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The Cowbell Challenge, South Park Cycles, and YourMTB.com are teaming up to host a Grassroots Channel for this year's Cowbell on June 23. What that means: Competitors, participants and spectators alike will use this site as a homebase from which to share their photos, stories and videos from the race. As an added bonus, we're giving away prizes to those who post the best stuff! Check it: BEST PHOTO: Post your pictures from the event -- the racing, the athletes, the spandex, the crowd, the crashes, party blackmail-caliber photo ... ANYTHING goes! Two weeks after the event, the best pic of the bunch will be chosen. Best photo winner shall receive a Medium Giro Animas helmet (value: $105). BEST STORY OR BLOG ENTRY: Word of mouth is no longer going to cut it. It's time to spread the word, the 21st century way (technology rocks!). Post your stories from the race -- from your tale of victory, near-victory or defeat, to your trail encounter with a race namesake. ... Just post it. And out of those tales, we'll give the best author a Serfas Furano ti rail saddle (value: $100). BEST VIDEOS: You've put together an epic montage of racing footage, and you want more than your teammates and family to see it. But NO ONE's going to watch it unless you post it here! Post ANY video, from the rambling overview of the race itself, to the collection of crashes you recorded3, to whatever your race-exhausted brain can come up with. The producer of the best video will be the recipient of a Serfas Stinger ti rail saddle (value: $80). BONUS RAFFLE: You don't have to do much to be eligible for these 3 prizes. Just join the Cowbell Challenge Grassroots Channel, and you'll be entered in a raffle. South Park Cycles is giving away: a Serfas DD Vado saddle (value: $55); a Camelback Blue Wave hydration pack (value: $55); and a pair of Ryders Threat sunglasses (value: $50). HOW TO ENTER: Just post it. And that's it! All pictures, blogs and videos posted to the site will be automatically entered into the contests. 1. Visit the Cowbell Challenge page (and bookmark it!): www.yourmtb.com/cowbellchallenge 2. Click "Click here to subscribe and post in this group" in the orange Action box to register for free. 3. Post away. Let the winning begin! |
Cowbell Challenge: Post to win great prizes from South Park Cycles
dirtdobber says:
 Tuff Luck at my first Cowbell challenge. The home of the Cowbell Challenge is my home trail. I know every inch of this trail system and it's one of the courses I race in as part of the Summer Series local to Charlotte. I'm still new to racing but I'm doing well so I thought I would give the Cowbell a shot and enter the 6 hour solo. The start was great, we did a prelude lap around the Whitewater Center as the spectators lined both sides ringing their cowbells. It made me feel like a Pro XC Racer as we made our way threw to the singletrack. I was placed somewhere in the middle just going along with the flow. The pace felt so slow compared my sprint starts that I'm used to but I knew I had a long ways to go and just continued with the flow. About halfway around our first lap I began passing racers with what I felt was a respectable pace but plenty of reserve for later on. On my second lap I had found a pace that seemed to work for me and actually felt that I might place pretty well until....POP!!!...flat tire. I quickly changed my tube and grabbed wheel to place it back on my bike and noticed that my skewer nut had fallen off. I searched everywhere in the area but it was nowhere to be found. I found myself pushing by to my pit area, I bummed a skewer nut and started my second lap all over. I managed to almost complete lap number 2 and flatted again, this time it left me scratching my head because I usually just don't have flats. I changed the flat, this time being a little more careful to get my tube placed in the tire correctly. As I came across the timer and started my third lap I was feeling like I had lots of endurance so I picked my pace to make up some time. about 3 miles into the third lap I was rolling over one of the drops and suddenly went pedals over handlebars...Ya guessed it another flat. With a bloody knee and a swelling wrist I lowered my head and once again pushed back to my pit. I walked around a bit, put some ice on my wrist and sat down for a while. After a while I grabbed my wheel and removed my tire completely to see if I had a protruding spoke and guess what fall out.....The missing skewer nut! I quickly put another tube back in and had just enough time to complete lap number 3. |
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