Oakland Yellowjackets Bicycling Club

The Oakland Yellowjackets Bicycling Club would like to invite our members to join us for our famous season highlight: the annual Monterey Ride. Overnight accommodations and the dinner banquet will be at the Lighthouse Lodge (not at the Asilomar this year).

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ROUTES

• The 120 mile ride starts in Pacifica, ride across Devil's Slide, along the scenic coastline to Santa Cruz where lunch awaits you, continuing on Highway 1 ending in Pacific Grove, where you will be met with cheers and applause as you finish the ride. Sag support will be available if needed.
• The 87 mile ride starts in scenic Pescadero, ride to Santa Cruz where lunch awaits you, continuing on Highway 1 ending in Pacific Grove. Sag support will be available if needed.

LOCATION

Ride starts from Pacifica at the Pacific Manor Parking Lot at 7:00am prompt. People in need of transportation to Pacifica, meet at Fairyland entrance at Lake Merritt 5:15am. All Pescadero riders will be transported from Pacifica to Pescadero, leaving at 7:00am. Note: There is no overnight parking at the Lake Merritt or Pescadero.

DISCUSSION

If you want to discuss any aspect of this ride, please do it in the OYJ Forum.

OYJ is now on Twitter*. What does this mean for you? Mostly that it's easier than ever to keep up with what's going on the OYJ website. All new posts to the site and the OYJ Forum will auto-generate posts on the OYJ Twitter feed.

What Do You Need To Do?

1. Go to the OYJ Twitter page: www.twitter.com/oyjcycling
2. Create an account (it takes a few seconds) or login
3. "Follow" OYJ Cycling

You can then have the posts from the OYJ Cycling feed sent to your smartphone as an SMS text.

Already Use Twitter?

If you already use twitter and want to tweet about your rides or anything that might interest the OYJ members, just use the hashtag** #oyj or reference @oyjcycling in your tweet.

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The Ride Calendar has been changed slightly in Septmeber/October to accommodate our new date for the Monterey ride, which is September 24th. Obviously, that means that the Walnut-Creek/Sunol ride has be moved out as well. Here are the details:

Original Calendar

September 3: Walnut Creek-Sunol (BART)
September 10: Monterey Ride
September 17: Fog City (BART)
September 24: Fairfax (AWAY)
October 1: Calaveras (LAKE)

New Calendar

September 3: Fairfax (AWAY)
September 10: Calaveras (LAKE)
September 17: Walnut Creek-Sunol (BART)
September 24: Monterey Ride
October 1: Fog City (BART)

Please adjust you personal calendars accordingly.

As many of you already know, our third annual SLO Ride Weekend is scheduled for May 20-22, 2011. The weekend will include a social ride on those arriving on Friday, 40 mile and 60 mile rides on Saturday followed by a lunch ($15.00 per person) at the park and a dinner ($18.00 per person) later Saturday evening, and a breakfast ride on Sunday.

You can view the event flyer on the link below. Quality Suites has blocked a limited number of rooms have been reserved at the club rate. If you plan to attend, you should make your room reservation as soon as possible. Be sure to mention the SLO Ride Weekend.

Quality Suites
(805) 541-5001
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We will be joined by cyclist from a number of Southern California clubs. So come join the fun.

• 2011 SLO Ride Event Flyer
• 2011 SLO Ride Registration Form