At last it is clearly on the road to spring.  Of course surprises can always reside around the bend.  What sort of bicycling action are you looking for?  We have rides for mountain bikes, leisure rides, touring rides, event rides, road rides with moderate to fast pace riders.  In other words, you have no excuse to stay off those two wheels.  You can put the trainer away for another year. 

 

     Get ready for the Wicked Wind 100.  Pile up those miles, and then join your fellow Ozzies out there riding, or volunteer.  For the first time in a long time Cecile will be relaxing on the Sunday in the middle of May, and Helen Wait is holding forth, with a lot of support from Cecile.  We all wish Cecile the best in her quest for better health, and hope she is out there to cheer along all the riders.  Helen has a crew of ready volunteers but probably can use more, so if you are not riding for whatever reason, help Helen and the Club have a great WW100 in 2011.  Without people like Cecile and Helen and many, many others, Oz would not exist.  I remember that just about every day.  Thank goodness we have a lot of people out there who have retired from their day job and now make room for Oz.  Give them a hand of applause and a hand of help whenever you can. 

 

     Speaking of volunteers, the Chisholm Trail from Abilene to the OK border is just about mapped out, thanks to the work of a number of volunteers.  I want to have a ride in September, hopefully while the Caldwell Cattle Drive is taking place, to celebrate our western history in that special way bicyclists can as we wheel along. 

 

     Please note, the Food and Friends and the get-together before the membership meetings will resume.  I tried to balance the east side and west side locations by making most of the dinners before meetings on the east side near our meeting location, and the Food and Friends comes up on the west or downtown.  Check out the calendar to see where Ozzies will be gathering.