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GirlzGoneRiding May 2013 Update

Monday, April 29th, 2013

WendyKimGGR NEWS!

Bells Bells Bells Bells! In accordance with CORBA & IMBA, GGR will start to incorporate using BELLS on their bikes. Bells and communication on the trails with the hikers and equestrians is key to keeping all users of the trails aware that bikers are coming.

GGR is now soliciting sponsors for their main event Oct 20th at Malibu Creek State Park. This is also a CORBA membership drive and fund raiser. Please email wendy@girlzgoneriding.com for details on becoming a sponsor. It’s EASY!

Please check out the GGR Calender!
http://www.girlzgoneriding.com/calendar/

Rides and special events are posted on the FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/350083721682365/

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GirlzGoneRiding News

Thursday, March 28th, 2013

On Wednesday night, March 27th, GGR and SOCAL Endurance Ladies Team were treated to a video chat with the Queen of Pain herself, Rebecca Rusch! For details, please go to the blog here: http://www.girlzgoneriding.com/2013/03/27/the-queen-of-pain-herself-miss-rebecca-rusch-treats-ggr-socal-endurance-ladies-team-to-very-special-video-chat/

April 7th: GGR presents Wenches with Wrenches Workshop! This workshop is FULL! Event is closed! To be held at Pasadena Cyclery. We will simulate typical breakdowns on the trail and fix them ourselves.

April 27th: GGR OPEN RIDE! Sycamore Canyon, Newbury Park. All levels welcome and beginners encouraged to join! Sign up is required. Please sign up on the Face Book page for details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/584789154864505/?ref=3

October 20th: SAVE THE DATE! This is the main, annual GGR event at Malibu Creek State Park! Back by VERY popular demand is the beginner skills clinic! The GGR event is a FREE event! We will also be having a CORBA/IMBA membership drive, raffles, silent auctions, 4 levels of XC rides, and of course the famous swap meet! Cycle World Chatsworth: http://cycleworldbikes.com/, will be back for their 3rd GGR event for ride support and offer light bike repairs before and after the rides.

GGR now has a calendar page so you can keep up with all the events going on! http://www.girlzgoneriding.com/calendar/

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GirlzGoneRiding March Update

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Look what is coming up soon with GGR!!!!!

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Sunday April 7th: Wenches with Wrenches workshop!

This is the 1st of our series of FREE workshops for 2013. To be held at Pasadena Cyclery: http://pasadenacyclery.com/. The workshop will run from 10am-3pm and will include recreating scenarios that happen on the trail we can repair ourselves so we don’t have to walk the bikes out. You will be working on your OWN bikes and using your own tools. Pasadena Cyclery will provide some tools if you don’t have them. They will also offer all GGR members a great discount for the day on items purchased the day of the clinic. We will only be taking 15 GGR girlz for this event due to the special attention the mechanics will need to give each and every one of us.

An event page for this will be on the GGR Face book page soon. Sign up IS required. This is a FREE bike repair clinic.

Saturday April 27th: The next GGR OPEN ride! Beautiful Sycamore Canyon in Newbury Park. Open to ALL levels and beginners encouraged! A sign up will be available soon on the GGR Face Book Page. Sign up IS required.

Slide1Sunday April 28th: GGR Girl Jenny Johnson is also doing a fund raiser to help raise funds for materials and tools desperately needed to maintain the trails in the San Gabriel Mountains! MWBA is a non-profit chapter under IMBA just like CORBA. There will be pancakes, prizes, music and swag! Please see the flyer for details!

Please look for a save the date for the big GGR annual event which will be at the end of October again. We will be having another CORBA/IMBA membership drive, silent auctions, raffles, skills clinics, back by VERY popular demand also will be the swap meet, and of course the awesome, incredible joy of cross country rides in our beautiful Malibu Creek State Park.

