its beginning to smell a lot like christmas.  actually, take a walk through the mall during the day and you know that christmas is soon upon us.  people everywhere all hopefully getting me a christmas present…well probably not.  we have a lot of opportunities for rides over the next week or so but i guess that whether you can take advantage of it depends on family commitments.  i hope to see you on some of them.  if you can identify the 2 girls in the pic, then you have been riding with us for too long.  if you can identify the cow print guy and the red jersey, then you have probably been there longer than me.

spr christmas ride – time to decorate your bike and dress up in a santa suit, it’s the christmas ride.  normal time and place to start, we will head through the city to spread christmas cheer.  the aim is to either dress festive or decorate your bike in a christmas fashion.  this usually includes things like tinsel, reindeer horns or baubles…but not limited to.  don’t forget that you still need to be able to ride 40-50kms, so dressing up in a box to come as a present, may not be ideal.

spr kit distribution – the kit has arrived.  it will be available for collection at the DOME coffee shop after the saturday ride.  it will also be there at the following saturday as well.  if you cannot make these times, drop me an email and we can organise some other pick up (note: this does not include chirstmas day, so don’t ask)

spr iron horse t-shirts – we still have some of these left.  if you are looking for a stocking filler for christmas (partners that are reading this) then click on the link to the left to order it online.  we can then orgainse collection before the big day.

ride routes – quite a bit to discuss about the ride routes this week.  firstly saturday (fast/main) will take a detour through the city to spread christmas cheer to the masses.  once we hit the hill at the end of the city, it will be on and this will determine the split in the groups.  hopefully we end up with groups around the 20 or so riders.  sunday is christmas, so there are no organised rides, but i am sure that there are people out there with no kids and partners that sleep in, so if you meet under the narrows at 5:30 or at coode st at 7:00 i am sure you will find some friends.  monday earlybird is the normal monday ride starting under the narrows on the south perth side.  this will then meet up with the public holiday ride at coode st at 7:00.  tuesday will be the new sunday.  small chainring earlybird ride as usual, but then the hills ride will follow it.  long and short options available

saturday 24th december

ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am

early lap – spr earlybird ride

all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am

development group – spr saturday 35.48km (novice shelley)

transitional – spr saturday 40.86km (rebold hill)

fast & main groups – spr saturday 50.72km (rebold hill & cott)

all main and fast groups will start together.  we will head across the causeway and up through the centre of the city. once we hit malcolm st hill we will naturally form into groups and then join up with the normal ride route.

sunday 25th december

no organised rides

monday 26th december

ride starts under the narrows (south perth side) at 5:30am

early lap – spr monday 46.74km (south & freo)

ride starts at coode st carpark at 7:00am

main group – spr public holiday 59.35km (shelley & freo)

tuesday 27th december

ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am

early lap – spr earlybird ride

all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am

short – spr sunday 66.71km (greenmount & gooseberry)

long – spr sunday 95.04km (greenmount & parkerville & mundaring weir)