Thursday, July 31, 2008

Upcoming Events:

MORE's Annual Douthat Trip Don't wait, they normally sell out in less than a week!
Trip Dates: Sept 12-14th

EVMA's The Mountain Bike Marathon is August 17. Meet at Freedom Park @ 9 am. The plan is a lap there, ride to YRSP, a lap there, ride to NQP, a lap there, then ride back to Freedom Park. Laps may be abbreviated or extended depending on demand. Kirk and Penny will provide SAG support (i.e. we will have water, food, tools etc. - our excuse to drive between the parks).

Thread Here.

EVMA's Douthat Camping Trip.
Sept, 19-21.
More Details to come, check HERE for updates.

Aug. 17-18, CEd's 5th Annual"18hr Scouts Honor" Race!

Come one, come all as this race is a terrific endurance race that takes place in our metro area!
BikeReg 18hr Sign-up
Read more or comment here in the 18hr Thread.

And as a bonus a Local Bike Shop is helping to promote the race by offering discounts to racers on supplies needed for race day! Link.


Wednesday, July 30, 2008

August Cycling Challenge!

So you think (or maybe you know) that you're just that good!

Well, put your foot to the pedal and prove it!

By this time of the year most people are feeling super fast as they've dialed in their bikes, timing, and had plenty of chances to hit their favorite trails.

The idea of this August's Cycling Challenge is to show up for your local rides sporting pedal opposite from what you are currently sporting.
This means all those using Clipless & ToeClips need to go Platform/Flat style and all those using Platform/Flat style need to go Clipless & ToeClips.

I will guarantee taking this challenge will show you just how much skill pedals can give or take away from a person.
And to top it off, it'll make all your rides more challenging and I know how we mountain bikers are always in search of the next tough challenge!

So take the August Cycling Challenge and just out of your comfort zone!

Follow the Thread topic here.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

"Tunes for Trails" raised $2000.00!

I have to say that while I am now a silent face of Richmond-MORE, I am very excited to see so many people so willing to help out the club that I co-founded only a few short years ago. Countless amounts of energy goes into running a club like Richmond-MORE and it's an awesome feeling to watch the club take on a life of it's own as new people join up and use their drive and talents to help push the club to further heights!


While so many constantly deserve a "Thank you" for the efforts they put forth to improve the Richmond mountain biking scene, this time the "Thank you" goes out to Terrell Bowers & the Green Giants for putting on the "Tunes for Trails" benefit concert at Cap Ale, and Clark Jones for really working with Terrell to make this event happen and get the word out.

This concert raised $2000.00 for Richmond-MORE, with a total of 245 people showing up for the event.

If anyone wants to learn how to get more involved in Richmond-MORE or their local club, feel free to contact me and I'll be happy to make the connections happen.

You can contact me on the forums, I'm f5000sl.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

TUNES for TRAILS Benefit Concert

When: Jul 25, 2008 (9pm to 2am)
Where: Capital Ale (Downtown Richmond on 7th & Main St)
Why: 100% of the $5.00 cover goes to support the downtown James River Park System trails. RA-MORE is the beneficiary of the event.

Green Giant will be performing live, in their own style of Hard-Driving, Soulful Rock. (originals and familiar covers)

Come one, come all and help support the JRPS and all those clubs & associations that are working hard to create the wonderful trails that brings a smile to all of our faces!

PS> Donations to support the Ra-MORE & JRPS can be made at any time.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Challenge de RedBull

Redbull chugging contest from the PSP Mtn Bike Festival in May.
Comic relief provided by Timotheus.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Tour

No matter how you cut it, July is all about Le Tour de France.

Love it or leave it, the scandals that rock the cycling world continue to ooze from every pour of the Tour. It's hard to believe that so many are caught, or so many are even doping when you can bank on the Tour testing you.

But a larger question is, do other events even bother to test, or just hide their heads in the sand when it comes to doping. I mean, how can the Tour seem to catch so many when other races seem to never catch a sole?

Well, either way the Tour is once again shaping up to be a Tour to remember with fewer American's that in the last few previous and with two American Teams which are all seemly doing well after the first 7 stages.

One thing for sure, this race will come right down to the wire and you should expect the Tour this year to be wider open than ever in terms of strategy and organization.

While people claim and accuse Lance Armstrong and his previous teams of cheating and just not getting caught, people fail to admit that while Lance was racing, the Tour was a whole different race. Every day seem very calculated and exact, and while all the teams have freewill, it seems that maybe,(and IMO) just maybe Lance one by simply outsmarting everyone.

The evidence of his game is clear in the lacking of game that has unfolded over the last two years since he retired. Even though his former mates are still racing, no one seems to be able to pull off the wait & attack games like Lance.

Even still, this like all is promising to be another great tour and with about 14 stages to go, it's still anyone's game.