Thank you very much for giving the club another wonderful year! As how we contribute precious time, donations, and tireless efforts into our activities and agendas which resulted into a very festive X’mas party! And it’s getting better year after year.

We had more variety of food than any of our previous festivities! Thank you to Marissa, Egay, Abe, and everyone! The potluck list is long! Thank you all! We had more raffle items! Thank you to Francis, Manny, and everyone who donated. Thank you Dennis and Jonas for having Banning Bikes help us out with the raffle items. I think we had enough sodas, water, juice, and ice. Thank you to William and everyone. For the first time, we had an assortment of wine, champagne, sparkling cider, and beer! Thank you to Rosalie, Tim, Pete, and everyone. Thank you for everyone for being social drinker. Thank you to Mandy, Egay, and Jess for taking care of our music and PA system. Thank you to El for the wonderful guitar music. Thanks to Jess, Ramon, and Arnold for the wonderful entertainment!  The Christmas decors were very nice! Thank you to Frank, Dennis, Eric, Ed, Cyp, Arnold, and Rosalie for the decors and arriving early to prepare the place. Thank you Frank for setting us up with a great venue!

We had more certificates awarded compared to all previous X’mas parties! Thank you all for submitting your votes! Thank you all for your numerous accomplishments and contributions to the club. Thank you to Dennis, Manny, and Ed for the wonderful certificates. Thank you to Rosalie for the BAACY trophy. Very nice!

I also noticed more families celebrating with us. Thank you for being with us! You just don’t realize your support plays a big role to the club.

With the swimming pool was just steps around us, I’m glad that no one fell in especially that we had playful kids, a lot of us moving around, and some had beer or a glass of wine. Thank you Arnold for taking care of us!

Overall, it was a very festive mood and this will not be possible without you. That jacket you all awarded me was not expected. Thank you to Manny, our officers, and everyone else for your thoughtfulness. I’m still trying to remember who started calling me Chief. I know Rosalie calls me with that. Joel, Deo, and a few more call me that too! Over time, I didn’t know if I wanted to contradict being called that title! Jesse was our first President for four years and that’s why he is still called “El Prez”! It makes me wonder now what will be the title of the 3^rd President, the 4^th, 5^th, and so on. Kidding aside, yes, as most noticed, if I stalled a little more during that short speech, I would probably have tears. I wish it was cold this night so I could wear it to church with the family!

Without you all, without trusting me being your lead, without all the help you have been giving me, without the lectures I have been learning from you, I’m pretty sure I cannot create progress for the sake of the club. I’m very thankful that Dennis is always there to help me. We had spent a lot of time calling each other ever since we earned our positions. Cell phone calls are still weak from our houses and we usually either run upstairs or outside in the cold nights to get a better reception. Actually, Dennis runs out more! Not to mention calls while driving in traffic! To Ed, what can I say? Taking care of our financial matters is nothing less! He always goes to my house if we need to take care of things. Rosalie, she has always been there, my critic, and my ever reliable online support, not to mention the ADOBkits. She became our Yahoo Group moderator a year after me and she learned it fast! And as our website was learned and built by Mandy, she was able to learn that before I did, and this is only a couple of months after! It was a perfect fit for both of us to become website administrators as well. This changed her title to become our Group Collaborator.

Beyond the our main officers, Manny Amit, Arnold, Abe, Luis, Mandy, Ramon, Egay, El, Deo, and a lot more has been around for me for quite a long time now. Thank you for your endless support! William, Arnold, and Donnie have stepped up also. Thank you for your help.

Most important of all and cannot be forgotten, who started this all for me is Ben Aragon, our Yahoo Group Owner, I think he saw potential in me a few months after our on-line forum was created. Thank you Ben, I didn’t realize it will go this far! I was thanking him so much last night not to realize that he was thanking me a whole lot more especially on how the club is looked upon now.

Another discovery of Ben last Feb 2008, was Rosalie. We approached her to help us out as our additional YG moderator. I remember Ben telling me that having her as a moderator will keep us all in check. She accepted the additional responsibility and quickly learned the forum. And we were really kept in check! She keeps me in check too! I can’t thank you enough, Rosalie! You have a big role and the club will not be this credible if you are not around. Thank you for being on my side for the longest time.

