The 2024 East Bay Dirt Classic is in the books, and we at C510 have agreed it was the best year yet. We’re incredibly thankful it was not this past weekend in 98 degree weather. But mostly we’re grateful to all of you for joining us in this annual event to support our friends at the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Through registrations, donations and raffle tickets we raised over $70,000 this year!

Huge congratulations to our top competitors for 2024!:

Our top female finishers:

1. Alex Tripcevich
2. Noelle Davis
3. Katrina Rapa

Alex, a Berkeley High student, was not only our top female finisher but also our QOM holder and Best Young Rider! Since our sponsors are heavy on the beer and wine, we had to make some last minute changes since she took home more than one top prize…She’s clearly going to have a couple more years of strong showings here at the East Bay Dirt Classic.

Our top male finishers:

1. James Kinney
2. Sandy Floren
3. Jason Tang

Fresh of his recent Tunnel Road KOM setting ride, James also set the KOM for our 2024 EBDC segment. His win was due after a couple of 2nd place finishes i the past. Our best young male rider award this year went to 16 year-old Oliver Jacobs. Oliver told us he DNF’d last year. Then he came out this year to notch 6th in a very fast field. Definitely more to come from Oliver next year.

Please check out photos from the event here and here! Many thanks to C510 members Josh Posamentier, Ben Duchac and Peter Lockett for chronicling the event!

We’ll be back on again next year with our hope to return to mid-October. Watch out for our “Save the Date” in the coming months.

Finally we want to acknowledge our generous sponsors who donated some incredible prizes for our top finishers and raffle winners. Please take some time to visit them at their links below:

• Best Day Brewing
• Bike X Fit
• Cellarmaker Brewing Company
• East Brother Beer Company
• Fieldwork Brewing Company
• Good Medicine Coffee
• Mikes Bikes
• Obsidian Wine Company
• Peak Design
• Pearl Izumi
• R&A Cycles
• Sante Adairius Rustic Ales
• Sports Basement
• Stay True Cycles
• Trek Bicycle, Oakland

Thank you again for your support. Safe riding and hope to see you next Fall!

• Your friends at C510

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! Weather and trails are perfect for riding right now.

A couple of quick reminders:

• Please arrive by 8 am to ensure a smooth registration process.
• Please link your Strava account by clicking here. This ensures you will be included in the KOM/QOM competition.
• There will be 3 waves based on your selection when you registered, each with neutral roll out about 15 minutes apart.
• Please download the course to your GPS device. We will also be doing our best to mark the course this evening with flour and colored flags and we will have volunteers on course to assist at some points.
• We will have GU handups at the intersection of Brandon and Skyline (see older post below this one for full details).
• After crossing the footbridge, Go left on Cameron Loop, not right.
• Finally: Have fun, be safe and bring your bathing suit!

Looking forward to seeing everyone Saturday morning! The address of the registration site and after-party is: 5656 Weaver Place, Oakland, CA, 94619. Please park along Skyline Drive, NOT on Weaver Place.

Registration onsite opens at 8 am. Please arrive early to help ease the registration process. Wave 1 will have a neutral roll-out at 9 am. Waves 2 and 3 will have neutral roll-outs in 15-20 minute intervals after Wave 1. Current weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the low 60s at the start.

The post-event barbecue will begin as riders return following the event, with food available beginning around 12 pm. Awards and raffle will begin at 1:30 PM. We have great prizes for our top finishers, KOM and QOM segment winners and raffle ticket winners. There is a pool and currently temperatures near the end of the event are forecast to be sunny and in the low 70s, so bring a bathing suit if you want to swim.

The 2024 course is here: 2024 East Bay Dirt Classic Course. Please download the route to your preferred GPS device to avoid missed turns. We will mark any tricky parts of the course, but despite marking the course in each of the prior editions, there have remained confusing intersections. Of note, this year’s course stays on Goldenrod the entire time until Jackson Grade whereas in previous years the course used Jalquin Trail. So stay on Goldenrod the entire way to Jackson Grade:

Also, currently the San Leandro Creek is full, so riders will have to dismount at the foot bridge between Honker Bay and Cameron Loop and walk bikes across.

For those who have elected to compete in the virtual edition of the 2024 EBDC, you can view the leaderboard here: Current Virtual Course Leader Board. If you don’t see your name here and have ridden it, please let us know.

