(Photos: Caroline Paquette for BikePortland.org)
BikePortland’s reporter on the scene at Interbike, Elly Blue, couldn’t make it out to Cross Vegas — billed as the “Biggest Cyclocross Race in America” and held on the first night of the Interbike trade show — but we still managed to get some coverage of the spectacle.
(Subjects remain nameless for their own good.)
Elly loaned her camera to another Portlander in Vegas for Interbike — Caroline Paquette of Little Package Cycling Caps. Caroline bravely waded through the masses to snap a few photos of the action and managed to find several other Portland people in the crowd.
For a bit more of what she saw, check the slideshow below:
For more of BikePortland’s 2009 Interbike coverage, see our Special Coverage page.
Where’s the mud? There ought to be mud. Send in the mud.
Don’t bother, it’s here:
http://www.crosscrusade.com/flyers/2009/october_4.html
(rain is in the forecast for next weekend.)
I rode the “Wheelers & Dealers” version of this race. That is, the race BEFORE the pro race, for industry employees. I was representing Yakima (Team Yakima Vigilantes) and Portland
Pretty cool to ride in front of a ton of people, but ouch. Us Portlanders aren’t used to dry air. Makes you really appreciate the pros.
Oh, and I suck.
I’ll take rain at alpenrose over that weird grass in vegas any day (not to say I ever /could/ make it to that race).