SEMINARS

SATURDAY
9:30: Bike Fit - Your Key to Great Cycling
Whether you're riding around the block or around the world, good bike fit is the key to your riding enjoyment and performance. This seminar will cover topics related to common misconceptions about bike fit and help you learn what a "good fit" really means. It will help you learn what to look for in a bike fitter and the the bike fitting process. Richard Schwinn will help walk you through how to make sure you get the best possible fit for your next bike.

Richard Schwinn co-founded Waterford Precision Cycles in 1993. Waterford's Fitmaster rider fitting machine helps bike shops and other fit professionals develop the best possible fit for their clients. Richard has earned Fit Kit's highest level of certification and offers instruction with Waterford's regular bike fit seminar program.

11:30: Get your Private Bike Lane in
Southern Wisconsin
Learn about cycling in South Central Wisconsin including local advocacy issues affecting cycling in cheese land, how to get there, what the terrain and roads are like, and for those that like trails, all about the 30 year old Sugar River Trail and the new Badger Trail from the Illinois-Wisconsin State line to Madison and beyond. Learn about trail flora, wild life, colorful towns, Swiss heritage, railroad history, and the spooky Stewart Tunnel, which is completely dark as you enter providing a tunnel experience only 2 hours from Chicago. Roads, trails, hills, flats, beer and cheese--what else could a cyclist want?

Sharon Kaminecki is owner of the Earth Rider Cycling Boutique and Hotel. Sharon made the transition to small business ownership four years ago after working in Information Technology for major corporations in the Chicago area. She is a League Cycling Instructor (LCI #1104) and is Certified as a Bicycle Technician. Sharon volunteers as a member of the Wisconsin Governor's Bicycle Coordinating Council and with the Friends of the Badger Trail, a group that promotes the first rail-trail in the country that crosses two State lines.

1:00: Bike Fit - Your Key to Great Cycling
Whether you're riding around the block or around the world, good bike fit is the key to your riding enjoyment and performance. This seminar will cover topics related to common misconceptions about bike fit and help you learn what a "good fit" really means. It will help you learn what to look for in a bike fitter and the the bike fitting process. Richard Schwinn will help walk you through how to make sure you get the best possible fit for your next bike.

Richard Schwinn co-founded Waterford Precision Cycles in 1993. Waterford's Fitmaster rider fitting machine helps bike shops and other fit professionals develop the best possible fit for their clients. Richard has earned Fit Kit's highest level of certification and offers instruction with Waterford's regular bike fit seminar program.

SUNDAY
11:30: Get your Private Bike Lane in
Southern Wisconsin
Learn about cycling in South Central Wisconsin including local advocacy issues affecting cycling in cheese land, how to get there, what the terrain and roads are like, and for those that like trails, all about the 30 year old Sugar River Trail and the new Badger Trail from the Illinois-Wisconsin State line to Madison and beyond. Learn about trail flora, wild life, colorful towns, Swiss heritage, railroad history, and the spooky Stewart Tunnel, which is completely dark as you enter providing a tunnel experience only 2 hours from Chicago. Roads, trails, hills, flats, beer and cheese--what else could a cyclist want?

Sharon Kaminecki is owner of the Earth Rider Cycling Boutique and Hotel. Sharon made the transition to small business ownership four years ago after working in Information Technology for major corporations in the Chicago area. She is a League Cycling Instructor (LCI #1104) and is Certified as a Bicycle Technician. Sharon volunteers as a member of the Wisconsin Governor's Bicycle Coordinating Council and with the Friends of the Badger Trail, a group that promotes the first rail-trail in the country that crosses two State lines.