10-14-10 results

well...season is wrapping up nicely...last night was small to say the least...it is getting dark and colder i suppose, but still.

1st--Justin F...50 points
2nd--Clay W...40 points
3rd--Brett S...30 points

yea, just 3 people and I didn;t even flip my wheel from fixed to free...sad time KC, I expect more.

2 more weeks. you don't know what you got 'til it's gone.

Urban Art Bicycle Tour

Urban Art Bicycle Tour

New date/time to accomodate more people :)

November 5 (First Friday)

5:00 pm-ish Dinner/Drinks in Crossroads..suggestions welcomed.
7:00 pm UAT starts at Volker Velowerx, 18th and Wyandotte, across from Arts Incubator, next to YJ's

Tour will last 2-3 hours and go through the crossroads, downtown, 18th and vine, plaza and finish in westport for more socializing.

Make sure you have flat repair/bus fare/ride backup...we're going to be hitting some dirty dirty.

details here:
http://forums.earthriders.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12078

10/7/10 short track resuts

justin killed it again last night. Mike G. gave him a good run though...come on out next week and see if you can keep up!

1st place...justin f...25 points
2nd place...mike g...20 points
3rd place...clay w...15 points
4th place...gabriel...10 points
5th place...hector...5 points

see you next week!!! 3 weeks left.

9/30/10 short track

ohhh buddy, that justin dude is slowly making KC realize he is the real fast deal pimping on the single speed. He crushed the competition on his first TNT, adding to his recent victory at KC Cup.

9/30/10 results...double points
1st place...Justin F...50 points
2nd place...Cliff S...40 points
3rd place...Clay W...30 points
4th place...Brant...20 points
5th place...Warren N...10 points

remember..we're still going stong thru october...check this out if you wanna do wednesday night racing too...Swayze CX.

see you this Thursday!

9/23/10 short track results.

rain held off just long enough. still plenty of light at 6 pm...for now

9/23/10 results

Mike G...25 points
Clay W...20 points
Rich...15 points
Warren N...10 points
Brett C...5 points

Aubree D...25 points

see you next week.

don't forget...6 pm tomorrow

that's right people...thursday night short track/cx practice is still going strong through the end of October. Here are the dates left...hopefully 6 pm will give us enough light through then...

September 23
September 30...double points night
October 7
October 14...double points night
October 21
October 28...double points, last race of fall short track series.

As you can see...lots of nights to earn points still to get yourself up there in the overall standings. MTB or CX bikes welcome.

We will still be varying the course and direction every week...I'd expect a few more barriers and grass sections for CX season though :) But there will still be plenty of single track too (on dry weeks)

Questions/concerns bscm8 (at) umkc.edu or (seven-ate-five) 9 seven 9-too, 7, zero, six

9-16-10 short track results

people brought the skinny tires out last night...ended up being a good call, even though doug s still crushed everyone on his fully. kc cup is going to be fun, especially since we're showcasing some of the course we ride every single week :) ~!

9-16-10 results

Kat...25 points

Doug S...25 points
JPB...20 points
Tom P...15 points
Brett C...10 points
Adam K...5 points

Remember...next week we're moving race time up to 6:00 pm. Warm-up's 5:30ish, as soon as you can get there from work :) See you next week at 6.

oh yea...we start at the lodge/dining hall area!!! final set of buildings, top of the hill, I thought that had been established but last night showed otherwise obviously.

where was everyone?

so it was just jpb, cliff s and I at swope thursday. wtf kansas city? I am so disappointed after we had finally been at 20+ riders the past couple weeks. you know it was a small race when I won it, i mean, come on. don't make the small group feel bad for me so I get a pity W....be there this thursday to get warmed up for kc cup and come warm up for cross...we are going to run the "exact" cross race, so bring those skinny tires this week.

9-9-10 results
1st--Brett S...25 points
2nd--JPB...20 points
3rd--Cliff S...15 points

Also, after this weeks races (after KC Cup), new start time will be 5:30 warm-ups, 6:00 race. We're losing sunlight so we gotta go earlier...see you this week!!!

tomorrow 9-2...

Looks like the rain is here for maybe another hour or two...we've only gotten 1.11 inches so far, so maybe 1.5 inches total, definitely less than 2. If this is all the rain we're going to get before tomorrow evening, we're on. If it get up over 2-2.5 inches of rain then we're off.

call/text tomorrow for the latest...785,979,27,06

8-26 short track results

Super fast race tonight...lots of people said it is great training for the upcoming cross season...short and intense, lots of cornering and some wide open areas. Results:

1st--Kay L...25 points

1st--Doug S...25 points
2nd--Andy L...20 points
3rd--Roger W...15 points
4th--Brian D...10 points
5th--Michael G...5 points

See you next week!

Spiderfest Short Track Pics

Pre-race meeting.


Karen B. wiping up the competition, once again.


This is how we do it.


Monkey man getting his swerve on.


Even the kiddies got in on it.

Photos courtesy of ERTA/Matt Woody.

cancellations :'(

Well folks mother nature had some poopy plans for us last week...but we still managed to squeeze in 3/6 races. Congrats to the following "podium" peoples:

Smithville Short Track
1st place--Justin G
2nd place--JPB
3rd place--Brett S

1st place--Karen B.

Swope Park Long Short Track/Short XC
1st place--Doug S.
2nd Place--Justin G.
3rd place--Cliff S.

