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For more than 27 years Rudy Project has been committed to technology and technological innovations that offer unique solutions for athletes and weekend warriors. The unquestionable excellence of the Rudy Project line of products is a result of the desire and intuition to continuously create new ideas and to implement them in the form of development activities and quality management, on-going research in the field of materials, a rigorous program of experimentation and testing, and in interactive relationships with the recipients of the finished product. The results are astonishing. The combination of design and professionalism, the merger of aesthetics and materials: the winning mix… Our magic. Our athletes. Our men and women.The stars of the Rudy Project World.
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6hr Solo Male, 6th place out of 50, 7 laps, 5:59:53
Frozen IDB
4hr Solo SS, 2nd place out of 7, 4 laps, 3:50:16
Red River Riot
Medium Route, 26 of 90, 4:36:23
Profile
Birth Date
April 25, 1978
Birth Place
Found under a rock
Home Town
FloMo
List and describe your bicycles
Salsa El Mar stock
Niner EMD XT everything.
List past racing accomplishments in any sport you’ve competed in
Cedar Hill 2013 cat 2 – 3 ss Win
Mellow Johnny’s raced 3 years running
Sansom 66 relay (better looking half) win.
River Legacy smurf boy SS 2nd place
Cedar Hill smurf boy ss 3rd
Big Cedar Chilly Willy 3rd.
What is your first memory of riding a bicycle?
My Dad purchasing a girls bike because I was so short and convincing me it was a boys bike….to all the neighborhood kids don’t forget I beat you when I was riding a girls bike.
Why do you ride a bicycle?
Why not?
What does Bearded Women mean to you?
Bearded Women means I have probably had a little to much to drink and am now seeing women with beards.Seriously I look forward to a lot of fun.
12 hr, 3-4 man team, 3rd place out of 8 teams, 18 laps, 11:36:13.52
Ray Porter Memorial
6 hr SS, solo, 7th out of 8th, 3 laps, 4:20:48
Frozen IDB
4 hr SS, solo, 4th out of 7, 3 laps, 3:11:05
Profile
Birth Date
July 28 1983
Birth Place
Dallas, TX
Home Town
Denton, TX
List and describe your bicycles
Niner SIR 9 Single Speed(Blaze Yellow) Salsa Warbird Gravel Grinder (Orange) Salsa Spearfish II Endurance Machine (Orange)
List past racing accomplishments in any sport you’ve competed in
Most favorite accomplishment is having completed the Ouachita Challenge 3 years in a row, including a 6:09 finish in 2010. My next goal is to complete it on my single speed. Also, 2nd place overall in Cat 3 XC 2012.
What is your first memory of riding a bicycle?
I don’t remember my first bike, I don’t even remember learning to ride a bike. What I do remember however is when my bike was stolen from my backyard when I was a child. That was the first time I remember ever feeling heartache.
Why do you ride a bicycle?
I ride bikes to break free from reality. Its my outlet, and without it I would probably go nuts. Riding bikes also lets me enjoy tacos and beer without feeling too much guilt.
What does Bearded Women mean to you?
It means I have friends!
Jesse Bernal, Racing Member
Jesse Bernal, Racing Member
Dirty Dozen 12 hr, 4 man open, 3rd place finishers!
The first time in our young team’s history we were able to field solid groups of racers for two coinciding endurance races on the same day in different parts of the state! Mind you, we’ve been going to the Dirty Dozen Endurance Mountain Bike Race for years as individuals, but this time around it was even more meaningful to those that participated. You see, it was our unofficial one year anniversary as a team. It’s inception came from a late night of good times around a campfire, and the dream to start a club team we all hoped would draw people to racing for fun and competition.
