From the Coasters friend Jon in Kansas City…

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that were going to have a “GRAND OPENING” of the bike shop in 2 weeks.
For those of you who haven’t heard or know where it is were RENTING vintage bikes in english landing park.
which is in Parkville Missouri.

8 East street Parkville Missouri, 64152. Its about 30 feet from the railroad tracks on the north side.
we also have some parts for sale and bikes.
The opening is May 1st “Saturday” from whenever you want to show up till dark! I want to do a bike show in our lot so if you have a cool bike or 2 and want to just show it off you more than welcome to bring them.
The store opens at 10:00 am and closes around 8:00
there’s also a car show across the tracks at 4 pm till 9 so it should be a full day.
there’s food, drink in town and a nice playground for the kids.

If interested or have any questions e-mail me or call if you have my number which right now is the store number. 816-679-1101

thank you, jon

From a Craigslist ad…

Lowrider Bikes And Tricked Out Bikes
hay to all with tricked out bikes and lowrider bikes we did a ride to day the turn out was ok but we would like to have more people so next week on sat. 17th at pawnee an K15 at the autozone at noon bring what u got and lets ride downtown we will end up in old town we can have some fun the more the better if we get enough people we will do a contest all who inter the contest puts in $2 and the winner will win the lot so more inter more money you can win hope to see you all there if you have any questions call 316-670-2495 ask for Daniel

I spent a couple of days reorganizing and uploading our videos. I’ve moved them all to the new CoastersBC Youtube channel. Videos are organized by event type and year.
Access it any time from the Coasters TV link in the sidebar at right.

It was bound to happen I suppose. What made this club great (carefree attitude, whimsical nature & lack of organization) was also the cause of it’s demise. Just got word earlier today via one of those letters you have to sign for that an older, more organized, more respected local bicycle club (which for now will go unnamed) has bought the rights to the Coasters Bicycle Club name & it’s events with plans to fold it into their existing club. Changes will take effect April 31st 2010.

If you want to stick around I suggest you trade those apes for drop bars and your cut-offs and sandals for spandex and clipless shoes.

Me… I don’t look so good in spandex so I’m outta here

Wichitan Robert Garcia is an avid cyclist, bicycle commuter and also becoming a familiar face at Coasters events. You might recall seeing him most recently at the St Patrick’s parade on his newly restored black Schwinn Traveler.
Robert was just featured in the inaugural issue of Adventure Monkey magazine. Adventure Monkey is a magazine with content that covers cycling in Kansas. Read more about it here.
You can purchase Adventure Monkey here.

May 14th – 15th, 2010, Friday – Saturday

25TH ANNUAL SPRINGTIME IN OZARKS FESTIVAL & SWAP MEET, I-44 Swap Meet Grounds, Springfield, Missouri

*EVENT*: Swap Meet. All types of Vintage Motor Scooters, antique bicycles and vintage motor cycles. Gates open 4:00pm Thursday, May 13th. Plenty of dry camping available. Many local motels and good restaurants available. Directions: Go East on Kearney Street from Glenstone, or West on Kearney Street from 65 Bypass to 2700 block, take Neergard Street, North for 1 mile to I-44 Swap Meet grounds.

CONTACT: Robert Cantrell at: ( 417 ) 779 – 7411 or ( 417 ) 818 – 4278.

Found here.