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Be aware, there's been a change of date for this month's NCNCA Meeting. Usually it would be on the second Monday of the month, but for this month it's being moved.
This month's meeting will be held on Monday, February 22nd from 7-9pm at the Central Park Visitor Center Conference Room in Fremont (40000 Paseo Padre Pkwy). Click here for a map.
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In response to a request from the UCI that radios be banned in all national calendar races, the USCF Board of Trustees met and amended the rule regarding the use of race radios in all USA Cycling sanctioned road and track races. Radios will now be banned in all USA Cycling road and track races.
In 2010, race radios will only be allowed for use by teams and riders in UCI Category HC or Category 1 races in the U.S. per UCI regulations.
For the full article, click here.
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The NCNCA Board would like to congratulate riders who have recently upgraded. Please take a moment to view the Recent Upgrades and join us in congratulating these teammates/friends/fellow racers.
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We've been getting a lot of upgrade requests by email at NCNCA HQ, so we thought we'd post a quick reminder that all CAT2, CAT3, and CAT4 upgrade requests should be submitted using the on-line system at http://www.usacycling.org – not via email. More details here: http://www.ncnca.org/docs/upgrade/. Thanks.
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For those of you who were planning on registering for the Chico Stage Race (4/17-18) today, registration will now open this Friday (2/5). Also, both of yesterday's races (Sun, 1/31) have their results posted - you'll find them via the Road calendar, or you can click these links to get results for the Cal Aggie Criterium and the Early Bird Criterium.
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The schedule for the NCNCA Premier Series has been posted to the Series Calendar, and Premier Series icons have been added where appropriate on the Road Calendar.
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There is an upcoming election to fill the office of NCNCA Vice President. Below you'll find links to the candidate statements we've received so far: Ron Castia Eric Petersen Jess Raphael
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Tonight we updated the BAR/BAT standings – they're now current through the Early Bird Road Race on 1/23. You can get to the standings by finding the appropriate link in the Series section at the bottom of the Sitemap page. We also refreshed the list of NCNCA Member Clubs to reflect recent registrations.
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If you're registered for, or planning on racing in, the Early Bird RR in Patterson tomorrow morning, the race is planned to go off on time. The roads are open (as of 9pm), a County crew will clear any rock from the road at 3am, and Velo Promo will have a crew in front of the first riders in the event. As the Velo Promo site says, "A slide in the morning could still close things, but we'll be there ready to start. Weather itself looks good."
If you're looking for an update in the morning, feel free to check the Velo Promo site or this page. If conditions and/or race status changes, we'll get an update out.
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We just got word that, due to permitting issues, the Apple Pie Crit won't be held on February 6th as planned. It's listed as "postponed" on the Road race calendar because the promoter is attempting to have the event later in the year (possibly April). The word from Rene Goncalves:
"The Colavita Baci NorCal team will either give you a Credit for a future event, or a refund. You can ask via BikeReg for a refund, or email me, and I will forward to the team for a refund. If you want a credit for a future event, please let me know, so I can make a note of it... I am working with the city of Petaluma for a new venue... Please accept my and the Colavita Team's apology and we hope to see you at our other events."
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We've been getting lots of requests for the 2010 BAR/BAT information, and we're happy to say that it's now up on the site! You'll find everything you need via the links at the bottom of the page found here: http://www.ncnca.org/docs/.
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Clubs & teams – plan to join us at the Early Bird Criterium Training Series on Sunday, January 24th for Meet the Teams Day. Bring a tent and spend the day. This is a great way to showcase your club, socialize with other racers, and meet potential recruits! With the record number of EB participants this week, there are lots of men, women, and juniors who will be interested in knowing who YOU are and why your club is unique.
For more information, go here: http://www.ncncaracing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2009
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Monday, January 11th we will hold the monthly NCNCA meeting at the Central Park Visitor Center Conference Room (40000 Paseo Padre Parkway in Fremont) from 7-9pm. For a map with this month's meeting location, click here. We'll broadcast the audio from the meeting at: http://www.stickam.com/ncnca. Tad Borek will moderate the on-line attendees and will also try to relay comments from people in the chat room.
The meeting agenda has been posted online – you'll find it here.
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The NCNCA Listserv has moved. It is now a function of the "NCNCA" Yahoo Group. If you'd like to be added to the listserv, it's easy to request being added, just go to: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/NCNCA/ and click "Join This Group!"
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Happy New Year - the start of the 2010 racing season is almost here. The Early Bird Criterium 5-week training series starts on Sunday, January 3rd (for more info on the series, click here).
To ensure that all of our mentors are on the same page we are holding the Early Bird Mentor Training event on Saturday for Category 1/2/3/4 and pro riders. Please note that a Category 4 mentor must attend this session to mentor during this series.
What: Early Bird Mentor Training
Why: To train mentors to give the new racer an excellent "first impression"
When: Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010 from 3 to 5pm. A two hour session for mentors to share their skill strengths and question/answer period in hopes to improve our program.
Where: Corner 1 of the Early Bird course (Campus and Dumbarton Circle in Fremont, just off Hwy 84, east of the Dumbarton bridge) park up at the end of the cul de sac on Campus Ct.
How: On your bike, with warm clothes, ideas and questions.
Two concentrated areas, and one outcome goal for the day:
Concentrated Areas:
1) sticking to the curriculum and not letting new rider questions take you away from the core of the learning
2) effectively demonstrating the skills that the new riders are about to learn
Outcome Goal:
Volunteers on January 2nd will be "classified" and/ or self-selected into one of three groups:
1) Guest Speakers
2) Leaders
3) Mentors
* Experienced and new mentors (Pro/ Cat 1 through 3) should attend the Jan. 2 meeting if they want to be a leader.
* New mentors (Cat 4): MUST attend the Jan. 2 meeting if they wish to be a mentor.
Thank you for attending our mentoring clinic on January 2nd. We appreciate your willingness to improve and support the 2010 Early Birds.
–The Early Bird Team: Laurie Fenech, Laurel Green, Alan Atha and Larry Nolan
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If you're looking to learn some criterium racing skills that will help you relax and ride faster, check out the just-released details on the Early Bird Criterium Training Series:
http://www.ncncaracing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1979
And if you're interested in helping out, the series relies on its volunteer base. New for 2010, they're holding a meeting at the Early Bird course for experienced racers that want to mentor. Details can be found by following the link above.
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As promised, the NCNCA 2010 Calendar has been posted. You'll find it by clicking here or clicking over to the Road page. We'll be adding more information to the calendar as we get it (e.g. online registration links, contact phone numbers, flyers).
If you're a person, promoter or club putting on one of the races, when you get additional info, please pass it along to webmaster@ncnca.org. Thanks!
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The results are in! Here are your new NCNCA Officers for 2010:
President: Lorri Lee Lown
Vice President: Michael Hernandez
Treasurer: Tad Borek
Secretary: Robert Leibold
Thanks to everyone who voted, a big thanks to everyone who ran and congratulations to our new officers! For complete voting results, click here.
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The 2010 NCNCA Race Scheduling Meeting will be on Monday, November 2nd. The location for the meeting is:
Orinda Library Gallery Room
Orinda Community Center
28 Orinda Way
Orinda, CA 94563-2519
(925) 254-2445
The meeting will start at 7pm. For those of you who don't want to
battle traffic to get to the meeting, the location is very near the
Orinda BART station. In addition to the race scheduling, it will be
the last chance for clubs to cast their vote in the 2010 NCNCA officer
election. Clubs that haven't voted online and who have their NCNCA
delegate at the meeting can cast their vote at the meeting. Note that
only a club's official delegate can cast the vote. When clubs join
NCNCA they are asked to list a NCNCA delegate and an alternate
delegate. A club can change their delegate if they submit notice in
writing to the NCNCA secretary (Robert Leibold) before the start of
the meeting.
Casey plans to broadcast the audio from the race scheduling meeting at http://www.stickam.com/ncnca_kc, but be aware that the broadcast might not happen for various reasons
(such as: Stickam servers not working, Casey's computer dies, the
wireless broadband card dies, etc.). Casey will also try to relay comments
people in the chat room make to the live meeting, but priority will be
given to the happenings at the live meeting.
Due to the extra time needed for the election, we will only be dealing
with the Election, the race scheduling and possibly the BAR/BAT awards.
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Monday, October 12th we will hold the October NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read at the meeting.
