GET IN THE VAN! Race Across The Ground To CX Natz Episode 4

In episode 4 of GET IN THE VAN! Race Across The Ground To CX Natz the team really starts unraveling. They can't decide where to eat, they nearly run out of gas somewhere in Idaho, and Chandler's rank-ass continues to torment David and Thom.
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Episode 5 coming soon...

More CX Natz Footage With Jeff Bramhall

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Jeff Bramhall is Operations Manager for Pedro's, he's also a cyclocross racer. He donned the new white and pink Pedro's kit and went head to head with the mud-slicked, wind-swept, CX Nationals course in Bend, Oregon, racing in the Masters 30+ category. He went down in the first minute of the race, getting completely turned around (as you can see on the helmet-cam footage), wound up dead last, but rallied to beat a bunch of dudes.

Of course the helmet-cam damn near killed the guy, getting hung up on a low-hanging tree on the run/ride-up (two angles of that in the footage).

GET IN THE VAN! Episode 4 is still in the works...

If you didn't catch the other three episodes of GET IN THE VAN! Race Across The Ground To CX Nats, they are right here for your viewing enjoyment:

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

CX Nats Masters 30+ The Wilcox Mix

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At this very moment GET IN THE VAN! Race Across The Ground To CX Natz Episode 4 is in post-production. What we have to offer you as an interim entertainment measure is the above vid of the Masters 30+ race from Saturday. That race was really a hell of a lot nastier than the Elite Nationals the next day, on Sunday — windier, wetter, gnarlier. It's a combo of Contour HD helmet cam (which was on the head of David Wilcox) and some footage shot with a Flip Mino. It kind of captures how insane it was out there, kind of.

We've got a lot more vids in the works, check back soon.

U23 Video From CX Nats And An Update From The Van

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The Pedro's van left Bend, Oregon at 2:40 Monday afternoon. It is now parked in Lincoln, Nebraska about 24 hours later. It has not stopped...at all. OK, it stopped for about an hour in Meridian Idaho, just outside Boise, due to a slow leak in the rear tire. Some Fix-A-Flat was pumped into the nearly bottoming out tire and the van returned to the road. The GET IN THE VAN TEAM was a bit nervous, having nearly run out of gas on this very stretch of road on the way out to Bend, just days before. Despite a couple preemptive topping offs of the tank, history nearly repeated itself. The expanse between Twin Falls, Idaho and Ogden, Utah is just that desolate in the wee hours of the night. Of course the wee hours in those parts start at about 9PM.

The van really did run out of gas on its way to Cross Nationals in Bend, just outside Burns, Oregon, like 10 miles outside Burns, Oregon. It was 4AM, it was 11°, and there was no shoulder to pull off onto. The GITV Team went straight into Survivor Man mode: they busted out the Powerbook and watched Dod Sno while awaiting rescue:

A great film to watch while stranded on a deserted road, at night, in the snow.

Despite the 12 hours on, driving/6 hours off, sort of sleeping shifts, the now, two-man-team is employing, there has been some opportunity to catch up on some video editing. The video at the top of the post incorporates Pedro's Grassroots rider, Josh Lehmann's bar-cam footage with some HD footage taken with a Flip Mino while he was on course. Toward the end of the race Josh pitted his bike, so there's some great pit/bike wash footage thrown in as well.

Time to hit the road again, check back soon for further reports from the road. Unless, of course, the Nazi-Zombies get us before we can get to another internet cafe.