If you are in the area:
The June 18th inaugural Lake Tahoe 4&8HR Mountain Bike Race, in Tahoe City, CA is coming up, and volunteers are needed. Each volunteer earns $10/hr of race credit good towards any Big Blue Adventure event, plus a t-shirt, beer and BBQ. If you are interested in helping out with the race, email angel@bigblueadventure.com.
Eagle-eyed reader Kris alerted us to the change for the CCCX finale:
Please note that CCCX XC #6 will take place Sunday- May 29, in Ft. Ord. This course is going to be worthy! Prepare to be tested to the max!
Please note this in your diary.
For those of you making your weekend plans, here is quick rundown of this weekend's MTB racing schedule for NorCal:
More details about the NorNevada Sierra Cup Series:
The Sierra Cup Regional Championship Mountain Biking Series for 2011 begins this weekend in Gardnerville, NV. The Sierra Cup is a seven race point series to determine the USA Cycling cross-country mountain bike champions for the Northern California/Nevada region.Top finishers at the first three events will also qualify to compete at the Mountain Bike National Championships in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 14-17.
The Sierra Cup events are the Pine Nut Cracker on May 21 in Gardnerville, NV; the Peavine Challenge on June 5 in Reno, NV; the Skyline Park Mountain Bike Race on June 12 in Napa, CA; the Kirkwood Mountain Classic on July 23 at Kirkwood, CA; the Sky Tavern Classic on August 14 in Reno; The Great Tahoe Flume Race on September 10 at Spooner Lake and the Sawtooth Ridge Challenge on October 2 at Northstar-at-Tahoe.
These events take riders through some of best trails in the West and challenge them with heart pounding climbs and fun, technical descents. There are age and ability categories for all levels of riders. Race distances vary with each event and are often based on the ability categories. Each individual event awards medals to the top finishers as well as series points. Besides the regional champion medals for the series winners, there is also a $1500 series purse for top riders.
The Sierra Cup is unique in that all of the participating races donate their proceeds to various non-profit organizations that give back to the trails where mountain bikers ride. These organizations include the Poedunks, Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park Backcountry Patrol, Skyline Wilderness Park, and the Truckee Trails Foundation.
Sponsors for the Sierra Cup series include GU Energy, Wilderness Trail Bikes, CytoSport, Black Rock Bicycles, Sierra Cyclesmith, Velo Reno, Voler, Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicyles, Santa Cruz Bicycles, SCHEELS, Specialized, Resource Revival, Adventure Sports Journal, and Cycle California!
For more information visit www.renowheelmen.org or e-mail mtb11@renowheelmen.org. The Sierra Cup Series is on facebook atwww.facebook.com/SierraCupMTB.
The series starts this weekend with the Pine Nut Cracker.
For those of you making your weekend plans, here is quick rundown of this weekend's MTB racing schedule for NorCal:
The results from last weekend's Rockhopper XC race have been posted at:
http://www.timeyourrace.com/Rockhopper/2011/Results.htm
Congrats to winners Brent Prenzlow (Men's Pro) and Sarah Maile (Pro Women's).
For those of you making your weekend plans, here is quick rundown of this weekend's MTB racing schedule for NorCal:
Results from last weekend's Shasta Lemurian have been posted:
Congrats to Tim Olsen and Aren Timmel (both from Chico), who came in first and second in the long course, and Kerry Barnholt (Mt View) and Carrie Edwards (Sausalito) who won the Women's long course.
Vic (of Team Bigfoot fame) has a full set of pictures at photobucket.
Looking to get a jump on the reborn Rockhopper course ?
justin english (our local mtb homie) will be heading a weekly course pre ride on Wednesday may 4th to share the taste of some technical, steep, twisty turn, hilly, course that will "turn on" your mtb desire. 6:10 pm roll out from ray's bike shop (400 main st, vacaville 95688).
if ya wanna get a sense of the course, plan your strategy and get some lung burning fun under your belt...come join us in vacaville....
also only two weeks away until our may 7th cross country event, the rockhopper classic, registration is just burning to get your nameon it....we got raffle, we got lunch and we got game!
