2009 Cross on the Rock

Update: Sunday, November 28th

BC Cyclocross Championships Poster (PDF)

Survey (.doc)

LAST UPDATE OF THE YEAR: Cross on the Rock Update #18.

Lots of updates and news this year…but this is the last one for the year.

We are already busy planning things out for next year to make our series and cross on Vancouver Island even better than this year….but we do require your feedback from our survey…please take the time.

It has been a great season. Some really-really great races! A lot of fun. I will miss seeing everyone!!

Thanks to everyone for coming out and we will see you next September.

From Normon for everyone that helped out at the races and came out to watch and volunteer!! A big THANK YOU!

Check out the final series standings for 2009!!

1) THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

As you can guess nothing happens in our series without our sponsors. We have some great ones and I would like to take the time to thank them and say a few things about each of them.

Pedal Magazine. Benjamin from pedal came on board in a more official capacity to offer a great discount for our riders on subscriptions (see offer below) as well as excellent coverage of the events and a few prizes for the series. We also had complimentary copies of the magazines at each of the events for people to grab, read and take home.

Frontrunners in Nanaimo. Besides allowing me the flexibility to be able to go to and organize events….Frontrunners has also supported cross since the very start on Vancouver Island in 2003 with prizing for each event. We had 3 staff start the series and 2 finish….so not too bad!

FSA. HUGE Sponsor! Max Ralph from FSA has helped us out in a MAJOR way with prize gift certificates for the past 2 years. The certificates are one of the most favorite prizes of the racers (DON’T forget to cash them in before the expiry date).

Oak Bay Bikes in Nanaimo and Victoria. Again one of our long time sponsors. Many of our sponsors are also through our association with OBB. The Nanaimo crew were the directors and organizers of Race #2 at Bowen Park this year. 4 of their staff raced this year.

Lambert-Lezyne. Lambert helped us out last year through a number of their companies that they distribute last year. This year it was through one specific company, Lezyne. Lezyne prizes were generously given out at the events as well for the series overall. Peter Creighton (and also later Kevin Calhoun) have been very supportive of the series and what we are doing on the island.

Oakley. BC Oakley Representative; Mike Medland, used to sponsor the series through Converse. Since swapping up positions he still gave us support with the Oakley Jawbones at each of our events…..now we just want to try to get him out to our events again too!

Nutcase Helmets. When we were trying to think of a title sponsor for our NISSCCOTU event…..well Nutcase was just a natural! Despite them being a relatively small company they came on board for our special prized and champion prizes for this great event.

Nanaimo Daily News. It is impressive when you have the support of a newspaper and they are willing to help you with pretty much any event that you do in the community. Cathy Webster from the Nanaimo Daily News believes in what ever Frontrunners is doing….and backs up her belief with the newspaper’s support.

Action Motorcycles. You know that cross is making a nice community impact when it is not just bike shops that are supporting the series….but moto shops too. This is mostly because Jamie Emery is a huge fan of racing the events…..so we thank him for coming out and also getting his shop involved in helping us with prizing for the series….if you need motorized 2 wheel transit….Action Motorcycles!

KONA. Dik Cox and the whole KONA crew are always behind our series and what we do over here. From pro looking flagging tape to prizes to one of our grand prizes of the Major One. KONA has been on board for a few years ….we like them and then like us….so it is great!

Great Western. One of our smaller sponsors with BBB prizing this year….we hope to get them back for next year and have them even more involved with our series.

Crankbrothers. Jason First from Crankbrothers makes room for us even when the budget is not conducive to a top level sponsorship. Then have been involved with our series since 2006 and cross since they became a company. Crankbrothers is the #1 pedal at the Cross on the Rock events! We hope to have them up to their top level of sponsorship and back in 2010.

Steve and Paul from Lighthouse Brewery are super supportive of our events…..already confirmed for 2010 to return!! Steve even made a special trip to drive down to Shawnigan Lake School to personally deliver our prizes for the last race….and to check out our event….he was super impressed!!

We have the famous Jimmy P out from Aviawest for a couple of our events this hear after he got better from the H1N1 (or something!). The weekends away from Aviawest are one of the most sought after prizes that everyone wishes for at each of our events.

Bryn from Saltspring Coffee came on board as a prime sponsor this year….even though I am one of the rare people on earth that does not drink coffee (no one wants to see me more jacked up) their coffee to me always seems to smell….well of better quality….when ever we open the box of Saltspring coffee when we are doing the prizes for the even….the whole room smells better. From my friends that do drink coffee…once they tried Saltspring they have not had anything else in their house.

Dan Brady from the Howard Johnson is another one of our sponsors that is so community oriented that what ever we do….they are in….no questions asked! They don’t get a tonne of business from our cross series as most of the events are day trips for everyone…but we hope that when our racers are thinking about traveling to Victoria or Nanaimo for events or personal…that they think of what the Ho Jo does for cross and take their business to them.

1) SERIES SURVEY

Attached is our annual post-series survey. We read each of these and it helps to structure our events and the direction that we take….PLEASE take 10 minute and fill it out and fire it back to us….it really does help and make a difference!

2) MORE THINGS TO CHECK OUT

No new YouTube’s to check out from Rob….so we might have to post those on our web site later.

In the meantime a tonne of photos to check out:

From Rita Wania….first season cross racer: http://tinyurl.com/yjrhnx5

From Jamie Cameron:

Shawnigan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jam1ec/collections/72157622755922427/

Providence Farm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jam1ec/collections/72157622622599530/

From our Favorite racing VEGAN…..Vegandave:

http://picasaweb.google.com/davenoisy1/20091122CrossOnTheRock6CrossVega

From super fan James Young…..who says he thinks he got shots of everyone:

http://picasaweb.google.com/cycletouringcanada.com/ShawniganLakeCyclocross?feat=directlink

Also, if anyone you know wants a "high resolution" copy of any photos, I can certainly email them specific ones. The web ones are pretty low res if someone is wanting to print them out or anything, but I do have the full res on the home computer.

From race organizer Ian Craib and our Shawnigan connection:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oakbaybikes/sets/72157622865992456/with/4130429614/

And from Regan Pringle…some nice artsy ones in here too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reganpringleshoots/sets/72157622859138448/

3) PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (POSTER IS ATTACHED!)

LAST CHANCES TO RACE IN THIS PROVINCE!

You can even warm up for this race by doing the last BC Cup race the day before on the 28th in South Surrey to make it a DOUBLE HEADER!

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