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General Information
Thursday night Time Trials at Anglers Ridge
SVMBA will be hosting Thursday night time trials at Anglers Ridge in September. It will be a great time to meet up with friends and rip the trails at top-speed to see who makes the best time. All proceeds benefit SVMBA and the cost is minimal and the fun is optimal. See you there.
ARCHIVED NEWS On, Saturday, May 3rd (2008), SVMBA and Danville Parks, Recreation & Tourism will host race #1 of the Virginia DeRailer Series. The 6th Annual "Southside Scramble" kicks off another great year of DeRailer series racing in 2008. On Sunday, June 8th (2008), SVMBA hosts Danville's second MTB race event of 2008, joining the Maxxis Southern Classic Series with Virginia's first-ever entry into this long-running competition. Formerly, the Cane Creek Cup, this series has put on races across South Carolina and North Carolina in years past. This year, Southern Classic Series organizers add Danville to it's 10 race roster and we couldn't be more excited. SVMBA has spent the past 6 years building more than 17 miles of Southside's sweetest singletrack and the Anglers Ridge Trail System has established it's reputation as an outstanding trail system offering great "cross-country" riding.
The Shootout on Anglers Ridge is almost here ! ! ! SVMBA members and supporters,
The biggest event we've ever put on is little more than 10 days
away. As we prepare to host a new series and participants who may never have
even heard of Danville's Anglers Ridge Trail System, or SVMBA for that matter,
I can tell you that the excitement and buzz is reaching critical levels.
As a lifetime Danville native, I am as proud of Danville and
all that SVMBA has done over the past 6 years as I have ever been.
On June 8th we (our town and our club) will welcome the
Southern Classic Series to Danville as it makes it's first-ever stop in the
State of Virginia. Folks . . . this is going to be a big deal. Who would
have ever thought that after 6 years of hard work crafting Anglers Ridge, that
we would be hosting a North Carolina State Championship event that would
attract racers from across the state of North Carolina. Some racers will be
coming from as far away as South Carolina . . . Wow ! ! !
There will be a LONG break between now and next Spring so we
hope you will consider volunteering for this great event. We will need
everyone's help over the next two weekends. This weekend's trailwork will be
instrumental in putting the final touches on our great course. Weedeaters and
blowers will be needed to polish this course into the shining gem that it is.
The following weekend will find us doing something on all three
days (Friday through Sunday) as we set up tents and cones on Friday, prepare
for any last-minute course fixes due to weather and welcome out-of-towners and
locals with a warm-up course ride on Saturday.
On Sunday, we have a tremendous amount of things going on.
Registration starts at 8:00 and we will have roughly 1.5 hours to get 150 or
more participants registered and prepped for the race. We need at least 10
volunteers as early as 7:30 am to assist with parking, directing people to
registration, registering riders giving them their race numbers, t-shirts,
etc.
From 10:00 am to 1:00 pm volunteers will be needed out on the
course to keep racers on course and to report any injuries.
From 1:30 pm until 2:15 pm, our awards ceremony will be in full
swing and we'll need volunteers to man the prize tables and make sure the
event finishes off in top form.
Remember, we have t-shirts and food for our volunteers and we
hope to make this event worth your while. I'm certain this will be an event
you'll enjoy and one that you'll be proud to be a part of.
If you are able to lend a helping hand, call us at anytime on
Saturday May 31st, Friday June 6th, Saturday June 7th, or Sunday June 8th.
You can rest assured that we will know of a way that you can contribute to the
success of this event.
Its our time to shine . . .
Chris Tompkins
Race Director - SVMBA
The Shootout results have been posted ! ! ! I want to personally thank everyone who contributed to the success of our first Southern Classic Series race. I also want to thank Maxxis and Sheetz for bringing some awesome prizes to our event and to thank our club sponsors . . .
We have gotten so many complements from everyone. Despite the long line at registration and the heat, the race was great. We had 105 racers for our first race and that was great considering the heat was awful. Racers from North Carolina came from as far away as Greenville, Apex, Raleigh, Archdale, Greensboro, Hendersonville, Asheboro, Charlotte, Colefax, Gastonia, Mtn. Home, Winterville, Morganton, Southern Pines . . . WOW !!! The racers from South Carolina drove from Columbia, Tega Cay. The racers from Virginia drove from far away places like Roanoke, Fancy Gap, Appomatox, Williamsburg, Upperville, Powhatan, Arlington, and Charlottesville. We are grateful that so many folks came from so far away to take part in our first "Shootout". We're already making plans for next year's event ! ! ! We'll post pictures and possibly some video in the upcoming weeks, so check back soon for those updates. Thanks,
Chris Tompkins SVMBA - Race Director
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