Verge store closes tonight, plus a few ride reminders!

• The Verge store closes tonight, July 8th! If you want to get in on the lower shipping and handling, place your order by the end of the day today. Kits will be available again later, but you will pay a higher shipping cost, so take advantage of the savings, and order your gear today! 
• Ladies Road ride at Clinton Road will be on Wednesday, July 9, 6 p.m. - weather permitting. Don't forget our new meeting spot - 65 LaRue Road, Newfoundland, NJ - the United Methodist Church parking lot. 
• Thursday night, July 10, ride the XC trails at Mountain Creek with a free XC lift ticket - meet us at the lift (get your ticket first!) at 5:30. Lightning will close the lift (ask us how we know!) so keep that in mind. 
• Friday night Clinton Road ride - all welcome! Remember, new meeting spot - 65 LaRue Road, Newfoundland, NJ - the United Methodist Church parking lot.
• Next week, the USA Cycling Mountain Bike Nationals come to Bear Creek, PA. It's a great venue, and only 2 hours away. Any Cat. 3 or Cat. 2 riders are eligible to race - no need to qualify! The Nationals will head back out west again for 2 years after 2014, so this is a great chance to ride a national course, and tons of fun meeting people who have come from all over the US to race. More info about schedules, registering, etc. can be found here . 

USA Cycling licensing issue resolved!

Hi everyone -

After much teeth gnashing, the paperwork snafu at USA Cycling is now resolved. You can renew your licenses and have the ability to choose Team Town Cycle as both your mountain bike club/team, and your cyclocross club/team. If anyone renewed their licenses before and were unable to do that, please drop us a line with your USA Cycling license number - they have promised to fix any problems that were caused by this paperwork problem.

Thanks for your patience!!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We at Team Town Cycle hope you all had a wonderful holiday season filled with family, friends and fun, and a little relaxation thrown in for good measure!

We're starting to think ahead already, to spring and beyond, so we have a few notes and reminders for everyone. 

1. It's renewal time - your membership renewal for Team Town Cycle for 2011 is now due! If you didn't get a chance to renew at our annual dinner in November, please grab the very short renewal form here. Print it and fill it out, and either mail it with your check to the P.O. Box address listed on the form, or drop it off to Mike at the shop. 
2. Anyone who has a USA Cycling license has, by now, received their renewal notice via email. Due to some snafu's at USA Cycling's end, Team Town Cycle is currently not shown as a valid club on their site. We know about it, we have a few people working on it, and we hope to have it all straightened out within the next few days. We'll let you know when everything is all set! As you do send in your renewals, it is important to make sure you select Team Town Cycle as your team/club - it lets USA Cycling know that we have an active membership, and gives you and us proper credit in your rankings and results!
3. Speaking of USA Cycling, if you raced in 2010 with a one day license, think about getting an annual license for 2011! If you want to participate in any of the national events that take place throughout the year, you'll need a national ranking, and you can only get that with an annual license. It makes registering through BikeReg easier, it makes "day of" registration easier, and again, as a team/club - it gives us strength in numbers! Plus, when you are ready to move up from Cat. 2 to Cat. 1, you can only do that with an annual license - maybe this will be that year!

In the next week, we'll wrap up some business from 2010, and start working on some more fun for 2011, so stay tuned. 

From everyone at Team Town Cycle, thank you for all of your support and help throughout 2010. We couldn't do it without you, and we look forward to new fun and adventures in 2011! 

Congratulations are in order!

A big congratulations to one of our own! Frank Endreson, our resident downhill racer, traveled to Granby, CO last week to the USA Cycling Mountain Bike Nationals and took 5th place in the Cat. 2 40-49 downhill class - no small feat! Reading the results, there were but a handful of riders from east of the Rockies, and Frank showed them how it was done - as he said - "Jersey style!"

Here's a picture of Frank on the podium, looking fantastic in his Team Town Cycle jersey! Way to go Frank - who says you have to be from out west to know how to ride downhill!