(Left to right) Kayla and Chelsea BIB organizers and Carrie the overall champ.

121 amazing women showed up and made Babes in Bikeland II a smashing success.

Congrats to all who raced and congrats to the top 5 podium. Results and reactions can be found by visiting the forum discussion at Minneapolis Bike Love. A million and one photos can be found on Flickr.

Thanks to Deplaqer for the photo above. Check out his massive set.

Official Results:
1. Carrie
2. Jana
3. Steph
4. Ashley Marie
5. Kat

This is tonight, Wednesday August 20th.

For the past three years The Hub Bike Co-op has sponsered a highly attended cyclocross race at Powderhorn Park in south Minneapolis. This year we are having trouble securing a permit for the race due to claimed damage to the park. We need folks to attend this Wednesday’s Park Board meeting to show support for keeping cyclocross racing in Minneapolis parks and specifically at Powderhorn Park. Besides having some supports at the meeting we need a people who are willing to stand up and speak for 2-3 minutes about why it is important to keep the cyclocross race at Powderhorn. If you live in the park vicinity and or feel strongly about this please contact me about signing up to speak(Joel Cahalan 612-203-5280(cell), 612-729-0437(shop)). I will have some talking points put together and emailed out before the meeting. To speak you must be signed up by 3pm the day of the meeting. The meeting starts at 5pm with time for us to speak at 5:30. It is located at:

MPRB Administrative Offices, Board Room Suite 255
Address: 2117 West River Road
Minneapolis

A bit of discussion over at MBL about the event.

I’ll see you there. Teh fuck else you have to do? Did I mention you’ve been a lazy fuck all summer and you should really get off your ass and go and do an event that someone else bothered to put together for you and your friends to enjoy?

Here’s what Thomas has to see about his event.

When
Saturday August 9th.
Registration 12pm.
Opening Ceremony: 12:45pm.
Games: 1ish
Cut Off: 6pm. If we get done before this, then we’ll do awards then. I’m expecting to be done way before 6, but just in case.

Where
Brackett Park

Registration Info
- You must register in teams of two. If you can’t find somebody, than we can try to hook you up.
- Pre-Registration is the bestest! Just pm/email (address in my profile) me your team’s info and you can pay on race day.
- Registration fee is $5.
- When you register your team, also include what neighborhood you’re representing (or city or whatever geographical term works), and if you have a team name.

Events

Alley Cat Relay
One team member goes out and fulfills part of a sequence, comes back, turns it in, and the next teammate gets the next part. shortest time wins.

Bike Carry Hoplite
Teams throw their bike on their shoulders and run a course together. Shortest time wins.

Front Wheel Discus
Each team member throws a provided wheel. Total distance determines the winner.

Sprints
Timed sprints down the Greenway. You know, like how most race dealies work.

Teams will rotate around events to minimize waiting time (i.e. while one team is doing the discus another is doing the relay and so on.)

Prizes
- Other people’s $5. Mo’ Teams = Mo’ Money
- Medals for the top three teams
- Spokecards for all.

Check out the full set of official All City Championship 2008 results over at the Bike Jerks Blog.

BMX shooting sparks at the All City Pre-Party 07/25/2008 -Photo Datsun_Wong

First of all, a big thank you to Jeff for putting together a flawless race. This was a long hard slog with a good number of twists and turns. You could tell it was well thought out and well planned. Over 125 people competed in the 2008 All City Championship. Keep an eye on the Bike Jerks blog for the official results and updates.

The Friday night pre-party was insane. My best guess is some 200-250 people gathered behind One on One to pre-register and compete in the evenings events. My only question is, where the fuck did all these people go come Saturday? I hope you have a lame excuse that makes you feel better about showing up for a party and ditching out on the fucking fun ass race the next day.

I spent the evening at Lake Harriet working the Time Trial stop. We sent riders around Lake Harriet (~2.8 miles) in competition for top male and female spot.

Fred and I reckon the average time for males to be aproximately 10:30 minutes and the average time for females to be 11:30.

Ben Jammin and Rita Erin W absolutely crushed the competition. Ben won the men’s TT title with a time of 7:30 7:50! And Erin W won the women’s TT crown with a time of 9:20.

Shona(sp?) from Winnepeg won the DFL prize for slowest time around Lake Harriet. She asked if it was possible to get lost before leaving. I said just go around the lake and stay on Lake Harriet Parkway. One hour and ten minutes later she returned, after having rode around all the lakes, with a WTF?! note from her two exasparated riding partners. Kmo and Misty waited over 45 minutes for her to return and even made two extra trips around the lake looking for their fellow Canadian.

I had the pleasure of getting to know these three better later that evening and the next day at bike polo and they are a class act. I’m so happy that they came all the way to check out Minneapolis’ bike community.

As far as I can remember the men’s podium was Mike Brauer, Trevor, and Ben Jammin in that order. The women’s podium was Jana, Steph, and Rita also in that order. Time trial champs were Ben Jammin and Rita. Top out of town men’s/women’s went to Kmo and Misty. Masters men’s and women’s first place went to Martin (one time messenger and father of three) and Jana.

The top three men were separated by only 2 minutes.

A special hats off to my good friend Jana for clinching her first major alleycat win! This time out, you were unstoppable! Hope your new Steamroller leads you on many more adventures.

The tension was thick as Brad Wilson from Capricorn pulled the winner of a custom bike from the hat. The top three mens, womens, and the two out of town places were entered in the raffle. Rita, competing in her first race, was drawn and will be receiving a custom built Capricorn bicycle. A huge thanks to Brad for donating a prize that goes above and beyond the call of duty. Say thank you with some dollars.

All these results are from memory and in no way official. Can’t wait to see the full field of results. Anyone who completed this 40 mile course deserves your admiration.

/Edit Well like I said these were unofficial results. I got the women’s TT incorrect. Erin W was the winner and not Rita as I had previously stated. Sorry ladies. Check out the official results at the Bike Jerks Blog.