The Hub & Spoke May 2023

May 3

The Hub & Spoke - May Cycling News

THE HUB & SPOKE

MAY 2023

CPEI Club Rides have kicked off for the season! Pictured above are Tanya Nace, Liz Kays-Birt and Christa Trainor, who together with Amy Hall will be leading the Stratford Women’s Road Rides this year, set to kick off Thursday, May 4th if weather permits! The Monday Night Road Rides led by Jan Meulenkamp also kicked off last month. Stay tuned for the starts of the Wednesday Women’s Mountain Bike Rides at Brookvale and Cardigan!

Learn more about CPEI riding clubs on our website at www.cyclingpei.org/clubsprograms.

Are you interested in starting a ride club? Contact us! Not only can we help connect you with riders looking for the same experience, but by becoming a CPEI-sanctioned club, you’ll benefit from our insurance coverage on every ride!

SEEKING: People in the greater Charlottetown area interested in joining a lower-pace road riding group (~20 km/hour). Please let us know if this would be of interest - we have heard from a couple of members on this and wanted to put the word out to see if we can get a new group going.

Upcoming Events

We’ve got our first events this month!

HopOn Community Program in Cornwall

Registration deadline: Thursday, May 4th

Cycling PEI is very please to be partnering with the Town of Cornwall on PEI's very first HopOn cycling program for kids ages 7-16, every Saturday starting May 6th, and culminating in a Bike Rodeo on June 3rd!

Cycling PEI even has quality kids mountain bikes and helmets we can lend your child to use during the program if they don't have a suitable bike to use just now.

This program is for kids who already know how to ride and wish to advance their bicycle skills. It is being NCCP-certified instructors trained in a special games-based cycling curriculum to help kids grow their cycling skills while having LOTS of fun.

The registration cost for the whole course is just $35 per child!

Please register by May 4th at https://ccnbikes.com/#!/events/20222-hopon-cornwall-for-kids-aged-7-11.

Do you have a passion for biking and working with kids?

Then we're looking for you to become a HopOn instructor with Cycling PEI! Demand for this new offering from Cycling PEI has been high, but we can only meet it if we’ve got the people to help.

Instructors will teach kids the skills and help them develop the joy of mountain biking in both schools and the community!

Employment will be part-time and all training time/ costs will be covered.

Please email hopon@cyclingpei.org for more information!

Indian River Road Race - Saturday, May 13

Get ready for Cycling PEI’s first race of the 2023 season! The Indian River Road Race is back after a hiatus in 2022. This 12km loop course features rolling hills, for a low difficulty but high fun factor to get back into the groove for another year of cycling.

Register via Zone4 at https://zone4.ca/register.asp?id=31898 no later than Friday, May 12 at 8pm.

Summerside Muckraker - Saturday, May 27

The Cycling PEI season continues with the first MTB XC race of the season, the classic Summerside Muckraker at Summerside Rotary Park!

There will be an 11:00am start time for U15 and under, and a 12:00pm start time for U17 and above categories. Check-in for the race opens at 10:30am.

Advance registration required at https://zone4.ca/register.asp?id=32085. Please note that you must possess a current CPEI Racing Membership or UCI license in order to participate in this event (or purchase a single event license for $20).

YOUTH SUMMER JOB WITH CYCLING PEI

Cycling PEI is seeking a post-secondary student to join us this spring and summer as our Summer Events Coordinator.

In this role, you will work closely with the Executive Director, Cycling PEI board members and other volunteers to plan and execute a series of summer cycling events. These include road and mountain bike races as well as our weekly all-ages Rigid Riders mountain bike skill-building program at Brookvale, which runs from June through August.

Please click here to learn more: https://www.cyclingpei.org/news/cycling-pei-seeks-summer-events-coordinator

SEEKING NEW RACE COMMISSAIRES

Would you like to get PAID to attend cycling events on PEI?

If so, why not become a CPEI commissaire?

