YGR readers -
You might be aware of a group that's working pretty hard to bring bike racing back to Fort Collins. Called the
NCCE - or Northern Colorado Cycling Events - the group is dedicated to developing a thriving cycling race culture in northern Colorado. Through a lot of hard work and dedication from quite a few of your local cycling guys, 2010 is already shaping up to be a monumental year for having fun on the bicycles up here. Recently we've added another exciting event - an ACA sanctioned cyclocross race. I won't go into details on the process, but of 26 available race dates, the ACA had over 100 race date requests. With that kind of response, the ACA was initially set to allocate the dates to promoters that had already proven themselves. Had the ACA had stuck to their original intention, we would have been long off the list. But they didn't. And we have a date.
Now that we have the date, our goal is to put on the best darned cross race on the ACA calendar. And this is the reason for the post. We need to secure an awesome venue. So I'm reaching out to the community to see if anyone has an idea or connection to a location that's in Fort Collins, able to handle 300-500 people on race day, and is excited to have a cyclocross event on their property. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact us.
And if you're reading this and are interested in being involved with this event at a sponsorship level, please feel free to contact us as well.
This event will be a joint effort by Peloton-Specialzed and the Fort Collins Cycling Team. Below is a contact for each squad. Feel free to drop either of us a line with your thoughts.
Thanks all.
- Sam Acheson / Peloton-Specialized
Sam @ Peloton-Specialized
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Tim @ Fort Collins Cycling Team
