Tour de Granite Preview

NinjaBoot was nice enough to send in his pre-ride of this weekend's Tour de Granite course with GPS maps ! "The 1st lap has about a 3/4 of a mile climb that is only included the first lap. I think they are doing that to spread the riders out before the single track. Completely different course that last year. I Can't wait to race it."



While the GPS course map is interesting, the elevation map really shows the challenge of the course.

Crankworx Slopestyle Highlights

Courtesy of RipTV:



15,000 spectators at Whistler watched the ever popular Slopestyle competition at Crankworx 2007.

Slopestyle Final Results:
1. Ben Boyko
2. Andreu Lacondeguy
3. Brandon Semenuk
4. Cam McCaul
5. Paul Basagoita

Northstar DH #2 Results

The cheeky little monkeys over at Northstar have posted the results for yesterday's downhill race, but cleverly put the wrong link on their page. The correct link for the Northstar DH #2 results is here (It's a Microsoft Excel file).

Congrats to the winners:

Racer	Class	Time
NASH, MIKEY	B17	05:27.8
HOOVER, MICHAEL	B24	05:53.4
HALL, RYAN	B29	05:54.2
HOWE, FREDERICK	B39	06:31.9
LEDESMA, RICK	B40	07:25.0
BELUZZI, FOREST	E17	03:49.3
BOCKENEK, MICHAEL	E17	05:02.9
VORHEES, JUSTIN	E26	04:13.3
MURRAY, GRAHAM	E34	04:12.9
UNES, DAN	E44	04:26.5
DUDLEY, MEAVE	F29	06:13.4
GOSSETT, SEBREY	FJ	06:40.1
BURCH, ALLIE	FO	05:56.3
SHANBHAG, SANJAY	PR	03:38.1
REA, GREGORY	S13	06:16.8
WOMACK, JAKE	S17	05:19.3
ROBISON, MATT	S26	05:25.0
BUSTAMONTE, JAVIER	S34	05:19.0
MUNDORFF, PAUL	S44	05:43.7
AUDIFFRED, MARC	S54	05:33.1
DUNKUM, WILLIAM	S55	06:51.6

2007 Northstar XC #4 Results

The baffling folks over at Northstar have posted results from the latest MTB cross country race. However, instead of posting it in the usual place (i.e. the XC results page), they posted it on the downhill results page and only posted the series cumulative points -- not race #4 times. However, the Northstar XC series results are finally available.

It looks like they have a slightly different course than 2005. It used to cut right at the top of the hill and go around the water tanks. Still 3.5 miles laps with about 600' of climbing.


Congratulations to Cody Clark (Women's Expert), Emma Gerrard (Female Sport), Joey Griffo (Jr Expert), Scott Nelson (Male Beginner), Jeff Griffo (Male Expert), Casey Coffman (Sport 26-), Philip Griffo (Sport 26 - 34), Ryan Gini (Sport 34 - 44), Mark Henry (Sport 44 - 54) and William Dunkum (Sport 55+).

Howarth Park Dirt Crit #6 Results

The results for yesterday's Howarth Park Dirt Crit #6 (July 25th, 2007) have been posted.

Congrats to Jim Hewett (A's), Devin Masterson (B's), Michael Zannetti (C's), Sean Archibald (JRs) and Sarah Picolo (Women).

2007 Crankworx Video

So I hate to use this due to the ever-present advertising, but it isn't bad footage from last weekend's Crankworx in Whistler, British Columbia.

TBF Racing Announces 2008 Schedule

TBF Racing has announced their 2008 Spring MTB schedule. TBF Racing will again be organizing three MTB Challenge XC races in the early season (February and March).

• February 3: MTB Challenge #1
• February 24: MTB Challenge #2
• March 16: MTB Challenge #3

These races are always quality events. You can check the archives to see the last two seasons worth of race reports.

Downieville Classic Photos

Although I saw a lot of race reports from this year's Downieville Classic, I hadn't seen many photos until today:

• Photo John's XC photos
• Photo John's DH photos
• Redwoodtrail's photos

I'll update this post if I see any others.

US MTB Nationals News Coverage

Just some links to the news coverage of this weekend's USA Cycling MTB Championships:

CyclingNews

• McConneloug crowned cross country queen
• Craig rocks on Mount Snow roots
• Herndon and Buhl win their first dual slalom national titles
• Craig takes fourth Super D title and extends streak
• Semi-Pro Men Cross Country: Phillips wins first national title of the weekend
• Junior Expert Men / Women Cross Country (NorCal's Menso De Jong came in 12th)

VeloNews

• MTB nats under way at Mount Snow
• Craig storms away to U.S. cross-country title
• McConneloug nails U.S. cross-country title

Dirt Rag

• USA Cycling Mountain Bike Nationals Wrap Up

You may also want to check out some of the video reports on YouTube.

USA MTB Championship Wrapup (STXC, DH, SD)

The final races from this year's USA Cycling MTB Championship have finished back east at Mount Snow.

