Tamarancho Dirt Classic 2010

Tamarancho Dirt Classic Photos

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  National Champions abounded at the Tamarancho Dirt Classic.

• Rachel Lloyd, Marin County local and two-time Pro Super D national champion and single speed world champion has won the Tamarancho Dirt Classic in the past, but found herself busy this year with new son Henry.
• Mountain bike legend Otis Guy cools down following his finish. Though temperatures were in the high 80s, Otis is used to worse - he's a firefighter for the Ross Valley Fire District in Marin County.
• Ned Overend and Joe Breeze greet each other after Ned's second-place finish.
• Joe Breeze and Ned Overend, two of the most legendary figures in mountain bike history, still going fast after all these years.
• Former XC World Champion Rob Anderson is greeted by his mechanic Anson Vaughn following the race.
• Perhaps a future champion, two-year-old Vaughn Kirberg rides his push-bike through the crowds following the race.
• An original aluminum Cunningham from 1982, made less than a few miles from the Tamarancho race course by Wilderness Trail Bikes co-founder and Mountain Bike Hall of Famer Charlie Cunningham.
• Marin Bikes' Brian Astell post-race and post-crash.
• Local component manufacturer WTB was on hand with latest offerings in tyres and saddles.
• Perfect post-ride nutrition.
• Otis Guy and Joe Breeze, pre-race.
• Otis Guy, former pro mountain bike racer, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame member and bike builder, blazes through the finish area.
• By the fourth lap, Ned Overend found himself riding through traffic in his pursuit of Dario Fredrick.
• Tamarancho Dirt Classic race director (and 2008 Masters XC National Champion) gives pre-race instructions to the pro field.

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