Velo Bella Clinic - Saturday Oct. 15th

In conjunction with the first race of the Surf City series, we will be
holding a cyclocross clinic.

Come join us on Saturday, October 15th at Aptos High School at noon for a
cyclocross clinic. We are honored to have Carmen D'Aluisio, Sarah Kerlin, and Simon Vickers
lead this clinic for us. Clinic cost is only $15.

Carmen is a former criterium national champion, pro mountain biker and one
of the nation's top cyclocrossers. Although she has recently retired from
professional racing, she remains active in the sport as a personal coach and
as the director sportif for the Webcor Builder's Women's Team. (Don't worry
Carmen, I won't call you a matron)

Sarah is a member of the Velo Bella team. She placed 5th in the Cyclocross
National Championships in 2004 and an amazing 18th at the World
Championships in her first trip to the grand event.

All our instructors are amazing athletes and bike handlers and bring a spirit of fun and
adventure as well as their love of the sport to teaching.

The clinic is co-ed and open to all levels of riders. Instruction will
include practice on the course used in the race on Sunday, so be sure to
sign up for Sunday's race as well.

Cyclocross bikes are not required for the clinic or to race. If using a
mountain bike be certain to remove bar ends. It also helps to change out to
narrower, low profile tires. Most newcomers to cyclocross start out on a
mountain bike, so don't worry about it. Just bring what you ride.

We encourage everyone to pre-register for this event. You can pre-register
at Bikereg.com:
http://www.bikereg.com/races/register.asp?EventID=2671

We especially invite beginners, juniors, first timers and women to give a go
at cyclocross. We promise a fun event that will have you gasping for more!
We are offering a beginner's category (Category C) for women. Category C
women will get their own start and results against other beginner riders. We
are also offering a special Cyclocross Survival Kit for ALL first time
female racers. You must pre-register to qualify. So come out for the clinic
and come back for the race. Come see what all the dirty grins are about!

More info on the Surf City series can be found here
http://www.velobella.org/rides_surf_city.htm

Here are a few cool into to CX links:
http://members.aol.com/napavelo/intro.htm
http://www.maddogmedia.com/crossnet/howto.html
http://bigshark.com/site/page.cfm?PageID=68

And our gallery of CX fun:
http://www.pbase.com/sdukes/cyclocross


Sabine
www.velobella.org