Conference noted::bicycle

        See topic 248 for a recent discussion, and topic 97 for what
        seems to be the most recent DEC BIKE CLUB Newsletter.
        
        Tom

    
    Seems to me that the "DEC bike club" died a slow death.  To start
    it up again takes the people to handle the red tape associated with
    it.  I'd love to "join", but I don't really have time to help organize
    it...
    
    Stew
    

        I suspect that, to some extent, the advent of VAX Notes has
        mitigated the need for a separate "DEC Bike Club", as this
        conference provides a good communication medium (alleviating
        the need for a newsletter).
        
        If we could identify the benefits that a DEC Bike Club would
        provide, over and above communications and organizing events
        (something that can be done through a conference much easier
        than before the existence of Notes), perhaps a ground swell
        of interest would appear.
        
        Tom

    
    Steve's Mass Transit, a bike shop in Marlboro, gives 10% (on certain
    items) to DEC bike club members... I wonder how he varifies if you're
    a memeber or not.
    
    Melanie

    
    
>    Steve's Mass Transit, a bike shop in Marlboro, gives 10% (on certain
>    items) to DEC bike club members... I wonder how he varifies if you're
>    a memeber or not.
 
    Some of us still are card carrying members.       
    Others have DEC id badges.                        
    Others have honest faces.                         
    Then there's Reg. 
    I'd give him a discount just to keep him coming round my shop,
    what with him making biking look so nice and easy.

    re .3	Yes, and its somewhat of a sad commentary that we no
    longer have the "need" to get together and swap bike_lore.  That
    was at least half the excuse for the rides, now we know each other
    electronically and hardly have the need to meet, very sad.  This
    is where I usually launch into a tirade about people not getting
    any live music or theatre or.... but I'll pass it up for now {sullen grrr}
    
    	Re .5	C'mon;  Steve & I are like  "this"  together, no, not
    like  "that",  like  "this".  Didn't I enter the topic about his
    new store ?   Not that I bought anything there that night, what's
    10% off of $0.00 anyway ?

    	Reg  {riding alone a lot this year}
    
    

        Seems to me that in the new scheme of things, riding a bike
        and having a DEC employee badge makes you a de facto DEC bike
        club member, no?
        
        I agree with Reg about the part on getting together, but I
        wonder whether we might even be getting together more, if on
        a more impromptu basis, in the new scheme of things?  Do the
        correspondents in this conference get together and ride, BS,
        or whatever as a side effect of the conference?  If so, then
        it's taken the formality of a DEC Bike Club with organized
        events and replaced it with the informality of a conference
        and disorganized events.
        
        Some people need the structure, I suppose...  Others are more
        comfortable without it.
        
        Tom

    I'm having a lot more fun with the notes file version of the Bike
    Club than I ever had with the real thing.  If it ever warms up again,
    we'll get inspired to do more rides together.  We'll just put notices
    in here and see who shows up.  It's so much easier to make it informal
    like this than to try to keep a formal club going.  And this way,
    once we do meet one another, it feels like we already know each
    other.
    
    re .6  Reg - I'd be happy to ride with you, except I can't keep
    up with you!  If you rode in today, I'll ride home with you. (or
    more likely behind you)
    
    Kathy

    re .8	Arrrrhh !    My bluff is called !   I have a cold. 
    I needed to haul some stuff today, so I had to bring the car.
    I may have to go up to Littleton at a moments notice this afternoon.
    The left pedal has started to seize up (yeah, on all four bikes).
    My water bottle needs cleaning out with bleach again (orange juice
    dregs from 3 weeks ago have gone critical)
    The weather man said snow (err, by saturday, and it was a maybe,
    but you can't be too careful when you have a cold, see above).
    I'm having lunch with the boss today, so am suit clad (he's a scruff_bag).
    My knees have been hurting again.  I misplaced my helmet.  
    My wheels need trueing.  The back tires been getting squishey lately,
    I think it has a slow leak, you never know when it might let go.
    My chain needs cleaning.  See also  MENTOR::REG [BIKING] EXCUSE$_OTHER.LIS.

	R
    

    	I hope we have a DEC Bike club 'cuz I need a way to use LKG
    as the start point of a ride I want to do in August.  In the past,
    I've used this stratagem to start a Metric Century from LJO.  So
    please, don't anyone fuss when I say that the August ride is
    co-sponsored by NVP and the DEC Bike Club. 
    	It may be a popular ride - somewhere between a Metric and a
    full Century. The route will be: from LKG - to Kimbells - to Bates
    - to Vermont Creamery in Concord - to Ericksons - to Heberts - maybe
    a detour to Hudson somewhere here - mabye the place in Berlin -
    to a place in Lunenberg - to a place in Townsend - to a place in
    Hollis - to Dr. Davis's - to Andersons's - to LKG.  Needless to
    say, it will be called The Ice Cream Century.   - Chris
    

An Ice Cream Century [it's my personal name]  --

	SIGN ME UP


		~Mike

    I was just at Gamache's Bike shop in Fitchburg and he gives 10%
    discounts (except bikes) to DEC bike club members.  He does want
    to see a membership card though...
    
    Does anyone have the old membership cards?  If so, how do I get
    one.  He mentioned Kathy Norton's name.  Do you have them Kathy?
    
    If joining this conference is the equivalant of joining the bike club,
    maybe we could add a postscipt file which prints membership cards.
    
    /Jim Pappas

I think he gives 10% discounts to members of any bicycle club

    I've still got about 100 membership cards left.  If anybody's
    interested, send me mail including your mailstop, and I'll send
    one to you.
    
    Re .12 - How would we go about setting up a postscript file to print
    membership cards?  I think that's a great idea.  This notesfile
    really IS the DEC bike club now.