Cow Town Conqueres Georgia Mountains.

Congrats to our Florida based Cow Town division for successfully completing the Six Gap Century and Three Gap Fifty events.  These rides boasts many of the same roads and mountain climbs as the elite Tour de Georgia race with more that 11,200 feet of climbing.   Joey Locke en-route above during the Three Gap.

 Phil Hart in action above descends one of the many climbs and finishes strong.

Phil Carter makes his return to cycling with a strong showing during the Three Gap. 

Boss Cross #1

Rick Barrett and I did our best to represent Cow Town in the CAT3’s at Boss Cross #1.  I haven’t seen the results posted online, but I think they had about 34 starters.  I, unfortunately, was the last to line up.  Rick had a great starting position and was off with the leaders.  The course was pretty narrow on the first corner and if you weren’t in the front group, you had to almost come to a complete stop.  So, I ended up chasing the whole day.  Since the course was not very technical, but fast, it looked like to me, that where you lined up is about where you finished.  Rick trashed his rear derailleur and was not able to finish and I managed to make my way up to 27^th.  Not a great showing, but it was my first CAT3 race since I upgraded back in 2009.  It’s great to be back racing and hope to get a better starting position and finish tomorrow.   

I didn’t see all of the race, because I was warming up, but I think Tim Greene pulled out a 12^th place finish in his Master’s race.

 

 

Fall is a Great Time for Fat Tires

Fall just may be the best time to ride your mountain bikes and we are very lucky that in the Midwest we have plenty of events to attend.  The Fat Tire fun starts this weekend with the Double Ogg Dare followed up on Sunday with UFD's East/West showdown - Rhett's Run MTB Race.  The first weekend of October gives us an opportunity to Take a Kid Mountain Biking and head down to the lake for another Warsaw Mountain Bike Madness event.  Next up is the longest running endurance event in Missouri as the ever popular Burning at the Bluffs races into the night.   Speaking of racing into the night, we have a new exiting event that is taking place on Saturday, October 20, 2012.  The Wyco's Revenge Mountain Bike Race is set to challenge us all and provide a fun filled day of riding.  The Wyco's Sprint event finishes up before nightfall, but the Full Wyco will go into the night so charge up those lights.  Our busy MTB month concludes with the Berryman Trail Epic. 

The busy Fat Tire calendar....

9/29/12 - Double Ogg Dare - http://www.doubleoggdare.com
9/30/12 - Rhett's Run - http://www.unitedindirt.com
10/6/12 - Take a Kid Mountain Biking - http://www.imba.com/tkmbd
10/7/12 - Warsaw Mountain Bike Madness - http://welcometowarsaw.com
10/13/12- Burning at the Bluffs- http://burninatthebluff.blogspot.com
10/20/12 - Wyco's Revenge MTB Race - http://wycosrevenge.blogspot.com
10/27/12 - Berryman Trail Epic - http://www.btepic.com

Wyco's Revenge MTB Race

Cow Town Cycling Team is proud to bring you another fine event this fall.  Mark your calendars and plan to spend a great fall day out on the trail. Challenge yourself to the full Wyco's Revenge or the Wyco's Sprint if you are looking for less of a challenge this fall

Wyco's Revenge Mountain Bike Race
October 20, 2012 - 5:00 pm Start
Wyandotte County Lake Park

Website: http://wycosrevenge.blogspot.com/ 

Event Flyer: Wyco's Revenge Flyer

Registration opens 9/1/12.   Register for Wyco's Revenge.   Be sure to register early for a big discount on the entry fee. 

Proceeds from the Wyco's Revenge be used to help promote junior cycling in our area and continue to build trails out at Wyandotte County Lake Park.  Thanks to the Trail Masons for all their hard work and providing some sweet single track to ride on.  As more trail is added, look for the Wyco's Revenge to continue to grow. 

Mountain Bike News Shorts - 07/27/12

The "Wyco" trails held its first event on Sunday with the Colavita Cross Country Challenge.   Some buff trails greeted the eager racers and all were impressed with the efforts of the Trail Mansons.  They provided a top notch trails and facility.   Results are in and some pictures are up.

Cow Town had a great showing with 3 wins on the day.

Team results:

• Tige Lamb - 1st Cat 1 Men 40-49
• Christopher Locke - 1st Junior Male 15 - 18
• Ron Schnick - 1st Cat 2 Men 40 - 49
• Brad Crain - 4th Cat 2 Men 30 - 39
• Jeff Arnaud - 8th Cat 2 Men 30 - 39
• Damian Almanza - DNF 

Upcoming events:

The Show Me State Games Mountain Bike race will be held on Sunday at Rock Bridge.  A fun course with  a little bit of every type of terrain - smooth single track to technical section and rocky climbs.

This just in.  The Sunflower State Games MTB race scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled.  Check out http://www.sunflowergames.com/mountain-biking for info.

Cow Town'er Earn Gold

The Warsaw Parks & Recreation hosted the Down & Dirty on Sunday.  This years event was also awarded the USA Cycling's Missouri State Championship designation.  Racers were greeted to a fast and flowing course within the Truman Lake Mountain bike park.   "This course is not very technical and defiantly gives the advantage to the riders with the biggest engine"  The heat would be the biggest factor for many with high humidity and temps in the 90's as the race progressed.

Results can be found on United in Dirt : Down &  Dirty Result. Congratulations to everyone who raced today.  The heat made everyone earn it today. 
 

 Cow Town sent a team down to the Down & Dirty and they brought home the gold.  Christopher Locke had to come from behind to take the Junior 15 - 18 win and added a Missouri Sate Championship to his palmares.  Brad Crain put in a great ride in the heat and earned the Cat 2 Men 30 - 39 Missouri State Tile.  We look forward to seeing Brad move up to the Cat 1 division soon - he definitely has the speed and fitness.  New Cow Town member Ron Schnick put in a hard effort and earned an impressive 2nd place in the Cat 2 Men 40-49 division.  Tim Green and Chris Locke both rode with "tired legs" but still managed to get 5th place in their respective divisions. 

Greene Conquers the DK200

Congratulations goes out to Tim Greene for finishing the 2012 Dirty Kanza 200.  Tim placed 19th in the Masters Men category with a time of 17:27.  You ROCK TIM!

Robidoux Roundup Recap

UFD West Series #5 - 2012 Robidoux Roundup was held last weekend.  The Robidoux is usually a very demanding event with a hilly course (over 1000 feet of climbing per lap) and hot weather.  This years participants were not let down as race temps in the 90's greeted the racers on race day.  Race fitness, a good pair of climbing legs and plenty of H2O & Hammer Endurolytes were the ticket for the day.

Fast man of the day was Ethos' Garet Steinmetz.  Anyone that can turn a 33 min lap a Krug is a climbing god.

Great finishes by Cow Town members.  Christopher Locke made his return to racing known with a win in the Junior Men 15-18 division over hard charging Caleb Smith and Austin Stuck   Rich Anderson put in a strong ride in the Marathon class to earn 2nd place on the day despite a mechanical on the last lap.   Pictures coming soon.  Complete results at http://krugparkmtb.blogspot.com/

Big Wins for Cow Town

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. 

Mountain Bike News Shorts - 04/17/12

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 HERE

Roger and Guru were out taking plenty of pictures from God's Country: Roger's House of Photos and Guru's Photos

Cow 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 Results

Bone 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