Cow Town 200K Bicycle Tour

The Cow Town 200K
Date: Saturday, 8/22/09 (8:00 a.m. start time)
Location: God's Country - Northland

Please join the Cow Town Cycling Team for a wonderful day of riding in the Northland. A very scenic 200K route is planned visiting Parkville, Waldron, Weston, Platte City, Smithville Lake, Liberty, Excelsior Springs and Riverside.

We depart at 8:00am from E.H. Young Riverfront Park, Riverside, Missouri. Ride pace will be very easy. Rest stops are planned every 15 - 30 miles. Optional shorter routes are available for those not wishing to do the entire 200k (124 miles).

This is an Show-N-Go ride and you ride at your own risk.

Tour hotline 816.213.1620

2009 Rapture in Misery

Another great RIM. Although mother nature shorted the event to a 6/9 hour event. The 9th Annual Rapture in Misery moved to a new location this year. Doug Long and the Green Hills Trails Association hosted this years event up at Crowder State Park. A 9.2 mile course that included the "Grave Yard" and plenty of sweet single track. And climbing, did we mention that it has plenty of that.

Some great results were turned in by the team. We took top honors in both 3 man divisions. 1st place in the Super Fast Team w/ Tige, Damian and John. 1st Place in the Fun Team with Ashley, Sean and Kevin. 3rd place in the 12 hour solo 40+ division was turned in by old man Chris Locke

Here are some pictures from the 2009 Rapture in Misery. Complete results forthcoming.

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Smithville Lake Spider Fest 2009

Cool Weather, Hot Racing

July comes to a close with some great results from our team.

At the Cramp Alexander MTB race Tige Lamb lined up with some of the best experts in the region including Mark Studnicki, Cameron Chambers and Shad Shreiner. Both Mark and Tige started in the second wave of the experts and rode together until the end passing all the other experts except for the speedy Shad. Proving once again the sometimes age is better that youth. John Wagner took the Single Speed win for Cow Town with an excellent ride. Complete results are up - Results

On the road side Mark Cole won the 60 mile Sunflower State Games Road race in the Cat 3/4 division. Second place went to Kurt Albrecht with Jack Funk round out the Sunflower games podium. Here are the top placing Criterium/Road race results.

The following week the Cow Town fat tire crew was out in force at the Sunflower State games and Show-Me-State Games MTB events. Damian Almanza is showing some great form lately and took top honors on the challenging MacLennan park . Damain won the Expert 30-39 division and clocked the quickest time of the day in 1:40. Next up was Team Bad Goat who took a podium sweep of the Expert 20-29 division . Complete Sunflower MTB results here. Our Missouri riders also had their "State Games" this past week. Congrats to Sean Gaulter for placing 2nd in his first mountain bike race. John Wagner was again out giving the single speeders hell this time taking a hard earned 3rd place.

On the multi-sport side this Cow Towner showed that Cow's can indeed swim, bike and run - Fast.

July's Fat Tire Events

There are plenty of off-road events coming up....

Saturday is the Farmhouse Classic up in Lathrop, MO. Joe Fox brings up this fun gravel road ride complete with a supported aid stations, breakfast and post event food/drink. Cost is free. Well, you can not beat that. If you are interested in going email joe@cyclecitykc.com with your name and home town. He will add you to the ride roster.

Sunday is the Cramp Alexander MTB race down in Emporia, KS. Categories for all ability levels will be offered at this grass roots event. Thanks to Lelan and Garret for bringing some fat tire racing to us.

Some locals are heading down to the Fat Tire Festival in Eureka Springs this weekend. A complete weekend including short track, downhill and traditional cross country.

Gerard reminds us, and who could really forget it, that 16th Annual Flint Hills Death Ride is July
25th & 26th. No whiners allowed at this challenging event. Check out the entry form . I like rule #1 "Cows have the right of way"

Also, next weekend the "State Games" will be held. Missouri has the Show-Me-State Games MTB race and Kansas has the Sunflower State Games MTB race.

Cow Appreciaton Day

Chick-fil-A is hosting the 5th Annual Cow Appreciation Day this Friday, July 10, 2009.

Just wear your Cow Town kit to a local Chick-Fil-A restaurant and you will receive a free meal. Don't have a Cow Town kit? That is a shame because we do have the best looking kit out there. However, there is still hope for you.

Here is all the details you need.

