Record Turn out for Pedal The Kettle

With the excellent weather predicted for the weekend, it looks like we (Spring City Spinners) could be on track for a record turn out for our fund raiser Century "Pedal The Kettle". Along with a Century option there are also ~30 and ~64 mile options.
Registration will start at 7:00AM and then will close at the following times for the different route options;
8AM - Close for 100 mile option
9AM - Close for 64 mile option
10AM - Close for the 30 mile option

We hope that everyone has a safe and enjoyable ride.

Barns of the Pedal The Kettle

In posts on my primary blog I've mentioned that, as a kid, I spent a lot of time on my Grandparents farm. So the first time that I road the Pedal The Kettle route, I saw several farms that reminded me of those childhood days visiting the working farm. Today I decided to ride part of the PTK route and take some pictures of the barns on some of those farms. Here are of few of those pictures.







There are many more barns on the route, some in better shape than other, but it's a very scenic ride.
Hope to see you at this years Pedal The Kettle - Sept. 21st, 2008 - Waukesha, WI
As a member of the club I won't be riding that day, I'll be helping out at one of the rest stops (probably the Rome stop just before the 60 and 100 mile routes split).

Safe riding all

Posting to the Google Group

James mentioned that there was a question about how to post on the Google group that we use as our forum. There are a couple of different ways to post messages;

1) You can use your email to composed a message and send that email to scspinners@googlegroups.com
If you have a problem with this method, just let me know, I might have to re-invite you to the group.

2) You can login using your google account at http://groups.google.com/group/scspinners and use the (+ new post) button.
If you don't have a google account you can create one with your existing email address (you don't need a gmail account). Just go to https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount and enter your email address, a password and you should be on your way.

Hope that helps, if not and you still have a question, then just ask.

Safe riding all

A La Grange Weekend

Both of our weekend rides start near the General Store at the corner of U.S. Hwy 12 and County H. We meet in the parking lot to the west of the store (across Hwy H).


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The Saturday (May 10th) ride is the La Grange Exploratory - a 43-mile ride with many opportunities to shorten the distance. Generally, we ride westward to Milton before turning back towards La Grange.

The Sunday (May 11th) ride is the La Grange Figure 8 - you can pair this ride with the La Grange Exploratory (May 10th), and have little or no overlap. Ride options are approximately 20, 30 and 50 miles.

Don't forget, there's also the Tuesday and Thursday Show and Go rides every week.

Be sure to check the ride calendar on our webpage for start times and locations.