Last year, we placed 4th overall in the 12 hr, 4 man open category, so we were looking to improve on our very first placing and payout. This year we fielded 2 four man teams for the 12 hr race, and 1 two man team for the 6 hr race, all male. We’ll get our first women racer soon! The day was perfect, as the temperatures were comfortable, it was overcast, and there was an ever so slight, on and off rain fall throughout the day which made for a very compact and fast course! The top group entered of Jesse Bernal, Brad Wendling, Nathan Delahoussaye, and Marcus Gillespie hung around the 2nd and 3rd place spot the entire day, and finished in 3rd place on the podium, the highest placing our team as ever done at this event! A mechanical caused an issue on one lap, but each guy was putting in consistent lap times to keep them in contention. The next 4 man group consisting of Jonathan Braddick, Moreece Griffin, Logan Davis, and James Henson were keeping pace. Moreece and Logan were participating in their first 12 hour endurance race, and both exceeded their own expectations! The 6 hr, 2 man group consisted of our first father and son racers, Michael and Austin Ham. Both live in Brian/College Station, and were entering their first ever endurance race!
In the end all groups did an amazing job, but furthermore the weekend tightened and strengthened our resolve to field an even bigger group for next year’s race!
Here are the overall results from the Dirty Dozen Endurance race in Warda, TX:
Back up in the DFW area, another important race was happening in Oak Cliff at the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve. DORBA’s Frozen Endurance series had endured two cancellations from mother nature in the form of winter and fire, leaving the series without a completed race.
The team fielded 6 racers, new Cat 1 racing member Mike D’ Aurelio and last year’s Best Endurance Race Placing winner Randy Davis in the 6 hr open, new Cat 3 racing member Corey Fawcett and new Cat 3 racing member Armando Zermeno in the 4 hr open, and Shane Walden and Wes Salas as a team in the 6 hr relay.
Overall, BWR had a total of 16 racers on a dirt single track, grinding away and putting all of their heart and legs into it this past weekend. Congratulations gentlemen!
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Here are the overall results from the DORBA Frozen Series race at OCNP:
The team’s 2014 season has been officially underway since December 2013, but through a few different race cancellations and postponements, we still hadn’t had a complete race with our participation until last Saturday, January 25th.
The Rudolph’s Revenge race was a 30 (or 40) mile race on the toughest singletrack in North Texas combined with super fast fire road. The 30 mile race took at least 2 hours to finish and covered roughly 1500 feet in elevation change. It had been postponed because of weather in December, but it officially was put into the books on Saturday. Two of our new race members, Jesse Bernal and Daniel Johnson, logged their first official race with the team, providing a glimpse of why we’re so excited to have them and everyone on our team for this 2014 year!
Jesse Bernal, 2nd out of 4, 2:29:26, avg spd: 12.03 mph
30 mi. Men’s Open
Daniel Johnson, 14th out of 27, 2:29:08, avg spd: 12.07 mph
And, not to forget we all went out to North Shore for an awesome day of racing before the race got abruptly stopped and later cancelled, because some numbskull didn’t put out his campfire. We had 10 racers on the course and another 6 volunteer members in support for the Frozen DORBA series race. Check out these great pics, and look for the team at the next race in the series at Oak Cliff Nature Preserve, and at the Dirty Dozen Endurance Race in Warda, TX both this weekend!
Early this month, the team celebrated completing it’s first inaugural racing season at the Bearded Lady on South Magnolia in Ft. Worth. It’s a must go kind of place that has one of the most comprehensive craft beer selections in North Texas!
2013 Board Officers with Geoff
At the party, the team had the pleasure of having pro racer, Geoff Godsey, from Team Giant Southwest and DFW Active Life as a guest speaker, and assisting us in giving out our team performance awards.
