Kelowna Killer Beez

Great News! As of today 5,814 people have sent in their message of support. The benefits of protecting this corridor are many, including providing safe bicycle access access to UBCO (picture shows Hwy 97 rail underpass). A detailed study of all benefits will be completed this month. In an effort to help gain more support, we have added some resources to the website (http://www.okanaganrailtrail.ca/resources.php) to help explain the benefits. The benefits study will be posted here when completed. There is also a flyover presentation of images taken from an airplane of the railway (thanks to a volunteer with flying and photography skills). It is well worth checking to see the magnitude of the beauty of this corridor. As of today no operator for the railway has provide a feasible plan to continue operations of the railway. There are only 3 more weeks before this period ends and the offer to governments begins. Please continue to spread the word and have people visit the website http://www.okanaganrailtrail.ca to send their message of what future they would like see here in the Okanagan. Sincerely, Okanagan Rail Trail Initiative www.okanaganrailtral.ca

Lawrence is encouraging riders to join him on Monday afternoons for a ride. Here are the details:

Starting May 12: Monday Ride.  Meet at 5.30 pm at Kelowna Cycle.  If there is a hard or long ride on Sunday, this will be a recovery ride (30-35 km, heart rate in recovery zone).  If the Sunday ride is a moderate ride, then this will also be a moderate ride of 50 km.  NO DROP.

Email him if you have questions: lawrence.berg@ubc.ca

Reminder: Our Sunday Beez rides are starting at 9am now (from the Bean Scene headquarters on Dickson Road).

Next Sunday, May 4, the regular Beez ride will start at 10am and cover about 60km.

After that, from May 11, we will be starting at 9am. For all Sunday rides, meet at the Bean Scene Headquarters on Dickson Road by the Landmark buildings.

Plenty of daylight is now available to start our Wednesday rides. Meet at 5pm in front of Kelowna Cycle, and we will leave promptly at 5:05pm. Sunset coffee afterwards. This social ride averages 35km around East Kelowna.

The Westside ride is also starting this week, and always welcomes any rider. As per Michael:
“So as always, weather permitting we will start the West Kelowna Friday ride at 09:00am from Starbucks on Louie Dr. Come and enjoy a hilly ride.”

A few of you have been looking for information on the “Return of the Beez” 🙂 Well, it has been warm enough so no reason to delay the official start of the cycling season any longer. The roads also seem to be swept sufficiently to ride.
So whoever is ready and has his/her bike dusted off, come out to meet like-minded riders for a social, non-drop ride. We meet at 10am at the Bean Scene headquarters on Dickson Road across Landmark. Later in the year, as it gets hot, we move to 9am but for now the start time is 10am.
Ride is social and probably starts with 45-50km in East Kelowna at this time of the year, increasing to about 75km once the legs are acclimatized. We ride different routes and decide on the morning of the ride where exactly we are going.
Any questions, please let me know (comment on this blog).