It’s been another wonderful year! The synergy is surprisingly still there! For the next 2 months, nothing much is going to happen except for our scheduled rides. Naturally, there are a few ongoing topics that still need to be worked on the side like club insurance by Mandy, membership roster updates, 2011 membership cards, designing casual shirts, ADOBO Velo frameset and wheel set, more stickers, ASTIG qualifiers from our recent TdF Castaic, and more ADOBOkit ordering.

In closing, let’s not forget to thank our love ones for giving us the opportunity to ride bikes and be with the club. Let’s be safe and enjoy precious times with friends and family. Maraming salamat at maligayang pasko sa lahat!

I.                    By-laws -  Mandy, Amang, Jess, Victor

1.       Ratify per Mandy

2.       Updates and changes will be scheduled as needed.

II.                  Non-profit Organization – Mandy, Victor

1.       Discuss

III.                League of American Bicyclists - Mandy

1.       Club Membership

2.       Insurance

IV.                Memberships - Arden

1.       $45 fee on or before December 11 X’mas party

2.       $50 fee after December 11.

V.                  Organized or scheduled rides:

1.       Weekday Rides - El

2.       Carson Wednesday Nights – William

3.       Saturday Liberty Park - ?

4.       Sunday Duarte GMR - ?

-          Rosalie to update weekday rides.

PART 2: LET’S SEE WHAT THE ADOBO VELO INTERNET IS COOKING!

VI.                History – Thanks to Albert and everyone who assisted him

VII.              Website – Mandy, Donnie Marquez

1.       Is there a need for monetization?

2.       Welcome Donnie as Website administrator.

3.       Latest changes:

a.       Officers and committees

b.      By-laws removed and replaced with a link from the intro box.

c.       History webpage – changed to blog

4.       I’m planning to remove myself as collaborator on May 2011. Mandy is aware.

VIII.            Yahoo Group - Arden

1.       Cannot add new picture. Memory indicator does not show status.

2.       The option for member to upload pictures is removed.

3.       Welcome Arnold Irving as YG moderator.

4.       I’m planning to remove myself as moderator on May 2011. Ben Aragon is aware.

PART 3: NEW CLOTHING, STICKERS, AND BIKE CASE

IX.                2011 – 2012 ADOBO kits. Rosalie.

1.       Distribution

2.       Left-over balance or payments from 1^st order

3.       2^nd batch of orders – Turned in.

4.       3^rd batch of orders – ongoing

X.                  ADOBO Velo T-shirts For Sale – Arden, Luis

1.       Luis will have a design ready at X’mas party. - Arden

2.       I asked Manny Amit if he can make a large print to display at Party. - Arden

3.       Officer t-shirts

4.       For sale shirts

XI.                ADOBO Velo Stickers – Arden

1.       Need a volunteer to sell stickers.

2.       I’m planning to add to raffle items during the X’mas party. – Done.

3.       I will give the money collected to our treasurer until all are sold.

4.       Reorder more if needed

XII.              Bike Case – Arden

1.       Need someone as lead to manage fees and storage.

PART 4: Forecasting Year 2011

XIII.            USCF and ADOBO Velo racing

1.       2011 License – William, Arden

2.       ADOBO Velo racing – Deo and William is forming a team.

3.       Club License to be renewed by William.

XIV.            Tour de Francis Castaic – Francis, Mandy

XV.              X’mas Party – Arden, Dennis, Ed

1.       Raffle items – Dennis

2.       Catering –Dennis

3.       Club house preparation – Frank, Dennis

4.       Awardees – Dennis, Arden

5.       Certificates – Manny Amit

6.       Expenses and reimbursements – Ed Morente

XVI.            2011 Club Race Series - ?

1.        Plan for – William, Deo

2.       I’m planning to remove myself from any responsibilities. – Arden

XVII.          Upcoming Officer’s Election

1.       Coincide 2011-2012 officer list to By-laws – Arden, Amang, Mandy

2.       I’m not planning to continue as an officer or a committee member but will answer any questions from the new President. - Arden

3 – Tour de Poway with MMCC – I heard El went and participated. Thanks!

