A Massachusetts Bicycle Club
Captain Cold(Len) is in close place for #2 on the leaderboard. Tracy made the leaderboard last week with the #3 spot. There was a lot of activity over the last two weeks. Paul took #1 spot with 200+ miles.
The turnout was small but powerful on Sunday. Everyone was in positive spirit and a good time was had. It is still relatively warm at this stage. Wait for January. You will see cold, then!
Look for the Garden Gnome. Most of the routes go past it!
Everyone had a nice ride from Wompatuck on Thursday!
Here is the video from Travis.
Judy and Pam are getting ready for RAGBRAI. Judy and Pam lead our women’s g
roup. Pam works on teaching paceling and ride etiquette. Arvella rode with them on a 50 mile practice run, yesterday. RAGBRAI is a giant ride across Iowa. On July 25th they ride across all of the great state of Iowa. Judy will take lots of pictures.
I am sure that there will be a picture of their stop in New York, Iowa. Go to the RAGBRAI website to learn about their route. They also have gravel route options!
Bill
We will have a club Time Trial on 07-22. I need to know if you are racing ASAP. I have to set a start sheet. This will be a race against your personal best. Don’t take it too seriously. Let’s just have fun.
We will go to dinner in Halifax after the race. I plan for the first riders to start at 6 PM. Riders go sequentially in time gaps.
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Weekly ride!
We will ride from Marshfield Furnace Brook Middle School on Wednesdays at 5:30PM. Lauren and Maria will be leading this ride. The route is 28 miles.
Norwell ride is on July 16 at 8 AM.
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Hope we can get people to sign up for Strava! Several new riders already had Strava. Make sure to join the South Shore Bikers club page on Strava. The club page is at https://www.strava.com/clubs/southshorebikerss.
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Please let me know if you are going to ride the CRW Climb to the Clouds next Sunday. We plan to do the 60 from Bolton.
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Order your club jerseys at www.dnacycling.biz/ssb/team-gear.html. Use the paypal function to pay; this works the best. These jerseys run larger than Verge. Check the sizing chart.
We roll from Norwell on next Saturday. Some of us with will ride with the Apostles on their special Fourth of July celebration. It will be a fun next weekend. There will be plenty of barbeques and new decks to see.
People are asking questions about 
the new jerseys. You can order them via the webstore at https://www.dnacycling.biz/ssb/team-gear.html.
It was hot during the last weekend. We rode with the MS150 crowd for a while on Saturday. They took over our Coastal route. Over 3,000 bikers rolled through Cohasset and Scituate.
We met a lot of the Yaegerdogs. We rolled with them. At Coffee corner we hid in the shade on the side of the building. The sun was collecting on us. Notice one person in the picture was wearing his solar sleeves. He should have been wearing his South Shore Bikers jersey!
Mike Togo and Andy Brand led us a great adventure through the flat countryside south of Middleboro on the Sunday. We actually went into Wareham via Thinonet road. This takes you past the Ocean Spray cranberry processing center. So, we were still in the cranberry country. However, we saw lots of other crops.
I did have to stop at the intersection for a tractor on more than one occasion. The area is not like southern Illinois. There are few hills. It is not like Indiana as the roads are paved. It is own unique farming community. Something that you might not notice in the busy hubbub of Boston or consider as part of Massachusetts.
Anyways, it was a great ride on Sunday. Travis, Mike, Lori, Action Jack, Allison, and I were in the front group practicing pacelining for awhile. We stopped for coffee at some shop in Rochester. It was an enjoyable day.
Bill