http://ascracing.org ASC Junior Development Association Cycling Latest News en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:24:02 -0400 http://emeraldcityfc.org/clipart/xsecfclogo2.gif http://ascracing.org Team Oh Boy Oberto/Reline-Lapierre trekked their way to Boise Idaho for the annual BYRDS Junior Stage Race July 23rd through July 27th. Greeting the 8 racers who ventured out of state were hard races, tough competition and temps in the 90’s and 100’s. http://emeraldcityfc.org/ The 2008 LAJORS Criterium Seris heated up at race #3 in Olympia. The Capitol Criterium is a great venue located right in front of the Washington State Capitol. The Oh Boy Oberto/Redline-Lapierre Juniors showed up ready to flex thier muscles! The race of the day was the Junior A/B race. A good field of juniors showed up and as usual it was a RAD vs. Oberto affair. On lap 3, Oh Boy Oberto/Redline-Lapierre's Bryen Graver launched a massive attack. Bryen gained a good gap and put his head down and pushed himself hard! RAD Racing went to the front and tried multiple times to bring Bryen back but just didn't have the horse power. Bryen eventually pushed his gap to around a minute and the race was over. Back in the field the Junior B guys were fighting it out for those podiums. RAD Racing continually put on attacks trying to get a rider away to take the B race. Tem Oh Boy Oberto/Redline-Lapierre wouldn't have any of it and kept the field together. With 1 lap to go, Wes Finger and Jonathan Youell launched a massive attack and broke away finnishing 2nd and 3rd in the A's. RAD Racing took the 3 B podiums with Scott Carlyle and Clint Anderson bringing it home for the Oberto team. Bryen "The Gravemeister" Graver powers away to a solo victory in the Junior A/B Capitol Criterium! Team Oh Boy Oberto/Redline-Lapierre captured 3 Washington State Road Championships in Port Orchard Washington on June 8th. The weather turned out perfect and the new race course was the best the juniors had seen in years! The course was a multi-looped circuit with mostly rolling hills and one very steep finish line crusher! Team Oh Boy Oberto/Redline-Lapierrre State champions and medal winners.Junior Men 17/18State Champion/Gold Medal: Wes FingerSilver Medal: Jonathan Youell Junior Men 13/14State Champion/Gold Medal: Austin CleavengerSilver Medal: Colin KrebsbachJunior Women 13/14State Champion/Gold Medal: Eryn MarisAustin Cleavenger solos to the Junior Men 13/14 Washington State Championship!(Picture supplied by Wheels In Focus, www.wheelsinfocus.com ) Team Oh Boy Oberto/Redline captured the Washington State Junior 24 Hour MTB Title in Spokane Washington over Memorial Day weekend. The team sent 5 juniors, Colin Krebsbach (Age 13), Bryen Graver (Age 17), Mike Gore (Age 17), Gehrig Uhles (Age 16) and Avi Mahan (Age 12). 600 riders competed in multiple divisions. http://emeraldcityfc.org/ Colin rides the Lapierre X-Race 300 to another victory in the 2nd round of the Black Diamond Bike - West Side Mtn. Bike Series on Sunday. The Junior Sports had to start behind the 40+ Sports this week so traffic was a factor. "Once I got past all those old guys, (Jerry and my Dad), I was really able to put the full suspension to work", Colin said. "The X-Race rolled over the roots and rocks with no problems". "hopefully for the next round, we will be albe to start with the 19-29 group", Colin said. The 3rd round of the BuDu series is again at Black Diamond, March 2nd, which is also the same day as the Icebreaker TT , just down the road at Flaming Geyser State Park. Looks to be a busy day for those that want to do both races. The Lapierre also gathered lots of attention at the Colonnade Trail in downtown Seattle under I-5. Colin, riding a Lapierre X-Race 300 , road away from the Junior Sport U-18 competition Sunday in the first round of BuDu Racing's Black Diamond Bike-West Side Mt. Bike Series at South Seatac Park. Colin's effort would have placed him in 6th place in the Sport U-29. "The full suspension Lapierre was awesome"' Colin exclaimed. Colin will be taking the Lapierre out again Sunday in Black Diamond to defend his lead.Seniors members of the team, Jerry Cutright and Paul Krebsbach rode to an 8th and 11th place respectively, in the 40+ Sport Division. Paul was also riding a Lapierre X-Race 300 . "If it wasn't for taking a spill or two (rider error), I am sure I would have taken Jerry to the cleaners!", Paul was heard to say. "The Lapierre was tres bien!", Paul exclaimed. Jerry was last seen heading to Center Cycle to put in his order for a Lapierre . Mountain Bike Team coordinator, Brian Volkert, rode to a 12th place in the 40+ Expert division.Hope to see you out there Sunday, February 17th, in Black Diamond Today, we rode out to Kortrijk hunting for bakeries. The roads were calm and completely flat on the way out. Once we got there we rode through the streets hunting for cinnamon rolls. We