Tour de Tifton and other bike stuff

April 2, 2014

Today is World Autism Awareness Day.  Everyone wear blue or get a blue light to support the people with Autism.  If you are interested here is a link to Autism Awareness.  Many of the readers may not know that we are the proud parents of two children with Autism, Scot now 41 and Chris now 33, both will celebrate birthdays in August. 


1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinnersor sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Bike Shop Stuff.

I think I have the Gas Motor kit about finished, looks like just hooking up throttle and clutch and filling it up with gas. It would be a lot easier if the directions were reasonably decent but the directions are very poorly done, the company spent more money on printing the directions than they did on having them made so they could be understood. Since the people that make the engine are Chinese and English is their second language I am guessing that may be part of the problem. 

Today with any luck I will get that bike finished and delivered. Have another bike sold that I have to deliver, a package that I have to get in the mail today and a Next bike that came in last evening that needs cables and shifters. At 5 PM I have to be at my "regular" job at Home Depot, I am working in Plumbing this week. That is not bad at all, I have a pretty decent base knowledge of plumbing and am learning a lot more as a lot of contractors and other D.I.Y folks come by and tell me about their projects and stories. I listen and learn a lot.

Tour de Tifton/Isle Boyette Memorial Bicycle Ride

April 12th is just around the corner and will mark the 5th annual Tour de Tifton Bicycle Ride.If you are anywhere near Tifton, Georgia come by and ride with us. I will be providing on route SAG for the ride, which means I will take some tools and some tires, tubes etc and head out after the riders leave and make sure everyone finishes the ride by either helping them with repairs,, water or Gatorade, or even giving them a ride if the just wear out. The rides range from an short 11 mile ride to a Metric Century 100 KM and a Full Century 100 Miles.

Along the route you will see some absolutely beautiful countryside, so do come by if you can and ride with us, here are some pictures of he route, enjoy. 

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Have a great day

Jerry "The Bicycle Nut" Goodwin

BMG Cycles Plus

1612 1st Ave. SE

Moultrie, GA 31768

229-921-0072

March 16, 2014

1 Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. 2 How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth! 3 He subdued nations under us, peoples under our feet. 4 He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved. "Selah" 5 God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets. 6 Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. 7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise. 8 God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne. 9 The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the God of Abraham, for the kings of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted.

Today is Sunday and the Breathe Run and Family Fun Day at Heritage Church in Moultrie Georgia.. With any luck I will be able to get some photos and videos that I can upload here. I did get a few pics and will post later. Unfortunately it rained the entire time of the run and the Breathe Family Walk was cancelled altogether. The pucs are mostly of some of the "kids" doing Karaoke, which was fun to watch. There was also a huge Bouncy House there that a lot of children got to play on, so everyone had lots of fun in spite of the weather. I suppose that a lot of money was raised to help with the various Mega Impact projects and the Breathe Ministry. 

I really would have liked the weather to be better, but that is just the way things go sometimes. I do understand that there will be at least 15 ramps built around Moultrie Georgia by the students from UT. 

Hope all is well with you and yours. 

I am still operating the bicycle repair shop and have received the Gasoline Motor Kit which I will be putting on a bicycle this week. Everything I need is suppose to be in the box except the gas and oil for the engine. 

 In addition to that I have been trying out some Internet Marketing Programs that might make some extra money too. This one only costs 1.75 to join and with very little effort you will soon be in profit and can make about 100,000.00 for it. Don't know about you but if I could make an extra 5000.00 a month which would be 60.000.00 per year then I would consider the business to be extremely successful and if I made 100,000.00 I would be ecstatic to say the least. why don't you join me in the for only 1.75 just click here for details. 

