Team Escape Velocity Cycling Club

It's the most fun you can have in a cold, wet public park with your clothes on!

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The fourth annual Escape Velocity Grand Prix of Cyclocross presented by Escape Velocity Cycling team will be a flat-out race for cyclocross glory! It will be a mostly flat-out grass-and-gravel course, set against the charming backdrop of the Fraser River. The course will be a weather dependent: maybe fast, maybe pure power. Trash talk is encouraged but please play nice.

Everyone had fun at Cross(Port)quitlam!

The 2009 race results are now available. Thanks to everyone who participated. We hope you had as much fun racing and watching as we had setting up the course before sunrise. Actually, we hope you had rather more fun than that.

At Escape Velocity, we care about world domination. It's the bike racer in us, and also because, when it comes to bike racing, we ask ourselves "what would Sluggo do?"

And on that note, EV member Alex Pope is now the new president of the BC Randonneurs club, that most endearing group of endurance riders.

In other news, EV also dominated Men's B cyclocross this weekend:

So it was the last night of WTNC, and we had some fun.

That's Bill Riley on a period-correct Gitane, riding in clips and straps, winning the Retro division (aka first DNF, Cat 4). The rider is period-correct for the bicycle, too.

Here's EV's Ted Martin, holding his hard-won "ugliest jersey" trophy:

We at Escape Velocity, the World Tuesday Night Championships World Headquarters, would like to congratulate the WTNC category winners. More specifically, we'd like to pay them, but we will only do that on one condition: you have to show up next Tuesday.

About next Tuesday: the racing will go on as usual, and as usual will be shine only. Also, we'd like you to come out in retro kit and on a retro bike. What the heck, it's just for fun as the last race of the year doesn't count for the WTNC omnium standings.

However, the WTNC award ceremony and the Garneau Evolution win-a-bike draw will be Rain Or Shine. Traditionally, we retreat to a covered location for these activities if it's too wet for racing. Our lovely and talented WTNC Twitter feed should tell you where to go if it's wet.

Oh yes, we will also be drawing for the bike or bikes! If you still want a ticket for that, please come next Tuesday, as we will be able to sell you a ticket there. You can also contact Jak New by email. You do not have to be present to win. We will have secondary prizes from La Bicicletta Pro Shop, Moveo, Peak, Kicking Horse Coffee and PowerBar.

And now, your WTNC 2009 winners: