Annual Meeting Sign Up

Saturday, March 8

5 to 9 pm, Holy Faith Catholic Church Social Hall, 747 NW 43rd St.

Meal catered by Reggae Shack
Brown Stew Chicken
Curry Chicken
Curry Tempeh
Rice & Peas
Steamed Cabbage
Plantains
Coconut Cupcakes (vegan)

We will provide soda pop, ice tea, wine, and beer.

Cost to attend the event is $8 per person for GCC members. This fee covers rent for the room, beverages, the meal, and incidentals. It is heavily subsidized by the club.

Mail your check with the member number of each attendee in the memo to:

Gainesville Cycling Club Meeting
5015 NW 19th Place
Gainesville FL 32605

OR pay here with PayPal in the Members Area.

Cost for non-member guests is $25 and must be sent by mail.

RSVP Deadline is Friday (March 7) at 3 pm. Mail must be received by Thursday to be counted.

Special Event: Concours d' Elegance
Bring your “special” bike to compete for an award in the Eighth Annual Concours d' Elegance. Members will vote for the winner in four categories:

Modern Road - must be a bike in current use by a member on club rides
Presentation - any beautiful bike
Antique - manufactured before 1989
Commuter - a bike used regularly for commuting to work, school, or for shopping - to be eligible, the bike must be ridden to the meeting!

Due to space limitations in the hall, limit one bike per member entered in the competition.

Dress is as casual as the weather permits.

Bike Florida 20th Anniversary Celebration

Join us at the Fountain of Youth

Why:  To celebrate Bike Florida's 20th anniversary and raise funds for the restoration of the sculptures for fallen cyclists on the Depot Avenue Trail in Gainesville.
When:  Thursday, March 27, 4:30 pm to 9 pm.
Where:  Fountain of Youth Archeological Park in St. Augustine.
Pre-Register:  (includes dinner if registered by March 7)
Day of Event:  admission (dinner by a la carte payment only)

Register Now! Click on this link.

Free admission for BF20 Tour riders, a la carte dinner for non-meal plan riders.

The final installment of the Gainesville Brevet Series is the 400k (248 miles), on March 8.

Click here for more information.

Registration is now open for the Ride To Remember.

3rd Annual Heartbreaker Cycling Invitational

The Heartbreaker Cycling Invitational is a 65 mile bicycle ride in Gainesville Florida / Alachua County. Come prepared, this ride will break you. Cyclocross bikes recommended, leave the road bikes at home.

Day: Sunday, March 23, 2014
Time: 9:30am meet, 9:45am rollout.

See the Facebook page for full information.

2013 Video

Transportation Forum Endorses City Candidates

The Center for Innovation and Economic Development (CIED) at Santa Fe College lives in the heart of downtown Gainesville’s incubator hub.  It was designed to foster innovation, entrepreneurialism, and big ideas.

Monday night, it got all that and more.

Gainesville Citizens for Active Transportation (GCAT) hosted a Candidate Forum for the City Commission races that will be decided on March 11th and in early voting.  The Gainesville Cycling Club (GCC) is 1100 members strong.  GCC joined GCAT in a double debut candidate forum.

The GCAT Candidate endorsements are unanimously for Susan Bottcher, District 3; and unanimously for Helen K. Warren, At-Large Seat 2.  The majority vote to endorse Sheryl Eddie (District 2) was 7 for, 1 against, and 1 abstaining.

Nine of the ten candidates for District 2, District 3, and At-Large Seat 2 honored a packed house and three media representatives with a lively debate about the future of Gainesville, its families, and the environment (Craig Carter was ill).

One question stated, “Transportation is something we all do together, no matter where we are from, our age, our gender, what we ride or drive, or our culture.”

Most of the candidates seemed to agree that some kind of multi-modal approach was wise.  While there were differences, this was the most agreeable of meetings in a City Candidate forum in years.  Multi-modalism is hot.  Transit is good and needs expanding.  Bike-ped is on the table.  Complete Streets got a warm reception.

GCAT and GCC advocates generally argued that research, experience, local projects, and personal anecdotes favored a more multi-modal approach.

GCAT was in line to make endorsements after the meeting.  GCC is waiting until a Board Meeting this Sunday, March 2.

Cycling Tourism and Dissertation Help

Hi fellow GCC members,

I need your help to improve cycling tourism!!

I am a doctoral candidate and cyclist at the University of Florida studying cycling tourism and I am currently conducting research for my dissertation on how cyclists create lifestyles based on travel to participate in sport events.

The purpose of this study is to explore how amateur athletes engage in active sport tourism. The results of the study may help cyclists attend cycling events while improving the organization and planning of cycling events for event managers, tourism boards and cycling organizations.

So, what do I need from you? 

First, I need to find out more about your cycling tourism behavior. So, if you are 18 or older, have traveled to a cycling event to participate and would like to take part in my study please complete this brief 10-15 minute online survey: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5pvzHOJ0qL6tBel

Second, I need your help distributing my survey to everyone and anyone that has ever traveled to participate in a cycling event. How can you help in this regard? Share/re-tweet my posts and other's posts regarding the study. Do you have connections to other cycling listservs, groups or organizations? Even a connection to a cycling personality with a lot of followers would be helpful. If, so please let me know!

If you would like to find out more about the study or my research in sport tourism, please contact me at: rbuning@ufl.edu or (352)294-1679. 

Lastly, thank you again for all your help with my preliminary study I conducted last summer, I couldn't be this far without the help I received from the GCC!

Thank you!
Rick Buning
GCC member since 2010