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Welcome to the Southern Indiana Wheelmen Bicycle Club!
Home of the Harvest Homecoming Bicycle Tour!
We've been riding the beautiful roads of Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott and Washington Counties (to name a few) since 1975. We support all aspects of safe cycling in our local community, the state of Indiana and the nation. We hope to see YOU soon!
UPCOMING CLUB EVENTS
ANOTHER CYCLING 'YEAR' HAS STARTED -- AND DUES ARE DUE AGAIN!
October 1st marked the start of the 2025-2026 SIW cycling year, so dues are due again. Dues are $12 for an individual membership, and $15 for a family membership. Renewing is as simple as clicking here and then chosing the on-line (PayPal) or the mail-in option.
PLEASE NOTE that paying for the Annual Banquet DOES NOT renew your membership. These are now two separate transactions. If you are not sure of your status, please contact the SIW Statistician.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS AND THANK YOU TO OUTGOING OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS
At our November 18th club meeting, we elected club officers and board members for the 2025-26 club year. Our officers will be: President: Peggy Bannon Vice-President: David Campbell Treasurer: Robenette Rosenberger Calendar Coordinator: Jeanne Garrison-Young Statistician: Bryan Huhnerkoch Webmaster: Joe Bolan Harvest Homecoming: Bob and Susie Peters The following offices are still open (so we are looking for members to step up to the challenge): Secretary Newsletter Editor Our 2025-26 Board Members are: Joe Gutmann (Chair) Chris Brown Bob Hamilton Randy Hein David Rausch Mark Rieger Maggie Ridge Thank you to the outgoing officers and board members for their service to SIW: John Neichter (past President) Cindy Barranco (past Secretary) Peggy Bannon (past Newsletter Editor) Larry Meadows (past Board Member) Stan Wheeler (past Board Member) New officers and board members will assume their posts as of the Annual Banquet (December 5th).
THANK YOU TO OUR HIGHWAY CLEAN-UP HEROES!!
Robenette Rosenberger lead another successful Highway Clean-Up at Silver Creek High School on Saturday, November 8th. Roben says: "Thanks to all who came out yesterday to make the Adopt-A-Highway clean up once again a HUGE success! We had awesome weather and had a crew of 19 people which included one new member, Kate Rieger and one previous-member, Julie Wilson. With the lessor turn-out of volunteers, we resorted to skipping two sections of the highway and we still collected 27 bags of trash and 2 separate piles of large debris. The highway looks amazing. So, give yourselves a BIG pat on the back because you are all true trashers!! "Thanks (to) Dennis Campbell and his homemade muffins we had an awesome breakfast. As usual we had some fun/crazy finds on the highway that we all chuckled about. Then Joe Gutmann challenged each crew to a most collected fireball liquor bottles. My crew won by one bottle. Lean Ann Poindexter and I found some coins and donated to my donation cancer piggy coin jar. Good Times!! "I want to tell you, I know I've said this before, but I just have to say it again, it is so nice to see the club come together and give back to the community as we did yesterday. It was truly a rewarding and a fun day hanging out together! "Trashers: Susie Peters, Peggy Bannon, Micheal Poindexter, Micheal Truitt, Maggie Ridge, Leah Ann Poindexter, Kate Rieger, Julie Wilson, John Hamilton, John Neichter, Joe Gutmann, Jeanne Garrison-Young, Jan Campbell, Dennis Campbell, David Richard, Clare Burkhart, Nancy Lovett, Barbara Thorn, Carole Sutton "Thanks again for all who turned out to make yesterday a huge success and I hope to see you all in the spring for the next Adopt-A-Highway clean-up!"
SIW DONATES TO DARE TO CARE FOOD BANK
On November 20th, SIW donated $2000 to the Dare to Care food bank at the Floyd County Library location. Due to a matching funds donation, our donation was increased to $4000. Proceeds from the annual Harvest Homecoming Bicycle Tour finance this donation. To read more about how Dare to Care helps Kentuckiana families, click here. Photo caption: Representative of Southern Indiana Wheelmen (SIW), Dare to Care and the Floyd County Library pose in the Food Pantry in the Floyd County Library. They are, from the left, Robenette Rosenberger (SIW), Aaron Williams (Floyd County Library), John Neichter (SIW), Danielle Densford (Dare to Care), Melissa Merida Foster (Floyd County Library), and Peggy Bannon (SIW).
SIW MEMBERS ATTEND OPENING FOR NEW MULTI-USE TRAIL IN BORDEN
On May 2nd, SIW members attended the grand opening ceremony for the new multi-use rail-trail held in Borden, Indiana. This portion of the trail stretches from Deam Lake to New Pekin, paralleling Indiana Route 60. The trail surface is fine crushed limestone outside of the towns. It is fairly smooth but there are some washed-out sections between Borden and New Pekin. There is a bridge out in Borden, but it is easily bypassed on Main Street. The trail is blocked at a bridge just after the 'Welcome to New Pekin' sign.
CLUB MEETING MINUTES ARE AVAILABLE
Find out the latest club happenings! Read the minutes of our November 18th Club Meeting by logging in to the MEMBERS page.
HARVEST HOMECOMING TOUR T-SHIRTS AND JERSEYS ARE STILL AVAILABLE
We still have limited quantities of our 2023 Harvest Homecoming T-shirts available at Clarksville Schwinn. We also have limited quantities of past-years T-shirts and jerseys at reduced prices.
WINTER 2025 NEWSLETTER IS OUT!
The Winter 2025 Sprocket is out. Click here to read all about it!
Thanks to all of our Wonderful Sponsors!
