2009 Red Hills Rumble

I don't know any more about this race than what I've read on MTBR and their website, but it sounds interesting:

The Trogs are hosting an MTB TT and Food Drive on December 20th at Red Hills Rec Area (ed: South of Sonora). It'll be cold, maybe wet, definitely brutal. Red Hills is a favorite winter riding and this winter we're going to combine a fun day on the bikes with a food drive.

Check out the website for details: http://www.trogspace.com/redhills.

2008 Folsom Cyclebration Results

Results and photos have been posted for this weekend's Folsom Cyclebration stage race (XC plus time trial):

• Time Trial Results
• Time Trial Photos
• XC Results
• XC Photos
• MTB Stage (combined) Results

Congratulations go out to Chris Schulze (Expert Singlespeed winner), Bonnie Darrah (Expert Womens) and Michael Margraf (Top Expert Men).

2008 Folsom Cyclebration MTB Stage Race

The Folsom Cyclebration is a three day cycling festival being held for the first time in Folsom, CA on September 12 - 14, 2008. Among the events include an MTB Stage Race (see below), Cyclocross races, a Dirt Jump competition, Road races and family events.

Since this is the NorCal MTB Racing blog, I'll focus in on the MTB Stage race (which are being organised by the same folks who make the Prairie City races happen). The stage race will have two parts, which can also be run separately:

1. Time Trial: "It's you solo against the clock on this fast five mile course of mostly hard-packed crushed granite through the fun and beautiful oak woodlands overlooking the South side of Lake Natoma [ MAP ]. There are fast and open legs mixed with tight, twisty turns. Be prepared for possible dismounts and/or route options on this winding, wide to narrow single track. The course starts at Nimbus Flat and finishes on a short uphill climb with a sprint the last 100 yards on pavement into the historic district of Folsom." (This is funny because I train on this almost exact line about three times a week).
2. Cross Country: "Racers will find the course fun and fast with twisty single and dual track through the oak woodlands near Granite Bay at Folsom Lake [ MAP ]. The courses include some sandy sections and a short amount of pavement to complete the loops. The Beginners course is approximately 4.5 miles per lap with 450 feet of climbing per lap than runs up to "the bench" atop the hill at Doten's Point. You will do 3 laps, approx. 13.5 miles. Adult First Timers will do two 4.5 mile laps, approx 9 miles. Junior Beginner will do 1 lap at 4.5 miles. Sport will do three 6.5 mile laps on a longer loop that goes out around the Beek's Bite area, 19.5 miles and Experts will do 4 laps, 26 miles." This course appears pretty similar to the TBF MTB Challenge courses.

The best combined score from both disciplines will determine overall class winners. Costs are as follows:
MTB Time Trial: $25 (MTB bikes only please - no cyclocross)
MTB XC: $40 adult, $15 juniors
Stage Race (both events): $55
More details are available at the Cyclebration MTB race page and you can register online at active.com until September 10th.

Lynch Canyon Hill Climb

NorCal High School League is presenting a race for all ages . . . Lynch Canyon Hill Climb Time Trial on Sunday, April 27th, 2008 at 10:00 AM.

This first time event, located at the beautiful and newly opened Lynch Canyon Park (near Vallejo), is limited to the first 100 registrants. The hill climb time trial meanders up a 2.5 mile course, first on fire trail and finishing on nice single-track that includes oak knolls and a rock garden. From the top, finishers can see (on a clear day) Mt. Diablo, Mt. Tam and the Sierras as they catch their breath. Proceeds benefit the NorCal High School Mountain Bike Racing League.

There will categories for High School Boys/Girls, Varsity Boys/Girls, Open Men / Women, Masters 35+ Men/Women, Masters 55+ Men/Women and First Race Ever.

Adults are $35 and NorCal HS league members are $25. You can register here.

Sea Otter Roundup

Just a whole set of links that sums up some of the Sea Otter experience:

• Singletrack Magazine's gear roundup
• Cycling News gear review one and gear review two
• Cycling News XC coverage, short track roundup, time trail results and Super D.
  
• VeloNews time trial, short track and Super D coverage (plus tech coverage)
  
• Pink Bike's day 6, day 7 and day 8 coverage
• MTBR has an entire forum dedicated to the race with ample pictures
• Decline Magazine dirt jump coverage
• Sickline's coverage
• Downhill video from YouTube
• Jeff Kerkove's blog
• Lee Likes Bikes recap
• Garmin Blog's scenes one and two
• Downhill News roundup and final report (great pics)
  
• Transcend Magazine DH results
• dhReno summary
• Bike Magic's summary
• Yeti's press release
• Rocky Mountains press release
• LUNA's press release
• VooDoo's blog
  

I'll add to this list as other sites begin to post their stories and pictures.

RACE RESULTS: CCORC #3 ST & TT

Race results have been posted for the finale of the CCORC short track (ST) and time trials (TT) in Fresno last weekend.

Congratulations to:

• Keith Defiebre (open wheel ST & expert men's TT winner)
• Pat O’Rourke
  
• Melinda Webster (women's beginner ST & TT)
• Garrett Chenelt
• Tom Knott
• David Hardcastle
• Ed Lund, Steven’s (ST & TT winner)
• Steve Ray, Steven’s
  
• Conner Reddington
  
• Tom Knott, Team BFD
  
• Jorden Webster, Steven’s
  
• George Knott, Team BFD
  

This wraps up the CCORC winter series.

