For those of you making your weekend plans, here is quick rundown of this weekend's MTB racing schedule for Norcal:
Did you get around to registering for the first race of the Prairie City Race Series? No ? Get in line for race #2:NOTE: The first race on March 31 is FULL and registration for that race is now closed.Via Prairie City Race Series website.
Check back Thursday April 1st to see what the availability is for race #2.
If you're heading down to Sea Otter next month:BikeRadar.com is proud to offer, for a limited time, a $10 discount off your Sea Otter registration. Follow these instructions for great savings:Via Sea Otter Classic website.
Go to http://www.seaotterclassic.com/index.cfm/athlete_registration.htm and decide which event to register for.
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*This offer is good until Mar 21st at Midnight Pacific time.
I haven't seen any results yet, but there are some great pictures on MTBR from this weekend's Cool MTB Race (here, here and here). 
Results for CCCX XC #3 are posted and there lots of pictures from both Scott Mosher and Steve Anderson.
NorCal bike builder Santa Cruz Bikes has purchased NorCal bike fashion and builder Swobo:Santa Cruz Bicycles has purchased Swobo outright, buying out Tim Parr’s minority interest in the company.Via Santa Cruz Buys Swobo
Santa Cruz Bicycles originally bought the company in 2001 from Parr. Swobo’s original founder Parr stepped back into the picture in 2004 as a minority owner. Swobo was founded in 1991 by Parr.
Swobo, originally built on its popular bike apparel, really came into its own when Sky Yaeger came on board as managing director in 2006, launching the company’s first bike line. The Northern California company’s single speeds and fixies became an instant hit with the urban crowd.
Last September Swobo consolidated operations and opened up a new sales office in Santa Cruz, California, near its warehouse. In conjunction with the new office opening, the Sausalito, California office closed.
For the first time in 19 years Granny Gear Productions will not be organizing a 24 hour race in West Virginia, the birthplace of 24 hour mountain bike racing. Granny Gear's Laird Knight has decided not to hold the 2010 edition of the 24 Hours of Big Bear but hopes to hold the event again in 2011.Via Spokes Magazine.
The 24 Hours of Moab will go on but Knight has also decided to idle the 24 Hours of 9-Mile for this year. "These races still have huge potential and I'm still game for making these events successful" Knight told SPOKES. He said he sees this as an opportunity to "hit the reset button and start now to build a marketing plan now for 2011."
The race, which had previously been known as the 24 hours of Canaan and the 24 Hours of Snowshoe moved to Big Bear in 2005 but hadn't been able to reach the number of teams that it needed to make it sustainable since the move. The decision was "extremely painful", said Knight, but "the finances won't allow" the race to happen this year. In addition to lower than needed participation, the economic slump has made finding sponsors for this year's race very difficult.
Start and end in central San Francisco.And not many are for a better cause. Full details will be posted at SFEnduro.
Ride is ~90 miles give or take. Rocks, roads and dirt. Wind, trees and ruts. Hills ... lots of hills. Not for the faint of heart.
Bring a bag with dry clothes to the start. It will be transported to the finish for you. Finish is very near the start. Full-on BBQ / beer bash and post ride sports massage included!
All proceeds go to Matt Peterson's memorial fund.
The results for 2nd round of the SBracing.org Winter Series have been posted:Kevin Smallman – Overall Winner Riding For Cannondale RacingFull results are available here. Photos are here.
Shelly Monroe - Overall Female Winner Riding from SBRacing.org / Buy-Cell.com
John Carr – Cat 2 Winner Riding For Team Dynamic
Dianne Zinchini – Cat 2 Female Winner
Ted Thomas – Cat 3 Winner
Jennifer Grifall – Cat 3 Female Winner Riding for SBRacing.org / Grifall Family Chiropractic
The Race Is A Go..via SB Racing website.
As the morning rain clears we are still committed to running the event Saturday. We will be out marking tomorrow and Friday and will let you know of more developments as we learn them. At this point, all we can do is to provide a great course and control as much as we can without worrying about the weather. That means we will be making every effort to do speedy results so you can race, win, podium and leave as quickly as possible. Beginners, Sports, and Experts podiums will be done as soon as we have enough finishers from each category to do so.
We will be providing little packets of hand warmers/work well on the feet too, to those who would like them at sign ups until we run out! Hoping for a break in the rain Saturday by 10 am for a great start to the race!
Well as many of you have suspected we are going to postpone the duathlon and mountain bike race (Dirty Gears #2) scheduled this weekend at Santa Teresa. We went out and ran the courses yesterday and even if the rangers decided to let us ride (only if there was no rain all week), I believe it’s too wet. We would cause too much damage and we do not want to burn bridges with the rangers. The wetness will turn sticky making it nearly impossible in sections.Via South Valley Endurance.
Hopefully you have noticed on your email receipts and the event page we have had a backup date scheduled for the last 6 weeks. The new date will be Sunday 5-23-10.
