CONGRATS Mike W, you won! Thanks to everyone who shared. Good luck in 2016! Mike, head up to TBR at your convenience and pick up your gift card!
Happy New Year!
We are super grateful for the following. To celebrate OCA surpassing 200,000 views in 2015 The Bike Route is giving away one more $100 gift card! Enough already!!!
What can I win?
A $100 gift card to one of the best bike shops in NWA.
How do I enter?
Tell OCA a cycling related highlight or lowlight from 2015 by leaving a comment below. BOOM! You are entered for the win. You might even throw in something about what you are looking forward to in 2016. Getty up!
Note: This giveaway is for a $100 gift card. Stay tuned for the second giveaway.
The Rules
The winner will be selected at random.
Winner will be announced Sunday evening.
Must be in the continental US (for mailing purposes).
If prize is not picked up in a reasonable amount of time it will be gifted to someone else.
My highlight of 2015 is that I’m able to run a BD cycling throughout the year! It was a blessing that I could do both
Christmas Eve we went for a ride to enjoy the warm weather. On the way back into town I ended up crashing and compound fractured my wrist. I spent Christmas and the day after at the hospital… Definitely the low point of my year!!
Winning the Northwest Arkansas mountain Bike Championship at Devil’s Den this year.
Rode my first MTB race and got 4th.
Completing the Triple Crown Challenge and the Hazel Valley GP were some highs. Having a friend miss rides and races due to injury was the low. 2016 is going to be great!
Highlight of the year was winning my first race at the cat 3 level. That was followed up by 2 low lights 1. face planting at the OKC pro am. Causing a hefty dental bill. 2. Snapping not 1 but 2 extremely expensive carbon frames in half. Thank the Lord for warranty!!!
Highlight – getting a new bike!
Lowlight – being hit and run head on by a trail hipster burning the corners at 30 mph. Broke my finger bone into four pieces and eight months later still have numbness in my face.
Highlights- New bike and honestly getting cable and thus watching Le Tour
Low point- moving twice in a year and spring floods- made it hard to ride at times
Highlight being able to improve my cycling fitness.
Low point having to stop riding due to personal obligations.
I had my first “crash” and by crash I mean I fell over on top of my bike while in a standing position because I thought I unclipped my foot. It was quite humorous!
Highlight was getting a new bike; lowlight was not being able ride it as much as I would have liked with traveling heavily for a season
Low light was probably the extensive travel in the first of the year that prevented me from feeling ready to participate in the early season races. Highlight, despite the reduced number of rides for 2015, I was able to increase my annual mileage.
Highlight – Big Damn Bridge ride
Riding with my son up Rock Creek Road to 10,000 feet at Mosquito Flat in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains.
I turned 64 on August 18 and rode 64 miles that day. I called it 64 on 64. I am planning to do 65 on 65 in 2016.
Low: Unsuccessfully managed a bridge drop on my MTB. Badly bruised ribs front and back and cracked my helmet – it did its job, thankfully.
Great year of racing in 2015. Stayed injury free and 2016 will put me in a new age group for racing masters 50+.
Godspeed to all
Ride strong
High – podium at state crit and December weather
Low – back pain in the middle of the season
AR State Criterium Champs
with the help of…
High: easy choice – participating in the 30th annual Bob Cook Memorial Mount Evans hill climb on a beautiful Saturday morning in July (best bide ride swag as well – awesome fitting jersey)
Low: Missing the Big Dam Bridge ride after registering and being psyched for the ride.
Low, cramping hard upon exciting Mt Kessler, the first of Triple Crown Challenge. High, still finishing it. That and seeing 20+ riders at the JBHT Tour de Lunch on several occasions!
Moved up to cat 2 in 2015 conquered some fears and kicked some butt! 2016 here I come!
I know I’m not qualified to win but…
Mine were close to each other
Lowpoint for 2015 was getting hit in the trail by another cyclist and suffering major bloodloss then…
Highlight was going ahead and heading to do the Leadville 100 three weeks later and turning in a pretty good time.
High: Replacing my 90s era mtb and riding all of Mt. Kessler for the first time. I can’t believe we have trails of this caliber in town.
Low: Didn’t succeed in convincing Mr. Baxter to throw a leg over his bike this year.
Highlights: Long solo breakaway wins at Rogers and the Eurekan.
Lowlighs: Mechanical at State RR, and getting caught in the last 200 meters at the Oklahoma State RR.
Highlight- great new bike from TBR
Lowlight – first crash
Low: not finishing the triple crown the first time
High: training and completing it a few months later
Hoping to ride the California coast with Neil Pickens before he gets eaten by another dog.