Round two of the 2017 Sturdy Dirty Women's Only Enduro Series brought us to the small town of Oakridge Oregon. The looming total solar eclipse and heavy smoke from nearby wildfires created a strange but mystical feel to the race. Oakridge was once a booming lumber town, but has since seen a resurgence in outdoor tourism created by the world class mountain bike trails that have been built and maintained by the central Oregon mountain bike club, Desciples of Dirt. From deep canyons, monster climbs, high alpine meadows, to face melting DH runs, Oakridge threw everything she had at the racers. The course consisted of five stages, with the pros and experts having to do a sixth stage off the backside, then back climb up through thick wildfire smoke that made simple breathing a challenge. But these ladies are tough. Most being from the Northwest region and accustomed to this sort of riding.
The season finale is at Big Bear, CA on October 14th. Hope to see everyone there!
The site of the old lumber mill provided excellent camping
Some local outfitters were there with support
Liv Cycles was there as the main sponsor providing excellent support
Red Tent Timing was there to lend their superior timing services to the event
Can't argue with this
Not everyone likes a camera shoved in their face
Riders meeting
Plenty of teams were there
Squish Dynamics was there to bale you out if your bike didn't want to play nice
In true Sturdy Dirty fashion, costumes were plenty
Kinda makes my toe want to tap
Sammy Stark ready to turn some pedals
Teresa Roundy testing out the latest in endure aerodynamics
Seasoned pro, Nikki Hollatz of Pivot Cycles
Load em up
Where's your bus pass
Party bus
At the top
The ladies getting their stoke on
Janine Robinson leading some ladies through the alpine meadow before Stage two
Stage two started out with some tight grassy single track
Ashley Ward, soon to be Ashley Ashley, couldn't look any happier about life right now.
The first of many dusty corners
Shannon Sutherland
Dana Wolf going in for a power up
The lumber jacks of Liv Cycles were making blueberry banana pancake poppers at their aid station
Nick Newhall and his boys treated the ladies to a Hawaiian luau before dropping into stage three.
Also providing some incentive to pedal hard out of the gate
Smokey shafts of light
Hope you like switchbacks, there were plenty
A little reminder of how thick the smoke was
Wonderwoman and disco chicken greeted you at stage four
We ride among giants
Stage five changes things up with some side sloping on razor sharp shale sections
Delia Massey representing the Kona Supremes
Not a great place to crash
Late season dust bowl conditions
14 years old, and crushing it as a pro
Dont dab here
The other half of 'ZoCast'
Live timing results provided by Red Tent Timing
Racers were like moths to a lightbulb when the taco truck rolled up
Jeff, Nick, and Dugan provided some of the muscle as volunteers
Not everyone stayed on their bike
Dharco Clothing was there displaying their line of really nice womens riding kits
Just like tipping your waiter, you also should tip your local trail builders
I don't think Ash anticipated Teresa being this excited about winning the raffle
When everyone enters the raffle, but you only have size medium in womens
Sram threw down some nice Code brakes for the raffle
ResultsSturdy Dirty