came up empty handed but were able to encounter most of the scenery that the town had to offer like this church. Most of the streets in Kortrijk are cobbled and very skinny. The buildings are almost all stone and home to many stores, coffeehouses, and bakeries. After hanging around the town square for a while we decided to head back to Izegem via the canal. This proved to be an excellent decision since we found many entertaining things to do on the way back. Two of the more memorable were a slanted stone wall beneath a bridge and some interesting metal pieces. Both took the enjoyment of the ride to a whole new level. I finally got a chance to sit and write so here is my first late update from Belgium. So far we have done three races, two smaller races and a world cup. The first race was in Laarne and the second was in Balegem. Both were fun and completely different from racing in the US. The course in Laarne was out in a cornfield through tractor ruts and paths. It ended up being quite bumpy due to the freezing temperature. The race was fast and conveniently http://emeraldcityfc.org/ Up until now I have been doing the local races, the ECC series races. Good races as they have been, I don't think they came close to preparing me for what was to come of my first major race before nationals. The forecast on Friday showed snow flurries at around 10:00am. Wind up quite a bit with a high of 36. That didn't quite register in my mind I don't think. I came prepared, but not that prepared. On Friday in my P.E. class, we did a stairs workout. Apparently the record was 25 laps. Personally, I like to break records, even if I know that I have a big bike race I want to do well in the next two days. So I cranked out 22. Big mistake as so proved the weekend. http://emeraldcityfc.org/ Colin Krebsbach and Avi Mahan had back-to-back first and third places at the USGP of Cyclocross in Portland, Oregon this weekend. This is Colin’s race report.Saturday was the coldest temperature wise but Sunday was wet and it felt colder. Saturday I was able to get a great front row starting position and followed Avi and Zach Gould (2nd at Nationals last year against Logan Owen) into the first corner. Five minutes into the race I attacked and never looked back. Even though it was not too muddy, it still stuck to my bike and by the last lap I went for a bike change and rode it into the finish line for first place.Sunday was rainy, super muddy, and super fun! The mud wasn’t sticky but it was soupy. For an unknown reason they gave the junior women front row starts. When the race started it seemed like they have never ridden a bike because it took them forever to get going and forever for me to get around them. I was way off the back and it seemed like I would never get back to the front. Zach Gould was out of sight for most of the race. I finally caught back up to Avi and we worked together to get back to the front. On the third lap I caught Zach and decided to stick on his wheel to recover. Before the barriers, on a super muddy hill, I decided to run up while Zach tried to ride. It was a faster move an I took the lead and didn’t look back. After passing the pits there was a u-turn where I could see that I had a good gap, so I put the hammer down on the last lap I rode in for a solo-victory.By beating one of my main competitors for Nationals, I feel even better about Kansas City.-Colin Krebsbach Christina Norwich and Colin Krebsbach won gold medals at the Washington State Cyclocross Championships held at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds in Silverdale, Sunday November 18th. Austin Clevenger also brought home some precious medal for the Oberto/Redline team by collecting a bronze medal.Christina took the gold medal in the Cat 4 Women’s race with a convincing victory over Molly Martin, silver, and Ashley Cattell, for the bronze medal. In the Junior Boys 13/14 race, Colin Krebsbach won the gold medal with a victory over on Logan Owen. Colin passed Logan just before entering the woods and by the time he exited the woods, he had a 30 second lead over all of the Juniors. Logan was never able to make up the deficit and finished in second to take the silver medal. Austin Clevenger kept the pressure on Logan to take the bronze medal. Avi Mahan had a great race to take fourth place. The race day didn’t seem promising.  It had been raining for most of the last three days and Sunday was to be the wettest of all.  The five-thirty alarm seems a long time away when nerves get you up at four, turning and tossing, restlessly in bed, every time you think about the race a wave of nervous nausea grips you.  This is ITU Age Group World Championships, not a state championship or even USAT Nationals.  This is so much bigger.  The thought comes across your mind: “Do I really belong here?  Am I good enough to deserve this?”  You have to rationalize with yourself at four in the morning.  “Of course I deserve this, I’m here. If I wasn’t good enough I wouldn’t be in Hamburg Germany.”   http://emeraldcityfc.org/ The Washington State Tour Championship is a series of junior road races that starts in April and ends in early September. This race series encompasses 13 races that are held across the state. During the entire road season, the cyclists compete for points that are totaled at the end to determine the overall winner. In many of the groups, the final overall winner was not going to be determined until the outcome of the final race. Everyone was anxious to get out and race the last race to see who would stand on the podium and spray the crowd with sparkling cider and wear the winner’s jersey.The racers compete in road races, time trials, omniums (combined road, criterium, and time trial), criteriums (races through the city streets) and a grueling hill climb in the Cascade Mountains. Again this year, the championship had a strong showing from many riders in each of the brackets (10-12 yrs women/men, 13-14 yrs w/m, 15-16 yrs w/m, and 17-18 yrs w/m).Team Oh Boy Oberto/Redline was battling in every category for the top step and when the flag dropped on the final race, Oh Boy Oberto/Redline had 5 riders in Champions jerseys. http://emeraldcityfc.org/ It was a perfect day for the grueling 6 mile, 1,612 foot climb, which is the Washington State Hill Climb Championship. The race, set at the base of Crystal Mountain Ski resort, is a test of both the rider and the machine on it’s 5.1% grade (average). When the day was done, the team of Oh Boy Oberto/Redline laid claim to 4 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze medals. http://emeraldcityfc.org/ Team Oh Boy Oberto/Redline's Junior A and C Teams brought home state titles in the Team Time Trial Championships, Elma, WA, Sunday, August 19, 2007.  With more last second drops than a Seahawks preseason football game, the road manager did well to field two teams. The A team featured Bryen Graver, Wes Furlong, Cody Fishel, and junior C powerhouse Bailey Hauswurz. With many of us getting up at 5:00AM to make the drive, we were suprized to find Ryan Bibko on hand to cheer on his team mates. Ryan, still recovering from an injury, said that he just "couldn't stay away." http://emeraldcityfc.org/ Oh Boy Oberto's Ryan Bibko participated in the Tour d l'Abitibi in Quebec, Canada. This annual junior world cup event hosts some of the top junior teams in the world. Tour website, results. Ryan was invited to join the Mid-south Regional team after participating in the USA Cycling regional development camp. Click the link below to read Ryan's race diary from this event. http://emeraldcityfc.org/ Austin Clevenger, racing for Oh Boy Oberto / Redline, participated in the USAT Youth National Championships in Wisconsin Dells, WI, on August 4th, 2007. He finished second out of 64 participants with a time of 27:48, just three seconds behind first. Link to results. Distances for this event were 200m swim, 10k bike, 2k run. Swim time, 4:13, first transition, 0:38, bike, 15:02, second transition, 0:39, run, 7:19. These are incredible times for this age group. Austin competed in an adult triathlon leading up to this event and managed to beat most of the adults. He has emerged as one of the brightest young multi-sport talents on the team.Austin's first sport has always been swimming, followed by cycling as a close second. Austin's other interests include cyclocross, where he has made podium finishes each of the past several years in the national championships. It was only a matter of time before he combined his strengths as a triathlete. Nice job! Six Oh Boy Oberto Redline juniors competed in the BYRDS Tour of Idaho in Boise, July 27-29. The weather in Boise hovered in the 100's, climbing to 105 during some of the races. Riders did well to get plenty of hydration, carry plenty of fluids, and shower themselves with douses of water before, during, and after each race. The race format was based on cumulative time. The 15-17's raced five stages, and the 10-14's raced three. This was a first look at regional competition from Western states such as Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon, California, and even Alaska! The team walked away with four podium finishes in the over-all. Results, Team Album, Pro Photos. http://emeraldcityfc.org/ Alex says they're cool! Complete specs at http://redlinebicycles.com Click thumbnails below for full images.    Three Podium FinishesTeam Oh Boy Oberto sent 4 aspiring young people to the USA Cycling National Junior Road Championships in Silver Springs PA. Attending this year were Max O’neal (10-12 Men), Christina Norwich (15 – 16 Women), Shannon Maris (13-14 Men) and Eryn Maris (10-12 women). All 4 represented the team with the greatest of professionalism and showed why the NW is becoming a cycling Mecca! http://emeraldcityfc.org/