Month: May 2025

Trek Inspection and Rides

Inspection and rides will go as planned tomorrow but post ride party is postponed. Sign up ASAP so we can give Trek a head count. 

TREK INSPECTION RIDES

Weather looks good so Trek Inspection Rides are on for tomorrow May 3.  Great chance to get your bike inspected for free before the start of the cycling season.  Getting your bike inspected is for your safety.  For more details go to the website main page where you can sign up.  Also there will be rides from the Trek Store so be sure to sign up for those rides.  Thanks, Manny

TREK INSPECTIONS

Weather looks good so the Trek Inspections rides are on for tomorrow May 3 as scheduled.  Here is a chance to get your bike inspected for free as we start a new cycling season.  More details on the main page of the website and a place to sign up.  There will be rides from the Trek Store so be sure to sign up for those rides. Thanks, Manny

MAFW May 2025 Newsletter Available

Hi Freewheelers,

Watch the website to see information on upcoming events, communication from our club president and ride coordinator, and ride guidelines.

Our Social Coordinator, John Storey, is always in need of your help for a number of our activities. Please email if you are interested: social@mafw.org

MAFW has 2 main guidelines or mottos that riders and ride leaders should follow:

  1. Nobody rides alone including the ride leader
  2. Ride leader sweeps for all rides except B and faster

Just a reminder that the May 2025 edition of our NL is online. To read: click https://mafw.org/newsletter/

What’s in this issue:

  1. Trek Bike Inspections Saturday May 3, 2025
  2. Connect with the MAF Bike Club on Social Media! – Tracy Brown
  3. How an Arkansas City Became an Epicenter of the Biking World – submitted by Len Friedman
  4. Bicycle for sale – Fred Bennett
  5. Morris Area Freewheelers Foundation’s CPR & First Aid Course Update – Rob Greenberg
  6. 2025 NCOA Photography Award Contest—This is 75 – submitted by Pete Aldrich
  7. Message from the President
  8. Message from the Ride Coordinator
  9. 2025 Calendar
  10. How to Check and Adjust Bike Disc Brakes – Tony Marchand
  11. Poet’s Corner – John J. Burns
  12. Photo Gallery
  13. Bicycle Adventures 2025
  14. Cycling Guides – Mark Jay
  15. People Cycling
  16. Safety – Paul Malinowski
  17. Club Sponsors
  18. Club Officers

Enjoying your E-bike, trike, gravel bike? Let’s hear about your experience.

Folks, many of you have taken some interesting trips this year or in the past. So why not share your stories & photos with fellow club members?

We welcome any articles that you feel would be of interest. WHEN YOU HAVE A SPARE MOMENT, PLEASE SEND ME A STORY AND PICTURES OF YOUR BICYCLING ADVENTURES. Submit any information by the 24th of the preceding month at the following email address: newsletter@mafw.org

If you have any issues with your login credentials, please contact Membership Coordinator Lisa Gentile at the following email address: membership@mafw.org

Good Reading.

Thanks,

Patricia Kipp Editor

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