Old Tascosa Cycling Club

OTC Annual Banquet 3/1/2012 @ 6:30-8:30pm

We will be holding the annual banquet this year at the Coffee Memorial Blood Center meeting area. We ask that you bring a side dish or desert, and the meat will be provided by the club. Come hang out with your fellow cyclist and eat some grub! We will have Canari fit kits available, for the OTC cycling kits, to try on and place orders at the meeting. All who sign up for memberships or renew will receive a pair of OTC socks! We will be posting in the near future about OTC board member elections, and if you would like to step up and volunteer time to the club please do so! If you use this website please pay your dues to the club! $ is a huge contribution to keeping the club and website rolling! Let's all hook up and promote cycling in our community and ride our butts off this year!

Cavern City Classic - April 21 & 22, 2012

The Cavern City Classic Bicycle Race will be held on April 21 and 22, 2012. The Carlsbad Velo Bicycle Team and our sponsors Best Western Stevens, the Fairfield Inn and Keep Carlsbad Beautiful are partnering with the United Way by hosting the race. This will be the first year that Carlsbad will be hosting a bicycle race that is sanctioned by USA Cycling (USAC). The event is part of the New Mexico Bicycle Racing Association Series for 2012. Refer to the flyer on our website for information about the courses, details about pre-registration and entry fees. There is no entry fee for Juniors 16 and under racing in the Junior race but all participants must have an annual or one-day USAC license. For more information: go to www.carlsbadvelocyclingclub.com or contact Steve Kouba via email at velookie@hotmail.com or call 302-3242.

Austin Clycling Quarterly

See attached link for Austin's club quarterly publication:
http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102433537035-147/ACQ+January+2012+small.pdf

Oklahoma Free Wheel - 2012

Here's the site that has the Route for 2012.

http://www.okfreewheel.com/archives/2012/fw2012.asp#Registration

Biking Downtown Amarillo: Survey

If you have ridden your bike downtown Amarillo (to, in, around or through counts) at least once in the last 12 months then please take this survey, courtesy of Community Amarillo Bicycles (CAB). Thanks.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BZ2X6Y3

OTC meeting 1/31/12

We will be meeting @ the Coffee Memorial Blood Center @ 7pm. We will be planning the annual banquet and getting the OTC club riding kits finalized, If you have any plans or ideas please show up and share your info,

RIDE OF SILENCE, May 16

Sadly, we will have yet another name to read at the 2012 RIDE OF SILENCE to remember local bicycle riders killed by a motorist while bicycling: DAVID ISOM.
This year's Ride will be on May 16 (Weds.) in Amarillo and 300 other locations worldwide. Please plan to participate.

OTC Club

Yesterday was another sad day for bicyclers in our area. I happened to ride upon the accident and saw firsthand just how tragic an accident like this can be. I woke up this morning thinking about what we can do as a club to make our area more bicycle friendly. A few suggestions are: have more frequent meetings with programs, outreach to local civic clubs to provide speakers for club meetings, try to get to speak at small towns along our regular bicycling routes so that we can communicate to the farmers and ranchers who we share the secondary roads with. The terrible accident yesterday won’t stop the national trend of having more and more bicyclers on the nation’s roadway. OTC will continue to grow and we need to grow our programs to meet the needs of our membership. We’re about to be put on the map as Adventure Cycling completes the Route 66 bicycle route mapping. By next summer, we should start seeing “thousands” of bicyclers coming through the Panhandle on the Route 66 tour. This means the road that is the scene of yesterday’s accident will see a huge increase in bicycle traffic within the next few years. I just recently completed the Southern Tier from San Diego to St. Augustine and road many miles on roads not nearly as bike friendly as our I-40 access roads normally are. We had a map and safety meeting every night and were required to have a safety triangle and flashing light on our bikes. We could get these and make them available at our meetings. We need to have OTC along with Share the Road's educational and safety efforts, become the advocate for all bicyclers in the Panhandle. We also need to be ready to welcome the bicycle tourists who are headed our way and help make their trek across the Panhandle as friendly as possible.

2012 Tours

Is anyone interested in car pooling to any of th following tours in 2012?

Adventure Cycling Hill Country tour - April 7-13

Oklahoma Freewheel - Ride across Oklahoma from Texas to Kansas
(this would be a good club ride for OTC) June 10-16

RAGBRAI - Ride across Iowa - July 22 - 28 - This one fills up fast so if you want to go, sign up now!

Charlie

OTC ride/christmas party/cookout 12/18 combined with the christmas toy ride/run

We will be combining the OTC ride/Christmas party with the Team Kordestani Toy ride/run, so grab a gift for a kid in need of a better Christmas and come out and enjoy the canyon. Look on the post about the toy ride/run for details!