CR BMX, Tuesday Night racing

All, Couple of important items, Tuesday Night racing starts this week so make sure you let your BMX racing friends that are not on the list know. Of course that all depends on where the rain goes this afternoon, so check the track phone or email for updates.

For those that made it out to race our first race, thank you!! It was exciting to see all the faces ready to race, you may have also noticed the loader and piles of new dirt sitting out there. Well our resident expert, Josh Trumblee, went to work on our front straight and boy does it look fast now.
If you see him or Scott Barber make sure to say thanks for the hard work as they spent their Memorial Day working at the track.

Lets hope we miss the rain this evening and we will see you at the track!

Anna Appleby
Track Operator
Cedar Rapids BMX

Ewing Park BMX, Thank You

BMX Racers,

I want to Welcome everyone to the 2009 BMX season, I would like to start wIth telling everyone the exciting news of switching to ABA this year. If you currenlty have A NBL lisense that is still valid, you can contiune to race, at renewl time you will be able to sign up for the ABA Lisence.

We had our first race on Sunday May 17th and had a great turn out, we still have alittle more work to do to the track, but I want to give a BIG thanks to Dale White, Kittie Knauer, and Alex Peterson for all the time and hard work spent on helping getting the track in shape to hold the race. Also all the Members from Cedar Rapids and Council Bluffs that came and helped make our first ABA race a sucess.

We will now hold practice on Tuesday nights from 6:30 until 8:00, there will be a $2 fee.

We will NOT be racing Thursdays this year, we WILL be racing on Sundays, with new times:
Registration will be from 11:00 to 12:30, you MUST be regristered before 12:30 to be able to race, there will be no exceptions.
We will start races at 1:00.

Trophies will be given to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place racers, we also have an option to use super saver stamps which you can redeem at bike shops, I will be able to tell you more detail on those stamps when I get more information.

We also changed our track name to Ewing Park BMX, we need a new logo, I would like everyone to come up with an idea and submit it to Me or Dale, we will narrow it down to a final 3 and let everyone vote for the winner. Please submit by May 31, 2009.

Lets make this year fun, if you have any suggestions, please let us know.

You may contact me by email or calling 515-285-6626.

Thank You,

Scott Conrath

Practicing tonight at CR BMX

All, We will be practicing tonight so come on out, the track is dry and dusty so if you have googles you might want to bring them. We have a few rough spots but all in all track is doing well.

Latest status on water from Parks Dept is only a few weeks away, hopefully be the time we get past the Blue Springs National we will have water back on. Work has started on the new announcing tower which is great, thanks to Bob Hodges and Dan Green for heading that project up.

See you at the track!!

Anna Appleby
Track Operator

Cedar Rapids BMX Work Nights

All, We plan to be out at the track Monday and Tuesday evenings from 6PM-8PM getting track back in shape.
If you can make it out to help one or both of the nights that would be great. Goal will be to get track drug, racked
and packed.

From the looks of the weather we will have a good shot at practice and racing on Saturday. Remember we are racing
this Saturday even thought its Memorial Weekend, thats because the following week is Blue Springs National which we are off.

Thanks, see you at the track,

Anna Appleby
Track Operator
Cedar Rapids BMX

Sunday May 17 Racing At Ewing Park

Sunday Racing At Ewing Park BMX will start tomorrow with Sign-ups between 11 and 1 Racing starting ASAP after sign-ups.

Racing Cancelled 5/16 at Cedar Rapids BMX

All, We will have to cancel racing this weekend, the rains we received Wednesday and more today did a number on the track. Once we dry out later Saturday we will be out there working on the track so stay tuned as I'll send out work emails.

Let's hope we get a dry spell would really like to get racing soon and can start sealing the track.

Water update, today they meet to request bids for water repair work. That will mean in the next couple weeks the repairs to water should get done.

Also remember if you are wanting to race the Des Moines track in Ewing Park races on Sundays and are now an ABA track. I don't know there status for racing on Sunday but once I find out Saturday will email the list.

Anna Appleby

Ewing Park BMX Opening Day

Ewing Park BMX opening day will be this Sunday May 17, 2009 Please come out and help support the new group operating the track.

Des Moines BMX Under new management

Dale White and Scott Conrath have taken the reigns over for the the Old Des Moines Metro BMX track. It will be reopened this weekend under the new name of Ewing Park BMX. It will switch from NBL to ABA as well. Dale has sent me a schedule and I will post it for all as soon as I can figure it out.

Most of us Know Dale he been a great supporter of BMX in the Des Moines Area. His son Sam races 16X. Scott Conrath has been around as long as BMX has been in Iowa as well. Scott is a First Generation BMX racer and now his son is continuing to carry the banner. Scott son AJ races 14X.

Let's help support the new Des Moines Group. Racing is planned on Sundays only and Practice nights Tuesday.

New Franklin Baby

Name: Timothy James Gerard Franklin

Weight: 8lbs 11 ounces

Length: 22” Long


Congrat's Bryan and Ellen, welcome Timothy.





Anna Appleby
Cedar Rapids BMX

Cedar Rapids BMX, OPening Night of Racing 5/9/2009

All, At this time we are planning to race on Saturday May 9th. The track looked great for practice last night and those sixteen eager riders who came out had fun getting back on the track. I will update the status if we get to much rain from the system expected tonight. If you can make it out to races tomorrow it would be great to see everyone.

You'll see a lot of new dirt sitting at the track, a new fence up around the starting gate, telephone poles out by the road that will be used for a new announcing tower. Changes are being made this year to the track in a lot of ways, we also have 115 gallons of Soiltac in my garage ready to be used on the track to seal it once track changes are done.

GET EXCITED it's BMX season!!! Let's Race!

Some new things this year:
- If you get NEW members to sign up for a full license you will get a free race.
- New members that sign up will get their first race free
- If a race falls on your birthday you get a free race
- I am working up some sort of way to help those that volunteer, so stay tuned and please help when you can.

The new rider program and birthdays will start with this season.

CR BMX Track Work

All, As most of you know there is no racing this Saturday, we have been to wet to get started on the track. We plan to be out a the track around 1PM until when ever getting the track ready to ride. If you can spare an hour or two to help it would be greatly appreciated. The plan is to drag, rake, then pack the track, we hope there will still be some moisture in the track so we won't need water.

If you help on Sunday we plan to do a little gate practice to make sure everything is working. Of course full equipment is needed and you need to help out with getting the track ready.

Hope to see you at the track, should be a nice weekend to get work done.

Anna Appleby
Track Operator
Cedar Rapids BMX

P.S. We would work Saturday but the track will still be too wet to do anything decent.