 | First Annual DCC Founders Day April 25, 2010 | |
| In 1961, Clair Duckham and fellow bicycle racer David Ashmun asked Huffy Corporation CEO Horace M. Huffman Jr. to sponsor their attempt to break the cross country tandem bicycle speed record. Not interested in the record, Huffman proposed that they create a bicycling club in Dayton, which became our Dayton Cycling Club. Originally a racing club of 25 members, our DCC has since grown to several hundred cyclists, conducting bicycle tours almost every day of the year. We in the DCC celebrated each Clair Duckham birthday since his 90th in 1997, following a ride to the Troy Frisch’s Big Boy Restaurant. The event became a family reunion, with Duckham children, grand children, and great grand children participating. Adding to the family members a large number of Dayton Cycling Club members, the restaurant was filled to overflowing each year. Governor Bob Taft and other notables often joined us for the event. All were in awe of Clair, pedaling past age 100 and showing each year the benefits of cycling for the human body! In fact, Clair pedaled all the way to his 102nd birthday celebration, and almost made it to his 103rd, leaving this world last spring. We plan to continue our celebrations each year, and Clair Duckham’s unstoppable spirit will ride with us. We will meet at 8 am on the last Sunday of April (April 25) in the Vandalia Recreation Center parking lot, as we did for Clair’s birthday rides. We will then ride to the Troy Frisch’s Big Boy. I hope you will join us. Here is the route: 8 a.m. sharp: Start at Vandalia Recreation Center, 1111 Stonequarry Road in Vandalia. Follow Stonequarry Road west to Dog Leg. Right (north) on Dog Leg Road to National Road (US 40) Jog left (west) on National Road to pick up Dog Leg Road again. (In 2003, Vandalia Police directed traffic here) North on Dog Leg (on western perimeter of Dayton Cox Airport) Right turn on Old Springfield Street. Take Old Springfield Street along north edge of airport east to Peters Pike. Turn left (north) onto Peters Pike Follow Peters Pike north as it enters Miami County, and becomes Peters Road (Miami County 149) Entering Troy on Peters, turn left at Archer. Follow Archer west to Dorset. Turn right (north) onto Dorset. Follow Dorset north to McKaig Avenue (Miami County Road 133) Take left on McKaig. Follow McKaig west across I-75 to Stanfield, which goes through new residential section. Continue north on Stanfield until we see the Frisch’s Big Boy Restaurant on the right (just east of Stanfield). Cut through parking lots to right to Frisch’s Big Boy Restaurant. (Arrive about 9:30 am) | DCC Event Rides
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