Damn Straight

Durango Bike Polo

Durango bike polo season is now in full swing. We are currently looking for grass teams to play in 2010. Please give us a heads up if you have any information on grass polo tourneys in your area. We play sunday nights at Park before sunset. We will also be hosting a spring tourney in Durango. We.

Dates for NZ 2010

We tried to figure it out but it was too hard. Can you?

The Unofficial DFL Guy Gets the Belt

 

Mike and fan club take the loss in stride

The sweet sweet prize of sucking serious ass goes to Mike from Lakewood, Colorado. Congrats man, and seriously, nice work on finishing this hard ass course, not everybody did. Mike finished in a time of 5 hours and 1 minute, 4 hours and 13 minutes off the winning time. The belt he wins was hand crafted by D9 crew member Doom. Doom is the Republic of Doom guy, he makes the rad vests and stuff. Well, thats the world champs for ya.

it looks beautiful lying on the floor

Here it is at an angle

notice the silver rivets

The official DFL award went to Clayton Bell of Little Rock, AK, who finished in a time of 4 hours and 32 minutes. He won a custom made steed from the super bad ass looking Black Sheep Bikes out of Fort Collins, Colorado. Those guys were so pumped to hook Clayton up, nice work team.

Road Trips

well done fellas, well done

“Best Race Ever” -me and you

Nice work Justin

Results

Results will be posted at the Durango Cyclery in 2010.

Last Minute Random Photos

the final score

HB is a bad ass

2 tickets to SSUSA 2010 have yet to be given out. Part of our secret plan. If you want em, contact us.

Broncos won to open the season. Currently 4-0

The Chrome shoes were a crucial part of the bball game

The Continental tyres were a sweet prize

Shonny VanLandingham registered with no coloring entry form, but she did bring us this pic of her looking hot back in the day

The sswc09 socks look hot in the nude

Chainsaws Bronco tribute bike

Event Mag Cover boy, Ron had this sweet rig swimmin around throughout the weekend

Conti’s Brett Hahn’s bike was bad ass

Ross won

This right here was a dream come true

basketball is for real

Fizik makes the best seats, seriously.

Sean’s House

Thanks Sean for the sweet kickoff party at your house. That was fun and the dawgs were good.

Passion Productions Wrap Up Party

Harris rode his new bike

the volunteers got a pint glass

D9 food

Kristen and family were there

Bill gave a speech

entertaining in the living room

the people of sswc09

award winning photo

the van left for a mine in telluride

A Big Shoutout

That was so much fun. It takes a serious possy to make that stuff happen.We would like to thank all the folks who helped this thing look and feel great. Thanks to Hagen for the super perfect race course management. That was top notch.Carol and Kristen of EcoLogic Events making us look pro. You both are so fun to plan stuff with. Bill and his help with volunteer coordination. He was solid, thanks for the results as well. 800+ hand written! Annie for the super smooth registration flow. The vibes were good. Russ and his creative backing love. The Durango Cyclery gave us some serious love. Dave at Ska for the amazing passion and insite for the saturday night goodtime. Raequel and her housing hookups. There were many friendships being made with her connections. Helen and her magazine editing. We threw it out there and she made it make sense. Edward at New Belgium for being so down to have a good time on bikes. Been with us since the beginning.  Hb, Elke and Dave for the amazing announcing action. Ron Andrews and Doom for the finish line bike arch and sweet stage. Mary and Trails 2000 for the sweet trailwork in the months before the race. DJ Igene for the smooth tunes at the finish line.

Drew and Wade at Boure and Kate for the so rad custom bball unis. Those things were tight. DJ Tricerahps for the tunage throughout the weekend. The godfather of Durango racing, Ed and Patti Zink for letting us tap into their amazing race management infrastructure. Kelly of Lighting Comunication for the great sound and lighting at the parties. Vik. The VOA thrift store for the perfect costumeage for the D9 crew and after party. Marc for the afterparty, and sweet future film. LuLu for housing the 3 bands.Chris Giles Scott Smith and Devon Balet for all the sweet photo help. The magazine thanks you. Jay Huwang for the insurance help. The DEVO board for the discussions. Zia for giving us a nice full stomach throughout the weekend and at the volunteer party. Marc for letting us throw a sweet party on his development. Cliff an his crew for working on a sweet freeride course and throwing down on friday night. Suzette, Mandy, Shana and Bret for letting us all see that big companies can kick ass and make cool fun stuff. Thanks Chrome for the bball kicks. To the STomparillaz for the endless creative action. The boombike was always bumping. Fishbone for the good looking tshirts. To the city and county permit peeps, thanks for believing in a good thing.  Jake for the sweet ridgeline trail. Chad at Oskar Blues for taking the finish line to another level.

2 Guys With a Good Idea

Volunteer Party on Monday

Yo Team. There will be a volunteer/post sweetness party out at Ska Brewing at 530pm on monday the 28th. If you were involved in producing any of the SSWC09 action, please come and talk about it with us. We the D9 crew are so very appreciative of the people that came to lend us a hand throughout the entire process. That thing was a giant beast of an event and we all made it look and feel tasty together. We’ll see you there.

