Last week, I found out that you don’t actually have to be fast to win at the Cross Crusade Awards Party. You can be lucky and win the raffle, like my friend Beth, who made off with a ridiculous set of tubular wheels. Or you can be unlucky, flat three times in one race, go [...]
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Cross Crusade #7 Race Report: Mud, Whiskey, Mini-Golf
I’m traveling so this has to be quick but the race report from this weekend went up realllly early this morning over at the Wend Blog.
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SSCXWC Photo preview
While I’m writing today, I’ll leave you with a few snaps from yesterday’s festivities. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Also, check out more photos from Ironclad, Jason Sager, and David A. I’m sure there are many, many, many, many, many more to come.
Continue ReadingSingle Speed World Championships – The Pre-Party
SSCXWC contenders descended upon a time-trial qualifying course at a secret location in Portland today. I was there for the start, but I had to work so I could not return to the shenanigans until later in the night when the second-chance race left from Vanilla Bicycles HQ. All hands were on deck for beer, [...]
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This video, from last year’s SSXCWC at Estacada, probably says it best. I’m cringing to post it again but – unfettered joy is unfettered joy, ya know?
Continue ReadingRace Report: Barton Park Carnage
The Barton Park race report is up over at the Wend Blog! You can read it below, too. Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. All photos courtesy of Stiv Wilson. Blood, rocks, mud, carnage. Barton Park 2008 will go down in infamy. Cue to the quarry. Cyclocross at its best. Sunday mayhem. Bodily destruction. A precarious place [...]
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