9 – Bass Lake Power House Double - ASTIG qualifier

9 – there’s an event at Orange County… Julius Sinocruz

16 – MS Bay to Bay 150 mile – ASTIG qualifier

17 – Solvang Double Century – ASTIG qualifier

17 – Long Beach Marathon Bike ride

23 – Santa Barbara Century with 9,700 feet of elevation gain. This is an ASTIG Qualifier event (Frank Natividad)

30 - Death Valley Double Century – ASTIG qualifier 

November events: ?

December

4 - TdF Castaic

11 or 12 - Christmas Party – Possibly moved to Sunday due to venue availability. Back-up Saturday venue is also being planned.

January 2011

8 - Dennis is arranging a 50-mile bike ride for boys scouts from ages 12-17 years. Workshops and training rides are also being scheduled. Volunteer are needed. This will be an ADOBO Velo event. Stay tuned.

Ramon Reyanga – Cat A Race Series Champion

Rosalie Kneebone – Cat B Race Series Champion

Francis Ignacio – Furnace Creek 508

Fab 5 Crew: Vince Pacheco, Manny Amit, Mandy Genato, Alan Messara, and Imre Udvardy. Thank You!

Francis has finished 5 centuries this year:

1.     Death Valley Spring – 9,000 feet of elevation gain. March 12

2.     Central Coast Double – 14,000 feet of elevation gain. May 8

3.     Alta Alpina 8 Pass Challenge – 20,300 feet of elevation gain. June 12

4.     Terrible Two – 16,480 feet of elevation gain. June 19

5.     Grand Tour – 8,500 feet of elevation gain. June 26

But no Gold Thousand Mile Club member posted yet!

For new members, please let me know if you have completed any ASTIG qualifier events before.

By-Laws: Volunteers: Victor ‘Dakila’ Caampued and Amang Aguila

-          I think we are ready to post our by-laws.

-          Amendments can be done at any time.

-          Amang Aguila did the majority of the work. Let’s all thank him for the efforts.

-          Victor Caampued, Jesse Agrezor, and Dennis Gorospe made all lot of good suggestions to from the start and pointed out the importance of having by-laws.

-          I mentioned that I’ll make the officer’s responsibilities section more accurate.

Donations for our friend for a possible Cruz Frameset.

-          This will be word of mouth only. No postings will be done to avoid spoiling the surprise.

-          If you were present in the meeting, you know who we are talking about. Please spread the word but not to him.

-          Officers can gather your donations.

-          Let’s make the gift available on our Christmas Party.

-          Arden to get more details from Tony and staff.

-          If his frame is not damaged or  the final amount donations does not materialize for a frameset, then we can give the donations for his first-aid and medicine supplies. We can also buy a same component that was damaged. Let’s target the most expensive component we can buy from the donations.

2011-2012 ADOBOkits:

-          2011-2012 new uniform design by created and updated by Luis Pita. Thank you Luis!

-          The art work is finished and submitted to Champ-Sys.

-          First batch of order list was started and will be submitted very soon. The plan is to submit them approximately 6-weeks prior to last week on November for distribution and be worn at our Tour de Francis Century Ride.

-          Other items such as cap, gloves, shoe cover, shirt, T-shirt, etc. will be designed by Luis very soon. More on this later.

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Stickers for sale:

-          large = 20 pieces @ $10  - 14 left as of today.

-          medium = 25 pieces @ $5 - 9 left as of today

Christmas Party:

-          Venue being determined. If Frank’s venue is not available on Sunday, plan B for Saturday is being considered.

-          Start thinking of who we will nominate and vote for our Christmas Party Awards.

-          Online voting will start as soon as possible and will end on Tour de Francis day to give time to prepare for the certificates. Open for nominations and votes are:

o    Cyclist of the Year (CoTY)

o    Most Improved Cyclist of the Year (MICY)

o    Certificate of Accomplishments (CAcc) and Special Mentions

o    Certificate of Appreciations (CApp) and Special Mentions

-          Next priorities: food catering, nomination of annual awardees (on-line voting), raffle items (donations are accepted), gift exchanges, etc…

-          If needed only, are you willing to help with the Christmas expense? May need to charge for entrance fee.

CATEGORY A: 25 participants

- Ramon had it bagged! This man showed the ropes! It must be the enhanced posole!

