2008-2009 Off Season Schedule Dinners Out, Meetings and Maintenance Sessions Dinners Out: Dinners Out begin with assembly at the Main Desk of Veterans Hall at 4:30 PM/16:30 Hrs. on the dates below. Dinners Out are “Dutch Treat,” but indigent members can see Doug or Lance about the need for support. 05 November – El Potrillo Cocina Mexicana, Sandusky, Ohio 03 December – Sport’s Hut Restaurant, Bellevue, Ohio 08 January ---- Berardi’s Restaurant, Sandusky, Ohio 05 February --- Cici’s Pizza (Buffett), Perkins Twp., Ohio 05 March --- *Parkertown Restaurant & Fremont Cycle Inventory Reduction Sale 02 April ------- Vanson’s Restaurant & April General Business Meeting *The Parkertown Restaurant and Fremont Cycle & Fitness Inventory Reduction Sale are morning events. RSCC/SWOG WORK SESSION: 1.] We will be moving the Fleet Room to the RSCC/SWOG Garage when the latter structure is rehabbed and done. A new floor is to be poured, drainage improved and new garage doors put in place. When the garage is ready, we will be moving our materiel out of the Fleet Room to this new location. A moving day will be announced and members will need to pitch in to get our inventory moved to the garage. 2.] Unfortunately, the 3-bay garage will be unheated. Because of this, we will have to clean up our fleet bikes and trikes, fog them with light oil, and leave them alone until warm weather so they don’t rust to nothing. That includes our tools, too. Our usual practice of winter maintenance sessions won’t work because that will result in condensation on and rusting of our equipment. We’ll either have to service the whole fleet before the cold sets in or after it ends (the warmth of Spring). 3.] We will consider having A & B Hobbies and Cycles do the maintenance on the 10 Raleigh Cruisers. If they will do this at a reasonable cost, maybe it makes sense to have the shop do this? We need to replace all ten bottom brackets at this service anyway, and A & B could provide this repair that we have put off for at least one service interval already. 4.] Doug and Lance are working on converting the trikes to 5-speeds. We have to work out a rear braking system. Lance’s son-in-law is a tool-and-die maker and we will ask Jay if he can figure out a system that can be made for at least one of the rear wheels. The 5-speed transmission costs $122.97 and this includes the shifter for the handlebar. 5.] We will be requesting the club stipend from RBF of $3,000.00. We will need this to continue to improve our property and maintain it as well as do our program. If we have A & B do maintenance on the bikes and up-grade the trikes, we’ll burn up some of this. Also, we presume that the members will want to do another extended riding event next summer, and that means club funds will be spent to supplement that ride. 6.] Remember that the Annual Inventory Reduction Sale will be held again next year at the Fremont Cycle and Fitness Store in Fremont. If you’re thinking of a new set of wheels, start saving regularly for it beginning now! I suspect that good deals might be had by next spring, as they always are. 7.] The last ride of 2008 is scheduled for 23 October and State Senator Teresa Fedor is planning on riding with the clubs. She is a veteran of the armed forces, a member of the Legion, a devoted cyclist, and is the ranking minority member of the Senate Veterans Committee. We want excellent attendance at the ride with Teresa! The honorable Ms. Fedor is a good person to call a friend, and it behooves us to make it so! ‘Nuff said? 8.] The next General Business Meeting is scheduled for 30 October. We will appoint an Audit Committee, establish a time to call in the fleet, and approve the off season schedule as well as conduct other business. Please be present for this important quarterly meeting! 9.] SWOG is in need of concerted attention, action and commitment. With the passing of Richard Platt and the illness of other members, SWOG has ceased to have any significance in our organization. We have folks who are scooter-users, but they are not in the club. This off-season, we need to get SWOG reconstituted, resurrected and re-established. We need ideas from members as well as willingness to work to bring this about. 10.] Club T-Shirts are done! 75 new dri-release shirts are completed at Screen Printing unlimited. We’ll release them, pardon the pun, with the beginning of next season. If there is interest in the purchase of RSCC/SWOG clothing, Screen Printing Unlimited has a selection of jackets, T’s and other apparel from which to choose. If members are interested, we’d have a “fashion show” of samples and order them by individual subscription. They could be either screen printed or embroidered (at significantly more cost). Watch for future Member Memos on club events and activities. We’re almost at the end of Ride 2008. It’s been a great year with little in the way of weather cancellations. We had an outstanding double-overnighter on the Little Miami Trail, and enjoyed the Western Reserve Greenway Trail as a new ride. Watch, in particular, for announcements of our move to the “new” RSCC/SWOG Garage. We’ll need plenty of “muscle” to move our stuff and set up the new location. |
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