US Cup Re-announced 2010 Dates

A little more clarity on the 2010 US Cup schedule:

The US Cup is pleased to announce the 2010 dates for its inaugural Triple Crown All Mountain Series.
 
The opening round of the US Cup Triple Crown All Mountain Series will be held at Bonelli Park on March 13-14.  The second round will incorporate the Mountain States Cup series at Chalk Creek Stampede May 15-16 and the final has been awarded to Massanutten resort on June 19-20th.  This concept embraces all parts of the country and we hope the racers will be excited to see a US Cup triple crown come to their home town race.

“The Triple Crown All Mountain series will test the rider’s ability in multiple disciplines to declare the Triple Crown All Mountain winner.  We have decided to make this series more appealing to the riders, sponsors and media by incorporating Cross Country, Super D and Short Track into the series concept," continues Kady.  “A rider’s best 2 of 3 events will be calculated to crown a winner at each race and ultimately the overall series Champion.” 
 
In addition the US Cup will continue with its network of Kenda Cup’s, that act as local and regional qualifiers. The Kenda Cup’s feature over 15 locations across the US, from Ashland Oregon to French Lick Indiana. The US Cup Invitational shootout will be on September 11-12, The US Cup will also manage a high level west coast based series that incorporates the Triple Crown opener, Pro XCT race and other California favorite venues.
 
Look for more details on Triple Crown scheduled payout and presenting and naming sponsors of this inaugural event as well as updates to our ever growing Kenda Cup qualifiers.

Via US CUP Mountain Bike Race Series

SSWC 2009 Registration Update

It looks like the folks behind next year's Singlespeed World Championship are going to try and avoid the controversy around last year's SSWC registration:

We have been looking through tons of old bmx plus mags, and now are feeling good about things. For those of you with spoke cards from Napa, listen up. We will be posting a reg form over to the right on December 28th. You will then print it, write on it and send it and your spoke card to our mailing address. You will get an entry if you send us your card. For all the others, you need to keep waiting. 

These are other things that are for sure so far; amazing insurance, beer, and 6 guys who are stoked.

Via Singlespeed World Championship 2009 website.

2009 RideSB Race Calendar

The good folks down south at RideSB have announced their 2009 Schedule.

Jan 1: 2nd Annual New Years Day at the Ranch
April 23-26: Santa Ynez Valley US Mt. Bike Cup
May 3: Cowpie Invitational (SoCal High School Race)
May 16-17: SG Dirt Club 24 Hour Mt. Bike Race
June 13-14: SGDC Summer Series Race #1
July 18-19: SGDC Summer Series Race #2
Aug 22-23: SGDC Summer Series #3
Sept 26-27: SGDC Summer Series Finals
Oct 30-Nov 1 24 Hours of Chamberlin Ranch
Nov 14-15 UCSB Cowpie Classic
Dec 5-6 SGDC Holiday MTB Weekend

While the Santa Barbara area is a bit of a drive, they are the closest non-Sea Otter US MTB Cup race.

NMBS #3 Santa Ynez Coverage

Although you've probably seen the dhRENO recap of their DH finishings and the MTBR pictures, here is the endurace racing roundup from last weekend's NMBS event in SoCal:

"Kelli Emmett (Giant) took her first-career National Mountain Bike Series cross-country win at the third round of the 2008 series ... Visiting Australian Sid Taberlay (Avanti) took his first NMBS victory in the men’s race. Both events saw riders tackle the course in 100-degree heat.

Gould, who spent April in Europe racing the opening three rounds of the UCI World Cup, sprung to an early lead in the women’s race. As she did in 2007, when the Chamberlain Ranch venue hosted its first NMBS stop, Gould built a two-minute advantage on the rest of the women’s field. But up the final climb of the day, roughly 15 minutes from the starting line, Gould dismounted her bicycle suffering from heat stroke and dehydration. The 2006 national champion was taken in an ambulance to a nearby hospital where she spent four hours being hydrated with an IV.

