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email. We are happy to list all road (TT, Crit, RR, Omnium),
cyclocross, mtb (XC, DH, DS, etc.), and track/velodrome
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fun rides.
Jan. 10-11
Knoxie Cross , Jan. 11
NC Winter CX, Jan. 17-18
Columbia CX, Jan. 17-18
NC Winter CX, Jan.
18 Charlotte STXC, an.
17-18 Columbia Cyclocross, Jan.
17-19 Barnsley Gardens Mini-CX Series, Jan.
24
SouthernX, Jan. 24-25 Cross A
Nooga, Jan 25
Charlotte STXC, Jan. 31
Winter Speedway Race #1,
Jan. 31 Icycle,
Feb. 1
Charlotte STXC, Feb. 7
Snake Creek TT, Feb. 7
Winter Speedway Race #2, , Feb. 7-8
Knoxie Cross, Feb. 8
Charlotte STXC, Feb. 14
Tundra TT,
Feb. 14-15 Wolfpack
Cycling Classic, Feb. 15
Charlotte STXC, Feb. 21-22
Knoxie Cross , Feb. 21-22
Greenville,
Feb. 28-March 1
Greenville, March 7
Snake Creek TT, March
7-8 Greenville, March 8
SERC #1,
March 14 Dirty Spokes Heritage,
March 14-15 Columbia
Crits, March 21 Out
Like a Lion RR, March 22 Hobby Park XC,
March 22 City Park Crit,
march 22 Macon GCS #1, March
28-29 Uptown Greenville,
NC Crits, March 29 SERC #2/AMBC Chicasaw,
March 29 Uwharrie, April 4
6 Hours of Warrior Creek,
April 4 Hoover Crit, April 25
Cohutta 100
Winter Advertising Special Email me for a special 20% off winter
advertising special!
sttarlite@hotmail.com! Reach your customers this winter!
Nurse Needed!
Willing to Pay!! I am having major surgery in January 16, 2009. (Don't
worry, I'm fine!!) I just found out that the person that was supposed to
drop me off and pick me up from the outpatient surgery center is not going
to be able to do so. I'd like to hire a private duty nurse or someone that
is a nurse to do so and possibly stay with me for a few hours after I get
home. All in all, it would be 8-12 hours. I know it's not going to be cheap,
but I have no choice and will pay. If you are a nurse and are interested,
please contact me at
sttarlite@hotmail.com. I'll be happy to give you my phone number
privately, so that we can talk.
Press for the TdG Petition Oh yeah! Pez gives the TdG Petition some
Pez-style Love!
1-2-2008
Charlotte News From Charlotte Sports Cycling: Sunday, January 4
We have a trail work day planned for the infamous short track course at
Renaissance Park. We plan to start working this Sunday, Jan. 4th at 9:00am.
We will meet by the dumpsters on the softball side of Renaissance Park. The
plan is to make some improvements to the existing course, but mainly we are
extending the course to include the first part of the Figure 8. This will
add a little more fast singletrack to the course and break the climb up into
a few parts with more passing room on the gravel road section. This should
be a nice change for those who have raced the Winter Short Track before, and
it will make the laps a bit longer, maybe 45 seconds or so.
Come out and bring a shovel if you have one to help move gravel. We will
have the Ditch Witch loader and 2 ATV's with dump trailers, so the work
should go fast. Oh yeah, we plan to provide Topper's Pizza for all
volunteers at lunchtime.
If we have enough people, we will add a few more features to the course.
This is the time to add input.
Thanks and we'll see you there.
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Mountain bike museum opens in North Carolina
By Gary Boulanger, BikeRadar
The sport of mountain biking is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2009,
and leading the celebration is the Museum of Mountain Bike Art & Technology
(MOMBAT), a new museum created to preserve and chronicle the evolution of
the sport, its personalities and products, located in Statesville, North
Carolina.
The museum's collection contains over 400 bicycles, including more than 250
mountain bikes. Displayed alongside the bicycles at MOMBAT are hundreds of
vintage parts and accessories and thousands of pieces of literature,
including period catalogs and magazines that follow the evolution of the
sport.
"With our location near the intersection of two major interstates, the
museum is convenient for anyone traveling in the area, and we've had
visitors from all around the US and overseas as well," said Jeff Archer, the
museum's curator. Archer told BikeRadar the museum is split between two
floors of 5,000 square feet each, with 14-foot ceilings.
"The online shop history tells quite a bit about how we got to where we are
now," he added.
In the mid 1970s, the mountain bike sprang to life as a grassroots effort by
a small group of riders in Marin County, California, who converted
balloon-tired cruisers into trail bikes by removing superfluous equipment
and installing knobby tires. The first purpose-built off road bikes were
made in the late 1970s when the term "Mountain Bike" was first used to
describe them, and the sport grew rapidly worldwide in the following years.
The original mass produced mountain bike, the Specialized Stumpjumper,
arrived in stores in 1982. An example of this model now resides in the
Smithsonian Institution, and a similar model is displayed at MOMBAT.
Technological innovation is evident in the bicycles featured at MOMBAT, with
the evolution of front and rear suspension designs, hydraulic disc brakes
and the progression from five to 27 gears over the life of the sport. Frame
materials also evolved, from basic steel tubes to wildly shaped and
extremely lightweight composites and metals. Artistic design and
construction is also found on bikes and components as some of the best
examples of bicycle fabrication are on display at the museum, including
details ranging from experimental to innovative and artful.
The museum also sponsors the Cackalacky Cup, an increasingly popular
vintage-themed mountain bike festival that takes place each summer.
MOMBAT is located within First Flight Bicycles in historic downtown
Statesville, NC. Admission is free and the museum is open to the public
Monday-Friday, 10-6 and Saturday, 10-5. Visitors are welcomed and encouraged
to take their time to view the exhibits.
Those unable to visit the museum in person can view much of the collection
at www.mombat.org.
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2009 Nothing But Noodles Winter Short Track Series
January 18 & 25, February 1, 8 & 15
ALL SUNDAYS
Word on the street is lots of teams and shops are really excited about the
Team Competition during the 2009 Winter Short Track Series. The Team
competition will consist of team members across all categories earning
points. The points will be derived from a new system called "Pack Points".
Pack Points are based upon the number of people racing in your category,
with a minimum of 10 points for the winner. The top six people from your
team will be scored. This scoring system is separate form individual scoring
during the series.
1st Place Team - $250, Winners Trophy and a year of braggin rights!
2nd Place Team - $155
3rd Place Team - $100
We will be providing space on the course for all of sponsoring teams and
clubs. All team members must wear team kits during the race and provide
registration with the proper name.
We are working hard on growing the 2009 series and brought on many new
sponsors.
We currently have 13 of the local bike shops sponsoring the 2009 series:
SouthPark Cycles, Bike Line of Charlotte, Bicycles East, Bicycle Sport,
Ultimate Bicycle, Cool Breeze Cyclery, First Flight Bikes, Trek Bikes of
Charlotte, The Spirited Cyclist, Luna Cycles, BikeSource, Bolt Brothers,
Blood, Sweat and Gears and The Cycle Path. Jesse Brown's Outdoors is also
supporting the series.
We also have product support from Blackdogbikes.com, Clif Bar, Hydrapak,
Cane Creek, American Classic, Defeet, Giordana and prizes from
www.TotalCyclists.com .
American Classic is providing a set of their sweet Mtb26 wheels as grand
prize raffle for the series. Cane Creek is providing a 110 headset for the
raffle. Every time you race, you are entered into the raffle. I am also
working on a couple more cool prizes for the series raffle. Stay tuned for
more detail.
We will have online registration for the whole series soon. There will be a
discounted rate provided for those who plan to race the whole series. Also,
we have rented a chip timing system for the whole series so we should be
able to have results posted even sooner and have laps, time splits and the
works.
And to top everything off, we will lots of great food from our new sponsor
Nothing but Noodles. Nothing but Noodles will be providing many of their
famous pasta dishes at each of the events. Nothing but Noodles has two great
locations in Charlotte, one on Rea Rd at Stonecrest at Piper Glen and the
other on Elizabeth Ave near Presby. Visit the Nothing but Noodles website at
www.nothingbutnoodles.com
Hope you all are looking forward to a fun series.
Info on the 2009 Winter Short Track Series has be posted on
www.charlottemtnbike.com
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Saturday, January 31st
Women's Cycling Clinic Presented by TotalCyclist
Featuring: Multi-Time US Pro Champion Tina Pic, Coach Robin Farina and Pro
Cyclist Erica Allar
When: Saturday, January 31st 2009 @ 2pm-6pm
Where: TBD (Depends on how many sign up!) Somewhere in Central Charlotte, NC
Cost: 35$
Who: TotalCyclist/Uptown Cycles and influential women in the sport!
