The first round of the 2008 Georgia NBL State Qualifiers is this weekend at River City BMX in Columbus Georgia. The track can be found at 1655 Elvan Avenue, Columbus GA (Click for Google Maps Directions). Directions: from I-185, take exit 1B, Victory Drive. Go approximately 3 miles and look for the Plaza motel and turn left on to Elvan Ave. The track will be on the right.

This will also be the first round of the local NBL PRO/AM race of 2008.

Pro-am entry fee is $10 per rider. Prizes and hole shot awards to be announced day of event.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
9 am - 11 am Kovachi Wheels Clinic Cost $25 per rider.
12 pm - 2pm Practice and Registration.
2:30pm State meeting and Presidents Cup presentations.
3:00pm State Qualifier and Pro-Am Racing starts.

Drop by PIT row as riders from Clayborn, MCS, Kovachi, Felt, Evolution, Xtraskin, Team Clayborn/Motofiller, Trackstars, TwentyH.com and others will be in attendance.

There will be some great racing action in the PRO/AM as well as riders battling for points in the State Qualifier. Look for most of these PRO and AM riders to be in attendance for a great day of hanging out, riding and racing:

Barry Nobles, Jason Larev, Tyler Faoro, Kevin Tomko, Petey Peters, Bill Madden, Michael Ross, Brandon Murphy, Mark Mitchell, Chandler Denton, Chris Murphy, Jeff Dein, Travis Woodruff, Rob Potter, Michael Glass, Jesse Heath, Jayson Busbee, Seth Utz, Peter Cafaro, Cameron Dyll, Blake Floyd, Garrett Beachy, Alex Palmer, Nathan Grant, Robert Perry, Jeff Denton, Vic Palmeri, Corey Fields, Thomas Harper and others.

Keri Tedesco reported that Augusta BMX had 15 riders that attended the Spring National this past weekend in Morristown. The riders are: Josh Sellner, Derek Baldwin, Cole Hall, Brandon & Bryce Moon, Matt Kessler, Ryder Hart, Daniela Pennington, Jimmy & Hayden McPeake, AJ Youngquist, Luke Doran, John Bellamy, Thomas Tedesco & Sam Bryant. That's an awesome turnout for us. All riders did a wonderful job and raced hard this weekend.
 
Race results for Day One Mains:
Brandon - 1st place
Jimmy & Hayden - 3rd place

After a little break from BMX racing, I stopped by Peachtree City and took a few photos of their local race yesterday. They had a pretty good turn out with 17 motos. Not back with another NBL local race taking place about an hour away at the same time. The usual suspects were on hand along with some new faces. It's good to see the sport starting to grow early in the session.

Shayne Robinson, Georgia's NBL BMX State Commissioner has posted a write about last weeks NBL Cometition Congress up in Ohio over at GeorgiaBMX.org. Click the read more link below to read a copy of her post to help get the word out. Thanks Shayne.

Although GeorgiaBMX.com is not up in Ohio this week, several Georgia BMX'ers battled it out yesterday at the President's Cup. We will try to get an update on how Georgia faired. While we wait, here is press release from the NBL on this weeks racing action.

OK, photos from the NBL Thanksgiving Nationals hosted in Morristown TN have been posted. Sorry for the delay in getting them to you.

Albany Georgia played host at Chehaw Park BMX for the start of the 2007 national racing session with the second stop on the new schedule. The Fall Classic has a great turn out despite the rain earlier in the week. The track had resently been rebuilt and all the hard work the local track put into getting ready really showed. In addintion to the Fall Classic, a second race was held Saturday for the Southeast Regional Championships.

Augusta BMX hosted the 2006 NBL Georgia State Championships yesterday. Riders from all over the state came to compete in the finial race in the state series that started in Peachtree City earlier this year and made the rounds to all of the NBL tracks within the state, including Albany, McDonough, and Augusta. This year’s series was challenged with a “little rain” at each qualifying races with Augusta’s race having to be rescheduled at the last minute the morning of the race. Our calendar shows that yesterday was the start of the fall session and we don’t know was hotter yesterday, the 90+ temperature in Augusta or the 9 rookie racing. The “green machine” Luke Doran from Martinez Georgia and Jacob Hilton from Doerun Georgia were on each other like stink on a skunk all day. It was great seeing several other riders showing off their new national numbers they earned just a few weeks ago in Louisville at the NBL Grand Nationals.

The Team Race also was had some great racing. We look forward to next years Team series.

2006 Team Race Results

Fat City
Bicycle Unlimited
Pskopath Racing
KB BMX Racing
Click here to check out some photos from the racing.

After a bit of travel and some equipment issues, the NBL Grand Nationals photos have been posted. Thanks for your understanding while recovering .

Click here to check the awesome racing that took place in Louisville over Labor Day weekend.

This years NBL Grand National had to be one of the best Grand's in several years with everyone on their toes cheering their favorite Pro in the AA Pro main. Donnie Robinson won the main event along with the series and a strong second went to Alabama transplant to Georgia Berry Nobels. Check back later this week for racing photos.