Mileage Challenge

The National Mileage Challenge has four categories of competition: Team, Community, Workplace, and State. Our GCC Team is currently NUMBER ONE in the USA! We have work to do to get the Gainesville Community up in the rankings, and also the University of Florida. When you sign up for the Challenge, you automatically join your community and state, but must specify your Team and Workplace. Make sure you specify Gainesville Cycling Club as your Team, and if you are associated with UF, University of Florida as your workplace.

Signing up is easy. Just go to http://nationalbikechallenge.org/ and follow the directions. Make sure you bookmark the signin page to make it easy to go back to record your daily mileage numbers.

Over 900 of you receiving this newsletter are not signed up yet! Imagine what we can do if everyone gets on board. The scoring system gives us 20 points just for getting out and riding each day; each mile then adds an additional point. If you only ride one mile, we get 21 points; if everyone does it, points will add up quickly.

Memorial Day Picnic

Don't forget to RSVP for the Memorial Day Picnic at Hart Springs. Go to the Members Area to RSVP if you haven't already done so, and to see full details about the event.

ACEL Bikes de Mayo

Cycle to the High Dive on Sunday (May 26) to celebreate National Bike Month with the Alachua County Emerging Leaders' (ACEL) Bikes de Mayo social event!

ACEL Bikes de Mayo is a fundraiser for ACEL's advocacy initiative to have air pumps installed at or around the new bike racks currently planned for downtown Gainesville!

Profits from the ACEL Bikes de Mayo event will fund the equipment and installation costs for the air pumps. Food and live music will be included in the ticket price and drink specials will be available for attendees. The cost is for members and for future members. Click here to purchase tickets.

Help ACEL support our local community with this advocacy camapign! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Alachua County Emerging Leaders is a nonprofit, member-led organization of professionals between the ages of 21 and 45 who are interested in leadership, networking and service opportunities.

Veto Hits Bike Trail

from Ted Wendler

Gov. Rick Scott vetoed more than million in spending from the Florida's 2013-14 budget, using his line-item authority to strike out scores of projects ranging from a million coast-to-coast bike trail to tens of millions in college and university tuition.

Scott's extensive veto list is more than twice as large as his list last year, and his largest since his first year in office. It slashed state spending from .5 million to .1 million.

One of Scott's largest veto items: million for the state's Coast-to-Coast connector, a bike trail stretching from St. Petersburg to Titusville. Scott said his Transportation Work Program already includes more than million in statewide funding for transit greenway projects, and that the connector could be completed over time.

"The worthwhile project contemplated by the Coast-to-Coast connector," Scott wrote, "can be built incrementally and consistent with a prioritization of gaps in the existing trail system."

Extracted from tampabay.com

On the News Page

Longer articles currently available on the News Page in the Members Area:

* 8th Avenue Project
* County Transportation Summit
* Mending Roads (a poem)
* Bicycle Headphones - Are they Safe and Legal?

GCC Store

Items currently available in the GCC Store:

Men's jerseys, size L, shorts, size L

Women's jerseys, sizes M, L, XL

Waterbottles, whistles

Coming soon: HubBub mirrors

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