1st Place--Karen B.
2nd place--Kay L.

Shawnee Mission Dirty Time Trial
1st Place--JPB
2nd Place--Justin G.
3rd Place--Roger W.

1st Place--Karen B.
2nd Place--Kay L.

Justin G and Karen B are the overall Tour of Kansas City winners!!! Congrats to King Justin and to Queen Karen.

Don't forget Thursday nights at Swope...bring them fat or skinny knobbies...Colavita might be having a little MTB short track race at our cross race in september...but you didn't hear that from me :)

Next big MTB-KC event will be Ocotber 30 in conjunction with the Earthriders: a Kansas City Urban Art tour. Details on the right side -->

"Super Cross" will be at swope sometime in November :)

Winter Wander KC Epic ride will be Dec. 11.

Halcyon Holiday Gravel Grinder will be December 18. Details again on the right side -->

great night!

Probably had around 20 start the race, only 12 finished. Lots of pinch flats tonight throwing in the yellow line :) I even had one warming up...

Women:
Karen B...100 points ToKC...50 points short track
Kay L...90 points ToKC...40 points short track

Men:
Doug S...100..50
Justin G...90..40
Cliff S...80..30
Mark K...70..20
JPB...60..10
Warren N...50...
Wade...40...
David M...30...
Tyler T...20...
Matt B...10...

Remember, stocksdale night race...7:30ish check in..8 pm roll time. I really need help getting tape off the course afterwards if you can oblige :) I am goig to try to keep it minimal, but stocksdale has lots of intersections. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LIGHTS...that being said, I will have an extra if some one absolutely needs one or doesn't own one and wants to race :) Also I will be riding over to smithville afterward to camp if anyone is interested in some pre-spiderfest camping action.

Saturday is Smithville Spiderfest...group run/ride at 3...5:45 short trace...6:15 food...6:30 trail building...7:00 raffle...night laps...beer and more camping.

Sunday I'll be riding from smithville to landhal in the morning to get out for the super d. 2:00 pm warm-up registration...3 pm first runs.

all details are on this blog, scroll down or look at older posts. (maps included)

All in the Family

It was a Brocket rocket sweep tonight at SMP. Karen and JP both spun out the fastest times to start the MTB Tour of KC Challenge. Full results...

JPB...11 min 3 sec...100 points
Justin G...11 min 8 sec...90 points
Roger W...11 min 21 sec...80 points
Tyler T...13 min 57 sec...70 points
Lee...14 min 17 sec...60 points
Matt B...19 min 8 sec...50 points

Karen B...14 min 37 sec...100 points
Kay W...14 min 54 sec...90 points
Susie S...15 min 28 sec...80 points

Swope tomorrow! Stocksdale Friday night :) Smithville saturday, super-d sunday!!!!

SMP Dirty TT is on!

We're on Wednesday evening.

5:45ish by the tennis courts if you wanna race.
first one will go off at 6:15-6:30ish.

one loop of the orange trail, counter clockwise.

http://mtbkc.blogspot.com/2010/08/shawnee-mission-park-dirty-time-trial.html

peace.

Tonight cancelled.

mother nature rained on our parade.

check back tomorrow to see if SMP is still a go...

MTB tour of KC

Don't forget this week!!!

Look down the page for more details.

Blue River Time Trial will meet under the bridge down from the Sand Trap bar and grill.

see you tomorrow or sometime this week!

August 12 short track results

1--Justin G. 25 points
2--Bryce L. 20 points
3--Brian D. 15 points
4--Wes B. 10 points
5--Cliff S. 5 points

Next week is double points!!! And it will be using part of the yellow trail on phase three of the swope park trails. Expect around a 45-60 minute race.

Halcyon Holiday

Have been getting great reception about the Halcyon Holiday Gravel Grinder. Keep spreading the good word! I want to see 100+ of you on December 18, let's make it happen :)

Details here: http://mtbkc.blogspot.com/2010/08/december-18halcyon-holiday.html

Got a little blurb on Gravel Grinder News.

And Cornbread is gonna try to round up some peeps from Nebraskey to come down and show us how to ride gravel. You may have heard of this Cornbread guy...he won a little race called the Dirty Kanza 2010, in 13 hours. (bug eyes)

and the route down right now is tentative...until I get out and ride it (which may not be until september, october or november) no route is final...be rest assured though that I will have an official map on mapmyride to download at least 2 weeks prior to the race. And of couse I'll have cue sheets for you, courtesy of my tuition dollars at UMKC :)

December 18...Halcyon Holiday

In the spirit of the Dirty Kanza, Gravel Worlds, Farmhouse Classic, Chucky's Challenge, CIREM, Trans-Iowa, and Guru's Gravel Grinders...

MTB-KC Presents:

Halcyon Holiday Gravel Grinder.

http://www.mapmytri.com/workout/united-states/ks/lawrence/999128132478243088

Ride begins 8 am at Hy-Vee, 23rd and Kasold, Lawrence, Kansas.

Saturday December 18, 2010.

Route is entirely self-supported. It will pass through 3 towns with gas stations/restaurants/etc (Ottawa, Wellsville, Baldwin City).

Route is 73 miles with lots of gravel roads and some pavement through towns. The first 6-ish miles will be on multi-use trail south of Lawrence and go across the Clinton Lake dam before getting into some nasty rolling gravel going south to Ottawa.

mtbkc.blogspot.com for the latest.