Gonna be out and about Friday?

KC Sprints Home Opener 4, Saturday!!

I'm a little lagging in getting KC Sprints stuff done this year. I'm not sure why. I think a lot of it has to do with having no events before now. Well unless you count the debacle that was another attempt at having an event in Topeka.
We swear that town is cursed for us.

No worries. There is a chance to redeem ourselves this Saturday at the Buzzard Beach:



If you are a FaceBooker you can get all the details HERE but if you are at all familiar with how KC Sprints works (its pretty much classified as flying by the seat of our pants) you know the drill.

Tournament sign ups and Grudge Matches begin at 8 PM
Tournament racing begins at 9 PM
Tournament racers are racing for the chance to win prizes from our fabulous sponsors:
Twin Six, Surly, Eighth Inch, PBR, Urban Velo, All Hail the Black Market, Giro, Midwest Cyclery, Portland Design Works, and more!

For those of you that don't follow the KC Sprints blog, FB page or even just my stuff you may not know that this season Jones has taken upon himself, in his drunken boredom, to design our posters.
Granted the first one was more due to our "commissioned artist" taking his sweet time to get the poster ready. Jones got a bit anxious and started doodling. This was the result:

 

Realistically, considering the drunken state of the artist (or just the artist), its not too bad.
You can see the inspiration for Jones' creation in all its gruesome glory on his Flickr page.
Blah.
Pretty sure Corky will never live down being our "go to" puker at KC Sprints events.
I think she has puked at every event she has been at.

Example 1
Example 2
Example 3

We love her all the same though. How can we not? She takes our slogan seriously.




See you all Saturday night. Perhaps it will be your chance to use the bucket.

KC Sprints: In our book everyone is a winner But only some of you will get prizes...

I decided to revamp my prize picks for KC Sprints @ Buzzard Beach Friday night.
Realized I got a little carried away and we'll still need to have some prizes for future races.
But we have some pretty sweet stuff up for grabs for the fastest of the fast.

The top 3 in the Men's and Women's classes of the tournament racing on Friday at Buzzard Beach will win...


Oh you would like to know wouldn't you?
But we aren't telling.
What we will tell you is that Friday nights prize package contains items from Surly, Giro, Eighth Inch, Twin Six, Portland Design Works, CycleOps, GhostShip, UrbanVelo, Broadway Coffee & PBR
It has an approximate retail value of... $525!
And thats not too shabby considering all we want from you is $5 and a little bit of sweat.
OK, a lot of sweat.

Extra bonus!!
We are also having a raffle.
What could you win? This one we'll tell you.
A brand spanking new set of CycleOps Aluminium Rollers!



These rollers have a $280 value!
Raffle tickets will be $5.
The more times you play the better chance you have of winning.
So be sure and buy up those raffle tickets!
You must be present to win.
So no slinking off thinking that you'll get a phone call if you win.
You aren't there, you don't win.
Simple as that.
We'll do drawings until we'll find someone that still there.

So lets review:
Friday night
Buzzard Beach
KC Sprints
8 PM tournament sign ups & Grudge Matches begin
9 PM tournament begins
Men's and Women's brackets
Prizes for top 3 of both classes
$525 in prizes available for the wining
Raffle for CycleOps Rollers
$5 for raffle tickets
Must be present to win

See you Friday night!

Just a little reminder about Friday's fun

Tonight I started putting together the prizes for the Men's and Women's 1st, 2nd, & 3rd places of the tournament for KC Sprints at Buzzard Beach Friday.
A little something for the best Grudge Match of the night
And we are considering a SWEET grand prize for the best overall sprint time of the night.
We've got some really good stuff.
You'll be missing out if you aren't there.

Tournament sign up and Grudge Matches start at 8 PM.
The tournament starts at 9 PM.
Tournament is $5
Grudge Matches are $2 per racer.

So go do Critical Mass at 630 then come on over to Buzzard Beach all warmed up and ready to race.
Or just to have a beer, cheer on your friends & heckle your enemies.
What ever you decide its gonna be a good night and you should be there.

See you Friday!

On tap for the weekend

Its finally here.
The KC Cup weekend at the Swope Park Trails
Cyclocross (Saturday) and cross country mountain bike (Sunday) action back to back over two days.
I rode the CX course last night and its a hoot. They make use of the new short track course that was installed for the Thursday Night Throwdown. So lots of single track to really please the CX roadie set.
I'll be doing the CX race this year. I'm considering racing twice.
I can do the Master's 30+ race at 11AM on my geared CX and then the single speed race @ 1PM on... well my single speed.
Hopefully I get further in than the first lap before I flat like I did last year.
I'm blowing off the MTN race on Sunday. I just haven't logged any time on my 29er this year. I was the same way last year but did the race. Ended up so frustrated that I blew my top and pitched the 29er into the woods. Not the best tactic.
I'm not much of a MTN racer anyway. I prefer to cruise along with frequent stops.
However, I should be attending the event as a spectator to cheer & heckle the racers. Maybe I'll even bring some beers.

That is of course that I'm alive after the Pub 'N Pedal 4 gets done with me Saturday night.

Straight from the FaceBook event page:
Free to all who come out and register to race!!!

Once again I should tell you that this is a free bicycle race photo scavenger hunt pub crawl. I will not ask any money from you but the final bar requires $2 per racer to be donated to the staff. This will allow you to drink from a FREE keg (as long as it has something in it).

• Registration begins at 7pm in the old OSCO Drug parking lot at Westport RD and Main St
• Race begins at 8pm
• Teams of 1-4 people
• You are not required to drink on this ride
• One digital camera per team to take photos of objects off the manifest


Need more info? Check out http://www.kcsprints.blogspot.com/ or http://www.candycranks.com/

So there is the planned weekend in a nut shell.
It fall, its gonna be a beautiful weekend, get out there and do something with it.