The January membership meeting will take place this Monday night, January 9th at Turks located at 977 Butternut Drive. Meeting starts at 8pm. This month’s guest speakers are John Lindenmeyer from League of Michigan Bicyclists (LMB) and Kimberly Kooyers from Ottawa County. John will discuss their “Complete Streets” initiative. Kimberly will discuss safe routes to school along with cycling related state legislation. This is a great chance for our members to have some input. See you Monday night!
No club meeting tonight due to the holiday and weather. The January membership meeting will take place next Monday night, January 9th at Turks located at 977 Butternut Drive. Meeting stars at 8pm. This month’s guest speakers are John Lindenmeyer from LMB and Kimberly Kooyers from Ottawa County. John will discuss their Complete Streets initiative. Kimberly discuss safe routes to school along with cycling related state legislation. This is a great chance for our members to have some input. See you next Monday night!
The December meeting topic will be Bicycle Touring, and the non-profit organization that has done the most to promote travel by bicycle, the Adventure Cycling Association. ACA event staff person Lydia Meyer will talk about her bicycle touring experiences (beginning with riding with tent and sleeping bag from Holland to the Mackinac Bridge in 1982) including her Adventure Cycling Great Lakes Relaxed UP trip in September. Steve from The Outpost will bring bicycle camping equipment and demonstrate it’s use. Tim Meyer from Rock ‘n’ Road Cycle will bring a touring bike with bags, but also show how the bike you have now can be a touring bike too. Also included in the presentation will be Adventure Cycling’s catalog with it’s range of trips from TransAmerica self-contained to catered and van-supported family rides to touring and leadership courses. And as the meeting will be held near the corner of Riley and US Bike Route 35 we’ll cover ACA’s latest big project, the United States Bike Route System.
The meeting is this Monday night, December 5 at Turks Restaurant, Butternut (USBR-35) just North of Riley St., 8:00 PM. Come by early and enjoy a beverage and some snacks on the club! Board members will be on hand starting a 7:00 PM to chat about the club, take suggestions for making the club better or just talk about the sport we love.
The Holland Kisscross race takes place this Sunday at Smallenburg Park. This is the race series season finale, and the MCC is once again sponsoring the race. Our commitment is to provide volunteers to help with race registration on Sunday morning and help take down the course following the last race in the afternoon. We need 2 people to help with registration from 10a.m. to noon. After the last race on Sunday (2:00p.m.), we need 10 people to help take down the course. It should only take about 30 minutes. Please come out and lend a hand. Thanks in advance for volunteering. See you Sunday!
MCCers!
Our monthly membership meetings will resume next Monday night. This month, the club welcomes Elisa Hoekwater of the Macatawa Area Coordinating Council. Elisa will present the latest draft of the Non-Motorized Plan for the greater Holland area. She would like to get our club member’s input to the plan.
So join us next Monday night, November 7th at Turk’s on Holland’s north side located at 977 Butternut Drive (Butternut Plaza). The membership meeting begins at 8pm.
See you on the roads and trails.
Macatawa Cycling Club
To all Monday Night Riders! Our season is coming to an end, and we will go out in style!
Please join the club after this Monday’s MNR, the 29th, for food and drink on the MCC bill. 8:30ish at VILLAGE INN PIZZA, on Washington Ave.
NOTE: The venue was at New Holland, we are now going to Village Inn.
You do not need to be a member of MCC and whether you rode once or many times, you’re welcome to join us. The club will not cover beer/wine, but everything else.
More information:
No MNR on Labor Day, the 5th.
The last MNR is the 26th.
Thanks and we’ll see you there!
Marshall