New Brighton Super Prestige CX Course Map

Tomorrow! It happens!

If you're the kind of person that's interested, please find a course map, showing Registration, and all those good things, below.

Please respect the Dog Park (to the East of the pool) as we are sharing this space with many park users. If you can warm up on the outskirts of the park, or during times between races, we will very likely be welcomed back to the park. Otherwise, you'll ruin everything and no one wants that.

Parking is copious, though it would be wicked if you could carpool.

If you are interested in setting up a team tent, if you can get in early, and we'll try to help out. Driving on the grass is a no no (don't follow the park vehicles as an example).

Neutral Support will be run by our dear friends at Mighty Riders! Wheels in, wheels out! Provided you're super nice, you might even get a cup of Musette Caffe brewed 49th Parallel.

Prizes have been put together, and with amazing things from Lazer Helmets, like their R2 OD (feels so nice on your head), Topeak pumps, Lizard Skins and Norco. We are also looking forward to presenting the Chrome Winners Jersey to our First Single Speed finisher - a jersey Chrome keeps out of their product catalog and only in the hands of some damn hard racers.

And don't forget, Brodie is slathering our Facebook with their Brodie Pact Frame/Fork giveaway! You keep coming to the CX races, we'll keep your name in the drawing! Yay!

We're stoked and probably not going to sleep a wink. We'll see you in the morning!

New Brighton Super Prestige Cyclocross 2012

New Brighton Super Prestige CX 2012 is only 5 days away! We're giddy with excitement! You, however, should be giddy with registration. DO IT HERE: https://reg.ccnbikes.com/index.php/event/new-brighton-superprestige-cx

At the same time, you should be checking out the second race of this double header weekend, Vanier Park CX - http://westcoastracing.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=46.

The wonderful Sven Sturm is hosting, and as the nicest guy you know (who is also faster than you), he's put out a call to Island Racers and US racers - give us a shout if you need somewhere to stay! We will find you floors, fold outs, dog beds. Drop a line to Sven or VCXC right here (or on Twitter, or on Facebook!) and stay over for both races September 29th and 30th, 2012!

So get it together, bring the family, and get ready for Cyclocross at New Brighton!

photo by Doug Brons - http://www.dougbronsphotography.com/

New Brighton SuperPrestige

New Brighton SuperPrestige

This is it, Saturday September 29th, the first race of a double header weekend! Come race picturesque New Brighton Park for the waterfront and mountain view, a definite classic on the cross circuit.

Back for a fifth time in 2012, VCXC is planning yet another sweet Euro spectator-friendly parcours. So bring the family, your friends and your enemies to spectate on the most beautiful course in East Van.

We will be providing a Team Alley area, so please consider rounding up your ladies and gents, getting the camping chairs out and heckling.

We are happy to have coffee by Musette Cafe, Food, beer prizes from Beer Thirst, a Kid's Race.

Race Registration as follows:

- $25 Pre Registration / $30 on Race Day

https://reg.ccnbikes.com/index.php/event/new-brighton-superprestige-cx

- Kid's Cross is FREE
- Racers crossing the Border get a $5 discount!
- Racers from Vancouver Island / Sunshine Coast get $5 ferry crossing discount upon presentation of ferry receipt
- $30 one day event insurance for non-license holders available at registration

Registration starts at 9:30 and closes 15 minutes before each races starts. This race will use the standings from Fort Langley CX Classic for call-up and we will expect you to suffer with your appropriate category. We'll see you on course.

*THESE DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE - PLEASE CHECK BACK WITH US FOR COURSE MAP AS AVAILABLE*

Cheers,

V.CX.C

VCXC events are open to:

UCI, USCF and CCA (incl. Cycling BC) license holders or Cycling BC Citizen license holders.
One-day license from Cycling BC is available for $30.
All kids age 15 and under.
Please note: Medical coverage is not available at the event for non-BC racers, and should be acquired in advance from a suitable provider.

Complete Timed Results!

Computers are hard.

