12 hour race info

The 29th Annual Arlington 500 Bicycle Ride is Scheduled for May 18, 2008

The Arlington Heights Bicycle Association is pleased to announce the Arlington 500 Bicycle Ride is scheduled for Sunday May 18, 2008. The Arlington 500 follows lightly traveled roads in Lake County, Illinois and is designed for the recreational bicyclist. 2008 is the 29th year for this popular ride which attracts cyclists from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The ride begins and ends at Barrington High School, West Parking Lot, 616 W. Main Street, Barrington Illinois. The ride opens at 7:00AM and closes at 4:00PM. Riders choosing the 54 or 68 mile route are expected to start before 9:00AM. All other riders are expected to start before 10:00AM.

Additional information is available on the web site of the Arlington Heights Bicycle Association www.cyclearlington.com or by sending an email to 500@cyclearlington.com

9th Annual Human Power Challenge !!

Yep, time to start planning on bringing your trusty steed once again to Portland and burn up the NEW track at PIR. As you know, we have had the great fortune to run our event at the Portland International Raceway, which is a world class indy track, for all of our years of holding the event. This fall, PIR completely resurfaced the track so she's baby smooth and ready for some cool bents to grace her curves.

The HPC is all about great fun with kool folks that talk about all things HPV,,, and slip in some outrageous racing every now and then. We have several different formats of racing to appease every facet of racing you want to test yourself at. The five main courses for your culinary race diet are as follows: 1/8 mile drag racing ( with light tree that has timer on it), auto cross ( fast and squirrelly), time trial ( get in that tuck), road race (jump into a paceline), and the 200 meter ultimate speed run (feel the burn).  Don't forget all the spin time you have to put in testing out everyone else's machine!  Categories for Juniors, women , men with subcategories for stock through streamliner to compete in. We have special categories in all events for the trike class too.

You may need some carbo reloading ( ya think?), so we have a social on Saturday evening that has grub and liquids, including some suds from our new sponsor, Full Sail Ale, to replenish your tank. 

All the dirt on the event can be found at the race website which is; www.ohpv.org/HPC/index.html        and further questions can be answered by asking the committee at; PIRhumanpower@comcast.net .

Hmmm, it's a holiday, thinking of fun things to do,,,

Bike on world-famous Lake Shore Drive with the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation for the seventh annual Bank of America Bike the Drive.

Capture timeless family memories. Kick back with friends along the sparkling lakefront. Jumpstart your fun and active summer. Support our work — All lanes lead to Bank of America Bike the Drive.

Come join us for an udderly good time at the 25th annual Udder Century.  Pedal (and steer…) along flat to rolling rural routes of 31, 50, 62, 75 (new), or 100 miles through the dairy land of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin .

Be sure to take breaks along the way at our strategically placed rest stops to refuel, refresh, and chow down on bagels, fruit, cookies and energy drinks. 

After the ride, swap bike tales with fellow cyclists while enjoying a gourmet pasta dinner in our cow-lossal banquet hall.

More info here

We are having an upcoming bike event on June 7, 2008 and would appreciate if you would post this event.

Join us on Saturday, June7th for National Trails Day and the Grand Opening of the Gaylord-Cheboygan-Mackinaw City Trail. Simultaneous ribbon- cuttings at Gaylord, Vanderbilt, Wolverine, Topinabee, Cheboygan, and Mackinaw City. Select your staring point and then ride, walk, or run to the luncheon celebration from noon to 2 p.m.. Lunch and trail dedication at Marina Park in Indian River.

info@trailscouncil.org

June 21 and 22, 2008
Cycle Vision, an internationally-renowned recumbent cycling event, will take place on the weekend of June 21 and 22, in and around the Velodrome at the Sloten Sportpark in Amsterdam.  Vendor exhibits and test-riding areas are at the core of the event, which also draws hundreds of participating riders for its series of recumbent races.  Inside, as well as outside on the Velodrome’s roughly 2500-meter racetrack, unusual bikes and trikes by the dozens are on public display.

More information and a complete program can be found at www.cyclevision.nl

This is the 25th year of the Michigan Rally.  It is the longest running HPV race event in the U.S., perhaps the World!  Please join us to make this year's Silver Anniversary of this rally one of the best ever! 

