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Ride Schedule is updated for Fall/Winter

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Upcoming Events

November 6th - Turn your clocks back!
November 14th - BVC meeting at The Fat Frogg in Elon starting from 6pm to 8pm
November 18th - Tanglewood Festival of Lights
November 24th - Happy Thanksgiving!

Guest SpeakerOn Monday, November 14, at 6 PM, Carrie Phillips and Hunter Walsh of the Alamance County Department of Social Services will make a presentation to the Burlington Velo Club at the Fat Frogg Restaurant in Elon.

Ms. Phillips is a Family Assessor and Mr. Walsh is an In Home Services Provider for the Child Protective Services Department. Both of these presenters graduated from Appalachian State University and each has approximately ten years service in the child services field.

The presentation will give a brief overview of the agency’s family assessment, in home services, and foster care programs. Hopefully, this information will give BVC a better understanding of how the club can support some of the children that Alamance County DSS serves.

Information from Active.com for Cyclists

Cyclocross 101

For cyclocross rookies, here's a breakdown on the basics of this fast-paced combination of mountain biking and road cycling (with a little bit of running thrown in for good measure):

What is cyclocross?
Cyclocross is a cross between road racing and mountain biking. Competitors race laps around a course featuring a variety of surfaces (pavement, grass, sand, gravel, dirt, etc.) while negotiating a number of obstacles that may require them to dismount and remount their bicycle.

Beginning in the fall and running through the winter months, cyclocross used to be mostly popular for off-season training, but has become a very popular sport in its own right. Races are very exciting to watch because they consist of adrenalin-filled laps around short courses—typically less than two miles in length.

How is a cyclocross bike different from a road bike?
Cyclocross bicycles are lightweight but durable. They feature mountain bike-style clip-in pedals, which allow racers to wear shoes they can run in when they are forced to dismount. Wider, knobby tires provide better traction on all surfaces and cantilevered brakes allow clearance for those wide tires when they become clogged with mud.

Want to know more? Visit www.active.com.

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