Alleger’s Vision By: Heather Nielson Since Dean Alleger started his aggressive campaign to get a velodrome built in the Sacramento area, he’s often asked what kind of velodrome it’s going to be. velodromes can be indoor or outdoor. The advantage of having an outdoor one, like the Hellyer Park Velodrome located in San Jose California, [...]
Trivia: Solid Savage Sprints supporter, Kevin Mansker has driven from Southern Cal with little sleep and then drove back again after a few sprints at Hot Italian. What molecule is permanently tattooed on this Olympic hopeful’s shin?
Version 2.7 of Savage Sprints was a huge success with a small but extremely loud crowd. Watch Hot Italian worker bee and sprint regular, Autumn Hardy post against Missy Erickson of Team Badass. Kevin Mansker showed up with his game-face on, but Nick Oliver’s no stranger to winning sprints. Watch the men’s final as the [...]
Version 2.7 of Savage Sprints at Hot Italian proved to be a fund-raising boon despite the small but enthusiastic crowds. Bill Nicely, the president of Stevens Bicycles p/b Pactimo, showed up to race and support the likes of Heather Lipana. But he started off the event by giving a pledge of $100 toward the Velodrome’s [...]
Don’t want to race a fixed gear track bike all-out on rollers this Sunday? Absolutely hate to try delectable trend-setting pizza and mouth watering gelato? Can’t stand to be around a wild group of rebel-rousers cheering on their favorite athlete? Here are 739 other reasons (try to pick them out in the video) to come [...]
New video of the Giordana Velodrome under construction in Rock Hill, SC has surfaced recently on YouTube. “We pitched the idea [of the velodrome] to the city of Rock Hill through the Parks and Rec,” says Michael Cowan, Rock Hill Velodrome concept founder in the video. Sound familiar? That was in 2002. We have a [...]
With the new registration, timing and results system from TimeYourRace Results our events are more organized than before and move along at a nice pace, getting everyone home at a resonable hour. Pre-reg is up for the next event and we are extending our offer for the season discount one more time. Seven races for [...]
Be the envy of all your velodrome desiring friends with the Scalextric Team GB Velodrome Set. At 272cm, it’s not Olympic distance, but Scalextric reports that this slot racing set follows the traditional slot racing format. However instead of using cars, there are two miniature cyclists dressed in GB kits. The set features a banked [...]
The dates: October 23, November 6 and 20, December 4 and 18 Holiday Break January 8 and 22, February 5 and 19 Remember this is a fun and low key “race” (excuse to party) to raise awareness for our velodrome project. We are putting on a show for the community and local government. We are [...]
Sacramento’s greatest hope for a velodrome in more than 25 years appears to be taking shape at a good time in history. Two new velodromes are under construction in the United States, one in Rockhill, SC and the other in Chicago, IL. When completed, these two projects will bring the total number of velodromes up [...]
