Meet at: Meet at the Royal Ashburn Golf Club, 995 Myrtle Road West. Please park in the north-east corner of the lot by the driving range. The Club House washrooms will be available for our use. As parking is limited, we encourage riders to car pool.
Date: August 9.
Departure Time: 7:00 am 160 K 8:00 am 100K SHARP!
Tour Hosts: DCC Ride Committee
Ride Lengths:100 km, and 160 km
RSVP: By August 6.
SAG Support: The SAG wagons will supply water, granola bars, fruit and other snacks. Make and bring a lunch and the SAG will carry it for you to the lunch stop.
Meet at the Royal Ashburn Golf Club for the 2019 DCC Century Ride. Riders can bring their own towels & toiletries and use locker room showers after ride. Afterwards we will have a post-ride party on the Golf Club Patio. Members will be responsible for purchasing their own food and beverages.
.gps files: Click below to obtain gps files from RWGPS. When on the site open “overview” tab, then “export” tab to find gps files. At the bottom of the export column links can be found for information on downloading files to various Garmins.
Meet at: Vio & Liliana’s House
2270, Durham Regional Road 3 (old Concession Rd. 8), Enniskillen, L0B 1J 0Enter via Allen Weams alley on North Side of Con. 3 across from General Store. Please note that Old Scugog is closed north of Hampton, best to take Columbus Rd/Con 3 to get there.
Date: July 28
Departure Time: 8:30 am
Tour Host: Vio Moraru
Ride Length: 68 or 76 KM
Starting at Vio’s house, BBQ picnic to follow.
Bring lawn chairs, BYOB. Vio to BBQ Ribs & Salad.
Please click here to sign up for this ride so Vio knows how much food he needs.
Meet at: Wilson Fields Sports Complex 235 Colborne St W, Lindsay
Date: Sept 17
Arrive at the park: 830 am
Departure Time: 9:00 am
Tour Hosts: 2017 DCC Century Committee and the SAG support team.
RSVP: Please click here to indicate you are participating
Ride Length:107km
SAG support will supply water, eload tablets, granola bars and fruit.
After the ride we will have a post-ride pizza party. Bring your refreshment of choice keeping in mind this is a public park. Don’t forget to bring a lawn chair.
Roman Manko, member of our club and club president passed away in a tragic cycling accident on April 5, 2015
Remembering Roman Manko
Roman was a lifelong cyclist who joined the DCC in 2009. He had an immediate impact on the club. From the beginning he made an effort to get to know everyone, host rides, was involved in all the club functions and he was always quick to help out a new club member, or anyone in need. When club members describe Roman they use words such as vibrant, visible, smiling, upbeat, positive, kind and generous. One word often used to describe Roman was loud! He could always be heard in a crowd.
Roman and the Sport of Cycling
Roman had an incredible love for the sport. He was a walking cycling encyclopedia with knowledge of all the grand tours and the participants. Roman also had what must have been the largest professional cycling clothing kit collection one person could possibly have. Roman would often let us know when he had ordered a new kit, but would never mention it when when wearing it for the first time. He would just show up with a slightly different “proud” look about him.
Personal Betterment
Roman wanted to be the best he could be at any sport or hobby he took up such as cycling, darts or woodworking, and probably many other aspects of his life. He loved to push himself.
One example of this is when he signed up for a weekly Sunday morning 2 hour spin class for the first time. Finding the first class very intense, Roman climbed off his bike declaring “I can’t do this…!”. After taking a breather, looking around at everyone else still on their bikes, he climbed back on and said “I can do this!” He attended every class for the rest of the winter, pushing himself, determined, and wanting to move forward.
On rides Roman was always a leader, never a sweeper. He had certain determination to increase his average speed over a ride or over the course of the year. If the group was going too slow, he would drift off the front protecting his own average speed. Most suspected he was sending a quiet message to the rest of us saying, “come on you guys, you’re being really pokey today!”
Roman was renowned for rarely missing a ride, showing up for Saturday, Sunday and the two weekday rides on a regular basis. He would log 10,000 km in a season. That’s like riding from here to Regina and back, twice!
People
Roman always made everybody feel welcome In the parking lot before every ride, Roman would make a point of going around and saying hello to everyone that pulled in, whether with a handshake, a greeting or a shout across the parking lot. It wasn’t only at rides, one time when Roman went to the bike show he knew someone who was working a booth. He made a point of looking for the booth, saying hello to the person and continuing with some conversation. Even though that meant standing in the middle of a women’s cycling clothing booth for 10 minutes!
Being a car enthusiast, Roman could recognize people by the make and model of the car they drove, honking and waving at everyone he knew.
He loved sharing a good laugh. Roman liked to find a really good joke and circulate it by e-mail. He was always quick to bring up a funny picture or joke on his phone. Sometimes it seemed like Roman must have spent every moment off his bike searching the internet for the next great laugh.
Roman’s sudden passing is a reminder never to take friendship for granted. On every club ride it will now feel like someone is missing. In spirit, however, Roman will be with us covering every mile. For many of us every time we park our bike at Tim Hortons, or at a bakery somewhere on a country road, or raise a glass of Guinness at the end of a long, hard ride, Roman will be remembered.
He wasn’t the strongest,
he wasn’t the weakest,
he wasn’t the fastest,
he wasn’t the slowest,
but you know what he was?
He was One of a Kind!
