Nebraska Cycling News

Overwhelming Success!

A little over a week has passed since the February 11th screening of Pure Sweet Hell at Lincoln¹s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Time flies, right?

The brisk, but humid evening served as the Midwest premiere of Pure Sweet Hell, and was also the jumping-off point for filmmaker Brian Vernor¹s Midwest tour, which over the course of the last ten days, has seen him showing this hour-long cyclocross documentary to passionately packed houses in St. Louis, Madison, Chicago, and Minneapolis. The Lincoln showing was an overwhelming success by anyone¹s definition, selling out the 250-seat theater at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center a full two days before the showing, and attracting a long list of supporters in the form of local businesses, moviegoers, hardcore cyclists, sympathetic friends and family, as well as every single Lincoln bike shop the later of which enthusiastically handled PSH ticket sales with all the competence and effectiveness you¹d expect from a group with over 120 years of bike-shop history.

UPDATES:

• Individual Time Trial and Collegiate Team Time Trial length is 12.8 miles.
• Men Masters 35+ is a stage race ONLY.

The 4th Annual Lincoln Plating Spring Cycling Classic is set for Saturday and Sunday, April 16-17, 2005. With a prize list of $6000, the fourth installment of this early season event should be the best and most highly attended race, yet. Last year, the Lincoln Plating spring Cycling Classic raised over $3700 for the Willard Community Center in Lincoln, which provides support and programs for youth and adults in West Lincoln.