Velo Bella Clinic - Saturday Oct. 15th
In conjunction with the first race of the Surf City series, we will be holding a cyclocross clinic. Come join us on Saturday, October 15th at Aptos High School at noon for a cyclocross clinic. We are honored to have Carmen D'Aluisio, Sarah Kerlin, and Simon Vickers lead this clinic for us. Clinic cost is only $15.
Carmen is a former criterium national champion, pro mountain biker and one of the nation's top cyclocrossers. Although she has recently retired from professional racing, she remains active in the sport as a personal coach and as the director sportif for the Webcor Builder's Women's Team. (Don't worry Carmen, I won't call you a matron)
Sarah is a member of the Velo Bella team. She placed 5th in the Cyclocross National Championships in 2004 and an amazing 18th at the World Championships in her first trip to the grand event.
All our instructors are amazing athletes and bike handlers and bring a spirit of fun and adventure as well as their love of the sport to teaching. The clinic is co-ed and open to all levels of riders. Instruction will include practice on the course used in the race on Sunday, so be sure to sign up for Sunday's race as well.
Cyclocross bikes are not required for the clinic or to race. If using a mountain bike be certain to remove bar ends. It also helps to change out to narrower, low profile tires. Most newcomers to cyclocross start out on a mountain bike, so don't worry about it. Just bring what you ride.
We encourage everyone to pre-register for this event. You can pre-register
at Bikereg.com: http://www.bikereg.com/races/register.asp?EventID=2671
We especially invite beginners, juniors, first timers and women to give a go at cyclocross. We promise a fun event that will have you gasping for more! We are offering a beginner's category (Category C) for women. Category C women will get their own start and results against other beginner riders. We are also offering a special Cyclocross Survival Kit for ALL first time
female racers. You must pre-register to qualify. So come out for the clinic and come back for the race. Come see what all the dirty grins are about!
More info on the Surf City series can be found here
http://www.velobella.org/rides_surf_city.htm
Carmen is a former criterium national champion, pro mountain biker and one of the nation's top cyclocrossers. Although she has recently retired from professional racing, she remains active in the sport as a personal coach and as the director sportif for the Webcor Builder's Women's Team. (Don't worry Carmen, I won't call you a matron)
Sarah is a member of the Velo Bella team. She placed 5th in the Cyclocross National Championships in 2004 and an amazing 18th at the World Championships in her first trip to the grand event.
All our instructors are amazing athletes and bike handlers and bring a spirit of fun and adventure as well as their love of the sport to teaching. The clinic is co-ed and open to all levels of riders. Instruction will include practice on the course used in the race on Sunday, so be sure to sign up for Sunday's race as well.
Cyclocross bikes are not required for the clinic or to race. If using a mountain bike be certain to remove bar ends. It also helps to change out to narrower, low profile tires. Most newcomers to cyclocross start out on a mountain bike, so don't worry about it. Just bring what you ride.
We encourage everyone to pre-register for this event. You can pre-register
at Bikereg.com: http://www.bikereg.com/races/register.asp?EventID=2671
We especially invite beginners, juniors, first timers and women to give a go at cyclocross. We promise a fun event that will have you gasping for more! We are offering a beginner's category (Category C) for women. Category C women will get their own start and results against other beginner riders. We are also offering a special Cyclocross Survival Kit for ALL first time
female racers. You must pre-register to qualify. So come out for the clinic and come back for the race. Come see what all the dirty grins are about!
More info on the Surf City series can be found here
http://www.velobella.org/rides_surf_city.htm
posted by Ryan Amirault at Wednesday, October 12, 2005
