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Only 8 riders showed up at the start of today's ride, seven regulars and one visitor from the USA, Stephanie Vogel. Welcome to Israel and we hope you enjoy your stay here. It was great having you along on the ride.
Raanan lead us today and although we have covered this area many timed in the past there were one or two variations that were new to us. Thanks Raanan for showing us the way.
We ended up at one of our favourite "breakfast stops", Spingo and were back home relatively early after having covered about 33 kilometres.
Don't forget the "Dead Sea" ride on the 3rd September. If you intend participation it's essential to register on the link provided on our website!
Hope you all have a good week with lots of safe riding!
5.30 am and I am woken by the alarm clock! What am I doing getting up at this time of the morning on a Saturday when most of the people are still sleeping? Oh yes....I have to get ready to cycle. One has to be either nuts or addicted to or love the sport of cycling to get up at an hour when the sun hasn't yet thought of rising!!! Well, it seems that all three reasons apply to me.
12 of us were at the start and Ted was appointed the leader of the ride and a very good job he did. Thanks Ted. One of the 12 riders was Dan, Megan's son (my grandson). Welcome to Cyclenix Dan. The more you ride , the easier the rides will become.
Just as we hit the off road in the industrial area of Ra'anana, Megan's back wheel decided to rebel! Yes, this was Megan's first puncture with the group. Ted came to the rescue and with your truly's spare inner tube and Ted's expertise we were soon underway again taking a trail that we have often ridden before. A few uphills and a wee bit of sand now and again let us know that we were exercising! By 7.30am it was already getting HOT! The call of SPINGO and the "Spingo menu" kept us going. On the last stretch of road before reaching Spingo ,Dan decided that he was not going to be outdone by his Mom so he too picked up a flat tyre. As we were so close to Spingo, we decided to push the last 200 metres and get the wheel repaired there, which is exactly what we did. Whilst we were "refuelling " from the very adequate Spingo menu, Dan's bike was being repaired. Spingo get a tops marks for their menu and their service.
Breakfast finished, Dan's bike repaired and a few purchases having been made at the Spingo shop, we headed for home. And so came to an end a very pleasant ride in very pleasant company, another 31+ kms under our belts. Oh, as an aside Megan accomplished another "first" for her with Cyclenix. She fell off, sustaining nothing more that a grazed elbow!
For those of you who have been giving our Saturday rides a miss because of the heat and/or the early starts, remember, we also have a Thursday evening ride. It's never too hot and all the rides are easy rides.
On another steamy August morning a slightly larger group (12 riders) than a week before, gathered to experience the breaking of the new path towards the kingdom of Yaqum. Actually it was a re-ride of last week, with hopes for avoiding the snapping of the chain this time. And so it was, thanks to Gabi's new Merida 900 replacing old faithful GT iDrive.
We welcome back Shaul after a period of not showing up for the weekly rides. Shaul came back with his usual zeal and, I can proudly note, with a significantly larger water tank then before - an entire 1 liter of water instead of the usual 750 cc.
And we want to welcome Megan, John's lovely daughter, who joins the group after spending 14 years in the galut in France. The true reason d'etre of coming back to Israel has been revealed to her today.
The ride itself was quick, uneventful and ended - where else - in Arcaffe in Raanana. No snapping of chains, not even a single puncture, slowed down the rapid pace. We repeated last week's ride along the Poleg puddle and then turned west at Yaqum, crossed the bridge and returned at a fast trot southward to Shfayim, and back over the Rishpon bridge to the East side of the road. From there a quick 15 minute ride landed us around early 9 o'clock in the blessed breakfast crowd of Arcaffe. At Arcaffe, Ariel got the day's puncture, but it does not count, having happened after the official end to the ride.
P.S. - if somebody knows why those horses always select to empty their bowels on the bridges over Highway-2, please share the secret with us.
Ride Report - August 8, 2009 - By Gabi Raanan
On a steamy August morning an unusually large turnout - all of 5 riders, with the beautiful sex being in clear numerical advantage of 3 to 2 - waited in vain for the group leaders to show up. After 15 minutes of waiting we set out on a less used route towards Yaqum (where else?), along the Poleg "river". Actually it is just a slime-filled, slowly moving shallow pond. However, it was useful for guidance along our path.
After an uneventful first half of the ride, Gabi's chain snapped and we spent a good 3/4 hour trying to fix it, assisted by remote instructions from David over the phone. The marvels of the new era... Once fixed, it turned out that Gabi forgot to thread the chain thru the rear dereilleur (that thing is the mess of gears and wheels hanging on the rear wheel's axis and getting forever caught in the bushes). So we had to dismantle the chain that has just been spliced together with so much loving effort, and recompose it. Luckily a small group of riders, among them a chain specialist, just materialized in the middle of the orchard and helped put Gabi back on his wheels.
