Rider "Mojo" Cosgrove is the first Wheels North participant to reach his goal of raising $2,000 to take part in the ride. Congratulations!!
You can now find a detailed listing of all the presentations at the annual conference of the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild ... including the Wheels North presentation at 3:10 p.m. on March 7th. Click here for a full conference program.
We just heard today from the folks who make Flip Video cameras that we will be using their cameras to record our event. A variety of riders and support crew will have Flip cameras to record their Wheels North experiences. We will be blogging the video every day, and when the event is over we'll use the footage to create a documentary about Wheels North.
We've selected the famous Drumheller Fountain on the campus of the University of Washington as the final end point for Wheels North. The fountain is in an area known as "the pond" that was the "Geyser Basin" for the 1909 AYPE, and is one of a handful of locales that remain from the 1909 event. A photo of an early airship flying over the fountain during the AYPE is shown below.
Wheels North is open to all kinds of bicycles (the most important thing is the motor: you), but we expect to see several riders on fixed gears. We went to a screening of a new fixed-gear movie over the weekend and passed out flyers--we hope to see some of the riders we met when we start in Santa Rosa on July 4!
We're pleased to announce that Doma Coffee, a family-owned coffee roaster based in Post Falls, Idaho, has signed on as the official coffee provider for Wheels North! We'll be sipping Doma's hand-roasted coffee every morning as we prepare for the day ahead.
We are pleased to announce that Campagnolo, the world-famous Italian bicycle component maker, has signed on as a sponsor of Wheels North!
Wheels North will likely be visited by some of the members of Portland's Loch Lomond chamber folk musical group on our rest day in their fair city. We're also working on a visit from another well-known Portland group ... more on that as it develops.
A Wheels North shout-out to the Salem (Oregon) Bicycle Club. Club president John Henry Maurice contacted Wheels North last week to offer his club's help with routes, lodging, and other logistics. We're all looking forward to meeting the folks from Salem in July!
We are working with the folks at The Bicyclist to host the California premiere of their new full-length feature film in Davis, California, in early March 2009. Watch for more information on show times and ticket sales. The film will be shown at the famous Varsity Theater in downtown Davis. The screening will be a benefit for the Histiocytosis Association of America.
