Tag: XCO Series

First round: Giant XCO

SURPRISE! It’s this weekend!

Adelaide MTB Club and Giant Bicycles Adelaide present Round 1 of the Olympic Cross Country MTB race series (aka – lap racing). To be held at the prestigious, multi purpose, purpose built and all round good Eagle MTB Park.

Parking will be on the Mezzanine area. Enter off the old freeway. Race start will, funnily enough, be from the mezzanine area.

Remember that to qualify for the Elite winter series, you need to race in at least two Giant XCO rounds to qualify for the cold, hard cash prizes!

Some points to remember for the XCO races:

FORMAT: You get to ride around following arrows as fast you can for a set number of laps. The human form that completes the number of laps the fastest is deemed the winner.

Chocolate is known to help with getting in good with the timekeeper and race officials. Volunteering works the best.

Start times: We change to a split start time for certain grades. Make sure you know when you’re sign on and start times are for your relevant grade of racing.

In brief:

B-Female, D, E and Junior Grades:

SIGN-ON from 08:30

RACE @ 09:30

Elite Male/Female, B and C Grades:

SIGN-ON from 10:30

RACE @ 11:30

LAPS – that’s right, LAPS! Cascading 6 through to 2, we’ve got laps for everyone!

Remember that laps are subject to change on the day depending on the number of unicorns that enter, alignment of Pluto and the square root of my belly button fluff. This equation changes from race to race.

Click here! for the full, pretty grid style information.

VOLUNTEERS – as always, we’re looking for volunteers to reward with ice cold refreshing drinks (in this weather, no ice required), freshly cooked onions with a side of bread and sausage AND a free transferable race entry. If you think you’d fit these awesome rewards, hit up racevolunteers@ambc.asn.au to register.

What are we after? Glad you asked:

Track set up – can’t race without some well placed arrows.

Starting at 9:00am on Saturday 01st Aug 2015 – email racedirector@ambc.asn.au
to register your interest/attendance.

BBQ cookers – flip a snag, cut some onions and try not to cry to much.
Track pack up – always seeking those keen MTBers to complete one final lap.
Registration – issue and receive the timekeepers prized possessions
MCing – if you can yell into a mic well and make people laugh more than cringe, you’ll be better than PT (it’s OK, I’m allowed to insult myself).

JUNIORS RIDE/SKILL SESSION: Andy “Goggles” Duncan will be hosting a juniors skills/ride session from 10:30am on Saturday 01st Aug 2015. Please shoot an email at juniors@ambc.asn.au to register your interest.

Glad you’ve mad it this far. Your reward – a race map! ENJOY!

If you’ve got questions and have read through the XCO Series info page and still can’t figure out how Deep Thought got to 42, shoot an email to timing@ambc.asn.au and we’ll see if we can figure something out – as the time keeper I have access to variable constants such as belly button fluff mass.

If all else fails – click through these links, I’m sure one of them will be useful*:

*Some of these links may not be useful to everyone

Tags Eagle MTB Park, Giant, XCO Series

General News

Mid year FatChat

Hold on to your socks ladies and gentlemen, the latest epsiode of FatChat has just popped in. After gallivanting around the northern reaches of the state and brushing into the NT, Chelsea returned and dedicated herself to producing this issue – after eating a tub of ice cream and socialising, etc.

Low res – best for mobile and slow Internet

Hi res – to get the best of the pictures

What’s coming up? Well, a brief summary:

This weekend sees many of SAs CX riders head over to Canberra for rounds 5 & 6 of the national CX series – might not be as wet as here, but I’d wager it’s as cold! Good luck to everyone competing and I’m sure the SA crew will put in some strong results! I believe, but I’m not sure, that results will be posted on or around this page. At some point.

19th Jul – Next weekend sees the 3rd round of PACCs CX series somewhere in the parklands of Adelaide. Make sure you come along and see if you can top Andrew and Davids efforts on noise production and entertainment for the Elite grades! Click here for more info

David and Andrew providing noise and entertainment Photo courtesy of Tim Loft

26th Jul- The following weekend sees the 2nd Round of the GESA series head up to Eagle MTB Park with 6 stages planned for the elites, this should be a true test of the “enduro” part of GESA! For more info head over to the GESA website – click here

2nd Aug – Then we get to the first round of the Giant Adelaide XCO series which follows on from GESA at Eagle MTB Park. Eagle has always been a great race track and with its locality to Adelaide is a brilliant chance to get involved in the XCO scene. Grades for everyone! Check out the links below for more info!

