Event Description
Bikes are the Answer (BATA) with the help of Vertical Earth, School of Cross & Team Booger presents CDA Cross Cup in beautiful Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. This is a fundraiser event where all proceeds go to support free Junior entries at the 2025 Wednesday Night Mountain Bike Race Series in Riverside State Park. First race is $35 (second race of the day is $15, third race is free). Second & third race discount is taken during checkout. All Junior races are FREE! Mountain bikes are welcome in every category. Onsite race day registration is available by check, cash or Venmo.
Course will use half of the old CDA cross course and half of all new terrain. Course to include sand, run ups, barriers, wooded single track and pump track features. Super fun course!!
This is not a USAC-sanctioned event, so no USAC licensing required.
Race schedule:
10:00 am – Men & Women Beginner, MTB/fat bike Men & Women (40 min)
11:00 am – Junior Boys & Girls 16-18, 13-15 (30 min), Junior Boys & Girls 12 and under (20 min)
11:45 am – Awards for AM races
12:00 pm – Master Women 40+, Master Men 40-49, 50-59, 60+ (45 min)
1:00 pm – Men & Women Expert, Men & Women Sport, Men & Women Single Speed (55 min)
2:15 pm – Awards for PM races
Course open between races for preview.
Cross General Guide:
Beginner Racers are absolute beginners to cyclocross or other kinds of bike racing. Have a dedicated cyclocross bike? Great! But don’t be shy if you want to ride your gravel, mountain, or experimental klunker bike. Bring it on.
Sport Racers are people with some cyclocross racing under their belt and are ready for a challenge by moving up from the Beginner Category. Cyclocross is about anaerobic conditioning, mental fortitude, focus, and pure bike handling. Do you have those things? If you don’t know, try the Beginner Category, then upgrade if you are seriously demolishing people out there.
Expert Racers are fit, fast, and experienced. You’ve raced a season or two in the Sport Category and held your own. You train hard and your bike handling skills are on point. Racing Expert is not for the faint of heart, as the races run many, many laps.
Singlespeeders (SS) have only one gear on their bicycle, and it’s fair to say they are a notoriously eclectic group of riders, as the popularity of this category grows. The tradeoff for having only one gear is a relatively problem-free drivetrain that survives the worst mud and guck a cyclocross course can dish out.
