Joe Cipale
How many of you who attended the OBRA Road Championships/Reharsal Race in Madras a few years back liked that course? Despite the nasty downpour the night before the Rehearsal date...
Joe
Ron and Dorothy Strasser wrote:
> Yeah!
> Evan... Now that you are a resident of Baker ( I still call it that because=
> they changed the name back to Baker City a few years back to get in touch =
> with their heritage... while I was growing up in Nyssa it was Baker), you =
> are getting a much better understanding of the great distances between popu=
> lation areas of the great Eastern part of our state. Don seems right about=
> moving the championships around and your idea of same day events may work =
> depending on what the promoter can pull off. In the meantime (now that you=
> have all that extra time you used to spend stuck in various types of large=
> population traffic jams here in the metro area...maybe you can figure out =
> a way to stage a great mountain bike race over in the Baker "City" area (or=
> John Day or LaGrande). About the same distance for riders to Ashland. Th=
> ere is plenty of area to find the venue. Now with that said, I do not want=
> you to feel pressured to promote a race, but what I hope is this gets you =
> riding a great deal around you new home "always looking for those options o=
> f singletrack, good areas to stage a start or finish and nice vistas to mak=
> e a climb worth the sweat. It was great seeing you at Chainbreaker even th=
> ough you were just a blur whizzing by.
> See you later,
> ron
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: Don Leet=20
> To: Evan MacKenzie ; obra@list.obra.org=20
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] State Champ races
>
>
> Actually last year state championship was Picketts charge not the Chainbr=
> eaker. One of the reasons the Chainbreaker may have had less participants (=
> I am not sure they did) is they choose not to be part of the Rivercity Seri=
> es. We at Picketts mulled it over and at the end decided to be part of the =
> series. I think in fairness to the whole state the state championships need=
> to move around with the Willamette Valley being the most commonly used are=
> a. World Championships use the same logic. Mainly in populated areas (Europ=
> e) and once in while someplace far away (New Zealand).=20
> Don Leet
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: Evan MacKenzie=20
> To: obra@list.obra.org=20
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:20 AM
> Subject: [OBRA Chat] State Champ races
>
>
> This may have been addressed before or after the Spring Thaw, and I KNO=
> W people were all over this list last year after the hillclimb champs at Mt=
> Ashland, but I'm going to add to the fire one more time.
>
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> I'm not concerned so much about out-of-staters racing in our state cham=
> p races, but I am concerned about Oregonians even being able to make it to =
> the race.
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> In the future, can we have State Championship races in a more central l=
> ocation? In fact, I would even recommend that we just have them all in the =
> Bend area. It's about as central as you can get in this state.=20
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> Ashland is an 8 =BD hour drive from Baker City.not much less from La Gr=
> ande and certainly not less from Ontario. That means racing in any race in =
> Ashland is pretty much a three-day commitment and 17 hours in the car from =
> out here on the east side. Uh, yeah, not going to happen.
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> Now I am not opposed to racing in Ashland. I did the Super D last year =
> and loved it (of course, that was when I lived in Portland). And I am in no=
> way suggesting the people down south reduce their local calendar. But.woul=
> d it be really tough to combine the XC and DH into one day so people travel=
> ing from far away could do both? Or.move the Spring Thaw to a later date an=
> d then do the Super D that day in the afternoon or the next day? Now that w=
> ould be worth driving for.
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> I also noticed that the crowd at the Chainbreaker last year was quite a=
> bit larger when it was the State Champ race. That's too bad, because it wa=
> s just as fun this year. Thanks to Web Cyclery for putting on a great race.=
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> Just my .02 for this morning.
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> -Evan
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> Evan MacKenzie
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> Baker City, OR 97814
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