Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  Anyone who's been rushed for time and skipped out on a full meal rather than be late to the group ride can attest to that. The staff at the Nanaimo Superstore have teamed up with a local elementary school to help fund/supply their breakfast program.  Making sure that all their students have a balanced breakfast to start their day off right.

For one of our fundraising events for this program, the store manager Greg Welgan has committed to ride a spin bike at the front of the store Wednesday March 15th for ten minutes for every hundred dollars we raise.

Matt and Jacqui from the Swethaus are letting us borrow two of their spin bikes so I can ride along and keep him motivated.  As it stands right now we've raised enough to give him an hour on the bike.

I'm throwing out the members if anyone is interested in donating to this cause to help out a local school and add some time to the clock for Greg email me at palleus@hotmail.com

As well if anyone is free wednesday morning at Nine am and wants to come set your trainer or rollers and help me keep him motivated fire me an email and we'll make sure we've got space for you.

For my part in addition to riding with him on Wednesday I also promised that if any of the other stores on the island wanted to donate money to make him sweat I'd ride out to collect.(I didn't know winter was going to last forever)  So Monday I'm riding to Campbell River and Tuesday I'm riding to Victoria.  If anyones free and wants to put in some miles I'd love the company.  Send me a message palleus@hotmail.com

Cheers.

Lots of stuff was sold and fun was had at the first annual MIVA gear swap. It was a good way to get together and talk bikes, gear, or whatever.We are already looking a larger location for next year and ways to get more buyers. If you have any ideas send them to miva.gear@shaw.ca.

Thanks Jana for a well organized event and Lee for hosting!

Last call to sign up for a table for the Gear Swap this Saturday Email Miva.gear@shaw.ca

As well even if you're not interested in picking anything up swing by and check out the proofs and the fit kit for this years MIVA kit.  We've got another killer Design from Gio.

We're less than a week away from our first Club Gear swap and we've still got some tables available. This is a great chance to clean out your closet or your garage of the parts and kit that you don't use anymore.  Or come by and see what's up for grabs and find some great "New to You" items.

To reserve yourself a table send an email to Miva.gear@shaw.ca or else be left out in a rainy parking lot to try and move your kit.

The Swap runs from 9am to noon Saturday Feb 25 and is being held in the amenity room of 2109 Meredith Road.

We're also looking for a couple of volunteers who are able to help with set up at 8am. Please email Miva.gear@shaw.ca if you can help out.

Thanks

I bet most of us have lots of cycling gear that is building up in our garages. Well here is a chance to get rid of it and make someone else happy. MIVA is holding it's first ever Cycling Gear Swap on Saturday February 25th. This will also be a good chance to socialize with other members and plan some rides or get physched for our race schedule starting in April.Please limit this to used bikes and parts. See poster attached for more details including how to book a table for your gear.