New Kits Meeting Please meet us at The University of Texas Golf Club in Steiner Ranch in the bar area this Thursday (1/23/14) at 6pm. This will be our first meeting to discuss the new Steiner Ranch Cycling Club kits. If you have contacts, experience or just want to be involved in helping design the coolest kits in Austin please join us this Thursday. There are going to be 4 key responsibilities that I see so we can talk about who wants to take those on. We should also include input into what we want in this new kit. We talked about high quality material, full zipper and increasing the size of the SRC logo. We talked about full sponsor vs. people paying up some amount too. We can talk about this too. I think there is another topic here we should talk about too since about half our riders don’t live in Steiner Ranch and we should somehow think how we can incorporate some props for them without diluting the Steiner Ranch Cycling Club identity.
Happy hour ends at 7pm so you might want to get to the UT Golf Club as close to 6pm as possible. I have a draft agenda we can all work with but it will totally be informal and I’ll take a lot of notes.
2014 Event Calendar Please visit our event calendar on our website at https://steinerranchcycling.com/event-calendar/ as it is starting to fill up with some great ideas for rides. Every week we will continue to add new rides. Also if you are on the Beef Team and want to get reimbursed for your ride please go to www.txbeefteam.org and login and fill out the form.
It is going to be an awesome weekend for riding and I hope to see you all out there on Saturday and Sunday.
STRAVA HIGHLIGHTS
Remember to join our Steiner Ranch Cycling Club on Strava. It is free and fun. The Strava highlights for last week by category are as follows (need to ride over 75 miles in the week to be included in stats below):
Distance Erik Watson 306.3 Miles
Mountain Goat Hicham Badawi 4,129 Feet
Speed Demon Andrew Struck 31.6 Mph over 139 Total Miles
NEXT WEEKENDS RIDES
AUSTIN SCIENIC LOOP – Saturday January 25th at 8:30am at Cups & Cones
This Saturday the Steiner Ranch Cycling Club we will be doing the Scenic Loop. The ride is about 56 miles round trip to and from Cups & Cones.
The ride will start at Cups & Cones and we will grind it out of Steiner Ranch via the Steiner Ranch Blvd hill up to 620. We will take the 620 down to Anderson Mill Road and make a right on Spicewood. Then we will work our way through a few neighborhoods and end up on Jollyville and work our down Jollyville through the Domain and will cross 360 and get onto Mesa up Mt. Bonnell and then ride through Terry Town and follow Scenic route along Lake Austin Blvd down to Mellow Johnny’s for a break.
Please print out the below route if you are not familiar with the route.
ROUTE 1 (on the way downtown to MJ):
After our fluid and bio stop at MJ’s we can either go back via Shoal Creek route or via Bee Caves. I’ll be taking the Shoal Creek route back but many go the Bee Caves route. You can choose one that you feel up too. For those that want hill you can add in the Cuernavaca Hill on the way back if you are going the Bee Caves route.
ROUTE 1 (on the way home via Shoal Creek):
We will probably have two groups. We will have a faster group that will average about 18-20 mph and a slower group that will average between 15-16mph. That being said there is no designated sweeper behind me so you need to keep up with me at a minimum or you will be dropped.
Steiner Ranch Steakhouse Route / Jack & Adams – Sunday January 26th at 8:30am at Cups & Cones
On Sunday the Steiner Ranch Cycling Group will be joining riders from all over Austin for a ride sponsored by Jack & Adams and the Steiner Ranch Steakhouse. The ride leaves at 8:30am so get there by 8:00am or you may miss the group. Typically they get well over 100 cyclist and most stick around after the ride for half price brunch and live music.
The ride starts at the Steakhouse and heads out 620 and then makes a left on Anderson Mill and we bike out to Cypress Creek and make a right then left on Lakeline all the way out to Crystal Falls where we make a left and drop into the hole. We then bike back the exact same we came. It is a fun 33 miler.
The organizers have three rides. A no drop 15 mile ride, a 33 mile intermediate ride (14-17mph), and a fast ride (18 – 21 mph).
ROUTE
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