Congratulations To John Escritt And Crew
As you know, the 2015 Tour D’Amico is now history. John Escritt and the entire TDA committee did a fantastic job putting together another successful ride. Many thanks to John and the entire crew for their hard work over the past several months.
RideStats Are Current Through June 30.
Ridestats reflecting your riding activity through the end of June have been posted to the HBC website. Many thanks to all the Ride Leaders for getting their ride reports in, and to Carol Belair who monitors the stats and double checks the reports I produce. Just as a reminder, if you look under the RideStats Menu Item, you will see the following items:
In addition, The “My Rides” item under the Members Menu will give you a list of all the rides you have done this year. I hope you find this information useful.
Add HBC Rides to your Calendar
“What?” the nice lady said to me. “YOU mean I can see the ride calendar without going to the frickin’ Web Site?”.
Yes, Virginia. It’s true. John and I have tried to make the web site as appealing as possible, but there are still hold outs who haven’t made the HBC Web Page their “home page” in the browser, and just want to get to the heart of the matter — when is the next ride? You can the HBC ride calendar to your personal calendar so they appear with holidays, your friend’s birthdays, and other important events. It is very easy to do:
HBC Ride Etiquette.
It could be that I have become a grumpy old man, but it seems to me that we have been slipping on our ride etiquette. I have been on at least three rides that left late because we were waiting for someone. We don’t seem to communicate with other riders as well as we did in the past. Riders sometimes block entrances and exits at rest stops. I It also occurred to me that when someone new shows up, we expect them to learn to ride by “osmosis”, which isn’t really fair. So I put together a brief list of what I think people should know and do before they come to an HBC Ride. I got many of my ideas from the web page of the Central Indiana Bicycling Association. One of the things the page says is that experiences riders should set a good example for others and offer “polite, constructive criticism”. If you think that someone is not being safe , or you don’t like the way they ride, try to have a nice civil conversation with them. I know that I am not perfect, and some of you may think of this as a guy in a glass house throwing a stone. But if that is the case, I hope that you will mention it to me and we can have the conversation.
You can find the “etiquette” page under the ride calendar menu item. I wanted to put it someplace where everyone can see it, but at the same time I didn’t want it to be the first thing everybody sees. I am concerned that some folks may find it a bit “preachy”. I would really appreciate some feedback on this page, and its placement in the world. If I have said something you disagree with, or omitted something you think is really important, let me know.
HBC Photo Contest
I was out of town most of June, so there are some photo contest entries that I haven’t gotten moved to the web site yet. Don’t worry if you don’t see your entries there. I will get them up in the next week or so. I spent my traveling time communing with the Grand Photo Poobah about the photo contest, and I thought I should his thoughts and rules explicit so you know how to enter and what he is looking for: