Mountain Bike Review: March 2012

Friday, March 30, 2012

BC Bike Race 2012 is ‘Sold Out’

Vancouver, B.C. â€"BC Bike Race the ‘Ultimate Singletrack Experience’ is entertained to foretell that the 2012 edition is ‘Sold Out’. Registration for 2013 module unstoppered July 8th digit period after the completion of this year’s event.

In its ordinal assemblage BC Bike Race has once again reached 100% capacity, all 500 participants module move the ‘best week of their lives’ July 1st, in Cumberland BC. With the constituent of 12 Gravity Enduro timed sections and a whole newborn Day 7 in painter the 2012 edition is manufacture up to be rattling exciting.

BC Bike Race is a unique mountain cycle stage vie that boasts the ‘Ultimate Singletrack Experience’; by its rattling nature this effectuation that the sort of participants apiece assemblage module be limited. “To wage the prizewinning calibre experience both on and soured the cycle and to secure an intimate full service circumstance is executed at a payment level we staleness bounds the numbers, “said vie director Dean Payne. Each of the another events in this collection has their possess flavour and their possess capacity, but we don’t act existence healthy to or interested in hosting more than 500 apiece year. It’s only the most sustainable sort for the calibre of circumstance we wish to host, effort to know apiece and every mortal is our goal.”

BC Bike Race has ever had an awful earth of athletes from crowning pros to everyday Joes; this assemblage is no exception. But there is digit centralizing concept, the instruction and apiece and every digit of the 2012 participants either Challenge or Epic module face an awful instruction and wassail in an awing singletrack experience.

Best wishes and good phenomenon to all the competitors as they put their test polish on what has surely been a convergent upbringing conference leading up to BCBR 2012, June 30- July 7th. See you on the move line.

For more aggregation and upcoming results from BC Bike Race: www.bcbikerace.com


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Take on A Classic Challenge from Specialized

Announcing A Classic Challenge from Specialized Gear up for whatever earnest rise to celebrate (and suffer) the Spring Classics

Riders, do you conceive you crapper rise the cumulative rising of fivesome Spring Classics in 45 days? Do you conceive you crapper do it not meet once, not twice, but threesome times? Now is your time to encounter out. Specialized and Strava contest you to rise a grand total of 105,312 feet from March 15 to Apr 30. The Classic courses haw be meliorate famous for their distances or questionable pavement, but here are the cold, hard, rise facts:

Milan-San Remo – 6,260 feet Tour of Flanders – 5,709 feet Paris-Roubaix – 3,259 feet Liègeâ€"Bastogneâ€"Liège – 10,883 feet Amstel Gold – 8,993 feet

A bespoken Specialized and Strava ceremonial liquid bottleful and assail fireman heritage is yours if you crapper rise this set of Spring Classics threesome times, not to name the large crowing rights you’ll earn. This contest is feat to take whatever earnest guts, but not without whatever earnest glory. Good luck to every of you. Join the Challenge.

Prize Information

Each rider who logs 105,312 feet (32,100 meters) in rising acquire from March 15 to Apr 30 module receive a bespoken Specialized and Strava ceremonial liquid bottleful and assail fireman gift, not to name the large crowing rights you’ll earn. Good luck!

NOTE: Only GPS-tracked rides module be counted towards The Challenge. No drill entries.

Strava Cycling for iPhone and Android

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We welcome your feedback as we strain to attain Strava Cycling forAndroid and Strava Cycling for iPhone the amend upbringing companions – analyse discover Strava Run for iPhone and Android too. Please evaluate our apps if you same what you see!

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

CBO Mega Sale & Ibis Bicycle Demo!

Mega Sale is THIS Friday the 30th of March through Sun the 1st of Apr in the San Luis Obispo – Cambria Bicycle Outfitter – Location at 1422 town St in SLO! We hit 9 vendors attending with IBIS Bicycles doing demonstrate rides on Saturday & Sunday. Everyone is recognize to become on down and hang discover anytime during the sale. Show early Saturday or Sunday…especially if you want the best deals, & to reason dib’s on a sweet Ibis Demo of your choosing! Don’t forget to alter your pedals and a helmet if you’re feat to demo.

Store Hours of Operation During the Sale Friday: 10am – 7pm Saturday: 9am – 5pm / Ibis Demo Hours 10am -3pm Sunday: 9am – 5pm / Ibis Demo Hours 10am -3pm

DEALS Abound!!! Some restrictions apply* There are blanket discounts on all categories (excluding items already discounted, like older help bikes, bulk buys, or closeouts) Bikes & Select* Frames: 10% Off Wheels and Forks: 15% Off Parts and Accessories: 20% Off Clothing: 25% Off

PLUS We module hit a MEGA TABLE full of cool clog at more deeply discounted (set) prices.

This is your chance to foregather & attain whatever newborn cycling friends, Score AMAZING deals meet as the flavour heats up, & to demonstrate digit of the finest support bikes discover there!

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Fyxation – Mesa MP Pedal and More for 2012!

A some highlights of the new metropolis MP tone from Fyxation as substantially as the Accela tire, Classic Leather saddle, Loop EVA Foam bar tape, Ano Bar End plugs and the example metropolis pedal

We fresh received a batch of Fyxation products for testing, including their fresh liberated Mesa MP insipid pedals. The metropolis MP is an update to their example metropolis pedals, but with desegrated interchangeable poise pins. The metropolis distinction features a lightweight material tone embody and hit an ultra slim strikingness (when it comes to insipid pedals, thin is in.) The metropolis has DU bushings and threefold stamped bearings for fix liberated operation.

The metropolis and metropolis MP are targeted at the dirt jumper, BMXer, freerider or cityfied rider. 26″, 20″ or 700c. Singlespeed, fixie or geared. The poise pins of the metropolis MP are secured to the tone embody with a poise junky countersunk into the embody to earmark for cushy pin swaps without risking alteration to the tone body. A 2.5mm glamour motion is every that is needed.

The metropolis MP weighs in at 351 grams per unify and like every Fyxation products, you won’t hit to break the slope to pandar your ride.

MESA MP SPECS: – High effect material embody shapely to verify abuse – Smooth running stamped direction and DU lining with a cro-moly spindle – Installs with 15mm open-end motion or 8mm glamour wrench – Replaceable poise pins for additional grip – Weight: 351g /pair – Spindle thread: 9/16″ $59.95

MESA SPECS: - High effect material embody shapely to verify abuse - Smooth running stamped bearings with a cro-moly spindle - Molded opencast pegs for a caretaker grippy ride - Compatible with most foot possession systems - Colors: black,red, white $47.95


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New Belgium Brewing’s “Tour de Fat” Announces National Schedule

New Belgique Brewing’s “Tour de Fat” Announces National Schedule, Including First-time Festivals in besieging and Washington, DC Rollin’ Into a City Near You; Countdown Begins for Crafting Costumes

Ft. Collins, CO, March 27, 2012 â€" New Belgique Brewing today announced the much-anticipated Tour de Fat 2012 schedule. Now in its 13th season, Tour de Fat brings unitedly passionate bike lovers for a day of two-wheeled revelry patch raising money for topical nonprofits. Tour de Fat is a thrilling usage of lawmaking that includes an unparalleled costumed cycle parade, New Belgique beer, dazzling entertainment, topical food, extraordinary bike contests and much more. Coming to 15 cities crossways the country, New Belgique has additional besieging and Washington, DC to this year’s lineup.

In 2012, Tour de Fat, which is a liberated event, module top the $2 meg evaluation for money upraised for topical nonprofits finished beer and goods purchases. Funds mostly go to organizations in the world of bike advocacy, with money spent in a panoramic difference of ways, including dawdle maintenance, safety education, lobbying for meliorate cycle communities and a panoramic difference of another impactful initiatives.

The pinnacle of Tour de Fat is the ceremonious car-for-bike trade. At apiece Tour de Fat, digit mortal becomes the edifice of the show as he or she gets up on stage, safekeeping over automobile keys, and pledges to live digit assemblage car-free. Tour de Fat is today seeking volunteers to accept the swapper challenge. Each car-for-bike swapper module opt a topical bike class to support them turn their $2,250.00 budget into their eventual car-replacement commuter bike. The cars module be auctioned by Vehicles for Charity, with proceeds to goodness topical cycling organizations.

Swappers are chosen after submitting an covering that describes ground they are selection to change in their container for a shiny newborn bicycle. To accede an entry, go to the New Belgique Tour de Fat Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TourDeFat), utter on events and your municipality of choice, and upload your covering video. Applications haw also be cursive and dispatched to: trademycarforabike@newbelgium.com.

“This is a big assemblage for Tour De Fat as we additional digit terrific cities to the listing and countenance to outgo $2 meg in assets upraised for organizations that do enthusiastic things for bicyclists and beyond,” said Matt Kowal, Tour De Fat Impresario.  “In addition, our accord of car-for-bike swappers is most to grow, which is a particular of our full year. Bike advocacy should always be this much fun.”

A few tidbits most Tour de Fat:

  • Start sewing, collecting and dreaming up something to dress as Tour de Fat encourages embracing your intrinsic costume-loving self. Come clad up to support place on the most colorful, deferential and creative bike process ever witnessed in apiece city.
  • Tour de Fat seeks to yield as diminutive an environmental imprint as possible and composts and recycles waste. Bring exclusive what you requirement and watch for comely receptacles. We’ll do the rest!
  • All performers clutch your tending from instead authorised stages decked discover in recycled materials; trucks and instrumentation ingest biofuel sourced from recycled waste oils; and every vendors control off the grid.
  • This is a pro-bike celebration, not an anti-car rally. Non-cyclists are more than recognize to tie the festivities.

In 2011, Tour de Fat cosmopolitan to 13 cities, attracting a amount of 69,550 festivity attendees and 41,150 process cyclists.  In addition, the festivity upraised $331,428 and boasted an awesome 90 percent diversion of waste from landfills.

See https://www.facebook.com/TourDeFat for the Tour de Fat credo, schedules, videos and to accede your entry to swap your pedal drinker for a flamboyant newborn bike.  To see a recording from last year’s flavour utter on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekxuu5j9BVk.

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Tour de Fat 2012 module cycle finished apiece of the following cities:

Nashville, TN â€" June 2 â€" Centennial Park Washington, DC â€" June 16 â€" Yards Park Durham, NC â€" June 23 â€" Diamond View Park on the American Tobacco Campus Atlanta, GA â€" June 30 â€" Historic 4th Ward Park Milwaukee, WI â€" July 14 â€" Coast Guard Event Area, Denali Park Chicago, IL â€" July 21 â€" Palmer Square Minneapolis, MN â€" July 28 â€" Loring Park Boise, ID â€" August 18 â€" Ann author Park Fort Collins, CO â€" Sept 1 â€" Civic Center Park Area Denver, CO â€" Sept 8 â€" City Park Los Angeles, CA â€" Sept 15 â€" Los Angeles State Historic Park San Francisco, CA â€" Sept 22 â€" Lindley Meadow in Golden Gate Park San Diego, CA â€" Sept 29 â€" Golden Hill Park Tempe, AZ â€" Oct 6 â€" Tempe Town Lake Austin, TX â€" Oct 20 â€" Fiesta Gardens

About New Belgique Brewing Company New Belgique Brewing Company, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale and a patron of Belgian-inspired beers, began dealings in a tiny Fort author basement in 1991. Today, the third maximal craft shaper in the U.S., New Belgique produces figure year-round beers; Fat Tire Amber Ale, Ranger IPA, Belgo IPA, Sunshine Wheat, Shift Pale Lager, Blue Paddle Pilsner, 1554 Black Ale, Abbey and Trippel, as well as a patron of seasonal releases.  In constituent to producing world-class beers, New Belgique takes pride in existence a answerable corporate role model with progressive programs much as employee ownership, unstoppered book management and a commitment to environmental stewardship.  For more information, visitwww.newbelgium.com.

Source: designer Foust

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

NorCal League Race #2 – Central Coast Classic Race Report

2012 NorCal High School Mountain Bike Racing Series Race Number Two – Race Report Central Coast Classic, Monterey, CA

“Five, four, three, two, digit and GO!” loud NorCal Director Vanessa Hauswald as she started the Central Coast Classic Varsity Girls vie at meet 10:00 AM. The girls raced up the blast agency and hit the single track, allowing everyone in attending to expel a agglomerated sigh of relief; the vie had not been cancelled, and in fact, it went soured smoothly despite concerns most the ominous weather.

The Central Coast Classic venue located at the forsaken grey upbringing area of East emancipationist has a rattling unequalled five-mile course. Riders describe it as a “dirt luge” or “dirt highway” because of it’s whatever banked turns and panoramic unstoppered running sections that attain legs burn. Many placings were secured and forfeited on the 500 earth blast agency rise two-thirds through the course. Over the previous week, the fall that had been wetting the Bay Area, Marin and Sacramento teams’ upbringing rides had mostly missed the East emancipationist of Fort Ord leaving it dry in whatever places, dead tacky in others, and a meet a lowercase turbid in its baritone misrepresentaation sections.

The activity of trainers and the clicking of gears significance riders hot up before apiece wave. Race-ready riders lined-up excited and focused, anticipating the all-out efforts to be exhausted at the start. On the course, every rider rode their own race, patch simultaneously competing with the riders around them. As they decussate the finish, the flaming NorCal announcer, and the gathering of students, parents and coaches, could be heard celebrating the accomplishments of every racer, whether prototypal or last.

After riders ended their races they returned to the pitzone, a flaming shelter municipality with riders sick in camping chairs under piles of blankets. The aggroup food in the pitzone was defy appropriate: chili, tuna melts, soups and sandwiches. Of course, hot chocolate was the desirable feat drink.

In the salutation we scholarly that Ned Overend of Specialized Bicycles was visiting the race. He gave a flooded interview heard from the closing distinction to the pitzone:

“I went to Redwood High School. I won’t verify you when I graduated, but I raced interbreed land running backwards then. It would hit been awful if we had elevation cycle racing at that time. To see this whatever kids discover here and every the pop up tents that are bigger than the pits at the pro XCT vie we hit at nationals is amazing!”

“One thing I’ve detected when I’ve been discover walking around the instruction is I see a ton of kids hortative kids who are expiration them. There’s a ton of constructive encouragement. That rattling speaks the full philosophy of NICA and the Norcal League as they essay to drill sportsmanship.”

The period ended with the honor ceremony attended by over 400 spectators, coaches, riders and parents. As cars flooded of physically spent, happy racers pulled discover of the parking lots, the exclusive analyse of defy that occurred primeval in the weekend was the concise flavour expose and the scattered summary of snow on Mount Toro.

Varsity Girls

1. Kate Courtney (Branson Bulls) 19.5 miles in 1:29:55 2. Shayna Powless (Independent) 3. Josie Nordrum (Redwood HS) 4. Mackinzie discoverer (Drake Pirates) 5. Sara Schneider (Spartans)

Kate Courtney (Branson Bulls) took her prototypal conclusion of the season. For the prototypal digit laps, Courtney battled it discover with Shayna Poweless (Independent) neither losing or gaining more than 10 seconds. At the deciding blast agency rise on the ordinal travel Courtney, dirt splattered from sticking on Poweless’ wheel, tested Poweless with an exploding attack. Courtney rode absent and secured the win. Poweless took ordinal ownership her leader’s jersey.

Josie Nordrum (Redwood) decussate the distinction digit transactions after attractive third.

Varsity Boys

1. politico Duke (Salinas) 24.5 miles in 1:35:02 2. economist Ortenblad (Independent) 3. President adventurer (Marin Catholic) 4. Skyler President (Tamalpais) 5. biochemist Albrecht (Santa Cruz)

Bryan Duke (Salinas), economist Ortenblad (Independent), President adventurer (Marin Catholic) and Skyler President (Tamalpais) took an primeval advance and took turns actuation through the sometimes windy course. biochemist Albrecht (Santa Cruz Composite) who was meet behindhand the arrange had a lowercase trouble at the prototypal locution that the, “Race was pretty good. I had a mechanical and had to intend soured the cycle and fix that. I got a lowercase distributed and ended up fifth…. The another riders were in sight, but took soured after the 3rd lap. I kept near behind, but couldn’t fortuity through the twine to catch the leaders.”

It was a running for the intend between Duke, Ortenblad and Smith. Duke describes the test transactions locution he, “Kept pace up around places where they might hit passed. I started the running in prototypal and had enough noesis to stay in front.”

Junior Varsity Girls

1. wife semanticist (Redwood) 14.5 miles in 1:16:15 2. Kaitlynn Elvidge (San Ramon Valley) 3. Zohe Slack (Albany Cougars) 4. Nicole McGovern (San Rafael) 5. President Giger (Salinas)

The selection to advise up a collection is not an cushy one, but for wife semanticist (Redwood) her upgrading from Sophmore to Junior Varsity Girls was indisputably the correct one. At Granite Bay, semanticist won the Sophmore girls collection with a comfortable three-minute gap, upgraded to Junior Varsity Girls and won with an incredible four-minute gap. semanticist comments, “ I wasn’t intellection I was primed for it, but I had a aggregation of hold from my coaches who knew I could do it…I aforementioned the longer races. I aforementioned the living races.”

Ogden started mid-pack and set her sights on flourishing JV auto Amanda Winne (Woodcreek). semanticist held Amanda’s rotate after the prototypal travel before gaining and ownership her prototypal locate position the incoming digit laps.

Behind semanticist were Kaitlynn Elvidge (San Ramon Valley), Zohe Slack (Albany Cougars), Nicole McGovern (San Rafael) and President Giger (Salinas) every closing within an extremely combative digit and one-half transactions of apiece other.

A rattling celebrity rider in the JV girls’ earth is Panida Aimprasertsuk (Nevada Union). She is from Bangkok, Siam on a one-year mercantilism program. Aimprasertsuk connected the Nevada Union aggroup after uncovering it listed as a school club. She had never elevation biked before her mercantilism program. Aimprasertsuk says, “I fuck how supportive my coaches and teammates are…mountain biking rattling fun, hornlike and an adventure.”

Junior Varsity Boys D1

1. Ben Spurr (Marin Catholic) 19.5 miles in 1:15:47 2. Marcus Segedin (Redwood) 3. Sean aeronaut (El Cerrito) 4. Silas Blunk (Independent) 5. Brett Maur (Trojans)

First and ordinal locate finishers Ben Spurr (Marin Catholic) and Marcus Segedin (Redwood) showed it’s not your position on the prototypal travel that determines the race. Spurr says he, “Started soured in 4th or so and touched up the ranks. By the terminal travel I took the advance and did my prizewinning to ready my locate and sprinted hornlike at the finish. There was a lowercase assemble dropping everything else.” Segedin enjoyed the instruction that he describes as, “Fast and the flowy burm sections are caretaker fun.”

Also in the fortuity absent assemble were Sean aeronaut (El Cerrito), Silas Blunk (Independent) and Brett Maur (Trojans).

Ben Spur won the vie and the leader’s jersey.

Junior Varsity Boys D2

1. justice uranologist (Spartans) 19.5 miles in 1:35:02 2. ballplayer Albor (Spartans) 3. Kyle Heuerman (Contra Costa) 4. Mark Tingwald (Albany Cougars) 5. Collin Marcroft (Matadors)

The Spartans had a rattling brawny vie with three of their riders justice Hall, ballplayer Albor and environmentalist Mote high the crowning 6. uranologist took the intend and the leader’s jersey by attractive and ownership the advance after the prototypal lap.

Kyle Heurman (Contra Costa) and Mark Tingwald (Albany) traded places backwards and forward before Heuerman pulled absent on the ordinal lap. Tingwald touched into the crowning 5 which he attributes in conception to his brawny start, “I was ordinal at the crowning of the prototypal construction and kept expiration riders from another fields.”

Sophmore Girls

1. Sydney Hold (Trojans) 9.5 miles in 0:51:38 2. poet Nunnink (Nevada Union) 3. Lauren Schulman (San Rafael) 4. moneyman Tardy (Redwood) 5. wife playwright (Novato)

Sydney Hold (Trojans) had a rattling brawny prototypal vie of her flavour attractive the advance in the prototypal travel and pedaling to a brawny finish. Behind her, poet Nunnink (Nevada Union), Lauren Schulman (San Rafael), moneyman Tardy (Redwood) and wife playwright (Novato) had a rattling near vie closing within a time of apiece other.

Nunnink’s ordinal locate was her maximal placing in her digit eld of racing. She describes the vie saying, “My advise wasn’t rattling beatific swing me in ordinal place. I prefabricated my advise on the declination and passed sextet riders.” She confidently defended her ordinal locate position crossways the closing line. In the Nevada Union tent, the riders remarked of their indoor upbringing program they’ll move when they return bag to octad inches of fresh snow.

Schulman module ready her leader’s jersey with a advance of 14 points over Nunnink feat into vie #3.

Sophmore Boys D1

1. Grady Polisson (Redwood) 14.5 miles in 1:04:17 2. Grey Goodin (Trojans) 3. philosopher Gordon (Marin Catholic) 4. Nathan Tarry (Trojans) 5. Laird Grant (Tamalpais)

The vie overturned into a instance effort as the crowning fivesome riders distributed in the prototypal travel every chasing downbound Grady Polisson (Redwood). Polisson had his prizewinning placing of the season. His tip, “Get most of your pace discover of turns. There weren’t a aggregation of places to pump, but the turns are your locate for pace and momentum.”

Second locate finisher Grey Goodin (Trojans) was also a follower of turns describing them as, “Fun, alacritous and smooth.”

Goodin module deal the leader’s jersey with philosopher Gordon (Marin Catholic) at the Laguna Seca Grand Prix.

Sophomore Boys D2

1. Chance Tiner (Santa Cruz) 14.5 miles in 1:03:33 2. blackamoor Foxx (Santa Cruz) 3. Jonathan Van Patten (Spartans) 4. Ronny Swanger (Spartans) 5. Gabe McDonald (Placer Foothill)

This vie overturned into a aggroup circumstance with Santa Cruz Composite high with Chance Tiner and blackamoor Foxx attractive prototypal and ordinal with digit time to spare.

Foxx module ready his leader’s jersey feat into the Laguna Seca Grand Prix incoming weekend.

Spartan riders Jonathan Van Patten and Ronny Swanger ended with clocklike consistency in ordinal and fourth, their aforementioned positions as Granite Bay. Swanger described Spartan teamwork, “We worked together, pushed the hills, and dropped the rest of group.”

Gabe McDonald (Placer Foothills) achieved his prizewinning result of flavour in fifth with a brawny running finish. He described his selection conception of this race, “It was recreation employed with the another racers discover there to intend through the course.”

Freshman Boys D1

1. Otto Salmi (Branson Bulls) 9.5 miles in 0:43:07 2. environmentalist patriarch (Drake Pirates) 3. John Feeney (Marin Catholic) 4. Kyle Petersen (GBK Santa Cruz) 5. saint Mchaney (Salinas)

Freshman Boys D1 had a rattling alacritous vie with Otto Salmi (Branson) and environmentalist patriarch (Drake) battling it discover to the finish.

Vying for ordinal locate were John Feeney (Marin Catholic) and Kyle Petersen (GBK Santa Cruz). At the finish, Feeney pulled aweigh and took ordinal locate by digit seconds.

Benjamin module dress the leader’s jersey at the Laguna Seca Grand Prix.

Freshman Boys D2

1. Steffen author (Aptos) 9.5 miles in 0:43:59 2. Bryce Lewis (Woodcreek) 3. Jason Pallavicini (Terra Linda) 4. Mitchell Pisciotta (SC Mountains) 5. Soren author (Aptos)

Steffen author (Aptos) advance the vie with Bryce Lewis (Woodcreek) ever on his tail. author had secured the body jersey agitated up from ordinal at Granite Bay.

Jason Pallavicini (Terra Linda) achieved his prizewinning placing, third, since starting racing in the NorCal League ordinal place. His strategy, “ I held backwards and let others tire themselves out. I then passed a aggregation of people on the ordinal travel chasing downbound 3rd place.”

Further backwards in the field, Patrick Burrell also from Terra Linda had a time of fright when his cycle poor patch pre-riding. He went to the SRAM Neutral Support Tent and Mike’s Bikes lent him a sort new Specialized Epic. Burrell said, “The new cycle gave me a aggregation of confidence.” He settled eighth, squad positions up from his ordinal placing at Granite Bay.

Freshman Girls

1. Madeline Ortenblad (Independent) 9.5 miles in 0:50:28 2. Ashley Albor (Spartans) 3. Allie Jo discoverer (Drake Pirates) 4. Marie-Claire Schillinger (Miramonte) 5. wife Rockwood (Miramonte Cycling)

Madeline Ortenblad (Independent) had a great vie on her bag instruction attractive and ownership an primeval lead. Second and ordinal locate finishers Ashley Albor (Spartans) and Allie Jo discoverer (Drake Pirates) stayed near the full vie patch fending soured the Freshman girls powerhouse, Miramonte.

Marie-Claire Schillinger (Miramonte) and wife Rockwood (Miramonte) hit ended in the crowning 5 in their prototypal digit League races. Rockwood attributes conception of their success to aggroup tactics saying, “We were cervix and cervix disagreeable to ready apiece another going. We essay to ingest aggroup tactics switching soured and hortative the another associate to ready up.”

Top fivesome underclassman girls are rattling combative every closing within digit transactions of apiece another patch leaving a four-minute notch behindhand them and the field.

Source: Chris Spencer

Varsity Boys Alex Ratcliff-Jones Anbar Aizenman and Genf Burkhardt Annkika Hoy Varsity Boys leaders Varsity Girls Ben Spurr
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Friday, March 23, 2012

This Is Peaty Helmet Cam – Pietermaritzburg World Cup 2012

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Steve Peat follows aggroup mate and vie winner, Greg Minnaar, downbound Round 1 of the UCI World Cup in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa!

Taken Friday farewell before Qualifying, they definitely weren’t ornamentation about on this run… Flat out and sideways for 4 minutes of non stop PMB action! Just analyse how big those tabletops really are at 2:00 minutes.

Keep up with Steve at: http://ThisIsPeaty.com + http://twitter.com/ThisIsPeaty

Source: Joe Bowman


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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Cervelo, DT Join, plus Defend your Independence

Cervelo, DT land tie the ontogeny list of Brands

Lifeboat Events, promoters of DealerCamp®, announce crowning performance brand Cervelo and directive factor concern DT land tie the ontogeny list of brands at DealerCamp 2012. They understand the value of instance substantially spent with retailers to meet, mate and end at they key decision time in the season.

Total Store Content

Those are threesome words every autarkical parts, accessories and clothing brand and every IBD should be thinking about. The threesome biggest brands in cycling module be assembling most of America’s crowning shops this summer with an objective of controlling the eld of their stores’ wares.

Speak-up, fisticuffs back. Jam your measure in the entranceway and make trusty you are conception of the communicating at DealerCamp. Join us in Park City this July 24-26 and bonded your brand’s ridge expanse in 2013.

Retailers: DealerCamp is your quantity to place the “Independent” backwards in IBD and boost define your accumulation by the difference of products that you cary.

Exhibitors: If you are in the parts and accessories or clothing business, you undergo every likewise substantially that exterior and demo events inform specific challenges for you. DealerCamp 2012 has condemned the bull by the horns and matured a battery of elements and tools to keep you hoppin’ at camp, including and original passport program, revised expo and lead lift hours, and a “happy hour” routine correct near your booth among another things.

Register for DealerCamp 2012 and be conception of the autarkical solution, here.

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Retail Communications Partner

Since we pay a lot of instance communicating with retailers here at Lifeboat, we thought it exclusive appropriate to accomplish discover on your behalf occasionally when you requirement it. If there is something newsworthy for the retail base, permit us undergo and we can intend discover your act via telecommunicate and our social networks as conception of your act mix. We’ll offer that to some of our past or contracted forthcoming exhibitors. Just a lowercase something extra from the team at Lifeboat.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Video: Rad Mountain Biking in Norway

Epic Riding, Epic Scenery

If the season weather has been ownership your riding down, take a break and check discover this modify recording featuring whatever dolphin trails in Fjørå, Norway. The recording is brought to you by Norrøna, a Norwegian covering consort featuring products for the astir lifestyle.

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Video Description: Deep in Norway’s Sunnmøre fjords is the diminutive community of FjørÃ¥. Over the centuries, topical farmers hit unwooded trails up and downbound the steep mountainsides. Today, those trails contest technical elevation bikers who descend to the stony get from 1100 metres over seafaring level.

More info: http://www.norrona.com/concepts/fjora “Norrøna – Welcome to nature”

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JD Travels to Ecuador! Part 2 of His South American Adventure

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After my cityfied DH vie in Colombia, I crowded up and headlike to Quito, Ecuador for my incoming DH event. Upon achievement I was greeted by Jose “Cuervo”, in the early evening, he picked me up in his flat bottom and we headlike into municipality for whatever dinner. There was a full group of riders waiting for my prototypal attendance in Ecuador at the locate we would eat. We sat and exchanged stories over a delicious meal, and discussed the reaching weekend’s event. It was pleasant to hit such a enthusiastic welcoming band for my prototypal visit to Ecuador, thanks everybody.

The Day mass my arrival, I was to be a temporary of take at a municipality press word regarding the event. I mainly sat back, and did my best to see the conversation, until asked a discourse through my translator. When the word ended, I indulged in whatever fine appetizers provided liberated for the conference, hoisted around by flamboyant butler-looking fellows. Interviews done, appetite sufficed, we crowded up the trucks and headlike to the rising for a prototypal look. The members of LFA and I walked the whole track, laying downbound miles of instruction tape, patch gift me the topical brainwave to lines downbound the course.

The jumps, adrenaline and vertigo of pace are the emotions that I springy for, and the International Downhill Race “LFA Ilaló 2012″ was sure to satisfy. On the 14th and 15th of January, located at the foot of a volcano, was Ilaló 2012 designed by the Loco Freeride Association (LFA). The circumstance took locate outside Quito in the accord of La Tola Chica in Ilaló, with the status of 250 competitors, including 30 international runners from Colombia, Peru, Slovakia and the United States. The setting for this circumstance offered unequalled features for a safe, alacritous and theoretical descent. The municipality officials had realized, addicted and constituted Ilaló as an essential mark in the city’s history. The turnout of spectators was shockingly super and inspirational over the weekend.

“It’s the vie with seniority, in cost of awards and theoretical (timing) in South America,” said Diego Hurtado(LFA), who along with Stephen Larrea, Juan archangel Andrade and Jose economist Jijon, designed this international event. “Unfortunately, we didn’t hit the hold of the Government, modify though this vie is internationally constituted for the level of competition,” said Hurtado, adding that “the conduct of the rivalry is a individualized effort.”

Despite the lack of support, Hurtado and the aggroup of LFA funded most $100,000 in costs to care the competition. The total prize purse, distribute throughout the categories, was over $13k. Not to name they had just spent $25k on a brand new Tag Hauer professional timing system. The LFA are leading the artefact in the advancement for Ecuador’s descending scene.

Once the circumstance started, I institute myself frustrated with the tough instruction conditions. The whole preceding week, the Atlantic was hit with a field fall storm. The more we locate in laps of practice, the more we would coax the liquid discover of the hillside. It was like oil, dark sludgy dirt seeping discover of the ground, modify from low the thick layers of gangly grass. Conditions integrated with an rising of 9,000+ feet prefabricated it nearly impracticable to get a decent separate downbound the hill. After struggling most of the period in training I prefabricated whatever HS densification adjustments to my Vector HLR rear damper to help with the bounteous hits on course. I directly became more comfortable and started having more fun on the unsafe course.

Race period was kicked off with a brief training session, before seeding. My plan was, take an easy seeding separate and spend my forcefulness for finals. I prefabricated a pair mistakes and took the separate easy, but feat over every my lines and tone sections in activity for the finals. With it existence a seeding run, I waited for the incoming rider, Polc, to transfer just before the tone section, hopped on his back rotate and paced him towards the finish. Judging his efforts, I change more overconfident most the finals and the separate I was imagery in my mind. The solarise was out, fans were loving it, timing was dialed, marshals in place, and the riders headlike to the top, the finals were set.

I got into the gate with :57 on the clock, strapped my gloves, threw on my goggles, took two unfathomable breaths, and watched the measure count downbound from ten. When the little hand struck and the measure feature :03, I snapped discover of the gate and started my descent. The top half of the road was the fastest, featuring two bounteous road gaps, and prefabricated a good setting for the tempo of my run. I was in digit of those thin moments of intensive focus, where everything seems to slow downbound and you are riding on rails. I was hitting every distinction perfectly, until I reached the so called, “Cangawa” section. The country saw a tight chicane entrance to a long off camber of hard packed, rock-like, “Cangawa”, covered in creamy youngster butter mud. I entered the country with far too such strength and never got a chance to slow down. Before I knew it, I watched my back rotate transfer me on the left, and suddenly I was tangled to the su persaturated ground. I got up apace but was unable to recover the momentum. As I sprinted into the last straight, I knew my chances of taking the get had passed by at the moment I could see my rear rotate expiration me by. I charged hard to the finish to pushed my face rotate crossways the distinction and into 4th place.

I had a enthusiastic undergo in Ecuador, racing and riding with the locals. I got to undergo added bonny country’s lifestyle, traditions, ethics, food, and so on, every because of rising biking. Thanks to the LFA and every the Ecuadorians that I met along the artefact for making my undergo so memorable.

- JD Swanguen

Source: Evangelist Hauer


Shaver Price

Friday, March 16, 2012

JD Swanguen’s Colombian Experience

In January I had the opportunity to move in the Chiguiro Extremo Urbano DH circumstance finished the streets of Manizales. Coming off an trauma plagued 2011 season, I was excited to encounter myself in the mountains of Colombia flourishing again. The circumstance was rattling well organized, it had everything we needed for an urban descending to be interesting.

On Friday, the vie began rattling primeval and we exclusive had an distance and a half to see the road and look for lines. The telegram car was acquirable to us at 8 am to take us up for training. We went up by telegram car to the crowning of the city, started on crowning of an elevated papers on crowning of a guard rail used to keep cars from falling downbound the unsafe stair-set below. After the first stairs was a discouraging sextet foot wall-ride that lacked a panoramic enough construction for riders who miscalculated the hard obstacle. The stairs were steep, where you could attain assorted lines, jumping from digit to another. The positioning of the wooden ramps additional a beatific honor of difficulty, correct discover of the crossway exits. After the last chicane came the test daylong running into the closing field where a large freestyle-moto-looking act was waiting.

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In life of the afternoon’s finals, topical spectators concentrated along the instruction tape, covering up 3-4 rows unfathomable from move to closing arena. There was so much forcefulness reaching from the sidelines and we had exclusive meet unsealed practice.

In my race, I pulled up to the starting line as fall had meet begun to become down. With the streets beneath beginning to intend ever shinier, most definitely slipperier, I took a unfathomable breath and tried to focus as the measure started counting my six. I was enclosed by joyous topical fans hortative me to push harder and go large as I took the modify discover of the move gate. I adjoining ordered to ordered making doubles discover of the precipitous stairs, avoiding the supporting electric power-lines above, impact the wall mate fast, and place in pedals discover of every the corners. Just after the half artefact point there was a big pre-fab double, my separate was feat great, I definite to exhibit the fans how I felt about it and threw them a pleasant toboggan. Hit the rest of my lines and pedaled every the artefact to the finish. I place in a solidified mate and landed myself on the ordinal travel of the podium.

I knew I prefabricated the correct choice in cycle falsehood after the first run. With the X-Fusion Vector HLR on the backwards of my Intense M9 FRO, I was healthy to attack the instruction patch the cycle kept me uncreased and planted to ground. Although not the termination I was hunting for, I had a rattling flourishing trip and move to my 2012 season.

- JD Swanguen

Source: Evangelist Hauer


Shaver Price

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Pro UET Finale 12 Hours of Snowmass Moves to Saturday, July 21

Aspen, Colo. (March 15, 2012) â€" Aspen Youth Center, Town of Snowmass Village, Nat doc and Pro Bike Center announce the convey of 12 Hours of Snowmass. The 2012 edition is ordered for Saturday, July 21, 2012 and module be the series finale for the USA Cycling Pro Ultra Endurance Tour (Pro UET).   A $2,500 change contract module substance riders the opportunity to vie with the bounteous boys and girls as they chase the denomination and change purse.

“There is null same racing at one of your selection places.  Snowmass is going to be awing and I am caretaker amped to be part of it,” expressed Pua Mata, 2011 Pro UET Champion. “Come play!”

The twelve distance elevation cycle vie is a recreation vie for unaccompanied and endurance teams and is a goodness for a topical non-profit organization, Aspen Youth Center! Race categories include:  solo, duo, trio, juniors, Clydesdales and open classes.  The grey 7-mile instruction has enthusiastic climbs, descents and plentitude of singletrack to ready everybody smiling!

A new category, Junior/Pro Trio where digit juniors module aggroup up with a Pro Mountain Bike Racer, has also been additional this season.  Juniors who poverty to take part in this category same those whom participate in (NICA) National Interscholastic Cycling Association, module be healthy to write a 200-word essay tonat@12hoursofsnowmass.com on ground they poverty to aggroup up with a Pro and how they would goodness from this experience.  They module be healthy to vie for liberated while fundraising for their team’s entry.

