Former Olympian and World Champion Alison Dunlap will be Madison on June 7-8 for the ninth-annual Women’s Dirt Retreat, a two-day women’s only mountain biking clinic. Registration is limited to only 35 women and a few spots are still open for the clinic, which is sponsored by the Mad FORCs, at Blackhawk Ski Club in Middleton.

Cost is only $100, which includes food and a door prize.

For event details or to register, log on to www.madforcs.org or email Renee at rccallaway@sbcglobal.net

Ther jerseys arrived and look great. If you placed an order we’ll get the goods into your hands as soon as possible. I’ll be riding The Farm on Monday and camping at Blue Mound next weekend. I’ll post ride times and make sure the jerseys are with me.

Quick recap of upcoming events:

-Workday at Cam-Rock, 8am, 5/31

-Group ride at Blue Mound 3pm on 5/31 and 10am on 6/1

-Camping at Blue Mound on the night of 5/31

-REI Trails Day project at Blue Mound on 6/7

We will be starting up regular weekly group rides next week. Tuesday night at The Farm and Thursday night at Quarry Ridge. 6pm start time with early or late starters more than welcome. We’ll repeat these rides all summer!

See you on the trails,

Scott Baryenbruch

CORP President

Wanna send out a big THANKS to Greg, Jeff, Jeremy and Bear for job well done!

Before and after photos.

Let’s meet at the Badger Prairie shelter for our monthly meeting. 7pm start with a lap or two at Quarry ridge before and/or after. This is a planning meeting for our summer events (Race, IMBA visit, weekly rides, etc.).

Map to meeting location: http://tinyurl.com/555lx4

On Friday May 9th the East Side Trek Store put on event to benefit the BFW.  Gary Fisher was in attendance to meet and greet people, Trader Joe’s showed up with a bunch of good food too.  We hung out at the store for an hour or so, many people bought raffle tickets for a Gary Fisher Monona commuter bike they were giving away.  I talked to Gary for a couple minutes, and he autographed my ‘96 Big Sur hardtail.

 We finally got together outside and mounted up on bikes, maybe 250 people or so.  I was riding a borrowed Trek Lime with coaster brake, 4-speed auto gearbox, and a seat big enough for a 400 pounder.  Quite the experience, I don’t think I’ll be getting one of those to replace my Epic.  We took a police escorted ride to Eastgate Cinema for a screening of Klunkerz, the new movie about the people and places important in the origin of moutain biking.  They had set up bike racks outside the theater for our rides, and someone stayed out to watch them so they didn’t even need to be locked.  There was even free popcorn and soda for us on the way in.

 The movie was really cool, you should see it.  I purchased a copy on DVD if we want to watch it after a CORP meeting sometime.  After the movie, Gary did a Q&A for maybe 45 minutes, and then they raffled off the bike (I didn’t win, no surprise there!).  Then we all rode back to the store.  The event was a really good time, and I wish I would have seen some of you guys there.  Big thanks to everyone that helped put on the event.