After that it was an uneventful but pleasant ride straight to Arcaffe in Raanana, and back home, refreshed and with 30 kms and a pleasant ride under our belt. And yes, John was not there with his camera, so nobody took photos for the archives...
Well, this was one of the smallest turnouts we've had for some time! Six of us were at the meeting point and we set off doing a reverse route of our usual Home Patch ride to the North. We have done it all before but this time around it was a change looking at the scenery in "reverse"! Of course, we stopped at our favourite "watering hole" on this ride....SPINGO, where as usual the food and service was first class. And then, it was homeward bound. We covered 30 + kilometres in a much faster time than usual (because of the smaller number of riders) and we were also very lucky with the weather, because, by the time we headed for home, the real heat had not set in!!! We may not have had the quantity on the ride, but we certainly had the quality!
Meeting Place and Time: Car park opposite Yad Le’Banim at 6:30 am (sob) Participants: Eleven (with the women outnumbering the men!) Conditions: Hot, hotter still, and boiling hot. (Did I mention the heat?) Route: We turned right out of the car park and onto Rechov Ahuza in the direction of Rechov Yerushalayim. We cycled west towards the Herzliya airfield (had I known I would have refused) in parallel to the new park. Turning north, we rode along the Tel Aviv-Haifa railway line and then again west through Rishpon. We crossed the Coastal Road and continued towards the Sharon Nature Reserve, where we stopped to rest. We then returned through Ga’ash and Rishpon, stopping for coffee at Aroma in the shopping center adjacent to Shfaim. From Aroma it was home.
Highlights:
Ted’s puncture (bear with me, it does get better) that took two new tubes to fix.
A lecture by David on the benefits of cadence. (This apparently is the art of benefiting from the correct number of pedal spins per minute. And I did try counting, I really did, but people kept talking to me.)
Gidi pelting up an almost 90 degree slope, with the rest of us gingerly cycling around it.
The ever-beautiful sea view at the Sharon Nature Reserve.
The many aromas of Aroma (which surprised us by being almost as nice a coffee-shop as Spingos) and the various members of our group who insisted on sitting outside in the heat, rather than under the gentle caress of the air-conditioning.
And last but not least, a viper (“Nachash Tzefer” in Hebrew, but the non-Saddam Hussein version) winding its way across the road. And if you don’t believe me, check out the two stunning photos by John, which beat anything I’ve ever seen in the National Geographic.
Conclusion: After surviving that heat I’m ready to tackle the Amazon Rainforest. But it was a lot of fun (about 25 kilometers worth, in fact).
Ride Report - July 4, 2009 - THE PEACOCK -By Adrian Wolff
Seated in a synagogue on the High Holidays, one often notices the late-entry of some-one, always well-dressed, walking towards his seat, waddling slowly, displaying himself. He smiles sweetly, slowly nodding his head to those seated, kind of thanking you for noticing his presence. This is a peacock, showing off his wares.
Ronnie Feinberg was the complete opposite. Quiet, unassuming. His input into Israeli cycling was enormous, yet he never sought a ‘thank you’ or acknowledgment. His satisfaction was to see riders enjoying themselves. Ronnie knew that cycling was a growing activity in Israel through his ‘Green Wheelers’ grass-roots riders.
As I drove at 06.00 towards the starting point I noticed many cars with bicycles heading for their early morning ride. Literally thousands of Israeli cyclists are enjoying themselves either on the road or off-road each Saturday morning, and also on a Friday.
The first annual Ronnie Feinberg Memorial Ride took place on Saturday 3 July 2009 when nearly 100 riders (70+ roadies and another 23 Cyclenix off-road bikers) took two separate routes to join at Springo Cycling store outside Basra.
Unisport Cycle and Sporting goods importers, where Ronnie was the accountant has begun a charity Ronnie’s name to sponsor children from underprivileged backgrounds in cycling activities.
Hilliard Hart, one of the three-some said ”Ronnie, I am sure you are organizing great bicycle ride up there…..”
Bicycle Unit of the Civil Guard (Mishmar Ezrahi), The Department of Community Affairs and the Civil Guard of the
Israeli Police Force in conjunction with the Israel Cyclists' Association call
on you to join the Cycling Unit of the Civil Guard.
Volunteer Now .
Follow the link for more details.
THE BOTTOM LINE ! : ALL RIDERS PARTICIPATING IN THE CLUB'S ACTIVITIES MUST ACCEPT THAT THE CLUB
CONSISTS OF A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS, FOND OF RIDING IN EACH OTHERS COMPANY, ON
THE BASIS OF UNDERSTANDING THAT NO ONE TAKES OR BEARS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR
OTHERS AND EACH IS FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN LIFE, HEALTH AND BELONGINGS.
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Unisport Cycle and Sporting goods importers, where Ronnie was the accountant has begun a charity Ronnie’s name to sponsor children from underprivileged backgrounds in cycling activities.