I hope everyone reading this has a wonderful day

Jerry 

March 15, 2014

Psalm 46 1-11
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear,though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. "Selah" 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. 5 God is within her,she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. 6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. 7 The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. "Selah" 8Come and see the works of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth. 9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire. 10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." 11 The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. "Selah"

Today is Saturday tomorrow Heritage Church in Moultrie Georgia will have the Breathe Run and Family Fun Day. This will also signal the kickoff to a program known as Mega Impact. Mega Impact is a wonderful program that is put on by the church with help from other area churches and the University of Tennesee. Over 100 Students from UT will soon be here in Moultrie for about a week. During the time they are here they will dod a lot of work all over the town. This year their concentration will be on building wheelchair ramps for handicapped people all over town. They will also be working on the Breathe Center and numerous other projects while they are here. Last year they worked on numerous projects all over Moultrie and even painted our house and did a lot of other work.

To say we are grateful for having found Heritage would be a considerable understatement, but we are indeed grateful for having been led to Heritage. The Breathe ministry and he people that operate it along with just so many wonderful people in the church have been such a fantastic blessing to our family. 

This year we are facing quite a different challenge. Last year I had a full time job making a good wage, but had a lot of  stress due to medical problems and financial problems and then I lost my job and things looked really bleak, some stuff that was rally good happened though and we were able to come out in better financial shape except that I still did not have a job or an income. I really began promoting the bicycle shop that I had been running part time, but that is still taking more money to operate than is coming in, so I took a part time job which brings in a little money but not nearly enough to survive on. I am not complaining we are all healthy right now and that is a great thing, the amount of stress has been reduced and I feel more like things are looking up.

While we have been able to do a lot over the past few months I can see that we need more income to keep everything going and so have started searching for some business opportunities that I can do from the Internet while I get he bike shop going better. There is a lot of potentially profitable prgrams on the net and I found one that cost only 1.75 to get started.  Yes I said 1.75 that is not a misprint, you can join the program for under 2.00 and the potential is really pretty much endless.  Have you ever wanted to start an Intrenet Marketing business but was afraid that you would lose your investment?  With this program you won't lose the under 2.00 investment. I will make the deal even sweeter, you cna now join the program for FREE. You will need to pay the 1.75 and send me by email proof that you have paid, I will then send you back the 1.75 you paid making your investment 0 dollars. Visit the website link below and join right now:
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Hope you all enjoy the blog posts and if your are reading this far would like to invite you to come ride in the Tour de Tifton/ Isle Boyette Memorial Bicycle Ride on April 12th in Tifton, Georgia

Here are some picturs of things inside the bike shop form this week, these are also posted on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BmcCyclesAndFitness which we would love it if you come by and liked our page.

Have a great day

Jerry

Out with the Old in with the new

January 16, 2014

Many of you know that I am moving the Bicycle Repair Shop back into Christian Books & More at 1612 1st Avenue SE in Moultrie Georgia. I was in there before Ruth was diagnosed with DCIS. DCIS stands for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ and is a basically a low grade breast cancer. She had to go through 6.5 weeks of radiation and I had to take her back and forth as well as go to work everyday, so I moved the Repair shop to the house. That way I could be closer to my wife if she needed me and I could still fix bikes but I would not be able to be at the store and actually interact with as many of the cyclists. That really was bad since I really love to talk to people and learn from hem and if I can help them, that is even better.

Well she is now finished with treatment and I am no longer working a "job" so I am moving back to the "store" and I have a completely new deal and new setup though it really won't affect the customer much at all. I will actually be renting space in the store and will be the owner of the bicycle shop. I have worked out an arrangement to purchase everything the current owner has and to rent the space. I actually have paid the "rent" ahead 9 months.

Here are some pictures of what it currently looks like at the bike shop, but I think I can make it look a LOT better, I am hoping I can also improve sales since I will now be at the store from 11A-6 P Monday through Friday.

I want to put in some nutritional products like Sport Beans, Hammer Gel and Honey Stingers, and some more lubes and cleaners as well as set up a place where we can professional fit cyclists to their bike.  I also want to build a really nice rack for Bicycle tubes. I have an idea of what I would like, just nee dthe time to build it. I may bring some stuff with me to the shop and build it there, or may do all the board cutting etc at the house and then assemble it at the store.