Commissaires are race officials who play an important role in maintaining safety, fair play, and ensuring that races operate in accordance with provincial and national standards. You can train to be a commissaire by taking short online courses and learning from experienced commissaires at races, and there are special courses for both Road and Mountain Biking disciplines. Commissaires earn honoraria for helping out at CPEI-sanctioned races.

If you would be interested in learning to become a Commissaire and making an important contribution to the sport of cycling, please let us know by writing to commissaires@cyclingpei.org.

Cycling Community News

My First Bicycle - Free Bikes for Kids from Low-Income Households

Please help spread the word! The My First Bicycle Foundation is offering FREE bicycles, helmets, locks, bells and tools to children from low-income households (based on the Low-Income Cutoff, which is approximately $36,000 for a family of four). They’ve got 1500 bikes ready to give away in 2023!

Learn more at www.myfirstbicycle.ca.

Recreation PEI Trails Map

As a fantastic service to hikers and bikers across PEI, our friends at Recreation PEI have just launched a brand new, interactive map of walking and cycling trails throughout PEI!

Check it out by clicking here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/660278831c914e66b9e2a7d329da9b7a?org=peigov (once you get to the site, click on the "Map" icon at the top to make the map come up, showing you all the different trails, colour coded by type.

You can also select different Map Layers to narrow down your search.

Most trails were mapped in the spring of 2021 using the latest GNSS technology. The system was accurate to within 1 metre in some cases making the trace extremely accurate.

The map was completed in partnership with the Government of PEI through the Department of Health & Wellness – Sport, Recreation, and Physical Activity Division and Tourism PEI- PEI Provincial Parks, along with input from Island Trails, Cycling PEI, Parks Canada, and the Island Nature Trust.

New trails are being added as they are completed. There is an emphasis on trails that are publicly accessible and not on private property without a user agreement. Because of this, there are some known trails which do not appear on this tool.

Recreation PEI executive director Valerie Vuillemot cautions: “Many trails experienced significant damage in the fall of 2022 and not all have re-opened or have only partially re-opened. Users are asked to respect all signage and barriers on the trail system and to not go on closed trails or sections.”

The map is best used on mobile devices and includes a “locate me” feature so trail and active transportation route users can see exactly where they are on the map if they have location services enabled. It can be found on the Recreation PEI website at www.recreationpei.ca

If you discover a new trail thanks to this tool, we'd love to hear about it! Also, if there are any trails missing from the map that you think should be added, please let Recreation PEI know by writing to info@recreationpei.ca.

HOT OFF THE PRESS: PEI Public Library now carries Bike Repair Kits!

In a press release earlier today, the PEI Public Library Service announced that among other things, it has now added Bicycle Repair Kits to its “Library of Things”, which can be borrowed for free, just like books!

According to the Library, they now have 20 kits available to lend, containing: 1 3-Way Hex Wrench, 1 Professional Cable and Housing Cutter, 1 3-Way Torx-Compatible Wrench, 1 #2 Phillips Screwdriver, 1 Master Link Pliers, 1 Chain Checker, 3 Tire Levers, 1 Triple Spoke Wrench, 1 Chain Whip / Pedal Wrench, 1 GearClean Brush, 1 Cassette Lockring Tool, 1 Mini Chain Tool, 1 8 mm Hex Wrench, 1 Mini Pump, & 1 Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair 4th Edition.

What an awesome addition to our library system!

Cycling PEI has joined with dozens of other sports organizations on PEI in a new collaborative fundraiser, the SYSPEI (Support Your Sport on PEI) Gold Rush.

SYSPEI has been growing each week, and sometimes reaching pots in excess of $6000! Draws take place every Thursday afternoon.

To support cycling on PEI and get in on the action, please click this link (https://syspei.goldrush.causable.io), create an account, and choose to support "Cycling" under Manage Your Donations. You can even choose whether to have your ticket purchases support our Youth Cycling or High Performance initiatives!

Follow SYSPEI Gold Rush on Facebook to see regular draw updates!

PLAY NOW!

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