De grootste race van het seizoen!
CX season isn’t quite over yet!
Flatlandia presents:
2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
Lively, delayed coverage starting at 3:00 pm at:
The Globe Pub
1934 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago, IL 60613
Extensive beer list*
Post race entertainment:
Mud wrestling between Barry Wicks and Ben Popper**
*Confirmed by several beer snobs/enthusiasts.
**Unconfirmed as of this post.
Thursday CCC Updates
Just a few updates for your post-humpday, snowy morning internets reading.
- Did we mention anything about the CCC awards banquet this Sunday at EJ’s Place? Tickets are on sale through midnight tonight, but we’ll still be letting people in at the door. However, please help us out and pre-purchase your tickets… look at all of the great people who already did!
- Schwag continues to come in for door prizes. New additions include Craft apparel, Look mtb CX pedeals, CX DVDs, saddles, tyres, cable sets, CX apparel, and more. Let’s put it this way… everyone will probably want to bring a shopping bag… and if you’re a woman and placed within the top five of either the 1/2/3’s or the 4’s… you’re pretty much guaranteed some sort of prize.
- We’ve seen some screen shots of the ChiCrossPhoto coffee table books and they’re coming together nicely. Our local CX paparazzi will be taking orders at the banquet and may have some page samples too.
- For those closet roadies out there the organizers of the Glencoe Grand Prix put together a nice picture book as well. Check it out and order yours on blurb.
- Here in the states CX season is pretty much done, but there are a few races still to be had. Team Mack hosts the Tour de Groundhog near St. Louis Springfield on February 21st. Across the pond however the Euros are still going strong. Local Flemish/Dutch interpreter Ted Berger points us to www.Sproza.be and NathanSpear.com to watch all the action. In a nutshell, “Laatste roonde… are last lap videos. Verslag… are video summaries of the race.”
- And finally… due to several requests, at this Sunday’s party we’ll be making call-ups to the buffet line… categories and call-up order TBD…
Welcome Back
Since nearly all of us are hunkered down and inside watching the Internets due to the less than friendly cycling temperatures outside, here are a few weekend updates to get your new year started right!
- We at the CCC hope you all had a great holiday season and can’t wait to see you all at the annual awards banquet. The banquet will be held on Sunday January 10th from noon until 4pm at EJ’s place in Skokie. Please make sure to pre-purchase you tickets on BikeReg.com as this will help us make sure there is enough food and seats to go around.
- We’re still finalizing the schwag list, but as of right now we have the following items to hand out as awards and door prizes: CX Magazine subscriptions, Troy Lee Designs gear, Gore RideOn Cables, UberTunes from MOX Multisport, Trek apparel, Fizik Bar Tape, Courage Bicycles Apparel, CyclocrossWorld.com gift certificates, Craft apparel, Challenge Grifo tubular tyres, Mad Alchemy Embrocation, Sheila Moon apparel, Deuter hydration bags, Kenda tires, a SRAM Force grouppo, Blue NorCross framesets, and more. And as always… every series winner receives a custom Chicago Cyclocross Cup series cowbell so you can do more of this.
- We’ll also have the IL State CX Champion jerseys at the banquet. If you’ll be unable to attend please let us know and we’ll get your jersey out to you.
- Don’t forget to pre-order your copy of the 2009 CCC coffee table book to avoid shipping costs. All proceeds go to WBR. While they won’t be ready in time for the banquet we think its safe to say everyone is eagerly waiting to see what these books will look like.
- Need more CX sooner rather than later? Team Mack will be hosting their 23rd annual Tour de Groundhog on Sunday February 21st near St. Louis. This is a great event with a long history and all proceeds go to charity. Find a carpool ride on CBR.
- It might not be CX, but two cross heavy local Chicago shops are playing bikes insides. Check out Johnny Sprockets Gold Sprints on Thursdays and Iron Cycles Iron Training Center Grand Opening this Saturday.
- Snow may be on the ground here in Chicago, but that doesn’t mean lots of CCC’ers aren’t still riding offroad. Check out our friends over at TheBoneBell.com for updates on all the local dirtbagging action. And if you can’t wait to get back on the road (to of-course work on your fitness for the 2010 CCC), IllinoisCycling.org and ChicagoBikeRacing.com are your go-to sources.
- We still have a few CCC t-shirts that were ordered by not picked up. If you bought a t-shirt online and didn’t get it, please email us at ChicagoCrossCup@gmail.com to arrange a hand-up. We’ll have the shirts at the banquet too and you can pick them up there. Please don’t make us store these shirts until next season.
- We also still have a bunch of clothing and gear that a few of you left at races over the season. If you’re missing a thermal jacket, jersey, gloves, sunglasses, etc we probably have them. Please contact us at ChicagoCrossCup@gmail.com to arrange a time/place for us to return your stuff. All left overs will be brought to the banquet on the 10th and anything left over after that will be donated to the Salvation Army.
- Want to get rid of some 2009 gear or pickup some new/used gear on the cheap. Two bike swaps are happening soon. The Chicago Winter Bike Swap will be held at Harper College on Saturday January 16th, and for those a little further North, Brazen Dropouts will hold their swap in Madison, WI on Saturday January 9th.
- And finally… the CCC is looking for a little help in 2010. If you’d like to be part of the team in anyway (website, organization, announcing, etc) please email us at ChicagoCrossCup@gmail.com to get involved!
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t forget to pre-purchase your tickets for the awards banquet next Sunday. So far there aren’t too many of you who have RSVP’d… and we want to have a big party (bacon & Twinkie are optional). So sign up and let’s have a grand ole’ time.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of your CCC’ers out there!!!
What will be under your tree?
We have a pretty good idea… http://chicrossphoto.com/
As promised 3 local photographers (Liz Farina Markel, Luke Seemann, & Chip Williams) have put together a fantastic coffee table book to celebrate the 2009 CCC.
The books will measure 10 x 8 inches with 120 full-color pages. All profits from the project will go directly to World Bicycle Relief. Pre-order by 1/15/10 to skip the shipping charges! After that, books will be available only through the Blurb print-on-demand service with a $7 shipping charge.
As noted on the site, pre-ordered books will NOT be shipped to you. Instead, The Pony Shop in Evanston has generously offered to hold the books for us. You can pick your book(s) up at the shop, and while you’re at it maybe strike up a conversation with a cross-crazy shop owner (and not a bad racer himself). Pre-ordered books will be available for pick-up at The Pony Shop by early February (we’ll post an update when they arrive). If you’d prefer not to or can’t travel all the way up to Evanston, wait for the books to be available directly through Blurb.
Happy Holiays!
Thursday CX Video
Lots of Nationals videos all over the place. CyclingDirt and CXMagazine have a bunch and a simple search on YouTube brings up more than a few… so we won’t embed any here.
Also, this was forwarded to us as a great way to waste plenty of holiday hours.
But this time of year is truly the season of giving. We recently announced we’ll be donating $3,400 to World Bicycle Relief thanks to all of you that made donations and bought t-shirts. That’s enough for over 50 bikes. So many of you are probably wondering where all of the those bikes go and who actually rides them? The video below is a small example of how the children of Zambia share their thanks with us and everyone else who donates to WBR. There are many more great WBR videos here and here. Thanks again to everyone who helped out this year and have a great holiday season no matter where or how you spend it!
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