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Coaster Brake Challenge Purpose: To have fun, to race, to sweat, breathe hard, to ride hard, to challenge ones self. This is the anti-race race. Don't kid yourself it's hard, you may crash or puke (or both) but we are down for the fun and camaraderie more than the podium. Well, there is no podium but I think you get the point. We will be hosting 4 Sunday races in the month of July. Each race will have a meet point at 5pm and race at 5:30 or so. Most races will be short 1 to 2 hour affairs. Meet points and descriptions of each race will be posted so you know what to expect. If you want you can go check out the courses ahead of time, not that you need to but if your really need to know you can. This race series is open to all comers. Men, women, kids, we don't discriminate. Come with a smile and leave with a smile (and perhaps an impressive scar.) Race dates: July 4th, 11th, 18th, &25th. 2010. We'll have three new courses this time! A note on races: Spectators: Some of these races are fun to watch and can be easily accessible for speciation. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being best the ability to spectate will be rated. Meat Pylons: We're not the only ones out there people, so you will need to yield to horses and peds as best you can. The higher the number, the more Meat Pylons you'll have to deal with. Ride safe and be respectful of others. On hot days, expect the number to be lower. It should be hot. Bring water, you'll need it. Course #1: The Doggie Run. Meet point: July 4th Starbucks 18100 Chatsworth St. Suite E Granada Hills, CA 91344 5 pm. Spectators: 9 Meat Pylons: 5 75% single track with some poorly paved sections. Slight uphill on first half of the course and then undulating single track on the way back. The back side single track is very narrow so pass with care. Each lap is about 1 1/4 miles long, we'll be doing ten laps. There are a series of jumps at the back end so watch out for them. I know it's on the 4th so this is the easiest course out of the bunch as we'll most likely be full of bb-q. Race #2 The Eagle Has Landed Meet point: Very south end of Reseda Blvd at the top. July 11th 5 PM Spectators: 3 Meat Pylons: 7 The entirety of this course is on fire roads. The course has a fair share of accents and descents. Several steep climbs and sweeping curves, most of the course is easy to handle. You'll be taking the dirt road to a gate an d hanging a left towards the hub. Once you climb to the hub you'll take the tail to the upper right to the eagle rock loop. The back side of the eagle rock loop has a tricky decent so be careful, it will dump you back on the dirt fire road then you'll do a 180 and head back towards the hub and return to the start point. The total length is about 7 1/4 miles long. Course #3 Sewer Sortie Spectators: 8 Meat Pylons: 3 Meet point : Sunday July 18th 5pm. Apollo II Model Aircraft Field, San Fernando Valley, Woodley Ave Drive all the way to the end. View Larger Map We'll be parking at the model airplane field and then taking a short ride through some single track to get to the start point. Travel light. Mostly flat, some sandy sections and gravel roads with a tight single track section in the middle of the course, this will be the fastest course in the bunch. You start by going around the perimeter of the course on a dirt road, once you make it 2/3 of the way around you'll dive into a tight single track section. It will be easy to get lost one this section as there are many ways to go, the correct path will be marked but you'll still have to pay attention. Once out of the single track section, you go through the tunnel and make a left on the bike path to complete the loop. Each lap is around 1.25 miles, we'll be doing 10 laps. You may want to have harder gearing, wear gloves and perhaps a long sleeves shirt at the plant matter is tall and will be really dry and scratchy come summer time. Race #4 Suburban Blight Meet point 5 pm, July 25th ALISO CANYON PARK East of Reseda between Sesnon on Rinaldi Northridge, CA 91326 Meet at the entrance to the park on Rinaldi, east of Reseda Blvd.. View Larger Map Description: This will be a fast paced loop that we'll do 5 times. Most of the course if fairly flat with a few up hill sections and stream crossings. The first leg is narrow single track that dumps on a wider path where you can go all out to pass people. The trail turn points will be marked by florescent flags as it will be easy to get lost. Most of the single track is nearly overgrown from lack of use, the brush is tall so you will get scraped up a bit. I recommend bigger chain rings (34-42 teeth) for this one as you'll be doing a small amount of climbing and have plenty of opportunity for sprinting. You'll have several stream crossings on the single track section and a few short, steep climbs on the back side of the oval. One section of the single track dumps you back on wide trail, DO NOT TAKE THE WIDE TRAIL, the single track hooks right back, look for the flags and follow the course. If you get lost and fail to complete all 5 laps correctly, you'll get one point for participating and that's it. Spectators 7 Meat pylons 7 Expect unleashed dogs, people and perhaps a horse or two. If it's hot we should have full use but be careful. |
| Date: | Sunday, July 4, 2010 |
| Time: | 5:00pm-7:00pm PDT |
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Created by: | Paul De Valera |
| Updated: | Monday, June 21, 2010 4:52am GMT |
| Event URL: | www.atomiccycles.com |
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| Event Contact: | Paul |
| Contact Email: | rev106@yahoo.com |
| Contact Telephone: | 818 609-0113 |