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Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

643.0. ""Big Event" bike ride ..." by DELNI::GRACE (Amazin' Grace) Mon May 02 1988 15:40

    Did the "Big Event" bike ride happen yesterday in Concord Center? 
    I had a note on my calendar that it was going to happen on April
    30, but never found the base note to confirm it. Does anyone know
    about what happened to it? Did I dream it?
    
    				Russ
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643.1MOSAIC::WASSERJohn A. WasserMon May 02 1988 15:509
>    Did the "Big Event" bike ride happen yesterday in Concord Center? 

	The event did occur... I was there from 7am to 5pm.  There
	were many bargains to be had at the tag sale (The Big Event)
	and the weather was nice enough that many people went on the
	rides.

				Your host,
				John A. Wasser
643.2i'm sure it was more fun than raking ...DELNI::GRACEAmazin' GraceMon May 02 1988 16:196
    Thanks, John!
    
    BTW, do you know what note that was in? I couldn't find it for the
    life of me!
    
    
643.3use dir/title="{string}"EUCLID::PAULHUSChris @ MLO 8-3/T13 dtn 223-6871Wed May 04 1988 12:0421
    	To find things like this, do a search of topic titles.
    
    Example:   Notes>  dir/title="Big"
    
    From this you will see that on Feb. 1, I posted the notice for the
    Big Event.   
    
    Since I need blue skys to get me going, I didn't make it, but I
    heard that it was a success with 45, count 'em, 45 used bikes being
    sold!  This is turning into quite THE bike swap meet for the area.
    It happens every other year, as something to do when there's no
    NEAR.  And speaking of NEAR, the officers of the Narraganset Bay
    Wheelmen (The R.I. club) refuse to support a NEAR in their area
    and will not be a host club for the event.  I'm resigning from NBW
    and will give serious thought to future TFCE's. Creeps.  The NEAR
    board is going down to UConn on 5/14 to check it out.  We'll need
    to get Conn. bike clubs involved if this is going to work.  I've
    volunteered to map a mid-distance ride if UConn is used 'cuz I'm
    sure they will have problems finding people with local knowledge.
       Thank god the warm weather has finally hit New England. - Chris
    
643.4MEWVAX::AUGUSTINEWed May 04 1988 17:588
    chris, could you please translate the following for those of us who
    don't come with built-in acronym tables?
    
     > I'm resigning from NBW and will give serious thought to future TFCE's.

    
    thanks
    liz
643.5NBW & TFCE = GrrrrENGINE::PAULHUSChris @ MLO 8-3/T13 dtn 223-6871Thu May 05 1988 13:1119
    re. .4   Sorry Liz,  brevity gets the best of me at times:
    NBW	= Narragansett Bay Wheelmen, the big R.I. club that puts on
    TFCE = The Flattest Century in the East.
       I've heard that the NBW board think they have such a good thing
    going in the TFCE - a Major money-maker for NBW - that they refused
    to support NEAR.  I could say more, but it may be libelous - contact
    me personally for details.  I've worked on NEARs since '82, always
    representing myself as a member of NVP, the local club, and NBW,
    which I joined years ago since I thought TFCE was such a great event.
    I am much ticked that the officers of NBW have taken such a small
    minded attitude.  NBW could easily be the host club for NEAR - they
    were the host club for LAW's Centinial meeting in '80 and already
    have the experience of working with URI and have rides mapped. 
    Howard Stone, the rides director for NBW is the good guy in this
    mess - he worked on NEAR '87 with us and championed NEAR '89 in
    NBW.  He got many individual supporters in NBW, but couldn't budge
    their board.  Grrrrrr!  No more TFCEs for me! (And I'll try to persuade
    my friends not to go, either as a protest to NBW.)  - Chris
    o