Hallowe'en Races

Berlin, details here.


Minneapolis, MN, details here.


Brooklyn, NY


Boston, MA, details here.


Bakersfield, CA, details here.


Baltimore, MD, details here.


Ann Arbor, MI, details here.


Washington, D.C., detail here.


San Fransisco, CA, details here.


Burlington, VT, details here.

If you're running a Hallowe'en race or event, let us know and we'll add it to the list.

British Cycling Videos

Men's keirin from Revolution 29 last weekend. Bit of a weird race, this one, as the field looks well beaten by Kenny before Hoy destroys him right at the end...


British track national championship highlight. How fast is that men's team sprint!?!?


Halo British Downhill series, round 5. I would definitely die trying something like this.

Thanks to mindtron for the heads-up. Check out more videos on British Cycling's Vimeo page here.

Swamp Cross

Seeing as Tracko and Prolly have both recently posted vintage cyclocross stuff, I thought I'd better get on it too. Here's a vid from the 1987 Masters National Championships. That's a lot of mud!

Condor World Champ Series

Venerable UK frame company Condor Cycles have come up with a cool way to celebrate the 80th birthday of its founder, Monty Young. They are releasing a limited edition run of vintage style, lugged steel, World Champ stripe themed frames. In total, only 150 framesets will produced, in road or track versions, and each comes with a World Champ edition Selle San Marco Concor and matching bar tape. Nice.

Revolution 29

Revolution 29 just happened at the Manchester Velodrome, and TrackCycling was there to take a few photos. Great to see track racing happening in front of such a huge crowd. More photos here and report here.

Dutch Quarter Book

Pretty cool cover of a Dutch children's book about track cycling from the 1930s. These were apparently sold for a quarter, which is how they got their name. More images from the book and a lot of classic track cycling photos over at Erik Wiersma's excellent Flickr page.

Chicago Velo Campus

Now this would be amazing. A group of Chicago cyclists and sponsors are in the early stages of planning what would be a world class cycling campus for the Chicago area. The campus would include:

- State-of-the-art indoor 250m velodrome track
- Outdoor and indoor BMX tracks
- Outdoor and indoor mountain bike tracks
- Outdoor cyclocross track
- Triathlon training center
- Wind tunnel facility
- Olympic-size swimming pool
- Running track
- Fitness center
- Coaching and educational facility
- Olympic development program
- Youth, beginner, elite and masters programs
- Community center
- Physical therapy and sports medicine center
- Sports retail
- Cycling museum
- Restaurant and cafe
- Health and juice bar
- Commuter hub

Like I said, the plans are in the early stages, and I'm not sure if they have a site in mind yet, but it would be great to see something like this in the city. An indoor velodrome in particular would be incredible. Their website is here.

2011 Ritte Bosberg

Thanks to Cale for the heads up on the 2011 version of the Ritte Bosberg. So nice.

Carnage in Carpentersville

Chicago's cross season continues, and the race this weekend in Carpentersville was a blast. A lot of people endo'ing on the pump track! Photos by Bill Draper.

Team Pegasus Cross Race

CMWC 2012

Look at all these happy Chicago faces. It must be because the Cycle Messenger World Championships are going to be in Chicago in 2012!

Photo from Fyxomatosis.

[edit] I got the year wrong. It's Chicago 2012. Thanks for the heads-up!

Pain

Here's a photo of me "enjoying" cyclocross last weekend.
We're now three races into the Chicago Cross Cup, and I'm "loving" it.

Photo by Bill Draper.

Track Nats

Just wanted to say a big CONGRATS to our friend Val Brostrom (third from left) for getting a silver medal in the Madison at Track Nationals the other week! Go Val!

Hill Climbs

The Guardian has had a couple of interesting slideshows recently about hill climb races in the UK. The autumn is hill climb season there, and lots of cycling clubs around the country are currently running their historic races up steep hills, some with gradients of 25%. Check out their photos of the Catford Hill Climb here, and the Lancashire Hill Climb here. Photos by Christopher Thomond and Martin Godwin.

New Danny MacAskill Vid

Damn.

Lifecycles Movie Trailer

The Cyclocross Meeting in Chicago

Hey, Chicago, some good people have arranged for a special showing of the cross documentary The Cyclocross Meeting at the Music Box on October 25th at 7.30pm.

The film's director, Brian Vernon, and cross pro Barry Wicks will be there for a Q&A after the film. This is expected to sell out, so book your tickets in advance from brownpapertickets.com. See you there!

Here's the trailer: