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We are pleased to have
Carousel Volkswagen back
as
the Title Sponsor for the 2010 Carousel Volkswagen Jingle Cross Rock for
the 4th consecutive year.
Located
at 809 Highway 1 on the southern edge of Iowa City,
Carousel Volkswagen is
Iowa's largest Volkswagen dealer. If you're looking for quality
new and
used Volkswagens,
you've come to the right place.
Their on-line inventory is updated
daily, so be sure to check back often if you have a particular VW in
mind. Be sure to
let them know by following this link
if there's any way they c an serve your automotive needs in the meantime. After all, they're here to help.
Look at some of their exciting new 2009 selections during your
stay in Iowa City as Carousel
Volkswagen will be on-site at the Jingle Cross with several
of their beautiful new vehicles. The race organizers of the Carousel
Volkswagen Jingle Cross Rock would like to thank Pat Lind and all of the
great people at Carousel
Volkswagen for helping our kids and the Children's Hospital of Iowa.
Stop by Carousel Volkswagen and see why these guys are Number 1 on
Highway 1!
Simply
put,
Scheels
is Iowa's largest sporting goods store. With every imaginable indoor and
outdoor recreational activity,
Scheels has it all. Located in the Coral Ridge Mall
and many other areas around the Midwest,
Scheels
continues to support many events in Eastern Iowa including our Jingle
Cross Rock. Their cycling department has bikes, tubes, tires, clothing,
and accessories to handle any type of bike and cycling need you have.
Scheels
has provided awesome race-day mechanical support
to our riders free of charge many years. We are excited to have
Scheels
on board for the sixth year as a sponsor Jingle Cross Rock and now they
are the Presenting Sponsor for 2010. And remeber, these guys go
way way way beyond the bike. If its sporting goods, its here! So visit
them over this holiday weekend to get all of your friends the best in
sporting goods for the holidays!
They
did the X Games...they did the Vancouver Olympics...They do it all! Whatever
your sports or event lighting need,
Musco
Lighting has the solution. A leader in developing sports-lighting
technology — including solutions for permanent and temporary lighting,
and sports facility management — Musco offers innovative systems, a
comprehensive package of services and decades of experience. Since 1976,
Musco Lighting
has specialized
in the design and manufacture of systems for lighting recreation and
athletic fields. From neighborhood ball fields to NASCAR superspeedways
to the fast-paced world of sports broadcasting and the entertainment
industry, Musco’s team can state: “We Make It
Happen.” Musco will POWER the Jingle Cross on Friday Night,
November 26th! Once again, the Jingle Cross is POWERED by Musco!
The
Iowa City - Coralville Sports
Authority is a great supporter of countless community events. This is the
5th year the
Iowa City-Coralville
Convention and Visitors Bureau
has helped with the Jingle Cross Rock. The new Sports Bureau, the
Sports
Authority, has been instrumental in advertising the Jingle Cross in the past. Look for the Sports Authority to keep bringing marquee
sporting events to Eastern Iowa in the future. These folks really rock! Thanks
to the Sports Authority, the Jingle Cross has gained National
notoriety.
Casey’s
General Stores owns
and operates over 1,400 convenience stores in nine Midwestern states:
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South
Dakota, and Wisconsin. Their conveniently located stores supply quality
self-service gasoline, made-from-scratch pizza & donuts, sandwiches, hot
& cold beverages, grocery items, and
a
whole lot more! Founded in 1959,
Casey's grew from a single convenience store in Des Moines, Iowa and
expanded to a second store in Boone, Iowa 9 years later. This second
store was the first one named Casey's and they quickly grew from there. We are thrilled to have one of Iowa's most amazing
success stories here once again at the Jingle Cross.
Please be sure to thank the great folks at Casey's when you gas up your car and grab
your snacks on the way to the Jingle Cross. Oh...and after the Jingle
Cross, make sure you try their pizza...it's outta this world!
Bruce
Grell, owner of
Healthy Habits Nutrition and Bicycles, is one of those unique
cycling enthusiast who has been able to combine his passion for cycling
with his livelihood.
Healthy Habits has always been a great sponsor of many cycling
events in Eastern Iowa including the famed Quad Cities Criterium which
has been on the National Racing Calendar several times. This store
caters to all cyclists with a wide variety of cycling products from
entry level bikes to high performance racing machines. Healthy Habits
and the DICE cycling team put on an incredible cross series in the Quad
Cities area. We are excited to have Healthy Habits here again for the
fifth year sponsoring the Jingle Cross! Check out their great store at
3441 Devil's Glen Road in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Geoff's
Bike and Ski is a racing and recreational bike and ski shop with familiar faces.
South of downtown Iowa
City at 816 South Gilbert, Geoff and his crew are the official Bike Shop
for the Men's and Women's Mercy-Specialized Elite Cycling Team and the
Iowa City Cycling Club. Geoff has been one of the biggest supporters of the Jingle Cross Rock every
year since the beginning. Geoff will also be helping us with the course
construction this year by providing his armada of trucks and support
vehicles to help construct this year's venue. Please stop by Geoff's
booth at the Jingle Cross Cycling Showcase to thank him for all his
years of support.

Another one of our local guys has gone into
business for himself with
Sugar Bottom Bikes. Jon Yetley has an awesome bike shop on Main
Street in North Liberty. Jon is a seasoned mechanic with years of great
experience at fixing everything under the Iowa sun.
Sugar Bottom Bikes has a
great inventory of Fuji, Diamondback, and Bianchi bikes.
Take a look at these outstanding cross bikes while at the Jingle Cross
and then stop by in North Liberty at the corner of Dubuque and Main and
thank Jon for his support of the Jingle Cross for the 4th consecutive
year.