To Catch a Thief

We the D9 crew ask if you could all please check your cameras and film for the thief that walked off with the donated Sweet Bike 29 wheel set. The wheel box was taken after the awards on saturday night with Ross and Heather on stage, receiving their Fizik saddles. The man was said to be wearing an orange jacket, possibly a rain coat, a messenger bag and around 5 feet 9 inches in height. The box was to the left of the stage when it was taken. The time of the heist was approximatley between 1030-1130pm. There will be some sort of sweet award for the capture of the criminal.

Dirt Rag was there

Photos from the Ridge

Boys Drool

Here are the top 20;

1. Ross Schnell, 2. Matt Shriver, 3. Carl Decker, 4. Ned Overend, 5. Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, 6. Joey Thompson, 7. Carlos Creme, 8. Aren Timmel, 9. Whit Johnson, 10. Cale Redpath, 11. Travis Sheefer, 12. Nathan Miller, 13. Josh Kelley, 14. Mitchel Hoke, 15. Skyler Trujillo, 16. Cameron Brenneman, 17. Trevor Downing, 18. Drew Edsall, 19. Gregg Stone, 20. Brian Reipe

Women Rule

Here are the top 20 women;

1. Heather Irmiger, 2. Shonny VanLandingham, 3. Kelli Emmett, 4. Dellys Star, 5. Jen Gersbach, 6. Lynda Wallenfels, 7. Jess Reed, 8. Christina Begy, 9. Karen Tremaine, 10. Sarah Tescher, 11. Lyra Parker, 12. Rebecca Tomawicki, 13. Linden Lane, 14. Kristen Johnson, 15. Irene Mercer, 16. Shanon Gibson, 17. Amy Hermes, 18. Hillary Hienton, 19. Jona Bollinger, 20. Julie Trimble

Buff Pleasuredome scores 5 straight goals in Spingle Seed World Championship Win!

Anne Cheeney chips in a goal on the road to Buff Pleasuredome victory.

In one of the most dramatic and passionate games in Women’s Polo History, Buff Pleasuredome members Anne Cheeney, Jess Reed, Sabina Kraushaar and Helen Lee defeated the Slammin’ Sistas after coming back from an 0-2 deficit early in the game.

The Slammin’ Sistas players, Shannon Gibson, Jenn Gersback, Terina Tafoya and Rebecca Tomawiski, could not contain Buff Pleasuredome’s dynamic offensive strikes. Pleasuredome kept heavy pressure on the net and kept the Sistas on defense for most of the second half of the game. Sistas’ team member Rebecca Tomawiski played courageous Polo throughout the match and asserted herself as one of the top Polo players in the western conference.

Buff Pleasuredome is now preparing to defend their international SSWC09 Polo Crown next year in New Zealand.

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The ladies had some serious scrums in front of the Sistas’ goal.

Helen Lee takes a big slam while chasing the ball out-of-bounds.

Jess Reed scores on the breakaway for Buff Pleasuredome.

Rebecca Tomawiski scores for the Slammin Sistas.

Buff Pleasuredome keeps on the pressure.

SSWC09 Spingle Seed Polo Champions Anne Cheeney, Helen Lee, Sabina Kraushaar and Jess Reed.

Cycle Squawk Wrap Up Show

Today from 1130 to 12pm, Cycle Squawk, KDUR Durango’s very own cycling talk show, will be live on air to talk just a little more about the sweetness that occurred. Check in at 91.9 and 93.9fm or on the computer at kdur.org. Peace.

Article from the Denver Post

Mountain Flyer Magazine story

Trailwork on Thursday

There will be a trailwork day this thursday with the D9 crew and  Trails 2000 from 4-7pm. To jump in, meet at the Skyline Trail with your clothes on. Get there from the end of Jenkins Ranch Road. In an amazing feet of trail sustainability, the track is in great condition with most of the damage being trail widening on the Skyline climb/hike. Take note that 2000 riders over the SSWC09 track left little long term damage. For those attending the thursday group ride, please meet at the trailwork party at 630. We’d like to thank Trails 2000 for the help with the easement that allowed us to race along Raider Ridge and the fresh rideable track that took off 15 minutes of hiking. That course was bad.

SSWC09 Crime Report: Please Return the Wheelset.

Someone doesn't know it, but they miss these wheels BAD.

During our awards ceremony on Saturday, a man wearing an orange jacket walked up behind the stage, grabbed these $800 wheels with white Stan’s rims and King ISO disc hubs and disappeared into the fray.

This wheelset was donated by Bike29, a company that thrilled us with their generosity toward the SSWC09.

We were about to give these out as a prize when they disappeared. When the winner got on stage, we probably gave them some crappy t-shirt or a sticker instead of the 29er SS wheels of their dreams.

Here at SSWC09, we believe in redemption. If you have these wheels and feel bad about stealing them, or perhaps you don’t want to face the music when we see you riding them on our trails, bring them back to the Durango Cyclery in the middle of the night. Put them under the bench or something.

We are offering a no-questions-asked policy on the return of these wheels.

Do the right thing.