{"id":17054,"date":"2016-06-22T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=17054"},"modified":"2016-06-22T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T20:42:54","slug":"two-events-in-one-night-close-out-june-at-valley-preferred-cycling-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=17054","title":{"rendered":"Two events in one night close out June at Valley Preferred Cycling Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TREXLERTOWN, Pa. \u2013 The Mike Walter Madison and the U.S. Women\u2019s Open are both great events which create buzz by themselves. This year they are combined for one spectacular night.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night is the Mike Walter Madison and the U.S. Women\u2019s Open at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center as the first night without UCI points on the line in the 2016 World Series of Bicycling season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mike Walter Madison and the U.S. Women\u2019s Open are both outstanding events,\u201d VPCC Executive Director Marty Nothstein said. \u201cAs we are getting closer to the Olympics, we want to provide our riders the best tests for them as they ramp up their training for the games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mike Walter Madison is a 100-lap event, which will be the final event of the evening. A few favorites are members of the Maloja Pushbikers, Marcel Kalz and Christian Grasmann. The two, who are from Germany, are Six-Day champions and have extensive experience in the event.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Women\u2019s Open is a night which brings the female riders more into the spotlight. The evening\u2019s program will be filled with high-caliber events for the ladies. Kim Geist of Emmaus, Pennsylvania is the defending U.S. Women\u2019s Open champion.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the racing, it is German Night in T-town. VPCC is hosting ArtsQuest for the evening with plenty of fun on tap. One of the many perks of the evening is the usage of any Musikfest beer mug at the Beer and Wine Stand. Fans can get any Musikfest mug filled up for just $7 at the Beer &amp; Wine Stand.<\/p>\n<p>The German fun will spill over into the intermissions as well with barrel rolling and a beer stein race for prizes. For the kids, there is a coloring contest as well with the winner receiving a pair of admission tickets to the Crayola Factory in Easton, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Gates open at 6 p.m. with racing getting underway at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#ttown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Trumbauer<br \/>\nPR\/Communications Assistant<br \/>\nValley Preferred Cycling Center<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[1153,3123,3126,3127,3128,1964,3124,1963,3125,2012,2011],"class_list":["post-17054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2","tag-artsquest","tag-crayola-factory","tag-german-night","tag-maloja-pushbikers","tag-marcel-kalz","tag-marty-nothstein","tag-mike-walter-madison","tag-ttown","tag-u-s-womens-open","tag-valley-preferred-cycling-center","tag-world-series-of-bicycling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Madison_2015.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}