MAY 11, 2013, Pearblossom, Calif. Words and images by Phil Beckman/PB Creative — Even on the best of days, there are few road races more appropriately titled than Devil’s Punchbowl. For decades this high desert event situated among the foothills on the north side of the San Gabriel Mountains has been a true demon. This ...
2013 SoCal High School Mountain Bike Racing Series FINAL ROUND Cow Pie Classic, Los Olivos, CA By Phil Beckman, PB Creative Contact: Matt Gunnell,matt@socaldirt.org, (818) 415-1133,www.socaldirt.org Full Results Photo gallery with captions Complete photo gallery is posted at pbcreative.smugmug.com. Los Olivos, Calif. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a Gale Warning is issued when ...
2013 SoCal High School Mountain Bike Racing Series ROUND FOUR Cruise the Keys, Lake Isabella, CA By Phil Beckman, PB Creative Contact: Matt Gunnell, matt@socaldirt.org (818) 415-1133, www.socaldirt.org Full Results Photo gallery with captions Lake Isabella, Calif. — To say the fourth round of the 2013 SoCal High School Cycling League season was a little windy ...
APRIL 7, 2013, CARLSBAD, CA. By Phil Beckman/PB Creative — After this one even Eddy “The Cannibal” Merckx may have muttered, “C’était un kicker cul classique.” In the true spirit of the Spring Classics, SPY Optic has once again served up waffles and then one of the most eclectic, adventurous and heinous cycling events around. ...
Beach to Boulders, Perris, CA By Phil Beckman, PB Creative Contact: Matt Gunnell, matt@socaldirt.org, (818) 415-1133, www.socaldirt.org Full Results Photo gallery Perris, Calif. — The third round of the 2013 SoCal High School Cycling League season was like a fairy tail: Beauty and the Beast. The setting was Lake Perris State Recreation Area, an 8,800-acre ...
2013 SoCal High School Mountain Bike Racing Series ROUND TWO Carving Canyons, Riverside, CA By Phil Beckman, PB Creative Contact: Matt Gunnell, matt@socaldirt.org, (818) 415-1133, www.socaldirt.org Full Results Race report photo gallery with captions Complete photo gallery from all races Riverside, Calif. — The second round of the 2013 SoCal High School Cycling League season ...
Vail Lake Challenge, Temecula, CA By Phil Beckman, PB Creative Contact: Matt Gunnell, matt@socaldirt.org, (818) 415-1133, www.socaldirt.org Full Results Photo gallery Temecula, Calif. — The 2013 SoCal High School Cycling League season opener was like a copy of Michael Jackson’s best selling album thrown under an 18-wheeler: It was a thriller; it was record breaking. ...
In terms of genuine Rivalries (with a capital R), this wasn’t exactly Hatfields and McCoys. Coke and Pepsi. Cats and dogs. Leno and Letterman. As much as race promoter Sam Ames would like to stir things up, the 3rd Annual Nor Cal vs. So Cal State Cyclocross Championship was more like Bert and Ernie. Homer ...
The SoCalCross Series Finale had more ups and downs than Six Flags. More twists and turns than an M. Night Shyamalan flick. More thrills of victory and agonies of defeat than a season of Wide World of Sports openers. Pierce College in Woodland Hills, a decade-long fixture on the SoCal cyclocross scene, served up a ...
You know it’s a challenging course when a two-time national cyclocross champion like Ryan Trebon describes it as “pretty hard.” Round 17 of the 2012-13 SoCalCross Prestige Series took place at a new venue, the Baja Beach Club at the eastern end of Irvine Lake. The location had a lot to offer in terms of ...
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