Non-Club Event Rides Approved for Club Mileage
You can submit two more rides for consideration, since we have eight, but can accommodate ten. For those of you who want to see the math, it is 10 – 8 = 2. See? Proof. All fact. I know that it’s been a long time since most of you have been in school, so I hope that you are able to follow that. Monster Cookie was last month. Here are the remaining selected rides:
| Date | Event Ride | Sponsor | PBC Ride Leader |
| Saturday, 5/17 | Reach the Beach | American Lung Association | Cary Fisher (105 miles Portland)
Daniel Payne (105 miles Tualatin) Lynn Blanchard (75 miles) |
| Saturday, 6/14 | Strawberry Century | Swift Summit NW | Scott Poindexter |
| Saturday, 6/21 | Gorge Ride | Friends of the Historic Columbia River Highway | Dick Weber |
| Saturday, 7/26* | Ride Around Clark County (RACC) | Vancouver Bicycle Club | Todd McCollum |
| Sunday, 8/10 | Covered Bridge Bicycle Tour | Mid-Valley Bicycle Club | Scott Poindexter |
| Weekend, 8/23-24 | Ride from Seattle to Vancouver [BC] and Party (RSVP) | Cascade Bicycle Club | Denise Hare |
| Sunday, 9/28 | Harvest Century | ORBike | Kathleen Hellem |
✎ If you want to lead a non-PBC event ride for club mileage, select the ride you want to lead and submit it (ride name only) to [email protected]. The executive board will determine if it qualifies and if it does, we will put it in the ride calendar for you.
Now, let’s say that you want to lead Tour de Blast on Saturday, June 21. Challenging ride with stunning views. Well, you can’t, because it conflicts with the Gorge Ride on the same date, a protected non-PBC ride already approved for club mileage. Regardless, it’s not nice to have two of these kinds of rides on the same day, or even weekend, so get that out of your head and select another one. Please.
Here are a couple of ideas: 1) Ride the Rim, Saturday, 9/6 or 9/13; 2) The Vineyard Tour, Sunday, 10/5.
We are looking forward to hearing from you. Really.
Rob Schroeder, Road Captain
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* Date conflict: The RACC occurs on the same date as Bud Rice’s club ride Manzanita/Nehalem Bay/Tillamook Weekend.