Thanks to ASCI and WISP!

A big thanks to the Adventure Sports Center International and Wisp Resort in McHenry Maryland for making a huge effort to host the ACCC Championships on September 15th and 16th. This is a huge deal for WISP and ASCI as it is the same weekend as Autumn Fest, their busiest weekend of the year.

Saturday will kick off with a Cross Country race out in ACSI territory on the backside of the mountain. After XC concludes Short Track and Super D will take place on the front side of the mountain utilizing 1/3 of the downhill trails on the mountain. Sunday morning will start off with Dual Slalom and end with a gnarly DH race down High Roller and Resurrection.

2011 Mountain Season Has Begun!!

If you are interested in racing mountain bikes or just riding locally with other students make sure to come by our weekly meetings. Check the meetings page for the time and location of the meetings.

The 2011 Collegiate Mountain season will start on September 3rd at Campbell University. We are looking forward to traveling to Dark Mountain in North Wilkesboro, NC to kick off the season at Campbells first hosted race.

Presenting the Downtown Mountaineer Crit

A Big Thank You!

I would like to a big Thank You to the following businesses for donating gift cards to our on-site

fundraiser for Relay for Life.

Pathfinder

Tailpipes

Buffalo Wild Wings

D.P. Dough

I expect that I will be hearing back from all the other restaurants soon as well.

If you would be interested in donating to our Relay for Life team, click on the link below and

search for Morgantown Bike Club. The team is also open to anyone who would like to join so

feel free to do so. The more the merrier!

Donate here!

Meeting Wednesday 3/16 8pm

Mid-Semester meeting this Wednesday (3/16) at 8pm in the Bluestone room of the Mountain Lair.

A lot will be covered this meeting in regards to the rest of the road season, the home road race, Relay for Life, and fundraising.

Hope to see you there!

Road Season!

The first meeting of the semester will take place

Wednesday, January 12 at 8pm in the Bluestone Room of the Mountainlair.

Dues for Racers this racing season will be $65, non-racers $15.

Hope to see you there!

2011 Collegiate MTB Nationals in WV!

Timberline Resort in Davis, WV. will host the 2011 Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships on October 28-30. Read the announcement here from USA Cycling.

Cyclocross Races

WVU Cycling is hosting a dual conference (ACCC + ECCC) cyclocross race weekend here in Morgantown this coming weekend. Both races are also open to the public and a part of the ABRA Cyclocross Race Series.

On Saturday, Oct 30, we will be mudding it up at the Marilla Park Cyclocross Race. Wear a costume!

Saturday night, we'll be checking out Pathfinder's MoTown Throwdown in downtown Morgantown on High Street.

Sunday, Oct 31, we will go to White Park for the WVU Cycling Cyclocross Race. Hope to see you there!

Temporary ACCC Site

Until the ACCCycling.org site is up and running, we've created a temporary site to get the necessary info available to the conference. It can be found at http://wvucycling.com/ACCC/

ACCC MTB Season Ends

Congratulations to Duncan Oliver and Emily Moy for being ACCC Division I Men's and Women's Conference Champions! Oliver will be heading off to Truckee, CA near Lake Tahoe to represent WVU at Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships on October 14-17. Now to begin preparations for Cyclocross season! WVU will be hosting a collegiate cyclocross race weekend on October 30-31, partnering with ABRA and the Marilla Cyclocross. Stay tuned for more details.

2010-2011 Kit

We have redesigned our jerseys this year. Check out our Merchandise page (navigation on the left) if you are interested.

And Mountain Season begins...

This past weekend Virginia Tech hosted the first ACCC mountain bike race weekend for 2010.

Eleven racers headed down to Blacksburg and camped out. On Saturday, the racers rode up a mountain in a grueling uphill time trial, then turned around and came back down the mountain in a fun fast super D event. In the afternoon, Dual Slalom. In the evening, to wrap up a long day of racing, was a Short Track race under the lights. Sunday was the cross country race with "vomit-inducing climbs" (so proclaimed by VT).

Some notable finishes:
Duncan Oliver got 3rd in the hill climb, 6th in the Super D, and two first places in the short track and cross country! Zerbe got 2nd in the Super D. Most impressive are the new riders who turned out for their 1st collegiate race - Darren, Jared, Sunshine Steve, Brian Decann and Sequoya Moore. Sequoya especially had a good tight dual slalom race beating a VT girl and being the only other person other than Tyler to make it past the first round.

