We had another great showing this week at the Peddler Dirt Derby, thank you to everyone who came out.
In our effort to constantly keep riders guessing, we followed up last weeks “dust bowl” with perfect weather. It seemed fitting to have cool skies and sand on the ground for our inaugural Cruiser Class race, that proved to be both a battle of grit and courage.
To continue on with this weeks theme, cruise on over to the results tab and check out the great performances from Tuesdays racing!
We had an excellent kick off to the 2011 Peddler Dirt Derby last week and we’re back this week with another Tuesday night of racing with a new racing class and a beginner cyclocross clinic.
–Dust off your old beach cruiser bikes, bmx bikes, borrow a kids bike or ride a singlespeed anything for a quick one-lap race around the course in our new Cruiser Class right after the Intermediate CX race and just before the Open race. It’s free, and it’s fun.
–Austin on Two Wheels is pleased to offer a free beginner cyclocross clinic each Tuesday beginning at 5:45 out at The Peddler Dirt Derby. They’ll cover dismounts and remounts, running barrier, shouldering the bike, dealing with run ups, and an overview of cyclocross equipment. No experience necessary, all types of bike are welcome and then put your new skills to the test right afterwards in our Beginner CX Race.
–In addition, we’ll have some racers from the North American Cycle Courier Championships racing as they begin a week-long bike messenger throwdown all right here in Austin.
Plus, a regular night of fun racing at The Peddler Dirt Derby! Kids Race, Beginner Race, two intermediate races and then our Open Race provide a night full of cyclocross and MTB excitement. And we’ll have free Luna bar samples that were supposed to be given out last week but were then forgot about!
We hope to see y’all out again this Tuesday,
-The Peddler Dirt Derby
It was our largest night yet – thanks to all those who showed up. It was also our dustiest night yet, as after the Beginner race wind gusts kicked up dust for a good 20 minutes in conditions that were hard on those who have had two pairs of glasses lost and another break within the past month…
When the dust had settled it turned out to be a nice night, with lightning in the south and good racing on the track.
All that to say, results are over on the results tab.
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The Dirt Derby is excited to be returning with a Ladies Night this Tuesday, the 27th and we’re proud to announce our title sponsor for this season: The Peddler Bike Shop
We’ve been friends with The Peddler and they’ve been sponsoring us for a couple years, so we’re excited that they’ve taken over the title sponsorship for this years Dirt Derby. The Peddler will be providing mechanical support many nights, will donate product, provide us with lovely refreshments some nights, run a charity night and provide support through the year. With their help, we’re going to continue to improve Dirt Derby and make it the best race series that we can.
Making it the best that we can entails having an awesome opening night, and here’s what we’ve got going on this upcoming Tuesday:
If you want to save some time on registration, fill out our waiver beforehand.
Beyond The Peddler, we’re excited to be working with plenty of other sponsors this year, many of them who we’ve worked with in the past. Austin on Two Wheels, f3 Designs, and Tom Mahnke Realty. We’ll be letting you know more about them through the year and we hope you’ll express your thanks for them supporting our race series this year.
With all that said: let’s race some bikes on Tuesday.
-The Peddler Dirt Derby
The 2011 Dirt Derby will return on Sept. 27th and run through Dec 16th, with two six-week series.
Then we’ll be back in the spring from Jan 10th to Feb 14th for another six week series! The 2011 Dirt Derby cannot be contained by any nominal understanding of the calendar year. Finish 2011 with us, and then start kicking it in 2012 as well.
We are conducting talks with sponsors, will have more exciting news soon, and look forward to racing with y’all soon.
-Dirt Derby
We’ve been figuring out details for the next season of the Dirt Derby and we’re excited to announce that we’ll be returning on September 27th. We hope to see y’all then.
Come on out and see Central Texas Grassroots Cycling, who bring you the Dirt Derby, at the Bicycle Sport Shop Pace Bend Race & Festival this weekend! We’ll be doing some on-the-bike games and having some from 9am-7pm at the festival portion of the weekend on Saturday, April 16th.
The weekend will include some mountain biking clinics for various levels, Specialized bike demos, SRAM mini-clinics, the Bike Texas Kid’s Kup, free food and drinks and more at the festival on Saturday, and TMBRA MTB races on Sunday.
Thanks gang for an enjoyable party wrapping up the Bicycle Sport Shop Dirt Derby out at Black Star Co-op.
Thanks also for those who donated money to help Michael McMurtray pay his medical bills. If you would like to donate and learn more, Help Michael Recover has some news up and features a link to a paypal account set up to help him out. Michael’s a great friend of ours who’s attended and helped out at the Dirt Derby for years, so we wish him the best in recovery and look forward to seeing him out on the trails again soon.
The Bicycle Sport Shop Dirt Derby will be celebrating the end of the 2010 season in its traditional way: a party. This year’s version will be at Black Star Co-op on Tuesday, February 1st from 7-9pm. There will be some free beer, appetizers, LUNA product, and a host of enjoyable happenings going on and goings-on happening. Gold Sprints will be out with the roller races, we’ll raffle away goodies, have a track stand competition and slow races, and give out prizes to series category winners. Merchandise from Bicycle Sport Shop and f3 Designs, tune-ups from Bobby’s Bikes and more are all on our list of goodies to be gotten rid of. We were happy to see so many people in 2010 and we’ll hope to see a bunch of people at Black Star Co-op next Tuesday celebrating the end of the 2010 Bicycle Sport Shop Dirt Derby season with us.
Ride a bike, bum a ride, be at Black Star Co-op next Tuesday the 1st from 7:00-9:00.
-Bicycle Sport Shop Dirt Derby
The 2010 Bicycle Sport Shop Dirt Derby has come to a close, and by all accounts it was our best series yet. We had 306 racers race 1412 times over the course of 12 weeks this fall, with $500 raised for Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, two Ladies Nights, a couple cross clinics, some beer, some s’mores, and other things which I’m forgetting.
In addition to all those who came out to race, we’d like to thank our sponsors who helped make this year a success. Bicycle Sport Shop was our title sponsor for the year, and helped us out with mechanic support and brought a good number of fun BSS people out every week. Thanks to our other sponsors Bobby’s Bikes, Austin on Two Wheels, Athletic Volition, f3 Designs and Tom Mahnke Realty. Between them all, you’ll keep riding your bike, you’ll keep informed of all of Austin’s bike happenings, you’ll get trained to ride your bike better, you’ll look damned good while riding and you can buy a house to hold all your bikes. Check them out and support them to thank them for supporting us.
All that to say, that it was a great season and that results have been posted. We’re back in mid-January with a season wrap-up party, and we’ll be sure to keep ya’ll apprised of other Central Texas Grassroots Cycling events as they occur.
-Bicycle Sport Shop Dirt Derby