Advice for Friends of Cyclocross

Really sweet translation of a write-up from a French pro in the 1920′s!

http://www.blackbirdsf.org/cx/christopheoncx.html

(via Tati Cycles)

Reblog: the officials of the CCC

The cool dudes at Chicago.CX wrote up a cool interview with some of the mainstays of the Chicago cross scene, Nikki and Loch. Any weather, any time. They are way tougher than you are.

Embrocation Magazine

The fine folks at Embrocation Magazine made a photo gallery of the Chicago CX scene from last Sunday’s race in Woodstock, IL. We got some play!

check it out!

Afterglowwwwwwwwwwwww~

Oh man have we been busy.

Winning races, getting on the podium, looking good and having fun are de rigeur. We’ve been up to much more however. On December 17th (this is a Saturday, btw) we are putting on The Afterglow with Chicago Cuttin Crew again!

We’re making some improvements this year that should make people happy. The course isn’t really changing but the format is. We’re starting an hour later than last year to give you Masters folks a bit more time to get up and a bit more daylight for us.  We’re also combining a couple categories into the same time slot so we can make the racing more exciting! 20 people on course isn’t that exciting.

Once again we’ll have our Single Speed Spectacular and NEW for 2011 is our Fatbike category. If you haven’t chatted with Chrisbot much lately, he’s bonkers for fatbikes (Pugsleys, Mukluks, Moonlanders). The beauty is that even if there’s no snow, the course will be perfect for fatbikes to cruise over the soft sand inside the drained pond. Lifting a 35-lbs bike over a barrier isn’t anything to sneeze at either. 3.5″ tires minimum!!

Prizes are the same, which are glory, some cool medals via Cuttin Crew and whatever swag people want to throw at us. This is the most important race of the season so winning is a prize in and of itself!

Registration is OPEN now at BikeReg! Check out the schedule for deets.

PARTY ON DUDES

That was a thing

Phew, we’re tired. This past weekend saw the ultimate triumvirate of rad bike things put on the annual Hopkins Park Cross, race #2 of the ChiCrossCup. The sun was shining early, the dew melted quickly and the chili flowed. We think it went pretty well.

The weekend was full of new things. Saturday morning, a whole bunch of ROBOTS <3 and Half Acres trekked out to DeKalb to start setting up, assited by a number of folks from North Central Cyclery. First order of business was to resurrect The Flyover. Many hands pushed and pulled it up like a good old-fashioned barn raising. If there’s one thing DeKalb and Sycamore has plenty of, it’s really great people willing to lend a hand to do good work. Eric Gunn was once again gracious enough to let us use his  truck and trailer to move a few thousand pounds of wood from the storage barn to the park.

Hopefully, you noticed how straight and uniform the course was. Hopkins Park was a bit of a test site to using some tools developed after USGP promoters Joan Hanscom and Bruce Fina taught a room full of top US cyclocross promoters how they make everything so professional at their races back in May.  We also prototyped some course crossings, and definitely look forward to feedback on them. It took perhaps a bit longer than usual to set the course up, but now that we have a process we hope everything will be much faster. The goal is to have a super-pro method of course setup by the time New Year’s Resolution gets here.

So, the single-speed race. Wow, 34 starters! We had some major heat going down in the first lap, with both James LaLonde and Mike Hemme from Chicago.CX in the field. Not content with letting them own the field, Nico Deportega-Cabrera from Chicago Cuttin Crew got the holeshot and led out the field until some 2nd-lap mishaps dashed his hopes of keeping LaLonde out of the jersey. Hemme and Dan Eiten went the wrong way at one point but came back strong. The Men’s podium sorted out LaLonde, Hemme and Eiten after some serious nonsense in the haybales. The Women had only 4 entries but they were all strong. Christina Peck (Chicago Cuttin Crew) dominated that race, and had perhaps the best endo ever. Holly Klug came out of retirement for a strong 2nd, and Leah Sanda rode the hay all 4 laps for third! Ellie Blick was on a track gearing but kept pushing it for fourth.

James and Christina are going to represent Chicago at SSCXWC on November 18-20 in San Francisco! We’ve registered them and will be flying them out. If all goes well they will be bringing it home for 2012!

The OUILSSSCXC wasn’t a USAC race, so you won’t see your results on USA Cycling. They live here.

Huge thanks to all of our sponsors sending us prizes! Johnny Sprockets put up some great prizes for the M and W Cat3′s. Lazer, Surly, Trek/Bontrager, Twin Six, Finish Line, Specialized,  and Half Acre Beer Co all came through with some great stuff. Pretty sure everyone went home happy.

On to AFTERGLOW!!

OUILSSSCXC Results!

better late than never! big ups to everyone that helped score, give your local official a high five next time you see them.

Women’s:

1. Christina Peck
2. Holly Klug
3. Leah Sanda
4. Ellie Blick

Men’s:

1. James LaLonde
2. Mike Hemme
3. Daniel Eiten
4. Tim Yuska
5. Russ Kuryk
6. Brad Keyes
7. Turd Fergusen (Avi Neurohr)
8. Steven Forss
9. Tom Flynn
10. Brendan Gocik
11. Paul Swinand
12. Teodoro Ramos
13. Ara Oggoian
14. Andrew Haala
15. Ed Bagley
16. Shawn Delk
17. David Pilotto
18. Brent Wegscheid
19. Keith Ortiz
20. William Olderr
21. Zach Thomas
22. Brian Boyle
23. Tim McGovern
24. Chad Mueller
25. Max Riordan
26. Dru Montague
27. Jason Meshberg
28. German Flores
29. Mr. Henderson
30. Mysterious Number 58

PS:
 

PPS: Where did Mumford go? 

It was a good weekend

best race ever a video by iamameatpopsicle on Flickr.

i got to see the most inspiring race ever