Portland, Ore. The US Grand Prix of Cyclocross made the last stop of the tour last weekend for the Stanley Portland Cup. Mostly dry ground was found Saturday at the Portland International Raceway but Sunday it poured, especially the hour before the Elite Womens race.

Katerina Nash took both Sundays race and the 2008 USGP Championship Trophy while local heroine Sue Butler was cheered to a third place finish and the Sram Most Aggressive Female Rider award.

Ryan Trebon of Bend took that $250 prize home and won the days race. Tim Johnson claimed the series trophy.

I took home a pair of very wet and muddy boots, some videotape, and inspiration for the song Head Down, which is the score for this video. Eric Todd Keeney provided additional footage.

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Hillsboro, Ore. The final race of the Season for River City Bicycles Cyclocross Crusade earned double points for the riders and you could tell by the way they were racing. Both the womens and mens category A races were very competitive with several lead changes each.

It was a fast and level course at the Washington County Fairgrounds but water from last weeks rain created a monster-slog section through the rodeo arena. I was able to cover the entire course on my bike and decided to ditch the tripod for the Mens race and really concentrate on following the leaders as much as possible.

I pieced that footage together to create start-to-finish race video of the Mens category A race and Im interested to hear what you think about this type of coverage. Please make a comment on the video.

I want to River City Bicycles for sponsoring this video (not to mention being the title sponsor for this series and owner Dave Guettler came up with the title of the song for this video). My eternal gratitude and respect goes out to the Cyclocross Crusade promoters, sponsors, and all the officials from the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association.

Video, Edit, and Music Dan Kaufman

Here are the results for race 8:
Cat A:
1 Kevin Hulick Vanilla Bicycles
2 Sean Babcock Team S&M
3 Molly Cameron Vanilla Bicycles
Women A:
1 Rhonda Mazza Team S&M
2 Wendy Williams River City Bicycles
3 Emily VanMeter River City Bicycles

And the Cross Crusade/OBRA Cyclocross Championships:
Cat A
1 Jason Sager SagerSports.com
2 Sean Babcock Team S&M
3 Chris Sheppard HPChrio Bike n Hike Giant
Women A
1 Wendy Williams River City Bicycles
2 Emily VanMeter River City Bicycles
3 Rhonda Mazza Team S&M

Portland, Oregon Apparently the Halloween Races in Astoria was not enough insanity for this years Cross Crusaders. After some excellent traditional cyclocross racing at Portland International Raceway the bike-fun crowd went wild for single speed.

Thousands of spectators watched as Sue Butler took away honors for the womens A racers and the prize for unofficial womens single speed world champion. Mens SSCXWC honors were awarded to Drew MacKenzie who hails from the Great White North. Prizes included a Vanilla SpeedVagen, a Pereira Cycles custom frame not to mention gold Speedos and required championship tatoos. Also, Raleigh Rainier frame went to the Sit-Up Champ.

Special mention goes to Ryan Trebon of Bend who won the mens A race, and the regular single speed race. Trebon, a top cyclocross racer, was told he had to win all three races in order to take the SSCXWC. He may have been handicapped on the raceway, as well.

The song Steam Powered was written especially for this race.

Music and Video by Dan Kaufman
Video Sponsored by Bob's Red Mill

ASTORIA, Ore. If you didnt bring a costume to last Sundays Cross Crusade race you may have placed better but you also got heckled.� The weather was perfect for camping, outrageous outfits and two days of racing at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.

Video, editing, and original music by Dan Kaufman.� Additional Footage by Eric Todd Keeney.

PORTLAND, Ore. I have three videos for you today.� The first by Todd Keeney shot at Cross Crusade Race 2 in Wilsonville.� Well be heading down to the Halloween races in Astoria this weekend and hope to see you there.� Otherwise, stay tuned for another Halloween cross video later next week.

The second video is footage of Sasquatch, regarding the Quest for The Grail and the final video is a ridiculous detour request in Vancouver, Washington.

Music for the Villebois Race is by Todd Keeney and friend.� The music at the end is Whistlestop by Roger Miller.

PORTLAND, OR - The first ever Freak Bike Fall starts tonight and runs through Sunday. Get the agenda here!

The video above is a tribute to the Freak Bike Militia by yyzmec at YouTube.

The National Republican Congressional Committee funded this attack ad against 3rd District Pennsylvania Democratic contender, Kathy Dahlkemper.

They think she is asking Americans to sacrifice to much by walking and biking more. They call her out for opposing a GOP red herrings of gas tax reduction and offshore drilling.

Informed voters know that neither domestic drilling nor gas tax reduction will have an impact on gas prices or American dependency on foreign dictatorships.

Oil companies are all ready making record profits and they will be happy to sit on domestic oil reserves until they need them (as they are already doing). They will be also happy to take the extra profit a reduction in gas taxes would bring.

It seems to me this attack ad will backfire. See the original ad here.

Portland, Ore. As promised the first race of the Cross Crusade was wet and muddy.� There were a record number (1263) participants at Alpenrose Dairy with loads of fans and plenty of wipeouts for them to watch.

I wrote the song Double Crossin Me just for this race and had blast syncing it up to the dirty footage.

Next scheduled CrankMyChain.tv cyclocross video is for the Halloween race.� Contact me if you are interested in sponsoring a race/music video dan at- pdxk com.

Saturday, October 04, 2008 _uacct = "UA-1303411-1"; urchinTracker(); Veer the Movie - Watch the Trailer

PORTLAND, Ore. - Jason Turner and Greg Freddette's much anticipated documentary about Portland's cycling scene will soon be making it's debut. In the meantime we can watch the trailer for the movie Veer. Sign up for updates about the movie and screenings here.

Jonathan Maus of BikePortland got to sneak peak of the movie and has some more background at his BikePortland Blog.

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