Local News - Leland Bike Proposal

Leland Bike Proposal Town Meeting.


I'd like to start off by saying that I was very disappointed in the lack of support by the Cape Fear Cyclists at this meeting. You would think that since the CFC rides several routes in the Leland/Town Creek area, they would have showed up decked out in their jersey's in support of this issue, but the were nowhere to be seen. As far as I know, the only two that showed up were Sir Bike's a lot, and myself.


It just drives me up the wall, to hear cyclists bitching about "their rights" but when there is an open forum for them to have a voice, where are they? Can you imagine the faces of the guys putting on the meeting to see 275+ local cyclist lining the walls because there were no more sitting room? It would have been awesome... oh well, maybe some day.

The Plan as presented sounded good for the most part. And the part that most interested me was the plans for a 990 acre tract of land dedicated to mountain bikers and equestrians. To think that we have almost 5.5 miles of trails on our 208 acres out at Blue Clay Road, imagine what could be done with close to a thousand acres? Whew...I'm in heaven just thinking about it.

So far this is just a proposal, and it lends itself more to the road cyclists, and recreational rider far more than the mountain bikers. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out, I hope to hear more about it in the local papers.

For more information, I'm sure Sir-Bikes-a-lot will do a much more informative write up on it, so check out his site to read about this and all other local cycling news.

see ya in the trails!
Sir-disappears-a-lot

Seeing the pay off

I can't help but think of the long day's last winter, hauling treated 8X8's a half mile back into the trails, and all the discussions that we all had about things we wanted to see happen at the park the county had given us. We knew then that it was a long and uphill battle, which is expected anytime that the government, local or other, are involved.

First of all, I want to thank all of those guys that spent long days in the woods, making our local trails what they are today, and I am proud that my son and myself were right out there with you guys. And to the guys that have lobbied and met with the local officials to get this project pushed through, thanks just doesn't seem enough. Blue Clay Mountain bike park is growing by leaps and bounds.

What started out as a handful of us, spending weekends working on trails, has now become a vast number of rider's there on any given day. The picture aboves is of the presenting of the almost $10 thousand dollar grant that we received from Bikes Belong, to continue work at Blue Clay, and to help with the B.M.X. course...

I can't wait to see where all this takes us next...

Week 2 weigh in time...fell short again

WTF? I weighed on Thursday (against my wife's suggestions) and I was sitting at 240.3 and was pumped hoping like hell to post a weight in the 230's this morning. Well, I ended up at 242 which sucks. I'm happy taking off the two extra pounds, but I was hoping for more.

My goal for next week is 239.