VOLUME 13 NUMBER 2 FREEFREE APRIL 2005 cyclincyclingg utahutah 20052005 BIKEBIKE CLUBCLUB GUIDEGUIDE INSIDEINSIDE •Calendar of Events - p. 16 •Bike Club Guide - p. 8 •Desert Rampage - p. 12 •Fivemile Pass - p. 4 •Commuter of the Month - p. 6 •Results - p. 22 DIRTDIRT •Skinny Tire Festival - p. 11 PAVEMENTPAVEMENT •Sprint to Win - p. 7 ADVOCACYADVOCACY •Ice Riding - p. 3 • A Tale of a Bill - p. 24 RACINGRACING •Lobbying Congress - p. 6 TOURING •Tea-21 - p. 20 MOUNTAIN WEST CYCLING JOURNAL TOURING MOUNTAIN WEST CYCLING JOURNAL •La Primavera - p. 7 st 1Annual Salt1 Lake City Bike Tour Saturday, April 23, 2005 6:00 a.m. Start Time Register now saltlakecitymarathon.com No day of registration Finish at Limited to 3,000 participants No Cars - Just Bicycles for 25 miles. To Benefit The For more info call 801-412-6060 In partnership with If cycling isn’t your thing join us for the Wells Fargo Salt Lake City 5k. 3 miles. YOU CAN DO IT. APRIL 2005 cycling utah.com 3 MOUNTAIN BIKE RACING FFrozenrozen inin TimeTime ThrowsThrows IcyIcy CurvesCurves By Jana Lee Koyle riding in hard sand. However, on front of everyone stuck! Finally my third lap it was quickly turn- after what seemed like ten min- It’s 7:00 AM Saturday morn- ing to slush in certain areas. utes I was able to free myself ing; my alarm clock is going off, Making it quite challenging. I and get back on course. I would "Am I really getting up at this was passed by many racers, and like to say things went better but time to go race in the snow? I emphasize the word many, all that would be a lie. One thing I What am I crazy"? According to of which were encouraging and can say is that crashing in the the race poster that’s why we told me what a good job I was snow is softer than crashing on were doing it. That and to raise doing. Thanks for stretching dirt. I think the real blow was money for the trails. A good truth guys and girls. I think the getting passed by my ex-hus- cause none the less. I sure the first person who passed me was bands wife on my last lap. I hell wasn’t getting up at this the super fast Pro rider Cindy have got to get my ass back in hour and race in the snow Hansen. I didn’t feel so bad shape! Despite what it may because I thought I was going to when she zipped past and yelled sound the race was awesome. win or something. It just sound- good job Jana. Heck, she is a pro The weather was beautiful! We ed like a fun race and anyone rider. I am a sport rider doing had lots of sunshine and a lot of that knows me knows I am this for fun. I’m 35 years old. fun! After the race followed the always up for some fun! I’m not planning on turning pro awards ceremony and raffle. It I arrived in Park City with or anything. After Cindy passed, was a great success thanks to approximately five minutes ‘til many other riders flew on by. sponsors: Spin Cycle, PCTV, Pit race time. One of my traits. I run Mostly men, since there were Bull Extreme Gear and Uinta on what my friends call, Jana only five women total racing. Brewery. Many thanks to time. Shortly after starting, I was On the third lap as I was round- Charlie Sturgis for grooming the quickly reminded of the 10 + ing the start/finish to begin my course and for putting his butt pounds that I have gained this fourth lap I hear someone yell on the line for getting us the race winter. I was also reminded that out "watch the turn". Too late. I site. Ryan Miller and the guys I have done NO cardio in several went down. Due to the number from The Cutthroat Racing team months. What was I thinking? of riders squeezing into the nar- did an excellent job preparing Priya Noronha took the Sport Women’s Race. Oh yeah, I remember. I was row left turn we had made quite the 1st annual Frozen in Time Photo courtesy of Cutthroat Racing. thinking I would start exercising a rut. If you hit it just right with Race. Can’t wait ‘til next year! See more photos at cutthroatracing.org again on Monday. The race was your front tire it sent you over done in a time trial style. The the bars. To make matters worse See results on page 18. course started out nice and my cleat broke on the bottom of Cover Photo: Mitchell Peterson leads the Junior Expert groomed. A little ice in some my shoe and I couldn’t get Class at the Desert Rampage on March 5, 2005. spots but for the most it was like unclipped. I’m lying there in Photo: Joaquim Hailer See more photos of his at joaquimhailer.com cycling utah P.O. Box 57980 Murray, UT 84157-0980 www.cyclingutah.com You can reach us by phone: (801) 268-2652 Our Fax number: (801) 263-1010 Dave Iltis, Editor & Advertising [email protected] David R. 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ShowdownShowdown atat FivemileFivemile PPassass CourseCourse isis aa GreatGreat RideRide Technical difficulty: Moderate, By Gregg Bromka unless you stay true to the race- course, then there are some If you were amping out in “tricky bits.” spin classes or suffering on cold, damp road rides all winter while Gain: 550 feet (Take four laps your buddies were carving up like the pro men and you’ll the fresh powder, then put the climb over two grand.) hurt on them at the Showdown at Fivemile Pass Mountain Bike Notes: This area is designated Race. This springtime tradition, open to OHVs, so keep your to be held this year on April head up for traffic. Want to race? 30th, has become a proving Contact Intermountain Cup Race ground to sort out who has been Series at intermountaincup.com was putting miles on their bike and who was putting pounds on Trailhead Access: From I-15, their gut during the off-season. take Exit 282 for Lehi, and trav- Even if you’re not hellbent on el 23 miles on UT 73 from the making the podium, the race- center of town to Fivemile Pass. course’s rolling desert double- From Tooele, drive 12 miles tracks are perfect for logging south on UT 36 then 15.5 miles quality early-season miles. southeast on UT 73 to Fivemile The first half of the race- Pass. Park on the south side of course is a navigational night- the pass. mare because roads go every which way. Your goal is to reach Excerpted from Mountain the Sevenmile Pass road, which Biking Utah’s Wasatch Front. Couch potatoes need not apply. dissects the Thorpe Hills about For other Utah trails, get a Photo by Gregg Bromka 4.5 miles south of the trailhead, copy of Mountain Biking Utah so you can make the loop back. that few can conquer.) Veer right scary.) Go left at a prominent Y- a series of short ups and downs by Gregg Bromka at your Just keep the Thorpe Hills on at a big Y-junction and head junction on the south side of the and quick turns wind across the favorite bike shop or at . your left, stay on the flats and southwest with the hapless Rush knoll, and climb gradually up the juniper and pinyon foothills. cyclingutah.com don’t climb anything significant, Valley Desert and foreboding Sevenmile Pass road for 2 miles Finally, with the trailhead in and most importantly, don’t go Sheep Mountains in your sights. to the broad saddle at, uh, sight, kick into high gear and wandering across the desert or (The racecourse takes the left Sevenmile Pass, where else? Far sprint to the finish–or take New Bike Shop you’ll end up as buzzard meat. If fork). But don’t cross the desert, away in the Wasatch Range, another lap. Better yet, take you’ve raced the Showdown, remember? Take a south bearing Lone Peak’s chiseled granite three more laps; that’s what pro in Lehi then you’ve had first hand expe- thereafter and ride through more cornice rises like a Gothic castle.