U of O Bike Club Newsletter Monday, September 17, 2007 Hey Everybody, Had an awesome time at the U-Cup MTB races put the pictures up on the UofO U Cup facebook group http://uottawa.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5089031794. Video: http://uottawabikeclubmedia2.googlepages.com/MOV03952.MPG http://uottawabikeclubmedia2.googlepages.com/MOV03927.MPG If you’re interested in going to Hardwood Hills in Barrie this weekend (Sept. 23rd)come to the U-CUP MTB meeting Wednesday at 1pm by the club room. We`ll set you up with transportation. Pete Schalk is the Head MTB U-Cup organizer for the club this year. Email him if you have any questions about anything pertaining to the races: [email protected] The road ride went well this weekend Oleg just sent out the pictures to that. And car free day is coming up it will be crazy check out our tables at the event on Friday. red = road, green = mtb, (NEW!)blue=urban/dh and orange = everything else

News Car Free Day See more details about the event below. Car free day is going on Friday the 21st of September. We got a whole mess of stuff planned for that day including a car free bike ride, a workshop, information booths, and a small repair clinic! Car free day in general will be needing volunteers anybody interested in volunteering email Ghaida Moussa: [email protected] and she’ll set you up. http://uottawa.facebook.com/event.php?eid=4076887730 MTB U Cup Races! Race this weekend was awesome thanks to the guys that came out really had a great time. The next race will be Sunday (Sept. 23) in Barrie, Ontario at Hardwood Hills. We’ll have a meeting Wednesday at 1pm for anybody who is interested in coming out to that. We’ll be meeting the same spot as last week right next to the Clubs Room in the Uni Centre. So if you’re interested in joining up come out to the meeting let us know if you can’t make it but still want to come out to the races on Sunday: [email protected] Here is more info about the races this weekend: http://mtnbike.sa.utoronto.ca/oumrc/oumrc_race2.htm Varsity Cycling Meeting and Spinning Classes ATTENTION EVERYBODY! If you’re seriously interested in having either a varsity road cycling team or having discounted spinning classes for being a member of the bike club at the university send us emails expressing your opinion. If you can make sure to include your name, student number, and field and year of study somewhere in the letter. The varsity set of letters will be showed to one section of the sports department and the spinning set of letters will be showed to another person in the university sports department. So keep the letters separate. They don’t need to be long just to the point we want to physically show there is interest for a varsity team/spinning classes without showing up with a mob of people. That will be our step two. We’ll need a good number of letters to be considered seriously so if everybody who expressed interest in helping us out sent a letter we should have no problem. Now is your chance to help

and make a difference send us your petition letters!!! [email protected] IMBA Newsletter The UofO Bike Club is registered with IMBA and are subscribed to get free electronic newsletters from them. If you ever want to receive them we can forward them to you but only upon request. If you would like to get IMBA news as we get it send us an email back telling us so: [email protected] Green Campus Meeting Green Campus meeting was awesome they had a good group of people and were talking about restructuring the group. Found it really productive it sounds like they had a lot planned for this year. We’re going to try to get more involved in advocacy and asked if we could be a working group of Green Campus since that’s their specialty. Brought up a whole bunch of advocacy and bike promotional ideas at the meeting if anybody is interested in them check the post below we have a bike club advocacy meeting Wednesday at 1:30pm.

