Congratulations on this announcement. It sounds like a worthwhile event for
the club and the community. I hope that we all get behind this event and
generate lots of enthusiasm.

One thing I noticed, whenever anyone sends an attachment life a picture,
map, or whatever, it never shows up. Perhaps somebody working our web can
change the settings to allow this. I noticed that my photograph of a German
bike from the mid-century, sporting springs instead of rubber tires did not
come through. In your case, the map of this great event did not come
through. See what you can do about it.
Cheers, and hope to see some of you slackers on the weekend rides out of
Walker's and Dundas Sts.
Tibor.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Campbell (Mountain Bike Adventures)
[mailto:davidc@...]
Sent: December 10, 2004 6:06 PM
To: Oakville Cycling Club
Subject: **OCC** Downtown Oakville Race Classic 2005 Update



Hello everyone,

Just a quick note to say that plans for the Downtown Oakville Race Classic
set for Sunday July 17, 2005 continue to progress. Today we had a 2 hour
meeting with the Town of Oakville to agree on a race course and I am pleased
to say that we now have a course design that the Town of Oakville Roads Dept
and the Oakville Parking Operations has approved. The course is a technical
counter-clockwise circuit consisting of 6 left turns and 2 right turns and
is shown in the attached Word file. The start/finish wil
l be located in the downtown square which will also serve as the awards area
and possibly an area for food and music during and after the race (The BIA
may want to continue the event throughout the afternoon with live music and
food provided by a couple of the local BIA members). When you look at the
course you will see that it will be very spectator friendly, especially
coming out of turn #8 (Navy St) onto Lakeshore and will allow awesome sprint
speeds because it is a slight downhill to the finish line, a
nd this stretch will likely be where most of the spectators will gather in
the various coffee shops etc.

The next step is to get the official blessing from the downtown BIA but this
may be more of a formality since the president and the BIA Chairwoman have
both promised their 100% support for the event. So perhaps it may now be
time to start thinking about getting the club involved and a race committee
formed. Starting in January there will be lots of help needed from as many
people who can help. One item that came up today is that we must distribute
a letter by mid-Jan to all residences, business and churc
hes within the affected areas to advise them and allow them to raise issues.
We will also need to think about setting up a dedicated website containing
all race and road closure info, etc. For the actual event we will need as
many volunteers as possible.

Once again, the July 17th is the same weekend as Midnight madness where
crowds in the core reach 60,000 people, and it is also the mid-way point for
the Tour de France which should be a great way to get people interested in
the event. As for the actual racers, July has been typically a slow month
on the road calendar and the only other event scheduled this weekend is a
race in Ottawa, so we should see lots of interest from all off the southern
Ontario clubs, of which Oakville is conveniently located in the
exact geographic middle of all these clubs!.

Hopefully we can all get 100% behind this event and help out in some form.
If it is a success it could very well become an annual event and a great way
to promote, grow and generate revenue for the club.

Cheers,

Dave Campbell

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