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Why Make a Route Distances Sign for your Check-in Table?
A Registration / Check-in Table Sign will help inform your participants of the RouteArrow color they will be following, right before they head out on their ride! You can use materials like cardboard, FoamCore etc, but a black background makes the bright arrow colors POP! The sign in the photos is 16” wide x 24” tall. (I used an XL Blank Sign, available in our store.) How to make the sign: Place the arrows 1.5 - 2” apart vertically, centered on the sign, L to R. Place arrows in a pattern: i.e. longest route on top, descending lengths, or the...
Partial Roll of RouteArrows? Here's What To Do!
Hello RouteArrows Family! As the event season winds down, you might have partial rolls of RouteArrows that you will want to use in the future! The adhesive may diminish slightly if left out in the open,so it is a good idea to store them in an air-tight 1 gallon Zip-Loc™ baggy - to maintain stickiness! We know it is helpful to know how many RouteArrows are left on those partial rolls, and luckily it’s very easy to figure that out! If you have a Gram Scale: (kitchen food scale) A full / unused roll of RouteArrows weigh 845 grams. The...
What you need to know when cycling in the HEAT
5 Tips for cycling in the Heat. Summer is here in the Northern Hemisphere and so is the heat! Depending on where you live, this can come with a dehydrating low humidity or muggy, oppressive high humidity! The higher the humidity (amount of water vapor in the air) the harder it is for your body to shed the heat it creates. Conversely, the drier the heat, the faster your body loses moisture, also affecting your body’s ability to shed heat. (I remember a late spring trip to Death Valley and exiting the pool caused cooling by evaporation so rapid that...