Upcoming Events Tuesday, September 18, 2007 @ 5:30pm-7:00pm: Lac Lemay Casual Bike Tour This is for everybody who loves biking just for the sake of biking. We’ll be going on a quick tour of Lac Lemay in Gatineau tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:30pm. It’s 17km’s so the tour shouldn’t take more than 1.5 hours (that’s going at an incredibly slow pace) Feel free to break off whenever or we can even modify the tour, all up to the feeling of the group. So if you’re interested in joining us we’ll be meeting at Protection Services near SITE at 5:30pm. Email to confirm if you’re coming: [email protected] Wednesday, September 19, 2007 @ 1:05pm: Mandatory Hardwood U-Cup Meeting Anybody interested in going to Hardwood Hills this weekend in Barrie for the U-Cup races come out to the 15 minute MTB meeting on Wednesday. We’ll work out a whole bunch of logistical things like who needs transport there and who can supply transport and when we’re leaving ect. So we meet again Wednesday at 1pm next to the Clubs room in the Uni Centre. If you can’t make it but still want to race this weekend let Pete know: [email protected]. Race 2 breakdown: http://mtnbike.sa.utoronto.ca/oumrc/oumrc_race2.htm Wednesday, September 19, 2007 @ 1:30pm: Bike Club Advocacy Meeting This is for anybody who wants to do their part to promote cycling and make the campus a better more awesome place for bicycles. We’ll discuss quickly our programs we’re working on (bike cart, bike stickers, bike workshop, bike repair, casual bike rides, car free day, bike tools on campus, bike share, critical mass, ect) and how you can help us out. We meet by the clubs room at 1:30 on Wednesday the 19th should last about 30 minutes. We’ll also talk about car free day and all the events we got going on that day. Let us know if you’re interested in coming: [email protected] Friday, September 21, 2007: Car Free Day! 9am to 4pm Car free day is Friday September 21st this year. Protection Services has managed to reserve a large section of parking lot on campus just for this event. Come check it out there will be BBQ, workshops, info, a repair stand, and best of all the bike club will be there. Here's the official website for car free day at the UofO: http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/auto.html. THIS WILL BE HUGE. We’ll have several tables there for the roadies, mtbikers, bike advocacy, general bike information and a small repair stand. Many other car free supportive organizations will be attending to. So COME CHECK IT OUT! AND BE PROUD YOU RIDE A BIKE! http://uottawa.facebook.com/event.php?eid=4076887730 Friday, September 21, 2007: Car Free Day BIKE RIDE!!! 3:00pm-5:30pm What better way to celebrate Car Free Day than by having a bike ride around the city. We’ll meet in the car free day parking lot at 3pm. We’ll just be cruise-in around the city for kicks all bike enthusiast/lovers/maniacs welcome. We’ll mainly stay around the downtown core hit up a bit of the canal, Ottawa River, Rideau river, some of the east side some of the west side some of Quebec some of Ontario.

Should be a real awesome relaxed ride to celebrate the fact that bikes are awesome and that we’re awesome for realizing that. Whether your ride road, mountain, dh, urban, unicicyle, tricycle, casual, whatever EVERYBODY ON PEDALS IS INVITED! Friday, September 21, 2007 @ 10:00pm: Urban Night Ride Ottawa NIGHT FREERIDE! Meeting in front of CBY Drop on King Edward for an Urban/Freeride/Trials/BMX ride at 10pm Friday Night. Let Terry know if you’re coming: [email protected] Saturday, September 22, 2007 @ 12pm-2pm: UOttawa 10KM ITT “This will be huge on so many different scales” TIME TRIAL THIS WEEKEND!!! Rodies hold on to your aerobars. The Bike Club is hosting a 10km ITT with not only PRIZES! but also barrels and barrels of FUN!!! So get yourself pumped for good times. Check the facebook group for more info: http://uottawa.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2863608756. Email Jordan if you plan coming or if you want anymore info: [email protected] Saturday, September 22, 2007 @ 11:30am-5:00pm: DH CAMP FORTUNE!!! Camp Fortune DH this Sunday at 11:30 am. We meet at CBY Drop. Lift tickets are 20$. We should be getting back around 5pm. Any other questions or if you’re interested in coming email Patrique Tardif: [email protected] Saturday, September 22, 2007 @ 11:30am-5:00pm: Camp Fortune XC. Need Lift? Since we’re headed to camp fortune for DH on Saturday at 11:30am we may have space for some XCers. Let us know if you need a ride out to the XC trails on Saturday and we’ll let you know if we can accommodate for you. Email here: [email protected] Sunday, September 23, 2007 @ 4:00pm: Road Ride Thanks to everybody who showed up to this weekends weekly road ride. Hope everybody had a good time. The next ride will be going on this Sunday 4pm and we’ll be meeting outside of Protection Services near SITE. Email Oleg if you plan on coming: [email protected] Sunday, September 23, 2007: U Cup Race 2 Barrie, Ontario Hardwood Hills We’ll talk more about this at the meeting on Wednesday. We’ll be talking transport at the meting. If you want to give a ride or need a ride to the races come out to the meeting on Wednesday or leave a message here: [email protected] Here is the U Cup Official Website: http://mtnbike.sa.utoronto.ca/oumrc/oumrc_home.htm. U-Cup MTB Race 2: http://mtnbike.sa.utoronto.ca/oumrc/oumrc_race2.htm

