To All, On behalf of the Davis Bike Club, I want to thank you all for turning out and helping to make the 2022 Davis Double Century a success after its 2 yr. hiatus. About 270 riders started the ride around 0500 and only about 7 elected to take a
Monthly Archives: May 2022
Silent Key Doug Slusher
We are all saddened by the death yesterday of Doug Slusher. We will miss him.
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Davis Double Century assist.
A couple of our club members enojyed the opportunity to be radio SAG units for the Davis Double Century on May 21.
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Nice note from Ridge to Bridge event
I was your sole “customer” that day since my derailleur jammed on the section with no cell reception…and the “sweep”rider came to assist, and I had to coast back down Bobcat where I got the SAG back to lunch, and the mechanic fixed my bike. THANK to YOU guys, my
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Miwok 100K
Thanks for sending the photos, Michael! And a HUGE thank you to all of the MARS radio personnel at Miwok this year. (Please forward to the whole crew so I don’t miss anyone.) We just could not do this event and know that all our runners are safe
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Ridge to Bridge….
In retrospect we should have taken Wolfback off the roster entirely. The frequency is prone to intermod if you’re on one of the hills exposed to the whole Bay Area. Also it’s useless at Muir, so we just didn’t use it. There was not a good way to identify outbound
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Miwok 100K next
Gearing up for the Miwok 100K event on May 7, 2022. It promises to be another fun day outdoors with radios. After that, we have the Dipsea on Sunday, June 12.
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More Ridge to Bridge comments
Re: our operations, things seemed to go well. Few enough stations that pile-ups weren’t an issue, at least in the morning. My primary recommendation is to refine the tear-off tag method of logging participant arrivals. They seemed to blow away easily if not carefully handled, and there’d be no backup.
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Ridge to Bridge
Living dangerously, we tried two new things for this event. One was having participants tear off a tab with their bib number and put it in a container at each rest stop to account for them, rather than having them line up for a volunteer to check their name off
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Ridge to Bridge event Comments
Muir Beach: In sum it was a good event with relatively little confusion compared to some. The hiker/biker tracking appeared to work. Not all participants wore bibs in easy to see locations, so dropping off a tag was the only reasonably sure way to know who came through the rest
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