Announcement: Race For A Cure

 

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Race For A Cure 2024
Ride Against Cancer
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Presented by the Second Life Cycling Federation (SLCF).
All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society, Relay For Life of Second Life.

The event is open from 6th to 20th January 2024, at the SLCF Alpine road circuit.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Breakaway/214/144/1999

Make your 2024 #RelayFirstLap on a virtual bike!

Entry to the event is by payment to the official RFL Kiosk at the Event Registration table.
The suggested donation for entry is L$ 100

Please feel free to make further donations to the cause, every L$ makes a difference :)
Many of us will encounter cancer in our lives or our loved ones, so help us to raise money for valuable research. Join in with us to Race For A Cure!
Also take a look at the Event Merchandise vendors to get special edition bikes, souvenirs and apparel.
100% of everything you donate or pay to an event vendor goes directly to the American Cancer Society charity.

How To Join In :
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To enter you must be using an official SLCF racing bike, which is FREE.
To get your own bike, go into the SLCF building opposite the Event Registration table and click the signs at the display bike on the plinth.
The 1st sign gives a link to join our Group (free), join it, then the 2nd sign will give the bike.
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Buy the custom Event bikes pack from the ACS vendor
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Click the Guest Bike Rezzer which will lend you a bike to do some laps :)

Timetable :
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6th January -  1pm SLT - EVENT LAUNCH
Join us for your first lap of 2024!  We will have a  #RelayFirstLap  gathering.
We all do a few laps together to kick off the new Relay year!

6th to 20th January - Fastest Laps Challenge
After the Event Launch, the circuit opens for the Fastest Laps Challenge.
This is open 24 hours a day for the duration of the event until 20th January.
Make as many laps as you want, practice the route to try to improve your lap time!
The best 100 avatars times are recorded on the scoreboard near the start line.

20th January - Race Event - Starts at 1pm SLT
The event will culminate in a Race event.
Attendees will be divided into Qualifier races, then on to Finals for the top placed riders.
After the racing session will be the Podium awards ceremony.
Trophies will be awarded to the top 5 in the race Final, and the top 5 Fastest Laps.
After the podium, all entries can also collect a memento trophy of the event.

Contacts :
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Should you have questions :
SLCF Directors :        Atomic Infinity (Claire)
                                Meiica Mermaid
                                Alistar Snook
ACS Representative : Sandie Loxingly (Sandie Slate)

EOTB: "Cycling Made In Second Life"

 

 

 On Tuesday October 2, Linden Lab would post on it's blog about the Second Life Cycling Federation. They would talk to it's owner, Alixtar Snook, as well as have Draxtor Despress do a video.

“Bill Jobs founded The Second Life Cycling Federation (SLCF) in early 2021 to promote cycle racing in Second Life. One of Bill’s tracks was the alpine road at Breakaway region, in association with the Chamonix sports event complex.

Scripter and SL content creator Claire had been racing in the group for a while when she offered to help Bill re-script his basic bike in a more optimized way. 

Bill is absent from SL now, but we did not want his SLCF creation to fade away so in January 2023 we began to rebuild the Federation.

Claire made a new bike using some of Bill’s previous bike mesh, and added many new features.

The SLCF group is free to join. We hold races usually Saturdays 2pm SLT and of course provide free bikes.

We modify the track route each week - sometimes at Breakaway, and sometimes we get invited to visit other roads and tracks like Hell On Heels group at Bikers Bay, at LC Racing Circuits, and the Rebel Riders group.

There is a Fastest Lap challenge that is open all week, then we race that road at the weekend. It is easy to get started, but harder to master than you might expect!

Some people are very competitive and practice a lot to win, and others just ride for fun and to make new friends.

The group has events every week. The Newser would write twice about the Cycling Federation in March and April 2021. 

 

To read the blog post in full, click here.

The SLCF's Second Life World Road Championship

  

Last month, we got a reader-submitted article about an event by the Second Life Cycling Federation. A few days ago, there was another event, the Second Life World Road Championship. This is an event the bicyclists hold every two months. Rosie (RougeRedHead01 Resident) was there, but not just to see who won. She also found out a little about the event and the cyclists.

Read Rosie's story in Events.
   

Reader Submitted: International Women’s Day Cycling Criterium

 

Yesterday, the Newser reported on a discussion at JardenAlexis's Premier Business Center about International Women's Day. But this wasn't the only event going on about the day. On Monday March 8, there was a bicycling event in honor of the day. Six women would do a ten lap race on their bicycles, organized by the Second Life Cycling Federation. One of the bikers, Claire (Atomic Infinity) would write a personal account.

Read Claire's reader submission in Events.