New Photos From the Downhill Mountain Bike Races at the Elings Park Santa Barbara Bike Festival, June 2008

Hi everybody! I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. We have some new photos from the Downhill Race at the Santa Barbara Bike Festival that have just been posted.

Click here to view and download FREE photos from the June 2008 Elings Park Santa Barbara Bike Festival.

We haven’t yet had a chance to process and upload photos from the awards ceremony, but those pictures will be posted as soon as possible too. So if you raced in the Downhill races at the Santa Barbara Bike Festival and you want to see the pictures from the awards ceremony, please check back soon.

Sorry to say that we do not have any pictures of the Dual Slalom, Cross Country or Super D’s races from the same weekend- we just have pictures of the downhill races.

If you raced in the Santa Barbara Bike Fest Downhill Race but you don’t see your photo on the page (IE you still see the note beside your name that says “Processing Please Check Back”) it means that your photos are probably in my “unidentified” folder. I have a bunch of riders’ photos that I haven’t been able to identify yet- mostly due to the fact that the bib numbers aren’t visible in the shot. I will try my best to figure these out, but in some cases it may be impossible to figure out who the rider is. At some point I will try to post all my unidentified photos on the blog and hopefully you guys can all help me figure out who they are. I’d appreciate it.

Also I still plan on posting more pictures from the following races:

• Santa Ynez Valley / Firestone National Race May 2008 (I still have sooooo many photos from the downhill, dual slalom and cross country races that haven’t been posted yet)
• Santa Ynez Valley / Gravity Shootout at the Stump Grinder Dirt Club April 2008 (Photos from the Downhill & Dual Slalom races)
• Bootleg Canyon Downhill & Super D’s Races, Boulder City, NV Feb. 2008

Plenty of photos from these races are already posted here in the blog. If you haven’t seen them yet, scroll down and keep reading. (Or scroll down to the bottom of the page, where the blog archives are located, and click on the appropriate month for the race photos you want to look at.) But I have even more pictures that I haven’t had a chance to post yet. I feel like I could be posting race photos for the rest of my life and still not get them all posted! But, hopefully it will keep the bikeoptions.com blog interesting.

A great big huge thanks to Mikey Booter for helping me get these photos posted online.

Also, if you haven’t checked out our comparison search engine for bike gear, please make sure to take a look at it. It will help save you time and money when you shop for new bikes, bike parts, clothing, accessories, gear, etc. Mikey Booter has been working hard to add lots of great new products and manufacturers to the searches so that you will have plenty of choices when you search. If you have any suggestions or constructive criticism for us regarding the bike search engine (or anything else on the site for that matter!) please do not hesitate to comment or contact us.

Thanks for dropping by! Hope you guys will enjoy the photos.

Posted by: Amy S.

Race Photos: Elings Park June 2008 & Santa Ynez Valley Classic May 2008

Just a quick progress report RE more race photos. I took a bunch of pictures at last weekend’s downhill race at Elings Park / the Santa Barbara Bike Festival. Fun times! None of us raced this time for various reasons, but Mike and I still had fun watching. Mike was bummed because he crashed and hurt himself prior to the race and he just wasn’t feeling up to racing. And me- I was thinking I should have raced. Even if I took 10 minutes getting down the trail it seems like I would have been practically guaranteed a spot on the podium (since very few women raced). Haha, I am being silly saying that- I never raced before and I would probably embarrass myself considering I really just stick to mellow rides. I’m not all that competitive when it comes to riding…And I don’t mean to take away anything from the women who did race, because I was impressed by their abilities. Go girls!

Anyway from a spectator’s standpoint, I thought the race looked like a lot of fun. The pictures we took during the Elings Park downhill race are all ready to upload, but it is taking Mike some time to create the computer script that will actually organize all the photos into a format that you can find, view and download. So, stay tuned for free photos from the Santa Barbara Bike Festival- the downhill race only.
Sorry to say that we did not get any photos of the Santa Barbara Bike Festival Dual Slalom, Cross Country or Super D’s races. I was kind of bummed about that. We were there on Saturday and I wanted to go back on Sunday, especially to watch the Dual Slalom, but it just didn’t happen.
That park also has a BMX track that looks like a lot of fun…

Meanwhile I am sorry that I never finished uploading the rest of the photos from the Santa Ynez Valley national mountain bike races either. I do have a lot more photos of the downhill races, the awards ceremonies, the Dual Slalom races and also some of the cross country races. I still have a ton of work to do getting them all uploaded. I am still planning on doing it, it is just taking me a long time to get the photos all processed. These files are all humungous and they just take a lot of time to work on. I am hoping that you guys will find it worth the wait, considering that most of the photos are extra large. Where else on the internet are you going to find free 8 x 11 race photos that you can download? Probably nowhere…but if you find another site that does this, please be sure to let me know, because Mike sure would love to find more pics of him racing too. At any rate for those of you who did race in either of these races and find your way over here, I hope you will spread the word to your friends so that they can come and download their pictures too.

While you’re here don’t forget to test out our cycling comparison search engine as well! It is totally free to use. Hope it will save you some time while you’re shopping for bike gear.

Thanks for dropping by! Hope you will have a great weekend.
Posted by: Amy S.

Dave Glasheen - Men’s Sport Class Downhill Rider 919

Congrats to BikeOptions sponsored rider Dave Glasheen for his participation in the Santa Ynez Valley Downhill Mountain Bike race. Here is Dave coming down the bridge, posing for victory.

A closer look at the inner workings of a rider, in his natural habitat.

Dave is a real team player. When our umbrella girl didn’t show, he took over the honors, no questions asked. Admittedly he did refuse to wear the tiny, tight red spandex shorts / sports bra, but we won’t hold that against him.

Click for more photos & results

-posted by mike s-

Greg Code - Men’s Sport Class Downhill Rider 920

Congrats to BikeOptions sponsored rider Greg Code for his participation in the Santa Ynez Valley Downhill Mountain Bike race. While he unfortunately crashed, which killed his time, he is already an online CRASH celebrity.

Have you seen him at youtube. He has over 96,000 views.
Mammoth Flow Crash - Greg Code

Greg chilling at our fully functional camping lair!

Greg’s Kona DH classic chilling at our fully functional camping lair!

Greg & Mike rocking breakfast!

Greg & Ryan taking it all in…

Click for more race photos & race results

-posted by mike s-

Jim Sarandrea, Fourth Place Winner Men’s Sport Class Downhill Rider 917

Congrats to BikeOptions sponsored rider Jimi Sarandrea for getting fourth place, as it was his first Downhill Mountain Bike race.

Jimi on the podium…

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-posted by mike s-