August, 2009

Try as I might, I could not get through a ride on the mountain bike this week. Thursday I was in Lincoln so I took the NRS along planning to ride Wilderness Park. It was borderline muddy but some careful maneuvering kept me out of trouble. But, all that maneuvering helped me find a giant nail which destroyed my only tube. Several attempts at patching it yielded me a walk back to my truck.

To add insult to injury, when I replaced the tube I found the sidewall had gotten cut and the tire was toast. Scratch one Nevegal off the inventory.

Off goes the remaining Nevegal and back on go my well-used Scorpions.

Tim Powell powered 7 laps in the marathon. Devin Bethune photo

After two rain delays, the Maskenthine XC Classic went off without a hitch under nearly perfect weather conditions. As the sixth race of the 2009 Nebraska Lottery Psycowpath series, the Classic attracted nearly 100 riders to the course north of Stanton.

The Elkhorn Valley Cycling powered by Monster race team traveled to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for the Avera Downtown Criterium August 23. The event, promoted by Central Plains Cycling, was held in the downtown district of Sioux Falls on a sweeping course containing one sharp hill. The event ran smoothly from start to finish with only one crash the entire day.

First up for EVCC was Joe Savoie (Omaha) in the Masters class. Savoie rode a great race taking one of the three primes and scoring a third place. Savoie would return later in the day to finish 12th in a fast Men's 1-2-3 race.

Few photos actually show the steepness of a climb like this one from the top of the Powerline climb in the Leadville 100:

For more photos like this go to MTBR Photos courtesy of Ultrarob.

From http://www.superhumanmag....

The Elkhorn Valley Cycling powered by Monster race team was well-represented at the Tranquility Tire Tantrum, part of the Nebraska Lottery Psycowpath MTB series held August 8 at Tranquility Park in Omaha. Scorching heat caused many riders who started to drop out of the race, giving all those who finished extra cause for self-satisfaction.

Rhonda Wright powered to a strong second place finish in the Cat 2 Women's race. This is only Rhonda's second year of racing.

Taira Anderson rolled a newly-acquired Giant Trance to a convincing win in the Junior Women 16-18 division.

For those that tried to watch the streaming telecast of the Leadville 100 MTB race today, the closest thing about the finish was whether or not the race's webcast was going to starting working in time to see the finish. Fortunately, the overwhelmed website began streaming video again just in time to see Lance Armstrong win the race on a flat rear tire with nearly a half hour to spare ahead of perenial winner Dave Weins. When asked by the show's reporters what slowed him down - presumably to a mere second place - Weins responded that he thought he had a ridden a good race, but Armstrong is faster.

The Norfolk Time Trial Series entered the month of August with a fantastic turnout and some equally fantastic times.

In Men's "A", Devin Bethune set the pace inspiring both Richard Hake and Todd Jochum to reach personal records. Jan Hake followed suit also setting a personal record to win the Women's "B" race.

Tyler Campbell won the Men's "B" race with a great showing and Brent Miller took the Men's "C" race. 

The Norfol Race Series picks up again on August 25 with a cross country mountain bike race at Maskenthine, which will be a prieview of the Nebraska Psycowpath race to be held at the same venue on August 29.

Hey everybody. So this year for mountain biking as been very exciting for me over all. I went to Missouri to visit my family for a week and little did I know that I was going to be coming home with a brand new bike!! I biked twice while I was in MO to get back in shape for the Tranquility Tire Tantrum on Aug. 8th. Come race day I had already been on my new bike twice before and was excited to see how it would race and let me tell ya.. it did amazing!!

from Triple Crankset by Lenny B

By Amber Rais

Sport is about human performance, not female or male performance, so in a lot of ways, cycling allows us to ignore our gender differences, sometimes to the point where we women are actually mistaken for men when dressed in our spandex, helmets and sunglasses. For all of our similarities, though, men and women are different.

Well, I was able to write up a race report for the Tour of KC. If you are a little sqeamish you may not want to look at some of the pictures. You have been warned.

http://loupgarou-adventures.blogspot.com/2009/08/third-brake.html