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Event Registration is Open for Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival

February 7th, 2012

Santa Cruz Mountain Bike FestivalRegistration for the Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival is now OPEN! The festival is a celebration of wheels on dirt in Santa Cruz County and will be in Aptos Village from April 14-15, 2012.

Check out our new website and “like” us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

We are featuring the Bell Super Enduro at Demo – a physically challenging multi-stage race traveling a distance of 25+ miles with over 5000 ft of climbing over 6 hours. The Enduro race format is popular in Europe and is starting to take hold in North America. It represents an exciting evolution of mountain bike racing that reflects how we ride in the forest with our friends. This Super Enduro will be the first legally sanctioned race at Soquel Demonstration State Forest!

There are limited entries to this race and we are accepting applications for the Bell Super Enduro at Demo until February 17, 2012. Please submit your application!

Also on the schedule are popular events from last year such as: 831 Jump Contest, Pump Track Pandemonium and the Specialized/Scotts Valley Cycle Sport Short Track. We will also feature Bike Skills Clinics, the WTB All Mountain Challenge (Pump, Shred, and Endure), and the Specialized/Scotts Valley Cycle Sport Kids’ Rodeo.

We have openings for sponsorships and volunteers. Please contact us if you are interested.

The mission of the SCMBF is to celebrate mountain biking in Santa Cruz County by bringing people together to participate and spectate in competitive and recreational mountain bike events, and a festival to bring the community together to advocate an active outdoor lifestyle and promote the world class mountain biking facilities and riders in Santa Cruz County.

Here is a link to our press release.

Please help us spread the word about our awesome festival!

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The lucky winner of the SCB/Pogonip Raffle

April 19th, 2011

Congratulations to Mike Schalow of Aptos, California for being the lucky winner of a brand new 2011 Nomad Carbon with the SRAM XO 1×10 all mountain kit. He bought 1 ticket (yes just one) from Another Bike Shop in Santa Cruz but it happened to be the right ticket.

We are happy to announce that this raffle raised a $10,815 donation towards the Pogonip multi-use trail. These expenses will go towards trail design, the costs of bridges and signage for the trail.

We met Mike Schalow at the post Sea Otter Aptos jump jam yesterday and he took the white Nomad Carbon that Santa Cruz Bicycles gave us to use as a display model. This was the bike that he wanted, in the color and size he wanted – which makes things easier for us. Mike is a long time SCB fan and has been riding a 15 year old Heckler. He just bought his girlfriend a new Juliana a couple of weeks ago and was planning to get a new bike. The Nomad Carbon represents a significant upgrade for him.

We would like to thank Mike Ferrentino and Santa Cruz Bicycles for donating a very compelling bike for our fund raiser.

We would like to thank all of you all for participating in this fund raiser. Your reward for participation will be a very sweet new single track trail which will connect downtown Santa Cruz to upper campus/Wilder Ranch SP/Henry Cowell SP – hopefully within a year. This trail will be a huge benefit to the City of Santa Cruz. Not only will it push out all the negative activity by displacing it with healthy and family friendly activities but it will also provide an way to increase economic activity for downtown Santa Cruz.

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Summary of the 2011 Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival

April 15th, 2011

Thank you for making our event an incredible success!

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Mountain Bikers Of Santa Cruz (MBOSC) is would like to thank you all for your attendance and participation in our Second Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival on April 9th and 10th, 2011 in Aptos Village, California.

We had a blast and are quite satisfied with the event. It exceeded our expectations. The organizing team and volunteers were tired but satisfied. All the feedback from vendors, spectators, athletes and neighbors were all positive and we raised over $10,000 towards a new bike park in Aptos – when ever they are ready. We have nice post festival after glow which carried us into the Sea Otter Classic the following weekend.

Please see this gallery for an awesome slideshow of the event.

Also, check out some of the videos from the event.

Thanks to

Megan Zemny (Festival Director/Sponsorships/Marketing/Fund raising)
Lisa Myklak (Event Director/Sponsorships)
Daryl Breuninger (Expo/Operations/Volunteers)
Steve Gemelos (Events/Operations/Marketing)
Eve Davidson (Finance/Registration),
Reema Farhat (Volunteers)
Sebastien Praly (Beer Garden/Operations/Events)
Mark Davidson (Operations/Expo/Legal/Sponsorships/Fund raising)

Above and beyond

Shawn Wilson (Events/Sponsorships)
Mary Moncorge (Marketing/Sponsorships)
Dwight Follien (Operations/Security/Parking)
Drew Perkins (Short Track)
Jeff Kendall-Weed (Epic XC)
Dave Smith (Shuttles/Construction/Parking/Greeter)
Alan Strahsberg (Audio and music)
John Fuchs (Construction/Events)
Jon Lukas (Web site)
Greg McPheeters (portable solar power)
Jesse Nickel (Site host/cleanup)
Kathy Frank, Buff, Kim (First Aid/Medical)
Sean McSorley (Event Photography)

And Finally!

A very special thanks to our sponsors, athletes and spectators for supporting this event. This has been a volunteer grass roots effort and a labor of love for all of us. We believe that Santa Cruz County has some of the best mountain biking in the world and it was an honor to show the world.

See you next year!

We are in the planning stages for the 2012 Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival – April 14-15, 2012 at the same venue – which will probably be the last time before Aptos Village is expanded (seriously).

Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering for or sponsoring the 2012 festival.

Once again, our amazing promo video…

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Raffle items at the Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival

April 7th, 2011

The Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival is a benefit towards a permanent bike park in Aptos. The existing Post Office Jump Park and the Epicenter Pump Track are on land which is designated for the expansion of the Aptos Village. As part of the project, an “active recreational use area” (a.k.a bike park) will be developed from land donated by the landowner (Barry Swenson Builders). The County of Santa Cruz is Responsible for the design, financing and construction of the park and operational and maintenance costs. See page 28 of the Aptos Village Plan.

We hope to raise funds to donate to the County for the design and construction of the proposed permanent bike park. Construction of the new Aptos Village may begin late 2011 or early 2012. The Epicenter Pump Track and the Post Office Jumps as we know it today will be gone. The Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival may be the last big celebration of mountain biking on this property until the new bike park is completed.

$5/ticket featured raffle items include:

Complete Trek Remedy 8 trail bike
Complete Black Market Soldier jump bike
Complete Felt/Troy Lee Cruiser
GoPro Camera Kit
2″ Kuat NV Bike Rack

There may be other $5 raffle items. You do not need to be present to win the $5 raffle items.

There will be several dollar raffles through out the weekend with some top prizes like CamelBaks, GoPro Cameras, NiteRider lights, tires, WTB saddles, Chairpaks, etc… You *must* be present to win the dollar raffles.

The other way we will raise money is at the beer garden. We will feature all 6 county brewers and will be selling beer for $5. You can buy SCMTBF beer glasses: $5 single color, $8 full color.

Come out to the festival this weekend and bring some cash (or check) and buy lots of beer and raffle tickets. Please support the mountain biking/dirt jumping/pumping community by donating generously to this cause. You may be rewarded for your good karma by winning some shiny new things of pure bike lust.

For more details see:
http://www.santacruzmountainbikefestival.com/spectators/fund-raising/

Thank you for your support for making Santa Cruz County awesome for mountain biking!

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