Wentworth DH Race + Club Ride June 5/6th, 2010

Sick, hopefully I have the money for this!

Is there no shuttle fees this year or are they covered in the 25 dollars.

Sweet. I will do my best to be there for both days. I just got a cyclsmith club membership, and will get a race license for the race day.

anyone have a reccomendation of a nearby rental cabin on a lake or something to take the wife and dog?

If you need a plate it's $5. If you return the plate you can get your $5 back at the race only... i.e., can't get it back a few weeks later.

Hi everyone,

Due to the impending wet weather, please keep an eye on this site for any cancellations. If we are cancelled, it will be here. If you don't see it here, you can assume that it is a go. as of right now, we are going to go.
another importiant topic: large parts of the hill have recently been seeded. Please stay off of them and on the trails only. the freeride trail as been partly wiped out by the new sugar shack ski trail so I would ask that people please stay to the RIGHT hand side as they go down, you will be able to catch the rest of it after crossing the sissy. watch for pylons.
We will have the updated list from bsn as to whome is a member and who is not. If you are not sure, i reccommend you call and find out if you have been processed yet. if not, have your credit card handy and get the refund later.

People without a valid CCA membership will be turned away. NO EXCEPTIONS.

I'm stoked for some fierce shrelping.

It'll be perfect!!!!!!!! Its supposed to be dry after early friday morning. The hill will dry up and we'll have tacky dirt, with a little mud in some spots is my guess. There's just a chance of showers for the rest of the weekend. I'd rather these conditions then the dust storm last year.

The conditions will be pretty interesting if we get rain. There are always a few exciting roots on course which will keep you well awake if your 16 red bulls didn't do the trick. Last night, we polished up a few areas of the track to make a little more speed and visibility (read: lopped a bunch of head attacking branches) throughout the course. There's the potential for some serious braaappppappapappppppp up in this course, so get your pop o wheelies ready, and get ready to sing!

I'd say that at this point you're s.o.l. But if there is a chance for you to buy a license, it lies with Nimzie. I've heard unconfirmed reports that he's meeting with the BNS registrar this afternoon to submit Cogeyed memberships. Read what I said carefully... this is unconfirmed. At the 11th hour miracles are difficult. Best of luck.

on the thing nimz posted he said dead line for cogeyed membership is midday today. I'd say get yo ass in gear and get form + $$ to Adam!

I guess I am SOL, wife is at work until 12. So I can still participate on race day right?

It's not only the lack of car until she gets home, I'm home with a 10 month old, and the stroller/carseat/backpack is in the car.

Courier? Probably only a couple of bucks.

check your PM's :)

Awesome guys, thanks for all the info, I just left a message for Adam, hopefully he gets it, and I've been trying to get a hold of Tamara, so I'll see what happens, hopefully I'll see you all tomorrow. :)

see, now this is why i've given up on Dh in NS. It's all sugarloaf for me.

Oh wait! I managed to catch Adam Shore at work last second and he hooked me up, so I'm good to go, again, thanks everyone for your help, see you all tomorrow!

I think Mark and Conor have done a great job of getting the word out on this site, likely pedaltrout and likely a little facebook, too. The $25 is pretty minimal, and it hurts to see people down on the scene again - especially like you - Mike who love riding DH.
To make things easier, I put the word out that I was getting some special last minute licenses processed, and I meant it.
4 people got them to me - one was a little late even, and we worked it out.
Some got race licenses which I didn't know we would be able to do, and some got General memberships.
It's fucking awesome that Dave Wharton is taking the time today to fill out forms for a generally thankless body of people. Andrew 09 Lowery has been passing people along to me for information as well. They've all been hooked up.
This kind of commitment does make the scene. Sugarloaf is super duper awesome and so is Wentworth. The set ups are entirely different and the focus, too.
I'm so stoked on gravity cyclery. woot.

Sometimes its good to take a few steps backwards and ask yourself what your goal is.

In this case its ride a bike down a hill.

Sometimes its as easy as turn up and ride, sometimes you have to walk your bike up the hill, sometimes you get a truck or a lift.

I don't know, sure its one more little step this time around but it really is just a simple little step, takes not even 5min to fill the form out, then give it and 30 bones to Adam and your sorted to ride at any ride at wentworth (and others I expect) for the year. No big deal IMO.

If thats what it takes to make it possible to ride the hill then so be it.

Maybe once the support and numbers are there we'll see one of these places open up regularly during the summer, but that won't happen if people don't show up...

Plus riding at wentworth is fun :)

Nimzie mentioned it, but I've got to echo it... Dave Wharton, the registrar for BNS has been working more hours of overtime than there are hours in the day. He is the guy who does all of the paperwork involved with a membership and he's been working like team of 10 who actually get paid.

Bravo Dave!

Best of luck Conor & Mark... I hope it's a successful weekend for you.

Can someone help me here? my self and two others have paid for memberships, two of us paid two weeks ago and one of us paid as of this morning but we have no cards are we sol or are we gona be able to ride? we paid through Bicycle Plus Club.

Just to elaborate on McKay's note...

When you fill out your paperwork in an LBS, it needs to be endorsed by the club president and then mailed to BNS (if you're purchasing a race license) or the club president needs to send a formal report of the new member(s) to the BNS registrar.

What BNS needs to do is assign each member a registration number, and log them as a member of the CCA. Once that is done, they are an official member.

The LBS staff accepting the applications this afternoon for example may not have known the difference themselves, or they may not have appreciated the application so they figured a day or two wouldn't make a difference.

I'm very sorry about the confusion on this piece... but I really wasn't expecting people to wait until 5:30 p.m. to sign up when we've been talking about this for months.

The best news coming from all of this is that now that we have some new members, they are all in a position where they can change policy or create new ones to help facilitate processes like this.

Have a great weekend guys.

Mucho power.