2008 Prairie City Race Series #5 Results

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Team
Hyland Fisher - Expert Men 25-34 - 4 Laps
6th Place of 12 Entries




Troy Groves - Men Singlespeed Expert - 4 Laps
17th Place of 18 Entries (Flatted on first lap)



Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Club

Teroy Groves - Junior Boys 10-14 - 1 Lap
13th Place of 13 Entries

2008 Shasta Lemurian - Whiskeytown Lake

Eddie Cruz - Clydesdale Men - Intermediate Course
2nd Place of 11 Entries - Time: 2:27:34 - 15:38 off leader

2008 Prairie City Race Series #4 Results

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Team
Hyland Fisher - Expert Men 25-34 - 4 Laps
4th Place of 12 Entries
Currently tied for 1st place in series.



Troy Groves - Men Singlespeed Expert - 4 Laps
8th Place of 25 Entries




Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Club

Eddie Cruz - Expert Men 35-49 - 4 Laps
21st Place of 23 Entries


Teroy Groves - Junior Boys 10-14 - 1 Lap
8th Place of 12 Entries



James Mcneil - Men Singlespeed Expert - 4 Laps
15th Place of 25 Entries

2008 Prairie City Race Series #3 Results

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Team
Hyland Fisher - Expert Men 25-34 - 4 Laps
6th Place of 11 Entries



Troy Groves - Men Singlespeed Expert - 4 Laps
13th Place of 24 Entries



Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Club

Teroy Groves - Junior Boys 10-14 - 1 Lap
6th Place of 16 Entries


James Mcneil - Men Singlespeed Expert - 4 Laps
17th Place of 24 Entries

Sea Otter Classic - 2008 - Results

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Team

Cori Cuisinot - Dual Slalom Junior Sport Men 15-18
14th Place of 25 Entries

Taylor Cuisinot - Downhill Expert Men 19-24
31st Place of 50 Entries - Time: 2:42.62 - 14.22 off leader

Taylor Cuisinot - Dual Slalom Semi-Pro Men
27th Place of 32 Entries

Hyland Fisher - XC Sport 30-34
11th Place of 72 Entries - Time: 1:32:29 - 8:21 off leader

Brian Mendiola - Dual Slalom Semi-Pro Men
22nd Place of 32 Entries

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Club

Eddie Cruz - XC Sport Clydesdale
12th Place of 31 Entries - Time: 1:49:59 - 15:05 off leader

2008 Prairie City Race Series #2 Results

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Team
Hyland Fisher - Expert Men 25-34 - 4 Laps
5th Place of 15 Entries



Troy Groves - Men Singlespeed Expert - 4 Laps
10th Place of 26 Entries



Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Club

Daniel Adams - Expert Men 25-34 - 4 Laps
13th Place of 15 Entries

2008 Prairie City Race Series #1 Results

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Team
Hyland Fisher - Expert Men 25-34 - 4 Laps
6th Place of 15 Entries



Troy Groves - Men Singlespeed Expert - 4 Laps
15th Place of 31 Entries



Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Club

Daniel Adams - Expert Men 25-34 - 4 Laps
11th Place of 15 Entries

NMBS #! - Fontana, CA - Results

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Team

Taylor Cuisinot - Downhill Expert Men 19-24
21st Place of 25 Entries - Time: 4:18.83 - 1:38.64 off leader

4X Semi-Pro Men
2nd Place of 8 Entries





Brian Mendiola - Downhill Semi-Pro Men
24th Place of 40 Entries - Time: 2:49.95 - 13.71 off leader

Cool Mountain Bike Race Report

2008 Cool Mountain Bike Race
Two laps on the Olmsted Loop in Cool, CA.


19.36 Miles
2426 Feet Climbing
1:34 Hours
1353 Calories
180 Average HR
199 Max HR (Holy Crap!)
83 Average Cadence (But this is only for the last mile, when it decided to start working.)

I have done the Cool Mountain bike race five of the last six years. Last year I got third in the Sport category and I was hoping to better that result. Considering how much I have been training, it was a goal that was not unachievable.

