2009 SPRING FEVER BIKE RIDE

PILOT CLUB OF SULPHUR SPRINGS

 

                                                                                                                    

                               

 

The 8th Annual Pilot Club Spring Fever Bike Ride is scheduled for Saturday, March 21, 2009.  Ride coordinators for 2009 are Judy Laub and Jane Goldsmith.

 

 

The ride is scheduled for a 9 a.m. start at the Hopkins County Civic Center.  Registration begins at 7 a.m. or you can find a registration form on the Pilot Club website – www.sspilotclub.org.  Registration fee is $30 per rider.  The Pilot Club is expecting 400+ riders for the 2009 Spring Fever Bike Ride.

 

 

Prizes are awarded for the 1st place finisher in each ride (male and female).  If there are over 300 registered for the ride, 2nd place is also paid. 

 

 

Over the past 7 years, almost 2,000 riders have been to Sulphur Springs to ride in the Spring Fever Bike Ride.  Riders come from Sulphur Springs, the DFW area, Greenville,  Gilmer, and Bogota and from as far away as Austin, Houston, Waxahachie, Wichita Falls, and Ashdown, TX, Tulsa, OK, and Little Rock, AR.

 

 

For the 2009 Spring Fever Bike Ride there will be 12, 22, 42, and 53 mile rides.  You can view the ride maps at www.sspilotclub.org.  Click on the “bike review” link to access reviews posted by riders from prior years on www.bicycle-stuff.com.

 

                                                                       

                  

 

 

There are 6 rest stops for the riders with one every 8 – 10 miles providing rest rooms, fruit, drinks, homemade cookies, and other goodies.  Pilot Club members and volunteers man SAG wagons all along the ride routes to provide mechanical and/or medical assistance for the riders.

 

 

All riders finish up back at the Civic Center grounds for Hopkins County Stew cooked that morning over open fires in huge cast-iron pots.  In 2008, eight pots of stew were cooked.  The stew is cooked by Pilot Club members, Co-Pilots and community volunteers – including Pilot Club member Judy Gregg, Hopkins County Beef Stew Champion.  Pilot Club members provide homemade desserts to complete the meal.

 

 

The Pilot Club is very appreciative of the community support provided for our Spring Fever Bike Ride.  This is our only fundraiser of the year and would not be possible without the tremendous community support we receive.

 

 

 

                                 
                                  Hopkins County Stew will be featured treat for lunch, following the Bike Rally. Here the Chester and

                                       and  Patterson families gather to prepare the stew at last year's rally, on the Civic Center grounds.

                                                                                            

 

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