SPOKING MY MIND
Here We Go! by Curt “Cycle Guy” Hentschke
HeyCycleGuy@aol.com
L
ast month, the cycling season kicked off;
come April, it’s already kicking into high gear! The weather’s getting per- fect – not too cold; not too hot; just right to grab the family and hit the nearest bike trail, paved or not!
Looking for a big
bicycle bash? Just take a gander at our Save the Dates sec- tion. Springtime is THE time to ride, alone... or with a cou- ple thousand of your bikin’ buddies.
As if we needed
another reason to visit our beautiful coastal region this time of year, April’s second weekend features the Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival. Yep, on the 14th and 15th, Aptos Village will rock with “...a celebration of bikes and dirt.” Go join in the enduro racing or the dirt jump or pump track competition! Go let your kids practice their mountain bik-
50 April 2012 • Out & About
pet from last April’s column: As local riders know,
April holds two of the biggest bicycle bashes in
the land of Out & About the Tierra Bella Bicycle Tour and the Sea Otter Classic. If that’s the for- tunately, the unfortu- nately is that these two events share the same date. (For years, I’ve been dreaming that they’d change this; for now, I guess I’ll dream on.)
Well, guess what? DOING TRICKS AT THE SEA OTTER CLASSIC
ing skills! Go enjoy the bike expo, the product demos, the beer garden and the food court! Or just go watch the insani- ty of it all! And now, I want to employ the mira- cle of “cut and paste” and share a snip-
It happened! My dreams have come true. The Tierra Bella and the Sea Otter Classic, which have frustratingly shared the same weekend for so many years, have finally agreed to switch to
consecutive weekends. This comes as such welcome news to area cyclists (like me and you)! The rest of you may be asking, what
are the Tierra Bella and the Sea Otter Classic? You are in luck, because...
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