The competition, presented by the Orange County Great Park and Second Harvest Food Bank, gives local businesses and community organization’s the opportunity to build and display unique scarecrow creations while providing support for a worthy cause.  Our Facility Manager, Jim Seeley, worked hard to create an imaginative scarecrow that showcases our organizations spirit for bicycling, teamsmanship and sports sponsorship.   We are proud to have the opportunity to help alleviate hunger in Orange County and participate in a community event in our corporate home town of Irvine, CA.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 marked the first event (12 races) of this third annual circuit. Team thinkASG was well represented w/ the pictured team as well as a half dozen strong seeds from our bike shop co-sponsor, Two Wheels, One Planet…and we had a few guys that couldn’t make it for business conflict, so look for even black and red on the course as the weeks progress!

Roster for our first race included, left to right (before picture) Tom Orr, Kari Simmerman, David Browning, John Engel all of thinkASG and Marc Villemare, Mike Soursby and James Grande from our valued client and OTH sponsor Kawasaki. The first event got off to a bit of a slow start due to timing (computer) glitch – guess they should have called us! Then the masses were off, approximately 400 on the course in total. We saw some familiar routes from last year and a newly integrated “mud run” to mix things up. Most importantly, all of our group completed safely and we all established our base times to improve on as we move forward….and we looked pretty good in our new “colors”.

Watch the blog postings for updates, come out some Tuesday and join us!”

Big thank you to each of our sponsors for the season…

We all hope you have a fun Halloween with your family! 

The team includes Mike Soursby from Kawasaki, John Engel, Tom Orr and David Browning  from thinkASG.  We’re a great blend of customer and employees and a variety of riding styles that share a passion and dedication to moutain biking together all over O.C. multiple days each week.  

Big John Engel keeps rolling like a freight train along with Seatpost Tom Orr and Mikey ”Mr. Sour” Soursby (sub team Kawasaki!). They have joined forces in the beginner 4 class and are steadily moving up in their ranks while challenging each other.  Yours truly, David Browning, is holding his own in the sport 3 group.  The events have been great fun, excellent exercise and invoked varying degrees of humility. The course has changed three times now, forwards, backwards, climbs, singletrack, even a lake crossing on a dock. We’ve enjoyed watching the pros fly by, seeing the families riding together and an occasional thinkASG fan on the sideline to cheer us on (we can always use more!).

We’ll take a break for the next few weeks as OTH scheduled most of July off then back at it for the latter part of the series…and with our new sponsor, Two Wheels, One Planet (www.twowheelsoneplanet.com).

We look forward to our newest team member, Rich de Michele from thinkASG, joining us in July.  We welcome anyone that shares our passion and wants to take a spin around the lake!  Take a Tuesday evening, come on out and see the thinkASG black and white and always present red thought bubble in full representation, and enjoy a BBQ and relaxation with us afterwards!”

Congratulations to our team for putting in this awesome effort for such a great cause.