On Saturday, Cheryl and I rode to WAL Public Market on R St to see the start of the Tweed Ride. At noon, everyone would ride to Land Park for a picnic then to the Shady Lady. We didn’t go on the ride, but I was curious to see what it was all about.
On the ride home, we talked about the costumes we would create for ourselves before next year’s ride. LOL.
The sixth and final Zoom meeting for the first Better on Bikes classes was November 16 2020. That’s when I started a new Bicycle Interest Group with about 50 members. We started going for bike rides and I started tracking miles. I did a little assessment on November 16 2021. There are now 73 people who receive an email on Sundays with the next week’s ride schedule. 44 of them have actually gone on one or more bike rides for a total of 30,676 miles.
92% of the total accumulated miles were achieved by just 12 cyclists:
Definitely time to celebrate so I threw a little party on Friday afternoon:
Wednesday November 17. Amal, Cheryl and I went for a ride:
Friday November 19. Barbara, Cheryl, and I went for a ride:
Saturday November 20. Cheryl, Barbara and Leo rode 45 miles total and had lunch in Freeport:
Sunday November 21. Cheryl, Jane and I went for a ride:
Monday November 22. Dani, Jane, Leo, and Cheryl:
Friday November 26. Leo took this picture of Cheryl and me on a downtown ride:
Saturday November 27. Leo took this picture of Cheryl and me on a ride through Natomas Community Park:
Sunday November 28. Cheryl, Barbara and me in front of LPAS Sacramento (where Thais works):
Monday November 29. Dani, Kathy, Cheryl and Leo:
Tuesday November 30. Leo took this picture of Kathy and Cheryl + an inquisitive friend in Elverta.
We all got together at Thais and Lenin’s. One turkey was in the deep fryer and Lenin smoked a second one:
Leah and Holly (Lenin’s sisters), Lauren and Sophia:
The grandmas with all the grandchildren: Leo, Jeffery, Harper, Avery, me, Rita (Carson behind), Sophia, Brook Lynn, Lauren.
No school this week. A great time for Grandma to help out. Actually Sophia helped me out me rearranging the towels in the laundry room:
We checked a newly opened nearby park
and played Cover Your Assets.
Too much fun!
Jibe contracts with SABA to provide mechanics for the many Bike Doc events in N Natomas. This afternoon, we met at Bike Dog Brewing to celebrate a very successful season.
Excellent pizza from Selland’s. Fun event.
Another delicious get together. Salmon taquitos (that didn’t turn out picture-perfect) with avocado crema and a layered pesto torta. And a very good bottle of wine from Yellowstone Cellars in Billings MT.
This picture is titled “Darn it Bob” – who should have been here so we didn’t have to take this selfie:
Leo did a great job organizing this ride for a large diverse group of riders.
The bridge leaving Winters, left turn ahead onto country roads. I rode sweep.
Our turn-around point in Davis at a park with restrooms. We rested, had something to eat, and visited. Some people were brand new to the group. In fact, one of them rode ahead and promptly got lost! He made his own way back to Winters – but, lesson learned when orienting new cyclists at the beginning of the ride.
Congratulations Jeorgianna – who just finished taking the Better on Bikes classes and who has never ridden more than 10 miles at one time – she finished the 25-mile ride and looked strong.
I rode sweep with Cheryl, Cindy, Chris, Kathy, Dani, and Jane. There’s a new I-5 overpass called Metro Air Parkway, then north to Elverta Rd, west to Garden Highway, south toward home. Very little traffic and new roads made for a great 20-mile ride. This is one of the favorite routes for Arlete’s BIG.
Wednesday night at 6:00 – all set up and ready to go. This was the sixth and final class.
This class remains popular in the N Natomas community, so Better on Bikes 4 and 5 are in the works for 2022.
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