World
of Bikes is one of Iowa City's longest standing bike shops. Located
at 723 South Gilbert in Iowa City, they have an outstanding team of bike
mechanics and these guys really specialize in service. Now in their 35th
year of business,
World of Bikes carries Giant
and Trek frames as well as a complete line-up of all kinds of cycling
accessories. If you can't make it to the store, check out their on-line
catalog on their
website. Ryan and the
rest of the World of Bikes team are well known for the magic they can
spin fixing your cycling machine. This is the fifth year World of
Bikes has sponsored this event and they will be bringing us
the men's beginner event for the whole weekend.
New
in 2008, we are very excited to have another great bike shop in Iowa
and they are back for the Jingle Cross again in 2010. Craig at
Bikes To You in Grinnell, Iowa
is well known to the racers around the state and has been sponsoring one
of the top teams all year. Additionally, Craig has a keen interest in
growing the sport of cycling and has been devoting a tremendous amount
of time and effort to our developing Junior riders. That's why Craig has
jumped at the opportunity Craig to sponsor our Junior riders again in this
year's Bikes To You Junior events. He has also been the mechanic to some
of the top riders in the European peloton. Grinnell, Iowa is less than an
hours drive from the Jingle Cross Race Course so please stop by and see
Craig for your cycling needs.

The
Bicyclists of Iowa
City (BIC) was founded in 1976. Originally a small group of
passionate individuals, the club has since grown to over 300 members
from and around the Iowa City Metropolitan area. Primarily located in
Johnson County, Iowa, with a 2007 estimated population of 125,692. the
club has become locally and regionally known and recognized by cyclists
and members of the community as a prime source for cycling advocacy.
This great organization is donating time AND money to help make the
Jingle Cross a success. We thank this important advocacy group and
appreciate all of the amazing support they give both our event, but also
(and more importantly) all of the crucial work they do in the region for
cycling advocacy!
Computer
Solutions is an Iowa City based firm that has been a leading
independent provider of multi-vendor computer products and services from
world-class companies like Cisco, Compaq, HP,
Xiotech and Microsoft.
Computer Solutions will develop
custom solutions to help businesses adapt their IT infrastructure to
today's fast changing digital environment.
Computer Solutions offers One
Call Solutions in system sales and procurement, network analysis, IP
Telephony, security and firewall systems, wireless and our One Call
Partner Service Agreements. Few companies today can offer the benefits
Computer Solutions brings to the
client relationship: One Call convenience, One Call flexibility, One
Call efficiency and One Call savings. Look for
Computer Solutions founder Nate
Van Der Weide to be racing again this year. He
raced his first cyclocross race at the
Jingle Cross many years ago and loved racing so much, he pledged to be a supporter of this
event for years to come. Please visit their website to learn what
Computer Solutions can do for you and your business.
Oh..and Nate is also the President of BIC so this guy gives tons of his
effort to cycling!
A
couple of very familiar faces in Iowa cycling circles, Steve and Cody,
have gone into
business on their own and have formed the newest bike
store in Eastern Iowa, 30th Century Bicycle.
Located at 310 E Prentiss St in Iowa City, 30th Century is a very unique
store which specializes in sales and service of new and used bikes. More
amazing, they buy old bikes and take trade ins! That is why 30th Century
Bicycle is so different from any other bicycle store in the Midwest and
a visit to their shop is a must for the cycling enthusiast! Steve and
Cody are sponsoring all 3 days of the Women's beginner's race this year
at the 2010 Jingle Cross Rock!
Our
longest consecutive sponsor, 2010 marks the 7th consecutive year
that MidWest One Bank has sponsored the Jingle Cross making them our
most dedicated and community oriented partner in bringing this amazing
race to you. Formerly
Iowa State Bank & Trust, Mid West One Bank is the premier bank here in Eastern Iowa and
offers full-service banking at six branch locations in Iowa City,
Coralville, North liberty, and West Liberty. They also have an excellent
Home Loan Center in Iowa City (that's where I got my home loan!!!).
Mid West
One Bank
is THE official bank of the Jingle Cross Rock.
Fast
Wax joined the Jingle Cross for the first time in 2007 to help bring our
Masters 55+ riders into the mix. Dan Meyer, one of the creative geniuses
behind
Fast Wax, is an accomplished Masters cyclist and has come all the
way from Minnesota to sponsor this event and help our Children's
Hospital once again. You will find many cyclists train using cross
country skiing in the winter in their "off season."
Fast Wax offers skiing
solutions for every ski event in every ski condition.
Fast Wax maintains
an uncompromising mission: a simplified glide wax system offering top
quality products at reasonable prices and broad temperature ranges that
create superior performance in changing conditions to guarantee fast
skis.
G4
Sports Marketing is an Iowa based sports marketing firm and bike dealership that specializes in the Elite
frames. Mark Guthart,
the brains behind G4, has sponsored the Jingle Cross Rock since the
beginning of the race 2004 and is an outstanding USAC race official. He also puts on the infamous Old Capital
Criterium and, I am proud to say, is our
Registration and Results Director for the 2010 Jingle Cross Rock. Those of us in Eastern Iowa have learned
that Mark is the most well organized official you could ever have at
cycling event.
Whether
your workouts or races last an hour or two, or a week or two, Hammer
Nutrition has the fuels your body craves. You can completely and
perfectly fulfill your pre, during, and post-workout requirements from
their line of fuels. Founded in 1987, Hammer has been supplying athletes
at every level and has kept them going while the others are slowing. See
their website at
www.hammernutrition.com for their incredible line of great tasting
energy fuels. Try some of their products at this year's Jingle Cross.
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