Race Location | Join AMBC today | XCO Series Info | Elite Series Info | Register Now

Tags cyclocross, Nationals, Noise, XCO Series

AMBC Races

2015 Winter(ish) Race schedule

Post author By P'An-Tau
Post date March 19, 2015
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AMBC have allocated the winter Hammer Nutrition Enduros, Giant XCOs and AMBC State Champs some tidy race dates. Keep an eye on the website and our Facebook page for any changes. So get ready to lock these events into your calendar:

Hammer Nutrition 4hr Enduros:

19 Apr 2015 – Fox Creek
31 May 2015 – Prospect Hill
21 Jun 2015 – Craigburn Farm

Giant Adelaide XCOs:

02 Aug 2015 – Eagle MTB Park
13 Sep 2015 – Mt. Torrens Township
11 Oct 2015 – Craigburn Farm

AMBC State Chamionships:

08 Nov 2015 – Fox Creek

All locations could change depending on a number of factors (Fire Danger rating, rained out, etc.). Make sure you keep an eye on the website and/or Facebook page for any information regarding venue changes.

Registration for all AMBC races will open at 4:00pm on the day of the previous race.

The club calendar has been updated, with links to locations and registration.

The Elite Winter Series will be on again this year. Prizes down to 10th place and awarded at the State Champs race as well (that’s the plan anyway). For last year results, check out the results page – remember their were only 4 qualifying females last year!

There will be a price increase to $30 for all AMBC races this year. The committee has made this decision based on a few factors, but primarily due to the club moving towards a streamlined registration style for the registration coordinator. There will be more on this in the near future.

OTHER EVENTS OUTSIDE OF AMBC? WELL, I’M GLAD YOU ASKED. ADELAIDE SPORTS SOME VERY ACTIVE CLUBS – INSIDELINE, GRAVITY ENDURO SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND PORT ADELAIDE CYCLING CLUB, WHO ALL COMPLIMENT THE DIRT SCENE BY ADDING THEIR OWN TOUCH OF STYLE TO OFF-ROAD RACING. CHECK OUT THE DATES BELOW TO SEE IF ANY OF THE STYLES SUIT YOUR NEEDS. ONE HELL OF A YEAR OF RACING COMING UP!!!

GESA – Gravity Enduro (GE)

The GESA gentlemen have also been prepping themselves for the coming season. Some tentative dates have been established.

Gravity Enduro SA (website yet to be updated):

28 Jun – Cobbler Creek
26 Jul – Eagle MTB Park
30 Aug – Fox Creek
27 Sep – Mystery Round!

Any GESA related inquiries should be directed to the GESA website or GESA Facebook page – Facebook recommended. The events are managed by a separate sub-committee.

Port Adelaide Cycling Club – Cyclocross (CX)

PACC also have some tentative dates going around for their winter CX series:

24 May
05 Jul
19 Jul
16 Aug
27 Sep (State Champs)

PACC will also be hosting round 7 & 8 of the national CX round to be held on the 29/30 Aug 2015.

CX races are all held in the locality of the Adelaide park-lands and you’ll need to check the PACC CX website or their Facebook page for details as they are released.

Inside Line – Downhill (DHI)

If Downhill is your thing as well, check out InsideLines website for their 2015 race schedule – once again, any inquiries regarding downhill should be directed to InsideLine.

11-12 Apr
16-17 May
13-14 Jun
18-19 Jul
15-16 Aug
19-20 Sep
17-18 Oct (State Champs)

Tags Calendar, CX, Downhill, GESA, State Championships, XC Enduro Series, XCO Series

AMBC Races

Giant XCO round 3 – results and photos

Post author By P'An-Tau
Post date October 19, 2014
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Results are up. Check out the results page and if you spot any issues let timing@ambc.asn.au know.

The championship table has also been updated. Congratulations to the series winners:

Male

1st: Tom Goddard
2nd: Michael Denton
3rd: Matthew Ackland

Female
1st: Anna Puckridge
2nd: Aurelia Strozik
3rd: Sorcha Flett

The series prize money pays down to 10th place in both elite fields, so long as you qualified – 2 x Enduro and 2 x XCO events.

HUGE thank you to all the volunteers who rolled up (and hung around) to help out with this race. We had a really good turn out.

Tim Loft has put up hit collection of photos on Facebook. Check out his page here.

Clinton Halliday – Clintpix – has some photos as well. Check out clintpix.com.

Eric Stack snapped up a few happies. Check out the dropbox here.

Michael Cole dropped the finger with some high fps shots – PhotoBucket

Make sure you check with the photographer for any use – especially if it involves commercial use.

The next race is the State Champs at Fox Creek on 16th Nov 2014. Entries will open Tuesday 21st Oct at 09:00am and the website will be updated very soon. For this race we revert to MTBA age categories. To accommodate for this we’ll be issuing fresh plates.

We’ll also be doing a race plate muster/collection so bring any and all race plates you have back so we can do a stock take.

If you’re interested in learning how to time keep at races please email timing@ambc.asn.au for more info. We are looking to build up a small team of time keepers who can share the load of races and enable time keepers to race as well.

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