We are keeping an eye on the weather tomorrow but are cautiously optimistic that we will be able to have your regularly scheduled Pedder Dirt Derby tomorrow night.

However, if races need to be cancelled, we will announce that in the afternoon via email, our website, facebook and twitter so hopefully everyone will know. If things do get cancelled, typically some other rides pop up on social media sites and if you can’t get a ride in because it’s dark you can get your Austin-based cycling fix on Austin on Two Wheels.

Next week we hope the weather will make things less tenuous. And we have devised a new way to give out free race entries: bring a kid who races next week and you’ll race for free.

Last week was a lot of fun; we had a bunch of costumes and swag and candy, all in addition to the normally exciting racing. We’ve posted some pictures on our facebook.

Weather permitting, we hope to be able to see everyone tomorrow,

-The Peddler Dirt Derby

We had a great turnout tonight at The Peddler Dirt Derby to take advantage of the stellar November Austin weather. Our post halloween Track or Treat night proved to be a great extension to the holidays festivities with cool food, prizes, and candy carrying over to tuesday nights racing. Special thanks to everyone who wore their costumes out to the race tonight as we had some great alternatives to the normal racing attire and congratulations to the winners of the costume contest.

Tonight also saw the second beach cruiser race of the year and we hope to see that field continue to grow.
Despite the masquerading, we still had great performances in all of the fields, so go check them out on the results page.

See you next week!
-The Peddler Dirt Derby

We are excited again to be having out Halloween Race this next Tuesday, November 1st. We’ve been having people come out in costume for several years now and it’s always one of the most fun nights of the season.

So, come out in costume and race for free. If you are able to race in your costume, that’s even better. We will also have some prize grabs during the races: set your bike down and say ‘trick or treat’ and we’ll give you something. It could be a nice prize from one of our sponsors, it could be a piece of candy, it could be a lot of things, but it will certainly be an interesting addition to the races.

So come and join this Tuesday, it’ll certainly be one of the more interesting nights of the year.

It was another fantastic night of racing out at the Peddler Dirt Derby. Tonight might have been our best weather yet, and we had another great showing.
In other exiting news, back by popular demand are the Intermediate MTB results after last weeks unexpected hiatus.
We also want to give a special thanks to everyone who stayed for the night to cheer on the races, we had an especially enthusiastic crowd tonight, with people finding unique and hilarious places to “encourage” the racers.

Remember that next week The Peddler Dirt Derby is officially extending Halloween an extra night, so keep your costumes out and wear them to the Derby as it should be a fantastic time.

Cruise on over to the results page to view the stellar performances from this week and thanks again to everyone for another great night of racing
-The Peddler Dirt Derby

The weather will be nice, the course will be in good shape, and we will have a night full of racing out at The Peddler Dirt Derby.

Bring a bike, bring a friend, and let’s have a good night of racing.

Results have been posted from tonights race, but unfortunately there was a computer error with the B MTB results that nullified all of our score-keeping for that race, so we are left with apologies rather than results

In better news, the weather was lovely and provided for a splendid night of bike racing.

In even better news, on November 1st we’re doing our ‘Track and Treat’ night of racing, where we encourage everyone to get one last use out of their halloween costumes. Dress up and race for free, Ryan will begin all the races in a Transylvannian accent, and we’re planning other exciting things for that night.

Apologies for the Intermediate MTB results, we’ve made sure it doesn’t happen again, and we’ll return next week with another night of racing; see y’all then.

-The Peddler Dirt Derby

Tuesday will also be our 2^nd Ladies Night of the season, so we would love to see as many ladies, and men dressed like ladies racing for free as possible.

But wait there is more exciting news, The Peddler Dirt Derby is pleased to announce a new sponsor for the 2011 season: Grease Monkey Wipes.

Grease Monkey Wipes are multi-purpose cleaning wipes that use an all natural, citrus formula for heavy duty cleaning. Each wipe easily removes grease, grime, oil, brake dust, and other general filth from your bike or your skin without using harsh chemicals. The portable nature of the wipes mean you can take them anywhere to clean up your bike at anytime.

Grease Monkey Wipes is an Austin-based company that is proud to support all aspects of cyclocross and mountain bike racing. To find out more about the company please visit www.greasemonkeywipes.com or follow them on Twitter at @MonkeyWipes.

To recap, The Peddler Dirt Derby is back this week, its ladies night, and we have cool new sponsorship to be excited about. So go cruise around on the Grease Monkey Wipes websites and we hope to see ya’ll out there tomorrow night!

-The Peddler Dirt Derby

The Peddler Dirt Derby is pleased to announce a new sponsor for our 2011 season: Grease Monkey Wipes.

Grease Monkey Wipes are multi-purpose cleaning wipes that use an all natural, citrus formula for heavy duty cleaning. Each wipe easily removes grease, grime, oil, brake dust, and other general filth from your bike or your skin without using harsh chemicals. The portable nature of the wipes mean you can take them anywhere to clean up your bike at anytime.

Grease Monkey Wipes is an Austin-based company that is proud to support all aspects of cyclocross and mountain bike racing. To find out more about the company please visit www.greasemonkeywipes.com or follow them on Twitter at @MonkeyWipes.

It’s not called The Peddler Dirt Derby without reason. Racing makes bikes dirty; Grease Monkey Wipes makes bikes clean.

Sorry, all. We just got word that there’s too much standing water on the track for us to race tonight.

There are a bunch of puddles on the course and the track manager will be spending today cutting furrows to ease the drainage, so it’s not in condition to be ridden.

We will push back Ladies Night until next Tuesday, and hopefully we won’t have bunches of rain in the intervening time.

-The Peddler Dirt Derby

We had so much fun with the first one that we’re throwing another: The Peddler Dirt Derby will have its second Ladies Night of the year tomorrow. So, women and guys who look suspiciously like women get to race for free.

A very novel thing happened over the weekend: rain fell from the sky. A few clear days and the fact that the dirt wasn’t saturated at all have us pretty confident that we don’t need to cancel races tomorrow, so we are all a go for racing tomorrow night. However, if the course is wetter than we predict, we will let y’all know via the website, our facebook and our twitter.

Lastly, we had some awesome coverage of last week’s races: Austin on Two Wheels had an article posted, Prolly is not Probably posted an article and took some photos, and DCM Photography took some photos as well.

Ladies Night tomorrow; we hope to see y’all out there.

-The Peddler Dirt Derby