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So the holiday season is behind us, 2008 has come and gone and 2009 has moved in and taken up a spot on the couch beer in hand. this can only mean one thing.................
it time to do the paperwork! yeah that's right, one of the perks to promoting some of the sweetest races around, besides the bonuses which rival those of wall street bankers(shhh don't tell congress!), is the fact that you get to fill out miles of paperwork! paperwork for norba, paperwork for the state of new york, insurance paperwork. yeah its glamorous, yeah its awesome and you know you are jealous!

so all, or most, of the paperwork is in. that means that our dates are firm and just pending approval from the dark lords at the nydec. usa cycling has the 400,000 appropriate forms, blood samples, hair samples, eye of newt, and bag of gold. since the economy is in the tank they are forcing us to pay in hard currency! i offered titanium but they said halliburton cornered that market and they would only accept gold bricks, silver coins, or wampum. lucky for us George has a stash of gold in his basement!

all the races are up on bikereg and you should sign up now while they still accept the American dollar! we like pre-reg. it helps to quell the fear that we will be the only people who show up for our race!

so here's the 411

singlespeedapolooza is May 31st!


campmor H2H race #3, the darkhorse gallop is June 21st


the 7th annual darkhorse 40 is august 16th!

Singlespeedapolooza:
this is as far as i know the first singlespeed only race in NY/NJ. this will be a unique event and a must do for the season. laid back atmosphere, unique prizes, beer, a super fun course, pint glasses, beer, sweet stewart singletrack, great competition, beer......you get the point!
come on out for this. if anything its a great excuse to convert or build a singlespeed bike! "but honey, its for singlespeedapolooza", "oh ok then dear, build up that titanium single speed!"

Darkhorse Gallop
we are back in the H2H race series! Race number 3. the h2h is a great series. awesome venues, top notch promoters, great competition. if you haven't been to one of these races you should come to ours! its the best! i mean its great just like all the other except better........

Darkhorse 40
want to dip your toes into endurance racing? want a friendly atmosphere, fast flowy course, great prizes, hidden preems, a bitchen BBQ, kegs of beer, and that old school mountain bike race atmosphere? you NEED to come to the 40! it really has become a must do event in the area!

so there's a little unbiased info about our events. we hope to see you out there in the spring.
as always if you have any questions or comments don't hesitate to get in touch with us!

HAPPY HOLIDAZE!!!

GOT SINGLESPEED?

got a singlespeed?
like to hang out with other people on one gear bikes?
like to drink beer?

HAVE WE GOT THE EVENT FOR YOU!!!

SINGLESPEED-A-POLOOZA 2009! MAY 31ST!!!!!
yup that's right! think of it as the singlespeed championships of the greater tri-state universe!!!

so heres the 411......
one twenty mile lap. fully self supported. we will have no aid stations. if you need 100oz of water or a 12pack of pbr bring it with you! hell strap a keg to a bob trailer if you want!!!
super cool and unique prizes for 1st second and third in their respective categories!
oh yeah categories...usa cycling has gone and made it all complicated and we are just simple minded beer drinking promoters who cant even figure out how to put more than one gear on our bikes so.....
expert men and women
sport men and women
no you don't need a license! sign up for the category that you think suits your skill level. don't sandbag, that's just dumb and if we think you are sandbagging the category we may handicap you in some way! think 10 krispy-cremes 2 minutes before the start! it would be in everybody's best interest if you raced with the guys you usually race with!
so all this and more for only 25.00!!! thats right $25.00!
and more you say? yup more!!
everybody who registers gets a pint glass, a bottle opener and.....

adult refreshments (as long as you are of age, don't make us ID you!!) at the post race festivities. hell depending on how we are feeling we may tap a keg at the start line!!!

so get on over to bike reg and sign up!

PRE-REGISTERED ONLY!!!!! NO DAY OF REG!!!!!

BIKEREG

Any questions? drop us and email or leave a comment.


see ya there!!

Darkhorse gallop takes over the web!!

check out the video below from the guys and gals at rad-x sports. check it out now as i'm sure the hit counts that this video will receive on youtube will be crashing servers the world over!!

09 brainstorming and recon begins

george and i headed down to Virginia to the Shenandoah 100 this past weekend for a little camping and a whole lot of suffering. very cool event and great to see these guys organize a event of this magnitude. 500+ racers 14k of climbing. lots of tired souls. it gets the creative juices flowing a little for what we might want to do in the future with the 40 or just maybe something a little different...

we'll see.

full race recap report will be up on the team blog. check it out.

Pour out another 40! 6th annual in the books!

It was 4:00 am and I am laying in my sleeping bag staring at the ceiling. Dawn is about to break on race day for the darkhorse 40. I can hear George wandering around his kitchen as I lay there and try to come to terms with what’s in store for us. Thankfully the pitter patter that I hear is the sweet sweet blue mountain Jamaican coffee brewing and not rain hitting the roof. We had some storms roll thru the day before but they seemed to have helped take the dust off while doing only a minor injustice to the ridiculously fast course conditions.

We had completed most of the heavy lifting the day before with the help of our crew and Jason from Pivot cycles. Its amazing what a bike company rep will do for free beer!! We had sorted out some last minute details over delicious veggie chili and tried to call it an early night. No late night course inspection needed this time around. Maybe we had learned our lesson from previous adventures!

We opened the gate at about 5:30 and already had a few people hanging around looking to get in. By 7:30 it was full on parking mayhem. The cars just kept rolling in. We handled it well but the stress level does begin to rise as start time creeps closer and the cars keep stacking up in line to park.

9:05 and we have everybody on the line. Few announcements and their off! Hooray! Now we just have to hope that everybody stays safe out there. Thankfully, most did. There were plenty of mechanicals, lots of flats, and a few injuries. But considering the fact that 400 people took to the 20 mile loop I think things went off fairly smooth.

We had hoped to try to get awards going at 2:00. We thought that would give us enough time to get the majority of racers in and at least preliminary awards tabulated. We were wrong. Sorry if you planned around that and had to split early. As it was awards were late but most seemed to be having fun eating chicken, having an ice pop or two and enjoying a couple cold beverages.

As we locked up the gate at 7:30 I couldn’t help reflect on the amount of work that goes in to this event each year and how fast the day goes by. We have to send out a huge thank you to all of our volunteers! These guys and gals come out and give their blood, sweat and tears to help make the 40 what it is. There is no way we could do it without them!!! Thanks to all!!! First off have to thank our official/scoring ladies. They do a great job making sure that all the racers are accounted for. Gotta send out a huge thank you to our kitchen crew! Brian keeps the boys in line and makes sure that things get cooking on time and keep rolling smooth! The bbq rocked again! Thanks guys and gals! I would be remiss if I didn’t send out a huge thank you to our EMT crew! These guys and gals treat all sorts of injuries all day and do it with great care and concern. Thank you!! We couldn’t have the race without them and we always hope that they will come out and have a nice relaxing day!

Of course there wouldn’t be any point to any of this if the racers didn’t come out. We appreciate you guys coming out to support our event and hope that you all enjoyed yourself. It makes it worth it when somebody says they had a blast out there on our course. We have always been in this for the racers. To give back a little something to the mountain bike scene that we really enjoy. You guys come out and bring such a great vibe that we just feed off of it. thanks!!!

So another darkhorse 40 is in the books! We always keep trying to improve and make it a little better and a little more interesting. So we will wait till about thanksgiving and then start scheming some new stuff for next year. By then the poison ivy should be gone and George should be a little less cranky. Ok maybe not!

Thanks again! See you next year!

As always we welcome your questions and comments so don’t hesitate to get in touch!