In addition to some exciting low key racing and holiday festivities this will be their coming-out party for the Sacramento Valley Velodrome Project.
The set up is the Goldsprints style roller racing. You ride on my bikes with forkmounts and flat pedals with toe clips. It's really easy. Everyone that rides a bike should try it. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes. The races only last 10-20 seconds depending on the format. Time permitting, they may run some kilo's and grudge matches at the end of the night for giggles.
A $5 donation to the cause would be gratefully appreciated.
Sign-ups will begin at 5PM (1811 E Street, Sacramento, CA)
As always juniors race for free, but must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
Racing will start at 6PM. All racers will do a 250m time trial.
They'll bracket a maximum of the 16 fastest men and 16 fastest women, then run sudden death elimination rounds.
The first 40 to sign-up will get a free spoke card.
All you need to bring is your mojo!
Feel free to direct any questions to dino@biketrailsavage.com
TO MOVE THINGS ALONG THERE IS ONLY 2-3 MINUTES BETWEEN RACES SO IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST TO KNOW YOUR SADDLE HEIGHT MEASURED FROM THE CENTER OF THE BOTTOM BRACKET SPINDLE UP THE SEAT TUBE TO THE TOP OF THE SADDLE. INCHES OR CENTIMETERS ARE FINE.
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Velodrome more than a dream?
By Matt Peters -- Sacramento Bee Correspondent
(Published Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002)
The dream has gone 'round and 'round inside the heads of local cyclists for many years.
But the dream is inching ever closer to reality, meaning that within the next couple of years cyclists from around the world could be going around and around in Sacramento for decades to come.
To date, the group seeking to create the Sacramento Valley Cycling and Inline Park has been given 80 acres at Mather Regional Park and funding for a feasibility study.
"It's a dream. But it's beyond a dream," said Warren Geissert, a member of the Sacramento Cycling Park Association, a nonprofit group trying to make the dream of bringing a velodrome to Sacramento a reality.
As outlined in the association's concept paper, the cycling and inline park facilities at Mather Park would be comprised of:
-- A 250-meter banked oval cycling track.
-- A 200-meter inline skating and bicycle warm-up track.
-- A medical facility adjacent to the velodrome for scientific sports research.
-- A paved cycling trail with distance markers suitable for recreational and competitive human power sports.
-- A BMX track.
-- Infrastructure to support the needs of the disabled athlete.
-- A marked cyclocross/mt. bike course.
-- A climbing wall.
-- And a network of trails connecting the complex with the surrounding community.
"I had started thinking about my kids riding bikes," said Steve Rex, a custom frame builder and a member of the cycling park association. "Sacramento would be such a perfect place (for a track) ... summer evenings would be so nice."
A velodrome would open a world of competitive and recreational opportunities for local cyclists of all abilities, including open training sessions for experienced track riders, learning sessions for beginners, kids sessions and education.
The facility also would have the potential for drawing world-class cycling talent. Plans call for the velodrome at Mather Park to be built by Ralph Sch¸rmann of Germany, a third-generation track designer and builder.
The 250-meter track would provide a more intimate atmosphere and more exciting ride than the 330-meter tracks found in most U.S. velodromes. According to Rex, an international-class track immediately would merit consideration as a host site for the national championships, which usually are held in Indianapolis or Trexlertown, Pa.
The velodrome also is the listed site within the Northern California bid to be host for the 2012 Olympics. The backing from the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee "opened a lot of doors for us," said Linda Elgart. She and her husband, John, are former national track champions and members of the velodrome group.
The velodrome group also has met with the Sacramento Sports Commission, which said it would support the group's effort to bring the Olympic Trials cycling event here in 2004.
The feasibility study is expected to be completed in late summer, at which time the group will begin attempting to raise the estimated $1.5 million needed for construction. The entire facility is expected to cost $3 million to $4 million. The goal is to complete the track in time for Sacramento to be host for the Masters Track Nationals in 2003.
That timeline would enable the facility to be host to a world-class event before 2005, when the International Olympic Committee decides the bid.
The only other track in Northern California is in San Jose, but the surface at the Hellyer Velodrome is too rough and the banks are too shallow to hold a national-level event.
"It makes more sense to put (a velodrome) here than almost anywhere else," said Geissert, who noted Sacramento's long fair-weather season, its warm summer nights and the large cycling population in the region. "Sacramento is the ideal place to put a velodrome."
Sacramento.com article (http://rexcycles.com/articles/020702.html)
The above article is from 2002.
Velodrome more than a dream?
By Matt Peters -- Sacramento Bee Correspondent
(Published Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002)
The dream has gone 'round and 'round inside the heads of local cyclists for many years.
But the dream is inching ever closer to reality, meaning that within the next couple of years cyclists from around the world could be going around and around in Sacramento for decades to come.
To date, the group seeking to create the Sacramento Valley Cycling and Inline Park has been given 80 acres at Mather Regional Park and funding for a feasibility study.
"It's a dream. But it's beyond a dream," said Warren Geissert, a member of the Sacramento Cycling Park Association, a nonprofit group trying to make the dream of bringing a velodrome to Sacramento a reality.
As outlined in the association's concept paper, the cycling and inline park facilities at Mather Park would be comprised of:
-- A 250-meter banked oval cycling track.
-- A 200-meter inline skating and bicycle warm-up track.
-- A medical facility adjacent to the velodrome for scientific sports research.
-- A paved cycling trail with distance markers suitable for recreational and competitive human power sports.
-- A BMX track.
-- Infrastructure to support the needs of the disabled athlete.
-- A marked cyclocross/mt. bike course.
-- A climbing wall.
-- And a network of trails connecting the complex with the surrounding community.
"I had started thinking about my kids riding bikes," said Steve Rex, a custom frame builder and a member of the cycling park association. "Sacramento would be such a perfect place (for a track) ... summer evenings would be so nice."
A velodrome would open a world of competitive and recreational opportunities for local cyclists of all abilities, including open training sessions for experienced track riders, learning sessions for beginners, kids sessions and education.
The facility also would have the potential for drawing world-class cycling talent. Plans call for the velodrome at Mather Park to be built by Ralph Sch¸rmann of Germany, a third-generation track designer and builder.
The 250-meter track would provide a more intimate atmosphere and more exciting ride than the 330-meter tracks found in most U.S. velodromes. According to Rex, an international-class track immediately would merit consideration as a host site for the national championships, which usually are held in Indianapolis or Trexlertown, Pa.
The velodrome also is the listed site within the Northern California bid to be host for the 2012 Olympics. The backing from the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee "opened a lot of doors for us," said Linda Elgart. She and her husband, John, are former national track champions and members of the velodrome group.
The velodrome group also has met with the Sacramento Sports Commission, which said it would support the group's effort to bring the Olympic Trials cycling event here in 2004.
The feasibility study is expected to be completed in late summer, at which time the group will begin attempting to raise the estimated $1.5 million needed for construction. The entire facility is expected to cost $3 million to $4 million. The goal is to complete the track in time for Sacramento to be host for the Masters Track Nationals in 2003.
That timeline would enable the facility to be host to a world-class event before 2005, when the International Olympic Committee decides the bid.
The only other track in Northern California is in San Jose, but the surface at the Hellyer Velodrome is too rough and the banks are too shallow to hold a national-level event.
"It makes more sense to put (a velodrome) here than almost anywhere else," said Geissert, who noted Sacramento's long fair-weather season, its warm summer nights and the large cycling population in the region. "Sacramento is the ideal place to put a velodrome."
Sacramento.com article (http://rexcycles.com/articles/020702.html)
The above article is from 2002.
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