The Illinois Cup returned last weekend, taking a trip to Hyde Park on the campus of UIC U of C for one of the areas longest running races. It seems lately that wonderfully sunny weeks are replaced by unforgiving and unpredictable weekends. Saturday was no different with the morning races getting poured on. Eventually the [...]
When I first became interested in racing my bike, it didn’t take long to get the lay of the land. There were a few forums online that pointed me in the right direction but a quick Google search put me on the path to enlightenment. Over a year before pinning on my first number, Luke Seemann had [...]
If you missed either of the weekend’s races you missed out, but if you could only pick one, Sunday was a real treat. The excellent weather remained in tact on Sunday and the downtown-Urbana course presented some excellent racing. 8 turns on rough tarmac meant you had to stay focused the entire time. There was [...]
The Tour de Champaign returned to it’s original course for 2012. The 4 (and a half?) corner crit is flat and fast. The temperatures were high (mid 80′s by day’s end) and for many Chicagoans, it was the first “hot” race of the season. Druber was drop’n beats in tribute to MCA and for the [...]
The Illinois Cup was back in action last weekend at Cobb Park, one of the longest running races in the area–put on by South Chicago Wheelman. With many making the trek to Joe Martin, and some opting to go north of the Cheddar Curtain for a road race, fields were somewhat modest. The Women’s 1/2 [...]
Technically, 2012 was the first season for xXx’s Alderman James Cappleman’s 46th Ward Lincoln Park Criterium. The race replaces the Sherman Park Crit which xXx stated was because of deteriorating course conditions. Regardless of the reason for the switch of venues, the result is a much more compelling course with a 180 and a front [...]
Leland Kermesse returned in 2012 after a brutal 2011 that saw sub 40 degree temperatures and downpours of sleety cold rain. In a race typically defined by the elements, wind or rain usually, 2012 was rather pleasant. With minimal wind, there was a sense of the unknown before the race. Would 2012 be the year [...]