Please feel free to reach out with any last minute questions. See you all Saturday!

A few of us rode the course this morning and it is riding very well. A couple of quick notes:

• Recommend downloading the course as a GPX file to your GPS device of choice for turn by turn directions. I also recommend you ride the course ahead of time as there are a couple of confusing junctions, especially on Brandon Trail.
• There is water at mile 6.7 along Brandon Trail and also at the golf course (mile 13.5 or so). We will also offer GU hand ups for those who need at the top of the Brandon/Skyline climb (mile 7.3 outbound and mile 15.3 inbound).
• There are a few areas with loose sand/rocks on Brandon on some sweeping descending right turns and Towhee is fast and fun singletrack, but has some loose areas as well with Eucalyptus leaves/bark, etc. The descents on Red Tail between mile 17 and 18 are fast, rutted, loose and at times, off-camber. Bottom line is this is a dirt course and hazards exist on the trail. Please stay in control at all times.
• Currently the path alongside the pedestrian bridge near Lake Chabot (mile 11), linking Honker Bay Trail and Cameron Loop Trail is dry and rideable. Please do not use the bridge.
• The Proctor Staging Area parking lot (mile 13) is closed at this time. You can still ride into it at the end of Ten Hills trail and out of it on the Southern (right as you come into the lot from the trail) exit and left onto Redwood Road for a few yards before jumping back onto Proctor Trail to the golf course.
• We’ll update again closer to race day. 4 weeks to go!

The 2024 East Bay Dirt Classic registration site is now open! Please click on the link here to register. All registrants will receive a custom 2024 East Bay Dirt Classic t-shirt, but the deadline for registering to receive a t-shirt is September 13th, 2024. The course this year is the same as last year and will be entirely in Anthony Chabot Regional Park.

We have a whole host of incredible sponsors for our event again this year, and prizes will go to the top finishers in our male and female categories and prizes will also be given out during a raffle a the post-ride party on September 28th. Tickets for the raffle will be given to those participants who donate additional money to the ACCFB during registration. We even have a new commuter bike donated by Mike’s Bikes as one of this year’s prizes! As usual, the top female and male will win custom 2024 East Bay Dirt Classic belt buckles.

As we return to our one day event with a mass start, we will limit the number of participants to 130 and break the start into three waves based on anticipated finishing time. The registration page will ask riders to select their wave based on last year’s time or expected time, with Wave A being geared toward the fastest participants and Wave C towards those taking more time to complete the course. The start of each wave will be 15 minutes apart.

We look forward to seeing you all on September 28th!

The date is set for the 2024 edition of the East Bay Dirt Classic. Please mark your calendars for Saturday, September 28th, 2024. The course will remain the same as last year and will feature a mass start, likely with 3 waves based on a cyclist’s time last year or self-determined fitness level if a cyclist hasn’t ridden the course.

As in prior years, we will have prizes on offer for our fastest finishers and each registered cyclist will receive a custom edition t-shirt and entrance to the post-event barbecue and pool party.

Most importantly, we will once again be donating all net proceeds to our friends at the Alameda County Community Food Bank.

Registration will open on August 1, 2024

More to come! Looking forward to seeing you all on September 28th!

• Your friends at C510

Dan English on his way to winning the 2023 East Bay Dirt Classic

The 2023 East Bay Dirt Classic is in the books! Thank you all for participating this year. We had a great turn out in our return to the one day format, ultimately with 130 registered riders.

In the virutal event category the top three finishers were Diamond Dave Willhoite in 1st, Steve Zulim in 2nd and Ben Arnold in 3rd.

In the main event, one day women’s event, top honors and an East Bay Dirt Classic belt buckle went to Michelle Morrell who bested second place Rebecca Wolski by 1 second. Third place went to Katie Pesce/Wild Iris, 1:16 off of second place.

In the one day men’s event, Fun Ghi’s three-peat was denied by 18 year old Dan English. Fun Ghi noted that Dan pinned it right from the gun, with the two trading blows throughout most of the course, and Fun Ghi ultimately taking the KOM segment by 1 second over Dan. But as they moved onto Red Tail, Dan attacked and was able to form a gap which held and grew through the final miles of the course, with Fun Ghi ultimately ceeding 1:22 to Dan. 2022 second place finisher James Kinney finished in 3rd, 9:12 off the finishing time. A great battle out there in our first mass start event in several years.

