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

Kevin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:45:36 +0000

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?

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

Cross up at the Lumberyard recap video

Kevin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:11:20 +0000

Cross up at The Lumberyard

I received an e-mail from Amanda that James Wilson had finished the video recap on the cross up event she held at The Lumberyard a few weeks back. This video will speak for itself if you happened to miss this awesome event! Thanks again Amanda for hosting all these awesome Backyard Blam events!

Saltzman to Skyline

Kevin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:02:14 +0000

Here are a few photos I took while we were on our ride yesterday. Jason, Josh, Justin, Kyle and myself rode up Saltzman to head up to skyline and play around in the west hills. Big ups to Justin for holding it down with the Single speed . My hat is off to you sir!

The Rose Garden Circuit Race

Kevin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:29:32 +0000

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.

Brew Pub Populaire 100km – Recap

Jose — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:05:30 +0000

Kevin, Craig, Uland (soon to be re-nicknamed The Hare), Hazel and me pulled out from the Roadhouse Cafe in Hillsboro on Saturday along with 50 other riders. This was my first brevet, which is French for “short bike ride” or something like that. The five of us set off on what was expected to be a day of horrible weather- of epic proportions. Except for a light spit and a wind at, it was a beautiful day. The roads were lightly travelled by cars and the vistas were amazing. The recent rain made things interesting by flooding some stretches of road but the ride went off without a hitch and no flat tires. At the end of the ride we all met back at the Roadhouse Cafe to get some grub and collect our pins for completing the ride. Definitely look forward to the next one. Thanks to the folks of OR Randonneurs. Special thanks to Bill Alsup for leading the way.

Bill (photo Kevin Talley)

Top of the Col d’ Snoosville (photo Kevin Talley)

Craig and “The Hare” setting the pace (photo Kevin Talley)

The Prize

Deicide on Monday!!!

Jose — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:35:08 +0000

Monday night at the Hawethorne Theatre. Doors open at 7pm, I saw Way of the Yeti was opening but not sure if that’s still happening. DEATH METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.mikethrasherpresents.com/dbmonkey/event.cfm?cal=thrasher&id=53857

Casual Fridays

Max — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:25:57 +0000

Portland is the greatest city on the planet. Why? Because I said so. Need more? Well….ok.

Where on Earth can you jump on your MTB – ride 30 minutes to some trails – ride said trails – spin another 30 minutes to your work – sit in a company meeting in full kit covered in mud – hop in the building’s shower – grab a delicious locally-roasted espresso – then get to making some $$ – all before 10am.

As far as I know, there is only one place where all of this is possible:
Portland, mother-fucking, Oregon.

DEATH TO FALSE PIZZA

The real monster in Forest Park

It's all snowy and crap at the top.

Speaking of riding bikes, who wants to go ride this weekend?!

Jose — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:22:12 +0000

Nathan Explosion says “Team Cthulhu is BRUTAL! They make bikes METAL! Blacker than the blackest black times infinity…wait…I think I said that about coffee or something…whatever.”

COMING SOON-TEAM CTHULHU: THE ALBUM

(okay not really, but kit proofs are coming soon, for real.)