{"id":2889,"date":"2012-08-10T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2012-11-16T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T01:11:04","slug":"2012-tour-of-elk-grove-review-photos-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"2012 Tour of Elk Grove Review, Photos and Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in my previous post, the Tour of Elk Grove<\/strong><\/em> (TOEG) bike races were held last weekend and I did end up going to the event all 3 days (Fri, Sat, Sun). We did not get to the Tour until later in the afternoon on Saturday which was just before a big thunderstorm hit so I did not get to see anything on Saturday. Fortunately a friend of mine was there earlier in the day and contributed many of his photos, of\u00a0 Saturday’s events to the about-bicycles.com<\/em> website. The photo below was contributed by Dale Kiffel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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2012 Tour of Elk Grove Race<\/p><\/div>\n

I ended up taking a ton of photos at the TOEG and even a few short video clips on my camera. Between all of my photos and all the photos that my friend contributed it has taken me quite a while to filter through them, select the best ones and format and post them on the website but I am finally finished.<\/p>\n

You can read the Tour of Elk Grove recap and see the photos and video on this site at the Tour of Elk Grove page<\/a>. There are links to all of the photo pages and the short video at the bottom of the page.<\/em><\/p>\n

As for the Tour of Elk Grove itself, this is a big event with professional cyclists from around the world as well as races for entry level riders. There’s even a Big Wheel Race for the Real Entry Level riders! I’ve included a few photos of this big event too :-).<\/p>\n

This is a 3-day event with time trials on Friday, multiple stage Mens and Womens professional and amateur races on Saturday and Sunday and prize money somewhere around $75,000.<\/p>\n

The start and finish line and main stage is located on Elk Grove Blvd at Audubon Park. The event is free and parking is where ever you can find a place (mostly in the neighborhoods on one side of the street)). The races take place on the residential and commercial roads in Elk Grove Village.<\/p>\n

If you are into bike riding (you don’t even have to be into racing) I would think that you would find the TOEG interesting and a lot of fun. I sure did. You can get background on this event and all of the race details at the Tour of Elk Grove website at www.tourofelkgrove.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As for the article on this website, I have summarized the event on the main Tour of Elk Grove page<\/a> and tried to capture the feel of the event, from a visitors perspective, with the photos (and short video).<\/p>\n

The races are a lot of fun to watch even though I was not always at the finish line to see who actually won many of the races that I saw. Although there is a lot of excitement at the finish line, it is also nice to view different events in other locations (like by some of the sharp turns).<\/p>\n

There were a number of Comcast people (with professional video equipment) at this event and I believe that it will be televised in the Chicagoland area soon. I am still working of getting the details on when and where it will be aired. Stay tuned. I’ll post an update here when I find out when it will be on.<\/p>\n

So for those of us who were not able to fly off to France to see that little race that they have over there (le Tour de France<\/em>, of course) :-), at least we have a UCI Category 2.1 international bike race of our own that we can go to right in the suburbs of Chicago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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