I'm team mechanic and an assistant coach for El Cerrito High School Mountain Bike Racing. We're a decent sized team, all from the same school, which puts us in D1 competing against other schools like Berkeley High and Albany High. Some of the teams are smaller and many individual schools have too few riders to support a team, so they form "composite" teams that include riders from several schools. San Francisco Composite is a powerhouse, as is Oakland Composite. This year I've noticed a couple new Composite teams that warm my heart. Tops on that short list is Richmond Composite. Richmond, California is a rough town in the East Bay, with a comparatively depressed local economy, and a lot of lower income families. The Richmond Composite Mountain Bike Racing Team offers a great way to expose lower income and minority teens to the outdoors and to cycling. They also put a bunch of extra effort into including non-English speakers and girls. Richmond Composite has a fundraiser happening this Wednesday, March 28th at Clif Bar Headquarters in Emeryville. If you are an Easy Bay bike person and want to be involved, here is info about the event:
https://richmondcomposite.brownpapertickets.com/ If you are not an East Bay bike person, or you are busy on Wednesday night, but want to help out an incredible all-volunteer team, here's their gofundme site: https://www.gofundme.com/richmondcomp I'm almost certainly going to be there Wednesday night, and I'll be trying to parlay my donation into a jersey. Richmond has some SWEET low-key team jerseys. Scroll down: https://www.richmondcomposite.com/who-we-are/ Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