Want a GGR jersey in our beautiful GGR purple with CORBA/IMBA on your back?? You can order them year round now and have them shipped directly to you! http://www.girlzgoneriding.com/ggr-jerseys/order-final/

And last but not least, a VERY special ride in MARCH to the club who started it all! NORTH RANCH! They are celebrating 25 years of riding! Many of the GGR girlz are also North Ranch riders. It is where a lot of us met! For more information on North Ranch which is a co ed mountain biking group, please go on the site here: http://www.nrmbc.org/

Saturday, March 2: 25th NRMB Anniversary Ride Description: We will retrace the very first ride the NRMB ever did.  We start at Cheseboro and work our way to the top of the Edison Power Roads.  Then we drop down and “somehow” cross over to the Albertson Motorway.  Then we go down Dead Cow and work our way west along the Power Roads just north of Kanan dropping down into North Ranch for a picnic. Meet at 9:30 am and be ready to depart 15 minutes later. 
Endurance Rating = 3.5, Technical Rating = 3.5, 15 Miles and 1500 Feet of Climbing, About 3 Hours, Ride Leader: Randy

GGR would like to thank their year round supporters as well, please support them as they support our local women’s cycling community:

Cycle World: http://cycleworldbikes.com/

CORBA:          http://corbamtb.com/

Please visit GGR on our blog page, then become a member on the FACE BOOK PAGE! We post all events, work shops, rides, trips, injuries, stuff for sale, fitness threads and more. This is a women’s only mountain bike group that is FREE. All ages and levels are welcome! We have teenagers to women in their 70’s who ride with us!

http://www.girlzgoneriding.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/350083721682365/

For any questions at all, please feel free to contact GGR Girl Wendy Engelberg: wendy@girlzgoneriding.com

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GirlzGoneRiding Feb 9th Open Ride Report

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

From Wendy Englelberg: Today was the 1st of many I hope of GirlzGoneRiding (GGR) OPEN RIDES. A GGR Open Ride is a cross country mountain bike ride open to ALL levels…… especially encouraging beginners. EVERY GGR ride is a NO DROP ride at ALL LEVELS…NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND. We have a sweeper on EACH ride to make sure of this.

We had well over 50 riders signed up between the GGR event page and private emails, and with so many girlz being sick with the flu, we had many cancel. There were 38 riders respectively still!

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The intermediate and advanced riders started at Caballero Canyon single track (“Cabby”) while the beginners started at the TOP of Reseda. Goal was for all levels to meet at the HUB for group photos, announcements and BLING YOUR BIKE contest winners at 10am.

Cabby definitely could use some work. Some of the ruts are very, very deep and the narrow side to ride on is getting more eroded all the time. Not sure how we can repair those huge ruts though without hauling up a ton of dirt…….. Always a hoot to descend…but a rough one to climb in parts!

At last we all made it to the HUB and did some mingling and photo’s. It was a beautiful day with no wind and the views being clear. Funny, the few men at the HUB didn’t know what to make of all these women on the trails! I love it when we leave men speechless! Of course we made them take our pictures!

0209130835bTaking FIRST place in the BLING YOUR BIKE contest was GGR Ride Leader Ojai Ruth who did one outstanding and creative job blinging up her rig! She took home a gift card from CYCLE WORLD.

2nd place was the fast and furious DESI who also took home a gift card from CYCLE WORLD. And 3rd place was one of our beginner ride leaders LISA who went home with some CORBA socks!

So after some more fun photos, we split up into our respective groups. My group, the intermediate and advanced riders all went down Rogers Road (Back Bone) to the Old Oak Tree. Trail conditions were absolutely 100% perfect! We had 24 women and teenager girlz on this trail and they all ROCKED IT! Everyone was all smiles.

Now time to turn around and ride Back Bone back out. Some of the grades are very steep and rocky but these girlz ate them up for breakfast! I pulled over once on the longest climb to get my heart rate down…then started back up and was fine. I really enjoyed this trail with the girlz and especially knowing how happy they were, made me happy too.

Now off to retrace our tracks to the HUB for decision time! Having virtually all the riders back at the hub…we split up yet again. All but 8 riders opted to start heading back. So myself, Lisa and Ojai Ruth took the 8 riders for some extra credit. We opted not to go all the way to the other side for another 15-20 miles, yet decided on the Eagles Rock Loop which was more managable time and energy wise. It was a good call. All 8 girlz were still riding fresh and strong!

