2nd Annual Global Fat Bike Day - Poker Ride and Membership Drive

MMCC Global Fat Bike Day - Poker Ride and Membership Drive

A fun and inclusive ride for all abilities featuring the trails in South and South East St. Cloud.  Come alone or bring a few friends to play along in our Poker Game!  The event is FREE!

When: December 1, 2018
Start Time: 10 a.m.
Start Location:  Beaver Island Paved Bike Trail - Plum Creek Trail Pavilion (Just behind FedEx)  Green Star on Map
Ride Time: ~2 hours.

Rules: Everyone will draw a card at the meet up spot; Plum Creek Pavilion on the Beaver Island Paved Trail (behind FedEx shipping location). Then you will navigate yourself on your Fat Bike to the 3 other locations on the South Side with a BONUS round on the South East Side of the Mississippi river. Keep your "hand" in a good location and then join us at the Beaver Island Tap Room at 6:30 p.m. for the final card draw and too see who the winner is!

Our get together at BIBCO will also be our Annual Membership Drive where we will have a stacked raffle with products donated from 45North, Onyx Racing Products, Fitzharris, Revolution Cycle and Ski and Beaver Island Brewery! 

Spooky Ride this Sunday!

Happy Fall!

Finally some nice Fall weather!

Join us on Sunday afternoon for a fun kids ride at the North Loop!

Wear a costume and come get spooked on Doom's Return!

This is very kid friendly and the "spooky" elements will be very simple and tame.  No need to scare kids to not like the woods! Think Casper The Friendly Ghost.

Where: North Loop Trail Head and Doom's Return

When: Sunday October 28th at 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

What: Kids Fun Ride

Why: It's Halloween and we can still ride our bikes

The club will provide treats.

Hope to see you all out there!

Attention Skiers

Like to Cross-Country Ski?  The Nordic Ski Club of Central MN invites you to their Fall Kick Off on Monday, October 1^st:  6:30-8:30 pm at the Lake George Municipal Complex Sunroom ( 1101 7^th St. S, St. Cloud).  Come to hear about all the activities planned as well as a presentation by local skiers Tolly Vollen and Molly Weyrens on their recent travels to Iceland and Sweden for ski races.  All are welcome!  You can sign up for membership at the meeting or by contacting Molly at nordicskiclubofcentralmn@gmail.com or on FB   at https://www.facebook.com/CentralMNNordicSkiClub/

Trail work this Wednesday night

Hello all!

We will be conducting some trail work at the North Loop this Wednesday night.  Mowing, trimming and cleaning out the eye pokers.

Time: 5:30 p.m.

What: Trail Work

Where: Meet at North Loop Trail Head

When: Wednesday, Sept. 4th

Hope to see you all there!  It would be great to have a good group to get the whole system cleaned up for the fall riding season!

MMCC

Volunteers needed for State Road Race in Richmond, MN on the 28th

The State Road Race

is coming to Richmond, MN again this year and the promoter is looking for volunteer course marshals on July 28th.  

If interested touch base with Mike Delany of Endurance Promotions.

endurancepromotions@gmail.com

Thank you!

North Loop Clean Up this Wednesday

We will be conducting trail work at the North Loop on Wednesday at 5:30 to remove several trees that came down in the storm, mow and clean up any other sticks and branches that came down in the 70 MPH winds.

Wednesday 7/11/18
5:30 p.m.
Meet at the Trail Head
Bring gloves and wear long pants and long sleeve shirts

Thank you and we hope to see you out there!

Race Ready!

Volunteers!  Our big day is here!  13th Annual Single Track Escape

 Arrive to the North Loop by 7:20 for our 7:30 shifts.  Please report to the tent to be assigned to your jobs. 

Shifts:

7:30-12:00

12:00-4:30

 

Race Start Times, Distances, Fees

Class	Start Time	Distance	# of Laps	Pre - Registration	Day of Registration
Kids Comp	9:00 AM	~ 2.4 mi	1/2 Lap	$13	$18
Citizen	9:30 AM	~ 6 mi	1 Lap	$24	$34
Marathon Open	10:50 AM	4 hours		$33	$44
Sport	11:00 AM	~ 12 mi	2 Laps	$29	$40
Kids Comp, Citizen Awards	11:15 AM
Kids Fun Race**	12:45 PM	~ 1/4 mi		Free**	Free**
Expert & Pro Men*	1:10 PM	~ 24 mi	4 Laps	$33	$44
Expert & Pro Women*	1:12 PM	~ 18 mi	3 Laps	$33	$44
Comp - SS/Fatbike/Age Groups	1:20 PM	~ 18 mi	3 Laps	$29	$40
All riders 18 and under	-	-	-	$18	$24
Sport, Marathon Awards	1:30 PM
Comp/SS/Fatbike & Elite Group Awards	3:45 PM

Big shout out to all of our volunteers who have helped get everything ready for this years Single Track Escape.  This is our 13th go around and we have everything dialed and ready to take on racers of all ages and abilities tomorrow!

Thanks to our generous sponsor Revolution Cycle and Ski of St. Cloud MN, we will be giving away two complete bikes in this years raffle. A Salsa Timberjack kids 24” and Timberjack NX1 adult bike will be raffled off in our fundraiser this year. Also all Kids Comp racers will get a free Jail Trail hat (until they are gone!) at the race. With the addition of our Kids Mud Puppies fun ride this year (Monday’s at 5:30) it is our way of showing the support of the Mid MN Cycling Club to youth cycling.  Raffle Tickets are $10.00

Also would like to thank Bernick's for beverages for our concession stand.