From My Handlebars to Yours
Bart Coddington, Club President
This coming Thursday (4/24/08) is our general meeting.
The program will be a slide show by Tour d'Afrique Ltd.
based in Toronto, Canada - a unique company that runs transcontinental bicycle
expeditions/races on four continents.
Our transcontinental tours are:
1. Tour d'Afrique, from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa - 7,500 miles, 120 days
2. Silk Route, from Istanbul , Turkey to Beijing, China - 6,700 miles, 110 days
3. Orient Express, from Paris to Istanbul - 2,500 miles, 50 days
4. Vuelta Sudamericana, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Quito, Ecuador - 8,000 miles, 140 days
Each of the tours is divided into sections in order to allow participants who are unable to ride the
whole tour, to ride as many sections as they want.
Our tour stands out as something a little different, a little crazy, and there is nothing else like
it in the world right now.
I would like to thank all of the club members who worked at this year's Sea Otter Classic. This is
a great source of revenue for the club and helps keep our dues reasonable.
A reminder that our July General meeting has been moved up a week due to the Mountains Challenge.
It will be July 17th instead of the last Thursday.