0209131232aSo after a quick rest after the Eagles Rock loop and a few more photos, us extra credit girlz headed back to Cabby. Once we got to the trail head at Cabby, Desi and Laura decided to keep riding while the rest of us were ready for some food! We all were having a great time on the descent. We stopped at the fork where you can descend on the short, steep hills or go to the left were the big, deep ruts are. I descended 1st down the steep part so I could get my camera ready. All did a great job and looked amazing!

Then as I was getting my camera put away, 2 very nice gentlemen stopped me and asked about the group since we were such a nice, friendly group of girlz! Love hearing that! Well, if you know anything about me, you know I’m not shy……so……..I stayed and chatted with these two cute, adorable men. Anyways, we ended up having lunch at the same place and come to find out one of their girlfriends had no other girlz to ride with…didn’t seem to know anyone! HA HA HA HA………..Well, he came to the right place now didn’t he! I gave him my GGR card and told him to make sure his GF signs up on GGR.

I wanted to thank each and every one of you that joined us today. I can’t begin to tell you how honored I am that you joined our group of women and was so stoked to ride with every one of you incredible ladies. I so much enjoyed riding with you and I hope that you all had just as much fun as I did and met some more women you can ride with!

We had a wonderful group of teenagers come out that race on one of the local high school teams which was awesome to have them join us so they could also see how many women of ALL ages and levels there REALLY are out there and all we have to offer!

Big huge thanks to our ride leaders today: Kimberly Cofield, Lisa Granata, Ojai Ruth, Michelle Friend and special mentions to Cystal (I made her go 1st all the time because she is the fastest and I trust her), and Charlotte for staying with the girlz so I could ride the extra credit with the others.

Also a thank you and much respect to the high school team that came out today. I was very leery of having high school kids on our women’s ride. I have to tell you that these girlz conduct was outstanding! I think I was worse behaved than them! Thank you young ladies! You are welcome anytime to join us for all future GGR events.

Please keep a look out for the Wenches with Wrenches workshop and the next GGR Open ride which will be at Sycamore Canyon in Newbury Park. Yet another amazing area that welcomes ALL levels of riders!

You can view more pictures of the event at the GGR Open Ride Photo Gallery!

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Save the Date – April 7: Wenches With Wrenches

Monday, January 28th, 2013

From Wendy Engelberg of Girlz Gone Riding

backpack contentsWith the help of Matt Lay at Pasadena Cyclery and the enthusiasm of the fabulous Jenny Johnson and Sue Lafferty, we are going to start a new series of events: Wenches with Wrenches!

Our 1st event will be at Pasadena Cyclery April 7th, Sunday from 10am-3pm with a break for lunch. This is a FREE maintenance clinic! But not just ANY maintenance clinic, this is geared 100% to the GGR group and the women attending.

The main focus will be on repairing mechanicals that happen on the trail. Not just changing flats, but repairing derailleurs, chains, putting your brake pads back in, etc. We will duplicate situations on the trails and fix them so we can ride our bikes out, and not have to walk them out. We will limit the group to about 15 so the mechanics can keep a close eye on each girl and give more personalized direction. We will also include suspension set up which we have found out many, many girlz don’t know how to do themselves, basic maintenance that is simple to do every month, how to maintain tubeless tires and O so much more!

The more we educate our women, the better consumers they will become, and that forces our bike shops to treat women customers the same as everyone else, if not better.

I will be asking the girlz that sign up specifically what they want to learn to repair, and we will try to accommodate everyone’s request. I will post an announcement on the GGR blog site as well as put up an event page because sign up will be required and limited to 15-20 girlz.

I hope you all can attend, this is a great opportunity in so many ways and the beginning of something even bigger. We already have a second workshop set up for July 28 at Newbury Park Bicycle Shop.

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Girlz Gone Riding open ride February 9, 2013

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

LADIES SAVE THE DATE!!!! SATURDAY, FEB 9TH!