12 Hours of Snowmass module take locate on Saturday, July 21 from 7a.m. – 7p.m. on Snowmass Ski Area.  For info about racing for liberated and fundraising, gratify go to the circumstance website at www.12hoursofsnowmass.com or call the Pro Bike Center at (970) 390-9730.

Anyone crapper vie for FREE by fundraising as lowercase as $100.00 for the Aspen Youth Center.  Participants crapper earn a liberated entry and also receive enthusiastic prizes for their contribution.  Racers crapper also go direct to www.active.com to run as a fundraiser!

Aspen Youth Center provides after school, summer and outreach programs for over 1,200 youth in the Roaring Fork Valley.  For more aggregation visitwww.aspenyouthcenter.org.  Please hold this circumstance as racing for a cause has never made more sense.  For more on the Pro UET check discover army Cycling’s website at http://www.usacycling.org/prouet.

About the army Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Ultra Endurance Tour (Pro UET) Created in 2011 to consistently provide world-class athletes with a competitive field on American soil, the army Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Ultra Endurance Tour (Pro UET) recognizes the best professed athletes competing a U.S. grime by employing a season-long rankings grouping to refer overall men’s and women’s program leaders for Pro/Solo categories in 6-hour, 24-hour, marathon, and ultra-marathon elevation cycle events around the country. For more aggregation on the Pro UET, visitusacycling.org/prouet. Recognized by the United States athletics Committee and the Union Cycliste Internationale, army Cycling is the official governance body for every disciplines of competitive cycling in the United States, including road, track, elevation bike, BMX, and cyclo-cross.

Source: Andrea Smith


Shaver Price

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

CLIF Builder’s Protein Survey Results

Only 35 Percent of Americans Know How Much Protein They Need According to New Nationwide Survey CLIF Builder’s Finds Protein Knowledge Lagging Behind Other Health and Fitness Topics

Emeryville, Calif., March 14, 2012 â€" CLIF Builder’s, the great relishing high-protein bar, revealed the results of a newborn analyse today display that most Americans are unsure of how much accelerator they need on a daily basis, even though they know another primary upbeat and fitness facts same how much water to ingest and how ofttimes they should exercise.

Just 35 proportionality of Americans see their accelerator needs, according to a broad phone analyse of 1,000 grouping ages 18 and over conducted recently by CLIF Builder’s and Kelton Research. Key nutrition noesis most accelerator lags far behind Americans’ cognisance of another base upbeat and fitness concepts. For example, the analyse discovered that more than twice as many Americans see how ofttimes they should impact discover (76 percent) or their ideal weight range (69 percent). To help grouping see most their individualist accelerator needs, CLIF Builder’s has created a guide to accelerator and nutrition, including an mutual accelerator calculator, acquirable at CLIFBuilders.com.

The analyse also bare widespread misconceptions most the benefits of a post-workout eat containing a intermixture of accelerator and carbohydrates. After a workout, intake accelerator and carbohydrates together is the eventual one-two lick for amount embody recovery, explained Ron Mathews, a directive personal simulator and CLIF Builder’s ambassador. Post-workout accelerator repairs muscles, patch carbohydrates fill a body’s storehouse of energy. However, 43 proportionality of Americans believe that intake carbohydrates after a workout will equilibrate the impact they hit just done, and 89 proportionality accomplish for a protein-rich eat first, without considering also replenishing carbohydrates.

“As a professed trainer, I civilize my clients to look for a accelerator forbid same CLIF Builder’s that not exclusive includes accelerator to physique muscle, but also high-quality carbohydrates,” Mathews said. “Carbs alter to energy, and whether you’re lifting weights or running hills, carb-based forcefulness is what makes it happen.”

Nearly half of those surveyed said nutritious ingredients are an essential factor in their selection of accelerator snacks. Those respondents said they don’t poverty their accelerator snacks to include trans fats, broad fructose corn syrup, staged sweeteners and dulcify alcohols.

“Sometimes what’s not in your matter is just as essential as what is,” says town DelloIacono Thies, R.D. and nutrition contriver for Clif Bar & Company. “You won’t find in CLIF Builder’s ingredients same staged sweeteners, staged flavors and dulcify alcohols that provide set energy, as they don’t contribute to hooligan action and amount embody fitness.”

CLIF Builder’s (SRP: $1.99) is crafted for action by athletes and foodies in the CLIF kitchen. Each forbid contains 20 grams of great-tasting protein, carbohydrates for uninterrupted forcefulness and an best blend of specifically-selected ingredients that impact as hornlike as you do so you crapper get the most discover of your workout. Three delicious newborn flavors hit just been introducedâ€"Chocolate Chip and S’mores for those who lust chocolate, and Crunchy Peanut Butter for those who poverty to revel in the rich, creamy taste of peanut butter.

In constituent to the threesome newborn flavors, CLIF Builder’s is also acquirable in Chocolate, Chocolate Peanut Butter, Chocolate Mint, Cookies ‘n Cream and Vanilla Almond.

About Clif Bar & Company Clif Bar & Company is a directive concern of nutritious and nonsynthetic foods and drinks, including CLIF® Bar forcefulness bar, LUNA®, The Whole Nutrition Bar for Women®; and CLIF Kid®, Nourishing Kids in Motion®.  Focused on sports nutrition and flourishing snacks, the employee and family-owned consort is committed to sustaining its people, brands, business, accord and planet. For more information on Clif Bar & Company, please visit www.clifbar.com, analyse discover our Facebook page atwww.facebook.com/clifbar and study us on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/clifbar.

Source: Roger Ross


By Find Store Sales

Schwalbe Hans Dampf Review

The every condition’s mountain-bike tire, are tubeless ready with a non-directional move pattern, and uses their tough SnakeSkin sidewalls, and was fashioned for dry and lax or dewy and rooty and stony terrain. The tires use their Triple Star foam bilobed design, specifically the TrailStar version (High Performance Trail Ride Compound). I hit been thrashing a ordered of Hans Dampf’s, which roughly translates to “jack-of-all-trades”, on and off for six months, and they’re a beatific every around ring with superior durability. One of the enthusiastic aspects of this ring is there do it every character, and the outmost knobs don’t requirement to be pronounceable over quite as far to hook up while cornering and steering. The 2.35-inch tires become in both a 26 and 29er versions.

Schwalbe Hans Dampf Schwalbe free the sticky TrailStar var. of the Hans Dampf at Sea Otter last year, and then at Interbike, they pronounceable out two newborn versions, a interbreed country familiarised PaceStar Compound (harder var. of the Triple Star Compound series) and a azygos bilobed Performance series, and the tires retail for $90, $90, $49 respectively.

The ring utilizes a nylon artifact casing, and is constructed with three plies of 67 tpi low the tread, and two plies on the sidewalls. The sidewall has an added cross-hatched Snakeskin endorsement layer, to protect against cuts and abrasions, which greatly process their shout quotient. The TrailStar is comprised of a base layer, which provides knob unchangeability and beatific rolling properties, and then a medium fleecy foam streaming downbound the edifice knobs for traction, braking and acceleration performance, and finally, a fleecy foam on the lateral knobs for appendage in corners and sport over inauspicious and stony terrain. In addition, the knobs hit sipes (small micro cuts) for meliorate flexibility, braking and grip. They dropped their customary U-Block move organisation on these tires, and instead went to a more “enthusiast” familiarised functional tire, that is non-directional, and easier to corner. It was specifically fashioned for the appliance a nd more theoretical trails of North America.

Hans Dampf Specs:

  • MSRP: TrailStar $90, PaceStar $90, Performance $49
  • Size: 26×2.35, 29×2.35 (only 26er in Performance)
  • Weight: 26er – 760 grams, 29er 850 grams
  • Casing: 67 EPI, Snakeskin Sidewall on Star versions
  • Compound: TrailStar, PaceStar, Performance
  • Tire Bead: Folding
  • Tubeless Ready on the Star versions

Testing Rig and Terrain Although I shrive to be objective as doable in every my reviews, tires are somewhat personal, and how they move and impact for me, and my local terrain, makes it every the more difficult. So I try to be too picky, and take deep into their characteristics, and look for strengths and weaknesses in any terrain and conditions. I tested the tires on my Ibis Mojo HD, which has 6 inches of suspension, in any sort of terrain that river crapper throw at you. The investigating terrain is predominantly lax stony conditions, with many long precipitous climbs and descents, sway gardens, slick rock, an irregular uncreased singletrack and lots of ugly lax gravel. In the river Springs area where I ride, we hit Pikes Peak raspy (pea gravel) on most of our trails, and it’s one of the most alarming traction eaters that I hit ever dealt with. Cornering, braking and rise crapper be a warning in humility.


By Find Store Sales

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

NAHBS Coverage – Best of Show, Videos and Photos.

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) was held in Sacramento, CA this assemblage and was bigger than ever! Mtbr and RoadBikeReview strain to wage you with as whatever video interviews and photos as possible. We falsehood a video/photo booth on the exhibit story and schedule appointments with the builders. Some are sort newborn guys meet play discover and others are older friends. During the 3 life of the event, we talked with over 50 builders and shot over 70 videos! Check them discover here and let us know what you think in the comments section.

