2008 Season Highlight Video

Getting excited about the 2009 cyclocross season? We sure are. Check out our brand new video featuring highlights from the five races we put on last fall.

Six months to go, and I’m up at night thinking about the course

We have scoped out the course for the Lonestar Cyclocross Festival - since we are staging out of the stunning East Metro Pavillion, the races will vary somewhat from the Manor Mahem race in 2008. Expect 80% of the course to be visible from the porch or the pier off the pavillion, including a run up, a sand section, barriers, and the always entertaining “Splash Down.” The course will still feature a nice long paved start, and a healthy dose of concrete path recovery sections, along with some wicked off-camber turns, and the occassional cactus. The faux-barrier run-up and the basketball court are out for this year, and we are giving the fisherman on the small pond a wide berth.

Texas Cyclocross Festival

Taking Cyclocross in Texas to the next level: The Texas Cyclocross Festival, January 17-18 2010 at Travis County East District Park in Manor. A stunning course, only minutes from downtown Austin, with professional facilities and great racing. Check out last year’s course map HERE and a video of the race here:

Help send bicycles to Africa

Here’s a good cause that you might want to know about. One of our favorite charities, World Bicycle Relief, is conducting a special appeal called DOUBLEbikeMATCH. Every dollar you give will be doubled by a generous donor.

So why not make ‘em dig deep?

You give $10, they give $10. You send a whole bike ($134 - seriously, isn’t that insane?), the angel gives one, too. That can really add up with all our friends, and the donations will help people provide healthcare, find food and water and more.

If you’re into it, go to this site (created by our website partners, Stalelife, Inc) and give a donation. They make nice gifts, too.

LCS Season Wrap-up, Results

The first annual Lone Star Cyclocross Series wrapped up this weekend with Diablo Del Valle. The course was a punishing one, with a killer section traversing a hill multiple times, a fun romp through the forest, and our first circle of despair.

Thanks to all the riders who came out and raced this year, and their family and friends who came out to cheer them on or hand out waterbottles, albeit with mixed success. Click around the site and check out some of our sponsors, buy yourself a reward for the series if you didn’t an award. Speaking of awards,

Congratulations to our season series winners:

Mens C              Chris Moore
Womens C          Betty Hodges
Mens B               Eric Jordan
Womens B          Betty Hodges
Mens 35-45       Kelly Kerby
Womens 35-45  Jen Joy
Mens 45-55       Rob Abell
Mens 13-17      Christopher Willemsen
Mens 55+          John Bartle
Singe Speed      David Boulton
Womens A         Jen Joy
Mens A              Bryan Fawley

We’ll be back next year. Bigger. Better. Slightly older and more world-wise.

LCS #5 Diablo Del Valle

The final chapter of the innaugural Lonestar Cyclocross series will be written this weekend on the fields of Del Valle. It’ll be a fast one, with long straighaways interupted by barriers, a runup, uturns and zig-zags. It’s a good course for beginners, so give your roadie friends a nudge and a wink.

Location,  tasty details.

It’s the last chance to make a run for those season standings and score some sweet swag. Payout is three deep in the open race, and five deep for the season standings.

You know how after every race you just want to do it again the next day? Well now you can; check out the Webberville Cross race put on by Violet Crown on Sunday.  Then a rest day, then Dirt Derby action. It’s cross racing in central Texas. It’s a good thing.

Overall Results Updated and New Video

Check ‘em out and come on out and race this Saturday — it’s the last race in the series which is going to be rocking awesome (I’m psychic that way).

AustinCross Presented by Mellow Johnny’s Results

…are posted!  Thanks to everyone for coming out - we had our biggest B Race field to date, a great course, and great weather. The Vets were excited to have the entertainment and happy to have so many of you support their cause. Travis County Parks once again were extremely accommodating, and the event ran incredibly smoothly with hundreds of other park users sharing the property with us. Congrats to Scott Henry (Trek Volkswagon) for laying the wood on the Open Race, though Keiran Sikdar (Jens Ice Cream) was not far back, and, I’m pretty sure is not leading the season standings. Stephan Rothe rounded out the podium. Eric Jordan (Lone Star Racing) won the Bs (and beat me in the As) followed by Rey “I’m not Joey Machado” Madolora (Ozone) and David Parker (Solar Eclipse). Rob Abell won the 45+, Kyle Rodemacher (Austin Bikes) won Single Speeds, Mark Wiggans (Colonels) won 35+, George Heaggerty won 55+, Jen Joy (Cycle Progression) won 35+ women. In the Beginner race it was Ed Briggs (Bike City) and Betty Hodges (Wooly Mammoth).  Again, thanks a ton, and if you did not pick up one of our awesome long sleeve race shirts, swing by Mellow Johnny’s to get one.

AustinCross presented by Mellow Johnny’s

Pirate Race Productions teams with Mellow Johnny’s to bring another awesome ‘cross race to the heart of Texas. The pavillion pass is back with a twist, a run-up, vollyeball court, barriers, off-camber turns, and passes under an historic truss bridge. It’s everything you’ve always been looking for in a cross race, you just need to pull the trigger and make a date of it.

The LiveStrong Challenge is in Austin this weekend, so it’s a huge weekend for cycling, it’s a huge weekend for cross, it’s the last weekend before daylight savings time switches over, and it’s the last Lonestar Cyclocross race before the election, what other reasons do you need? Oh yeah, awesome weather.

Pre-reg by Wednesday at 7.00, save a 5 dollar bill. Course location, yummy details.

While you’re here, swing on over to the results and check the season standings to see how you stand. Swag for winners in all the categories. Mark the people ahead of you, keep an eye on those below.

Show up Saturday, feel the burn, leave wanting more.

Manor Mayhem results are posted

Thanks to all for coming out and throwing down at what may be regarded as the best cyclocross course in Texas. We will have season standings (and a pithy race report) up in a day or so - don’t forget that we are paying out FIVE deep in the A season standings, and we have custom Italian-made Capoforma season champions jerseys for EVERY class.  See you Saturday at AustinCross Presented by Mellow Johnnys Bike Shop - it promises to be epic!