Bring home a championship to NorCal, Rachel Lloyd (Fairfax, Calif./Proman Paradigm) garnered her second podium performance by winning the women’s super D. Lloyd finished 28 seconds ahead of Marla Streb (Los Osos, Calif./Luna). Lloyd also podiumed in the short track competition, placing third. Adam Craig (Bend, Ore.) won the men's Super D.

In the downhill competitions, Kathy Pruitt (Lake Almanor, Calif./Jamis) and Cole Bangert (Twin Lakes, Colo./Morewood) earned national titles. After securing the second seed in the qualifying round, Pruitt beat top-seeded Melissa Buhl (Chandler, Ariz./KHS) by two seconds in the finals, while the 36th-seeded Bangert rode a flawless final to beat second-seeded Luke Strobel (Renton, Wash./Maxxis) by just one second.

In the short track competition, Ryan Trebon and Mary McConneloug took home national championship jerseys.

US MTB Championships (XC and DS)

So the second day of US MTB Championships are over and both the cross country (XC) champions have been crowned.

In the Men's Pro XC, Adam Craig (Bend, Ore./Giant) won his first title. According to USA Cycling, "Craig turned in a dominant performance in the 20-mile race, earning the stars-and-stripes jersey with a winning time of 2 hours, 16 minutes and 31 seconds – a 4:26 advantage over second-place finisher and defending bronze medalist Jeremiah Bishop (Harrisonburg, Va./TrekVW). Michael Broderick (Chilmark, Mass./Kenda-Seven) finished third, 6:35 off Craig’s pace to score arguably the best result of his career."

The Women's Pro XC was decided on Friday, when Mary McConneloug (Chilmark, Mass./Kenda-Seven) claimed the national title. McConneloug became the first two-time winner in the women's xc. According to USA Cycling, "Entering the event fresh off her silver-medal performance at the XV Pan American Games last weekend, McConneloug opened up an early lead over the remainder of the 43-rider field before finishing the 15-mile contest with a winning time of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 59 seconds. Defending champion Georgia Gould (Ketchum, Idaho/Luna) finished 1:17 off McConneloug’s pace to claim the silver, while Willow Koerber (Horseshoe, N.C./Subaru-Gary Fisher) placed third, 3:57 back."

In the final pro event on Saturday, Christopher Herndon (Etowah, N.C./Specialized-Cane Creek) won the national title in the men’s dual slalom, while Melissa Buhl (Chandler, Ariz./KHS) captured the women’s crown. The eighth-seeded Herndon beat favored seventh-seeded Rich Houseman (Oceanside, Calif./Yeti-Fox). In the women’s contest, the top seeds progressed to the final as the top-seeded Buhl ousted Kathy Pruitt (Lake Almanor, Calif./Jamis), the number-two seed, for the win.

However, the biggest news of the weekend for NorCal was George Stephenson (Folsom, CA/Northern Lights), won the bronze medal over Joe Haley (Raleigh, N.C./Eastern Bikes-Maxxis) in the men’s category. George has won numerous events at Sand Hill.

For complete USA MTB Championship results, click here.

2007 Northstar XC #3

Northstar XC #4 race results have been posted over at the Northstar at Tahoe summer site.

Congratulations to Robert Wassmer (Beginner 17-), Mackenzie Findlay (Female Beginner), Christine Weir (Female Jr), Dora Weir (Female Sport), Nate Byrom (Jr Expert), Jeff Schwarz (Male Beginner), Scott Fifield (Male Expert), Matt Dettori (Sport 26-), Eric Skoog (Sport 26 - 34), Andrew Donahey (Sport 34 - 44), Robert Weir (Sport 44 - 54) and William Dunkum (Sport 55+).

Unfortunately, they seem to be only keeping the last two results (must be out of paper :>).

CHDH #3 Moved

The last 2007 Corrall Hollow Downhill race has been moved from it's early September date to October 13 - 14. This is a good thing, as it removes the conflict with the Whiskeytown Classic and Northstar DH races.

Thanks to dhRENO for the heads up on this. They also have some news on the ongoing USA MTB championships back east.

2007 Downieville Roundup

A final round up of the 2007 Downieville Classic race reports from this week:

• dhRENO's race report
• Ridemonkey's race reports
• MTBR's Lessons Learned thread
• Merlin's race report on MTBR
• A Slow Riders report
• bikeMonkey's Downieville Report
• Downieville Classic pics on Flickr
• YourMTB blog and race report
• All Mountain Winner's Jason Moeschler race report
• MTBR Downieville Classic photo gallery
• Our full coverage from this week

2007 Howarth Park #5 Results

The results for yesterday's Howarth Park Dirt Crit #5 (July 18th, 2007) have been posted.

Congrats to Jim Hewett (A's), Devin Masterson (B's), Michael Zannetti (C's), Sean Archibald (JRs) and Lindsay Segbers (Women).