2011 Virginia Off Road Series - Friends

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VORS Wayne Goodman

http://cantholdagoodmandown.com
Wayne Goodman has left his tread on many trails around the Richmond area. He has spent many hours/days of his life developing, building and maintaining the trails around the James River Park System and beyond. He has lead the charge on many projects and without his help many trails that everyone enjoys today would not exist.

Recently, Wayne had an accident on his mountain bike in Forest Hill Park that left him mostly paralyzed. His strong will has shown you cant hold a good man down and he has begun showing signs of recovering. The battle will be a long one with many obstacles still to be cleared. The links you see above will take you to a site explaining and helping with donations to cover the expenses of this recovery.

www.RideBlindRacing.com
Bobby McMullen is an extreme athlete from Northern California who remains competitive despite being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 12, the loss of his vision, years of dialysis, two double transplants (kidney/pancreas), and having broken more bones than he can list. Bobby has been a champion alpine skier, though his current "life support" is the mountain bike. He embraces life with optimism and humor that is contagious, and imparts that enthusiasm to audiences worldwide.

Three films featuring Bobby have recently been released: The Way Bobby Sees It (Poison Oak Productions, 2008); Kranked 8: Revolve and Look to the Ground (a six-minute short), both from Radical Films (2009). They are currently being screened at film festivals throughout the world. You can see Look to the Ground at the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulW3SxpiA6g

Bobby had an amazing 2010 Season. In addition to his usual 20+ race events on the West Coast and at Whistler, B.C., he spent July in Europe where he raced the Euro Cup SuperEnduro in Sauze d'Oulx, Italy, followed by the Megavalanche race in Alpe d'Huez, France. He is the first visually impaired rider (let alone two-time double transplant recipient) ever to have competed in these races. The Megavalanche is one of the most extreme mtb races on the planet: 1,000 riders start at the same time for a race that drops more than 10,000 feet in 19 miles. It's just plain nuts -- Google it.

Testimonals
Thanks first for putting together such a great series this year. As a vet of both the Cane Creek Cup and then the Southern Classic Series and the va Derailer series I feel pretty good saying yall have produced the best series I have ever competed in. Great work! -Gordon Wadsworth - 2011 VORS Singlespeed Champion
•Testimonials for the Virginia Off Road Series and Friends.... •Thanks first for putting together such a great series this year. As a vet of both the Cane Creek Cup and then the Southern Classic Series and the Va Derailleur series I feel pretty good saying yall have produced the best series I have ever competed in. Great work! -Gordon Wadsworth – 2010 VORS Singlespeed Champion (Team Gary Fisher 29er) •Thanks so so so much for an awesome race series this year. I totally loved it! All the races were very different and it made it really fun for us racers -Lorene Davidson – 2010 VORS XCAT Womens Champion (Team Luna Chix) •Thanks for all your hard work with the VORS. Another great season:-) -Christy Tankersley – 2009 VORS Sport Women Champion (Bike Factory Racing) •Great job with the series. I think it's great that you recently sent out the emails to wrap up the series and congratulate the participants, and it's also great that you tied in the state parks to the series--that's got to be helpful for trail advocacy. I think it's also cool that the series is attractive to all levels of racers. It's good to see that a beginner racer really cranked out the races and was named co-Wildman, and on a personal level Ellen had a lot of fun with the series and felt comfortable and unintimidated jumping into races. - Scott Ramsey (Bike Factory)

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