The Surf City Cyclo-X Series returned to Harbor High for the first race of the season. And with this venue came all the tricks and treats weâve come to expect. Fast bumpy grass, the tour of the hallways, technical twisty trails, and the evil dusty âwalk-upâ. The SCCX crew always puts together a fun time and this was no exception. ...
The Surf City Cyclo-X Series is a upon us and with it comes the annual Halloween Costume Race! Very spooky serious racing going here. Cheers! More info here: cyclo-x.com/
The sky finally opened and unleashed the moisture that has been withheld from NorCal for oh so long. And the parched earth drank it up in greedy gulps. Throughout the cyclocross world sighs of joy arose and then chants of âThere will be mudâ. âThere will be mudâ. And mud there was! Feast your eyes on the muck and mire of NorCal racing at the Surf City Cyclo-X finals. Held at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville, a venue quite worthy of this event. The Surf City crew dished up a tough course. Even more so when raced on a single-speed (oh I am a fool). ...
The Surf City crew pulled us up on to the top of the mountain to race at the CAL FIRE Training Center. Last yearâs race at this venue was dry and dusty! Lucky for us that it rained earlier in the week and the conditions were far better. Still some dust kicking up later in the day but overall the conditions were good. The sun didnât want to participate though. Overcast and chilly most of the day. Good when racing but tough before and after. ...
This was the first race of the three race Surf City Cyclo-X series. Aptos High School kindly offered up their grounds for the venue. Always a great location with a tricky mix of terrain. Especially so for the singlespeed racers as you will see in this video. Riding too big of gears meant paying a painful price. Luckily the fun course made up for that. ...
The first race of the Surf City Cyclo-X Series brings us back to Aptos High School for a spooky good time. Being so near to Halloween, the day included a costume race as well as a kiddy race with even more costumes. Surrounding those events were the hard core no costume events. And hard core was what this course was about. There were the familiar features but some new tricky sections had been tossed in. One of which caused many hearts to peak out and legs to seize up. That would be the killer sandy run-up. Ouch! ...
This was the final race of the 2013 Surf City Cyclo-X series. Once again the series returned to Aptos High School and a Ben J-M designed course. He turned out a tough, technical, but extremely fun course. Watch the Masters 45+ A Men test out their legs for the first lap of their race. ...
The Surf City crew wrangled up a new venue way up in the hills above Santa Cruz. There they found the CAL FIRE Training Facility along Empire Grade Road. The course wound its way in and around the facility on gravel roads, dirt roads, single-track, and freshly graded field. Those freshly graded sections turned into dust baths for all. Not a face wasnât plastered with layers of brown after rolling through the finish. But it was all worth it as the course offered up plenty of action and made for some fast hard racing. ...
The Surf City crew wrangled up a new venue way up in the hills above Santa Cruz. There they found the CAL FIRE Training Facility along Empire Grade Road. The course wound its way in and around the facility on gravel roads, dirt roads, single-track, and freshly graded field. Those freshly graded sections turned into dust baths for all. Not a face wasnât plastered with layers of brown after rolling through the finish. But it was all worth it as the course offered up plenty of action and made for some fast hard racing. ...
Surf City Cyclo-X is near and dear to me since itâs once of the first series I raced cyclocross. For this 2nd race of the 2013 season the series returns to Harbor High in Santa Cruz. This venue offers a good combination of terrain types and elevations which adds up to a challenging but fun course. ...