Geoff turned PRO in 2000 at the age of 23, and has raced for several teams including TREK-Volkswagen Pro Cycling (Off-road & On-road), Ranch London (On-road), Specialized Factory Team (On-Road), Team Hotel San Jose (On-Road), Kenda-5hr Energy Pro Cycling (On-Road), GIANT Factory ON-ROAD Team (formerly GIANT Bicycles-SOUTH). His career includes both domestic and international experience (primarily Central / South American Tours). He’s had 25 + Career Victories, Multiple Texas State Championship titles (includes current 2-time Masters State Criterium Championship). Some highlights – (3) Stages wins at the International Cycling Classic, (4) Stage wins at the Ciclismo Internationale de Brazil, Top 20 Performance at the US National Championship ITT – PR 51min 37sec (40K)
Team Performance Award Winners
Our team supports two types of members, racing and riding. Our racing members have the opportunity to compete for annual team awards to act as an incentive and motivation to perform well during the season. We track races completed and placings, and assign a points system to them. Based on the data, we have a pretty good objective way to award performance without any kind of subjective opinion. Here are the 2013 winners:
2013 Best Overall Performance, Bradon Schrader
2013 Overall Points Leader, Brandon Schrader
2013 Most Improved Rider, Braden Barnett
2013 Best Spring Racing Placing, Minh Nyugen
2013 Most Races Completed, James Henson
2013 Best Endurance Race Placing, Randy Davis
2013 Team Awards made by ReGeared
Along with individual performances, we feel our team fared pretty well as a whole. Here is a breakdown of our team performance from this past year:
Racing by the Numbers
The inaugural racing season saw 23 members compete in 8 USAC sanctioned, sprint and endurance mountain bike races for a total of 85 individual race entries completed. 20 members in Category 3 age group, and 3 in Category 2 single speed classifications. Total team membership reached 29 for the season and consisted of 23 adult males, 3 adult females, and 3 junior racers.
Racing Performance
Several of our racing members placed in the top ten and reached the podium in multiple races. Here is the breakdown of our best results for the season:
MTB Sprint
MTB Team Endurance
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th – 10th
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th – 10th
5
3
5
1
6
1
1
1
8
The team also had several top DORBA Fall Total Series placing’s, including 1st and 4th place for Cat 2 SS, 1st and a tie for 2nd place in the Cat 3 20 -29, and 1st place in Clydesdale
In addition to our racing performances, Bearded Women Racing is 100% focused on community outreach as well. Here is a summary of what our team accomplished this past season:
Carry the Load is a non-profit organization helping people celebrate a meaningful Memorial Day by conducting a 20-hour event that honors veterans and active duty service members, law enforcement officers, firefighters and their families.
The team was able to provide 20 adult, refurbished bicycles to those in need through this local organization located in Mansfield, TX. Their mission is to provide low cost transportation options to students, micro-businesspeople, health care workers and others in developing nations and in our local community by recycling and reusing bicycles and their component parts
The team helped to supply 480 NEW BALANCE sport t-shirts to Walnut Ridge Baptist Church for Samaritan’s Purse International Relief for Operation Christmas Child.
24 volunteers and 120 man hours later, a new super-berm was erected, miles of trail were trimmed, plant beds were managed, and hundreds of yards of grass were cut! BWR team members turned out in force alongside many other DORBA and local volunteers to make the effort a memorable one! Trail Steward Cash Lopper and game day coordinator Todd Brashear led the effort alongside sponsors Bearded Women Racing and B & B Bicycles.
Also, a few team members spent 9 man hours at another trial maintenance day at Cedar Hill State Park. A huge berm was repaired as well as a creek crossing. The team will continue to work with local trail stewards and schedule work days as a part of our membership requirements, and obligations to our community trails.
The Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association is a 501c3 non-profit and its primary mission is providing access to great local trails.
In May of 2013, Bearded Women Racing marched 91 miles in 17 hours and raised over $600 in honor of those fallen soldiers and their families at Carry the Load. The team will make this an annual fundraising event each year!
Carry the Load is a non-profit organization helping people celebrate a meaningful Memorial Day by conducting a 20-hour event that honors veterans and active duty service members, law enforcement officers, firefighters and their families.
Bearded Women Racing 