SMT October 2011 Newsletter
Dear Friends of Shenandoah Mountain Touring,
We hope you are having a great start to the fall season and would like to give
you an update as to what's happening the world of SMT!
This coming weekend is the Shenandoah Mountain Bike Festival put on by the
Shenandoah
Valley Bicycle Coalition. Your chance to come back to Stokesville and ride
some of the super fun trails from the Shenandoah Mountain 100 and a whole lot
more.
REGISTER!!!!
The HEAT was on this year at the Shenandoah Mountain 100! While most were sweating
it out on course ALL DAY, cool Christian Tanguy was getting his 2nd SM100 win
and first NUE Series win!! It was a battle up front between Jeff and Christian.
We hope you had a great time on your ride! Cyclingnews.com has provided an in-depth
story on the event and can be found here:
SM100 Story In case you haven't seen any pictures from the event, our photographers shots are here:
Bob Popovich , and our pictures can be found here:
SMT photos . Make sure you are friends with us at our
facebook page in order to stay up-to-date with all of our events and press!
We also wanted to mention a local Harrisonburg Cyclocross event coming up on
Oct. 16th put on by Ken Bell of Gripped Films.
On October 16th, Harrisonburg will host the first Rocktown Cyclocross Festival.
With $1500 in cash as well as prizes up for grabs, The Rocktown Cyclocross Festival
will feature a full day of racing for beginners to pros. Bring your friends
and family to enjoy the many free side events including a corn hole tournament
with $100 cash prize, kids races, bicycle maintenance, kids helmet giveaway
and more.
- You can register online here (and save on late fees):
REGISTER
We have just headed out on our
Virginia Mountain Bike Trail ride and we are super psyched!!
we will be sending out updates to the SMT blog almost daily
-- here are some videos of last years ride that Jeremiah Bishop did on a section
of the route, make plans for next year:
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Shenandoah Mountain Sector -
Big Schloss Sector
We had to reschedule our
Spruce Knob North Fork IMBA Epic tour for Sat Sun Oct 29th-30th weekend. West Virginiawas hit with a super cold blast that brought snowshoe mountain 9 inchces of
snow! That will make it an amazing 3 day weekend if you are able to combine
the weekend ride with our Friday hookie ride on the
Southern Traverse
GET HERE, GET ON YOUR BIKE, and ENJOY WHAT THIS AWESOME FALL SEASON HAS TO
OFFER!!!!!
Thanks so much,
Chris, Matt, Tyler, and the rest of the SMT Family
Matt and Tyler spent the day chainsawing and clearing the Southern Traverse section of the Shenandoah Mountain Trail. This trail is so smooth to begin with but now with no trees down it has returned to its DREAM CONDITION!! We are leading a Friday Hookie Tour of the Southern Traverse this friday and you don't want to miss out, it will be as IMBA proclaims, "EPIC!"