New Schedule for CCORC #3 TT & ST

Finally. After the long holidays break, the NorCal 2007 MTB schedule has commenced. The first races of the season are down in Fresno this weekend.

There have been some changes to this weekend's CCORC racing schedule. The time trial (Tri-Sport MTB ST #3) will stay on Saturday, January 27th, but will start 11:30 AM (registration). The short track race (Herb Bauer MTB TT #3) will be moved from Sunday (January 28th) to Saturday (January 27th) directly after the time trail (around 3 PM). Sunday will still be the cyclocross race (for those that ride that way). You can see the full day agenda at their website.

On a more somber note, the NorCal MTBers would like to send their best wishes to CCORC promoter John Fisher, who was involved in a serious skiing accident last week.

2007 Sea Otter Classic Website Live

After months of preparation, the 2007 Sea Otter Classic website is up and operational.

I am still going through the site, but it looks like a lot of changes for 2007. New events (adventure racing ?), new sponsors (SRAM appears to have replaced Shimano this year), new rules. It looks like they have a basic XC course map up and a bit of the scheduling also. Registration is open too.

More on this as I sift through the site. Full coverage of last year's Otter in the archives.

RACE RESULTS: CCORC Time Trial #2

The results from the second Central California Off-Road Cyclists Time Trial race has been posted. Congratulations to Steven Ray (Steven's Bicycles), who posted the overall best time of 09:38, and to CCCX DH promoter Keith DeFiebre (Ritchey/Calabasas Bikes), who won the Open Wheel category.

Photos from the event have been posted here.

CCORC Update

This weekend marks the second CCORC Time Trial race in Fresno and I have gotten some more information on the series:

• Costs are as follows: Juniors $15, Begineers & Sports $20, Experts $25
• The Time Trial courses are 3.2 miles long while the upcoming Short Track courses are .71 miles in length

CCORC #2 is this Sunday (10/29) in Woodward Park [ MAP ].

RACE REPORT: CCORC TT #1

The folks over at CCORC certainly have their act together. Race results have already been posted for Saturday's time trial. Heck, they even have pictures of the whole event posted.

Congratulations to divisional winners Keith DeFiebre (Ritchey/Calabasas Bikes), Melinda Webster, Ronny Kier (CVC), Lars Mommer (Tri-Sport Bicycles), John Didier, Daniel Felix (Herb Bauer Bicycling), David Stone (Team BFD) and Steven Becker. Keith and Melinda won the open divisions for Men and Women respectively.

If anyone has a race report or course description on this, please mail it over (norcalmtbracing AT gmail DOT com). I'm interested to hear about this series.

More Details on CCORC Races

The Folks over at NCNCA CX have posted some more details about the CCORC races in Fresno. While the article focuses on the cylocross racing, there is also information on the time trails (this weekend) and short track MTB competitons.

CCORC Time Trial and Short Track Races

The Central California Off-Road Cyclists have announced two MTB racing series for the Fresno area. One series will be a short track XC and the other will be a time trial series. Both racing series will be held in Woodward Park [ MAP ] during the late Fall and Winter.

The Short Track series will be held on:
11/19/06: Tri-Sport MTB ST #1
12/02/06: Tri-Sport MTB ST#2
01/28/07: Tri-Sport MTB ST #3

The Time Trial series will be held on:
10/14/06: Herb Bauer MTB TT #1
10/29/06: Herb Bauer MTB TT#2
01/27/06: Herb Bauer MTB TT #3

I don't have any details about the courses or costs, but I will update you when I received them.

Tentative 2007 NORBA Schedule

So I was going to hold this for later this week (when news gets a little slow. . . ), but after I saw TWO NorCal events I knew it needed to go up pronto. Now these are tentative, so they might (make that WILL change), but here is the 2007 NORBA Nationals schedule:

• NORBA 1: Phoenix, AZ on March 31 - April 1, 2007 (MA/TT/Super D)
• NORBA 2: Fontana, CA (SoCal "Fontucky") on May 5 - 6, 2007 (Everything)
• NORBA 3: San Jose, CA on May 20th, 2007 (XCO/Super D)
• NORBA 4: Park City, UT on June 16-17, 2007 (Everything)
• NORBA 5: Sonoma, CA (Cougar Mountain) on July 7 - 8, 2007 (Everything)
• NORBA 6: Sugar Mountain, NC on July 28 - 29, 2007 (Everything)
• NORBA FINALS: Snowmass Village, CO on August 11-12, 2007 (Everything)
  

So there are a few questions here (what the hell is TT and XCO ? Time Trial ?) but this looks promising for NorCal riders. The San Jose dates jive with this press release about the San Jose Cycling Classic, but so that looks pretty solid. I wonder where this will be held ? The press release makes it seem like it will be near downtown San Jose. I hope its not like the Dew Action Sports that was on this weekend (BTW it looked awesome in HD).

UPDATE (12/09/06): NMBS #3 in San Jose has been canceled.
UPDATE (2/14/06): Changed again. Go see this post for the new schedule. They changed three or four races.