Rich welcomed everyone and began with a prayer.
Rich introduced Bruce Douglas from Bicycle Village.
I. Doug bean by introducing everyone:
a. He told everyone the owners name of the Aurora Bicycle Village is CB. Bruce said he has more knowledge than ever in Denver metro area no one has more knowledge about cycling.
b. Dave Thompson is Bruce’s right hand man for sponsorships. New for Bicycle Village this year they are starting a liaison to enhance the club/store member relationship. As a Club member this is who you can contact or go to with a problem or a specific need. Dave Thompson is that man.
c. He told us Joe Labelle the Store Manager feel free to call you to ask questions that you have or need help with anything especially if you need service done quickly.
d. Very difficult for Dave and Bruce to circle back once the season has started, but they want to make sure everyone is being taken care of. Please let them know if you need anything.
II. History of Bicycle Village:
a. Bicycle Village was a family operation and was bought by the Gart family. They are two great entrepreneurs and businessman and they went into business with Vail Resorts several years ago. This last April the buyout was completed and now Vail Resorts or Specialty sports owns them. They have a lot of businesses under different names across the state.
III. Weekend Rides:
a. Bicycle Village (BV) has Saturday rides all year long and the goal is to have the first 100 person ride coming out of this store. Typically there are three different levels of rides. Chris Brown is the overall ride leader.
IV. The advantages of Bicycle Village being our Club Sponsor:
a. BV advantage- lifetime tunes.
b. Nick the head of the pro-shop knows everything about high end equipment.
c. Jerry is the fitter and very well-known across the state and one program he uses is Motion Caption Software and Challenge?
V. Regarding the sponsorship:
a. They are still getting all the details finalized with corporate.
b. Bruce mentioned they are looking for a bike brand to associate with IC3. He mentioned Trek is a very good company they are very fiscally responsible they are best in class in most of their categories.
c. Bruce said he is not in the business of trashing other brands they had Specialized in here for many years, they don’t like that they had close-outs on the floor.
d. Bruce is thrilled to have IC3 with us and proceeding that the agreement is signed and sealed.
e. Everyone will get a “Premium Partner Card” that has the Club name on it and they can use it at every store.
VI. Here are the discounts the team is offered:
a. 10% off one bike per year off the floor.
b. 20% off anytime on accessories
c. 25% off any labor, fit or service
VII. Rich questioned them on how fast they can do repairs. They said their policy is same day service. In by 10 out by 5. If you tell them that you need to race tomorrow they should fix it while you wait.
VIII. Rich Introduced the Board Member- Al Medina and he spoke about Alexi Greywall being part of our team.
a. Sunday January 30th he will be at Cherry Hills church and meet people between services. Al asked for other ideas to get him involved in short term mission trips.
b. Some of the upcoming races Alexi is going to get involved in is:
• Valley of the Sun in Arizona in February
• Missed what the other race was that he suggested.
c. They mentioned he likes to do longer stage races.
IX. Sean West is the treasurer and he was introduced by Gaylen.
X. Rich talked about the clothing order and apologized for not having any sample clothing to show. He mentioned the bad news on clothing is they are not going to see any for awhile. The plan is that they are going to take the old kit and it’s going to look more like the National kit. Our local kit has to be more in line with the National kit. A lot of the logo’s will change and have the local sponsors on it. If they are lucky they will be ordering in 4 weeks and team members will have in three weeks after.
a. Sean said they like to use Pactimo to turn orders around quickly and the quality.
b. Several team members mentioned they liked Voier shorts (or Volet) a lot better. That they did not like the Pactimo shorts because they were saggy.
c. Sean mentioned if there is someone willing to do the work they could maybe change brands.
d. Dave Chart commented on his jacket- that they were very willing to repair it.
e. It was reminded if you are taking sponsorship you have to wear the local kit in races.
f. The National clothing order is due January 26th.
g. Rich mentioned he would like to see a mid-summer order added or have some inventory in case someone tears their kit in a crash or some other kind of mishap.
XI. Wheels of Thunder:
a. Planning is under way and is scheduled for May 7th.
b. There is a big change you have to hire the ACA’s timing company. They are going to do the chip timing. When you buy the ACA license and the chips at the same time. The chip is supposed to be good for 4-5 years.
c. The location is still the same, but we are not sure how many more years they will let them have it there.
d. This year they want to promote the “dash for cash.” Last year for the 1-2 Pro’s WOT gave away a $100 every other lap. It is a very cash rich race. Rich is hoping promoting that it will bring more racers to the race.
e. Last year they had 373 racers and barely broke even. Rich has set a goal this year for 500 racers.
f. Rich asked for volunteers to help out. The biggest day they need help is for the day of the race.
XII. On the Cross Cyclocross race:
a. Gaylen Classen is they Cyclocross director.
b. He asked if everyone would be okay if they had the race on a Sunday. After much conversation the members do not think the race should be held on a Sunday.
c. Gaylen asked for other locations to be suggested then because Sunday is the best day to have the race at the High School where it was held last year.
1. Sierra Middle School in Parker, Colorado was suggested as a possible location.
d. Gaylen mentioned a consideration in the location is how far away the race is from Boulder. The sports arena in Boulder is booked up on all Saturdays due to Football.
XIII. Rich now opened the discussion about the race funds. The budget for the year is $3,000 for road and $1000 for Cyclocross. Rich asked for feedback from the members about the race funds.
a. Dave Chart mentioned he used the racers assistance program and it has worked out great for him.
b. Rich reviewed the details of the Racers Assistance Program- you must sign a commitment to race in 15 races and you will receive (1) one kit.
c. Additional feedback was the assistance program allowed for racers to be able to compete in more races.
d. Rich stated last year they spent $988.00 on kits last year for racers assistance.
e. Rich then mentioned we have Alexi and Gage and that IC3 will pay the entry fee for all their ACA races. If Gage is racing the 4’s or 3’s we will reimburse entry fees.
f. Sean suggested we better put a cap onhow much money we are going to give out to Gage and Alexi.
g. Gage’s Dad Bruce Hecht mentioned that he felt as a team coming together that any winnings should be redistributed back into the team.
1. There was much discussion after the comment of; if you are in the racers assistance program that you should give back any winnings.
2. It was then suggested if you win you give back half to the team.
3. No final decision was made on this topic.
XIV. Fund Raising:
a. There was discussion about having some fund raising events to help support the team.
b. Al said that in order to be the type of team they want to be they need to raise a lot of money.
XV. Team Targeted Races:
a. It was suggested that the team select a few races that everyone attends to show a large IC3 presence.
b. Rich is going to send out an email to everyone requesting they send in the races they would like to target to attend as a strong group.
XVI. Team Targeted Practices:
a. Several members mentioned they would like to have team practices where they would focus on training as a team and working as a team.
b. They suggested they would prefer this more than just a random Saturday or Sunday ride.
Meeting Adjourned at 4:00pm.
