Victor Velo

Spooky Cross is Saturday, Oct 22, 2011

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Victor Cyclocross Races

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Please mark your calendar for the weekends of Sept 24, Oct 8-9, and Oct 22 for three weekends of cyclocross racing in Victor, ID!

Kross Kickoff - September 24, 2011 Register Now
Moose Cross Cyclocross Festival - Oct 8-9, 2011 Register Now
Spooky Cross - Oct 22, 2011 Register Now

New for 2011, the Start / Finish for all races will be at the Kotler Ice Arena in Pioneer Park.

Mountain bikes are welcome and you don't need to be a hardcore racer to enjoy cyclocross. You can do anything for 45 minutes, right? Not into racing? Please come to watch, ring a cowbell, and madly cheer on the racers as they come by. Cyclocross is the most spectator friendly form of cycling.

Directions: From highway 33 turn north onto Baseline Rd. Turn left on Agate St and then turn right into the Transit Center parking lot.

Please let us know if you have any questions about the events. We are working hard to put on three glorious weekends of cross racing in 2011. Please be a part of it.

Victor Velo sponsored trail day

2011-08-25T09:27:00.000-07:00

Please join Victor Velo this Saturday, Aug 27th, for a trail work day to punch through the final section of the "Rush Hour" Trail in Victor. We will meet at the Stateline parking lot on Highway 33 at 9:00 AM. Please bring a lunch, plenty of water, and pruners if you have them. Victor Velo will bring assorted hand tools.

With a good turnout, we can complete this trail and begin to enjoy a new piece of singletrack in Victor!

Spooky Cross Results are up!

2010-11-01T09:01:00.000-07:00

Click Here: 2010 Spooky Cross Results

Spooky Cross - October 30, 2010

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Grab a costume and come race in Victor, ID

10:30 AM – FREE Kids Race - one modified lap, costumes encouraged

11:00 AM – FREE Costume Race - 20 min - prizes for best costumes, all ages and abilities welcome

12:00 PM – Masters 35+/45+, Women’s 1/2/3/4, & Juniors (scored separately) - 45 min

1:00 PM – Men’s 1/2/3 & 4/5 (scored separately) - 45 min

Directions: From highway 33 turn north onto Baseline Rd. Continue straight past Old Pass Rd. Turn left on Elm St, parking lot is on left. Spooky Cross will Start/Finish near the Victor Bike Park at the north end of Pioneer Park.

Registration: Entry fees: $15 for single race, $10 for additional class at same race, $5 extra for day-of-race registration. All juniors FREE!

Register Online at Athlete360.com

Tony Jewell Kross Kickoff photos are up

2010-09-30T09:18:00.000-07:00

Tony Jewell Photography was out on the course during Kross Kickoff and his photos are online and available for purchase. Tony will also be shooting Moose Cross this weekend.

Kross Kickoff Men's Photos

Kross Kickoff Women's Photos

Kross Kickoff Master's Photos

Kross Kickoff Kid's Photos

Kross Kickoff Rocked!

2010-09-27T13:01:00.000-07:00

Kross Kickoff served as a great warmup for our upcoming Moose Cross weekend. The organizers got a "dress rehersal" while the racers got their first dose of cross racing intensity this season. Thanks to everyone who came out to support Victor Velo's Kross Kickoff.

Kyle James leads Mayor Fitzgerald through the chicanes

Fitzy gets a beer hand up

Tracey Petervary with a commanding lead

Jannine Fitzgerald took advantage of the beer hand ups early and often

Kross Kickoff - Saturday, September 25, 2010

2010-09-22T15:30:00.000-07:00

Kick off your cyclocross season in Victor, ID this Saturday!

The Start / Finish will be at Grand Teton Brewing Company. Come for the cyclocross and stay for Oktoberfest! Each adult racer gets a FREE entry to Oktoberfest where a portion of the proceeds benefit the Teton Valley Foundation.

Directions: From highway 33 turn north onto Baseline Rd. Continue straight past Old Pass Rd. Turn left into the new parking area.

Registration: Entry fees: $15 for a single race, $5 extra for day-of-race registration. All kids & juniors FREE! Register online at Athlete360.

Race Schedule:

2:30 PM - Kid's Race - 1 modified lap

2:50 PM - Masters 35+/45+ (scored separately) - 45 min

3:40 PM - Women's 1/2/3/4 - 45 min

4:30 PM - Mens' 4/5 & 1/2/3 (scored separately) - 45 min

Cyclocross Season is here!

2010-09-10T15:19:00.000-07:00

Greetings cyclocrossers! The season of mud, cowbells, and embrocation is finally upon us and we are excited.

