi all, Gopro’s are on sale these days for 100.00 off, so I broke down and got one from REI yesterday. Cyndy has given me a hard time for using my phone to take videos while riding, which to be fair, is not the most clever thing I have done…..hence the Gopro. It’s harder than I thought to figure out how to use the darn thing and upload videos, let alone editing the videos, which I have not looked into yet. But I did head out this morning on a loop that I have been riding lately on my “all-road” bike running 42mm slicks: https://ridewithgps.com/trips/47617546 with the Gopro hanging below the aerobars.

I was very curious to see how the image stabilization works, and if the microphone could pick up my voice over the wind noise. I am quite the Gopro novice, for example, I did not know that a single long video like the one I made is automatically broken up into individual 4gb videos. I also had trouble figuring how to load the videos from the Gopro onto my Windows desktop. Anyway, I think I uploaded the 5 mile section of the Rails to Trail from Rabbit Road to Eldorado in three parts if you have nothing better to do want to check out pieces of them. BTW, the video was recorded in 1080p high-def, which looks very good in its native form, but as I have heard, the video quality is degraded significantly when files are uploaded to youtube, if anyone has any ideas on maintain video quality when uploading files to share, drop me a line:

First section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKhclmO09x8 

Second section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHcjOVPFmg8 

Last section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2oO64cOwac 

I put links to current information regarding riding during the Covid19 crisis on one page of our website and linked to it from the home page.  However you can also just click here and go to it.  If you have any information you feel would benefit our group then email it to me and I will add it to that page.

Roadbikerider.com latest newsletter has an article I found useful in that it gives some great tips on how to fix a flat tire fast. (You can query google to find their website and the latest newsletter and then the article will be there). I can’t figure out how to add a link on this blog, sorry.
Whether or not speed in flat fixing is an issue with you or not isn’t what the article is about. But the tips provided will be helpful to me, and will definitely help in getting the job done.
Something to practice now while we’re stuck at home.

For those interested, a few of us will be riding from the Madrid ballpark at 10:00 AM.

Some of us will be doing a loop down the Turquosie Trail past Golden to NM 344, up Heartbreak Hill to Cedar Grove, NM 41 to Galisteo, NM 42 back to NM 14 and Madrid. 68 miles, 3300 feet.

Some may opt for shorter out and backs to Golden or to the top of Heartbreak.

Madrid to Golden out & back 23.5 miles, 1700’
Madrid to Heartbreak out & back 30 miles 2400’
Madrid to Cedar Grove out & back 42 miles, 3000’

I just found this out last Monday.  It can take up to 1 hour for a tweet to appear on the SOB website in the twitter feed.  Tweets to hashtag #SFSOBSF will appear within a minute on Twitter itself but it can take up to an hour for them to appear on the website.  So while we aim to notify 2 hours before start time, adding an extra hour to that makes a morning adjustment have a plus one hour uncertainty.

For those with a twitter phobia you will have to factor that into your ride day plan.  Or, you can just use twitter itself, search for #SFSOBSF and then click Latest to sort from newest to oldest.  On our twitter feed page there is a link direct to twitter at the top if you cannot type.  (it’s #sfsobsf in red)

Santa Fe Seniors on Bikes
Board Meeting
February 28, 2020

Meeting Location: El Castillo Retirement Community 250 Alameda Ave., Santa Fe
Those in attendance: Judy Costlow, Lynn Pickard, Bob Bogart, Michael Knarr, Christine Van Dornick.
Absent: Lore Thorpe, Edwin Crosswhite
Communication by conference call: Ian Norrish, Steve Gitomer
President Judy Costlow called the meeting to order at 12:34 pm
Item 1: Edwin’s Resignation
Edwin will continue to facilitate the education components for the SOB group including Ride Leader Training and lead the D Group rides. He has indicated that he will also continue to assist rider sign in at the regular Thursday scheduled rides. Edwin did serve as the SOB secretary for many years. Christine volunteered to serve as club secretary. This change was approved by Board consensus with no objections. Discussion followed on a way of thanking Edwin for his many years of contribution to and leadership of the SOB Group. The Board reached a consensus on an approach.
Since Edwin has resigned by Blog post on the website on February 26, 2020, there was concern that the SOB Board did not act in accordance with the club bylaws or adhere to Robert’s Rule’s of Order. The January 13, 2020, SOB Board meeting minutes have been reviewed and found to be consistent with the club bylaws. Bob Bogart has prepared a response to reflect this action. The response will include a link to the bylaws and January meeting minutes.
Item 2: Vote on A/A- ride management
Based on the January 13, 2020, Board Meeting minutes, the A/A- ride management proposed changes had been approved for the trial period of 1 year. Christine and all Board members will continue to monitor how these changes are working and review again at the end of the regular riding season. No further action was taken at this time.
Item 3: E bike rules discussion
This item was discussed at the January 13, 2020, Board meeting and there was some follow-up email communication from club members. The Board has revised the language in the January, 2020, minutes to the following:

E-bikes and riders are welcomed to ride with the Santa Fe Seniors on Bikes cycling club with the following stipulations.

1. E-bikes must be power assist that only provide power when the rider is pedaling. A rider with an e-bike that has both pedal assist and pedal free function will be allowed to ride if they use only the pedal assist function.

