What kind of services does the Club provide (bike rodeos, instruction, etc.)?
At the current time, the Club supports a schedule of rides, publishes the Chain Gang newsletter, and maintains this website. We have meetings about 6 times per year. Out of those, the website is the only “public service” that we currently provide. At one time, the Club started to provide bike rodeos, but the work involved was more than we had volunteers to handle. At one time even longer ago, the Club had adopted a couple of miles of highway, but interest in that faded. It’s simply a matter of what our members are interested in doing. We don’t want members or potential members to feel pressured to get involved in activities in which they have little interest, simply because they are a member of the Club. The Club can serve as a mechanism for people to undertake services like bike rodeos or adopting a stretch of highway, but someone proposing such an activity will need to find and demonstrate that there are members that want to undertake the work on a sufficiently long-term basis that i