We are working to dial our cyclocross course in as we speak and our first race is just around the corner. Mark your calendars and get your chores done now so that you are ready to race.

Saturday, Sept 25 - Kross Kickoff - Start/Finish at Grand Teton Brewing Co. September 25th also happens to be Oktoberfest so come out to race cross and stay for the Oktoberfest party! What could be better than that?

Saturday & Sunday, Oct 2-3 - Moose Cross - Start/Finish at Grand Teton Brewing Co.

Saturday, Oct 30 - Spooky Cross - Start/Finish at the Victor Bike Park

Wed Work Night Sign

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Work Nights moved to Wednesday!!!

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Somehow we overlooked Music On Main when we picked Thursday night to be our work night at the Victor Bike Park throughout July. We want to support Music On Main in Victor so work nights will be on Wednesdays from 6-9pm. Please join us!

More Dirt.

2010-07-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

A huge thanks to Pete Linville of MD Excavation and Johnny Z for donating their time and heavy equipment expertise this afternooon. We moved three big loads of dirt into the bike park and pushed it up onto the start hill. Lots of shaping, raking, and tuning to do now but the "heavy lifting" is done.

Wednesday Nights in the Bike Park

2010-07-01T13:27:00.001-07:00

Our beloved Victor Bike Park needs some love. Please join us throughout the month of July for Wednesday Nights in the Bike Park. We are looking for volunteers from 6 to 9pm each Wednesday to help out with various tasks inclusing shaping new features, buffing out the dirt jumps, picing up rocks, and dealing with the weeds.

The Victor Bike Park Landscape plan

The Victor Bike Park is excited to be listed as one of the non-profits you can donate to during the annual Tin Cup Challenge. Your donation will be matched by the Teton Valley Community Foundation and each dollar you donate could turn into $1.50 for the Victor Bike Park. To donate, please click HERE. Any money raised during the Tin Cup Challenge will go to completing the landscaping, purchasing some prime topsoil, and adding some wooden features.

Thanks in advance for your support.

Please donate to the Victor Bike Park through the Tin Cup Challenge

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At this time last year, Victor did not have a bike park. Thanks to many generous donations and a lot of "sweat equity" from volunteers we now have a great bike park for kids of all ages to enjoy. However, we still have lots of work to do and we need your help.

By making a donation to the Victor Bike Park through the Tin Cup Challenge, your donation will be "matched" by funds from the Community Foundation of Teton Valley. As an example, your donation of $1000 to the Victor Bike Park could turn into a $1500 donation after the "match". The actual per-dollar match is determined once the Tin Challenge event is complete but it has ranged from $.45 - $.50 per dollar.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE - Be sure to select "Victor Bike Park" from the list of Non-profits.

Why do we need more money?
We have big plans for a Phase II which would expand the bike park and add several new skills-building wooden features to the park.

We also have some unfinished business from Phase I including:
1) Irrigation system
2) Weed control
3) Additional topsoil
4) Purchase of Tools
5) Sod

Thanks in advance for your generosity!

Bike Park Landscaping Day 10-10-09

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Saturday morning started off cold and snowy. But that didn't stop a group of dedicated volunteers from showing up at 8am with one goal in mind - get as many trees and shrubs in the ground as possible in one day!

The day was made possible because of the tremendous community support for this project. Our warmest thanks go out to the following who made it happen with their generous donations:

Josh Thulin / The Arbors Nursery - All 60 of the Trees & Shrubs, compost, and backhoe
Harmony Design - Landscape Plan and on-sight execution by Randy Blough
Valley Lumber - Mini-ex to dig the holes
Grand Teton Brewing Company - Forklift and head Brewer, Marks, to unload the trees
Trail Creek Nursery - Skidsteer and operator to load trees
Teton Timberframe - Skidsteer, flat bed trailer to haul trees, and Adam's strong back
City of Victor - Site prep and topsoil
Power's Excavation - Flat bed trailer to haul trees with
Mike Bessette from Frontier Landscaping - Full day of equipment operation and manual labor
Jay & Tracey Petervary - A full day of help from Victor's newsest residents
Mike Piker - Coming over from Jackson to help out
Jeremy Besbiris - Tree planting and process building
Victor Velo - Dave Byers & Scott Fitzgerald spearheading the operation
Fresh Cut Deli - Keeping us fed
Teton Mountain Ranch - Topsoil courtesy of Stephen Bagley

At the end of the day we planted almost 50 plant units! We'll be back at it Tuesday to finish off the job. If you have time to help please come on by. If you have any watering resources please let us know as the irrigation is off but we would like to soak the trees before winter.

