We are excited again to be having out Halloween Race this next Tuesday, November 1st. We’ve been having people come out in costume for several years now and it’s always one of the most fun nights of the season.
So, come out in costume and race for free. If you are able to race in your costume, that’s even better. We will also have some prize grabs during the races: set your bike down and say ‘trick or treat’ and we’ll give you something. It could be a nice prize from one of our sponsors, it could be a piece of candy, it could be a lot of things, but it will certainly be an interesting addition to the races.
So come and join this Tuesday, it’ll certainly be one of the more interesting nights of the year.
It was another fantastic night of racing out at the Peddler Dirt Derby. Tonight might have been our best weather yet, and we had another great showing.
In other exiting news, back by popular demand are the Intermediate MTB results after last weeks unexpected hiatus.
We also want to give a special thanks to everyone who stayed for the night to cheer on the races, we had an especially enthusiastic crowd tonight, with people finding unique and hilarious places to “encourage” the racers.
Remember that next week The Peddler Dirt Derby is officially extending Halloween an extra night, so keep your costumes out and wear them to the Derby as it should be a fantastic time.
Cruise on over to the results page to view the stellar performances from this week and thanks again to everyone for another great night of racing
-The Peddler Dirt Derby
Results have been posted from tonights race, but unfortunately there was a computer error with the B MTB results that nullified all of our score-keeping for that race, so we are left with apologies rather than results
In better news, the weather was lovely and provided for a splendid night of bike racing.
In even better news, on November 1st we’re doing our ‘Track and Treat’ night of racing, where we encourage everyone to get one last use out of their halloween costumes. Dress up and race for free, Ryan will begin all the races in a Transylvannian accent, and we’re planning other exciting things for that night.
Apologies for the Intermediate MTB results, we’ve made sure it doesn’t happen again, and we’ll return next week with another night of racing; see y’all then.
After a week sadly disrupted by rain, the Peddler Dirt Derby is back in action this Tuesday night! We are expecting beautiful weather and hope that the week without racing has only built anticipation for this weeks Derby action.
Tuesday will also be our 2nd Ladies Night of the season, so we would love to see as many ladies, and men dressed like ladies racing for free as possible.
But wait there is more exciting news, The Peddler Dirt Derby is pleased to announce a new sponsor for the 2011 season: Grease Monkey Wipes.
Grease Monkey Wipes are multi-purpose cleaning wipes that use an all natural, citrus formula for heavy duty cleaning. Each wipe easily removes grease, grime, oil, brake dust, and other general filth from your bike or your skin without using harsh chemicals. The portable nature of the wipes mean you can take them anywhere to clean up your bike at anytime.
Grease Monkey Wipes is an Austin-based company that is proud to support all aspects of cyclocross and mountain bike racing. To find out more about the company please visit www.greasemonkeywipes.com or follow them on Twitter at @MonkeyWipes.
To recap, The Peddler Dirt Derby is back this week, its ladies night, and we have cool new sponsorship to be excited about. So go cruise around on the Grease Monkey Wipes websites and we hope to see ya’ll out there tomorrow night!
The Peddler Dirt Derby is pleased to announce a new sponsor for our 2011 season: Grease Monkey Wipes.
Grease Monkey Wipes are multi-purpose cleaning wipes that use an all natural, citrus formula for heavy duty cleaning. Each wipe easily removes grease, grime, oil, brake dust, and other general filth from your bike or your skin without using harsh chemicals. The portable nature of the wipes mean you can take them anywhere to clean up your bike at anytime.
Grease Monkey Wipes is an Austin-based company that is proud to support all aspects of cyclocross and mountain bike racing. To find out more about the company please visit www.greasemonkeywipes.com or follow them on Twitter at @MonkeyWipes.
It’s not called The Peddler Dirt Derby without reason. Racing makes bikes dirty; Grease Monkey Wipes makes bikes clean.
Sorry, all. We just got word that there’s too much standing water on the track for us to race tonight.
There are a bunch of puddles on the course and the track manager will be spending today cutting furrows to ease the drainage, so it’s not in condition to be ridden.
We will push back Ladies Night until next Tuesday, and hopefully we won’t have bunches of rain in the intervening time.
We had so much fun with the first one that we’re throwing another: The Peddler Dirt Derby will have its second Ladies Night of the year tomorrow. So, women and guys who look suspiciously like women get to race for free.
A very novel thing happened over the weekend: rain fell from the sky. A few clear days and the fact that the dirt wasn’t saturated at all have us pretty confident that we don’t need to cancel races tomorrow, so we are all a go for racing tomorrow night. However, if the course is wetter than we predict, we will let y’all know via the website, our facebook and our twitter.
We had another great showing this week at the Peddler Dirt Derby, thank you to everyone who came out.
In our effort to constantly keep riders guessing, we followed up last weeks “dust bowl” with perfect weather. It seemed fitting to have cool skies and sand on the ground for our inaugural Cruiser Class race, that proved to be both a battle of grit and courage.
To continue on with this weeks theme, cruise on over to the results tab and check out the great performances from Tuesdays racing!
We had an excellent kick off to the 2011 Peddler Dirt Derby last week and we’re back this week with another Tuesday night of racing with a new racing class and a beginner cyclocross clinic.
–Dust off your old beach cruiser bikes, bmx bikes, borrow a kids bike or ride a singlespeed anything for a quick one-lap race around the course in our new Cruiser Class right after the Intermediate CX race and just before the Open race. It’s free, and it’s fun.
–Austin on Two Wheels is pleased to offer a free beginner cyclocross clinic each Tuesday beginning at 5:45 out at The Peddler Dirt Derby. They’ll cover dismounts and remounts, running barrier, shouldering the bike, dealing with run ups, and an overview of cyclocross equipment. No experience necessary, all types of bike are welcome and then put your new skills to the test right afterwards in our Beginner CX Race.
–In addition, we’ll have some racers from the North American Cycle Courier Championships racing as they begin a week-long bike messenger throwdown all right here in Austin.
Plus, a regular night of fun racing at The Peddler Dirt Derby! Kids Race, Beginner Race, two intermediate races and then our Open Race provide a night full of cyclocross and MTB excitement. And we’ll have free Luna bar samples that were supposed to be given out last week but were then forgot about!
We hope to see y’all out again this Tuesday,
-The Peddler Dirt Derby
Short track and cyclocross racing under the summer sun
