08Apr / 2012

River City Bicycles & Team Rose City Present: The 7th Annual Eric Kautzky Memorial Track Race

Track season is almost upon us. I know we have some folks who will be racing this year. Who else will I see at the first weekend race of the season?

Eric Kautzky photo

RIVER CITY BICYCLES & Team Rose City presents
The 7th Annual Eric Kautzky Memorial Track Race
MAY 5, 2012 – Alpenrose Velodrome
6149 SW Shattuck Rd, Portland, OR

Proceeds to benefit the Eric Kautzky Memorial Scholarship Fund at Tigard High School. Get ready to race the first omniums and points races of the season

CATEGORIES

• Junior Women	• Women Cat 1/2/3	• Men Cat 3	• Masters Men 50+
• Junior Men	• Masters Women 40+	• Men Cat 1/2	• Men Cat 5
• Women Cat 4	• Men Cat 4	• Masters Men 40+	• Kiddie Kilo

REGISTRATION

• Juniors — $5	• All Others — $15	• Additional category — $5
• OBRA license required: single day ($5) and yearly ($20 online, $25 day of race) available (juniors yearly license $5). ANSI approved helmets required. • Prizes – Hincapie custom event jerseys (omnium winners)/ Merchandise • Make Checks Payable to Team RCW

SCHEDULE

9:00 AM – 10:00AM Warm-up and Registration

10:00 AM – Kiddie Kilo! Racing Begins!

Cancelled in the event of rain. CONTACT: Darell Provencher; 503-657-0568; darellp@easystreet.net

Promoter discretion to combine categories if min of 5 riders not met. Length & type of race may change without notice to accommodate schedule, rider capabilities, and weather. This is an OBRA sanctioned event. All relevant OBRA rules apply. OBRA and the organizers of this race do not provide insurance coverage for injuries that occur at the race. The costs related to those injuries are the responsibility of the individual participant.

Junior Women: 2/3 mile, mile, pts	Men Cat 1/2: pt-a-lap, miss & out, pts
Junior Men: 2/3 mile, pts, mile	Women Cat 4: scratch, pts, mile
Men Cat 3: unk dist, scratch, pt-a-lap	Women Cat 1/2/3: pts, scratch, m&o
Men Cat 4: scratch, pts, unk dist	Masters Women 40+: unk dist, m&o, pt-a-lap
Men Cat 5: mile, scratch, pt-a-lap	Masters Men 50+: scratch, miss & out, pts
	Masters Men 40+: pts, scratch, miss & out

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23Mar / 2012

The Rose Garden Circuit Race

Now I have never really been interested in road racing but this looks like fun…and by fun I mean a brutal time! I think I am going to make this series my introduction to racing on the road. I have become very fond of the west hills and know the pain they can bring. So who is with me?

The Details

When: Every Thursday evening in April (4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26)

Schedule:

6:10 – 6:40 (30 Mins) Cat 4/5 Men

6:40 – 7:10 (30 Mins) Sr. Women (Cat 1/2/3)

6:50 – 7:10 (20 Mins) Cat 4/5 Women

7:10 – 8:00* (50 Mins) Sr. Men (Cat 1/2/3)

*Race will end at 7:45 on 4/5 and 7:55 on 4/12

Masters will race with their respective senior category. For example, 40+ Cat 4 masters will race with the Cat 4 men, and 50+ Cat 3 women will race with the Sr. Women. We will divide the masters categories up in 10 year increments starting at 40+.

Registration:

Day off registration will be available at the race for $15.

Online Registration Links:

Course:http://ridewithgps.com/routes/955270

Prizes: Product and Gift Certificates from our sponsors will be given out for each race. Overall series prizes will include product and cash.

Help Out: We are currently looking for some volunteers to help as corner marshals. If you are interested in helping out, please email us. (steven@giroevent.com)

Contact: Steven – steven@giroevents.com – 503-272-1710

This is an OBRA sanctioned event, all OBRA rules apply. For more information, visit www.obra.org.

More Very Important Details

Please take the following three points seriously, our continued enjoyment of this venue depends on it.

Washington Park is a public park – It will remain open to the public during this event. The race ONLY has permission to close down the streets during this event. DO NOT block walkways, sidewalks or any other path that may inhibit park guests from also enjoying the park while we are there. We will do our best to have volunteers to help direct park foot traffic around and through the course, but please also help any park goers you may see to keep things safe.

Respect the Neighbors – Washington Park and the race course is surrounded on the North side by the Arlington Heights Neighborhood. They have been subject to many unauthorized “races” that disrupt the park and their neighborhood. Please think about this while attending the event. Use the provided toilets, don’t park in front of their houses, drive slowly through their neighborhood and please try and stay quiet when coming and going. Also, please pick up your trash and leave the park better than you found it.

Parking is limited, please ride there – The race course is taking up one of the parking lots and some street parking at the rose garden. This will limit the amount of parking that is available for regular park visitors and race participants. If you are coming from the Portland area, please think about riding to the event or taking mass transit. If you are coming from out of town, please try to carpool.

Directions

The main entrance to Washington Park via Park Ave may be backed up because of the course detours we will have in place. If riding your bike, feel free to ride up Park Ave. or take the MAX up to the Zoo and ride down through the park.

Please use these recommended routes if you are driving:

From downtown take W Burnside St. west and turn left on SW Tichner Dr then right on Kingston Ave.

From the west side, please exit from Hwy 26 at Sylvan and take SW Skyline north to SW Fairview and then right on Kingston Ave.

From I-5 North, take I-405 North and take the A2-Salmon St exit. Continue north on 14th Ave then turn left on Burnside. Turn left on SW Tichner Dr then right on Kingston Ave.

From I-5 South, take I-405 South and take the A2-Couch St exit. Turn right on Burnside, left on SW Tichner Dr then right on Kingston Ave.

Please park by the tennis courts or the parking lot on the west side of the street by the Japanese Garden sign.

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25Oct / 2011

Cross Crusade: Hillsboro (Max)

Ullie summed up the good stuff already but I wanted to add a few shout outs!

We had a rad time hanging with buds and getting brutalized by this course. Christina broke her saddle because her sheer leg power ripped the seatpost into the seat tube. I tore some legs off and actually ate it twice. One guy I was racing with yelled at me as I passed him after falling “ARE YOU OK? YOU HIT SO AHRD YOU BOUNCED?!” I just looked back and yelled “BRUTAL!”

A great time was had hanging with Kevin, Jose, Sharon, Jeremy, Byron, the Rusty Switchblade crew, and others. Besides the dry, warm weather it was a great race!

Jose has WAY more photos on his Flickr (here), but here’s some stuff we snapped.

Cross Crusade Hillsboro 2011

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25Oct / 2011

Cross Crusade: Hillsboro (Ullie)

Unlike last weekend Hillsboro lacked any sun, but there was
still a lack of rain, which made the course fast and furious. There
was a large Cthulhu gathering which made the wild life run from their
forest homes and the sky darken….it was great!

I loved this course from the sand pile to the platform run up, it
was just fun from start to finish. I got a good spot on the start
line this week, but unlike in the past once the dust had settled from
the sprint I was able to hold my place for the most part. I often go
to what I know so when I saw Tony P. ahead of me flying the Team Beer
colors the chase was on, I was slowly closing in on him for the first
and second lap, I noticed him going into the pit for a wheel change
and knew this was my chance. I put the spicy mustard on and was
passing and trading spots with racers all day, I could see Tony P.
making his way up to me which motivated me to drive hard, this made
all that more fun. I suffered through five laps with Tony on my heels
which pushed me past some friends that I didn’t think beatable this
year, with the help of the cheers from my fellow Cthulhu’s and many
others this all made for the best race I have experienced in all my
years.

I can’t forget to mention the great efforts from Byron, Max,
Christina, and our newest member Kevin, Sharon with the move up to A’s
and our Captain taking pics in support after raging the Cross on
Saturday.

Go Cthulhu!!

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18Oct / 2011

Inside the “N” at Ninkrossi

The Ninkassi logo transformed into a painful joke

There were rumors abounding the morning we arrived at this race, most prominent was that this course would provide more climbing than the notably hilly Cross Crusade Rainer race. I didn’t believe it. I looked out over the hillside, across the Ninkassi logoed switch-back climb, and scoffed at the idea that this course would be for climbers.

Boy, was I wrong.

What a race! I suffered the whole 45minutes, if not more. It went something like this: up, up, up, up, down, up, up, up. I honestly think there was some sort of time/space wormhole that made us climb more than we descended…. at least it felt like that.

I murdered my legs, then Sharon and Christina challenged the ‘cross gods. We all deserved some sweet Ninkassi nectar afterwards, and gladly partook in our free beers for racing (and then some).

Sharon landed a top 5 finish! Christina took 20th in the Beginner Womens, and I scored a solid 18th in the Clydes. Jose was on hand giving support, being epic, and snapping the action one frame at a time.

All in all, a DAMN good race.

Christina throttling up the slick mud hills

Sharon putting out the watts on this power course!

John Rambo and Godzilla rallying with me.

Check out Jose’s full gallery from Ninkrossi 2011 ->

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07Mar / 2010

Red to Red Mountain bike Race

It was an early Saturday for this Cthulhu. Meet up with Chip at Grundel Bruisers HQ for a 6 am departure to Echo, OR. A 3 hour tour that would put us at the center of mountain bike mecca, at lease for today it was. Fast fwd to Echo, a small agri-town with pioneer days charm where the locals are super nice even though their town has just been overrun by spandex wearing, fat tire bike riding, hopped on sprint leggs and coffee, city folks. Still they were gracious. The day was perfect, such that short sleeves and shorts were the order of the day. Just before my race I heard that it was the largest turn out of racers for this event so far. Milkshake and Case were already there when we arrived and gave me the 4-11 on what I could expect. My plan was to ride and have fun and pass as many people as I could while still maintaining a smile. They promised 70% singletrack of a 24 mile race, pretty sweet percentages I’d say. The singletrack I did ride was AWESOME! I’d of ridden more if it not for my shitty chain breaking, not once but twice. The broom ATV picked me up at about mile 12 and took me back to the road where i hitched a ride back into town in the back of a pickup truck. It was still great fun and I don’t regret a thing. I’ll be back next year Echo.