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Attention women racers: To help develop a proposal to re-instate the Masters Women's BAR/BAT for 2010, which will be submitted to the NCNCA Board of Directors, please fill out the survey linked to below.
Feel free to share this link with the women on your teams and individual racers who might be interested. Thanks!
Link to Survey
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We are now starting the process of planing out the 2010 race
schedule. The first step is for promoters to submit their date
requests. Download the date request form here – you'll also find it in the Promoters section of the NCNCA.org Site Map page. Instructions for submitting completed request entries are at the bottom of the form. It's important that we have an email address for a representative for each race so we can send this representative updated Info during the scheduling process.
If you know someone who is planning on doing a race next year who
isn't on the NCNCA forum or email list please pass this information on to
them.
All races in the 2009 California Cup have been completed and the final standings are in! To see the results of this year's competition, click here.
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Monday, September 14th we will hold the September NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read at the meeting.
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Monday, August 10th we will hold the August NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read at the meeting.
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Monday, July 13th we will hold the July NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read at the meeting.
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Back in March, the NCNCA awarded Lindsay Myers a travel grant so she could participate in the USAC Women's Development Program in Europe. If you want to see how things are going for her overseas, check out her first report from the road.
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Monday, June 8th we will hold the June NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read at the meeting.
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The road series calendar has been updated and series logos have been added next to races on the road calendar – this includes dates for the 'Ville and Cal Cup Series. The mountain bike calendar recently underwent a massive overhaul and now includes MTB races through December. For easier navigation 'jump to' links have been added to the road calendar, so you can jump right to the month you're interested in without having to scroll.
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Monday, May 11th we will hold the May NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read at the meeting.
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Every club should have at least two officials; here's your chance to become one! On April 26th, Sunday, in Soulsbyville, Robert Leibold will conduct a New Official's Seminar and Test. There'll be a seminar on Sunday from 8:30am-5pm, covering road, track, cyclocross and mountain bike racing (location: Velo Promo, 19780 Soulsbyville Road, Soulsbyville, CA 95372 – 1.3 miles off Hwy 108 & 6 miles above Sonora). This will be followed by the open-book new officials test. To sign up, contact Robert at velopro1@sonnet.com or call (209) 533-4996. The USAC rulebooks and official's manual Pt I are available online at https://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=369. For the test it is encouraged that people put the online rulebooks on their laptops and then use a laptop during the test. It's much easier to search for certain keywords using the search function than to scroll through page after page. If a 2009 or 2008 USAC rulebook is available, that should also be brought to the seminar and test. For more information, click here.
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Davis will be the new home of the US Bicycling Hall of Fame, which is relocating from Somerville, NJ. "We're very excited that the Bicycling Hall of Fame will move to Davis, which hosted the first Amgen Tour of California stage earlier this year" said Caroline Beteta, president & CEO of the California Travel & Tourism Commission and the U.S. Travel Association. In a brief statement by President Dan Kehew, the California Bicycle Museum Board of Directors thanked the Davis community, the City of Davis, and the University of California, Davis for supporting the relocation proposal, which will involve integration with the California Bicycle Museum and thus a relocation to a larger facility in Davis. City of Davis officials are still in negotiations with several local facilities and will announce the new location for the museums within the next several weeks. Dawn Wylong, president of the Hall of Fame, said that overwhelming Davis support for cycling tipped the scales. "The Davis community is passionate about bicycles, at every level, in every aspect of cycling," Wylong said. "In Davis, the Hall of Fame will be celebrated and appreciated for what it represents." To read more, click here.
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Monday, Apr. 13th we will hold the April NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read at the meeting.
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Every club should have at least two officials; here's your chance to become one! On April 4 & 5 in Santa Cruz, Robert Leibold will conduct a New Official's Seminar and Test. There'll be a seminar on Saturday from 9 am to 5:30 pm, covering road, track, cyclocross and mountain bike racing (location: Louden Nelson Center, Laurel and Center Streets, downtown Santa Cruz - four blocks from SC Sclassic Criterium course). On Sunday, trainees will work with the regular officials at the Santa Cruz Criterium in Santa Cruz, and then take the open-book new official's test during the final event of the day. To sign up, contact Robert at velopro1@sonnet.com or call (209) 533-4996. For more information, click here
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Monday, Mar. 9th we will hold the March NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read at the meeting.
