Our next monthly club meeting is Tuesday 12/4/2007. Meetings are from 8:00pm-9:00(ish) and are held at the Macatawa Greenway’s new offices.

The new location is at 455 East 8th Street - across from the Hart and Cooley plant in the old grade school, currently Driesenga Assoc. survey company. The Greenway is using one of the old class rooms as offices. Please use the door on the east side of the building off of Walnut street.

The guest speaker will be Alan Becke, He will be letting us know all about “Randonneuring 101″.

Whatinthehell is that?………Randonneuring is basically competitive touring….where riders travel great distances completely self-supported. They ride bikes equipped w/ fenders, lights, racks and loaded w/ gear, doing their own maintenance and sometimes route-finding. The events are called “Brevets” and the grandaddy of ‘em all is the Paris-Brest-Paris, a 1200K (780 mile) event that dates back to 1891. Run in August every 4 years, riders have 90 hours to complete the ride. Alan qualified for this ride in 2007 which means that he is one serious dude!

More info… www.rusa.org

Input and ideas as to other topics for future meetings you’d like to see should be addressed to mike AT velo-citycycles dotCom..