Newsletter

AUGUST, 1980

PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
TREASURER

RACING CAPTAIN
BICYCLE ACTION

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FRANK WELDON
STEVE NEWION
NANCY CLEMENS
ELDON STRATTON
JACK WILLIAMS
MARK OVERFIELD
MICK COLE

565-2181 474-8090 759-8019 588-3438 627-1931 565-1124 572-5280

Meeting Destination
Place Miles
Persdise; free patch

to all club members
25 riles

Tour
Leader

Jack Williems
627-1931

Date
Time
Tacoma Mall Theater
for car pooling to

Lonerire; pay driver
$2.00.

August 10
8 AM

Vashon Island ride
25 riles

Lisa Loren
531-3790

Pt. Defiance Ferry
lending

August 17
9:15 AM
August 24 South Prairie
10 AM

Spout Creek; bring

Mary Ann Cole
lunch, 34 riles

572-5280
24th and Pacific Five Mile Lake,
bring lunch and swim
suit; 25 miles

August 31
11 AM

Lynn Rushton
537-3888

Thursday Night Rides

These are easy 6-8 mile rides which sre excellent for be-~

All rides stert at 7 PM. Brine ch-nge for ice Last Thursday night ride of the summer is this

ginners.
cream.
month!

August 14
August 21
August 28

Jafco Plaza
Wright Park Conservstory
Center and Madison

Steve Newton
Mick Cole
Jack Williams

TACOMA WHEELMEN'S CLUB
South Tacoma Way Tacoma. WA.

Several of vou new members will be neede* as officers and chairmen of

special events during the coming year.

With elections in December it may see~ premature to ask for people to think about recruiting club officers but rost of next year's leeders will heave to come fror members who have joined this vear, and there simply won't be time tr search out people to administer the club.

Historically most of our officers have core from people who have been club merbers for two or three years, but we inadvertantly rate it very dif- ficult to join the club for the last couple of years and consecuently s1- most all of the members have been members more than five years ond have already served as officers or have been members for less than one year,

Most of the present officers heve been officers for severol years and went a rest. Further, a membe~ with very little bicycling experience fre- cuently makes a better officer than someone who has forgotter the thines thev wanted to know as beeinners. One thing to remember is that a1! clubd prozrems need to be tailored around the needs of bicvelists who have beer members less than three vears. After two or three yeors 9 merher will have developed their own set of friends end svecialized interests end cetting information from periodicals rather then other club members. So 911 of you new members who have anv skills that can be vsed to help run the clud rext vear clease core forth and let us know whst vou can do

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Labor Day Weekend Ride. All club rembers are invited to bicvele to Ocean
Shores with Frank. This will not be a club ride and if you plan to fo
you should be self sufficient and make your own reservations. For camp
ground reservations call 1-800-562-0990. For the phone numbers of rotels
call Frank Weldon at 565-2181. Frank will lecve Dupont at 9:00 AM on
Saturday Auzust 30. Ocear Shores is 90 miles from Ducont ard vou will

probably need to be in Ocean Shores by 5 PM to secure your reservstion. FEE HEHE TEE HE HEE EE EME EE HE HH EH HEE EE HE EH AE EE EEE HEH HHH RK HHH HERE HEH HHEHR HEE

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP DATE:
Name: Age___—_s« Spouse. Age
Address Zip
Phone Work phone (optional)

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP $10.00 FAMILY MEMBERSHIP $12.00
New___ Renewed__—s Total enclosed $

Interested in participating in:

Sunday rides__—s Conditioning (40-70 mi) Competition
Touring Camping __—s Centuries ss Other.
Club affiliations: L.A.W. U.S.C.F. «Other.
Return to: Eldon Stratton, 5408 South Tacoma Way, Tacoma, WA 98409

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Haven Lake ride, July 27, 1980. This started as one of tnose beautiful
mornings, warm with the sun shining, when you really enjoy bicycle riding. I
was a little lare getting away from home and didn't leave Olympic Village with
the group. ,

While crossing the Narrows Bridge, always an exciting exverience in ite self, I c>me upon Nancy Clemens repairing a flat tire. She just finished up as I got off my bike. These are the kind of fiats I like to come upon. She repaired it herself, and a good job too. Capable girl, Nancy. Handy to have

around.

Shortly after passing Olym>ic Village, I started to overtake some of the slower riders and ended up riding the whole way witth Ruth Weldon. Ruth rides just about my sveed and is always a pleasure ro ride with. She also likes to stop for coffee. We stopped at Gorst. You could tell the place by all the

bicycles in front.

On leaving Gorst, we travelled to Belfsir, past Belfair State Park, and up the long hill to the lake without incident.

At the lake we were met by Virginia Stratton"s brother and his wife,. Paul and Shirley Southwell, who had coffeee, pop, doughnuts and cantaloupe slices for the hungry riders to munch on.

Everybody was doing something, water skiing,. swimming, boating, canoeing, and just plain loafing around. As usual, Virginia had a wonderful dinner laid out in serve yourself style. There was fried chicken, macaroni salad along with potato, beans, hot dogs, potato chips, jello salad, pickles--I could go on and on. This was about the best spread ever. Everyone vorged themselves on- all the goodies. We ever had watermelon slices later onl

After dinner, I went back in swimming for a bit. The water was ouite warr, in spite of our lack of warm weather this summer. Later I rowed Brends Branson, a delightful girl of twelve, around the lake. This is almost a tra- dition that has been zoing on for about six years. Thanks, Brenda.

I think there were about fifty or sixty people there. Everyone had a great time. This was the seventh year for this gathering an” was one of those deys -you hoped would never end. The one who did all the planning, tha gather- ing together of the food and drinks, all the worry and-work and all the clean- ing up was that jewel of a lady Virginia. We all love Virginia. Whst else can be said? Thanks. Thanks Virginia from the very bottom of our hearts.

Jack Williams

Club meetings are held on the third
Wednesday of each month at 7:30 at
the Fircrest Community Center, which
1s located at 555 Contra Costa.

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At the August general meeting, Steve Curry will present a demonstrstion

on roller riding. Be sure and be there for an interesting program. SEIS IOI ISO COTE GUI URTICARIA at Jed te deat dea

Summer is here ard I'm ridirge in the werm weather and I don't even feel
like writing so I'll make it brief.
to express ovr sircere ap-
Tim's U.S. National race
Club from the bottom of orr

Firstly, on behalf of the team I would like
precisation for the rererous donation to Phil end
exvense account. We thank you Tacoma Wheélmen'S
hearts.

In my estimation, tis has been our strongest yeor ever. Racers like Merk H., Phil, Tim and Bruce ere really coming through with wins

Garv, Steve,
part of the seme club.

ent places. Racers end tourists, we are al?
Road racing series at Seattle Internationeal Receway is going amein every

wednesday 2t 7:00 PM. Also, Time trials sre continuire every Tues4s-y at 6:30

PM on North Levee Road. Thanks to Kirk, the results are appearing on the

sports page in the TNT.

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Riding Tip: Here's a good tip for beginners oros on when to shift. If the gear you have selec pedel), your legs will fatigue before your lungs. low (easy to. pedal), your lungs wibl fatigue first.

Train don't strain,

Mark Overfield

_ SINELETONS
cICLeRy

of the

TWC Racing Team