Update on Sponsors

So far we have gotten a few sponsors for this year - some who contributed to last year's success and some who are joining the fun for the first time. Of course, we are working hard to bring in even more. I would like to thank our sponsors and give them some props for being awesome. Currently lined up to give us some swag are:

El Duke Degreaser

Common Ground Food Co-op

Yanco Pads

Urban Velo

Burro Bags

That's Rentertainment

Strawberry Fields

Once again, thanks to our sponsors for your continued support. I'll keep updating the list as more donations come in.

It's that time of year again!

We are running the second annual Chambana Cranksgiving on Saturday, November 14th at The Bike Project. We are working on getting sponsors and making this event even more successful than last year. Last year, in our first annual event, we had some pretty impressive numbers (41 riders and over 600 pounds of food donated to Eastern Illinois Foodbank). We want to beat those numbers this year, though - so, if you are reading this, please let your friends know and come out and support a good cause.

Thanks

Thanks to our sponsors!!

I want to once again say thank you to our sponsors. Without the donations of our sponsors there is no way that this could have been half as successful as it was. I have linked to all of the sponsors in previous posts and I hope that all of you will check them out ( I know that I am jealous of so many of the awesome prizes that we gave out). So I am going to put up a few pictures that my wife and I took at the race so here goes...


Let the race begin...
Le Mans style start (yes that is a back to back recumbent tandem with a trailer attached)

Counting up points and collecting food...
The beginning of our food donations...
The food we collected (613 pounds)
First (right) and second (left) place


First out of town and skid winner
Footdown winner
World's First Flying Machine


So here are the results for the top 8 and the games winners and I will tally the rest later this weekend now that I have some free time.

1 - Stephanie Seiler
2 - Desiree Gualandri
3 - Josh Ritchey
4 - Fred Davidson
5 - Kyle French
5 - Lisa Hall
7 - Warren Montgomery
8 - Mike Pennington

Skid - Brent Levitt
Footdown - Stephen
Sprints - Andrew ??
Trackstand - Sean Laude

Thanks again to everyone who came out and thanks again to out generous sponsors

Yanco Pads
Granny Gear Cycling Caps
El Duke Degreaser
Wald Sports
Dirt Rag
Urban Velo
Specialty Imports

and most importantly the Bike Project of Urbana Champaign where the race started and the afterparty was held.

We Did It!

Our first annual (hopefully) cranksgiving event is over now and I have to say that it was an overwhelming success! We managed to bring in 613 pounds of food that was donated this morning to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank. This far and away exceeded anything I could have expected

I want to say thanks to all of the people who helped bring this event together(Joel, Pieta, Brian, Sean, and Josh) and also to those who donated food or prizes. This event could not have happened without the 41 participants who showed up - the real thanks goes out to all of you!

We will be posting photos of the race and after party probably later this evening. Along with all of the winners.

Thanks Again,
Luke

Food for the afterparty

Hey so we just found out that we are getting food donations from two different grocery stores, strawberry fields and county market on philo, for the afterparty.

So that will be a nice way to recharge after biking around town.

Cookies!!!

Common Ground food co-op is going to make us some cookies for the afterparty!!

Check them out here:
http://www.commonground.coop/

Its coming soon

Hey I hope that everyone is getting ready for Sunday. This event is going to happen rain or shine so come prepared. We are also going to have some events after the alleycat like trackstand, skid, and possibly even sprint comps.

And now onto other news. Schnucks has graciously donated some prizes as well so a big thanks to them. We would also like to give a big thanks to specialty imports for their donation of prizes as well.

Can't wait to see everyone on sunday

Reminder the registration starts at 12 and the race will start around 1
see you there