Mike with Frontier Landscaping digs the first holes before the trees arrived

The crew unloads the first of many trees off Power's Excavation's Trailer

Jay and Mike taking a pass off from Marks

The first tree is in!

Randy surveying his handy work as Josh drops the steamy compost

Stephen Bagley surprised us with a load of topsoil from Teton Mountain Ranch

Adam Riley hauled massive trees with the Teton Timberframe trailer

The park started to take on the look of a Grove

Marks and others worked into the darkness making sure the shrubs would stay warm over the next few nights

Victor Bike Park Needs your help!

2009-08-25T12:51:00.000-07:00

Now that we have had our Grand Opening celebration, we sat down and did a bit of accounting to see where we stand. As you know, Victor Velo the non-profit organization that built the Bike Park. No City money was used for this project. However, now that the dust has settled, we need to do a bit more fundraising to cover the expenses of the project.

It total we have raised $5500 but have budget shortfall of $3500.

There is a beautiful new sponsor board at the park for any person or organization who donates more than $500.

But, we have also had a handful of $250 donations from avid users. Even small donations go a long way. I hope you can support this project too so we can start planning phase 2 - Wooden Skills features!

Ride On!

Grand Opening Celebration Sat Aug 22nd

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A great letter from a parent

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"The girls (Mariela and Anneli) have been RIPPING UP the bike park and Willis went with us one day and was inspired to ride his two-wheeler for the very first time! I had tears in my eyes watching M and Anneli- they truly have never given it a thought that there are things that girls can't/shouldn't do. They would zip right up and go right in front of the older boys standing there ho-ing and humming about what they were gonna do. It's a really special place. Thanks to all involved. Hope it makes you feel better about all the work you have been doing. xo. Sue"

check this out!

2009-08-12T18:17:00.000-07:00

360 degree picture of the bike park!

check it out

VVV (Victor Velo Video)

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Quick Update

2009-07-20T20:01:00.000-07:00

We had a great turnout on Sunday and accomplished a ton. Monday was mostly fine-tuning but a major upgrade happened on the dirt jump start hill thanks to the Victor Public Works crew and their shiny front loader.

Our new bike park rocks!

Victor Bike Park Day 2

2009-07-18T05:26:00.000-07:00

Where once there was nothing now sits a Bike Park! We made huge gains yesterday and accomplished more than I thought was possible in one day. I'll get photos up soon, but first a big thanks to the following people who really stepped up yesterday:
Pete Linville and Colin - GreenNeck Excavating
Scott Golden - Victor Pubilc Works
Harlan and Clay - Teton Freedom Riders
Hondo Miller - High Range Designs
Dave Byers - Athlete 360
Jay Hoots - Running the Mini Ex until WAY past dark!
Dave Bergart - Victor City Councilman
Amy, Taylor, Kenny - the Future of the Victor Bike Park.

OK, no time for blogging, there's work to be done!

Day 1 of Givn'r

2009-07-17T06:04:00.000-07:00

Every delay possibly was thrown at us yesterday by the airlines but no big surprise there right!? The funniest though was the broken gas main in jackson on the way back from the airport! Classic! So we didn't get going until 7pm, but that didn't stop Jay Hoots and Councilman Johnny Ziem from Givn'r! We moved almost all the intial dirt into place after the mad scientist (Jay Hoots) quickly spray painted the layout.
We'll be at it again today starting at 8am.

Travel Delay

2009-07-16T14:42:00.001-07:00

Jay Hoots' flight was delayed so it looks like we will not be on sight tonight until 5:30pm. Hope to still get a bunch done tonight though...

Grant Award

2009-07-16T05:51:00.003-07:00

We just found out that we were awarded a Grant of $1000 from the Community Foundation of Teton Valley for the Victor Bike Park!

Victor Bike Park Construction Begins Thursday!

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The blank canvas

Here's a schedule of events for the next 5 days.

If you would like to help, you are welcome any or all of the days. However, it looks like Sat and Sun will be the days when hand tools will come into play the most. Not sure how this will progress exactly, so stay tuned!

What to Bring:
Gloves, Sunscreen, Water, Shovels (Flat), Rakes (sturdy), Hat, Snacks

Thursday:
Jay Hoots arrives
Dirt is moved into place with Loaders / Skid Steers
2pm - til dark?

Friday:
Loader and Excavator begins initial shaping
8am - 5pm

Saturday:
Skid Steers / Mini Ex Continue shaping
Volunteers begin shaping with hand tools
8am - 5pm

Sunday:
Skid Steers / Mini Ex Continue shaping
Volunteers shape with hand tools
8am - 5pm

Monday:
Final Work Day
Details - TBD