2. A power on demand bike such as a moped or motorcycle are not allowed unless they are support vehicles.

3. All riders are encouraged to take a bicycle safety class such as the League of American Bicyclist Smart Cycling courses especially if they are not familiar or used to riding a bicycle in an organized group.

4. New e-bike riders should ordinarily ride in the back of the pack. An exception is made when climbing a long hill and the e-bike rider is permitted to ride to and in the front of the pack. Experienced e-bike riders may ride wherever the ride leader, in his or her discretion, feels is safe.

5. It is the ride leader’s responsibility that participants on all SOB organized rides ride in a safe manner.

Steve Gitomer left the conference call at 1 pm and transferred his vote by proxy to Bob Bogart.
Item 4: On-Line sign up for rides
This process is generally used by the A/A- group for remote start locations. It may be used for all Thursday regular rides in the future.
Item 5: Other business
A. Billing from GPS
Several Board members had received an email regarding the billing for Ride with GPS. Bob Bogart said he will respond to the request for a billing agent.
B. CD from the recent Road Rage trial proceedings
Lynn Pickard obtained a recording of the recent sentencing hearing for the Road Rage trial proceedings (March 1, 2018). She had a CD with that information. Bob Bogart will try to place pertinent information from the CD on the club website.
C. Michael Knarr reviewed some information on the club website and requested verification on some sections. On the section dealing with lights on bikes, it was generally agreed that most cyclists on a SOB ride should have a rear flashing taillight. Lynn Pickard will review State Law and provide information on this topic.
D. A, B, and C group designation
There was discussion to determine if the letter designation for each group of cyclists should be modified to provide a designation based on the length and pace of rides that each group does. Bob Bogart stated that since many items on the website are associated with the current letter designation, this would be a great amount of work to change. It was generally agreed that all Board members would try to engage the ride groups to determine if this designation needs to be changed. The Board will revisit this issue in the fall to gather results of this communication.
E. Christine suggested a way to get more ride leaders to participate may be by offering a seasoned and certified ride leader to co-lead a ride with a new ride leader. Any potential ride leader still should go through the ride leader training.
F. SOB Buffs
Bob Bogart has inquired about purchasing SOB logoed neck gators. These could be purchased from Buff, Inc., at a cost of $10.50 for each if 100 buffs are purchased. Bob will check to see if Hincapie has a comparable neck gator so they could be sold through the SOB Store. More information will follow.

The meeting adjourned at 1:49 PM

Respectfully Submitted,
Christine Van Dornick
SOB Secretary

Going to 10am.  Should be warm enuf.  Wind supposed to increase pm.  Same place.

due to high wind forecast (>20 mph) later in the day.   Tuesday still looks too cold.  Check Twitter before ride, wind may cancel.  Go / No go will be posted.

Worth a read.  IMHO.

http://www.cyclingutah.com/news/an-open-letter-to-drivers-from-cyclists/

Saturday Jan 18, 11am, Black Cyn

My name is Don Rogers. My service dog “GUS” is still missing. My family is heartbroken and needs additional boots on the ground. We are asking for you to become a part of Gus’s army.

Gus was lost on December 13 at I-25 and Budaghers exit 257. He is extremely friendly and we believe someone may have taken him from that location.

During the past 26 days, we’ve posted on Team Frijoles, PetHarbor, PawBoost, Facebook, Nextdoor, Lost My Doggy, Lost Dogs New Mexico, SF NM Lost & Found Pets, SF Bulletin Board and several other web pages. We’ve hung 2’ x 2’ signs and handed out flyers from Santa Fe to Albuquerque.

We recently created a Facebook page for Gus. It is our intention to keep you posted with current updates and at the same time, ask you to share with your friends, your community groups and everybody you know. PLEASE help ensure this momentum does not stop until “Gus” is home and safe.

We are offering a $1,000 REWARD for his safe return. My family thanks you from the bottom of our hearts.

Please go to Facebook, www.facebook.com/BringGusHomeNewMexico

Meet at Sandia RR station for 11am start.  Adrian 😃

30 – 40 miles, pace will fit all riders.

Here is route.  https://ridewithgps.com/routes/31609087

This is 40 miles.  Could easily be shortened to 33 miles.   Make sure you check twitter before leaving in case of a change.  No twitter post then ride is on.

It’s time to think spring rides! (In spite of the current weather conditions). March 15-21 is the Rides of March event which coincides with the MN groups Texas Rides Again event. It’s in Fredericksburg, Tx on great quiet backroads. Rides every day in the area. Both of these events follow up on the famous Hell Week event that no longer exists. For more info you can contact me juliejacobs2303@yahoo.com

Hi All you SOBs, Thursday December 19th is our annual Holiday Party.  It will be at the El Castillo Community Room at 250 E Alameda Street.  It is a pot luck dinner and BYOB.  If you are coming, please let Judy know by Monday Dec. 16th.  You can email me at:  j.costlow@gmail.com    Let me know what you will be bringing and if you are bringing a guest.

I will let those who are coming know where to park after the 16th.  I hope to see many of you here.  It is always fun to see each other out of uniform in “regular” clothes.  We will have A SHORT slide show about our trip to Silver City this year.

Will be at 599 RR station.  Not El Camino.  Look for possible change to Monday ride rather than Tuesday.  11am.