I did the Tune Up and Warm Up that my coach prescribed. During my warm up my large water bottle, filled with Cytomax, had the bottom fall out and leaked all over my drive train. I had two small bottles, full of water, with me and ended up using only those. My cadence sensor wouldn't work, I attempted to revive it but to no avail. Already I was feeling unprepared....
The race plan that I had decided upon the previous night was to stay with the race leaders on the first lap and then pull away from them and hopefully crush them on the second.

I lined up at the start with about 20 other Sport racers in my age category. Just before we started we were told that ALL of the Sport racers would be going together, the younger men, older men and all the women. Some in my group got to the very front of the start and I lost sight of them right as the race started. We bottle necked within the first few hundred feet at the start of the singletrack. I passed as many people as possible, my heart rate spiking at 199 bpm, but there were still quite a few people in front of me. I couldn't tell who was and was not in my age group.

I kept passing people up the first climb, trying to keep my breathing in check and not overdoing it. I passed people going down the fast doubletrack, going down this faster than I ever have. The first creek crossing created a bottleneck as did the steep climb following. I followed some slower riders down the next track-and-a-half section and started trying to pass more people on the next long steep climb. I caught some more racers on the descent into Knickerbocker creek and was slowed by them until after the creek crossing and the climb out. I passed a few more on the following up and down sections and yo-yo'd with a few more.

I got up to the next section of singletrack, a tight ribbon, gently flowing down with tall grass on either side. I quickly caught a female single speeder that was going slower than me. With no place to pass I tried to get my breathing back under control and recover for the climb to follow.

After some more double track I came to the bog section. There was nobody close in front of me so I tried to watch the riders far in front of me to see the best line. I saw a rider disappear into the bog and decided that was NOT the line to take. However, because he was so far ahead of me, my perspective was skewed and I ended up taking his exact line. I ended up in the bog, hub deep. Bummer, indeed.

I fought with racers back and forth on the following climbs back to the start/finish, the beginning of my second lap.

At the lap marker I took some water and a Gu packet. Into the first singletrack section, thankfully, there was nobody in front of me and I was able to take the first jump for fun. I was able to carry my speed through the second jump into an immediate left turn. Up to the top of the next short hill, pick up my second water bottle and fly down the next descent with a high speed jump and then a high speed right hand turn.

The following singletrack descent and climb was a blur of crazy fast descending and lactic threshold climbing, with an open seat bag spilling all my tools as a bonus. Bonus! I was no longer carrying my tools, extra CO2 cartridges or second spare tube.

About the half way mark I caught a racer in my class. I figured by now I was up near the very front of my category, maybe this guy was the race leader. I pulled up behind him on the pavement descent, drafted him a bit, then pulled out in front and sprinted for the singletrack. Before the descent into Knickerbocker creek I looked back to see where he was, right on top of me, Bastard!

I pulled away from him on the climb out of Knickerbocker, keeping my heart rate around 184 bpm. I kept him at bay on the next descent too. On the next climb he caught me, we yo yo'd a bit, until I dropped my chain trying to get into granny gear. I cursed, got off my bike, tried to control my breathing, put the chain back on and started pedaling. At the top of the hill a single speeder let me by because the tight ribbon of singletrack was coming up again. Within seconds I caught another singlespeeder. I tried going around him but couldn't get any speed up on the grass and he wasn't willing to yield any speed to let me by. After the singletrack opened to double track again I thanked him and wished him a good day as I dropped him.

My competitor had caught another in our group (guess he wasn't race leader) and I had them in sight, only about 10 seconds ahead. I had the bog ahead to deal with and a good deal of climbing as well.

I kept my heart rate at 184 bpm (btw, my Lactic Threshold is 180) and alternated between standing and seated climbing. I gave it my all, got a better line in the bog and was pushing with all I had. Near the top of the next to last climb I saw they had caught another racer in my class, a team mate of mine. How many racers in my class were in front of me?!

