Trail work on Monday June 2nd at 5:30 p.m. at Plum Creek- Membership Drive 2014

Trail Work

This years first trail work session will be this Monday June 2^nd at River Bluffs trail (Plum Creek) at 5:30pm.  Meet at the entrance to the park compost site (white gates).  Significant mowing and trimming will be needed.  Long pants, and gloves are recommended.

Membership Drive 2014 

Dear Fellow Cyclist:

The 2014 MMCC Membership drive is now in effect.  Please bring in the attached form and associated payment to either Revolution Cycle and Ski or Fitzharris Bike and Sport to get your 2014 membership goodies and support the trails.

As in previous years we are focusing our efforts on maintaining trails for cyclists and providing riding opportunities.  Riding opportunities exist on the road on Tuesday and Thursday nights from Revolution and Fitzharris.   Fall off road group rides are pending. 

With regard to trail work we are looking for a handful of volunteers that can pick 2 dates this summer and/or early fall and lead trail work at River Bluffs (plum creek).  Volunteers need to have a vehicle that can pull the club trailer, have participated in previous sessions to have knowledge of the trail and be able to lead the work session and delegate volunteers to the correct areas.  In addition volunteers will need to get fuel and beverages for the event (to be reimbursed).  If you are interested in doing this please email back.  We are looking to fill a schedule of summer mowing every other week.

There also is the opportunity for a MN High School League team from the area.  If anyone is interested in leading this please let us know.

We also are looking for volunteers to work on a free ride section at River Bluffs.  If you are interested in working on these please email back.

We are pleased to announce that the majority of the N. Loop is now open for riding.  A short section of 2 way trail exists to allow for the opening.  Please as always respect closed portion of the trail, and encourage other cyclists to become members to support the trails.  Without membership dollars the trails would not be possible.  Plum Creek is expected to open shortly.

Thanks for your continued support of trails and cycling in mid MN.

Best regards,

MMCC

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St. Cloud Bike Park Meeting #2

Hello Mid Mn Cycling Club members! 

Passing along some more info regarding the St. Cloud Bike Park Meeting #2 for Jon.  Please reach out to him if you have interest in making this a reality and share this with others who ride.

Happy New Year!

MMCC

Hey guys,

Thanks to everyone that made it out! Here's the playlist I made with the videos I showed in case you guys would like to check them out again.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiqelW6Oci6QLGWFVpMGBvzbrXbsIdIDh


I reserved space at the Library again for another meeting. This time we can discuss possible features, locations, and other issues that will come up. I will try to reach out to the BMX Community to get some of them to show up too. Let me know if this works for you, if a bunch of you can't make it we can reschedule!

Here's the info:

St Cloud Public Library
Room: Mississippi Community Room 106
Date(s): Thursday, January 09, 2014
Time: 6:30-Til we're done

Please forward this along to anyone else you think might be interested.

Thanks again!

Jon "LT" Theis

320.310.1368

Hello All!

Winter is here!  I hope everyone is enjoying it as much as they can.  Snowbiking, skiing, snowshoeing, whatever your passion, enjoy!  Please remember that we close the North Loop to biking in the winter.  Plum Creek is open to winter riding, my hope is that we can get this packed and have great riding all winter down there.

I am passing along some info from Jon, he's hosting an information meeting regarding a Bike Park for St. Cloud! 

Happy Winter!

MMCC

Hello,

Just wanted to let you know that I'm holding an informational Bike Park meeting at the St Cloud Library in the Bremer Room next Tuesday night. December 17th, 7:30-8:30. I have a presentation and I will also be gathering information. I would love to see someone from your organization there!

Thanks

Jon Theis

Pre-Riding the Single Track Escape

Attention MnMtbSeries racers, The Single Track Escape Race Course will be closed Friday evening and Saturday to pre-riding as a MN HS MTB race will be taking place and then our race course set up will be taking place Saturday evening. Please make plans to ride earlier in the week. Thank you! We look forward to hosting the Mn Mtb Series Finals again this year! The track is in great shape and we're looking forward to some awesome racing this weekend. See you soon!

Race Week!

Hello all!

We are in the home stretch of the big race weekend!  Please find a way to help out as all the proceeds from this event go directly BACK TO THE TRAILS in St. Cloud.

Here is a quick shake down of what is going on this week.

Tuesday (17th): Trail work, 5:30 at the North Loop.
Friday (20th): race set up at the North Loop, starting around 2.
Saturday(21st): High School race, volunteers needed for numerous positions, mostly the concessions.  We hope to have the grills fired up by 11 and word is there will be 300+ hungry racers so if you have some time please stop by and help out.
Sunday (22nd): Our race.  Lots of help needed: parking, registration, on course Marshall's, finish chute, food sales, raffle sales, etc.  Please come lend a hand if you can.  There are two shifts 8-12, 12 to 4.

Email if you have any questions.  kyiabikes@msn.com, bpdoom@hotmail.com

Also, if you can't help out please consider making some baked goods for us to sell at the concessions on Saturday and Sunday.  Bring them wrapped in single servings and ready to go.  We plan to see this for $1.00 a piece so make it a good portion.  Drop off at Revolution Friday and Saturday if you can't make it to the race venue.

Thanks again for all of your help to make this weekend happen! 

The race courses (North Loop) will be closed on Friday mid afternoon through all day Saturday so please get out there and do your pre-race laps earlier this week.

MMCC

Trail work Tuesday the 17th at 5:30

Hello all!

The final stretch coming into our race weekend.  We have a few things we need to clean up on Tuesday night to get our race course in tip top shape.  Please come out and help out as this weekend Sept 21 and 22nd is our big fundraiser for the trails.

Meet up at the trail head at 5:30.  Cold beverages will be provided!

We will also need volunteers throughout the weekend so please plan to help out if you can on Sept 22nd or for setup on the 21st.  Volunteer slots will be out soon.

If you can't volunteer please make up some baked goods to go along with our concession stand on Sunday.  We will be charging $1.00 per goody and if you could have it wrapped separately that would be fantastic!  Drop off at Revolution Cycle and Ski on Friday or Saturday for use Sunday or bring to the North Loop on Sunday.

Thank you and hope to see you on Tuesday night and at the races next weekend!

MMCC

Update

Nate, Mike R. and Sam placing a piece of wood in the re built switch back on Skid Row.

We had a great crew show up for trail work last night!  It was hot and humid and everyone was eager to dig in and get some work done.  So a HUGE Thank you to Mike R. , Mike S., Sam, Nate, John S., Kyia, Ben D, and 2 SCSU dudes!   

The Sport Spur and Lay It Down got brushed and we got the first switch back on Lay It Down re-built.  There will be more work nights to finish this re-model after the race.

A big shout out to Jeff Bauerly for donating some Class 5 rock for our construction efforts.  So Thanks to Jeff and Knife River!

Things are looking super sharp for the race's on the 21st and 22nd.   We will have a volunteer email coming out soon so please consider helping out as this is our big fundraising weekend!