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I have lots of little news notes this month. First is that if your mailing label has the number 1996 on it instead of 1997 you have not renewed your FLCC membership and are in danger of being shelled off the back and losing contact with the pack. With either this or the next newsletter we will be purging our mailing list of all those who have not sent in their renewal.

For those of you who have not been lurking on the FLCC listserve, we have had a lively discussion on how to attract and hold new riders on the Sunday rides. Some great suggestions have flowed from this and we hope to see more new riders.

Included with your membership is a packet of maps that detail our Sunday rides. Phil Davis has labored hard to update last year’s maps, eliminating extraneous material that is likely to get you lost. If all goes well they will be attached to this newsletter.

Don Andersen assures me that the club jerseys are on schedule for delivery in the middle of April. He says the colors look sharp.

Congratulations to Annette Hanson who has taken hold of the idea of women’s training rides and, well, ridden with it. She has managed to get over 30 women interested in training rides. Read about it elsewhere in this newsletter.

For the past year a "Client Committee" has been working with the planners from Trowbridge and Wolfe on how to spend $80,000 of ISTEA federal funds on a bicycle plan for the city of Ithaca. Mayor Cohen appointed me to this committee and I am happy to tell you that we have forwarded a detailed plan to the City Planning Board. There will be hearings and comments to this board and then to Common Council. Get out to these and be vocal.

I also have been attending meetings of a Hammond Hill Users Group. This is an ad hoc group that came together to apply for a large chunk of money available through the NYS DEC for trail maintenance and improvement. Other groups involved are skiers, horse riders, hikers and ski mobilers. When and if the money is allocated we will need to provide "in kind services" (that is, physical labor) to this project. More to come on this.

I had a call this week from the Genesee Valley Cycle Club and they are interested in getting together a cyclocross series this Fall. The GVCC would like us to sponsor one of the 8–10 races they would like to see in this series. This sure sounds like more of the fun we like. Think about where we could do this.

Finally, it is time for riding. A few brief days of almost Spring and the roads had bicycles on them. The Sunday rides start on April 6. Most of our other rides are starting up. See you on the road.

 Dan Fravil President, FLCC