Taberlay took a tactical victory in the men’s race, outmaneuvering Geoff Kabush (Maxxis) and Barry Wicks (Kona) to take his first-career NMBS win ... Kabush edged Wicks and Horgan-Kobelski out in Sunday’s short-track, held again in 100-plus degree day temperatures. Luna’s Katerina Nash took the women’s race ahead of Emmett and Heather Irmiger (Subaru-Gary Fisher).

Men XC
1. Sid Taberlay (Aus), Avanti-SRAM, 1:43:38
2. Geoff Kabush (Can), at 0:36
3. Barry Wicks, Kona, at 1:00
4. Todd Wells, GT, at 1:59
5. Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, Subaru-Gary Fisher, at 2:26

Women XC
1. Kelli Emmett, Giant, 1:45:08
2. Catherine Pendrel (Can), Luna, at 0:11
3. Lea Davison, Trek-Volkswagen, at 2:05
4. Jennifer Smith (NZ), Trek-Volkswagen, at 3:04
5. Mical Dyck (Can), Trek-Terrascape, at 5:30
7. Katerina Nash (CZ), Luna, at 5:55
8. Rachel Lloyd, Proman-Paradigm, at 6:54
9. Susan Haywood, Trek-Volkswagen, at 7:21

Men ShortTrack
1. Geoff Kabush (Can), Maxxis
2. Barry Wicks, Kona
3. Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, Subaru-Gary Fisher

Women ShortTrack
1. Katerina Nash, Luna, 25.17
2. Kelli Emmett, Giant, at 0:07
3. Heather Irmiger, Subaru-Gary Fisher, at s.t."

Via VeloNews

2008 Fontana NMBS #1 Pro DH Results

The folks from NMBS just sent over the rest of the official results from the Fontana National presented by MAXXIS (Round 1 of the 2008 National Mountain Bike Series):

Pro Men

1. KOVARIK, CHRIS (CARRERA / CHAIN REACTION INTENSE) 02:19.62
2. RENNIE, NATHAN (MERRIMAC, AUS / SANTA CRUZ SYNDICATE) 0:02.65 back
   
3. LEOV, JUSTIN (CHRISTCHURCH, NZ / YETI/FOX SHOX FACTORY TEAM) 0:05.00
4. BLENKISOP, SAM (GOLDEN, CO / YETI/FOX SHOX FACTORY TEAM) 0:05.56
5. COLE, CAMERON (CHRISTCHURCH, NZ / MAXXIS) 0:05.76

Pro Women

1. BUHL, MELISSA (CHANDLER, AZ / KHS BICYCLES) 02:41.99
2. MYKLAK, LISA (BOULDER, CO / SPYDER/FOX/INDUSTRY) 0:08.27 back
   
3. PETTERSON, JOANNA (FOLSOM, CA / MAXXIS) 0:09.08
4. BUCHAR, CLAIRE (MURRIETA, CA / INTENS SRAM MAXXIS) 0:09.84
5. GRIFFITHS, FIONN (SHREWSBURY / NORCO WORLD TEAM) 0:12.64

Other notable NorCal finishers included Tenille Smith (#8 Pro Women, Menlo Park), Sondra Williamson (#13 Pro Women, Morgan Hill), Mariska Chuse (#14 Pro Women, Nevada City), Ryan Condrashoff (#11 Pro Men, Pleasant Hill), Mike Harderer (#15 Pro Men, Concord), Evan Turpen (#19 Pro Men, Aptos), Curtis Keene (#26 Pro Men, Fremont), Rick Goldrup (#27 Pro Men, Orangevale), John Hauer (#38 Pro Men, Campbell), Ryan Stayskal (#42 Pro Men, Los Gatos), Miles Payton (#45 Pro Men, Santa Cruz) and Andrew Mince (#50 Pro Men, Scott's Valley).

Fontana NMBS 2008 Coverage

Pinned Magazine has some good coverage of this weekend's 2008 Fontana NMBS event, mostly focused on the gravity events. There are also a few photos posted, but no final results yet.

UPDATE: Pinned has Buhl and Milan winning the 4X / Mountaincross finals.
UPDATE: Velonews has Gould and Kabush winning the XC Pro finals.
UPDATE: See the front page of this blog for official Pro XC results.
UPDATE: Southridge's website has XC and 4X/MTX pics and results.