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The Thanksgiving Day MTB ride is back again!

This year, the turnout will be surely dwarf the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, at least in attitude.

The ride this year is at the most excellent Teventrails in Earlysville, which is located here: http://tinyurl.com/yek57l8

We had a great Thanksgiving morning ride, with 23 riders and one dog joining together for a good time. The chilly foggy morning cleared up almost immediately as Dave T led the group out.
There were all abilities present, with a few kids under 10, including my son Nick and the Ramsey’s son Jasper, and many grown ups acting like kids.

For a number of years, CRC held a really fun Thanksgiving Day mtb ride at Panorama Farm. After Panorama closed, the ride kind of fizzled out.

However, the ride is being revived this year at the most excellent Teventrails in Earlysville, which is located here: http://tinyurl.com/yek57l8

C’ville Bike & Tri will be holding the 13th Annual Bike & Gear Swap & Sale on Saturday Sept 6th, 2008 from 8am to 6pm, and Sunday, Sept 7th from 11am to 5 pm.

Details at www.cvillebike.com

Bring in your used bikes and gear Weds thru Friday and tag it with your best price. If your stuff sells, you get 100% of the sales price in store credit towards anything new!

Plus EVERTHING in the store is on sale:

• All Specialized, Giant & Time bikes on sale!

• All rental road & mountain bikes are on sale!

I’ve got a complete 2008 Shimano Ultegra SL (the new, lighter version that is pewter color) drivetrain that I swapped off a new bike, which contains the following:

• 172.5mm Ultegra SL crankset – compact 50/34 chainrings (BB not included)
• Ultegra SL rear derailleur
• Ultegra SL front derailleur 35.0 clamp

• Ultegra SL 10sp shifters- these have the Dura Ace internals for super accurate shifting

This is a great way to convert your bike to a compact drivetrain, plus save some weight and improve shifting. Everything is new – never ridden.

Congratulations to all 200+ riders who came out to conquer the mountain! Weather was great, if a little breezy, but the mountain took its toll on all comers! Well done!

Full results here!

There will be some pictures posted on Monday as well…

The biggest baddest hillclimb of them all is coming up this weekend. The lucky 200+ riders who get to compete have their start times here: 2008 Wintergreen Start List by Cat and Name.pdf

...at last week’s Saturday ride. So don’t be ‘fraid. Join the club.

Well, in my years of racing, I don’t think I’ve had the privilege to ride in such awful weather as today.

It was of course cold- 30’s somewhere. But around an hour before race time, it started to snow and sleet. A lot. But because the roads had been warmed by the sun last week, nothing was sticking. The roads were wet, the sky gray, the air cold. Oh joy. (more)