Palmer Cyclocross Race cancelled for this year/ Bike Swap pending new location

It is with great regret that I have to announce the cancellation of this years Palmer Cyclo-cross. The Team Douglas Bike Swap is tenatively still on, at a new location-pending approval from the owner of the space. Our host for the past 11 years, Pathfinder RVTHS, has finally been able to install a new gym floor, and quite understandably, they are not allowing special events in the new gym. This has unfortunately given us the choice of having either the swap in a new location, or the race without the swap. It's a tough choice, but given that there is a very full racing calendar but no other bike swaps, for 2005 we are going to run the swap and not the race. We will continue to search for a new venue that can accomodate both a race and a swap meet (suggestions always welcome!) and hopefully look into holding the Palmer race again in 2006, possibly earlier in the season.The bike swap will hopefully be moving to a new venue- we should have approval by Monday, and I will post all the necessary details. I hope you'll all be able to join us for our 12th year- same great swap, just a new location. Please pass this infomation on to all who might be interested- this change is last minute, and I'd hate to have people miss this great event. Registration for the swap spaces will still be on BikeReg.com, so at least that stays the same. For those of you who just can't bear the thought of missing an 'old school' cross race, I highly recommend heading out to Plymouth and racing at Bill Sykes race next weekend. The descent through the woods is always a blast! And of course don't forget the Sterling cross race- a great way to burn off that holiday tofurky....I'll post more details about the swap as soon as I have confirmation. Thanks to everyonefor your support of this great event. We'll be back- I promise!!
Thanks-
JD Bilodeau
Pioneer Event Productions
Team Douglas