This past weekend Sven Nys showed everyone that even World Champions need to sharpen their cyclocross skills from time to time. If you’d prefer not to look like Sven did on this unfortunate day in your next race, then come to Velo Bella’s Surf City Cyclocross clinic!

What: Surf City Cyclocross Clinic When: Saturday, October 25th Where: Soquel High School (click for map) Time: 10:00 am Cost: $20, Juniors attend for free!

Who should attend: Anyone!! If you’re just curious about giving cyclocross a try..if you’ve done a few races and want to improve that dismount/remount/run-up/etc...if your a seasoned racer looking for a few tips to take a few seconds off that lap time..then this clinic is for you!

We’ll have some of the very best cyclocross talent NorCal has to offer there to give expert instruction in all aspects of ‘cross racing:

Ben Jacques-Maynes Shauna Potocky Kathleen Bortolussi Mark Abele Clark Natwick Sheila Moon Barb Howe Stella Carey

Steven Gile

Shelley Olds

Cal Giant Team Racers

The clinic will go something like this: 9:30 Registration Opens 10:15 Clinic Start/Instructor Introduction 10:30 Lecture & Skills Work 11:30 Break 11:45 Resume Skills Work on Course 1:30 Lunch - FREE BURRITOS!! 2:00 Open Course

If you’d like to attend, please pre-register at BikeReg.com. (Clinic registration is at the bottom of the page). Registration will also be available on the day of the clinic, but we’d like to know how many burritos we need to order, so please pre-reg if possible!

If you have more questions, please visit the Surf City website or drop me a line (bethwellie@mac.com).

See you this weekend!!