Photo is Tyler Alikonis racing on the Dual Slalom course. Photo by alum Chad Lowers.

First Meeting of School Year

Please join us for our first meeting of the year. Wednesday, August 25th. 8pm. Laurel Room in the Mountainlair. We welcome any and all cycling enthusiasts affiliated with the University. Come check out what we're about, ask questions, meet people! We hope to see you there.

Wrap-Up to Another Great Year

A Year in Review, by Jon Zerbe

It's been a great year in for West Virginia University's cycling team. Fall semester (2009), had a great turnout at the five conference mountain bike races in the disciplines of cross-country, short track, dual slalom, and downhill. WVU won their tenth straight Atlantic Collegiate Cycling Conference (ACCC) division one championship over Virginia Tech. WVU had the top four men’s riders by overall total points in the conference with Robert Loehr, Balaji Seward, Ian Beckner, and Jonathan Zerbe, respectively. WVU also had the top women's overall points scorer with current Team President – Emily Moy. With a new officers and new recruits WVU hopes to get their 11th straight ACCC division one title.

WVU sent three of their nine qualifying riders to USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike Nationals at Northstar at Tahoe in Truckee, CA with limited funding and mixed results. In Fall 2010, they hope to send riders once again to Tahoe with a returning sport class cross-country national champion Duncan Oliver and a healthy nationally ranked downhiller Jonathan Zerbe.

Spring 2010 road season had a higher than usual turnout for WVU cycling with new recruits including Brad Dodson and Ryan McGovern, who placed 2nd and 4th overall in the ACCC in their respective race categories. Brad Dodson, a graduate student in exercise physiology, had never raced in a road race before this season. Dodson won the B category of WVU's home road race in Clarksburg, WV by riding solo ahead of the group for over 40 miles while his teammates James Schulte and Duncan Oliver kept the group in line (Oliver finishing 2nd). Similar teamwork resulted in James Schulte and Brad Dodson taking 2nd and 3rd respectively at the ACCC conference championships hosted by Virginia Tech. Over the ten race season, WVU had as many as sixteen racers participating with other notable season overall rankings; President Emily Moy 10th in Women's A, Janel Bedard 11th in Women's A, and undergrad Todd Latocha 7th in Men's D. As a team WVU finished fifth out of ten division one teams – an improvement over previous years which can hopefully give them momentum to compete in future years at the same level as they do in mountain bike season.

Additionally, WVU cycling prides themselves in having a good standing in the community and the university. A large percentage of WVU bike racers are in Masters and Phd programs, as well as law school. They help to put on youth clinics for bicycle riding safety - included during the home race in Clarksburg. WVU cycling also adopted 2 miles of road for litter pick-up on Monongahela Boulevard in Morgantown, WV. WVU Cycling also supports the non-collegiate cycling in the area by helping out at local WVMBA, WVCXS, WVRRS, and Appalachian Bicycle Racing Association series by buying memberships and volunteering at races. The team volunteers their time to do trail work in the area at venues like Big Bear Lake, Coopers Rock State Park, and Wisp mountain resort. Many members take the time to help out many local organizations like Positive Spin bicycle co-op, as well as serving a position on the Morgantown Bicycle Board.

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We recently held our last meeting of the year this past week, but will hit the ground running in the Fall with extensive recruitment efforts and a drive to win our 11th straight Conference title!

Ride on!

Home Race Weekend Success

http://www.thedaonline.com/sports/cycling-hosts-inaugural-mountaineer-classic-in-clarksburg-1.1340904

Cycling hosts inaugural Mountaineer Classic in Clarksburg
By Ben Gaughan

The Daily Athenaeum

Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Updated: Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The West Virginia club cycling team grabbed several top-10 finishes in two races at the inaugural Clarksburg Mountaineer Classic in Clarksburg, W.Va., Saturday and Sunday.

More than 100 racers from schools such as Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University, Naval Academy, University of Virginia, University of Maryland, George Washington University and American University attended the race.

The cycling club also held a bike rodeo Saturday to help teach kids safe bike-riding skills.