And: Special deals on women's gear compliments of Uptown Cycles.
Why: Because it seems to be the right thing to do.
Who is it for? We are targeting only women, obviously. However we will be
discussing a myriad of topics and they will likely include:
· Training for ALL levels of women. Enthusiasts, Racers, Pro's and Beginners
· Mountain, Road, Track, Cross
· Nutrition informational specific towards women’s cycling.
· Bike Purchasing
· The Mental Side!
· Much More
Contact Chad Andrews @ chad@totalcyclist.com or
www.totalcyclist.com See you on
the bike. Neal
Charlotte Sports Cycling Inc.
nealboyd@charlottesportscycling.com
www.charlottesportscycling.com
www.charlottemtnbike.com
Beyond Allatoona Long Option is Back From Cycleworks: The
long option is back! Approximately 75 miles. Most of A group will be doing
long option.
Kennesaw/Beyond Allatoona, Rolls at 9 am on Saturdays. 55 miles-Training-
Definite A (18-19 mph) and B (17-18 mph) groups after restroom break. Not
for casual riders. Rolling terrain from Kennesaw towards Cartersville.
Course is well marked with white "CW"s. One restroom break and one store
stop. Take I-75 to exit 271-Chastain Rd. Go west on Chastain Rd
approximately 1/4 mile and take a left onto Town Point Dr. Bear right at
first intersection and park in Pacesetter Steel parking lot-3300 Townpoint
Dr. Watch out for the the low-clearance bar! From I-75 and 285 expect about
a 15 minute drive to the start of the ride.
1-3-2008 If You
Try to Contact Me If you try to contact me this weekend, my home DSL is
down. I hope to have service restored by Monday. There is an AT&T outage in
my neighborhood. Please be patient. Thanks! At the very least, I'll head to
Starbucks Sunday night to check email. DSL is back up as of Sat.
Afternoon.
1-5-2008 Barnsley
CX Flyer Self explanatory. :)

Mt. Tabor Work Party From SORBA Paulding Who: Everyone is welcome to
attend!
Where: Mt. Tabor Park - 1550 East Paulding Drive Dallas, GA 30157
When: Saturday 1/17/2009 9 a.m. till 1 p.m.
Why: We're going to attempt to have the beginners loop finished by 4/1/2009
We're going to continue working on the bench cut sections of trail and
clearing corridor throughout the entire loop. This loop will be
approximately 1.25 to 1.5 miles long and will follow the Gateways Trails
model provided by IMBA.
1-6-2008 Sope
Creek Trail Maintenance From SORBA Atlanta: Chattahoochee River National
Recreation Area (CRNRA)
ALL trail users welcome!
Saturday January 17th 9am—1pm
Cochran Shoals Car Park (near Powers Ferry / I-285)
Lunch provided. MTB ride following work party.
Please help us rehab the trails and build new ones for running, hiking,
biking, etc.
Work days will happen MONTHLY during 2009. Next work day is Feb 28.
Blanket's Creek Work Party From SORBA Woodstock
We will be working on the Dwelling Loop Extention, .6 miles of new
singlestrack!!! Saturday Jan. 17th, 9A-1P Lunch will be provided. Please
come prepared with closed toed shoes, gloves and water. Note: SORBA
Woodstock will be assisting Reinhardt College with building a bridge on
their mtb trails. Saturday 1/31/09.
Cobb County News Bicycle and pedestrian improvement plan workshops
this month
Cobb County Department of Transportation is conducting a 15-month planning
project to identify where Cobb County can improve conditions for bicycling
and walking. Residents are encouraged to attend one of three public open
house workshops around the county to provide input and ideas. There will be
no formal presentations at the workshops, so residents may attend anytime
between 4:30 and 8:30 p.m.
* Tuesday, Jan. 20: Cobb County Central Library, 266 Roswell St., Marietta
* Wednesday, Jan. 21: East Cobb Government Service Center, 4400 Lower
Roswell Road, Marietta
* Thursday, Jan. 22: South Cobb Community Center, 620 Lions Club Drive,
Mableton
For more information, visit
http://cobbdot.org/bikeped or call DOT at 770-528-1679.

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