Lots of mountain bike action the past two weekends with the God's Country Mountain Bike Classic and the always popular Bone Bender 3/6 Hour MTB Odyssey. Both events promoted by our little team - Cow Town Cycling RULES!!!
Thank you to all the volunteers that made the past two weekends possible. We would especially like to thank the Midwest Mountain Bike Patrol and Lawrence Mountain Bike Patrol for all their support. A big thank you also goes out to all the guys and gals who help build and maintain these fine trails that we get to use. You guys ROCK!!!
UFD West Round #1 - God's Country results
HERERoger and Guru were out taking plenty of pictures from God's Country:
Roger's House of Photos and
Guru's PhotosCow Town Cycling was well represented with some great finishes especially by our newest member Ron Schnick . Congrats on your first win!
Ron Schnick: 1st - Cat 2 Male 40 - 49
Gerard Arantowicz: 2nd - Clydesdale
Jeff Arnand: 2nd - Single Speed Open
Chris Love: - 10th - Cat 2 Male 30 - 39
John Williams: 12th - Marathon Male
Tim Greene: 14th - Marathon Male
The 4th Annual Bone Bender was held again at the challenging but very fun Clinton Lake State Park. Storms Friday, Saturday and Sunday threatened to turn the course into a "swamp" and a repeat of BB36
#1, but Cow Town Cycling & the Kansas Trails Council were ready with rain courses just in case. Riders were pleasantly surprised Sunday morning when we announced that the full course was going to be used and that the trail conditions were very good. Over the next 6 hours riders enjoyed a great day of off-road racing and a post race feed courtesy of our own
John Williams &
Pot Pie. Another successful Bone Bender 3/6 Hour MTB Odyssey in the books..
Bone Bender results -
BB36 v4 ResultsBone Bender Pictures:
Bart Cox Bone Bender Pictures,
Mr. Guru and
Roger's House of Photos.
Despite helping out over the past 3 days, as a team we had some great finishes by Cow Town Cycling members at Bone Bender.
Tige Lamb: 2nd - 3 hr Male Open
John Wagner: 2nd - Single Speed Open
Michael Mathews: 5th - Single Speed Open
Brad Crain: 5th - 3 Hr Male Sport
Damian Almanza: 7th - 6 Hr Male Open
Baker/Arnaud: 8th - 6 Hour Male Team
Ron Schnick: 8th - 3 Hr Male Sport
Rich Anderson: 9th - 3 hr Male Open
Gerard Arantowicz: 10th - Clydesdale
Ashley Blum: 20th - 3 hr Male Open
Craig Myers-Arenth: 26th - 3 hr Male Sport
Chris Love: 29th - 3 hr Male Sport
The annual KC Car Free Challenge was held last week. Cow Town Cycling has historically done very well in the challenge. We are happy to report in that the tradition continues as our own Rich Anderson took top honors in the Bike division with 439 miles. That is a crazy amount of commuting miles Rich - Congratulations! Chuck Martin of Team So-Air KC was second with 240 miles followed closely by John Nickell of Zahner with 234 miles. Top teams in the challenge this year were very familiar as Garmin again took top honors followed closely by the Midtown Maulers with The Wheel Cyclery Team taking the final step on the podium. Congratulations to everyone who took on this challenge. Over 12,000 miles were traveled and 11,827 pounds of Carbon was saved so we all breath better now :-)
On the mountain bike racing front the 2012 Kansas State MTB Championships were held over in Manhattan, Kansas. Big Poppi Bicycle Company stepped up to promoted this years championship and did a great job all around. A couple of great results by Cow Town with Tige Lamb taking top honors overall and also winning the Cat 1 Male 40 - 49 division. John Wagner made it two wins in a row (he also won out at Wilson Lake) in the Single Speed division taking home the Kansas State Single Speed title. Jeff Arnaud fought back from a flat tire to take 4th in the Cat 2 Male 30 - 49 division. Gerard Arantowicz earned 5th place in the Cat 2 40-49 division. 
