December+Campus+Clubs

=﻿UW-Manitowoc Campus Clubs and Organizations=

** The UW-Manitowoc Bicycle Club ** The new interim student services assistant dean, Chris Beloin, announced that he will be forming a bicycle club here on campus for all you bike lovers. This will be the second club Beloin has started; the first was about 3 years ago at UW Washington County. This group will be formed to promote bicycle advocacy, organize bike rides, promote bicycle awareness and safety, and encourage physical activity. One service the club would provide is workshops on bike maintenance. A tune up, for example, costs $25-30 and what they actually do is adjust derailleurs and brakes, which is less than thirty minutes of work. Another service is to true the wheels, which costs about $40-80. The club would show bikers how to do these jobs themselves. Beloin would like to see the UW-Manitowoc Bike Club try to help bring in more tourism for the community with new trails and bicycle accessibility. The big goal would be to try and connect Point Beach State Park to the City of Milwaukee. Doing so would create a flat easy ride for many beginner cyclists. A related goal is, as Beloin stated, “to create a paradigm shift at the county level, because most new roads that are being built are only available to motorized traffic and we would like to see more bike lanes and/or wider shoulders for bikers.” The first meeting will be on Tuesday, October 26th, and for additional information contact Chris Beloin either in his office at (920) 683-4707 or by email at chris.beloin@uwc.edu. Louis Soja