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Jun 08 2011 June 8, 2011 June 8, 2011 by Austin Fenwick

Women’s only group rides! Time Trial Reminder!

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Hello Cape Fear SORBA! Hope everyone has had a great week so far! We have a couple of events to announce and remind everyone about!

June 9th Time Trial
The 2nd in the CFSORBA Time Trial at the Brunswick Nature Park is set for this Thursday at 6:30 pm! Is there anyone out there that can top Steve’s time from last week of 23:38? Come out and prove who is fast! Remember its only a $5 entry fee and everyone has a chance to win half of all the money raised in a raffle at the end of the day! Its all for fun so come out and show us what you got!

WOMEN’S ONLY GROUP RIDES START TUESDAY JUNE 21ST!
Cape Fear SORBA ladies, this part of the post is just for you. Starting on Tuesday, June 21st we will begin have women’s only group rides! These rides will be scheduled on Tuesday evenings at 6pm. For the time being these rides will be on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month until we see how the rides are attended. If it turns out the rides are well attended and there is a call for more of them, we will get more of them scheduled! These rides are for all ability levels. We want everyone to come out and have a blast and meet the other ladies riding here in the Cape Fear Region! So mark those calenders and show up to ride!

If you have any questions about the Women’s only group rides, please contact SueMay Lewis at dirtsnaks@yahoo.com.

Thanks everyone! Thats all for now! Stay safe and ride lots!

Austin Fenwick
VP Cape Fear SORBA


Jun 03 2011 June 3, 2011 June 24, 2011 by admin

June 2nd Time Trial Wrap Up!

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2011 Summer Time Trial Series

The Summer Time Trial series got off to a great start Thursday evening at Brunswick Nature Park. We had ten riders come out to take part in this event, seven from our local Cape Fear SORBA club and three members traveled up from the Myrtle Beach area’s Waccamaw Trailblazers club. It was an excellent opportunity for members of different clubs to meet face to face, ride together and have some fun.

If you were not able to come out to the first event, we encourage you to come out next Thursday night and take part, or just to cheer on those that are participating.

June 2, 2011 Times:
Steve Mangiacapre 23:38
Greg Brinson 24:11
Tom Condon 24:52
Andy Ickles 25:14
Jere Dearing 25:28
Marshall Brown 25:55
Spencer Thomasson 26:58
Don Brown 27:53
Jim Halley 32:55
Ryan Dennis 45:48

And congratulations to Tom Condon who was the winner of Thursday’s night’s raffle drawing, he went home with $25 extra dollars in his pocket! Way to go Tom!

Thanks again everyone for coming out, hope to see you again next week!

Jay Pearce
pearce.jay@gmail.com
Cape Fear SORBA


Jun 01 2011 June 1, 2011 June 24, 2011 by admin

Event Reminder: Time Trial Series begins Thursday at Brunswick!

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Event Reminder! Come join Cape Fear SORBA for our 2011 Summer Time Trial Series each Thursday night in June at Brunswick Nature Park.

Thursday June 2 (THIS THURSDAY!!)

Thursday June 9

Thursday June 16

Thursday June 23

Thursday June 30 (Rain Date)

Entry fee is $5 for anyone that wants to participate

Start time for the event is 6:30pm so get there a little bit early!

At the end of each event, we will put all participants name in a hat and then draw one name, that lucky person wins half of the total entry fees for that night’s event – you must be a current IMBA/SORBA member to be eligible for the drawing.

Download flyer here

For more details or directions please email Jay @ pearce.jay@gmail.com


May 28 2011 May 28, 2011 May 28, 2011 by Austin Fenwick

News and Upcoming Events! IMBA Trail Care Crew Coming in the Fall!

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Hello Cape Fear SORBA! Sorry for the lack of updates in the past couple of weeks! I promise though, things have been happening! What things? Oh I thought you would never ever ask! With that lets get right into things shall we?

Cape Fear SORBA Awarded Trail Care Crew Visit in Fall
Our big news of the week is that Cape Fear SORBA has been awarded a visit from the International Mountain Bike Associations famous Trail Care Crew! Part of this is a direct result of conversations that took place in Washington DC at the National Bike Summit. For those of you that aren’t familiar with the Trail Care Crew here is a little information, courtesy of IMBA’s website!

The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew, on the road since 1997, is IMBA’s grassroots educational program and an authority on sustainable trail building practices. Two teams of professional trail experts travel year-round throughout the United States and beyond, leading trail work sessions, meeting with land managers and working with IMBA-affiliated clubs and the communities they serve to improve mountain biking opportunities.

This will be the TCC’s second visit to the Wilmington area. The first was in October of 2009 as Cape Fear SORBA was in the middle of becoming a club. They focused on the Blue Clay Trail and its drainage issues. The redesigned hilly section of Blue Clay is a direct result of the new techniques that founding club members learned during that first visit. This time the visit will focus on the new Brunswick Nature Park! We hope that we will be ready to begin building the next big section of trail by the time the TCC make their way here. A date for their visit has yet to be confirmed but expect their visit to be sometime in November. Additional information will be available as it comes in!

Trail Work Weekend June 4th and 5th at Brunswick
June 4th and 5th will be big days for the Brunswick Nature Park! We are on the verge of completing the next section of trail! However, we need your help to make this a reality! Work will begin both days at 7am and continue on until dark or until everyone is pure wore out! Bring rakes and shovels, additional tools will be provided by the club. Also be sure to bring plenty of food, water, bug spray, and sunscreen! Hope to see you out there!

CFSORBA Wins CCORS Team Championship!
Big congratulations to the Cape Fear SORBA race team for their team victory in the Coastal Carolina Off-Road Race Series last weekend! They claimed the championship with another strong showing at the Piranha Pit in Havelock, NC. Guess we know which club has the strongest riders! On a related note: we are asking people to please fill out a survey about the series so we know how we can improve! The survey can be found here.

June Time Trial Series Begins Next Week
Heads up everyone! Want to test your speed against some of the other riders in the Cape Fear Region? Well why don’t you swing out to the Brunswick Nature Park beginning next Thursday? This will be the first Time Trial in the Summer Time Trial Series! Entry is just $5! Racers begin leaving at 6:30 so be sure to get there early to get signed up! This is strictly for bragging right folks! One lucky racer will walk away at random with half of the entry fee’s as their prize! These Time Trials will be the first 4 Thursday’s of June and all will start at 6:30. If you have any questions you can email club secretary Jay Pearce at pearce.jay@gmail.com. Roll out and have some fun at the Park!

Trail-gating Starts Tomorrow!
Last but not least! Our brand new outreach program begins tomorrow with Trail-Gating events at both Blue Clay and the Brunswick Nature Park! Club members will be setting up shop at the trail heads to tell people about the latest goings on in CFSORBA! We also hope that this will influence some non-club members to join up and get involved. At the very least we want to inform people about what we are doing as a club and get them excited about the future. So come visit Secretary Jay at Brunswick or VP Austin (me) and Bike Patrol Director Jamie at Blue Clay tomorrow! We plan on being there from 10am till about 2pm. We will be doing this monthly with additional events as we get deeper into the year!

Thats it for now everyone, have a wonderful Memorial Day! Be safe and enjoy the trails!

Austin Fenwick
Vice President: Cape Fear SORBA