"The weekend went really well," said WVU club cycling president Emily Moy. "It was definitely a success. We had a lot of support; a lot of people came out on Saturday and Sunday to watch our races and support us, and that was really exciting." Duncan Oliver, a graduate student in petroleum engineering, and Balaji Seward, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, placed third and fifth, respectively, in the Men’s B category. Janel Bedard, a graduate student, placed third while Moy ended fourth in the Womens A race.

Senior Ryan McGovern placed second, and Todd LaTocha placed fifth in the Men’s D race.

Sunday was the road race at Watters Smith Park near Lost Creek, W.Va., that featured a 12-mile loop around the wooded area with a total distance of 60 miles for Mens A, 48 miles for Mens B and Womens A, 32 miles for Men’s C and Women’s B, and 24 miles for the Mens D grouping.

Bedard placed second in the Womens A while Brad Dodson, a graduate student in physical therapy, won the Men’s B by more than four and a half minutes. Dodson led a 1-2 WVU finish in the race as Oliver finished second. McGovern placed third in Men’s D.

"Brad (Dodson) is incredible," Moy said. "He's new to the team this year and has never raced before, so we’re all blown away by his performance. We’re going to try to help him out, and hopefully he can keep doing this next year.

"He's one of those superstars that starts out as a beginner but upgrades quicker than all the rest of us without even trying."

The team will head to the Atlantic Collegiate Conference Championships this weekend, which will be hosted by Virginia Tech, to wrap up the road season. The team says it's already planning its trip back to Clarksburg next season.

Moy said next year's race will also be open to the public and not just collegiate riders.

"We are extremely grateful for all the support from the community and hope next year will be an even greater success."

Traffic Safety Courses

The Morgantown Bicycle Board recently created a website called BikeMorgantown.com. The website is brand new, but will have all kinds of information pertaining to cycling in Morgantown. Of current interest is the Traffic Skills 101 course, which is free to WVU Students/Faculty/Staff, $20 for Morgantown Residents and $40 for everyone else. It's a great deal, for a 9 hour course which will teach you how to ride your bike in traffic more safely, and give you more confidence to ride just about any road. The calendar can be seen HERE but basically there are 2 options: 9 1hr sessions each Monday evening, or 1 weekend session offered once a month. Click here for more info There was also a recent article in the DA regarding this course.

WVU Home Race Weekend in Clarksburg

In just two weeks, WVU Cycling will be hosting the Atlantic Collegiate Cycling Conference in our home race weekend with a criterium in downtown Clarksburg, WV on Saturday, April 10, and a road race out of Waters Smith Park near Lost Creek, WV on Sunday, April 11. The flyer is posted here. This year it is not open for public racers, but if this year is a success, we hope to expand it. Clarksburg has been fantastic in supporting us and providing us with a lot of resources in putting this together, and thank you to Janel Bedard and Elliott Iannello, our indefatigable Road Race Coordinators for 2010.

	Mountaineer Mart
	Sports n Spokes
	West Virginia Governors Highway Safety Program

Leadership Shuffling

Please bear with us for the next couple weeks as we transition into some new leadership. We have elected a new president, first-year law student and women's A mountain bike conference champion, Emily Moy. Sophomore Computer-Science major Elliott Iannello is Vice President. Fastest Fat Kid Duncan Oliver is Secretary/Sponsorship Coordinator. Overly ambitious and hard-working petroleum engineer Brandon Crawford is Treasurer.

All of us are a little bit new at taking leadership positions in the club, so we are trying to learn as we go along.

We're getting ready to prepare for the beginning of road season at North Carolina State University over Feb 13-14 weekend. Also, plans are now underway to put on our collegiate race weekend on April 10 and 11 in Clarksburg, WV.

Ryan has previously been a very active figure in our club prior, but he unfortunately needed to step down for personal reasons. We will try our best to hit the ground running and make sure WVU Cycling stays strong!

Public Crit Canceled

Due to some planning issues, the public version of the crit for our home race has been canceled. Sorry about the confusion.

Racing Soon!

The first race of the ACCC Road Season is just over 2 weeks away. It's in Raleigh, North Carolina, but it's doubtful we won't be wearing thermals, especially at 8AM. Luckily, thats probably the worst thing about collegiate racing, so it only gets better from there.

We haven't nailed it down yet, but it looks like our home race this year will be in Clarksburg/Bridgeport, with a public crit in Downtown Clarksburg on April 11. It'll be part of the ABRA Racing series. More info and a flyer when we've confirmed the venue.