Please find the results here:

1:00 PM Race Results - Elite Men, Masters Men 1/2, Single Speed

11:40 AM Race Results - Master Men 3/4, Open Women

10:30 AM Race Results - 3/4 Men, Citizen Racers

I would also encourage everyone to check out the photo links on the previous post - some great shots of riders doing suffer properly. Also, the video from Warwick, aka Bacon Handup:

Fort Langley Cyclocross Classic 2012 from Formula Photographic Inc. on Vimeo.

And a slightly more comedic POV by Andrew Summers:

Don't forget! More racing in September. Check the calendar, and the Facebook Page, get your skinsuit clean, we'll see you out there.

Race Report - Fort Langley CX Classic

Ladies and Gents. Thank you.

Fort Langley CX Classic was a huge success. A hot, dusty, rock-laden success; and it's thanks to you. I even got to get my ass kicked by some of the best racers in BC.

Photo by the Amazing Doug Brons (who has more photos here) 

We had our massive support team from Mighty Riders  out, registering, taping, yelling, bleeding, just for you folks. It's a major boon to an event when the volunteers are way smarter than the organizers. It helps to ply them with Musette coffee...

It's also important to note that this event was well supported by our series partners, Norco Bicycles; Steve showed up with a huge booth, Norco tester bikes (that I totally should have used as a course setup bike) and some incredible swag for winners, including Lazer Helmets and Topeak pumps.

Our dear friend Andrew from Brodie bikes cracked open the swag bag for us, as well as providing some killer finish line flags, so we could figure out where the hell we were supposed to sprint to on that hot dusty gravel. As a reminder, Brodie has ponied up a PACT frame and fork for our VCXC series. Deets on the Facebook Page. He also has no problem with a brandy-handup.

Photo from the series by Steve at Norco

Finally, for a last bit of callout, we were so deeply excited to get Beer Thirst on board for our races this year. they provided us enough beer to go two deep for each category, with beers from Green Flash, Elysian Brewing, Bear Republic and Alameda - check out where you can drink these now that we've given them all away.

For those of you jonesing for results, here are top 5 for each category. I will upload a condensed spreadsheet for full results as I can. These results are being forwarded to Jeff of Vancouver SuperPrestige to be counted towards the series points.

In order of race time:

Citizen:*(revised)

1. Brad Issel
2. Benjamin Schmidt
3. Brian Reguly
4. Colin Bell
5. Dale Rister

Men 3/4:

1. Troy Neale
2. Ted Martin
3. Ryan Cousineau
4. Warwick Peterson
5. John Sonnenchein

Open Women:

1. Mical Dyck - check out her awesome writeup of the race here.
2. Jean Ann Berkenpass
3. Kelly Jones
4. Steph Roorda
5. Beth Hartsoch

Master 3/4

1. Shawn Peterson
2. Regan Pringle
3. Dan Gronross
4. Robert Chew
5. Ray LaChance

Master 1/2

1. Bob Wellbourn
2. Kim Steed
3. Matt Drown
4. Graeme Martindale
5. Brad Collins

Single Speed (our first ever, thanks for the guys who came out and crushed!)

1. Ashley Stotts
2. Jay Showtime Loder
3. Robert Airey
4. Aaron Scally
5. Scott Sportsman

Men's Elite

1. Kevin Noiles
2. Kevin Calhoun
3. Sven Sturm
4. Mike Berkenpass
5. Matt Hornland

There are even more pictures from John Denniston here: http://www.johndenniston.ca/blogwp3/?p=2968

Thanks again to everyone that came out, ate some BBQ and Chili, and check back with Vancouver SuperPrestige to see where you stand throughout the season. The next BC race is Abottsford CX - September 15th - http://cyclocross.cyclingbc.net/ai1ec_event/abby-cx-bc-cup/?instance_id=15

Also be sure to check back for updated information on our next V.CX.X race New Brighton SuperPrestige on September 29th! It's a double header weekend with WCR/RedTruck Vanier CX on Sunday.

Keep the rubber side down.