Ride the Challenge
September 1, 2012
Miracles Can Happen Boys Ranch

I guess everyone is starting to plan all of their great rides they are going to do this year. I hope that we will be on your list this year, because we want you to come and enjoy the great routes and awesome food at the Sag stops. We are making some changes this year. Yes I said it, we are making a change this year, and moving to a warmer date-- September 1, 2012, which is the Saturday of Labor Day weekend.
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I found a Silica frame pump on the Government Bridge on Monday afternoon, May 14. It appears to have been painted to match a frame's color.

To claim, please either email me at CozadJeffreyK@JohnDeere.com or call me at 309-765-5207. Tell me the color and how big a frame it's for to claim. I'd be missing this if it was mine.

12th Annual
Barstow 20K Individual Time Trial
Barstow, IL Saturday, May 19, 2012
WIIL Rider of the Year Presented by Stray Kats Racing
Rain or Shine

Contact Terry Burke at tburke@qconline.com for race flyer.

We had a great turnout of 75 riders for our spring tailwind.

We met at Ben Butterworth Parkway bright and early and the busses took us to Sheridan, Illinois. Around 9:30 we started on our 104 miles back.

Thanks to Dave Thompson, we had a new route to ride which he marked very nicely. This route was straight and flat, which made many people very happy. As we left Sheridan, the sky was overcast, the air was full of humidity and the temp was around 60. By noon the sun was out and it had warmed up nicely. The winds gradually increased (guessing 10-12mph) as the day went along.

The SAG stop was in Walnut along Hwy 92 and again Janette Harrington did a great job getting the food and beverages for us.

Special thanks go to Denise Clark who manned the SAG stop along with our other volunteer, Mike Winter. Thanks to Craig Goettsch for hauling our bikes out and bringing back our blankets and bags. Thanks to Robin Rollins for transferring our blankets and bags to the storage trailer which Joe Jamison so nicely loaned to us for so many tailwinds.

Be safe and keep riding and hope to see you on the fall tailwind which will be on October 6th.

Don Luth

Janette, Dave, & Don,

A note to express my appreciation for all you folks did to put on another excellent tailwind century. The organization, the route markings, the communications, volunteers, and a hundred things you did I'm probably not aware of, made this another exceptional QCBC event.

This was my third tailwind in the short time I have been with the club. It is one of my favorite formats. This format provides me an excellent opportunity to practice and improve ride skills while building endurance. I also enjoy the opportunity to meet and ride with a lot of riders I don't very often see on other rides. I found everyone to be friendly and courteous (I didn't expect anything less) which just added to the experience.

Thanks to all for a job well done.

Don Flynn

Please join us for the Grand Opening of the new
section of the Mississippi River Trail.

A ceremony will be held: May 18th at 10:00am
Leach Park in Bettendorf (100 12th Street)

The trail is part of the Mississippi River Trail (MRT) that stretches from the headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

Bettendorf and Riverdale City officials as well as MRT Inc. Board Members from ten states will be present to celebrate the dedication of this two-mile stretch of trail from Leach Park in Bettendorf to Bellingham Street in Riverdale.

Feel free to Bike to the event as it will be
BIKE TO WORK WEEK

Any questions, please call 563-344-4113.

UltraCycling News from UltraMidwest, LLC

It's May and that means its UltraTime! UltraMidwest, LLC, A Quad Cities based company that produces long distance races is getting ready for the first event of the season, the Balltown Classic! This is a 200 mile ride/race from DeWitt, Iowa to Balltown - a small town north of Dubuque in Iowa's Little Switzerland.
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This is the 28th year for Ride the River, a family bicycle ride along the Iowa and Illinois Mississippi riverfront trails. Help us make the ride a fun event.

Volunteers are needed in the following areas:

• Registration/Packet Pick Up - Help register riders and hand out packets
• Helmet Sales
• Cone Trucks - Set up and pick up cones before and after the event
• Loading/Unloading Bikes - Help unload bikes to and from the barge
• Traffic Control - Direct riders on the Arsenal or the Illinois path
• Children's Fair - Operate children's games and direct riders in Moline
• Cleanup

Volunteers receive a t-shirt.

Ride the River volunteer information: www.riveraction.org/volunteer
To volunteer online: www.riveraction.org/node/109
Ride the River information: www.riveraction.org/node/108
River Action 563-322-2969 or Ride the River 563-322-RIDE

May is National Bike Month, and the Iowa Bicycle Coalition is having a special Member Challenge! We want to strengthen our voice to build bicycle traffic and make Iowa better for bicycling!

Here is what we need you to do...
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It's Time to Ride! Bicycle Friendly Quad Cities and partners are celebrating National Bike Month with rides, events, and promotions. Join us and bike to work, for fun, your health and the health of our community.

Our goals for Bike Month go far beyond May. Bicycle Friendly Quad Cities and its partners are committed to building support for and advancing bicycling initiatives in our community. Vibrant communities across the country are recognizing the health, environmental, and economic benefits of bicycling. We want the Quad Cities to be a great and encouraging every one to take time to ride, attend Bike Month Events and come together to advocate for a more bicycle friendly community.
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Dear bike club presidents, advocates and editors/webmasters,

Our latest issue is now available of "LIB Extra," our one-pager with short items for your newsletter, member email distribution, and/or website. The April 2012 issue is available in Word or PDF formats. This issue of the "LIB Extra" features information on the recent National Bike Summit and the upcoming Central Illinois Bike Summit as well as the latest information on the "Share the Road" specialty license plates.

Your help in distributing this info to club members is, as always, much appreciated. Thanks for your partnership in our work to improve Illinois bicycling!

-Gina

Gina Kenny
LCI# 2446
Program Manager
League of Illinois Bicyclists
gina@bikelib.org

The Cornbelt Running Club (CBRC) has been unable to find a new director for Du-State-Du in August so must unfortunately cancel the event for this year.

Potential replacement directors may be available for 2013, but no one is stepping up this summer.

Every year the Quad Cities Criterium uses approximately 250 volunteers to make this event run smoothly. But, just as sponsorship solicitation is difficult at best; recruiting volunteers is just as hard. Without our wonderful volunteer crew, we would not have been able to make our race one of the feature races of the national bicycle racing scene. That is why I am reaching out to you. If you would like to volunteer for our event in one of these areas:
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