Santa Cruz Demo Day!

Last weekend on July 16th Yuba Expeditions held a Santa Cruz Bicycles Demo day in Graegle, California, as a fundraiser for the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship.  The Santa Cruz Tallboy Carbon, Bronson Carbon, and Solo Carbon were available to demo for free on some fine high sierra singletrack, shuttles cost $10 which, proceeds support future trail projects in the Downieville/Lakes Basin area!


Santa Cruz tents in downtown Graegle.

I rode the Santa Cruz Bronson Carbon, it was awesome to be able to spend some solid trail time on such a nice bike.  I loved the 650b wheels and for bike with 150mm of travel pedaled excellently.  We were shuttled from Graegle to a fire road, from there it was a three mile climb to Mills Peak Lookout and the top of Mills Peak Trail.  This was my first time riding this great trail and was impressed by how the rocky root filled tread still had excellent flow and is defiantly one of my favorite trails!                                                                                                                                                                                          

The Santa Cruz Solo is the shorter and lighter travel brother of the Bronson with 125mm of travel.

This event was totally awesome, and was well attended.  I hope other demo events will occur in the Downieville area!!!

 

Nevada City Dirt Classic # 2

On the twenty-ninth of June I raced in the second Nevada City Dirt Classic XC Series at the Hallelujah and Upper Pioneer Trails, it was a lot of fun and the rain during the previous week left the trails tacky and perfect for racing!  I competed in the CAT 1 15-18 age group and came in second place with a race time of 1:36:49 doing three laps on the 5.7 mile loop.

Larry Sussman in third, Liam Ruff in second, and Alec Crofoot in first.  The CAT 1 M 15-18 podium.

The next and last Nevada City Dirt Classic Race will be held on the twenty-seventh of July on the Hallelujah and Upper Pioneer Trails and is a great chance to be able to race on the fine trails of the Tahoe National Forest.  As always the profits made by this race series will go toward supporting local youth bike clubs and getting kids on bikes!  More information about this awesome race series including registration information and past race results can be found at YBONC's web site.

The day after the race it was up to Downieville for some great riding!