I figured at this point there were three in front of me in my class and I wasn't reeling them in fast enough. Fourth place is as good as last so I backed off and made sure I didn't lose any position. A few older sport racers passed me but nobody else in my class caught me. I rolled into the finish line humbled and ready for my rinse off and beers.

I ended up with 7th place. In years past I would have probably considered this a good finish, but not this season. First place is the only one i'd have been pleased with.

Consolation prize is that I was only a little over five minutes off the leader. Had I gotten a better start and made a few other race decisions better maybe I could have made that up.

After the race I won some raffle prizes which were worth far more than my entry fee. That made me feel better too.

Year after year, Cool is a really fun race with great competition and awesome raffle prizes.

2008 Cool Mountain Bike Race, Cool, CA

Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Team

Troy Groves - Men Singlespeed 1-35 - 2 Laps
6th Place of 19 Entries - Time: 1:29:47 - 8:12 off leader




Hyland Fisher - Men Sport 30-39 - 2 Laps
7th Place of 18 Entries - Time: 1:32:39 - 5:10 off leader



Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Race Club

James Mcneil - Men Sport 30-39 - 2 Laps
6th Place of 18 Entries - Time: 1:32:26 - 4:57 off leader




Daniel Adams - Men Sport 20-29 - 2 Laps
4th Place of 15 Entries - Time: 1:37:11 - 12:33 off leader




Eddie Cruz - Clydesdale 1-99 - 2 Laps
1st Place of 10 Entries - Time: 1:41:35

Downieville Race Report from Eddie

This is the race I will always want to do well at. With the steep, long climb and the long single track descent it makes for a great race. My buddies and I started to ride the coarse 5 weeks before the race. Most was for the conditioning, but for me it was to get my bike together. I added a lot of new parts, but my gears were jumping every where. I would make the ride, but with a lot of annoying skipping. On the last week I turned the bike over to Extreme Outfitters and in an hour the problem was solved, rear derailleur cable housing was not long enough. Thanks Brian.

Well the only thing I wanted from the race to have a better time than last year, I was feeling good and I really thought I could place. The night before decided to registrar and take my motorcycle to make the trip faster. The ride was great but after I met some friends and my brother for beers, I didn’t realize I could drink that much beer. Needless to say I paid for it the next day. I did not feel well the next day. After several trips extracting the fluids and the morning breakfast during the warm up, the race was about to start. At this point I hoped to just make it. Once the race started a ¼ of the way up the paved road I had to pull over from being nauseous as I put my head down I looked over and saw lots of people riding right by. After a few minutes I decided I paid too much for this and I better get my ass in gear. I started off slow but when I got to the dirt road I felt a little better and as I got closer to the first saddle I felt great. I then notice I was passing a lot of people .When I got to the top I felt aggressive and went at race pace also I sprinted over the rollers. All the while I kept passing people and no one passed me.

I don’t know exactly were but at least ¾ into the race I came over a hill and some one was just standing there looking up at me. I slowed down and the rider behind me took the opening past the person, while I crashed into him. That wasn’t bad till I pick up my bike and suddenly I couldn’t move. I had muscle spasms. I just stood there cursing trying to stretch out every part of my body. Lots of people rode right by and I could not do a thing. I had to get myself on the bike and just peddle, in a few minutes of spinning my muscles finally relaxed. But a lot of riders had already passed. I decided I better make the best of it and after taking Sport Legs pills I went for it. I did not pass as many people as before but no one caught up to me.

Well, I finished and still came in under 15 minutes under my best time.13th in sport. May be next year I’ll do better.

Downieville Race Report from Adam

Pre-riding the Downieville XC course every weekend paid off well in
2005, finishing in the top 30% of the senior sport males was my best
race of that season. This motivated me to take it seriously this year.
Pacing the climb, tire selection, avoiding pinch flats, fixing pinch
flats, attempting to memorize the blind sections of the downhill,
it'll hold your attention for sure. Brought my 12 year old Y33
suspended bike, recently "updated" with a home modified swing arm
(increased travel, tire clearance, and disc mounts). Been loving it
all season, haven't ridden any thing else off road this summer since
cracking the chain stay on the hard tail due to mud induced chain-suck
racing early in the season. Had a bunch of pinch flats this season,
been planning on going tubeless, even built up the wheels for it, just
haven't gotten around to using them yet. Tried different tires each
weekend (mismatched as usual, wider in front, heavier in the rear)
decided that short or blocky knobs have been confidence inspiring
through the rocks, skinnier taller knobs seemed to squirm around not
bite in, even on the hard packed dirt road decent. The Saturday pre
rides went well.

