Registration and Information

We have concluded our 2007 Spring/Summer Series, please
go HERE for the Fall FLASH Series that starts August 22, 2007.

Welcome to the Prairie City Race Series!

2007 will be the 12th season of this grass roots event. Started back in 1995 by Sherwood Gibson of VENTANA MOUNTAIN BIKES USA as a way to give back to the community and for everyone to have FUN. The first races had 60 to 70 riders each week... today we regularly get over 250 racers! We still have that fun "grass roots" feel in a first class, professionally run event.  We try to provide mountain bike racing for EVERYONE!

Facilities: There are nice bathrooms available, tap water and plenty of parking. (PLEASE KEEP YOUR SPEED DOWN IN THE DIRT AND GRAVEL PARKING LOT AREA - (The park service will issue SPEEDING TICKETS!).

For a map with directions, go HERE  NOTE: The gate opens at 4:15 and RE-CLOSES at 6:25 pm - don't be late!

For Rules and Scoring go HERE.

Races are held RAIN or SHINE... (extra points for rain or 100 deg+ days!) For local WEATHER FORECAST and current Doppler radar check HERE.

RACE TRACK LAYOUT:
Our races are held within the Prairie City Off Road Vehicle Park south of Folsom, CA. (see map page for directions) or click HERE for an aerial view of the area at 9,000 feet.

Each lap around the course is between 3 and 4 miles long. Beginners do 2 laps, Sport is 3 laps and Expert is 4 laps. The course gets a little LONGER and a little HARDER every week as your skill and fitness improve!

Because of the numerous trails and dirt roadways on the property I am able to set up a different course each week. This makes for some exciting racing and keeps this 12-week series exciting and unpredictable!

I set up the course using 12" high ORANGE plastic cones. If there is a sharp turn I place 2 or 3 orange and blue cones on their side "pointing" in the direction of the turn. If there is a steep drop or technical part of the track it will be preceded by orange and blue cones. Because there are so many different trails I ALWAYS recommend PRE-RIDING the course, this will help prevent you from making a mistake the first time around at "race speed".

We have three main hills on the course and I usually include at least one of these in the course each week. Typically, I leave the real steep ones for a little later in the season. One of these hills has a very steep decent and although it is somewhat short in distance, speeds of 40 mph by the Experts are not uncommon!

There is plenty of single track and I prefer to keep you on it most of the time. I do usually start the first mile or so on a wider dirt road (or do a lap around the parking lot) so that the racers can sort themselves out a bit before hitting the tight single track.

See ya out there!