Registration is now less than one week away. Mark your calendars and set your alarms. Registration will open promptly at 12:01 am EST, on Sunday, January 10th, and will be conducted online at www.bikereg.com. Don’t wait too long. Last year we filled up in four days. Even though we have increased our field limit to 150 participants (up from 100 in 2009), we still expect to fill up quickly.
Follow Gnat as he builds his version of the ultimate gravel ginder bicycle in his new weekly series titled “DK Wednesday.” His first installment to this once-a-week adventure, and all subsequent entries, can be found here…
Looks like things will be centered around the new Salsa Woodchipper handlebar. An excellent choice, I would say. What will he come up with next week? This should be fun.
This is just a quick reminder that registration is now less than one month away. Mark your calendars and set your alarms… registration will begin sharply at 12:01 am EST on Sunday, January 10, 2010, and will once again be conducted online at www.bikereg.com. Registration will close once we have sold out at 150 riders, or on May 16th, 2010, which ever comes first. Don’t wait too long. Last year we completely filled up in four days.
This just in… Epic Ride Research has agreed to not only return again this year as a sponsor of The Dirty Kanza 200, but they will increase their level of support in 2010. The 3rd Place Finisher in each of our four race classifications will receive a “Mountain Feedbag” from Epic Ride Research. Furthermore, we will have two additional Mountain Feedbags for our general prize pool give-aways.
Christa Olsson, Design and Marketing Director for Epic Ride Research stated “From the correspondence I receive from customers, the folks that do the DK are super stoked on the event. I’m thrilled to contribute a product that they find helpful in completing (this) tough race.”
I can say personally, that I have a Mountain Feedbag, and absolutely love it. I simply won’t do a ride of over 2 hours in length without it. You shouldn’t either.
Christa, on behalf of all of us here at Heartland Sports Promotions, thank you for the support you have given The Dirty Kanza 200 over the years. It is indeed a pleasure and an honor to be associated with Epic Ride Research.
For more information on Epic Ride Research and their Mountain Feedbag, go here… www.epicrideresearch.com
You may only be 200 miles away from Fargo, no matter where you live.
Salsa Cycles has generously donated a shiny new Fargo frameset as a door prize prize to a lucky participant in the Dirty Kanza 200. Just think, all those bottle cages and more could be yours if you can whoop just enough rear.
So just keep this thought in mind as you’re riding and smiling: only 200 miles to Fargo.
All of us here at Heartland Sports Promotions are proud to announce the newest member to our family of Dirty Kanza 200 Sponsors. Swiftwick International, maker of fine technical fabric clothing items has graciously agreed to support The Dirty Kanza 200. You can check out all of the great Swiftwick products for yourself here… www.swiftwick.com
The 2nd Place Finisher in each of our four race classifications will receive a Swiftwick Prize Pack, which will include an assortment of some of their finest activewear garments. “Bummer,” you say? Don’t think you have what it takes to grab 2nd place? Don’t despair. Grant Castle of Swiftwick will be a participant again this year at DK. Rumor has it he will have additional Swiftwick product to throw out to the masses at our registration / pre-race feed. Sit up straight, and reach your hand up high… you just might be able to snag a pair of the finest socks on the market as they go wizzing by.
Thank you, Grant, for your generous support. The entire HSP team looks forward to seeing you in Emporia, Kansas on June 5th, 2010.
that is the word from jim our gravel guru. these guys are great last year they helped us with a good number of socks for the raffle. they had no advertising from us they just wanted to support gravel racing like dk. grant will be at the race give him a big thanks if you see him, i sure will.
jim & i would do gravel events even if we didn’t get prizes we just love the stuff. but we want to show you that we want to reward & respect your hard work. in the end no racer makes money doing this riding is a labor of love.we have worked hard to get sponsors that are things we use. last year without any advertising salsa gave us a bunch of prizes . not expecting anything while supporting dirty kanza.
this year we have salsa as the newest major sponsor. they have been a joy to deal with. salsa cycles supports grass roots cycling like our gravel goodness.we will have a fargo frameset for the raffle one of my favorite gravel machines. we are pleased as punch to have salsa cycles as a dk family member. i’m still trying to figure out how to use their chili pepper in the web site!
jim our gravel guru has been getting lots of questions from our gravel addicted brethren. when is registration opening! well the dirty duo put our heads together & flipped a coin & JANUARY 10TH was the answer. we are pretty sure it will be at midnight. but we will see if the online reg. guys will do a kinder time.
on other gravel news we are revamping our website. i’m waiting on graphics for the header & sponsor graphics & we will have a sweet new look. we will be doing a calendar for all the gravel events like ours & TI & GLGA. if you know about something really cool i haven’t heard about drop a email to me. joeldyke@yahoo.com & i will post it. we need to spread the good word of gravel !
the guys at im design group , scott bolley & company. made us a sweet video. have a looksee.
tha whole gang in emporia have been such a great support. the tourism board , the high gear family, the moen’s, lelan,garret, & too many others to name here. they are the support that makes this race possible. thanks all!
Epic Ride Research
Routine Leg Works
Swiftwick
Adventure Monkey
High Gear of Emporia
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Jan 02 2010
