There is still a lot going on in Prescott for week 4 of bike month. Check out the events below, and plan to attend! See http://www.prescottcycling.org/ for ride calendar.

Tuesday 5:30 pm. "Bike In" at the Gurley St. Grill for great food and happy hour specials. Remember our goal for "Bike In's" is to have a swarm of bikes take over a place... with nothing more on the agenda than a fun social gathering. Come on out and support a vibrant bike community in Prescott.

Thursday 7:00 pm "An Evening with Cosmic Ray" (Prescott Public Library, lower level "Founders Hall") This is the cultural event of bike month. Our goal is a bike friendly community, and our thought is one way to build community is to grow our local bike culture. We hope this first ever event will become an annual component of Bike Month. For this event we implored upon Northern Arizona bike icon "Cosmic Ray" to come to Prescott for a "meet the author" presentation. Most of us are familiar with Cosmic Ray's Arizona mountain bike trail guide "Fat Tire Trails and Tales" which is now in it's 20th edition with over 130,000 in print. (He also has a couple other trail maps and books to his credit)
Beyond that, Ray is quite an interesting guy, who's life has been indelibly impacted by his relationship with bicycles. Here are a few snippets he was gracious enough to provide which might give a preview of what is sure to be a fun and interesting presentation:

"Uh, sure. I'll be there. I don't know what I'm gonna say for a whole hour, but I'll think of something. Let's see . . . just thinking out loud here . . . possible subjects for talk . . . bike touring (I've got 25,000 miles on the road in Europe plus a few more here and there i.e. Alaska, New Zealand, Canada, North Africa and lots of US not to mention a few trips in AZ) . . . Got in on the ground floor with mtn biking in AZ. Was the 3rd mountain biker in the state as far as I know . . . I started self publishing books and maps 20 years ago . . . now 3 books and 2 maps in print. Fat Tire is in it's 20th edition with 130,000 in
print . . . I make my living hiking, riding my bicycle and doing my books. I teach a bike maintenance class at Coconino Community College. I spun (spinned, spunned, span, whatever) wrenches in a bike shop for 15 years as employee and owner. I have a college degree signed by Ronald Reagan. I sometimes get to row a boat down the Colorado River. I have a wife, son 40 and a daughter 14 (new improved wife). Spent the last 5 summers on road bikes camping in Alaska and Europe with daughter. I like coffee. I own my home in Flagstaff. I have not had a job for 17 years. I am a professional slacker. Put some of that stuff in the flyer and we might get a crowd who might ask questions and then I'll think of something to say." ...Ray