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December Mixed

Editor

The Club's Annual Holiday Party is next week so be sure to register ASAP if you plan to attend.  It's the Club's thank you to all its members and everyone gets a door prize pair of DBC cycling socks.  Member attendees will also vote for the 2015 Board of Directors so take a look at the Nominating Committee's report.

On a personal note.  This is my last issue of Changing Gears online.  It's been my pleasure to serve as Newsletter Editor this year.  In that time my thinking has come around to where I see a useful purpose for an ongoing monthly newsletter (there's that change I promised earlier in the year).  Why?  We can all look back at the decades of Newsletters past that, to one degree or another, captured a snapshot of the ongoing cycling zeitgeist.  Unlike the rapid back and forth of social media which is quickly off to the next thing, and the next...   and soon forgotten, I think a continuing line of monthly newsletters focusing on topical current events has an ongoing place and value within the DBC.

Send your comments and suggestions to the Newsletter editor. 

Links to articles of interest:

• Here's a nascent flat tire fixer
• A nifty spoke-less suspension wheel
  
• Active bike lights that attach to your rims   
• Report Davis road problems here... 
  

Long Term Calendar:

• February 21:  Camino Real Double Century the first California DC in 2015

• March 1-31:  Bicycle March Madness 
  
• April 26:  Chico Velo Wildflower  
• May 10-17:  10th Amgen Tour of California 
  
• May 16:  46th Davis Double Century 
  

The DBC welcomes its New Members!

Season's Greetings

• Robert S. Caulk

• Josh Claypool
• Craig and Sharon Lage
• Jacqueline Medina

And thanks our renewing members

• Barbara Aldrich
• Tracy Basso
• Ben and Elisa Bourne
• Antonello Cruz
• Craig Dinger
• Jason Eiserich
• Michael Gonzales
• Margaret Kelly
• Andrea Kirsch and Doug Merrill
• Tobin Richardson
• Mark Ruhe
• Wesley and Janet Yates