DIRTY DEEDS PROLOGUE FRIDAY NIGHT MADNESS!

CX is back! This is old news for all those that live in Newcastle of course but here in the hub, the grease is fresh, the balls polished and we are underway for another season of CX in Melbourne. The Dirty Deeds conglomerate once again hosted a stellar Friday evening of self propelled prologue shenanigans. Riders showed their talents over 2 laps of a short but demanding course that provided the crowd with everything from the regulation flat tyre to the highly anticipated broken collarbone.

Set with the challenge of giving away more sausages and taking home less beer than last year the iRide tent was pitched, the BBQ fired up and the night was underway. Word quickly spread that free snags, burgers and beers were being given away and from then on it was standing room only until the completion of the final race.

As the night went on the tunes were turned up, the standing room became the heckling zone and eventually the feed zone as riders were ‘offered’ bread, burgers, beer and regretfully even sauce for a lucky few.

While over 100 snags, a bunch of burgers and two cases of beer were distributed there was also some frantic racing going on and it was a great showing from those wearing the Team iRide Jamis skin suits (and potentially one team rider sporting a GF Subaru skin suit owned and signed by Mary Grigson circa 2000.

photo courtesty of Adam Macleod

 



Mel and April both walked away with a bag of goodies for their efforts, Mikkeli also earned himself a bag of well done for podiuming his heat, however the iRide tifosi thought he deserved more and more he got – nothing says congratulations like a frisbeed burger hitting your spokes at 40 km/h...  

The final race of the night was run and won before we knew it and as sorry as we were for the night to be over it was only going to be two sleeps until we were remounting the cross bikes were pulled out again and we headed out to MillPark for the first round of the Syca Cross Series.

Stay tuned....