“The Cyclist” shows off Utah’s landscape by wrapping amateur road cycling races in the Utah Criterium Series around a thin plot. Nash the slacker just wants to drink and sleep as he couch surfs through life, but he reluctantly goes along for the ride as friends push him into training and racing.
Although I live in Santa Cruz County, I’ve been slacking on my job here. There’s been a ton of bike news out of Santa Cruz this past couple of months,some of which can be of wider interest.
The Sea Otter Bicycle Festival in Monterey, California adds cyclocross racing in 2012 to their mix of road and mountain bike action.
The return of nice weather to California means Highway 17 to Santa Cruz was packed with beach traffic. Between Scotts Valley and Ocean Street in Santa Cruz, Highway 17 is a limited access highway with no bicycles allowed, but when I saw the hundreds of cars stalled on the congested ‘freeway,’ I was so tempted read more
RealCyclist.com announced that Spanish professional Francisco Mancebo will captain their new U.S. Continental squad for the 2011 racing season.
I’ve lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California for almost four years now. When I ride from home, I usually hit the mountain roads and go straight up to the summit, or I shoot down to the Coast Highway and go north towards Half Moon Bay. Believe it or not, I’ve never gone south read more
