Friday, November 30, 2007

Cross Crusade Videos - The 2007 Collection








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What you get:
Race 7 at Hillsboro - Cyclocross Means Mud
Race 5 at Barton Park - Quick Edit
Race 4 at Tillimook - Halloween Crusade
- Top Ten Women
- For Brett
Race 2 at Horning's Hideout - A Breath of Fresh Pain
Race 1 at Alpenrose - Now I'm Rollin'
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Monday, November 19, 2007

Muddy Cyclocross Crusade Race 7




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Hillsboro, Ore. - THIS IS CYCLOCROSS. Cold, rain, mud, fun, and not fun. Turn up the audio for some bonus commentary.

This race video is sponsored by River City Bicycles and The Cyclocross Crusade.
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Friday, November 16, 2007

CrankMyChain! is Back and Ready for a Busy Weekend



PORTLAND, OR - It's November. It's gonna rain. There is a press conference today and a rally tomorrow to make an appeal for all to come together and work for change to make our streets safer for ALL users including cyclists.



Sunday it's the last stop of River City Bicycle's Cyclocross Crusade. We'll also throw out another Badass Challenge to those who wish to ride out and race. It's double points for racers and it should be wet and muddy. Hooray!


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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Barton Park's Baddest Badass






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ESTACADA, OR - Four contenders competed for the "Baddest Badass" purse at Cross Crusade Race #5 Sunday.

Tony Tapay had a strong showing in the single speeds and has been declared Baddest Badass. He was followed closely by Badass Tad Bamfod who rides a fixed gear bike.

Jonathan "Badass" Maus who co-hosted the live feed from Barton Park hit a rock and slid out (see the Barton Quick Edit). He fell back a few spots from his strong showing last week.

Greg Sanders also ran into some issues during the race. He did complete it, though, and can also wear the title of Badass, but he can't wear the purse. At least not this week.

All Badasses rode out to the Cyclocross Crusade and completed their race. It's not easy.



Coverage of Barton Park and the Badass Purse is brought to you by Sellwood Cycle Repair.

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Monday, November 05, 2007

XC5-Barton Quick Edit




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ESTACADA, OR - We set up a live feed from the Cyclocross Crusade Race #5 yesterday at Barton Park. Here is just a taste of what we got from our vantage point in the gravel pit. Jonathan Maus kindly wipes out in front of the camera and we get to see Shannon Skerrit and Carl Decker Battle for 2nd. Get your official race results at CrossCrusade.com.

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Friday, November 02, 2007

Barton Park - Bad Ass Challenge and Live Broadcast



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We'll be live at this Sunday's CrossCrusade race at Barton Park in Estacada and we're throwing out another badass challenge.
The Barton Park Badass Challenge is Sponsored by Sellwood Cycle Repair



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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

MY Top Ten Women Crusader Costumes



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One viewer rightfully called me on doing a poor job covering the women's costumes at XC4 in Astoria. Here is a fig leaf.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Halloween Cyclocross Crusade



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ASTORIA, Ore. - If you are looking for a slick cyclocross racing video, I can't help you here. All sorts of rules have been broken and I suppose that's part of the Halloween spirit. So... Happy Halloween!

This video was sponsored by River City Bicycles and The Cyclocross Crusade.

P.S. The Disco Trike is appears to be doing fine thanks to some the fine mechanics at the Chris King Tent.


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Monday, October 29, 2007

Halloween Cross Memorial Lap for Brett Jarolimek



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ASTORIA, Ore. - It was another amazing Halloween Cross Crusade weekend. Sadly, though, we were missing avid Crusader and cyclist Brett Jarolimek who was run down and killed on a Portland street. Friends such as Kris Schamp and Brad Ross remembered Brett by speaking about him and his passions and then leading a memorial lap.

There is a memorial ride 5PM today in Forest Park starting on Thurman Ave - more details soon.

Story from BikePortland.org:
Wearing white t-shirts emblazoned with the words “No Blind Spots”, Cross Crusade founder Rick Potestio and race director Brad Ross said losing Brett Jarolimek was like losing “a member of the Cross Crusade family.”

