CORAween Night Ride and Campout

I just wanted to pass this along.

When: Friday October 30, 2009
Where: The Haunted Mitchell Memorial Forest



You are invited to CORA's second Halloween party and the first EVER night ride at Mitchell Memorial Forest. Riding will be permitted from 8-11pm and you must be 18 years or older to ride. A hold harmless agreement must be signed prior to riding. We will also camp in the Pine Meadow area (across the street and up the hill from the Tall Pines Trailhead parking lot) and have refresments and tell ghost stories around the campfire. All ages are welcome to camp, but under 18 must be accompanied by a guardian.

If the trails are too wet to ride, we will still camp unless it's a washout.

Visit the CORA Forum for the latest info.

Hope to see you there.

Air 9 Carbon Frameset Giveaway

FYI: The folks over at 918XC or KNOTB (New Kids On The Block) as they call themselves are giving away a Niner Air 9 Frameset.

Air 9 Carbon Frameset Giveaway

Since we are the New Kids and don't have near enough friends yet, we are running a little promotion to buy your love.

Every person that registers on our site will be entered in a drawing for a 2010 Niner Air9 Carbon frame set. The drawing will take place once the frames are available. Niner is giving us an ETA of March 2010.
The lucky winner will be able to choose which size/color they would like.

What do you have to do to enter? Just click "Register" in the top right of the screen and create an account. Once the winning name is drawn, we will contact you with the great news.

I have. Have you?

Here is how.

This Just In

OMBC has posted the standings going into Sunday's Series Finale. Currently I am in 17 place.



I don't know what I expected for my first season in the Sport Class. But I do feel a little disappointed. I am not sure why. Is it due to being the last name on the list or is not being in the Top 10?

Mainly reason is since last year I had a Top 5 finish and came into this season with a full charge. I had the full support of Trek Store Cincinnati behind me and I was ready to make a full charge at continuing success.

I am not a making excuses but I did only do the mandatory 5 of 12 races so that is going to hurt. I don't have the luxury of trowing away my poor races (which I did have).

I would like to say "THANK YOU" to all my sponsors and my wife for helping with this season. I am looking forward to moving a successful 2010 OMBC and faster times at Big Frog 65, Mohican 100k and maybe adding the WVMBA Ultra Endurance Series too.

"Race Across The Sky - Leadville Trail 100"

Looking for something to do now that it is dark at 8:00?

On October 22nd, experience a One Night Event in movie theatres nationwide featuring the debut of “Race Across the Sky” – a documentary covering the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 bike race, one of the most intense endurance races of all time - and candid conversations with Lance Armstrong, Chris Carmichael, Dave Wiens, and other elite and amateur cyclists who overcame extreme challenges to participate in this grueling race.

Race Across the Sky – Leadville Trail 100, featuring Lance Armstrong, Dave Wiens and other elite and amateur cyclists on October 22nd at 8:00pm ET/ 7:00pm CT/ 6:00pm MT/ with tape delay to 8:00pm PT.

What is the Leadville Trail 100?

For many, it will be the most difficult race of their lives. For some, a bragging right to say they raced alongside the best in the world. Some imagine victory. Most hope only to finish. But everyone will count.

The race that started 25 years ago as a running race to drive tourism in Leadville has now grown to a lottery cap of 1000+ competitors, many of them the world’s most elite cyclists. But the Leadville Trail 100 "Race Across the Sky" Mountain Bike Race is not just a race of man against man: it’s man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. elements, man vs. time. A clock set for 12 grueling hour’s slugs through 100 miles, over 14,000 vertical feet of climbing, some two miles above sea level, through extreme climate changes ranging from heat to hail, from rain to snow. To the racers, the risks of injury, fatigue and mechanical failure pale next to the chance that they will fall behind the 12 hour cut off mark and be eliminated.

Rivalries include six-time defending champion Dave Wiens vs. international star / seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Inspirational stories of human triumph include a Leadville woman rider who was critically injured by a car while training for last year’s race, another who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and 45+ rider who has raced all 15 years.

Whether they’re international stars of the sport or everyday folks with the will to finish a race whose difficulty is on par with the Ironman, the grit to push to their own physical and emotional limits strikes an elegant symmetry between racer and environment and a struggling former mining town whose very existence now relies on the tourism generated by this race.

Click here for a list of participating theatres.