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2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend (With Video - Mens race and Riders POV)
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I have said it before and will say it again, for me the important spring cycling classics are Flanders, Roubaix and the World's Greatest College Weekend race in Bloomington, Indiana......The Little 500!

The race based on the Indy 500 automobile race and highlighted in the movie Breaking Away is only a week away. The partying will start this weekend and continue until Next Sunday.

The teams have already completed Quals, ITT, Miss N' Out and Team Pursuit and all that is left is the race.

Here are some videos showcasing the events, the race and the crashes:
Crashes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_tE89cVFMU
Team Pursuit - http://vimeo.com/64323635
ITT - http://vimeo.com/63372450
Quals - http://vimeo.com/90669935
Miss N" Out - http://vimeo.com/91971067

Any other Slowtwitchers planning to attend?

David K
Last edited by: DavidK: May 9, 14 7:34
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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I just spent this past weekend in Nashville/Bloomington taking part in a training camp and we talked about this race a lot. Would love to drive down from Chicago to watch it one day.
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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DavidK wrote:
I have said it before and will say it again, for me the important spring cycling classics are Flanders, Roubaix and the World's Greatest College Weekend race in Bloomington, Indiana......The Little 500!

The race based on the Indy 500 automobile race and highlighted in the movie Breaking Away is only a week away. The partying will start this weekend and continue until Next Sunday.

The teams have already completed Quals, ITT, Miss N' Out and Team Pursuit and all that is left is the race.

Here are some videos showcasing the events, the race and the crashes:
Crashes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_tE89cVFMU
Team Pursuit - http://vimeo.com/64323635
ITT - http://vimeo.com/63372450
Quals - http://vimeo.com/90669935
Miss N" Out - http://vimeo.com/91971067

Any other Slowtwitchers planning to attend?

David K

Doesn't Mark Cuban air this live on the channel he owns? HDNet I think?

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"Sweep the leg...Do you have a problem with that?" - John Kreese
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [CobraKai Triguy] [ In reply to ]
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It has been aired live on HDNet the last few years and is slated to be aired live this year. In years past the race has been covered by MTV and ESPN.

Last years mens race was very exciting - culminating with an inside lane "argy-bargy" pass with half a lap to go...
Last years races:
2013 Mens Short Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peMZGGEVF3c
2013 Men Full Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu6EFaI7IXA
2013 Women Full Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyf4G7qRep8


David K
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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oh man, just brought back some good memories of storming the track when PDT won the race back in the day.... ahh college
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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Is the race streamed online?
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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If only I could turn back the clock...went to IU and never once attended the race. But that was also before I got into riding bikes....was a rower in college and often times had out of town races that weekend.

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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [tovi] [ In reply to ]
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I believe you can find it online if you have access to a Dish or AXS:

http://www.axs.tv/...d-saturday-april-26/

DK
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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Great write-up on Grantland:

http://grantland.com/...ngton-breaking-away/

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"Sweep the leg...Do you have a problem with that?" - John Kreese
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [CobraKai Triguy] [ In reply to ]
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Agree, very good article. Thank you for posting it.

I will add links to the races as soon as they are up on Youtube or Vimeo.

It was a picture perfect beautiful day filled with great racing action.

David K
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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Too bad it ended on a yellow though.

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"Sweep the leg...Do you have a problem with that?" - John Kreese
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [CobraKai Triguy] [ In reply to ]
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bummer.....I need to watch breaking away again. That's a movie worth revisiting every few years!!!

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That might be the post of the year right there.
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [shivermetimbers] [ In reply to ]
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I was able to watch it live on Direct TV on the Axs Channel. The teams in the lead pack all had the guys they wanted out there and it was looking to be a great final couple laps and then the crash happened. What a bummer of a finish.
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [rmg] [ In reply to ]
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rmg wrote:
oh man, just brought back some good memories of storming the track when PDT won the race back in the day.... ahh college

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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [CobraKai Triguy] [ In reply to ]
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Great pictures and video of the crash.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vfFoA_OKaQ


The team I was supporting was on the lead lap but had just lost the leaders about lap 188 and they actually benefitted from the crash (that's racing).

DK
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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Who actually watches the race?!? I went every year, but also got the week out of classes, everyday parties and sorority girls everywhere. Best college week ever
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend [mvenneta] [ In reply to ]
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Fun fact for slowtwitchers...Ian Boggs the draft legal USAT Collegiate National Champion was a member of the Cutters and spent a good chunk of his time pulling the lead group
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [gregarious] [ In reply to ]
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Indeed, Indiana alpha
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [rmg] [ In reply to ]
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Cool Video!
Stumbled across a neat rider's eye view of the race on youtube. Its worth watching as it shows an exchange onto the bike, catching the pack, riding in the pack (too far back for safety) and leaving the pack for and exchange with the next rider....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70WIuyI2MI

(If you watch carefully you will see my oldest, grey jersey, # 4, yellow socks.)

David K
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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Mens 2014 Race from AXS on Youtube....
https://www.youtube.com/...amp;feature=youtu.be

David K
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Re: 2014 Little 500 - World's Greatest College Weekend a week away! [DavidK] [ In reply to ]
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Informative and in-depth Little 500 documentary from U-Verse (24 minutes long)...:
http://uverse.com/tv/show/the-little-500#play=dk___dk_exc_sp0621_jun14.mp4


David K
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