Dan, is this what you wanted me to send?  Thanks, again, for the swag.  If you are ever looking to get away, I know Judy would love to see you out here.

Bill Wolf

Associate Director

Great Basin Institute

office:  775-289-4300

fax: 775-289-4322

The results are up for the Rainbow Ridge race.  The attendance was a little
skimpy.  Please, let's show a little more support for our local races.  The
next one up is the Pine Nut Cracker, a fast and fun course.

Rainbow Ridge Results
http://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2008-1190

Pine Nut Cracker Info
http://www.altaalpina.com/attachments/pinenutcracker2008.pdf

Pete

I don't know where to meet for hidden valley volunteering.  Little Help??

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Just a reminder, carpool at 8:00am at the Alamo west parking lot tomorrow
(Sunday, May 4).

Pete

> -----Original Message-----
> From: renowheelmen@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:renowheelmen@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pete Rissler
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:52 AM
> To: Reno Wheelmen; 'UNR cycling'
> Subject: [renowheelmen] First NV Cup Race This Sunday -
> Rainbow Ridge Challenge
>
> The first race in the Nevada Cup/NORBA Nevada State
> Championship series is this Sunday, May 4 at 11:00am. The
> race is located about 15 miles east of Fallon Nv, 80 miles
> east of Reno with the last 5 miles on a dirt road. Give
> yourself at least an 1.5 hours to get there from Reno. This
> is a very challenging course, expect very loose and dusty
> conditions (as opposed to the extremely muddy conditions of
> past years). There will be pinch flats.
> The forecast for Sunday calls for Partly sunny, with a high near 70.
>
> Let's support our local races and get out there and race.
> More info at the site below.
>
> http://www.churchillcounty.org/parksnrec/index.php?ctr=101
> <http://www.churchillcounty.org/parksnrec/index.php?ctr=101>
>
> There will be a carpool at the Alamo Casino west parking lot
> on Sunday.
> Meet at 8:00am.
>
> Pete
>
>
>
>
>

Hi everyone,

As your Nevada Bicycle Advisory Board representative, I wanted to inform you of
the upcoming conference: http://www.bicyclenevada.com/conf_08_home.htm
There will be a lot of interesting topics and even a trail building clinic. If
you are interested sign up. Hope to see you there!

Thanks,

Chris Carlson

work!!!

Quick note:  We are going to have a meeting next w
(dead day) to sort out summer things.  I am hopefully
moving on Friday and have no idea as to when I will
return, well sometime in August)

That is what I have to say about last weekend.
Putting on a race has always been a lot of work but
last weekend took the cake by a long shot.  I know I
spent about well, about 9+16+14+5=44? on f-m and that
was only a fraction of the man hours for the weekend.
So, if you were out there this weekend, thank you so
much.  Sitting in a hot parking lot on the hottest day
of the year dealing with a bunch of uptight aholes
that work in the med school is about as much fun as
cleaning your chain one pin at a time and then putting
back together.  So again, if you sacrificed some or
all of your weekend, thanks again, you know who you
are.  A special thanks also to the alumni that were
out there.

For me, the biggest bummer of the weekend was the lack
of cooperation between drivers and racers which lead
to some full blown psychotic behavior by north
valley's biggest jackasses.  While I was at the
turnaround on Sat and not at the finish, more than one
person suggested that red rock has become invialable
has a rr course.  After course marshalling the ttt, I
am tempted to say the same about both red rock and
cold springs.  Nevertheless, it was still a successful
weekend and congrats to the big bird for scoring third
in the mb rr.  Great job.

And now, a quick few notes.
-Kudos to Marian J for keeping things in persepective.
  Apparently there was some bitchin going on during the
wa rr and some woman started wining when she almost
crashed when try to pass in a turn-a-round.  As the
group started the second lap, marian forcefully
suggested that everyone chill out and have fun.  True
that and way to be:)
-The reason for mc fields became quite apparent this
weekend.  While every other field managed the
turnaround on red rock, which I will concede is
difficult, the men's c muscle heads were too busy
trying to drill it on the way out, had their heads
down, failed to notice the a-frame that said
turn-a-round ahead, failed to notice the turnaround
cones, failed to observe me waiving a giant stop sign
in the middle of the road 30' feet after the cone, and
most of them proceeded to blow past me without even
hitting their brakes.  Actually, the men's ds did that
as well except I had added cones to block the lane
they were in so they road by the a-frame, by the
turn-around cone, and then weaved through me AND the
cones I had placed in the road.
-The reason for the mc fields became quite apparent
this weekend.  Every ttt team negotiated the corner 1
of 2 without problem (that is the corner that takes
your onto the overpass.  The course is pretty self
explanatory, since you ride around the lake and take
the only two right corners that you encounter (except
for the freeway on-off ramps).  With an a-frame before
corner 1 (on an uphill), a cone on corner 1, and 4
course marshalls after the corner things were
evidentally pretty obvious, except for the men's c
team from the school with the dark blue/yellow jerseys
who stayed at my house.  They proceeded to ride past
the a-frame, past the cone, and almost past the
overpass, almost into Eddie holding a sign, make a
last ditch 180 degree corner onto the over-pass where
traffic was being held back for them by the OC, and
then as they came down the overpass past the arrow
pointing them straight, they started to set-up to make
a right turn onto the north-bound off-ramp where I was
standing with a stop sign with traffic backed up like
4 cars deep and a bunch of signs blaring at them DO
NOT ENTER.  In any event, one of them crashed as
brakes squealed as they tried to do everything but go
on the straight, uninterupted road in front of them.

So there you have it.  Oh yeah, I have another great
story but you have to ask me about this one.  It has
to do  with Rich Paul and is hilarious, I think.  I
also have the notes from the underground (wccc road
trashtalking) which I will bring to the next meeting
which are even more hilarious.  Okay, here is a quick
excerpt.

"Most spectacular failed leadout: Stanford Men A 'at
hmm... every race they've tried.' Particularly,
stanford men and women at the ucsb crit.  they had it
LINED UP (just ask Chris Carlson), Devin on Parnes'
wheel coming into the finishing stretch. Then Parnes
went and ... Devin sat up?  Something happened. It
collapsed like a house of cards in a tornado. The best
wheel of the race was suddenly lame duck central, and
then a brick house on wheels rolls past and tekes the
win.  WTF happened?  I have no clue."

"Everything went wrong moment: Wyles Vance replacing
his worn out cleats with the wrong kind and racing
UCLA tt in running shoes with an aero helmet."

The best part is, the underground notes are 11 pages
long.


      
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