Archive for March, 2009

Sunday Ride

Monday, March 30th, 2009

 

Regulators....."Saddle Up"

Regulators....."Saddle Up"

After an unseasonably cold week and a rainout of our first Friday night ride, the sun popped out today and it warmed up to almost 70 degrees.  We saw lots of new faces and actually ran out of bikes for our free group ride.  Just goes to show you that a little press goes a long way.  I want to thank Brittany Edwards from the Daily Candy for discovering our store.  I’d also like to thank Dan Koller from the Park Cities People for running a feature on us as well as Ann Pinson and Nancy Adams from the Dallas Morning News for taking care of business on Page 6 of the DMN Friday guide.  We really appreciate each one of you for taking the time and supporting our cause!  As anyone reading this blog knows, we live in a fabulous city, but, we are behind the curve from most great cities when it comes to outdoor recreation.

We had 42 riders today and it was pretty awesome to see all of those stylish cruisers all together at one time.  I’m already looking forward to next weekend and want to remind all that Friday night at 8 pm is on like donkey kong, as long as the weather permits!

I met with the folks at “Friends of the Katy Trail” this week.  Good people (Eric Van Steenburg and Betsey).  It was interesting to hear how the Katy Trail is funded and what the future plans are.  Very exciting.  Most people don’t realize it, but, most of the upkeep, security, and expansion is funded by private donations from people like you and me who use the Trail.  We need to support the Katy Trail during these tougher economic times.  I hope that all of our riders, readers, and shop customers will consider signing up as a “Friend” and member of this organization.  You can be a member for only $50 and your contribution is tax deductible.  We are going to set up a link on our site to take you to their website (coming soon) to make things easy on you.  We hope to build a partnership with them in order to help expand  the Katy Trail and continue to make the necessary improvements required to keep this one of the true Recreational gems of our city.

I hope everyone enjoyed the ride as much as I did and I hope you all can come back soon.  We have some more incredible bikes on order so please tell your friends. Have a great week and stop by and say hi to me, Susie, Harvey, and, of course our world renowned mascot, Deville.

 

often imitated but never duplicated.....DeVille!

often imitated but never duplicated.....DeVille!

March 22nd ride

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Hope everyone enjoyed the group ride yesterday.  We made it down to Victory Plaza and there was a big event going on so Mia got a shot with the Mavs Man.  We had mia  a group of riders (Jim, Brian, Mario, and Mark) in town filming from Spike TV who joined our ride for fun.  We hit the new “hot spot”, Yogalicious, on the way back for some lip smackin’  frozen yogurt.  It’s located on the Northeast section of Blackburn/Mckinney Ave.,  so check it out.  We had 19  riders and most of our regulars were out of town.  Mark your calendars for this coming Friday….our first Friday night ride at 8 pm.  We are going to ride down to the W and have a concoction at the “Living Room” bar, so bring a friend!  

We also had a group ride for Berti Generes on Saturday.  Happy birthday Berti!  I think putting together a casual group bike ride is a great surprise birthday party idea…..so….let us know if we can make it happen for you.  

Also, it was great to have a good friend of mine (Kurt Kretsinger) and his girlfriend, Jenny show up. Thanks for riding!   Thanks to Doster, Mia, and Harvey for helping out.  

We had a few people show up late  at the beginning and they got left behind for a spell.  It was a good li’l lesson and I’m going to organize the beginning of the ride better so that this does not happen again.  Check out the gallery….we got a great group shot of the ride yesterday.  See ya’ll soon.  Fleetwood

Blog #1

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

I decided to get an interactive blog working for the group bike rides and the store (Fleetwood’s Kit Kat). I’ll start writing on somewhat of a daily basis so I’d like to welcome all readers/riders and supporters to help wake up Dallas to the fun of group bike rides on the Katy Trail and other destinations. We already have a great group of people and I want to thank you guys for your support. A quick reminder….a ride every Sunday at 2 pm and we are going to have our first Friday night group ride on March 27 at 8 pmearly-march-ride, which should be alot of fun.
Much more later. Just kinda testing this out first to see if it works.
Thanks. Fleetwood

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Monday, March 16th, 2009

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