What’s “Just about done”? Our supply of Calendars. Out of about 21,000 copies printed this year, we now have only a few hundred remaining. The Calendars are “out there” doing their job of promoting bicycling events for the benefit of Ohio’s cycling community. The many thousands went out to bicycle shops, clubs, and individuals all across Ohio and in portions of neighboring states. We’d like to end the season with no Calendars…
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2014
At long last the 2014 edition of the Ohio Bicycle Events Calendar is shipping! The first bulk orders of Calendars going to bicycle shops and clubs should begin arriving on Thursday, March 20 … somehow suitable that it’s the first day of spring! While I’m excited to get the Calendar out there, doing its job promoting cycling events across Ohio and in the region, I always start worrying. I’m human. While I…
This year’s Calendar is being printed as I type this. Once the job is printed, it rests as the ink dries, then it is sent on to bindery. In the bindery stage, the large, flat sheets are folded, cut, and stapled into finished books. The finished pieces are then packed and shipped. If your club or bicycle shop needs a supply of Calendars, please contact us ASAP so you can be in…
We have handed off the publishing package to the printer and expect to see a full-color proofs in the first half of this first full week of March. Only after the proofs are approved will the job be scheduled for printing and we be given an expected delivery date. Delivery, these days, to us actually means the beginning of distribution, most of which is now handled by the printer on our order.…
It happens every year, about this time… we’re seemingly overwhelmed by the last-minute influx of questions, requests, and mail all trying to meet our publication deadlines. Oh, the mail! Emails and stacks of physical letters pour in and we try and keep them straight. Often, event promoters send in both an email and a paper version of the same material, so twice the paper there. We register and deposit donation and advertising…
With the beginning of a new year comes the (real) beginning of our new edition of the annual Ohio Bicycle Events Calendar. Right now we are receiving listing information from all around the state and are organizing it in preparation for editing. It’s a big job that the volunteer staff hope benefits cycling in Ohio by promoting our many fine recreational events. Event promotors can help by submitting their event listings as…
We’ve posted our first “fillable” Ohio Bicycle Events Calendar Events Questionnaire to the Support area of this Web site. A fillable PDF form allows users to open the document with Adobe Reader or comparable software, type (or tap) information into the form, then print the form for mailing to our editorial office. (It’s available via our Support Page.) The form works in Adobe Reader although Adobe’s software can make the completion of…
The Event Questionnaire is our annual effort to gather the latest information about bicycle events for our Calendar. The form and letter go out in November again this year for next year’s publication. This time, however, we’ll have a couple of ways for event promoters/hosts to complete their homework. As we have done in all previous years, a printed form and cover letter will be sent via USPS to the contact addresses…