- JC, Louie R., Ed, and Pete where fighting for points also!

- Pete had the most improved TT time for this category.

- Either Rosalie and Dennis where in contention for first.

- Eric and Maynard, where battling for 3^rd! But first, our new member Roel danced his way up the hill for a first place finish!

- Dennis was very consistent throughout the series. And as an award, he won the most improved time trialist by 4 seconds!  Congratulations! Check Louie’s time also… how do you manage getting the same time for a long TT??!!

-          I think the bike cases are reserved already.

-          Who else are going?

October events:

3 – Tour de Poway

16 – MS Bay to Bay 150 mile – ASTIG qualifier

17 – Solvang Double century – ASTIG qualifier

17 – Long Beach Marathon Bike ride

23 – Santa Barbara Century with 9,700 feet of elevation gain. This is an ASTIG Qualifier event (Frank Natividad)

30 - Death Valley Double Century – ASTIG qualifier

We can now issue check/s named to “ADOBO Velo Fil-Am Cycling Club”

By-Laws: Volunteers: Victor ‘Dakila’ Caampued and Amang Aguila

-          Just to let everyone know that Amang Aguila made very good stives in getting a good start of out by-laws and constitution. It has been emailed to our main officers and Victor Caampued to add their comments.

AdventureCorps – new sponsor

Cytomax – end of month purchases. –Refer to website and email Wilson @ ordercyto@gmail.com

2011-2012 ADOBOkits:

-          Presented by Manny Amit

-          2011-2012 new uniform design by Luis Pita. We just wanted to let everyone know that we made a big progress in updating the design and add sponsor logos. Manny Amit (2009-2010 ADOBOkit designer), Moderator Rosalie Kneebone, and VP Dennis Gorospe were present during the work.

-          Rosalie research other custom uniform makers and Champ-Sys is still the best deal. She will continue to be very busy in the next months with uniform webpage update, submitting the design, and taking orders, besides family, work, and other priorities. Let's be attentive to any assistance she may need.

-          Cost of each item has not been determined yet.

-          Timeline:

o    Distribute by late November for December 4’s Tour de Francis Castaic

o    It takes 6-8 weeks for the order to be made

o    It takes approximately another 2 weeks to get the design approved

o    Give about a month for Luis Pita to work on the design – completed.

o    Suggested timeline in reverse:

§  Dec 4 –TdF

§  Late November – Receive and sort orders (Rosalie and may need help)

§  Early September – submit design make an order of the uniforms (Rosalie)

§  August 28 – next club meeting. Present it during club meeting – completed.

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Stickers for sale:

-          large = 20 pieces @ $10  - 14 left as of today.

-          medium = 25 pieces @ $5 - 11 left as of today.

-          small = 75 pieces – free to members – 27 left as of today

Unrelated posting in our Yahoo Group and sometimes spams to our email accounts - checking into this.

Christmas Party:

-          Start thinking of who we will nominate and vote for our Christmas Party Awards.

o    Cyclist of the Year (CoTY)

o    Most Improved Cyclist of the Year (MICY)

o    Certificate of Accomplishments (CAcc) and Special Mentions

o    Certificate of Appreciations (CApp) and Special Mentions

-          Need to look for a location now.

·         Can we change the venue to an indoor location? With catering? That allows beer or other liquor.

·         We may need to charge for entrance fee to be able to afford an indoor location and food, plaques, prices, gifts, etc….

I would like to thank all of you for making our 5^th Anniversary celebration a memorable event. Dennis, I thank you for leading the group photo and for leading the picnic’s logistics. I can't wait to see the group photos on-line. Thanks for braving the ladder, Juliet! And as always, thanks to our Agrezor Duo for taking care of the photos and video, seeing many members gathered for the group photo and seeing everyone though the river bed was a delightful sight. I think we occupied the narrow bike path and went through it safely. Someone jokingly told me to just take the freeway! Anyway, it was a good ride, decent pace, and we safely finished it just in time for the anniversary picnic. I apologize for the undecided route, there were a few who wanted Turnbull Canyon to train for next week's GMR TT, other's thought of visiting Long Beach Bike Festival, and I think most wanted to log in more miles.