GGR on the advanced ride in October 2012

GGR on the advanced ride in October 2012

GGR (girlz gone riding), will now be having quarterly open rides starting Saturday Feb 9th! A GGR open ride is open to ALL LEVELS especially encouraging beginners. The Feb 9th ride will be in Reseda and an event page will go up here mid January where you will need to sign up for the Open ride. Sign up IS required: https://www.facebook.com/groups/350083721682365/. We will have beginner, intermediate and advanced levels of XC rides that will combine both single track, double track and fire road. LADIES ONLY PLEASE….Plan is to have 4 or 5 GGR OPEN rides per year in different locations. This is not only a great way to learn the trails, but meet other women your level to ride with! Let’s have a blast and see the GGR jersey’s out in full force! Sign up, helmets, mountain bikes, water and smiles required! Make sure to sign up on the GGR Face book page for all upcoming events and read our blog at www.girlzgoneriding.com.

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Girlz Gone Riding Event Was Fabulous, Dawlings!

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

On Sunday, October 28th, GGR (Girlz Gone Riding), had it’s annual big event at Malibu Creek State Park with 100 girlz attending! GGR is a group of mountain bike girlz of all skill levels from beginner to Pro. We post all of our upcoming activities including rides, hikes, races and more on the GGR Face Book page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/350083721682365/

100 riders plus volunteers and vendors enjoyed the day at Malibu Creek State Park

The annual GGR event was a very special day for women only and our mountain bikes! A day of learning new skills, networking, support, guest speakers, demo’ing bikes, learning new trails, finding new women to ride with, and getting some AWESOME swag and raffle goodies! We had 5 levels of cross country rides, mini skills clinics, raffles, auctions, a swap meet, demo bikes, free tech support to adjust your bike, fabulous swag and MUCH more!

This event we tried some new things that were a huge success and everyone seemed to just love!

The biggest hit of the day was a new element introduced during the event. A mini beginner skills clinic! The 1st event, we noticed that many of the beginner girlz needed help with everything from proper position, braking, shifting and more. Since the 1st GGR event turned out to be 50% beginner riders, we really pushed to make this happen. And thanks to our own GGR coach spectacular Christine Hirst….it happened. Christine knows her skills and is an outstanding instructor! She is a pro down hiller and certified Better Ride Instructor.

We had over 50 beginner girlz signed up for clinics, so we split them up. The advanced beginners went on their ride first, while the beginner girlz learned some new skills to work on prior to their ride! We had 8 year old girlz to women in their late 60’s and everyone of them looked like a different rider at the end of their clinic! It was so amazing to see everyone smiling, having fun and REALLY improving their basic skill set so they can not only apply it on the trails, but now have more confidence and fun because they have those skills.

For the advanced riders this year we added the NEW MILLENIUM trail and finally got a NEW, Updated switch back count! Drum roll please………………………….91! YES! I said 91 switchbacks! O yeah, u girlz asked for a challenge! You got one! WELL DONE!

Also new this year was a swap meet which was such a huge success that instead of going under 1 tent it ended up getting spread out over a MUCH larger area! EVERYONE brought stuff! We swapped gear and got some SMOKIN deals on everything from armor, tubes, jersey’s , forks and more! We will need 3 tents for the swap meet NEXT year!

We were also lucky enough to receive so many incredible product donations this event, we were able to have a silent auction! Darn wish I got to bid! Great stuff!

Thanks to CORBA & Hammer Nutrition, & Thorne Performance, we were able to have a FUEL station this year too! Ice water, fruit, cookies and lots of incredible drink mixes from Hammer Nutrition and Thorne Performance!

Yet one more incredible addition this GGR event was the LIV/GIANT demo truck! Liv/Giant brought a TON of all WOMEN SPECIFIC demo bikes for the ladies to try INCLUDING women’s 29rs!!!!!! It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to try ANY women’s specific bike at our local shops, so this was such a treat!

There were so many wonderful supporters for this event, I have to mention them all. I thank them so very much for supporting women’s cycling & this incredible annual event for women!