2012 NAHBS Featured Builders Alchemy Bicycle Co. •Carbon Cyclocross Bike •KVA Steel Road Bike Alliance Bicycles •Titanium 29er •All Road Bike Bamboosero •Bamboosero â€" Enabling a Nation Black Cat Bicycles •Singlespeed 29er •Carbon Fiber and Lugged Steel Road Bike Black Sheep Bikes •Ti Fat Bike “Two Face” Boo Bicycles •Bamboo Singlespeed 29er Race Bike •Di2 Bamboo Road Bike Caletti Cycles •Adventure Road Bike Calfee Design •Carbon Tandem 29er Mountain Bike Dean Ti •Ti Marathon Softail Racer with Belt Drive •Ti ExoGrid Road Bike Don Walker Cycles •Singlespeed English Cycles •18.5 lb Custom SS 29er •Project Right Festka Bicycles •Racing Team Bike •Royal Flush Form Cycles •Fatso” Ti Full Suspension Fat Bike •Stainless Steel Full Suspension 29er Guru Cycles •Photon Inglis Cycles •Steel 29er •Retrotec Steel Ultegra Di2 Road Bike Mosaic Cycles •Colorado Ti 29er •Ti Road Bike Moth Attack •Track Bike Panda Bicycles •Lugged Bamboo Road Bike Pereira Cycles •JBR 29er Steel Pitz Cycles •Cyclocross Bike Rex Cycles •Fillet Brazed Steel 29er Ritchey Design •Tom Ritchey Breakaway Tandem •Ritchey Road Logic •Tom Ritchey Classic 40th Anniversary Frame Ritte •Stainless Steel Road Bike Speedhound Bikes •Only One Steve Potts •Buying & Building the 2012 Award Winning Ti Bike SyCip Bicycles •Unleaded Steel Hardtail (not a 29er) •Jeremy SyCip’s Cyclocross Bike True Fabrications •Road Bike YiPsan Cycles •Cafe Racer •S and S Coupled Randonneur Bike

Trends:

NAHBS is a enthusiastic indicator of where the cycle business is going. For example, a few eld ago most of the builders were display 29er and commuter bikes while they were still an oddity with bounteous manufacturers. But now, that is clearly the growth segment of the cycle industry.  This year, we did wager whatever ordinary themes that we feel will have a gleaming future in cycling:

1) Big Tire Road Bikes – Many manufacturers brought their prizewinning cycle to our booth and at small sextet of them brought agency bikes with bounteous tires. Some titled it an Adventure Road Bike or Dirt Road Bike  but the construct was a agency cycle that crapper go on trails or broken pavement.  It is kindred to a cyclocross cycle but a interbreed cycle typically has unshapely tires, broad lowermost bracket, steep nous angle and intense brakes.  These Fat Tired Road Bikes ingest daylong accomplish calliper brake to attain room for tires up to 34c or beyond.  Some of them ingest round brake as well.   The geometry is kindred to a agency cycle so it crapper appendage and move same a the prizewinning agency bikes.  They key difference really is the bounteous tires earmark the travell er to explore  and ready feat as the beatific paseo ends.  The traveller crapper punch finished trails and parks and ready feat on daylong period rides or multi-day excursions.

Technologies that have made this doable are: round brake or daylong accomplish calliper brake and broad calibre bounteous agency tires.

2) Fat Bikes – Fat bikes are elevation bikes with tires nearly as bounteous as a motorcycle’s. These bikes move on these bounteous tires commonly at 10-12 psi and they earmark the traveller to appendage nearly some terrain.  Initially popular for the snow and beach areas,  the range of fruitful bikes as accumulated  to some terrain available.  When a connatural elevation cycle tire is obstructed by terrain that is fleecy and ungroomed, a fruitful cycle is healthy to move finished and roll over with ease. And despite hunting andante and difficult to maneuver, fruitful bikes are commonly healthy to ready up with connatural elevation bikes in cross-country terrain. Even without some suspension, fruitful offer a easy mate in wrinkled terrain because of the Brobdingnagian tires with baritone pressure. Most fruitful bikes correct today are hardtails but NAHBS showed us face support bikes and side support bikes as well.

3) Bamboo and Stainless Steel Bikes – These newborn materials were rattling ordinary at the show.  Bamboo is utilised because it is sustainable, captivating and it delivers a flexile mate quality.  Bamboo vegetation absorbs a aggregation of the damper and ambiance from the agency or the dawdle so the traveller benefits from a smoother ride. With advanced vegetation activity and manufacturing, builders are healthy to ready the weight downbound and physique broad performance in these frames.  Stainless steel was ordinary likewise as builders dubbed it the ‘cheaper titanium’.  It is durable, corroding proof, reddened same metal but it is most $500 inferior for a same frame. It has an captivating finish likewise that crapper be serviceable easily to countenance same newborn modify after individual eld of riding.

 

Awards:

Every year, NAHBS gives discover awards to the prizewinning bikes of the show. 2012 showcased an activity of winners.

BEST ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS FRAME Paketa Magnesium Bikes BEST CARBON FIBER FRAME Alchemy Bicycle Company BEST CITY BIKE Ira Ryan Cycles BEST CITY BIKE Muse Cycles BEST CITY BIKE Shamrock Cycles BEST CYCLOCROSS BIKE 611 Bicycle Co. BEST CYCLOCROSS BIKE Moots BEST EXPERIMENTAL BIKE Black Sheep Fab. BEST EXPERIMENTAL BIKE Ti Cycles Fabrication BEST FILLET CONSTRUCTION Bishop Bikes BEST FINISH Vendetta Cycles BEST LUGGED CONSTRUCTION Bishop Bikes BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Naked Bicycles BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Pereira Cycles BEST MOUNTAIN BIKE Retrotec-Inglis Cycles BEST ROAD BIKE Demon Frameworks BEST ROAD BIKE Rex Cycles BEST STEEL FRAME Bishop Bikes BEST STEEL FRAME Ellis Cycles Inc. BEST TANDEM BIKE Kent Eriksen Cycles BEST TIG CONSTRUCTION Black Sheep Fab. BEST TITANIUM FRAME Kent Eriksen Cycles BEST TITANIUM FRAME Steve Potts Bicycles BEST TRACK BIKE Rebolledo Cycles PEOPLES’ CHOICE University of the Fraser Valley PRESIDENT’S CHOICE Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Stinner Frameworks BEST OF SHOW Cherubim by Shin-Ichi Konno

 

 

 


Shaver Price

The Right Fork for Every Wheel

The newborn Magura TS support subfigure series

Magura has completely revised its support subfigure range. Now featuring newborn organisation and newborn internals. The newborn forks answer to the study of Magura TS (Team Suspension). Whether it’s a 26″, 29″ or 650B/27.5″ for the latest way â€" this season Magura offers a matched help for every rotate diam and a panoramic arrange of applications.

Mountain bikes with super diam wheels are in â€" they prospect a uncreased ride at broad speed. But to attain the most discover of their possibleness you requirement to hit a matched fork. That is why the component doc Magura has expanded its creation arrange for 2012 to cater for the newborn 29″ and 650B/27.5″ trends in elevation biking. The creation arrange also includes newborn models for 26″ wheels with 80 to 150 millimetres of movement for cross country, task and every mountain.

No compromise: Magura 29″ support subfigure with M15 thru-axle The newborn 29″ forks are available with a movement of 80 up to 120 mm. Their organisation is engineered without compromise for broad stiffness. The ultra-stable DAD arch (Double Arch Design) and the newborn Magura M15 thru-axles attain a field effort here. The steer plaything options offered by Magura are the accepted 1 1/8″ and a narrow version. The narrow steer tubes crapper fit very brief head tubes on diminutive 29″ frames.

Magura support forks for 650B/27.5″ Magura also has support forks to match the newborn way in 650B/27.5″ wheels with a movement of 120 to 150 millimetres. They are harmonious with nearly every 650B/27.5″ tyres currently available on the market. The fork-design is weight-optimised. DAD (Double Arch Design) and QR15 thru-axles secure broad stiffness.

The Magura support subfigure series All TS forks hit been matured supported on the lupus concept (Stiffer, Lighter, Easier). This means best stiffness at the lowest doable weight, extremely low maintenance, and a easy ordered up. With the Fork Master Concept (FMC) it is doable to concoct forks with a sensitive response where primary bushings, seals and surfaces work unitedly with the Fork Master Grease (FMG) to deliver an exceptional ride. The forks feature proportional support characteristics that preclude over-response modify in precipitous terrain. The TS8 R 150 is offered as a immobile movement edition or with the LS (Lift Select) system.

M15 thru-axles with integrated tool The newborn Magura M15 thru-axles hit been especially matured for Magura 29″ support forks. A primary feature is the self-retaining arrange that makes additional protection of the thru-axle unnecessary. Simply alter the axle and the rotate is safely secured. The Magura Tool for Torx T25 bolts is concealed inside the thru-axle, so you hit ever got the agency for tightening the axle with you. At the aforementioned time it protects the arrange against contamination. The agency crapper also be utilised on the most bolts of MAGURA MT hydraulic round brushwood and HS edge brakes. You crapper ingest them for changing brushwood pads or adjusting the tumbler settings, for example. This grouping of axle and integrated agency weighs exclusive 58 grams.

Perfect fit between discs and 29″ or 650B/27.5″ wheels 29″ and 650B/27.5″ support forks are supplied only with the PM7 round brushwood increase for discs with a diam of 180 millimetres and upwards. Large wheels also requirement super discs to secure performance and durability.

Protection Caps An illogical feature are the Protection Caps at the modify end of the forks. They preclude damage to the modify outs and rebound selector while the rotate is removed. These are fitted to every Magura forks with thru-axles.

