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We'll be live at this Sunday's CrossCrusade race at Barton Park in Estacada and we're throwing out another badass challenge.

It's all sponsored by Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory.

The Demon SUV is after his flag and a piece of Jose.

New York, NY - Clarence Eckerson, Jr.has morphed into a traffic calming Wizard. From the StreetFilms Vlog: We went back to check in how things were progressing on the NYC DOT’s plans for the 9th Avenue physically separated bike lane. The pleasant surprises continue as lane improvements, ample signage, and cyclist-only bike signals have now appeared making the innovative project even safer. And although driver behavior continues to improve, there are a few problems to highlight. If you enjoyed this, check out others in the series: Clarence: The Traffic Calming Sasquatch & Clarence: The Traffic Calming Maniac

One viewer rightfully called me on doing a poor job covering the women's costumes at XC4 in Astoria. Here is a fig leaf.

ASTORIA, Ore. - If you are looking for a slick cyclocross racing video, I can't help you here. All sorts of rules have been broken and I suppose that part of the Halloween spirit. So... happy Halloween!

This video was sponsored by River City Bicycles and The Cyclocross Crusade.

ASTORIA, Ore. - It was another amazing Halloween Cross Crusade weekend. Sadly, though, we were missing avid Crusader and cyclist Brett Jarolimek who was run down and killed on a Portland street. Friends such as Kris Schamp and Brad Ross remembered Brett by speaking about him and his passions and then leading a memorial lap.

There is a memorial ride 5PM today in Forest Park starting on Thurman Ave - more details soon.

Story from BikePortland.org:

Wearing white t-shirts emblazoned with the words “No Blind Spots”, Cross Crusade founder Rick Potestio and race director Brad Ross said losing Brett Jarolimek was like losing “a member of the Cross Crusade family.”

Yesterday in Astoria, hundreds of cyclists took part in a silent memorial lap in Brett’s honor. The lap was led out by Brett’s friends and his Team Bike Gallery teammates, many of them weary from the road after driving to Idaho for his funeral yesterday.

Some of Brett’s friends had made copies of his race number (800) and passed them out for all of us to wear in his honor. Below the number was a winged figure on a bike and the words,

“Brett Jarolimek 1976-2007. We love you. We miss you.”

The silent lap was a somber, yet powerful way to say goodbye to Brett and to remember what his life, and his death, mean to our community.

These past two weeks have taken a toll on many of us. And, while some things will never be the same again, especially for the families and friends of those we’ve lost, the undeniable spirit of the Cross Crusade will live on.

Brett, who dressed up as Captain Underpants at the Halloween Cross race last year, would surely have smiled at the abundance of spirit on display yesterday.

See Jonathan Maus' excellent slide show of the event.

More coverage of Cross Crusade IV, Halloween in Astoria coming soon!

Two men, two wheels, and one lady fair. Watch as they train and then compete in the challenge.

It's all set to great music from Audioslave, System of a Down, Beck, the Ramones and more.

This short documentary was produced by B.Brown Pictures in association with Burkey and McDoland Clans. It stars Clay McDonald and Dan Burkey.

Conrad, Zack and Jose find a nice little yurt in the forest, while Steve and Lissa camp out in the backyard with the rest of the margarita mix...

The open road calls Conrad and Zack to keep looking for Jose. Steve and Lissa keep the home fires burning with a fresh batch of margaritas.

PORTLAND, OR - Steven Carper is delivered the Baddest Badass purse for his participation and success in the first Badass Challenge at race two of River City Bicycles Cross Crusade at Horning's Hideout last Sunday.

Do you want to be a badass? Just ride out to the next cyclocross race. You want to win the next Purse? Contact Dan at PDXK/com then ride out and do the best in your normal or better cyclocross category.