If you get down this way give me a call at 229-921-0072 and stop by the shop.

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Have a great day, enjoy the pics and watch for the new and improved versio of BMG Cycles Plus- Coming soon

Bicycle Helmets for all ages

Parts and accessories

New and used bicycles

Bikes for kids

More bikes

bikes, tires and lots of stuff

Currently inside workshop area

More  of inside workshop space

More Bikes

Bikes

Another veiw of bikes

Frame without headset

Head Tube

Pressing in the cups

Getting everything ready to mark for cutting the Fork

Checking a second time before cuttiung Fork

Sam Taking delivery of jis new bike

1/10/14

Here is a bike I built from a frame and deleivered it today. The bike is for a 9 year old racer at Chehaw BMX. It started out as an Avanyt Frame. The frame had been modified several years before, so it was not easy getting the right stuff to build it up. With help from the young rider's father we were able to get parts from Ebay and JR BMX to finish the build. It has Promax head and stem, 24 X 1 1/8" tires and rims, KMC Chain, Man o War Chain tensioners, Carbon fork, clipless pedals, plastic seat and post. Sam was riding it around on the street in front of our house this morning and he really seemed to be very comfortable on the new bike.

I went to get the business license for the "shop" today. I got the application and then went over to have a background check done at the Police Dept. I also filled out a paper for the EIN # and the Georgia Tax #. I am suppose to move in by February 1, 2014 and want to make sure all the legal elemants are taken care of properly before then. Police report was clean, so that is good news, can't remember doing anything illegal.  Should be able to complete the legal aspects Monday. Tuesday I will call the suppliers and get the accounts changed over to my name and set up ACH accounts with the suppliers. 

The electrician is supose to be at the shop tomorrow to change some wiring around and add some more light. That should be nice. I will probably take one of the small refirigerators out there, and maybe get a cheap microwave so I can stay there for lunch some days.  May also try to find a small coffee pot for the shop,, that way if any of you come by to visit then we can sit and have a cup of coffee and talk bikes. 

I am hoping to get a few new things in really soon. I really want to get the tools and traing to do bike fittings, so that will be a priority, then I also want to put in some more lubes and cleanres, and Nutrition products. In the next few days I also plan to set up a website with lots of products related to bicycles and Health and Fitness, Diet and Nutrition and realted subjects. Ther will be a lot more projects on our website than in our store. 

Here is sort of a check list of new products I want to put in::

 

1. WD 40 Bike  Some of each Product

2. Jelly Belly Sport Beans

3. Park Tools

4. Finish Line Lubes and Cleaners

5. Honey Stinger Nutrition Products

6. White Lightning Lubes and cleaners

7. Bike Fitting Equipment and training.

8. Hammer Nutrition Products

I will likeley build a Counter and purchase a Cash Register as well as add pegbaord wall to he back of the showroom area.

Ther will be a small workout area behind the showroom that people can come workout, sort of like a mini gym or a studio. I have a Treadclimber, a MultiGym, and a weight bench with barbell and dumbells that will be placed in that area. This will be available for anyone but will be especially set up for any Chiseled Faith clients that want to use it.  We will be offering a special price of only 10.00 per month per person or 25.00 for a full 12 weeks. I will probably also put a trainer back there where I can put a bike on to "fit"  the rider. When the trainer is not in use for fitting it can be used to hold a bike as a "stationary" bike. I have several bikes that can be used for that. 

You can expect to see many videos coming up on our new youtube channel also, as I have plans for numerous videos, some decsribing the use of various tools that we will be having in the store as well as various lubes and nutritional products. Of course you will see lots of  Tour de Tifton and other ride videos. 

Hope you enjoy hem all. 

Have a great day

Jerry "The Bicycle Nut" Goodwin