Thanks to everyone who registered, rode and raised additional funds, we were able to raise more than $63,000 for the Alameda County Community Food Bank this year! These funds will support more than 100,000 meals for our Alameda County neighbors in need!

We heard many say the course was just about the right length and preferred it to last year’s demonic climbing and challenging route-finding course. We plan to use the same course for next year’s event.

Please save the date for next year’s East Bay Dirt Classic. The 2024 edition will be the same course and will be held on Saturday October 19th. We hope to see you all there!

– Your friends at C510

Cloudy skies and some tacky dirt greet the opening weekend of the virtual option of the 2023 East Bay Dirt Classic. This may be the weekend for those preferring the virtual option as the upcoming week reportedly holds a heat wave.

A couple of quick announcements and reminders: This year there are two options for how to ride the event: 1) Single day mass start on October 14th at 9 am; 2) Virtual ride any time between today and October 14th at 1 pm. As far as bragging rights, the virtual riders can track their rank on our virtual leaderboard whereas the one day event riders will only be competing with those also riding it as the mass start event on October 14th. View and download the course here. Register for this year’s event here.

We have made some changes to prior years based on feedback from many of our friends who rode it last year. This year is more gravel friendly and the course should be easier to follow. There are no printed maps or handouts. The best way to ride the course is to review it well beforehand and then download it via GPX file and load it onto your preferred GPS navigation tool. This not an enduro format; riders will be ranked on the time it takes to complete the entire course. Additionally, there will be one KOM/QOM segment on the Skyline climb from the golf course.

We have a great assortment of prizes this year from our generous sponsors. Special should out to our good friends at Peak Design, who donated a number of sweet prizes including their bombproof travel duffel, their travel backpack, their mobile out front phone bike mount, and several other great products. Prizes will go to the fastest times on the course for the one day event and the virtual event as well as the holders of the KOM/QOM segments. Once again the winners of the one day event will receive limited edition East Bay Dirt Classic belt buckles. www

There will be a barbeque event with food, drink, awarding of prizes and an option to jump in the pool/hot tub beginning after the event on Saturday October 14th. The address for the one day event and for the barbecue is: 5656 Weaver Place, Oakland, CA 94619.

Finally, we originally started this event as a fundraiser for the Alameda County Community Food Bank. In the short time we have been hosting this event we have seen the number of Alameda County residents who use the ACCFB’s services increase from one in six to one in four. This incredible organization needs our support more than ever. All net proceeds from this event and associated fundraising go to the ACCFB. Over the last several events we have raised over $250,000. In addition to riding the event, please consider joining in our fundraising efforts here: C510 ACCFB Fundraising. Prizes will be given out to the top fundraisers for this event.

Thanks and happy riding from your friends at C510!

Registration is open for the 2023 East Bay Dirt Classic! We are stoked to release this year’s course and to announce an incredible array of prizes for our participants from the following sponsors:

• Best Day Brewing
• Capo Cycling Apparel
• Cellarmaker Brewery
• East Brother Beer Company
• Fieldwork Brewing Company
• GU Energy Labs
• Jambar Organic Energy Bars
• Peak Design
• R&A Cycles
• Sante Adairius Rustic Ales
• Specialized
• Sports Basement

Please join us again this year in participating in the EBDC to help raise awareness and much needed resources for our friends and neighbors in Alameda County who face food insecurity daily.

Check out this year’s course here: 2023 East Bay Dirt Classic Course

Register here: 2023 East Bay Dirt Classic

It’s that time of year when we think of cooler nights, perfect packed dirt trails and the East Bay Dirt Classic….

The 2023 edition of the East Bay Dirt Classic will see a return to a one day event with mass start at 9 am on October 14th. This year’s course will be more gravel friendly, covering 23 miles and 3,500 feet of climbing. Prizes from our sponsors will be awarded to top finishers of the entire course from start to finish. There will be one QOM/KOM segment with a separate prize awarded to the fastest cyclists on this segment.

There will be an after party with pool, hot tub, music, barbecue, libations and the presentation of awards at 2 pm on October 14th.

Course details and registration link to follow.

We hope to see you all there!

Your friends at C510