*** NOTE: We are looking for many of the "old-timers" to come on out and have some fun.  Also if you are one of those "stud" racers from out west, out east, overseas etc. who have never come to Waterford, we'd love to have you come out and race!   You don't know what you've been missing!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

8-9 am:    Registration, Vehicle Inspection, Practice Runs on Track:

9:30 am:  ONE HOUR TIME TRIAL 1: For Streamliner, SuperStreet class vehicles.

11:30 am  ONE HOUR TIME TRIAL 2: For Superstock, Stock, Womens, Junior & Trike class vehicles.  Contestants pedal for 60 minutes plus one lap around the track.  While not really “racing” against each other, the contestant’s final distance covered will be computed and compared to others.  Drafting is not allowed in this event.

Lunch Break -  Bring your own food or many establishments nearby.

2 pm:       HILL CLIMB/COAST-DOWN:  Contestants are timed as they race to the top of a short hill (28 feet climb).  Then measured how far down the track they can coast off the hill (30 foot descent) till they stop.  No pedalling allowed once you crest the hill!  The best streamliners have coasted over a mile!

2 pm        UTC: Urban Transportation Contest: Test your vehicle in a variety of skill course including luggage carrying, stop and go and tight turning. Note: you can run in this event and the Hill climb even though they're at the same time.

3:30 pm:  STANDING START KILOMETER:  Contestants are timed as they pedal one kilometer (0.621 miles) as fast as they can from a standing start on a flat part of the course.  There are three turns.

Dinner at the Track - New this year, we will camp out and grill food.  Bring your food or someone can buy for you nearby.  Lists will be passed out by 2 pm for orders for local pickup. 

Camping overnight at the track is allowed.  [Just don't forget the bug spray!]  Showers are also available at the track.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

9:00 am:  SPRINT EVENT:  Contestants try for their top speed, starting on top a hill on the course, then pedal down and speed through a 200-foot section of the back straightway where they are electronically timed.

11 am:     25-LAP ROAD RACES:  Contestants race 25 laps around the track (one for each year of the rally!) on the flat section.  There will be a separate race for vehicles that went over 35 mph in the Sprint and race for everyone else.  Race distance = approximately 15.6 miles (just over a kilo a lap).  NOTE: These are typically not a HPRA series point race.

1 pm:       Awards Ceremony:  For both days races. Can't stay?, well we can mail your certificates to you!  Cash prizes!

More info: http://mhpva.blogspot.com/

Starting Location and Route: Enjoy a bicycle tour on one of three rural routes (30, 45 and 62 miles), offering low traffic volume with mostly flatlands. The three routes start and finish at Plainfield High School South on the southeast corner of Ridge Rd. and Caton Farm Rd. in Plainfield, IL.

Directions: Take I-80 to Ridge Road (Exit No.122). Go north on Ridge Road 7 miles to Plainfield SOUTH High School, located at the southeast corner of Caton Farm Road and Ridge

Road Rest Stops: We have rest stops approximately every 15 miles. These stops serve many varieties of fruit, bagels, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cookies, drinks and much more, to help fuel the riders. Watermelon will be provided at the end of the ride at Plainfield South High School. Marked Routes, Cue Sheets & Sag Wagons: The routes will be clearly marked and each rider will receive a cue sheet at the registration table. Sag wagons will patrol the route until 4 PM to assist you if your bike should break down.

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Join us Saturday at the smooth Kenosha velodrome for the first day of WISIL recumbent bicycle racing.

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Streamliners and recumbent bikes and recumbent trikes, oh my.

Join us Sunday for the sprints and lap races at this large, smooth and gently banked velodrome.

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An HPV friendly race of 50, 100 or 200 miles in rural Illinois. Event information

Two days of great bent racing in a small friendly town.

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Ride the Bike Psycho's Century XXIV
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Coal City, IL
Ride along the scenic Illinois River
 
FREE water bottles and registration goodies to the first 400 registrants, and some of the best SAG stops you'll find anywhere!

Plus, all the great rest stops and scenery you've come to expect from the Bike Psychos' Century.

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September 15th through 20th, 2008
The course at Battle Mountain is scheduled to be repaved in spring 2008. We are keeping our fingers crossed that it will be an ultra fast course. The .decimach challenge returns for it's final year. 82 MPH wins it. This year? More soon

Two days of racing at the big oval track. Fun races. Good cookies.

Details soon.