February 22, 2009 Winter is on the run.....

ONLINE REGISTRATION for the 2009 Border Raider Ride is now open and busy, we are getting riders signing up everyday from all over the country. If you prefer snail mail a PDF form is also posted online for your use. We are not mailing out the traditional ride flyer this year. We have embraced the world wide web to spread the word for us............ and many of our former riders will have an email in their inboxes from Paul this weekend. However, Paul and I are old school and it just did not feel right not to mail out something.......... so we are looking to do some postcards soon.

Our Border Raid ride does not have much of a prison following, meaning very few personal cars follow along the ride route during the week. One year our ride had only 3 staff cars and 2 personal ones for 150 or so riders..... But, if you have a spouse that would like to come along and volunteer and help for some or all of the ride let us know and we can work things out with you. We can even entertain the idea of a rider/volunteer combo.

Sadly, the high gas prices last year put the hurt on us as well as Shuttleguy. They informed us that due to the high gas prices and
the fact they lost money last year on several rides they had decided not to join us this year. We are sure sorry and hope they can come back and join us in the future..... We are exploring other vendor's for this kind of service and will let you know.....

I hope you can begin to get out and ride soon...... I know I will be doing that as soon as this winter thing lets up. As always I am jealous of you folks in the southern part of the country that do not know the joy of "cabin fever".

The staff of Border Raid is meeting monthly now and getting ready for another great week of cycling fun....
Keep the rubber side down and get out there and ride...........
Jim Turner