Iron City Bikes is pleased to announce the second Goldsprints of 2010. This time we mean business and are pulling out all the stops for another crazy night of beer, music, and indoor bicycle racing.
Date: Friday April 23, 2010
Place: OTB Bicycle Cafe
Time: 8pm – 2AM
$2 Magic Hat beers, Prizes from Fat heads, Mad Mex, Jimmy Johns and More
Bring your friends and call them out to race head to head, at the end of the night we will take the fastest twelve men and eight women all night and seed a bracket for head to head mayhem. Thats right brackets have been reduced by more than half. Qualify as many times as you like and set a fast time for one of the 4 first round byes
$10 to Race, or Sign up / Renew your bike Bike Pittsburgh membership and race for free. First 30 to register get a free t-shirt printed by our friends at Ink Division Screen Printing.
Sponsored By: Urban Velo, Magic Hat brewing, Fat Heads, OTB Bicycle Cafe, and Iron City Bikes
As the weather has finally started to get nice, it feels like it’s just about time for alleycat season to get started. The guys at Urban Velo are kicking off the year with the Spring Roll Alleycat on March 20. They have a ton of great prizes as well as Jeff Guerrero’s hand made Champions Rice Bowls for the for the first place man, woman and out-of-towner of the day. You can find all the details at the races official site here. Standard alleycat details:
Saturday, March 20th
5:00pm
Starts at “The Wall” in Oakland
$10
Bring a bag
Afterparty at the new BikePGH headquarters in Lawrenceville
See you there!
Wow. What a night. Once again we teamed up with our sponsors to create an epic night of head-to-head roller racing action. Snowed In— held at Over the Bar Bicycle cafe this past friday—was the first team fund raiser of the year. The Black & Gold Sprint set up provided by our friends at Urban Velo, was newly configured with easy to mount, color-coded platforms as well as updated software that kept things rolling smoothly all night. We had a record turn out of 53 (!) racers register for the event and A LOT more people who just came to party. To keep everyones spirits rolling smoothly, Magic Hat Brewery hooked us up with 2 kegs of Roxy Rolls that were a real crowd pleaser.
Things got off to a quick start with many racers showing up early for a bite to eat and to get the beers flowing. By 8:30, the bar was packed and the races were on. With such a large number of participants there were qualifying heats right up to our cut off time of 10:00. With everyone having a chance to get at least one qualifying time, we took on the task of making a massive bracket for the real competition of the night. We had enough people to do brackets with 32 men and 16 women. Most of the usual suspects found their way into the bracket and the racing was intense. Barring a few minor set-backs with our pedals, the equipment took the onslaught well.
Of course, in the end, there could only be two winners. The final mens race was between Travis and Seth with Seth coming out victorious. In the final women’s heat it came down to Erica and Rachel with Erica taking the win. In addition to the head-to-head action, the fastest time of the night belonged to Wikar Kadhim with a blistering 11.69. Congratulations to our race winners and to everyone who came out for the challenge.
In addition to the prizes that were awarded to our winners (awesome gift baskets from Fat Heads) we were also raffling off other goodies for the people who were betting. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who helped sponsor the event. We wouldn’t have had such an amazing time without your contribution. This was a huge fund raising event for the team and I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we can’t wait for the season to start! This was a great start to what will surely be an even better year. Thanks to everyone who came out to race or just hang out. If you have any photos from the event, please add them to the Black & Gold Sprints Flickr Pool. We hope to see you at our next party!
This night would not have been possibly without the generous contributions of our sponsors: Over the Bar Cafe, Iron City Bikes, Urban Velo, Magic Hat Brewery, Fat Heads, Ink Division, Commonwealth Press, BikePGH, Mad Mex, Jimmy Johns, EU Cycle Imports, and Iron City Tech.
Qualifying Times on page 2
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November 14, 2009
You will need:
• $10 (to buy food)
• A bag to carry said food
Registration starts at 4pm
Race at 5pm
Starts in the park next to REI in the Southside
It’s been too long since I’ve hosted an Alleycat and it’s especially been too long since I’ve hosted this alleycat.
The format is simple. I give you a list of grocery stores and a shopping list of non-perishable foods. You race around the city collecting items from the list, keeping the receipts, and return to the finish line. All of the food collected will be going to the Jubilee Soup Kitchen in uptown.
At the finish you will be greeted with amazing praises, prizes, and drink specials from the one and only OTB!
For this year’s Alleycat Soup, there will be a special prize for most weight carried to the finish line. Please feel free to ride any bike you want! Cargo bike, baskets, paniers, all are welcome. However, there will be penalties for paniers, baskets, or cargo bikes. More details on this the day of the race.
There was a great turnout for this race in 2007 (yes, it’s been that long) and I hope to have an even better turn out this year. Feel free to leave any questions in the comments.
We also like beer...
The team attended the annual ACA Racing Banquet this past Sunday. In addition to eating a ton of delicious food (catered by Big Burrito Group) and a healthy quantity of beers, we also had a good showing in the award portion of the night.
In the B race series, Paul Carlson took MAR (most aggressive rider) for the season and Steve Kurpiewski took 6th place overall in the points competition. And, in the A race series, Dan Greene took 6th place overall in the points competition.
The biggest honor of the night was awarded to our entire team as Best New Team of 2009! This is a testament to the efforts of everyone on the team to help make last year an amazing season of racing. We look forward to continued success in the ACA Racing series next year and can’t wait to get back on the track.
