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Bike Carson End of the Year Celebration

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Come join us for an End of the Year Celebration! Bike Carson and Muscle Powered will be gathering at Doppelgangers on Wednesday, December 16th, to celebrate a very successful year!

Beer!
Join us for Pizza and Beer at Doppelgangers!

The Muscle Powered Board of Directors will meet from 6:30 to 7:30, reviewing our many accomplishments for the year. We’ll also talk a bit about the coming year and our board, in preparation for the January annual meeting. The board meeting is open to any member (or prospective members) of Muscle Powered, not just board members, so if you’ve been wanting to find out more about what we do and who does it, come find out. There’s plenty of room at Doppelgangers, so show up when you please (you don’t have to wait until 7:30 if you’re not interested in the meeting).

Following, there will be a Bike Carson & Muscle Powered end-of-year celebration with pizza and beer. Hang out with your friends and make new ones! I’m sure there will be stories of road biking and mountain biking and walking and hiking, and much gloating and dreaming over the coolest bikes.

Bikes at the Ice Skating Rink
What’s under your tree?

Doppelgangers is at 302 N Carson St, in downtown. We aren’t going to make formal reservations for the pizza time, but if you let us know you are coming, we can clue in the staff and help them serve us better.

Bike Carson Welcomes New Belgium Brewing

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By now you’ve probably seen the New Belgium Brewing advertising banner at the top of BikeCarson.com. It’s my pleasure to welcome New Belgium Brewing as Bike Carson’s first sponsor!

So why does Bike Carson need sponsorship? As a reader, you may not know all the stuff that happens behind the scenes to keep a website running. A blog post may only take a few minutes to read, but there is a lot of time spent bringing the content to the reader. Thankfully, most of it is enjoyable; the riding, photography, and writing. There is also a lot of time spent on site administration, research, and promotion; the overhead in addition to the content. And finally there are the fees required to bring the whole package together; site hosting, image hosting, cameras, and other gear.

Rather than fill the site with random ads for products I’ve never heard of or haven’t used, I’ve chosen to partner with companies that make great products and have good business practices. New Belgium definitely falls under this category. In addition to making a wide variety of great tasting beers, New Belgium sponsored Carson City’s 2009 Bike to Work Week Party, and helped Muscle Powered raise money for local bicycle advocacy. New Belgium also puts on fun bicycle events such as the Tour de Fat. Additionally, New Belgium has a great record of sustainable business practices.

So if you like what you see here on BikeCarson.com, please take time to visit the New Belgium Winter Folly page by clicking this link or the banner above. Check out their delicious seasonal winter brew “Two Below”, watch a video, and buy some New Belgium Glassware (as pictured in the photo above).

Thanks for reading, and cheers!

Bike and Brew Tour Crosses Nevada

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Back in September, I posted that the Bike and Brew Tour was leaving Brooklyn, NY, and that they’d be touring the country, stopping at as many breweries along the way as they could.  The crew has finally reached Nevada, and will be in Reno/Sparks this Friday!

On the morning of Wednesday the 21st, they were in Battle Mountain, setting their destination for Mill City (not really even much of a town…), or further down the road to Rye Patch Reservoir State Park, a more desirable place to camp.

One of the problems with crossing Nevada is the great distances between towns. The best destinations to camp and get water may be too far for a day’s ride, or the opposite, they might not be a long enough ride for the day, putting you too far away from the next day’s destination.

Cyclists aren’t the first to face this dilemma, and actually have it pretty easy compared to early settlers of the 1800s. One particular section of the route, which today is along the I-80 corridor, is called the forty mile desert. According to the Nevada Historic Preservation website,

Starvation for men and animals stalked every mile. A survey made in 1850 showed these appalling statistics: 1,061 dead mules, almost 5,000 horses, 3,750 cattle and 953 graves. The then-value of personal property lost was set at $1,000,000.

Luckily, today’s non-motorized traveler can expect much better odds!

The Bike and Brew Tour heads to Fernely, NV on Thursday (10/22), and I hear they are still looking for a place to stay. If you have a floor or yard where they can camp, that would be great. On Friday, they plan to ride to the Great Basin Brewery for a tour and tasting. If you have the time, go join them! If you’d like to ride with them for part of their journey, there’s an invitation for that as well. They’ve found a place to stay in Stead Friday night, and from there, the journey continues over the mountains to the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico.

To check on the Bike and Brew Tour’s latest progress, check out their Twitter Page twitter.com/bikeandbrew.

Bike Events this Weekend

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Rest up on Saturday, because there’s a lot going on this Sunday! Whether you’re into slow urban cruising around the streets of Reno and Sparks, or mountain biking the High Sierra, you’ll find plenty to do this weekend.

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Gonads-n-Strife Poker Run 2009

Reno’s famous cruiser ride is back again, the Gonads-n-Strife Fall Poker Run. From the Gonads-n-Strife website, “Don’t be fooled by knockoffs, this is the original gonads-n-strife bike club bicycle poker run you’ve come to know and love, with high hand winning the one and only New Belgium Fat Tire Cruiser! This Fall we promise even more great raffle prizes and as usual a fantastic fun filled day of cycling! See you there!” More on the G&S website HERE.


Galena Fest 2009

Galena Fest 2009 – And now for the mountain biking. On September 27, 2009 Reno community members will be gathering at Galena Creek Regional Park for the outdoor fundraiser, Galena Fest.

Galena Fest focuses on two major mountain bike races, The Bloody Rose – nearly 12 miles and 4,000 feet and The Thorn – an easier 5 mile ride. There are also several other family friendly events including mountain bike races for kids, a sand castle contest, beer provided by Buckbean Brewery and a barbecue.

For more information visit www.renogalenafest.com and a press release covering the event at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/09/prweb2836224.htm

Bikes & Brews

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TUESDAY AUGUST 11th, 5:30

The last couple of Tuesdays we didn’t do too much riding, so I’ll stop calling this a cruiser ride. Bikes & Brews (thanks Jeff) is more like it. If you would like to join us for a few post work brews, pedal down to Dopplegangers at 5:30.

Buy the Bike Carson contributors a round of drinks and you may get a chance to win a dream date with this Carson City loco.
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Hope to see you there.

Tuesday Night Cruiser Ride

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Last Tuesday’s ride started out quite refreshing with the group huddled under a patio umbrella attempting to keep the rain from refilling our beer glasses.

Bianchi Milano
Summer Rain

We’ll meet again at Dopplegangers for $2 brews and possibly a little grub. After the Downtown Cruiser Crit we’ll pedal over to Brugos? Feisty Goat? or both.

See ya there.

Meet Tuesday, August 4th, at 5:30.

Beer!
Doppelgangers $2 Brews!