Bob explains the differences in the Bendix Automatics.

Just as planned we met up at River City Brewery for a brew and then headed over to Heartland Cycles for the Bendix Automatic Clinic put on by Byron of Heartland Bicycle and Bob of Harley’s Bicycles in Hutchinson. A dozen of us watched as Bob tore apart both a Yellow and a Red band automatic hub, explaining the inner workings of each and the causes and fixes of the most common problems with these hubs. It was both an informative and entertaining clinic. Being the bike geeks we are we bombarded Bob with all kinds of questions relating to the bicycle industry which he gladly answered.
Big thanks to both Byron and Bob and Larry for setting this up for us.
Please check out both Heartland Bicycle and Harley’s Bicycles. Harley’s bicycles is one of the oldest if not the oldest bicycle shop in the state of Kansas.

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A few Coasters volunteered to display their bikes today as part of Boy Scout troop 726’s Blue and Gold Banquet at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton church. Their theme was Cycling Through The Years, 100 Years of Scouting. There were 7 of us there showing 16 bikes. We had a good time and the boys seemed to really enjoy the bikes. Thanks Gina for inviting us and thanks to those who participated.

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I received the following e-mail from Gina who organized the banquet…

I can’t tell you how many people told me how wonderful it was to see your awesome bikes – I can never thank you enough on behalf of the entire Pack 726 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton for making our Blue & Gold Banquet so wonderful and memorable!!

Do you think you have what it takes to earn a Boy Scout Cycling Merit Badge? Click here to see what it takes.

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Sunday April 11th. Peddlers Bike Shop 139 East Lexington Ave, Independence Mo.
Starts at daybreak and ends when when the last person leaves usually around 3 or 4.
Vendors Fee is $10 for the swap.
Entry fee for bike show is $5 per bike.
Categories for the bike show are…
Ballooners, Middleweights, Lightweights, Musclebikes, BMX, Custom and Best of Show.
First place trophies, 2nd and 3rd place ribbons.

The Independence Optimist Club will be selling 1/4 lb hotdogs and sodapop.

For more info call Rick at 816-254-6855 or email Bicyclerick@comcast.net

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The Bikes For Tots campaign gave us this plaque for our 2008 contributions. It was also accompanied with a couple of nice thank you letters from Mr & Mrs Charles Williams (founders of Bikes For Tots) and the Salvation Army. These documents will go in the Coasters scrapbook. Thanks to Dan for picking this up as I never got around to it.

Saturday, December 5th at 12:00pm.
The Coasters have been entered in the Delano District’s Christmas Parade. It’s the same day and just 2 hours before the Bikes For Tots parade but I think we can make both. Get double duty out of your holiday costume and/or decorated bike.
Note: For the Delano parade you and/or your bike must be decorated in a Christmas theme. No Santa’s though. There will be only one Santa and he’ll be leading the parade.

Meet at Lawrence Dumont Stadium/Metropolitan Baptist Church parking lot no later than 11:30am just as we do for the St Patrick’s parade. You may want to park your vehicle at the end of the parade route (Douglas & Seneca area) for a quick get-away to the BFT parade..

More info on the parade here.

To celebrate the accomplishments of this year’s Bikes For Tots campaign there is a bicycle parade and party on Saturday, December 5th. The parade starts at the Bourbon Street Bar & Grill (formerly Cy?s Place) on Seneca at 2:00 pm. Line up begins at 1:00pm. There will be chili and all the fixings after the parade at the end point of Club DebRicks. Decorate yourself and/or your bike with a Christmas theme.

Don’t let the cold weather keep you at home this is a fun event! How often do you get to ride with Santa as your escort while the Wichita PD block traffic?

This is the same routine and route as last year. Here’s a map of the route. When it’s time to ride back to your vehicle at Bourbon Street I suggest this route where there is continuous sidewalk.

It turns out Grillmaster Mitch’s injury from the OKC gravity race was something he wasn’t able to just “walk off” and he’ll be spending a couple of days in the hospital.

We wish him a speedy recovery!