Yesterday in Astoria, hundreds of cyclists took part in a silent memorial lap in Brett’s honor. The lap was led out by Brett’s friends and his Team Bike Gallery teammates, many of them weary from the road after driving to Idaho for his funeral yesterday.

Some of Brett’s friends had made copies of his race number (800) and passed them out for all of us to wear in his honor. Below the number was a winged figure on a bike and the words,
“Brett Jarolimek 1976-2007. We love you. We miss you.”

The silent lap was a somber, yet powerful way to say goodbye to Brett and to remember what his life, and his death, mean to our community.

These past two weeks have taken a toll on many of us. And, while some things will never be the same again, especially for the families and friends of those we’ve lost, the undeniable spirit of the Cross Crusade will live on.

Brett, who dressed up as Captain Underpants at the Halloween Cross race last year, would surely have smiled at the abundance of spirit on display yesterday.


See Jonathan Maus' excellent slide show of the event.

More coverage of Cross Crusade IV, Halloween in Astoria coming soon!

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Baddest Badass Takes the First Purse



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PORTLAND, OR - Steven Carper is delivered the Baddest Badass purse for his participation and success in the first Badass Challenge at race two of River City Bicycles Cross Crusade at Horning's Hideout last Sunday.

Do you want to be a badass? Just ride out to the next cyclocross race. You want to win the next Purse? Contact Dan at PDXK/com then ride out and do the best in your normal or better cyclocross category.



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Monday, October 15, 2007

Cross Crusade #2 - A Breath of Fresh Pain



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Race #2 of the world's most popular cyclecross race series, River City Bicycle's Cross Crusade. This week we are outside of North Plains at Hornning's Hideout. Thanks to all the racers and to Show Me The Pink for use of their song, "Me Plus My Friends". More excelent bike content at BikePortland.org
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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Baddest Baddass Purse XC 2





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Friday, October 12, 2007

Cross Crusade #1 " Now I'm Rollin' "



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PORTLAND, OR - Cameras on, wheels turning, Now I'm Rollin' with 2007 Cyclocross Crusade music-video coverage. Race number one at Alpenrose Dairy was a battle to the finish line between Shannon Skarritt and Eric Tonkin. Wendy Williams carried away 1st in the women's A-division. But that's not all! We set the race to the original tune Now I'm Rollin' AND strap a 4-lb camber to a hung-over RevPhil.

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Monday, October 08, 2007

Cyclocross Crusade - Race #1 (Quick Edit)



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PORTLAND, OR - Of course it waited until after the race to start raining buckets, but once again Alpenrose Dairy proved a great course to kick off the worlds largest cyclocross race series - River City Bicycles Cross Crusade.

This video is just a teaser for the one coming later this week. Stay Tuned and watch Eric Tonkin and Shannon Skerritt battle for first. We strap a camera to RevPhil's helmet and enter him as the first member of Team CrankMyChain! And that's not all... you'll have to wait and watch.

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Cross Crusade Videos - The 2006 Collection


I have put all the CrankMyChain XC'06 videos in one place for easy reverence. River City Bicycle's CrossCrusade is the worlds largest Cylocross series and quite a specticle. The events and music videos are posted below in reverse order of production.
I've got to a lot to learn about shooting, editing, and scoring but I feel that I really grew as I shot these videos this season. More importantly I had a blast. Cyclocross rocks and it's a sport just built for the Pacific Nortwest.

Thanks go to River City Bicycles for sponsoring the video coverage.

