JQ, SnowJunky, Sota-Pop, The Law, DaKing, JWilliams, and BadKarma enjoyed the scenery and improving weather at the Big Sandy Race near Fresno, CA. Shiloh “The Law” Ballard took 2nd in the Open Sport Women Long Course Category. Jon “JQ” Smith took 3rd in the Expert Men 30-39 Category and 4th best time Overall with a [...]
Let me open this report with a few comments on the weather. Despite being a La Nina year, which historically means less rain than normal, the month of March featured record amounts of rain and snow in California. So much that we are now no longer in a state of drought and folks are even [...]
Big Sandy Race is a scenic lollipop race course with a technical Sierra style climb and descent. It’s a real ass kicker. To make matters worse, the days leading up to it have been filled with rain, so active rivers and big ruts and quicksand litter the course ready to swallow up any unsuspecting racers. [...]
The day was wet, muddy, and cold, but Quadzilla Racing shined and collected two more victories at CCCX Race #4 in Fort Ord, CA. The team was represnted by Jon “JQ” Smith and Chris “Sota-Pop” Sota who both collected victories in their respective categories of Expert Men 19-34 and Sport Men 19-34. JQ also collected [...]
Well this was no doubt about to be the beginning to a long and punishing weekend. Two races planned with work in between and very little sleep. The drive down to Fort Ord was very un optimistic, the rain was coming down and it did not look like it planned on stopping any time soon. [...]
Thus begins a busy racing weekend! Saturday morning did not look like a great day on the radar, nor did it look it out the weekend. What had previously looked like a good Quadzilla turnout for CCCX was diminished to 2 racers: just myself and Sota-Pop. We arrived at the site to find a rain [...]
Dan King and Justin Williams represented Quadzilla Racing in a multi-day All-Mountain competition which included Cross Country, Short Track, and Downhill competitions. Justin finished 8th in All Mountain Expert category and Dan finished 4th in All Mountain Sport cateogory. Results for the Keyesville Classic Mountain Bike Race
Event: Sport All Mountain combination. The Keyesville Classic did not meet my expectations… in a good way. Four of us headed out on Thursday night from Campbell in an over loaded Honda Odyssey; our goal was Motel 6 in Bakersfield. My first low expectation was our sleeping accommodation. As typical mountain bikers we did not [...]
Quadzilla Racing’s BadKarma Kramer claimed the team’s historic first victory with a strong ride to claim 1st Place in Sport Men 35-44. New Quadzilla Racing member Chris “The Sandman” Sota was leading the field in Sport Men 19-34 until a mechanical sent him down the list, but he managed to finish strong to salvage 4th [...]
What a difference a week makes! After the hurting I experienced during CCCX#2, I wasn’t even planning on attending race #3, which was scheduled for the following weekend. I figured two weeks of pain in a row would be too much to bear. But the weather was still rainy, which meant no riding anywhere else, [...]
