Date
om Time

: February 8

: 10:00 am
February 15
10:00 am
February 22

March 1
1:00pm

FEBRUARY 1981

President Bruce Rushto
Vice-President Steve Curry
Treasurer Carol Brown
Secretary Lynn Rushton

Touring Captian Jim Grimm

Newsletter Jim Couch

Meeting Destination
Piace Miles
Orting City Park Daffodil Loop

Cali ride leader
for car pools

507 Harts Lake Harts lake Loop

Call leader for 30 miles

Chilly Hilly Century Bainbridge Isl
50 or 100 km

Dunkin Donuts Olalla via

6th & Howard Gig Harbor

Rides to the Rides

Feb. § 8:30 am Feb. 22 none
Feb. 15 8:30 am Mar. 1 none

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Bicycle Action Eric Wuersten

Racing Captian Gary Singleton

537-3888

564-1222
272-3544
564-0703
474-6590
272-0523

• - Tour
• - Leader
• - Joyce Fordice
• - 531-1185
• - Frank Weldon
• - 565-2181
• - Jim Grimm
• - 564-0703
• - Jim Couck
• - 272-0523
• - All rides to the rides start at Dunkin Donuts 6th and Howard

January's meeting was the Annual Award's Banquet and was held at the Country Squire.

The turnout was greater than what was expected-but after moving some more tables in, oe. room was made for all. Two movies were shown, one featuring the National Champion-

ships held in Seattle a few years ago, the other featuring the Tour de France. The

business meeting was short (as is usual for the banquet meeting) and the officers

for the coming new year were introduced.

The climax of the meeting was of course, the awards. The highlight of the awards was an: award presented by Frank Weldon, to the Club Founders. The following people were honored for their work in founding the Tacoma Wheelman's Club: Stuart Curry, Steve Newton, Steve Perrett, Gary Singleton, Eldon Stratton, Virginia Stratton, Frank Weldon, Ruth Weldon and Jack Williams. If anyone was forgotten, I'm sorry - I did it from memory. All in all it was a very nice evening which was enjoyed by all.

KNBQ 97 radio has invited the Club to participate in the 1981 Lifestyle Fair to be

held at the Tacoma Mall February 12 through February 16. We will be on stage with

roller races, repair and safety demonstrations. Varios bikes will_aslo be displayed. __ This is a great chance for public exposure. Our participation will be Friday,

February 13 (mo bad luck expected), from 4pm to 5pm and Saturday, February 14 from

lpm to 3pm. We will also be handing out newsletter to people in the mall, If you

are interested in helping out, contact Jim Grimm at 564-0703. Let's show Tacoma

the Tacoma Wheelmen!

Racing is looking very good for this year. The last few weekends on our training
vides, we have had a very good turnout with 15 to 17 people showing up for the ride,
with many new faces in the crowd. If you are interested in racing or just want to
train with us, give me a call and we'li put your name the "list" so you can start
riding, training and racing with us.

Once again the racing team will be sponsored by Kucharik (which is a bicycle cloth- ing manufacturer in California) owned by John Kucharik and Singleton's Cyclery. We are going to look more professional this year with new team shorts and one piece

track suits. We are also changing the look of our team jersey by adding Tacoma
Wheelman to the back of the jersey.

“~~

If anyone has any ideas on how. to help or improve the racing team this year, give
me a call - 474~6590,

Gary

We are still in the planning stages of our bicycle race, which our club will be putting on in May. We want to make this a race open to everyone. If you have any ideas or can help with the race in any way, please give me a call at 474-6590 or any of the other officers. Let's make this a bicycle race the people of Tacoma will be talking about for

a long time. The race will be held
on the weekend of May 2 & 3.

Club meetings are held on the third
Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm
at the Fircrest Community Center,
which is located at 555 Contra Costa.
Will feature a discussion of what

to bring and how to ride the Chilly
Hilly

Bicycle Week is May 11 through May 16. The club hopes to be active in this important event. This month Frank Weldon and Eric Wuersten are meeting with other clubs in Seattle to get ideas on what we can do. Eric and Frank will. report on their findings at this month's club meeting. '

Since everyone enjoyed the films

‘WELCOME NEW MEM BERS that were shown at the club banquet

—

and at Singleton's the next night,
we are planning to get more films

The Tacoma Wheelmen would like to to show to the club at a later welcome all new members to the time. Watch coming newsletters club. Note the meeting date and for dates and times,

time as well as the rides. Hope
to see you there.

The club would like to thank Steve Parke and Jerry Baker for getting and letting 4s a dong time cyclist in the Tacoma the club show the films at the banquet. area, I've seen alot of growth in the They were a great success. Thank you! cycling community and the TWC. My main interest is getting people to commute to work. Once we get them on their ' bikes and commuting it will be easy to get them in the club. . What I'd like is your ideas on-how I can help, please write of give me a call- Gary Singleton at 474-6590. :

Our new Bicycle Action Committee (BAC) Chairman is long- time bicycle enthusiast Eric Wuersten. Bruce Rushton in- troduced Eric to those attending the annual banquet after which Eric gave a short summary of his qoals for

Right now we're really looking for interested people.
We need to hear all your concerns that would help im-
prove conditions for bicyclists--safety programs,
road improvements, better bike lanes, more bicycling
publicity--got an idea? Give Eric a call at 272 3544
(after 7 p.m.) and let's get action.

So many things are already in the works at this time that we feel we could have started years ago. The most pressing issue is the new Hood Canal Bridge. We've sent a letter to Washington State Department of Transportation and made our recommendations known. If

you wish particulars, please call Eric (see number above). Additionally, the legislative
session has started in Olympia and our first bike bill SB 3144(dealing with redefinition
of bicycles, rights of the road, and lane changes) is coming up for hearing on February 4-:
then another bil?--1'1] give you particulars in our next newsletter or sooner--wil! work
towards more shoulders and fog lines! =

Now to plans: for our area. Of course we want a Tacoma/Pierce County Bicycle Coordinator ._ The time is right for thés since we're getting a new county Executive and we can follow the lead of Kitsap and King counties. We'll be forming an information phone chain for ‘responses to upcoming legistation and getting the word out on upcoming events which need more public awareness (Daffodil Century and Bike Week).

Our first meeting was in the TCC library and was attended by Carol Brown, Harvey Lister,
Linda Smith, Frank Weldon, and Margaret and Eric Wuersten. First and final order of
business--we need your help to make a difference for bicycling. So call Eric at 272 3544
after 7 p.m. Next meeting of BAC will be the last Wednesday of the month--February 25--
7 p.m. at TCC Building 22, Room 11. See you there.

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