If you like these videos, I can tell you they're easily 10 times better on DVD. Soon
I will make them avail on web in Hi Def, as well. Enjoy all the races and support CrankMyChain! Cycle TV by purchasing the video here.
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WATCH OR DOWNLOAD ALL TEN VIDEOS HERE


US GRAN PRIX OF CYCLOCROSS v.2
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A HALLOWEEN DREAM OF CYCLOCROSS - FLYING M v.2 (Music Video)
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KIDDY CROSS - ESTACADA TIMBER PARK v.2
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A WEEKEND TO REMEMBER - SPROCKETTES AND USGP v.1 (Music Video)
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UNICROSS - ESTACADA TIMBER PARK v.1 (Music Video)
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BARTON PARK (Music Video)
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN - FLYING M v.1
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HORNING'S HIDEOUT (Music Video)
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HILLSBORO STADIUM
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ALPENROSE
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

2006 US Cyclocross Nationals



Providence, RI - Here is some footage of the Men's Elite Race from December 16th. Video by Colmeleon.

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First place went to Tim Johnson. Local favorite, Mike McCormack, closed out his career by out-sprinting Jonathan Baker for second. See cyclocrossnationals.com for more information.

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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

CX US Gran Prix - Stumptown Cup



Here is the US Gran Prix Race Redux I promised. You can see the first one, which combines some other events here. I wanted to concentrate more on cyclocross racing in this video. Thanks again to the Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers for the great sound track.

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Sunday, December 03, 2006

Images from Krugers Crossing



SAUVIE ISLAND, Ore.- Not much racing on this video just a few shots that caught my eye from Kruger's Farm cyclocross race. I spent most of my time enjoying the crisp fall day with my son and watching him in the kiddy cross race. After a foot of rainfall the month before I had to get out and enjoy a day like this.

The dry weather was not enough to clear the slog, though. Many of the racers spent a lot of time on foot becuase the mud was so thik and sticky it would clog their tires and derailleurs. In the corn maze I came across one of the riders running the course with a toddler bike. Rumor had it that she even bombed down one of the pavement hills. Perhaps her next stop that evening was zoo bomb.



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Thursday, November 30, 2006

A Halloween Dream of Cyclocross



YAMHILL, Ore. - This is the Redux of the first video I did of 2006 CycloCross Crusade Race #4 at the Flying M. There were so many fun images to work with I wanted to circle back around and add my song Halloween Dream to the new version.


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Monday, November 27, 2006

Kiddy Cross




What happens when Cyclocross racers have children? They teach them to love racing bicycles in the mud. Wait a second… you don’t have to teach a kid to like that!



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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Bikes, Dancing, Mud, and Drums


PORTLAND, Ore. – When I started doing this bike vlog this summer I was afraid I’d run out of things to cover during the rainy season. Well, I was wrong. This weekend the Sprockettes hosted several bike events starting with a Dance Party Friday night that had bike dance teams (The Sprockettes, The B:C:Clettes, The Brakes) and live music including one of my favorite groups, Show Me the Pink. I missed Saturday’s events because I was working in Miz Kitty’s Parlour. But Reverend Phil has some videotapes from Saturday's events.

Sunday the USGP of Cyclocross came through town with some of the top riders in the world. The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers, rowdy fans, and hottubbers greeted them. Later that night the Cross Crusade held their awards party which was also very entertaining and included the LRS Drummers, along with fire dancers from Atyerre Vision, and acrobats from the A-Wol Dance Collective.

I took me a day just to recover from this rainy weekend version of Burning Man done Pacific Northwest style. “Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart. You just got to poke around.”

This is a quick montage some of the weekends bike events. I plan on doing more with the USGP race footage and the Sprocettes weekend separately.


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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Cross Crusade - World Unicross Championship 2006

ESTACADA, Ore. - Watch the first ever World Unicross Championship at the Cross Crusade. Gilbran Chong takes first place and Carl Anton is runner up in this new championship event in cyclocross for Unicycles. Original music Unicross Jams by Dan Kaufman.

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Cross Crusade 2006 - Cyclocross Race 5



ESTACADA, Ore. – Cyclocrossers in strange dream wake up in a rock quarry only to find mud, mayhem, and perhaps a touch of their youth.

Watch race five of the Cross Crusade set to the eerie sounds of the Rebels ( myspace.com/rebelsrocknroll ). Mr. Sandman was composed by CrankMyChain’s international correspondent Johnny Stardust.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Cross Crusade 2006 - Cyclocross Race 4