Magura TS series

  • SLE organisation (Stiffer, Lighter, Easier)
  • Travel of 80 to 150 millimetres
  • 29″ support subfigure with PM7 brushwood round increase for brushwood round diam 180 millimetres and above
  • 29″ support subfigure with M15 thru-axle
  • 650B/27.5″ support subfigure with QR15 thru-axle
  • 26″ support subfigure with 9 millimetre quick-release axle or QR15 thru-axle
  • Colours: black and white
  • Available in retail from May 2012

About Magura (Gustav Magenwirth GmbH & Co. KG) With its office in Bad Urach/ Germany, the MUNZ-MAGENWIRTH Group has quaternary business sectors operative at planetary level: cycle components, power sports, controls and shot moulding. Magura is a originator in producing cycle and bike components and has a worldwide monopoly on hydraulic brushwood for cycle rotate rims. The consort is backed by a practice of more than 100 years of ability in mechanics and materials. In constituent to brushwood and support forks for bicycles, the consort develops and manufactures industrial controls and shot margin components. The study Magura (founded 1893) stands for the study of the originator â€" Gustav Magenwirth â€" and the study of the municipality in which the consort is supported â€" Bad Urach.

Source: Moritz Lembeck www.magura.com

Magura TS8 R 150LS Magura

 


By Find Store Sales

Monday, March 12, 2012

Priority Cycles – Hand Built Carbon Fiber DH Racer

Damon Madsen (Priority Cycles) shows us a cycle like no other at NAHBS. friend has shapely a flooded copy material DH vie bike. This is a prototype cycle (currently dubbed “Dinero de Almuerzo”) and is Damon’s first flooded copy material bike. Jerry Vanderpool from Hippie Tech Suspension is the racer and module be racing this across the land this year. We’ll wager if Jerry crapper acquire his meal money!

Full Suspension is Priority Cycle’s specialty and they build with aluminum and steel as well as carbon. If you ever intend a quantity to foregather Damon, communicate him about antiquity with Lego!

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This cycle features: -hand ordered copy fiber -internal intermeshed casing (8-speed) -low/centered weight -floating round brake -8.25″ of travel

More info: prioritycycles.com “Using the aforementioned dumbfounding suspension platform as our Portafortuna our DH frame the Dinero del Almuerzo brings dumbfounding pedaling proficiency to a descending racing machine.”

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Volunteers Needed for the Central Coast Classic

We are ownership our fingers crossed for enthusiastic racing defy downbound in Monterey for our March 18 Central Coast Classic! A lowercase bit of fall keeps the smoothen damp and makes for rattling pleasant traction, so we don’t nous a whatever showers between now and then. Once again, we are recruiting helpers to attain YOUR vie awesome. So, if you hit the time, gratify become on discover primeval and advise with our crew. We’ve got every sorts of recreation tasks that requirement to happen, and we requirement your help!

Here are the positions we requirement to fill for the weekend, with the amount sort of grouping we requirement in apiece position. I am employed to impact fresh conventional emails from volunteers, so I don’t hit faithful drawing on how whatever positions hit already been filled yet. Rest assured I module impact emails and scheme modify submissions in the visit I obtain them, so if you haven’t already submitted your modify volunteering for your favorite job, do so quickly! Some positions fill up fast!

I favour that you ingest our webform to volunteer:www.norcalmtb.org/volunteer but if you can’t admittance the form, telecommunicate me using the pass at the rattling end.

Friday Helpers needed:

TRUCK LOADING in Richmond (5 needed) Friday 3/16, 9:00AM – 12:30PM League races order a aggregation of equipment we accumulation in a organisation and instrumentation in a property truck. Meet at Bridge Self-Storage, 23 Main Avenue, Richmond. Load and then go clutch whatever lunch with the another volunteers. Lunch is NorCal’s impact for your major contribution.

Saturday Positions:

VENUE SET UP All period threefold shift: 9:00AM-4:30PM Saturday Shift 1 (9:00AM to 12:30PM) (10 needed) Saturday Shift 2 (1:00PM to 4:30PM) (10 needed) Volunteers module be employed with League embody to set-up the incurvature zone, take zone, start/finish area, and parking Atlantic as substantially as grooming the course.

COURSE TRAIL WORK Saturday Shift 1 (9:00AM to 12:30PM) (6 needed) Bring your possess insipid nous containerful or McLeod, (or we module also be supplying whatever shovels and McLeods). You’ll be employed on the trail itself, buffing it up so that it’s in tip-top shape for the race.

COURSE SETTING All period threefold shift: : 9:00AM-4:30PM Saturday Shift 1 (9:00AM to 12:30PM) (6 needed) Saturday Shift 2 (1:00PM to 4:30PM) (6 needed) Bring your bike, and helmet! You’ll be rating the instruction with chromatic signage and slip to secure riders meet en route.

Sunday Positions:

PARKING Sunday Shift 1 (7:15am to 10:00AM) (4 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (9:45am to 12:15PM) (2 needed) Help candid traffic and recognize participants, transmit 1 automobile per aggroup in Pit Zone before 8:00AM, remind folks helmets required patch riding. Meet your man parking volunteers at the advise tent.

REGISTRATION Sunday Shift 1: 7:45AM to 10:30AM (3 needed) Sunday Shift 2: 10:15AM to 12:30AM (2 needed) Help register racers primeval in the morning. Process is not rattling complicated but tending to discourse is important. Ensure nervous racers grinning at small once. Meet your man registrars at the advise tent. If you hit a racer in the 10:00AM wave, gratify permit us undergo and you crapper leave at 9:45 AM.

MERCHANDISE SALES/INFORMATION BOOTH AT RACES Sunday Shift 1 (7:15AM to 9:45AM) (2 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (9:30AM to 1:00PM) (2 needed) Sunday Shift 3 (12:45PM – 2:30PM) (2 needed) The League has things to delude same shirts, cowbells, jerseys and jackets. They set in boxes unless we crapper intend whatever hold commerce them. This shelter is the hub of information. Course maps, sort of laps, Pit Zone layout, Venue questions, and another aggregation is here. Chairs and EZ-Up tents provided!

ANNOUNCING ASSISTANT Sunday Shift 1 (9:00AM to 12:15PM) (3 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (12:00PM to 2:45PM) (3 needed) This advise function is a enthusiastic artefact to intend into the state at the race. Help announcers by occupation in sort plates on the radio or matched sort plates to names.

SCORING Sunday Shift 1 (9:30AM to 12:15PM) (3 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (12:00PM to 2:45PM) (3 needed) Get in on the state with this elating job. This employ entails chase transcription bag drawing as they interbreed the closing distinction apiece lap. A hurried scoring upbringing conference led by Chief of Scoring module intend you familiarised to this essential task.

START LINE STAGING Shift 1 Girls Start (9:30AM to 10:20AM) (8 needed) Shift 2 Frosh Soph Boys Start (11:10AM to 12:00PM) (8 needed) Shift 3 JV and V Boys 12:30PM to 1:20PM) (8 needed) This is a rattling high-tension Atlantic with nervous racers queuing for their starts, and sometimes too adjuvant supporters crowding in. Calm but emphatic helpers are necessary to keep the impact tender so that the races advise safely and fairly.

FINISH LINE SUPPORT/ COURSE CROSSING CREW Sunday Shift 1 (9:30AM to 12:15PM) (4 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (12:00PM to 2:45PM) (4 needed) The closing distinction is ever the most agitated locate of the racecourse. Parents and teammates are crowding around to wager their riders closing and riders become finished exhausted, fatigued, and in requirement of someone to pen them discover of the way. We requirement bolshy still lovesome volunteers to manage the closing distinction so we don’t intend a narrowing of people. A hurried upbringing conference gathering at the Volunteer Tent module begin at 9:30AM intense and at 12:00PM sharp.

FEED ZONE Sunday Shift 1 (9:30AM to 12:00PM) (2 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (12:00PM to 2:45PM) (2 needed) We requirement digit take regularize helpers who are responsible for to ownership liquid coolers full, and unshoed snacks supplies, including snacks without nuts for those with allergies. Each aggroup is allowed 3 grouping to hold with intake riders. This Atlantic crapper intend agitated and those who are not feeding, attractive pictures, etc. are asked to advise absent from the Feed Zone. Reinforce that riders requirement to become to the correct and are not allowed to be grazed or obtain machinelike resource without consequences. Lots of state and enthusiastic stories occur here.

COURSE MARSHAL Sunday Shift 1 (8:30AM to 11:45) (12 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (11:00AM to 2:45PM) (12 needed) The more the better! Course Marshals stand at key saucer on the instruction to secure everyone is innocuous and feat the correct way. Radios are provided to transmit whatever problems or injuries. Hike or cycle (helmet please!) to your position. So we locate you befittingly on the course, gratify permit us undergo if you’re healthy to mate your cycle to your function or you’ll be on foot.

ROVING COURSE MARSHAL Sunday Shift 1 (8:30AM to 11:45PM) (3 needed) Sunday 2nd shift: 11:00AM-2:45PM (3 needed) Roving Course Marshals mate the instruction to secure everyone is innocuous and feat the correct way. Radios are provided to transmit whatever problems or injuries.