Paci's Bicycle Rally

I wanted to post this for my friend Joe and for all bicyclists out there on our roadways. On June 18th about 7:00 PM on N. Cherry leading out of NKC, a driver purposely struck Joe Pace while he was riding his bicycle. Joe was riding with Anne single file up N. Cherry, when they heard a motorist come up behind them blaring on his horn (this has happened to about all of us). Joe told Anne to just get as far over as she could, so the car could pass. The motorist came around Anne making sure he got as close as he could get to her and then purposely swerved into Joe, who was just a little farther up the road, striking him with the side of his car. Joe’s left arm and wrist took most of the impact, while the rest of his body slammed into the vehicle. Joe then crashed onto the street, hitting his hip and head on the pavement (he had a helmet on). The driver sped off, without knowing if he had seriously injured somebody or worse. Thank goodness Joe’s injuries are not life threatening and he is going to recover. There were witnesses who got a description of the car and the driver, but no license plate number. A police report was filed and a $500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of this criminal.

Joe is having a bicycle rally at is Restaurant/Bar, Paci’s, on Saturday, June 27th at 7:00 AM. The rally will be covered by Channel 9 News. They are doing a cover story on the Heart of America Bridge and why the city should make bicycle lanes on it. Steve Mahoney interviewed Joe and Anne for the story and are hoping to use Joe’s story as a lead in to the Heart of America bike lane piece.

The address for Paci’s is 1825 Buchanan, NKC, MO. If you can make it on June 27th at 7:00 AM, that would be great. Hopefully we can help raise awareness that bicycles are out on the roads and we have just as much right to use the roads as cars do and maybe we can get the guy who hit Joe off the street, before he attacks another cyclist.

Rhett's Run MTB Race Report

MWFTS Race # 5 was held Sunday, June 7th in Columbia, Missouri. Cow town was respectfully represented by John Wagner, Garet Steinmetz and Sean Burns. Race day conditions were less than optimal with rain showers through the night/morning. The rain stopped and the trail drained fairly well, leaving some great singletrack riding with minimal slick rocks on what would prove to be a great and challenging course.

First off the line was the Expert Men. Garet’s start looked great and into the singletrack he disappeared. John and I then lined-up for the Single Speed event, and we were both in the top 5 heading into the woods.

The first 200 yards of singletrack was a downhill, rock covered slippery mess. I heard the rider behind me crash hard, taking out a few of the heard behind him. This allowed the top five positions to make a pretty good gap. Slowly the riders also made a pretty good gap in front of me, and I was alone having a great time, and finally passed by a couple strong riders just before the start of lap two. John was long gone by now, battling it out for a podium finish. I slowly fell into a state of ‘umm, I just bonked hard’ and was at the point were I had to literally stop and take a break, I was feeling pretty sick. A handul of riders passed me until I finally had the juice to get back in the saddle and finish the race.

The course was great and as usual, it was a good time had by everyone.

All said and done,

Garet \ 10th in Expert
John 5th Single Speed
Sean 8th Single Speed

I've kept this report on-the-short, because you can read more about Garet’s race HERE and more about Sean's efforts HERE.

Official results are HERE.

Event Photos are HERE.

-Sean

Holler and Steinmetz On Top

Cow Town's Selby Holler continued his winning ways by taking the overall win at the BUMP N' Grind in the Cat 3 division. Held annually at the Oak Mountain State Park the event is hosted on a 10,000 acre facility and includes the famous 600 foot climb up Red This years event hit the big time as it was the 2nd round of the Kenda Cup East.

Check out a cool video of the event at BUMP site.

Closer to home, the first round of the Down and Dirty MTB Series was held in Warsaw, Missouri at the Truman Lake MTB Park. A challenging 7 mile course awaited everyone Sunday morning. In the Expert field, Cow Town Cycling's Garet Steinmetz took his first solo win of the year over Ebby Norman of Pro-Velo. Steinmetz suffered two flats, but still managed to get the better of the elder Norman.

Check out the race report on Riding Dirty Flying High

Next round of the Down and Dirty series is June 21st.

Down and Dirty MTB Series

The Down and Dirty Mountain Bike Series begins this weekend at the new Truman Lake Mountain Bike park. Registration opens at 8:00am on Sunday and closes at 9:30 am. More info contact Mac Vorce at parksrec at welcometowarsaw dot com

Classes and start times:

• 10:00 am - 15 and under ($3.00)
  
• 10:00 am - Beginners ($5.00)
  
• 10:30 am - Experts ($15.00)
  
• 10:35 am - Sport ($10.00)

Event dates:

• May 31st
• June 21st
• July 12th

Here is some videos from last years event: