Welcome to the Orange County Wheelmen
AMTRAK PRE-REGISTRATION (Qualifications)
Do you want a guaranteed spot for the coveted Amtrak ride? Here is all that you have to do:
- Effective May 8, 2012 - June 15, 2012 only
- Join OCW (NEW MEMBERS ONLY - Full membership, Ind, Family or support levels)
(only one early Amtrak registration allowed per family and support membership ) - Purchase the 2012 OCW club Jersey in registration
- You will be emailed a link that allows you to register early June 17 - June 23, 2012
- This is limited to the first 100 registrations
GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Pete Van Nuys
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ORANGE COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION
Pete has held every job in the bike biz at one time or another, including European tour leader, tour organizer, tour leader trainer, retail and wholsale ad director, and marketing director.
Check the Calendar for more Information.
Ride Of Silence Start 2011
Ride of Silence 2012 - May 16, 2012
See the Calendar for more information and link to the web site
OCW riders to be sure to be in your Jersey
Upcoming Events
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Relive the 2011 Orange County Wheelmen rides -
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OCW NEWS and INFORMATION FEED
Current Ride Registrations
Amtrak Registration Opens 6/24/2012 @ 7:00 am
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Happy Birthday to OCW members born in May
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| Nicci | Stebbins |
| Greg | Kibble |
| Alan | Dauger |
| Jim | Kehr |
| Dennis | Shintani |
| Margie | Sepulveda |
| John | Ryder |
| Tom | Iwata |
| Karen | Thorpe |
| Theresa | Nelson |
| William | Hunt |
| Ray | Kim |
| Jim | Pugh |
| Ernie | Rodriguez |
| Matthew | Geyer |
| Bob | Fairfield |
| Steve | Loughran |
| Randy | Kiefer |
| Aaron | Sher |
| Dale | Lawrence |
| Dean | Chi |
| Jason | Dovel |
| Les | Kristof |
| Alex | Rivas |
| Daniel | Ogaz |
| Bret | Offutt |
| June | Perez |
| Bill | Zolg |
| Alan | Wright |
How to join the Orange County Wheelmen
To Join Orange County Wheelmen it is a 2 part process:
PART 1 - FOLLOWS
- Create your OCW website login Click here to create your account
- Suggested Account ID is First Name Initial+Last Name+Birthyear. (i.e. Michael Lee 1956 would be mlee1956)
- Create Password for account login (8 Characters min)
- You will be sent a confirming email with a link to confirm your account
- This website will safeguard your data. You will need your account ID and password to access all the features of the website.
- PART 2 FOLLOWS:
- LOGIN WITH YOUR NEWLY CREATED WEBSITE ACCOUNT
- Join OCW. If you are an OCW Associate Member you can upgrade to a regular member.
- Join OCW Click here to Join OCW
- Use your account ID number for rider ID. You will find that in Member Stats/Rider ID
- Enter the month you joined in the renewal month field and the date you joined in the indicated fields. You will find that data in Members Stats/Join year
- If you received a discount code in an email sent in December 2011 that will be entered in the shopping cart area. contact Mike Lee or Jim Walker if you lost it.
- After finishing this process come back and vote in the poll.
OCW on the Road, Meetings and more
Jersey Day - March 10, 2012
Copies of this photo are available, contact Mike Lee
Michael Lee, LCI
Events, Webmaster
Phone: 949-458-0205
Recent Comments
Michael, thanks for the suggestion. My gut feeling is that a change to a compact chain ring with an 11-28 cassette is the way to go if I want to finish and enjoy this century. I'll keep training and climbing on my current set-up for now. Thanks again.
Dean, The first time I rode the Bear, I changed my gearing to a Compact Chain ring 34-50, and I used an 11-28 cassette. This also required a change from a short cage derraileur to a medium cage. My regular cassette is a 11-25. You can also go to a triple. You should be climbing on many of your training rides. Also look into The Saturday century series with Chuck Bramwell, Look on this website under training. There are many in the Club that do regular rides up GMR. Good Luck !!
New centurian/average cyclist, this will be my 3rd century this year, but the Ride Around The Bear will be the first with serious climbing. I did the Hemet Century and Tour de Palm Springs Century with a standard chain ring 53/39 and 12-27 cassette. Is my gearing too big to use? Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
Many of you are already thinking and preparing for the registration launch on June 24. But we here at OCW have been working on this ride for the better part of 8 months now. We hope you are training and/or maintining a training regimen to complete the century to enjoy the train ride back to Irvine. IF you are visiting this site we have been adding information and clarifying data. Be sure to be familiar with the registration information NOW. We highly reccomend you create your website account… Read More
The cost has not been determined according to Mike Lee. Mike said it probably will stay the same as last year, but we will know as soon as we get new budget. Train 72.00 No train 42.00.
Jim Brewer