CCORS Race Sunday at Blue Clay!

Hello Cape Fear SORBA. As you may all know we have the 4th race in the CCORS race series coming up this Sunday at the Blue Clay Bike Park. Hopefully we have a huge turnout for the event. With that, comes the need of help. We are seeking volunteers for the event.

The event will run from noon till about 5:30 on Sunday but we will need help both before and after with setup and breakdown as well. All jobs are listed below with approximate times needed. Please email me at austincycles@gmail.com if you can help out!

Setup: 11am – noon
Help setting up tables, timing area, registration, and other things as needed. 2 People

Registration noon- 1:50
Help us with registration! 2-3 people

Parking: 11am-1:50
Need help parking the various racers in the proper places. 1 person

Course Marshal 2-5:30pm
We need two people manning the road crossing and 1-2 people helping out around the course as necessary.

If you want to help out and don’t know exactly when you will get there that’s ok to! Just email me, let me know you are coming and give me a basic idea when you will arrive. Any help would be appreciated.

Complete CCORS series information is available at www.ecvelo.org.

Youth MTB Race Series Event #2 Saturday

Youth Series Race Saturday!

This Saturday the 2nd race in the Youth MTB Race Series will also be taking place. Bring in the youngins out to the trail and let them have at it while you sit back and watch the fun!

For more information on the Youth Race Series you can visit: http://wilmyouthmtbseries.wordpress.com/

Thanks again everyone, see you on the trails!

Austin Fenwick, VP Cape Fear SORBA

Boy Scouts and SORBA members at the Brunswick Nature Park. Photo by Jay Pearce

Hello everyone! My goodness what a busy weekend it was! We had a great trail day at Brunswick Saturday and a very important memorial ride on Sunday. So…lets recap!

WORKDAY

Trail work is always a task that its hard to get participants for. Sometimes we get only a few and then sometimes we get more than we could have hoped for. Saturday was certainly the later as we had a HUGE turnout compared to our usual. 15 SORBA members and 24 boy scouts worked together on Saturday to help build large portions of our beginner trail. While they were completely new to trail building you wouldn’t be able to tell by the work they did. With a little help and guidance from Armando Sanchez (thanks for building those Berms Armando!) and other club members, the boy scouts and their mentors were building trails like a pro in no time!

There is certainly still work to be done though. Based on the amount of work completed on Saturday and the mileage that still needs work, Greg Brinson estimated that we were looking at the end of May to have the beginner trail complete and ready to ride as a part of the trail system. This system will be utilized for everything from family rides to races when its all said and done. It should be a fun and enjoyable addition to the park! I would also like to thank Clif-Bar for the donation of 200 mini Clif-Bars to our trail day! Everyone loved having them as a snack and they certainly fueled us all through the day!

CLUB MEETING

Next up on Saturday was our club meeting. The first topic was club outreach. How can our club reach out to the local riders more often? I proposed that we begin having members sit at a SORBA booth once a month to help drum up interest in what we are doing. In addition, I plan on incorporating more social and educational aspects to our outreach program. This will include more group rides for beginners that can help them learn basic skills and basic repair clinics that can help the beginner riders in our area learn how to fix a flat or repair a broken chain.

Also, I want to build up to a “Membership Drive” in the month of October that will have events like Take a Kid MTBing day and group rides as well as cool raffle prizes. If you are interested in helping out with the outreach program, please email Vice President Austin Fenwick at austincycles@gmail.com.

Following the discussion on outreach the club then discussed two events. First a time-trial series that would take place on Thursday evening each week during the month of June at Brunswick Nature Park. The second would be a short track race that would also take place there in early November. Both events were met with a positive response so look for more information regarding these events in the near future.

Finally we had the election portion of the meeting. As mentioned in yesterdays post Greg Brinson was re-elected to his position, as was Austin Fenwick. Bryan Weinkle moved up to the position of Treasurer and Jay Pearce has joined the board as the new club Secretary. I look forward to what the new version of the CFSORBA board can do in the next year to continue what the first ever board started!

Do Something for Doolittle Memorial Ride

Riders take to River Rd in a memorial ride for Trey and David Doolittle. Picture by Peter Schultz

On a more somber note, today the memorial ride for Trey and David Doolittle was held starting from Murray Middle School. Trey and David were run down on River Rd at 9:30 am on April 3rd by a drunk driver. The ride was arguably the largest ride I have ever been apart of. Riders of all shapes and sizes took part in a ride to remember father and son.

Cape Fear SORBA had a contingent there and with so many people there it was hard to know exactly how many of us actually were there! At least 7 members were there that I know of but it could easily have been more. Considering that the riders numbered over 500 it was easy to miss someone.

It is clear that something needs to be done about the accidents that happen on River Rd. It is our hope that something positive can come from this tragedy.

If you would like to make a donation please send it to the Tyler and Turner Doolittle Educational Fund – 15029 Superior Street, Charlotte NC, 28273.
QUICK REMINDER

Quick reminder everyone that the next CCORS race will be held at Blue Clay on Sunday the 17th! Come out to help race or just watch the fun! Email if you would like to help!

See you on the trails, be safe out there.

Austin Fenwick, VP Cape Fear SORBA

Hey everyone! This is just a short update on the goings on from today. A full update will be posted in the next 24 hours or so once we have all pictures rounded up and I’ve had a chance to wash all the dirt off!!

SORBA and the Boy Scouts work together on the trail!

First off I have to give a HUGE shout out to the boy scouts that were at the trail today! Over 20 great scouts came out and just knocked out some trail work today. Without them we wouldn’t have been able to make nearly as much progress! Over 20 scouts came out and worked very hard today. I think that they did an amazing job! Greg was working in front of them with the excavator and couldn’t work fast enough to give them work to do.

In addition, we had 15 volunteers over the course of the day. Total that makes the largest turnout for any workday we have had so far and we got a tremendous amount of work done. We aren’t done with the beginner trail yet, but by the looks of it we expect the trail to be complete by the end of May at the latest.

Elections

A quick update on the election side of things. Greg Brinson remains President, Austin Fenwick remains Vice-President. Bryan Weinkle has moved up to Treasurer and Jay Pearce is now the new Secretary for the club. There was much more that we talked about at the meeting including some outreach programs we want to kickstart soon and some fun events.

I’ll give you a hint what those might be. You get to hit these berms here really fast…

Berm action!

See you on the trails everyone! More information coming soon!

In Honor of the workday tomorrow at the Brunswick Nature Park, I figured that it would be good to give us a little fun motivation to go out and build stuff! Ladies and gentlemen, its time to get DIRTY!

SEE YOU AT THE PARK!