November 17/08 10:50 am - Bare Bones Track Race

Posted by Editoress on 11/17/08
 

Bare Bones Track Race Nov 14 - 16, Burnaby Velodrome, Burnaby BC
Courtesy Rob McMurtry

Sunday concluded a successful weekend of Bare Bones racing for 63 racers in five categories representing Ontario, BC, Alberta and Washington.

A summer's Learn To Rides stacked the C field so qualifiers had to be run to create separate cats. Seeing so many new racers out there was great and both categories put on good shows.Thankfully the B's had a full field but didn't duplicate May's double-size class...if B's and C's had both need qualifiers the schedule would have been even more "exciting".

Sunday's roster of love-it-or-hate-it Unknown Distance races covered all the endurance categories and created some excitement with pack-shattering primes donated by Bellingham's Fanatic club and BVC member Julian Base. I'm not sure if the prize matters...T-shirt, tube or patch kit, there's something about PRIME! and the bell that gets everyone charging.

In Sprints the final Keirin field provided very tight action with Boris Martin pushing Stewart Bowmer and Monique Sullivan right to the line. Monique's Keirin win cemented her B Sprint overall while Stewart took second.

In a bad news/good news story, Doug Preston fell in a two-rider tangle in Sunday's C2 Tempo race, then remounted to finish 2nd in that event. Doug finished third in his category by eight points so getting back in the saddle made a difference.

Basic results are below, we'll have a link to a spreadsheet with all the positions and points by cat and event shortly.

The BV would like to thank all our sponsors, the volunteers who made the event possible and a special shout out to the Cowburn family who organized, did results, raced, fixed up the track and repaired the office ceiling tile (again).