2013 Southern SS Championships

[dgaddis1]

This year it's a regional championship, last year it was the GA State Championship. It was awesome, best weekend of riding all year. Come out and get some!!! Camp and hang out all weekend. The short track is fast and furious and crazy fun, and the XC race is super fun as well, flying through the woods in a train of SSers.

Event details:
www.facebook.com/events/167831303397588/

My recap from last year:
www.singletracks.com/blog/mtb-events/event-report-georgia-single-speed-championships/

Pics I took, all from the short track race:

[kconner]

Looking forward to this year's write up! Last year sounded so fun that I may drive up there and camp just to watch

[dgaddis1]

Jun 17, 2013 21:06:31 GMT -5 kconner said:

Looking forward to this year's write up! Last year sounded so fun that I may drive up there and camp just to watch

You should come, we can lock out your gears to turn your bike into a defacto SS for $0. It's a crazy good time.

The short track race was my favorite event, even though I got knocked out in the first round. Without pre-riding I had no idea what I was getting into, and then we took off like we were shot out of a cannon and suddenly I found myself flying off small drops and barreling towards 1-3ft tall walls at full speed. For all the big step ups there were lines you could take with either smaller steps (like only 1 railroad tie) or no step at all, but the faster straighter line went up and over the taller parts of the wall, and the guys hoping the really high stuff were absolutely FLYING.

This year I'm making sure I get there early enough to pre-ride!!! They may not even do the short track race again, but I hope so, it was really fun.

[brianW]

I did not see a link to sign up.

[dgaddis1]

Jun 18, 2013 15:42:02 GMT -5 brianW said:

I did not see a link to sign up.

There isn't one yet, but they'll get it posted eventually. It's a pretty grassroots 'figure it out as we go' sorta race.

[kconner]

Jun 18, 2013 6:59:12 GMT -5 dgaddis1 said:

Jun 17, 2013 21:06:31 GMT -5 kconner said:

Looking forward to this year's write up! Last year sounded so fun that I may drive up there and camp just to watch

You should come, we can lock out your gears to turn your bike into a defacto SS for $0. It's a crazy good time.

I've still got the converted 26er....bad thing is that it's heavier than my 29er lol. I haven't jumped on the SS much (haven't ridden much at all lately, thanks Mother Nature), but that may be fun to do the cross country race if I get time to ride the SS before then.

I've got the weekend off, I think it would be fun just to go hang out and watch