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Major Sponsor:
Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival
P.O. Box 267 –13460 Spruce Street– Cable, Wis. 54821
715-798-3594 – phone/715-798-3595 – fax
cheqfat@cheqnet.net
www.cheqfattire.comChequamegon Fat Tire Rolls in September
Cable, WI – for immediate release
Off road bicyclists from across the country and overseas will converge on Telemark Resort in Cable, WI for the running of the 28th Annual Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival sponsored by Trek on September 17-19. A sold out field of 2,500 riders will test muscles, minds and pedal powered machines in the nation’s largest mass start point-to-point off road bicycle event.
The main event of the weekend, on Saturday, September 18, is the Chequamegon 40. The mass start roll out of 1,700 riders from Hayward’s Main Street at 10:00 a.m. is not to be missed. A select few elites will compete for the chance to be called champion, while the rest of the field is made up of citizen's class athletes in it for the adventure and personal challenge inherent in the forty mile off road journey.
The Short & Fat, a 16-mile companion event, offers an additional 800 cyclists a shorter but challenging back woods cycling opportunity. This rolling mass of cyclists will launch from Randysek Road in Cable at 10:00 a.m. Both events head cross-county utilizing a twisted maze of wooded trails to arrive at the Telemark Resort finish line in Cable. Both cross country events feature a Children’s Bicycle Parade before the start of the racing excitement on Saturday.
The entire Chequamegon weekend is filled with activities that the whole family will enjoy. Rounding out the event weekend on Sunday September 19, the Rough Stuff Poker Ride, a bicycle orienteering event and the Cable CritCross dirt circuit cyclocross race will test the competitive side. Adding to the fun will be the Sunday Funday events including a Klunker Toss, Lumber Jack & Jill Log Pull, Flying Bunny Hop, Hill Climb, Bicycle Limbo and more. For the twelve and under set a Children’s Bicycle Rodeo will be offered for those twelve and under at Telemark Resort in Cable.
With a combination of fat tires, friends, family and fun it is not just a race, it’s a really great time. For a complete weekend agenda and other race week information visit www.cheqfattire.com.
Contact: Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival, Inc., PO Box 267, 13460 Spruce Street, Cable, WI 54821, 715-798-3594, cheqfat@cheqnet.net.
Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival
Future Event Dates
The historical criteria for selecting the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival event dates is the second weekend following Labor Day Monday. As Labor Day Monday fluctuates so does the Chequamegon event date move.
Future event dates include:
September 16 – 18, 2011
September 14 – 16, 2012
September 13 – 15, 2013
Entry Blanks for 2010 Chequamegon Festival
Cable, WI – For immediate release January 2010
Winter finds the Chequamegon area bicycle trails frozen solid and covered with a welcome blanket of snow. Northland winds may be howling, but off road cyclists are about to begin the annual rush to submit an entry blank for the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival sponsored by Trek. The September 17-19 weekend will mark the popular off road events twenty-eighth running at Telemark Resort in Cable. Hopeful Chequamegon Festival participants must meet the March 15 entry blank submission deadline to be included in the 2,500 person registration limit lottery drawing.
Entry blanks can be obtained in two ways. First, from early February to March 15 the entry form can be downloaded from the event’s web page at www.cheqfattire.com. Those preferring to receive a hard copy sent via the postal route, should send a self-addressed stamped envelop to the event headquarters in time to receive, complete and return the entry to meet the postmark deadline.
Entry blanks must be completed and submitted with the entry fee payment by the March 15 postmark deadline to be included in the 2010 random drawing. Entries mailed after the postmark deadline will not be included in the drawing.
Fat tire racing and fat tire fun in one of the most popular off road events in the country is the reward for the 2,500 lucky riders selected in the drawing. The lottery drawing will fill its limit with 1700 riders in the Chequamegon 40 and an additional 800 for the Short & Fat 16 miler.
After the entries are randomly selected and processed into the computer database, confirmation cards notify those who have been accepted into the event. Those who are not picked in the lottery drawing receive a “better luck next time” letter along with the return of the submitted entry fee. Each year nearly a thousand entry submissions are returned to their senders when the event limit is reached during the lottery drawing.
For complete details of the registration lottery procedure and other event information visit the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival web page at www.cheqfattire.com. Direct all correspondence to CFTF, PO Box 267, Cable, WI 54821, 715-798-3594, email to cheqfat@cheqnet.net or stop by the new event headquarters at 13460 Spruce Street in downtown Cable.
Chequamegon Enters the Blogosphere
This just in, the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival has entered the blogosphere with the introduction a new event blog. Visit www.blog.cheqfattire.com to follow the latest posts from the Fatman himself live from the event's world hq in downtown Cable, Wisconsin. It is a definite work in progress and your patience is appreciated as we work through the learning curve of this new to Chequamegon way of communicating to you.
Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival Opens New Headquarters
A new race office for the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival rolls in with the New Year. Shortly after the 2008 event concluded, the Festival closed a real estate transaction procuring a building at 13460 Spruce Street in downtown Cable. After a several month long building revitalization program, the Chequamegon office is up and running in its new location.
The larger, centralized and more visible space provides opportunities for a permanent race headquarters, equipment and supply storage and a larger retail presence for event concession items all under one roof. In addition ample space for historical memorabilia and photographs will be available, giving the event more opportunity to display its colorful history.
The Festival, which is sponsored by Trek, will celebrate its twenty-seventh anniversary in the Hayward and Cable area over the September 18-20 weekend. Event Host Telemark Resort will once again be the site for the exciting finish line action and many other event activities.
Hours of operation vary with the season and as the event dates approach. During the winter the office is open from Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For further information visit the www.cheqfattire.com web site or contact Festival Director Gary Crandall at 715-798-3594 or via email at cheqfat@cheqnet.net.
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