This was the final club ride and meeting of the Leroy Greene Academy Bike Club. Fundraising allowed all train tickets to be purchased for a one-way ride to Davis. The organizers of Loopalooza gave us Back-to-Sac tickets for the train ride back, a program sponsored by Davis merchants.
First stop, pastries from Village Bakery:
Adam’s 5th grade teacher from Two Rivers joined us for part of the ride.
Station 1 (of ten on the 12-mile bicycle trail loop around the city of Davis):
This station featured about 15 different (or wacky) types of cycles:
Face (or arm painting) station:
I maintained a safe distance from all the action at this station:
Leaving our chalk messages:
Skills station. Our club members were experts here, including the figure-8.
Bicycle repair station:
Lunch before we head for the train station:
This school year, the LGA Bike Club existed only because of a generous donation from a local church. All funding sources to keep this program going have dried up, so this event was probably the last one for this bicycle club coach. I will miss this group of boys a lot and the supportive dads and ex-teachers who came along on our rides, but especially I will miss working with Megan McManus, the staff advisor.
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