CORBA, Cycle World Chatsworth, LIV/Giant, Hammer, Thorn Performance, Ryders Eye Wear, Luna, Shredly, Loeka, G-LOVES, Skin Car by Marla, Road ID, Dirty Girl Designs, Trek Woman, Cotz Skin Care, Lara Weithorn MFR, Paceline Products, Fogtech, Zoic Clothing, Polar, Team Sparkle.

CORBA has photo galleries of this event for you to view.

To purchase your incredible pictures from the event, please go to one of the following websites and support the wonderful photographers who volunteered their entire day to capture these moments for us!

http://www.precisemomentsphotography.com/girlzgoneriding2012

http://auphotographysales.net/#/gallery/girls-gone-riding/au-ggr-2/

From Wendy Engelberg and Kim Cofield, GGR Event Coordinators.

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First Girlz Gone Riding Photos Posted

Monday, October 29th, 2012

The Girlz Gone Riding event, held October 28 at Malibu Creek State Park, was a huge success! If you were unable to attend, you can get a feeling for the excitement through the photo:

Other galleries of photos will be published over the next few days so keep an eye on the photo galleries home page to catch the updates!

100 riders plus volunteers and vendors enjoyed the day at Malibu Creek State Park

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GIRLZ GONE RIDING, a Ladies’ Day of Mountain Biking, is Oct 28

Monday, August 27th, 2012

GIRLZ GONE RIDING is inviting all you ladies out there to a very special day of mountain biking on Sunday, October 28th at 8am at Malibu Creek State Park.

This FREE event is open to ALL LEVELS of riders. The day includes a mini clinic for beginner riders, 3 levels of cross country rides, goodie bags, tech support by Cycle World, raffles, a CORBA/IMBA membership drive, swap meet and more!

Beginner ladies, you will be welcomed with open arms! Take the mini clinic then go hit the trails with our GGR ride leaders! Just coming off an injury? Come and get yourself going again, along with a lot of others! Find other women that have the same schedule so you can ride together! Interested in racing? We will have Pro’s there to tell you all about it! You will meet other women to ride with, share your stories, network, get info and just INSPIRE each other!

CYCLE WORLD is the GGR’s official tech support team for the 2nd time! They will be available for light repairs and adjustments you may need for your bike BEFORE AND AFTER the ride! So… if you need something adjusted, be at the park at 8am and go see CYCLE WORLD for your bike adjustments. Their service’s are free, but please tip them for their hard work! They spend the day working on our bikes THEN come out on the trails and support us while we ride too!

After your ride, enjoy lunch, bring your used stuff to swap or sell at the swap meet, giveaways, inspirational speakers and more!  Please bring your own picnic lunch, drinks. Heed and water will be provided. Please bring your own water bottle for water. Chairs or blankets are also encouraged. Picnic benches are limited.

THIS IS A DAY JUST FOR US LADIES…. SPREAD THE WORD! REGISTRATION GOES LIVE IN SEPTEMBER HERE:

http://www.girlzgoneriding.com

THIS IS THE DAY TO NETWORK, INSPIRE AND RIDE!

We look forward to meeting and riding with all of you fabulous ladies very soon!

GGR SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 10/28/12

8:00am:

Cycle World open for Bike adjustments and picking up your demos

CHECK IN/REGISTRATION OPEN@ CORBA BOOTH:

Registration: All riders MUST check in, sign a waiver. Registration will hand out raffle tickets, name tags and point riders to the goodie bag table to help themselves. Registration will remind everyone that every rider MUST check BACK in at the sign up table.

8:30amish: Welcome by the GGR committee and introduce ride leaders

8:45amish:Group photos

9:00amish: PRE RIDE Inspirational quick speech by Christine Hirst

9:15amish: Advanced and Intermediate rides start.

9:15amish: Beginner Mini Clinic starts: clinic is about 1.5 hours, then riders go out on the trails

1pmish: Meet BACK in Park and SIGN BACK IN AT CORBA BOOTH

LUNCH!

1:30pmish: Lunch, swap meet, guest Speakers, raffle

3:30pmish Closing notes and THANK ALL SUPPORTERS

 

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