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Tomorrow, the first two stages of the 2011 Nature Valley Bicycle Festival will hit St. Paul, and wander around the area (including Wisconsin) through Sunday. This is a fun pro event, offering a variety of disciplines and opportunities to watch race action. The criterium stages are especially good events to attend with children, as unlike a [...]
Not one, not two… but four days of track racing! This weekend at the NSC Velodrome, there’s a full schedule of track cycling to check out. Here’s the deets:
Thursday: Thursday Night Lights, 7 PM — The weekly racing at the NSC Velodrome. $2 for adults and over-12s, free for under-12s, prize drawings for picking the winner [...]
Last night was the first Thursday Night Lights of the season at the NSC Velodrome up in Blaine. My family headed out to check it out, as it was a lovely evening, and my preschooler is a fan of the track cycling experience.
There was a light crowd last night — early yet in the season — [...]
As we hit the back-end of winter and look forward to the giant tire-eating potholes of spring, here are a few goodies on this week’s Minnesota Bicycle Events Calendar:
February 28: The Minnesota Bicycle Summit with the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota. Walk-up registration is available. Come and represent bikes in Saint Paul.
March 3: The third of three [...]
The National Sports Center in Blaine, and the NSC Velodrome, are offering indoor criterium racing on grass this winter.
It’s a 5 race series, with 3 races each night. Racers are allowed to bring any bike they want, although it’s to be assumed that cyclocross bikes are likely the best handling. I have to assume that spectating [...]
The Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride – a 45-year spring tradition in Minnesota – is starting a new tradition this year by adding a Gran Fondo (the Minnesota Gran Fondo) to their already solid event.
The Ironman is a typical one-day event ride with the mild twist of offering a metric century and a century route early in [...]
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Minnesota Bicycle Event Calendar
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