34 Mile Results

34 Mile Ride

1.  John Rammel        2:12
2.  Ed Shaw                2:12
3.  Scott Fritz             2:15
4.  Jake Bailey           2:15
5.  Eric Voegel           2:20
6.  Brad Hilderbrandt  2:27
7.  Brad Jr.                  2:27
8.  Sue Sperstad          2:30
9.  Dave Sperstad       2:30
10. Elmer Corbin        2:40
11. Bobby Youngdahl  3:24
12. Bea Winkler           3:24
13. Jen Lasar                3:33
14. Jan Lasar                3:33
15. Frank Huben          3:33

34 Mile Results

34 Mile Ride

1.  John Rammel        2:12
2.  Ed Shaw                2:12
3.  Scott Fritz             2:15
4.  Jake Bailey           2:15
5.  Eric Voegel           2:20
6.  Brad Hilderbrandt  2:27
7.  Brad Jr.                  2:27
8.  Sue Sperstad          2:30
9.  Dave Sperstad       2:30
10. Elmer Corbin        2:40
11. Bobby Youngdahl  3:24
12. Bea Winkler           3:24
13. Jen Lasar                3:33
14. Jan Lasar                3:33
15. Frank Huben          3:33

Results of the 85 and 63 Mile Race

Here are the results from the Dirt Bag 2016. Please let me know if I got something wrong.

85 Mile Race

1.  Mark Skarpohl         4:00       1st Men

2.  Ben Doom                4:00.01

3.  Noah Middlestaedt   4:20

4.  Kyia Anderson         4:31      1st Women

5.  Kris Anderson          4:31

6.  Vic Weiss                  4:52      SS

7.  Alex Schad                4:58

8.  Mike Larson              5:17    (finished in alphabetical order)

9.  Michael Latsch         5:18           "         "          "          "

10. Gary Lindberg         5:34           "         "          "          "

11. Greg Knoll               6:14

12. Jon Loye                  6:14

13. Erik Riker-Coleman 6:14

14. Chris Fandel             6:14

15. Tim Boyd                 6:14

16. Brian Woods            6:20

17. Kurt Stunek              6:20

18. Mason Riedesel        6:33

19. Dan Peterson            6:33

63 Mile Ride

1.  Charles Wolf            3:04

2.  Jason Rupnow          3:05

3.  Chris Corley             3:05

4.  Noelle Andry..          3:22

5.  Patrick Butler           3:22

6.  Jen Newman            3:22

7.  Jim Ringette             3:23

8.  Bob McNutt             3:36

9.  Scott Swenson         3:36

10. Chris Heller            3:40

11. Anna Sviben           3:40

12. Matt Gryniewski     3:40

13. Phil Hibley              3:40

14. Ben Granquist         3:53

15. Jeffrey Florence      3:54

16. Tim Walsh               4:34

17. Rich Zvosec            4:34

18. Frank Thueringer     DNF

It's not too late to register, in fact it's never too late as we will accept anyone who wants to ride.
Walk-ups are allowed the morning of.
Nobody turned away and nobody goes home hungry.
See you Sunday!

We are a week away and forecast is looking good.
I have the 3 courses up on MapMyRide...
DirtBag 35      DirtBag 63      DirtBag 85

I will have cue sheets at the start as well.

See you out there!

No Blogging Skills

Hey Grinders,
I apologize for the lack of currency in this blog site on the interweb. I'm not up to speed on building this but will give it a go. Hopefully, there will be links and files to download for the course, cue sheets and waiver.
Much better at FaceBook: Dirt Bag
Stay tuned,
JJ

It's time to send your post cards for registration into the 2016 Dirt Bag.

Name
Class (SS/Multi, Fat)
Email address

Dirt Bag
c/o JJ Egbers
800 12th Ave South
St Cloud, MN 56301

We will be running the 30, 60, and 80 mile courses. Placings for the 80 mile.

I'm hoping to open up the DB jersey and hat store again for orders.

"Nobody goes home hungry"

Gravel Springing Through

Here comes the spring!
The speed at which gravel riding has and continues to be gaining in popularity is encouraging to us early adopters. The major manufacturers and custom builders are bringing forth many versions of gravel/all road/adventure/etc... machines in order to provide for this ever widening niche. I have seen TV commercials depicting gravel riders in the background while marketing some product (got involved in looking at the bike trying to figure out what they were riding and missed what it was trying to sell me).
R&D is causing production to retool in order to produce gravel specific tires and other components that will better suit the demands of these new (old) roads.
So now we're kind of a big deal.
So now should we worry?
I have a concern about these things becoming too big and at some point needing a governing body. Many of our events have started out like garage bands driven by the energy and pure enthusiasm of their creator. That spirit moved more people to participate and in turn multiplied to what we are seeing today, hundreds of riders arriving at start lines located on the edge of some Starbuck-less town racing through a countryside inhabited by farm dogs and pick up trucks. And we love it!
We must resist corporatization but we should also not be exclusive. Almanzo is still going after the retirement of it's creator. The committee run edition of it last year was highly successful and enthusiastically supported even though it may have lost a little bit of that self-supported individualist flavor. The bottom line to me is more people came out to participate and join our community.
We can be kind of a big deal without taking ourselves too seriously. All it takes is to continue to be there for our fellow gravelers when a hand, innertube, gelpack or encouragement is needed. It's not all about first, it's about finishing and sometimes it takes a village.