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2015 Surf City Cyclo-X Series Race 1 - Single-Speed A

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 05:13:46 +0000

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 we’ve come to expect. Fast bumpy grass, the tour of the hallways, technical twisty trails, and the evil dusty “walk-up”. The SCCX crew always puts together a fun time and this was no exception.

2015 Surf City Cyclo-X Series Race 1 - Halloween Costume Race

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 05:38:33 +0000

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/

2014 Surf City Cyclo-X Series Race 3 Open Singlespeed

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 02:35:25 +0000

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 ‘There will be mud’. ‘There will be mud’. 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).

2014 Surf City Cyclo-X Series Race 2 Open Singlespeed

Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:28:56 +0000

The Surf City crew pulled us up on to the top of the mountain to race at the CAL FIRE Training Center. Last year’s 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 didn’t want to participate though. Overcast and chilly most of the day. Good when racing but tough before and after.

2014 Surf City Cyclo-X Race 1 - Open Singlespeed

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 06:15:06 +0000

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.

2014 Surf City Cyclo-X Series Race 1

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:11:54 +0000

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!

2013 Surf City Cyclo-X Series Race 4 - M45A

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:16:18 +0000

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.

2013 Surf City Cyclo-X Race 3 - Singlespeed A Video

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:44:31 +0000

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 wasn’t 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.

2013 Surf City Cyclo-X Race 3 - Masters 45 A Men Video

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:11:34 +0000

2013 Surf City Cyclo-X Race 2 Video

Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:50:58 +0000

Surf City Cyclo-X is near and dear to me since it’s 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.

2012 Surf City CX Race 3 - Singlespeed A Men Video

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:30:37 +0000

Last race of the 2012 Surf City Cyclocross series. Signed up for the single-speed race and got myself whooped. Steam must be running out after two days of racing. Still, it was a fun, sloppy course with some very tricky sections. And three evil slick run-ups that were the nails on the coffin for me.

2001 Surf City Cyclo-X Race 1

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:04:20 +0000

A blast from the NorCal cyclocross past.

Here are two videos from race #1 of the 2001 Surf City Cyclocross series. This was also my first cyclocross race and had no idea what I was getting into. But I bellied up and used my hard tail mountain bike to thrash about the course. All the blame for forcing my into this crazy world can be placed on my fellow SyCip teammates. Especially that Lauren trouble maker!

2001 Surf City Cyclo-X Race 3 Video

Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:07:00 +0000

The 3rd Surf City Cyclo-X race was held at the Santa Cruz Fairgrounds in Watsonville, CA last weekend. I once again braved the masses and filmed the Masters 35+ “A” race. Watch me suffer. Watch the poor mountain biker get dropped on the flats. Curses to all those cyclocross bikes! :')

Cheers!

2001 Surf City Cyclo-X Race 2 Video

Sat, 27 Oct 2001 03:50:00 +0000

I recently purchased a helmet camera so that I could capture some of the riding and racing I do. Here is a video that I captured at the Surf City Cyclo-X race in Monterey, CA. The video is of the first lap from the Senior Men’s B race.

Cheers!