Future Events OMBA Trail Building OMBA Trail building dates one left this fall Oct 2. For more details check the OMBA website http://ottawamba.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?act=OMBAIndex U-Cup University of Ottawa Bike Club Mountain Bike Races! UNIVERSITY CUP RACE # 1 (Two day Camping Event) Saturday & Sunday, Sept 15/16 Mansfield Outdoor Centre Mansfield, Ontario UNIVERSITY CUP RACE # 2 Sunday, Sept 23rd Hardwood Hills Barrie, Ontario

UNIVERSITY CUP RACE # 3 Sunday, Sept 30th Ganaraska Forest Port Hope, Ontario UNIVERSITY CUP RACE # 4 Sunday, Oct 14th Boler Mountain / London Ski Club London, Ontario

Sunday, September 30, 2007: U Cup Race 3 Port Hope, Ontario Ganaraska Forest Sunday, October 14, 2007: U Cup Race 4 London, Ontario Boler Mountain/London Ski Club Bike Club BBQ: Late September Bike Club Movie Night: Late September ROAM and The Collective

Other Events Tuesday, September 18, 2007 @ 7:00-9:00 p.m : Free public forum w/ David Suzuki Dr. David Suzuki--along with Ambassador of Sweden to Canada, Ingrid Iremark, and noted Canadian environmental health physician, Dr. Lynn Marshall-- will discuss how Canada can develop a national strategy to protect both the health of Canadians and the nation’s extraordinary natural assets. THIS IS A FREE, UNTICKETED EVENT. SEATING IS LIMITED – arrive early to avoid disappointment. Location: Ottawa Congress Centre (Congress Hall G/H) 55 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario Website: http://www.ottawacongresscentre.com/ Thursday, September 20, 2007 @ 5:30pm UOttawa Greens Meeting This is going to be a really exciting semester with the upcoming provincial election and referendum on electoral reform. It's a great time to get involved! If you would like to be involved but cannot make it to the meeting, just send me an email. Katie: [email protected] Website : http://uottawagreens.googlepages.com Thursday, September 20, 2007 @ 8:00pm-10:00pm: Alt 101 Wrap Session After the glorious insanity that was ALT101 week, it's time to sit back and reflect. What went well? What went badly? Who has ideas for next year? This will be an opportunity for guides to discuss the week- over a dessert potluck! Meeting in Café Alt sub-basement of Simard Saturday, September 22, 2007 @12:00pm-5:00pm : DOUBLE POINTS RACE!! BMX Racing at the Ottawa BMX Track 2020 Ogilvie Road (behind Wave Pool). Open to all ages, guys & girls. First timers are free. BMX and/or Mountain Bikes welcome. Must have long sleeves, gloves & long pants. Loaner helmets available http://uottawa.facebook.com/event.php?eid=4918322207 Sunday, September 23, 2007 @12:00pm-6:00pm : TRIPLE POINTS RACE!! BMX Racing at the Ottawa BMX Track 2020 Ogilvie Road (behind Wave Pool). Open to all ages, guys & girls. First timers are free. BMX and/or Mountain Bikes welcome. Must have long sleeves, gloves & long pants. Loaner helmets available http://uottawa.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7045525940

Friday, September 28, 2007: Critical Mass OTTAWA Everybody’s favourite time of the month is coming up CRITICAL MASS TIME! The mass will be meeting at Confederation Park ccross from City Hall at 5:30pm the mass will take to the streets at 6:00pm. This will be one of the biggest ones this year so come check it out. If you’ve never massed critically before check the website http://www.ottawacriticalmass.blogspot.com/ so you know what you’re getting into. Thursday, October 11, 2007 @ 7pm: Citizens for Safe Cycling Annual General Meeting CfSC meeting at the McNabb Community Centre on October 11th at 7pm. Learn what’s been going on over the last year with CfSC and thing to come. A new board will be elected. Want to get more involved with cycling advocacy in Ottawa check this group out!

SFUO Bulletin: http://www.sfuo.ca/bulletin/en/index.html

Triathletes: Join the Triathlon Club! Facebook: http://uottawa.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5010522642 Email: [email protected]

WOMEN XC MTB: Dominique Larocque wants to synergize the women in the club. I honestly don’t know how many females in the club are into XC. But it would be good to know she may be willing to help you out. Please email the club back if you’re a female XC rider.

Some awesome bike tours you guys can take in Ottawa: http://www.mapmyride.com/search?txtPageNumber=1&txtSortBy=&txtLocation=ottawa&txtKeyword=&l stRouteTypeID=2&btnSearch=SEARCH+> H

Alright have a good week. -The Bike Club