This year Capitol Velo will be hosting the OBRA State Road Race Championships. June 16th will be part of the Oregon Cup Series. Series leaders will race for ... » Read More: OBRA Road Race Championships]]>

Saturday, May 12th & Saturday June 16th, 2012

This year Capitol Velo will be hosting the OBRA State Road Race Championships. June 16th will be part of the Oregon Cup Series. Series leaders will race for free. Volunteers will be needed to make this event a success.

» 2012 Race Flyer

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Capitol Velo is proud to wear Pactimo clothing in our team colors. Clothing is available to members of Capitol Velo at various times of the year. There are many options from Pactimo on our custom designed clothing. Clothing design was created by Sage Freeman check him our for any of your web design work.

Twas a dark and stormy day…

This past Saturday was the first Capitol Velo group ride of the year. We went out and reckoned the OBRA state road race ... » Read More: The Capitol Velo Ride Report]]>

The intrepid souls. Photo credit:Kurt

This past Saturday was the first Capitol Velo group ride of the year. We went out and reckoned the OBRA state road race championship course for this year. And what a ride it was.

The night before I kept checking the weather reports hoping that they had gotten it wrong. But nope, it was going to be miserable. Maybe not biblical type misery. But definitely more than we wanted for the first team ride of the year. Meh, what do you do?

We were hoping to entice some new members or potential new members out for the ride. But with the way the weather looked to be panning out I figured we would be lucky to have just the club board members show up (8). But happily twenty intrepid souls were there for what was going to be a pretty “epic” day.  The ride was only 40 miles. Which by normal club rides is only a little longer than usual. But that doesn’t mean it’s not going to hurt…

All the other photos were from Hollie.

There were the usual suspects from the team. Along with a handful of new guys. I must admit I was pretty impressed that many people showed up. Honestly, if I weren’t one of the people organising it I sincerely doubt I would have showed.

We met at the Bike Peddler just before the scheduled 9:30 am departure. And rolled out about 9:40 because evidently, Dusty doesn’t own a watch…

Before we got out of town we already had two flats. Which didn’t bode well for us. But we got them taken care of and continued south.

Hollie and Andrew had agreed to drive the route and take some video and pictures not only as blog fodder (Gee whiz, aren’t they swell!). But also for the club website which will hopefully be getting an overhaul sometime in the near future. (Note: These are just some low resolution shots. The video and high res stuff is coming soon, so stay posted.)

The stuff on the lense would be snow and this shows how much we need to work on 2×2 riding…

The conversation was light and pleasant. And for the most part the speed was too.  We regrouped several times for people to catch back on. Everyone ended up waiting for me and a couple of the other “big” guys at the top of most of the hills. Which quite frankly I was hoping. I did my best not to keep them standing around and getting chilled to much but I only have about two speeds going up… Slow and stop.

This would be where I start to fade away into the distance…

As we reached about the half way point I was sort of expecting the head/side wind that we had been experiencing up to that point to become a nice cross tailwind. But unfortunately that wasn’t the case. It just became a straight cross wind. Which did an exceptional job of splitting the group into several different echolons.

And that’s when it started to happen.

I started bonking. Bad.

That would be me off the back. In my own personal ‘Bonkland’ (It’s like Disneyland. But with out the fun and empty wallet at the end. But you still get that nauseous feeling…).

Big E

Thanks to the 15 hardy souls who joined Capitol Velo to preview the OBRA RR Champs course on February 25th. The weather was crazy. We had 20 minutes of sunshine with moderate winds, followed by ... » Read More: Meet the Snow Ride February 25th]]>

Thanks to the 15 hardy souls who joined Capitol Velo to preview the OBRA RR Champs course on February 25th. The weather was crazy. We had 20 minutes of sunshine with moderate winds, followed by 20 minutes of rain mixed with snow (SLAIN) and insane winds, followed by 20 minutes of sunshine with moderate winds, followed by 20 minutes of SLAIN with insane winds. I think you get the picture, but we all had a good time out riding our bikes and checking out the new OBRA RR champ course.

You can now renew your membership for 2012 from the Capitol Velo website.

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