| White Clay Bicycle ClubThe 2019 Annual Banquet was a hit, just ask any of the members in attendance. Great choice of foods, drinks, and desserts complimented conversations with other members of the Club. Our speaker Joan Hanscom, executive director of the Trexlertown Velodrome in the Lehigh Valley, shared her storied cycling past which included many envious jobs in our
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Some, maybe most of you have heard by now – Performance Bikes is in bankruptcy. In layman’s terms, the parent company was closing some of their stores and within those stores having “Store Closing Sales” while the company was in a re-organization mode. That was until last Friday (12/07) when they announced that all stores
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The good news (as reported by Wally Hertler)… The Ewing Road bridge has reopened. A very nice job. As of last Sunday (08/05..Ed) the Schuylkill River Trail from Oaks north to the end near Phoenixville had been flooded by the adjacent river and was almost entirely covered in mud and water. Nearly unrideable. I don’t
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The purpose of the Club is to support recreational cyclists. We are not racers and do not promote ourselves as such. We may feel like we are racing along on some of our rides but we are in fact a group of recreational cyclists riding for any number of personal reasons. Fitness. Love of the
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NATIONAL BIKE MONTH BIKE TO WORK DAY, FRIDAY, MAY 18 As you know, May is National Bike Month. May 18th is National Bike to Work Day. The two articles below were recently sent to the club for review by Daniel Atlas of RyDoze.com and whether you plan to bike to work or not, the Bike
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Delaware Ride Share Program You may have heard about the Delaware Ride Share Program. Any one who lives, works or goes to school in Delaware may join and they will pair those drivers seeking car pools. They will also introduce cyclists traveling the same or similar routes should you be more comfortable traveling with others.
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A link to an article about rider safety landed in the Inbox of our Safety and Education Chair, Mike Katz. Since we are weeks away from the start of another “Cycling Season”, Mike thought it might be worth sharing as it is about cycling safely in the U.S. – authored by writers from Down Under
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I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about this week. We are too far off to begin to ramp up for the riding season. The Icicle is a month and a half away. The Annual Banquet two and a half weeks. During last night’s monthly Club meeting it came to me. We had a
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Yesterday, I visited the Philadelphia Bike Expo. I saw two or three WCBC members there and I found much of it entertaining and interesting. Watching the King Cage exhibitor create a bottle cage in about 45 seconds starting with a straight piece of thin steel rod and bending it by hand around various jigs to
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The Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act – also named “An Act to Amend Title 21 of the Delaware Code Relating to Rules of the Road” recently became a law in Delaware. I heard about it, but what does it mean to me, the cyclists? In June, 2017, after years of blood, sweat and tears the Delaware
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