Category Archives: Track

State Champions Crowned at the Track - Crosby and Hamilton Take Home Gold

NSC Velodrome - Blaine, MN - July 24, 2008
It Sounded like Thunder in Blaine at Thursday Night Lights but it was just the rumble of the boards and the cheering crowd on a championship night at the veldodrome.
The highlights of the evening were certainly the two main events - the Men’s and Women’s State Scratch […]

Hopkins/Sprinter’s Classic Review - Podcast #43

BTDC is back again with outstanding coverage of the area races for the past week.

 
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Podcast #40 - Like, This One’s … Umm, Not Lame

Hollywood Rocks the Mic
Hollywood rocks the mic at the Grandstay Criterium.

Frye and Homme fly in the missing man formation as Rookie catches up on some beauty rest and tries to recover from his mountain bike adventure.

We discuss stuff and introduce a new segment called “Let’s Ask Homme”. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this week’s subject.

 
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High Tension at the Track

Tainter
James Tainter of Silver Cycling leads the charge in the 4000m Team Pursuit. photo by Andy Frye

The NSC Velodrome in Blaine, MN was the site for another night of exciting racing this past Thursday. A big crowd watched a growing contingent of riders take to the boards for high banked drama. Tensions were high but I’m not referring to chains …

Podcast #39 - Racing Rundown and an Interview with Dave LaPorte

Laporte
photo by Andy Frye

The man at the helm of the NVGP, Executive Director Dave LaPorte.

In this week’s podcast, Frye and Rookie …

 
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The Throwdown: NVGP BTOW, Summit Still Brewing, TNL, Pics

O’Bee, Stevic
photo from Split Second Services

NVGP BTOW - Kirk O’Bee edges Ivan Stevic in the Minneapolis Downtown Criterium.

Fixed Gear Classic Day 2: Special PodCast

Another special podcast from the second day of racing at the Blaine Velodrome for the Fixed Gear Classic!
Dave Byer (JetFuel) - 0min
-Talks about the crash and his splinters
Danielle DiFrancheschi (JetFuel) - 1:30
-The omnium
-Does his teammate get all the ladies?
-Talks about the indoor track
-He doesn’t have SARS!
Andrew LaCorte (New YORK YO!) - 4:30
- Talks about Team […]

 
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Fixed Gear Classic Day 1: Special PodCast

Here is the first day of interviews from intrepid reporter, Super Rookie, at the velodrome on Saturday evening. Feel free to bounce around the interviews to different people a
Bob Williams (0:00)
-Talks about what to expect.
-Predicts a record by Chiappa.
Tainter and Smithers (1:20)
-Tainter predicts good racing and a track record!
-Tainter didn’t take Chiappa to the Duece […]

 
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Fixed Gear Classic Day 2

Chiappa
photo courtesy of Frye

Italian National Champion Roberto Chiappa

Fixed Gear Classic Day 1: Report Stolen From Smithers

We want to thank Smithers for writing this report of the first day of racing in Blaine. It has been a hectic weekend here at BTDC headquarters and with school and the NVGP fast approaching we are hoping to keep everyone updated with the exciting events that are going on.

Women’s 1 Lap standing TT
From zero […]