Inspected the bike on the Sunday before the Saturday race, and found a
small crack just below the relocated shock mount, no biggie, I had
time to repair it Monday. I drilled holes in the ends of the crack,
(to stop their propagation) and brazed a plate over it. During Paint
preparation with the sandblaster on Tuesday I discovered two more
cracks in near the main pivot, these couldn't be fixed without brazing
in a new seat tube. So Wednesday I had three days before the race and
I no geared mountain bikes built up. I dug out the new partially
assembled hard tail frame and the stupid light Stans tubeless wheels,
wrenched 'till midnight, road it to work the next morning and worked
out the new bike kinks on my lunch break.

I've been paying attention to my rest/recovery just before races. My
week day routine ends with a 40 minute 1400' climb from the office to
home, decided to pay $1 to take the bus home for the first time ever
(this was my rest day). When I got home (the bus took longer than
riding!) a friend had left some plants on my porch, I guess I got a
little over excited because I sprained my ankle digging compost into
the garden, most painful thing I've done in many years (even after
applying a Lidocaine patch). Decided to call in sick to work for
Friday and declared that I wasn't racing Saturday. When I woke up
Friday afternoon I felt 99% better. Rode over to meet Eddie & George
Cruz for dinner and stay at Eddies house so we'd get an early start
Saturday, didn't sleep more than 30 minutes all night.

My goal of finishing in the top 25% was staring to seem out of reach.
Took some ibuprofen, warmed up and picked a spot on the line in the
front quarter of the field, ended up easily passing folks the entire
climb, Should have remembered I was on a 22 pound bike, and going to
lose positions the rest of the race, could have been more aggressive.
Was still passing people on the dirt road descent. This was my first
off road tubeless ride and first hard tail ride in months! 20 psi in a
Mosquito Airlight 2.3 in front and 24 PSI in a Smart Sam 2.25 in back,
seemed to be working well enough to comfortably push the front end to
the limit in a couple corners. As expected I lost at least 10 spots to
the suspended folks in the baby heads.

Somehow this warped my front rotor a bit. Also, I nicked a log
damaging a spring in the pedal, it kept releasing and was hard to get
back in. I had put all my weight forward and on the sprained ankle
trying to clip in during the decent when the warped rotor pulsed and
through me over the bars. Six more guys went by while getting back on
the bike. The rest of the race wasn't to bad. Didn't notice the elbow
wound until after the finish, got 17th (top 25%) and 4 stitches.

Coolest 24 - 8 Hour Solo Race Results

From The Union:

The Xtreme Outfitters Mountain Bike Racing Team had good results at the first eight-hour mountain bike race it competed in. The Coolest 24 (and 8) Hour Race was held May 11 in Cool.

For the team, Eddie Cruz came in fourth of nine in Men's Solo 8 Hour Master (45+) with seven laps in 7:59:35 while Adam George came in fourth of 23 in Men's Solo 8 Hour with seven laps in 7:17:25. Troy Groves came in fifth of 23 in Men's Solo 8 Hour with seven laps in 7:27:45 and Hyland Fisher came in 14th of 23 in Men's Solo 8 Hour with six laps in 7:37:50.

Racers began at noon on Saturday and finished riding at 8 p.m. Most of the team completed seven laps with a total of about 77 miles and 10,500 feet of climbing. For more information go to www.thecoolestmtb.com.

2nd & 3rd place at Cool, CA

From The Union:

Xtreme Outfitters mountain bikers Troy Groves, left, and Hyland Fisher, right, finished second and third, respectively, in the Men’s 30-39 division of the Sports class at the 15th annual Cool Mountain Bike Race.