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Welcome to an unofficial Marin Cyclists web page. Dan Lyke is playing with ideas for a web page for Marin Cyclists, and general information about bicycling in Marin, and has set this up to give examples of what he thinks Marin Cyclists should offer.
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2007 Marin Century
2007 Marin Century has been run, thank you so much for your part in making this a success!
Rides & Reports
We've got a number of basic rides. Several of us even occasionally carry GPS units. We should write up cue sheets (Much like the Santa Rosa Cycling Club's 10 Great Sonoma County Rides page or the Spoke Folk Sonoma Wine Country Rides), maybe even maps (see the Bovine Bakery Run or the Mt Vision Ride for an example), and have Google Earth tracks for some of the rides.
Dan Lyke: I have made something of a start on this in Marin County bike rides, but I think I need to get a voice recorder so that I can note distances and what roads are actually marked.
I like the Newsletter but I think we can attract more pictures and ride reports if we have a more immediate process for getting content on the web site. I've recently heard members talk about issues in finding a place to upload their pictures, and say that they thought their ride reports were too long for the newsletter. Server space is cheap enough, and these materials are of general enough interest, that the club should support this.
Membership
We need to be hyping the benefits of membership! And as well as having the link to the sign-up PDF we need to have a link to the Active.com sign-up page.
Dan Lyke also thinks that one of the membership perks should be inclusion in a services directory on the web site. We've got several members who offer bicycle related services or businesses, but I think it's also reasonable to look to members of the club when we're looking for, say, general contracting or financial planning services. This is also a way to address, up-front, spamming and commercial content: You're a member, you get your own user page on the site, we can set up categories that you can include your user page in, and you can put links to your personal business or whatever on that page. All external links are excluded from search engine rankings automatically, so what you as a business owner get from those links is traffic from other Marin Cyclists members who've had good dealings with you.
Things The Club Can Do
We largely leave the political stuff to MCBC, but Mike Howe tells me of various things that are of specific interest to road cyclists that it'd be good to have a political action network together so that we can get people to show up to county board meetings.
I'd like to see some better signage in varous places.
Are there places lacking bike racks that we could enhance?