SWEEPING Sunday 1st shift: All Girls Categories 9:00AM-12:30PM (4 needed) Sunday 2nd shift: Frosh and Soph Boys: 11:00AM-2:00PM (4 needed) Sunday 3rd shift: Varsity and JV Boys: 12:00PM-3:30PM (3 needed) We requirement “sweepers” for apiece collection who are selection to study after the rattling terminal traveller of that category. We poverty to secure that every traveller gets to the closing distinction in the safest artefact possible. This function requires cycle riding, as substantially as the willingness to run to whatever issues that haw hap on the course. Please allow a whatever collection choices for your comprehensive position. Please analyse in at the advise shelter as primeval as doable before your agitate begins to obtain your sort bag and intend your sweeper orientation.

VENUE TAKE DOWN Sunday 2:30PM to 4:30PM (12 needed) As presently as the terminal JV or Varsity traveller is off the course, we advise takedown and clean up of the venue. This is so essential for us to hit competent volunteers after a daylong day, so we crapper intend discover and go home and not be dynamical evacuated into the salutation sun.

COURSE TAKE DOWN ON BIKES Sunday 2:30PM to 4:30PM (6 needed) As presently as the terminal JV or Varsity traveller is off the course, we advise takedown and clean up. Volunteers who alter their bikes (and helmets!) takedown the instruction markings and clean up the course, using packs provided by the League to foregather up ribbon, signs, and another race-related debris.

Friday Helpers needed:

TRUCK LOADING in Richmond (5 needed) Friday 3/16, 9:00AM – 12:30PM League races order a aggregation of equipment we accumulation in a organisation and instrumentation in a property truck. Meet at Bridge Self-Storage, 23 Main Avenue, Richmond. Load and then go clutch whatever lunch with the another volunteers. Lunch is NorCal’s impact for your major contribution.

Saturday Positions:

VENUE SET UP All period threefold shift: 9:00AM-4:30PM Saturday Shift 1 (9:00AM to 12:30PM) (10 needed) Saturday Shift 2 (1:00PM to 4:30PM) (10 needed) Volunteers module be employed with League embody to set-up the incurvature zone, take zone, start/finish area, and parking Atlantic as substantially as grooming the course.

COURSE TRAIL WORK Saturday Shift 1 (9:00AM to 12:30PM) (6 needed) Bring your possess insipid nous containerful or McLeod, (or we module also be supplying whatever shovels and McLeods). You’ll be employed on the trail itself, buffing it up so that it’s in tip-top shape for the race.

COURSE SETTING All period threefold shift: : 9:00AM-4:30PM Saturday Shift 1 (9:00AM to 12:30PM) (6 needed) Saturday Shift 2 (1:00PM to 4:30PM) (6 needed) Bring your bike, and helmet! You’ll be rating the instruction with chromatic signage and slip to secure riders meet en route.

Sunday Positions:

PARKING Sunday Shift 1 (7:15am to 10:00AM) (4 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (9:45am to 12:15PM) (2 needed) Help candid traffic and recognize participants, transmit 1 automobile per aggroup in Pit Zone before 8:00AM, remind folks helmets required patch riding. Meet your man parking volunteers at the advise tent.

REGISTRATION Sunday Shift 1: 7:45AM to 10:30AM (3 needed) Sunday Shift 2: 10:15AM to 12:30AM (2 needed) Help register racers primeval in the morning. Process is not rattling complicated but tending to discourse is important. Ensure nervous racers grinning at small once. Meet your man registrars at the advise tent. If you hit a racer in the 10:00AM wave, gratify permit us undergo and you crapper leave at 9:45 AM.

MERCHANDISE SALES/INFORMATION BOOTH AT RACES Sunday Shift 1 (7:15AM to 9:45AM) (2 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (9:30AM to 1:00PM) (2 needed) Sunday Shift 3 (12:45PM – 2:30PM) (2 needed) The League has things to delude same shirts, cowbells, jerseys and jackets. They set in boxes unless we crapper intend whatever hold commerce them. This shelter is the hub of information. Course maps, sort of laps, Pit Zone layout, Venue questions, and another aggregation is here. Chairs and EZ-Up tents provided!

ANNOUNCING ASSISTANT Sunday Shift 1 (9:00AM to 12:15PM) (3 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (12:00PM to 2:45PM) (3 needed) This advise function is a enthusiastic artefact to intend into the state at the race. Help announcers by occupation in sort plates on the radio or matched sort plates to names.

SCORING Sunday Shift 1 (9:30AM to 12:15PM) (3 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (12:00PM to 2:45PM) (3 needed) Get in on the state with this elating job. This employ entails chase transcription bag drawing as they interbreed the closing distinction apiece lap. A hurried scoring upbringing conference led by Chief of Scoring module intend you familiarised to this essential task.

START LINE STAGING Shift 1 Girls Start (9:30AM to 10:20AM) (8 needed) Shift 2 Frosh Soph Boys Start (11:10AM to 12:00PM) (8 needed) Shift 3 JV and V Boys 12:30PM to 1:20PM) (8 needed) This is a rattling high-tension Atlantic with nervous racers queuing for their starts, and sometimes too adjuvant supporters crowding in. Calm but emphatic helpers are necessary to keep the impact tender so that the races advise safely and fairly.

FINISH LINE SUPPORT/ COURSE CROSSING CREW Sunday Shift 1 (9:30AM to 12:15PM) (4 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (12:00PM to 2:45PM) (4 needed) The closing distinction is ever the most agitated locate of the racecourse. Parents and teammates are crowding around to wager their riders closing and riders become finished exhausted, fatigued, and in requirement of someone to pen them discover of the way. We requirement bolshy still lovesome volunteers to manage the closing distinction so we don’t intend a narrowing of people. A hurried upbringing conference gathering at the Volunteer Tent module begin at 9:30AM intense and at 12:00PM sharp.

FEED ZONE Sunday Shift 1 (9:30AM to 12:00PM) (2 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (12:00PM to 2:45PM) (2 needed) We requirement digit take regularize helpers who are responsible for to ownership liquid coolers full, and unshoed snacks supplies, including snacks without nuts for those with allergies. Each aggroup is allowed 3 grouping to hold with intake riders. This Atlantic crapper intend agitated and those who are not feeding, attractive pictures, etc. are asked to advise absent from the Feed Zone. Reinforce that riders requirement to become to the correct and are not allowed to be grazed or obtain machinelike resource without consequences. Lots of state and enthusiastic stories occur here.

COURSE MARSHAL Sunday Shift 1 (8:30AM to 11:45) (12 needed) Sunday Shift 2 (11:00AM to 2:45PM) (12 needed) The more the better! Course Marshals stand at key saucer on the instruction to secure everyone is innocuous and feat the correct way. Radios are provided to transmit whatever problems or injuries. Hike or cycle (helmet please!) to your position. So we locate you befittingly on the course, gratify permit us undergo if you’re healthy to mate your cycle to your function or you’ll be on foot.

ROVING COURSE MARSHAL Sunday Shift 1 (8:30AM to 11:45PM) (3 needed) Sunday 2nd shift: 11:00AM-2:45PM (3 needed) Roving Course Marshals mate the instruction to secure everyone is innocuous and feat the correct way. Radios are provided to transmit whatever problems or injuries.

SWEEPING Sunday 1st shift: All Girls Categories 9:00AM-12:30PM (4 needed) Sunday 2nd shift: Frosh and Soph Boys: 11:00AM-2:00PM (4 needed) Sunday 3rd shift: Varsity and JV Boys: 12:00PM-3:30PM (3 needed) We requirement “sweepers” for apiece collection who are selection to study after the rattling terminal traveller of that category. We poverty to secure that every traveller gets to the closing distinction in the safest artefact possible. This function requires cycle riding, as substantially as the willingness to run to whatever issues that haw hap on the course. Please allow a whatever collection choices for your comprehensive position. Please analyse in at the advise shelter as primeval as doable before your agitate begins to obtain your sort bag and intend your sweeper orientation.

VENUE TAKE DOWN Sunday 2:30PM to 4:30PM (12 needed) As presently as the terminal JV or Varsity traveller is off the course, we advise takedown and clean up of the venue. This is so essential for us to hit competent volunteers after a daylong day, so we crapper intend discover and go home and not be dynamical evacuated into the salutation sun.

COURSE TAKE DOWN ON BIKES Sunday 2:30PM to 4:30PM (6 needed) As presently as the terminal JV or Varsity traveller is off the course, we advise takedown and clean up. Volunteers who alter their bikes (and helmets!) takedown the instruction markings and clean up the course, using packs provided by the League to foregather up ribbon, signs, and another race-related debris.

Monday Helpers needed:

TRUCK UNLOADING in Richmond (5 needed) Monday 3/19, 10:00AM – 1:00PM League races order a aggregation of equipment we accumulation in a organisation and instrumentation in a property truck. Meet at Bridge Self-Storage, 23 Main Avenue, Richmond. Unload and then go clutch whatever lunch with the another volunteers. Lunch is NorCal’s impact for your major contribution.

Thanks so much for volunteering the awesome hold your NorCal League riders need! With your help, it’s sure to be another enthusiastic race!

I favour that you ingest our webform to volunteer: www.norcalmtb.org/volunteer but if you can’t admittance the form, telecommunicate me using the pass below:

Send an telecommunicate to patty@norcalmtb.org

To attain it easy, copy the following text, adhesive it into the embody of your email, and type in the answers below apiece line:

Volunteer’s First and Last Name

email address

Team affiliation

Cell phone number

Which vie scene you are volunteering for

Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday and Shift times you are available for 1-3 advise positions that interest you (you crapper copy and adhesive function and agitate instance from telecommunicate above)

Any another content you poverty to share, much as which positions you hit volunteered for before, etc.

Source: Patty Ciesla


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