Sunday, November 1, 2009

History of the WNBG


March 30, 1994- Craig G and Russ H purchase 1st mountain bikes

 
 





March 1, 1995- Dave G purchases his 1st bike

March 26, 1995- Dave’s first ride at Pinkney

April 1, 1995- Rod L begins riding with us


 






April 7, 1995- Mike S’s first ride (Pinkney)





June 25, 1995- First race at Ruby Farms (Rod, Dave, Russ, Craig)








June 14, 1995- first Wednesday ride to the West end, Craig, Mike & Jim

Aug 2, 1995- Craig, Mike, Rod start riding the West end with the Rockets.  Craig & Mike finished off the year (till September) riding with the Rockets on Wednesday night


July 3, 1996-
Craig, Jim, Mike, Rod riding with the Rockets consistently on Wednesdays

July 17, 1996-
Dave joins the Wednesday night ride

June 11, 1997- Ali joins on the Wednesday night ride. Leaving from Craig & Dave’s house on Church St and picking up Ali on the way out.

1997- Jim, Ali, Dave, Mike & Craig all rode the west end trails 

May 26, 1999- Liam joins us. We begin riding every Wednesday from Ali’s house.

September 1, 1999- Mark Jacques joins

 



May 30, 2001- Jason M joins
 
 












July 18, 2001- Scott E joins
May, 2002- attendance is now being kept to determine beer order
 
June 28, 2002- first “camp” weekend

December 29, 2003- first Christmas party at Jay’s

June 13, 2006- Rob C joins 



June 28, 2006- Ian R joins 

May 24, 2007- Matt M joins


 



Sept 27, 2007- first Michigan game

 

June 4, 2008- Russ Hodgson “officially” joins

 



July 13, 2008- Jeremy Comartin joins

September, 2009- Jason purchases "Black Beauty" and hands down "Iron Dragon" to Jeremy

December, 2009- Jeremy purchases a "real" mountain bike

January, 2010- Mark J purchases road bike 



May, 2010- Rob purchases road bike


May 12, 2010- First group road ride 

June, 2010-  The group now has a name.... Chain Reaction Cycling


April 2011- Chain Reaction Cycling now has jerseys!












May 2, 2011- Jay Lamb officially joins


August, 2011- Mark get his new Rocky Mountain Trailhead