When: Tuesday, February 23.
Where: The Hume – Emporium Room
Who: Anyone is welcome!
When: Tuesday, February 23.
Where: The Hume – Emporium Room
Who: Anyone is welcome!
Directors meetings for the NCC literally came out of the living room, with great success. Fourteen members joined the six "official" directors at the first meeting of 2010 at the Hume Hotel Emporium Room on January 19, 2010. Enthusiasm was strong, ideas flew about the room and it looks like we are going to have one helluva bike season this year.
The meeting kicked off with a presentation by Len Dunsford of the Nelson Area Trails Society – the group that has created the Ward's Ferry Trail between Glade and Rover Creek. There are strong reasons for the NCC to somehow amalgamate with NATS – greater strength for grant proposals, local government support and insurance to name a few. A subcommittee is forming to investigate the options – if anyone is interesting in helping out, contact Mark Crowe at mcrowe@rdck.bc.ca.
This year's bike swap will happen in mid-April at the North Shore Hall. This is a great event to pick up awesome deals on bikes as well as a great time to renew your membership. Stay tuned for more details. If you would like to help out with the bike swap, contact Mark Holt at sales@sacredride.ca.
Joel McBurney has stepped up to the plate to take over as trail stewardship coordinator position since Mike Bragg has moved over to the Fat Tire Festival. Thanks for the enthusiasm Joel! Anyone who would like to help out with trail work, contact Joel at joelmcburney@gmail.com.
Paula Owen, now in charge of membership has some great ideas to expand out club - combined with all the other ideas that were thrown out at the meeting, we should have a very successful membership expansion this year. April will especially be a pump it up month with events and membership drive happening in full force. This years membership will continue to receive emails until late spring (exact date to be announced) after that, the member list will be refreshed with renewals. Make sure you renew your membership early so you don't miss out on any of the news. Anyone who would like to help out with membership drive efforts, you guessed it, contact Paula at paulaowen@shaw.ca.
Thanks to Maddie's liaison, the Nelson Star is keen to be involved with the NCC – look for information about membership drive and events coming to you from the Nelson Star.
It looks like the Fat Tire Fest will be taking place in late July this year – likely July 23-25. Coordinator Mike Bragg has plans to pump it up to a full blown festival with events, demos, sponsors and participants happening all weekend. There is talk of changing the format of the downhill events, moving the cross-country to Smallwood, hailing the Crit again AND adding the Rosemont Pump track to the roster. This event is a biggie and requires lots of work starting now, so don't delay, contact Mike at mikejbragg@gmail.com and volunteer to help out at the Kootenay's premier mountain bike event.
Speaking of events, the downhill toonie rides will be joined by ROADIE events this year. Roadie coordinator, Scott Vodden, has a roster of paved events – one per month to join the "Bombie Summit" (sorry Ross, that's what it's known as…) and the weekly evening rides and traditional Friday morning Cinny-bun ride to Proctor. Wanna help get road events off to a great start? Contact Scott at: outlastconstruction@telus.net
Mountain bike toonie rides will kick off as early as April. The Sacred Ride is planning the first Chinese Downhill to be in April – add a little snow to the mix. They figure that attendance may be a little lower with some folks still on the ski slopes, but the energy and enthusiasm will be bigger than ever. Maddie will be coordinating all of the toonie rides, so yeah, yeah, if you want to help out: madsk8r53@hotmail.com.
Watch for a calendar of events being added to the website and keep up with the news.
The next meeting will take place February 16, 2010. You are all invited.
1) Recap the ideas from the Annual General Meeting (AGM)
2) Confirm positions and roles (e.g. we now need a trails coordinator / organizer)
3) Fat Tire Fest – Thanks to Mike Bragg, coordinator for 2010! When is it and what needs to happen?
4) Plan for a great bike season filled with flow, fun, trails, events... and if this mild Winter weather keeps up, it'll come sooner than you think.
See you there.