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The 2009 BAWC Series begins Sunday with the Menlo Park Grand Prix!
The first of 9 Series races, the Tri-Flow Menlo Park Grand Prix p/b Hawk Relay is the place to be next Sunday! In addition to the Category 4 and Category 3 Series races, the MPGP will also offer a Women's 1/2/3 race this year. This is a rare opportunity for category 3 women to race twice in one day, and a great chance for women's teams to all race and support their teammates in all categories!
For the Category 4 and Category 3 Series races, BAWC will add to the already great prize lists:
·$50 "team primes" in each race, with Left Coast Racing Team sponsoring the Category 4 primes and Team Roaring Mouse sponsoring the Category 3 primes
·Crocs gift certificate primes
·Zambrano Coffee primes and podium prizes
·Urban Oasis gift certificates
·additional cash for each podium place, sponsored by NCNCA
Pre-registration for the MPGP ends Wednesday evening. Register online now, compete in the Series, and support the Menlo Park Grand Prix!
The 2009 Women's Racing Series, run by Bay Area Women's Cycling and sponsored by NCNCA, is a points series with individual and team competitions. Points are automatically awarded to women who enter the category 3 and 4 Series races. Team points are awarded when two or more women from the same team compete in the same Series race. To learn more, visit our web site: http://bawcycling.com/series.html.
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Snelling road race will have chip timing/results this year.
This means there will be two steps to registration. (1) You will need to get in line for registration as usual (show license, sign/turn in form, pick up numbers), and then (2) go to the chip desk, to pick up your timing chip. There will be people there to help put them on your bike, so bring your bike to that line.
Immediately following finishing (or dropping out), go to the station just off the loop before returning to Snelling town to have your chip removed. Do not cross the finish line backwards after finishing; it will give you a later finish.
Alert: the start order has changed.
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A memo to the NCNCA community from Bruce Skidmore, race director for the Butterfly Criterium:
PACIFIC GROVE CITY COUNCIL
Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Council Chambers - City Hall - 300 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA
We are pleased to announce that the Butterfly Criterium currently scheduled for Sunday, May 31, 2009, is now on the Pacific Grove City Council agenda for Wednesday, February 18, 2009. We already have the support of all downtown PG organizations and this is the last step in the approval process to bring back this storied race to our community. The meeting starts at 6:00 pm and we are currently projecting to have our issue discussed and hopefully approved under "new items" around 7:30 pm. The agenda will be posted on the city's website by 5:00 pm this Friday where we may have an updated time for our agenda item.
It is extremely important that we have a large showing of local support for this event. The Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce and the Ghost Tree Racing Team is requesting all area cyclists and their families/children show up to show their support by attending this meeting. Cyclists are requested to wear appropriate team cycling shirts, vests or jackets. Please also distribute this email to all interested parties across the cycling community.
Here is the link to PG City Council meeting guidelines
For more information, please contact any of the following Ghost Tree Racing Team officials:
Kip Evans, Director of Communications, cell 831-601-9042, email kip@kipevansphotography.com
Jon Shoemaker, Sponsorship Director, email shoemakerfloors@yahoo.com
Andrew Leisner, President, cell 831-233-1700, email aleisner@mac.com
Bruce Skidmore
Race Director, Cell: 831.233.0437, Bruce@mccvb.org
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Gear and Lycra Drive: Your old gear can get a second life and help out new League riders. We will be collecting equipment at Early Bird Race #4 on January 24th. Gear can also be dropped off at any Official League Shop (or the film screenings).
Movie screening: A fabulous documentary, "Road to Roubaix." This film puts the 2007 Paris-Roubaix, the most famous one-day spring classic, into historical perspective mixing old footage with new. The movie is showing in Larkspur, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and Folsom before and during the Tour of California. Between now and January 24th everyone gets two tickets for the price of one! Click here for tickets and information.
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Monday, Jan. 12th we will hold the January NCNCA meeting at Marie Callender's restaurant in Concord [map].
We gather at 7 PM, and the meeting starts around 7:20. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast beginning around 7:20 PM. If you log into the chat room you can even offer your comments via text messages, which will be read to the meeting.
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