2015 Melas Park Basin Racin Pics, Vids, and Race Reports
November 22, 2015
Since we couldn’t race today, please share your pics/vids of what you did on your CX day off. On the bike, off the bike, whatever… Just please keep it PG-13 or less.
BanditCX.
Whiskey hand ups, puppy dog heckles, and one crash at the start line:
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Psimet disc wheel. Need to work on reducing the weight.
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What your tear-down crew does after tear-down:
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As bummed as I was that the race was canceled, I’m glad that neither me nor my bike had anything to do with that hill today.
Oh man, totally sucks you guys still went through the setup/tear-down process. Thanks for trying.
Was really hoping for another race like the Midwest Regional CX at Dan Ryan Woods in 2013. 10 inches in the open was rideable yesterday.
https://youtu.be/goZi-6LymEs
Cross country skied as it had “cross” in it. Went here in St. Charles at Leroy Oaks forest preserve the site of my first cross race WAY back in early 90’s. Two tie-ins right? Anybody remember the days before $4k-plus carpet-fiber bikes?
Don’t feel bad about race called due to snow. Enjoy the aesthetic side of early snows here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ejcass51/albums/72157660794746847
Now don’t you feel better? Don’t act like a bitter old man, that’s MY job!
Feel sad and grateful to those that had to set the course and tear it down in this weather!
“The challenge is its own reward”
we should have canceled our race in Wisconsin the day before!! We had just as much if not more snow. I guess we did not know you could cancel a race because of snow!
If you are talking about WI Cx State Championship race in Waterloo, I wasn’t there but saw pictures; there wasn’t even close to as much snow as in Mount Prospect. Interestingly enough, there was a race 1 year prior in the Wisconsin series that was canceled. A bunch of people made the venture south to Melas to race. It was a bummer that this year’s race couldn’t go on, but it wasn’t because of lack of effort. The conditions just did not allow for a rideable course, period.
2nd heaviest November Snow everrr. GnR needs to come out with a song….
Month till winter.
I could not get the link to the bandit race pics to work, is it just me?
Nope, didn’t work for me either.
Nevermind, I had to log into facebook, then it worked.
paying homage to the laundry gods with fire water infused bike adventures http://ow.ly/UWZKc
Went snowshoeing instead. Definitely would have been hard to ride, even with a fatbike, in those conditions. Made for some great scenery though! ( This was LeRoy Oakes in St Charles )
Downstaters raced! Furrow Euro – best CX race in Illinois by far.
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