The Woodland Park Gran Prix was once again the biggest race in the country (so far). This year, both our registration number (1,195) and our finisher count (1,098) exceeded the great results we had in 2023, and was the biggest race in earth since 2018.
Thank you all for joining in the fun and making Woodland Park the largest cyclocross race on Earth! We did this together. Thank you.
The Woodland Park Gran Prix can ring a cowbell for other reasons as well….
224 Beginners! Our beginner category is bigger than 80% of all races in 2024.
We are excited to announce today that the Woodland Park Gran Prix, the earth’s largest cyclocross race, is now also the WSBA Championship for 2024!
Join us for the MFG Finale on Sunday November 17, 2024, and you stand a chance to also win a sweet WSBA Champion jersey.
What is the WSBA? It is the Washington State Bicycle Racing Association, the non-profit that helps promoters put on races, in a safe, fair and fun environment by providing equipment, officials, organizing championships, working with the sport’s governing bodies and more. Led by volunteers, the WSBA also helps new racers learn and grow in the sport we love through training, grants and other opportunities. Check out wsbaracing.org for more info.
This is still an normal MFG race… nothing changes if you want to race Woodland… you can still ride a Lime Bike if you want, ride a tandem with your granddad, wear a dinosaur costume, take every hand-up you see, or keep your heart-rate below 100. Nothing special needed.
The Woodland Park GP is the 6th and final race of the MFG Cyclocross 2024 season. Season points and team points for the MFG series are all unchanged with this news.
The following races, while still part of the MFG series, will not be WSBA championship events, Clydesdale, Beginner, Tandem, Unicycle, but all other categories will don a WSBA Champion at the podium presentation.
This is not USAC sanctioned race, so no need for a USAC license or a WSBA membership to race at Woodland Park or to win the WSBA championship in your category. We do encourage you to support bike racing in Washington and become a WSBA member, but again, this is not required to race or to win.
WSBA will provide a really awesome championship jersey for winners of the championship races. WSBA jerseys will be awarded at the same time as MFG podiums
It takes a village to put on a bike race and cyclocross is no different.
Volunteering at an MFG race will bring you appreciation from your fellow racers and hugs and high fives from the team here at MFG.
Plus you get to race for FREE. for every volunteer role you take you will get one free race at MFG.
We have a few options to help… We need folks to help setup the course before each race and to tear the course down after the last racers have crossed the finish. We also need crossing guards during the race day.
You can sign up for all MFG races at the links below.
Howdy folks! We are setting up registration and are finalizing the list of teams for the team competition. Please email us at mfg@offcamber.bike if there are any updates to this list that you know of.
Teams for 2024 MFG Team Competition
2020 Fuel A Cycling Team Alki Rubicon Alki Velo Club Apex Racing Bear National Team Black Sheep Velo Booger Breakfast Racing Team Broadmark / Mt Si Racing Canyon – Velocio Cascadia Wheel Co. Dirt Team CBC Racing/Country Green Turf Farms – NEED TO REMOVE Center Cycles Chainslap Racing Coalition Cycling (new – was Country Green Turf Farms Cutters Discount Racing Group Dropbar Racing Dyna Racing Epic Racing Fell Swoop Five Ply Design | Ridgecrest Racing Fount Cycling Guild Gene Johnson Cycling Team Gregg’s Trek Grit City Health Hagens Berman High Vibrations HODALA!!! Hupkit Dirtworks Husky Cycling Keller Rohrbach Liquid Velo Mcleod Construction Montlake Bicycle Shop Moots Motofish NUUN NWCX Project Off Camber Old Town Bicycle Organic Gnar Harvest Pain Cave Productions PCP Racing Pizza Pals PNW Colavita Factor (changed from PNW Colavita Hellofresh) Premier Racing R4C Recycled Cycles Racing Ridge Cyclesport School Of Cross Seattle Metro Dragons Seattle Rush Racing S’no Joke Soft Like Kitten Spaaaaaaaaace Cadet Racing Spokeswomen Racing State Bicycle / Handup Stoup Brewing Suck It Super Fast Monkey Hat Taco Time Northwest Cycling Team Tahoma Mountain Bike Team Team Walla Walla Unavita Racing Wenatchee Valley Devo Zevenbergen
Russell has decided to make a career change and will be leaving Off Camber starting in January 2024.
In addition, Wednesday Night World Championships will no longer be run by Off Camber Productions. Russell will be running Weds Night Worlds with his great team of staff and volunteers.
Since December 2021 when Russ joined Off Camber and brought Wednesday Night World Championships into our partnership, the five of us have become a well-oiled machine putting on 20+ bike races a year. A hard-working, stake-pounding, lover of bike racing, Russ has been an amazing partner in our venture. We’ve had a blast together working to grow the bike racing community in Seattle and the PNW and we’ll miss Russ as a teammate.
Going forward, Off Camber will continue to lead the way running MFG, the biggest cyclocross series in the country, and offering adventurous gravel events in the Cascades.
What’s a hand-raiser? Someone who raises their hand to help. Hand-raisers say yes. At races, we are constantly asking for help… hey, can you run this to the timing stage? Can you fix that tape? Set up that tent? Grab coffee for the announcers? There are a million little jobs and these folks raise their hands to make it all work.
It takes a village to put on a cyclocross race. And we have a great village of hand-raisers.
We have so many people to thank. These are folks that showed up race after race to help. Getting up at 4am to meet us at 6am to set up course. Hanging out until after dark to help tear everything down and pack our van and trailer. Helping with starts, podiums, beginner clinics, timing, registration, taking photos, posting to socials, hauling garbage, designing swag, and everything else in between.
The list below are folks that volunteered for at least 3 races (or have some other huge job). There are ONE HUNDRED more people that volunteered for one or two races. We couldn’t list them all but… Wow! What a village. A few of the folks below are paid staff. Most are volunteers. We are immensely gracious to everyone below and the one hundred others who pitched in! And there are folks I’m sure we’ve missed. (Please let us know if there’s someone who should be on this list.)
Thank You
A big thank you and hug to everyone below from the MFG team – Blaine, Russell, Erik, Mike and Chris. 😍
Hope you all had a smoking good time at the MFG Barnburner! What a day. What a great community. What a great course.
We had some missed chip reads during the last few race waves of the day, so the results on Webscorer have some mistakes.
We’ll be reviewing the video and expect to have the results on Webscorer fixed by next week. Please be patient and wait until we have updated results before emailing us. After we’ve published final results, if they still look off, email us then and we’ll take a second look.
Some of the Off Camber crew are off to a bikepacking adventure in Oregon, so please be patient. 😘