Moving on, I think the quality of our picnics has stepped up two folds! The reliable catering from Uyan family, the delicious potluck food, desserts, and drinks you all brought in were so good. Was it Kuya Ricky who picked-up the food? I think this defines our Pinoy-style picnics to a new meaning. We even got Dennis and Frances cooking Paella at the park! Believe it or not, this type of festivities is one of the many reasons why many members keep renewing their memberships year after year. And as the club’s popularity is out, new memberships have increased dramatically since 2009; just try noticing the greater numbers participating in our scheduled rides.

Have you all noticed all other group rides along the beach? These clubs has been around for a while now and they looked like our ride group from a couple of years back. I even saw a small group just after our first restroom break, about 10 of them, all wearing black Capo uniforms where one was waving with his thumb down to us! That just made me smile!

So more on this month, there’s 3 more double centuries, a KOM stage, Tour of California to watch and volunteer, there’s a Century at Ojai. And most important of all, our sponsorships, our inter-club Time Trial event, us featured on ADOBO Nation TV May 16^th show, and the May 23^th Tour of California’s Stage 8 ride that Rosalie and Wilson Fonacier are arranging. To add, we will be selling ADOBO Velo logo stickers very soon. Amang Aguila even stepped up to help to get our by-laws started. The discounts that Cytomax sponsorship Wilson F. is working on will be finalized soon. Randy Domingo touched base with me again about non-profit registration, club’s mailing address, and trademarking. In addition, the staff of San Pedro Grand Prix will be delighted to see us volunteer and help during the event on Father’s Day.

Lastly, to Dennis, Arnold, and all potluck volunteers; to Rosalie for endlessly taking care of our ADOBOkit ordering and website updates; to Ed for always taking care of the membership roster and balance sheet; and to members who volunteers and members who get’s assigned a task; all for the development of the club… I’m confident that all 2010 members or not and our Yahoo Group friends are very thankful for all your efforts.  I hope you don't mind me bragging, it just feels super good that we see continuous progress with continuous results.

PS. Come to think about it, your officer’s term is half-way in the 2-year term (President, Vice-President, Club Moderator, and Treasurer positions). May 2009 to May 2010 zoomed by so fast. Give us feedback on how we did and how we can serve you better in this 2^nd year. Pretty soon nominations and voting season for these important positions will come. Please start thinking who is “qualified” and have the precious time to perform the responsibilities… popularity cannot be the prerequisite for these leading roles. Volunteering for the full 2-year term is very welcome and appreciated.

Arden Arindaeng

Club President

2. (add) AdventureCORPS Hell's Gate Hundred, a distance of a metric century will also be included as an ASTIG Qualifier event because this event includes 8,500 feet of elevation gain. Previous event was April 3. Per results from AC's website: Victor Caampued, Ed Morente, Frank Natividad and Imre Udvardy finished the event as a group after 10 hours and 36 minutes of ride time.  Francis Ignacio, Ricky Herrera and Allan Messarra were volunteers of the event.

Finally! After all the changes done, we are ready for the Race Series. Thank you for your inputs and suggestions. I personally apologize for the unannounced posts as they were adjusted accordingly. The only item not decided and will be made on March 21 will be the Category B Criterium Race duration.  Our homepage and the 2010 Race Series webpage reflects it and are updated. Besides that, I don’t know what else needs to be done except to make this happen and make it successful! So here we are, see you bright and early on March 21 Sunday at our Carson Crit. Category B registration will start first. As you should know by now, this is only for 2010 ADOBO Velo members but memberships will also be taking place. Non-members who sneaked in the starting line and raced are automatically disqualified and will be ordered off the race. So, if you are not a member or contemplating about renewing your membership, please take care of this even before you prepare.

So far, the only confusion I’m getting is which category you belong to. The details are posted in the webpage. As far as ASTIGS / 2010 members, they will be racing Cat A. If you need to find out who these members are, go to our website. Previous members who are ASTIGS are not permitted to race until their memberships are taken care of. They will also race as Category A once this has taken place.

So, I’m done working on this till the 21^st.  I just wanted to make sure we have enough blank membership forms, have the current list of 2010 members and ASTIGS, and enough paper for registrations and for the officials to writes notes and results.

In the meantime, train hard and be race ready in 3 weeks!

Arden Arindaeng

President