We Are Rock n Roll | American Criterium Cup | Director's Cut 2024
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2024
- We Are Rock N Roll, presented by the American Criterium Cup, was produced by Shared Territory, a Colorado-based film company. Over the course of many months, film director Justin Balog, traveled to each of the 2023 season’s 10 ACC events, documenting the cities and teams. This festival-length film features several athletes sharing their love of the sport through discipline, perseverance and sacrifice on the road to victory. Crit racing is fast, technical and an incredible display of sheer power.
ABOUT AMERICAN CRITERIUM CUP
The American Criterium Cup is a multiple-race criterium series that elevates the stature of criterium racing in the United States. The series is led by a group of independent criterium race organizers collaborating with and supported by USA Cycling, with input from professional and domestic teams and athletes. Each event has pledged to execute each with standards of excellence, high production quality, and safety. In addition to individual event purses, the series' organizers have added $100,000 for a series purse to be split equally among men and women. The total available event and series prize purse is over $430,000.
Come see the action first hand at a number of venues across the country. Current series schedule found at americancritcup.com/series-ca... - Sport
I think it's appropriate that I am watching this video while on my indoor trainer 😎.
We'll get out into the wild soon enough!
Superweek footage from 1988 was best!!! Thanks!
Nice work everyone! I love the team stories and the stories of the racers and how they got into it! Keep on crushing!
We need this in Europe! Excellent story - loved watching it.
So glad you liked it. Thanks for watching and taking the time to share your thoughts. Totally appreciate it!
Great film and fun to watch on the trainer! lol
Thanks so much Eric. Hopefully you can get out and do some wild riding soon!
Very cool.. The director is an absolute genius ;)
Awesome content!! Always nice to see American cycling in the spotlight. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much and glad you like the film. We'll do our best to keep sharing the stories of the people share our love of cycling.
Beautiful film.
This is the best series ever, and I always enjoy watching the races. I am looking forward to watching it this year, and I can't wait for it to come back to San Rafel, CA.
San Raphael is a great race because of the crowds course and combative nature of the race when there is a large field
The ACC is #LEGEND! These events put soooooo much into the sport and it's great to see the community turn out for them. Hopefully we will see you at some crits next year!
Well done!
Thanks so much for the watch and sharing the stoke!
Thumbs up!
Thanks much, so stoked you love the sport!
I’m so pumped to race!!!!
Heck yeah!
What an awesome watch, big love from Radelaide Australia!
Thanks so much for the watch and sharing your thoughts. We really appreciate it. Also, thanks for loving cycling. Big Love from the states!
Great film. Would like to know how these guys would do in a sprint against world tour sprinters! Also mad to see helmet cams in such races and on guys well up at finish!
Well done crew 👏
Thank you, we put a lot of love into this sport! These athletes deserve nothing but the best.
Brad is the best. Great job. Miss seeing you at the races.
Brad is a #LEGEND!
Pretty Cool.
Crit racing definitely is!!!
🔥🔥🔥
Back at ya [fire fire fire]
❤🤙🏼
Hearts and shakas back at ya! Thanks for taking the time watch!
Can you guys add a stop in Detroit?? Would love to see that happen (selfishly) LOL. Great video BTW.
Maybe one day!
Great film! Can anyone #zwift get Danny Somerville some equipment while looking after his DAD! Comon #Zwift help the guy out!
Oh now I want to go to Tulsa 🙂.
Come to Boise!
@@johnbeckman492 it's only 13 hours to drive to Tulsa, it's 29 hours to drive to Boise 😀😃. And I'm not flying with a bike. I'm only a cat 4, it wouldn't be worth the trip 🙂.
@@lexington476 come on out! the more the merrier!
Alfredo Bueno
Nice analogy, Brad! But a plain white t-shirt at a gig? I hope you at least tucked it in! ;-)
Mikes bikes
Okay, so crit is Indy 500 on bikes.
Also just had another thought, do these guys and girls just race crits or do they do road races too?
There are very few road races in the USA.
How do an video about crit racing in America and you dont interview Justin or Cory two of most winnest crit racers in the US?
I like what Justin is doing but he doesn’t need the publicity (and may have declined to participate). Glad to see the overall series featured along with lesser known teams and riders.
@@neilashton9459 he doesnt need the publicity hillarious! crit racing will never get beyond being a niche sport with narrow attitudes like that
@@stokeman363 notwithstanding the sport in general can always use some positive exposure, I stand by my statement. Cory and Justin and Legion get a lot of publicity relative to everyone else that races crits or any other genre. And of course they do a great job with socials and Justin is in the Red Bull ecosystem. All these sports docu-series (Drive to Survive, Call of a Lifetime etc) focus on only a subset of participants to keep the narrative moving. What’s a shame is the most media coverage cycling has seen in years was about the Moriah Wilson tragedy. Americans are crushing it in MTB right now but outside of hardcore fans no one knows. Maybe some Olympics success will help?
And no USADA
dang... based off race results, I would never have guessed LA Sweat was that level of "Professional"
Training on a treadmill?!??
I didn’t know that was possible.
And winning races / series! Who knew.
Brad is a goofy
in europe the fastest racers are going racing on road (not criteriums!) and the most powerfull racers are racing on track (and not criterium!). when this video says that Americans have found something they are better than Europeans.... well... well.... and in Europe it is almost impossible to make a career in racing if you are not a decent climber... which takes out many many many powerful racers.
I'm sorry, but Sohner doesn't know or understand the crit racing teams at all. He puts no effort into learning who the key riders and teams are, rather relying on mentioning the Williams bros in every other sentence during a race. He knows about Legion, Blazers and Austin, that's it.
Really? Brad is a constant in US bike racing and got this film made. Guessing he does more for the sport than drop negative comments on videos.
@@neilashton9459 Sorry Neil, it's true. Brad is a decent commentator, but doesn't take the time to learn the teams or riders. Go watch past races he's worked over the years and you'll see what I mean. I believe he made this film as part of an effort to convince/sell his larger media services as a package to different race series in order to showcase he can go beyond just commentating.
@@neilashton9459 Also, I've done plenty for the sport as many have. That's irrelevant here. Hopefully, Brad puts more into learning riders, teams and frankly race tactics in order to provide INSIGHTFUL commentary. Btw, it's not just Brad. I heard Gabe Lloyd the other day and his commentary nearly put me to sleep by being dry and boring, lacking any enthusiasm.
@@joshuaelundberg3333 all very valid points and admittedly I don’t follow crit racing all that closely. That said it seems clear crits have the most spectator appeal and anything that brings some positive publicity is a good thing. Looking forward to Winston Salem in a couple of weeks which is a great crit weekend.
I get it but...... It should have been called women in American Creek racing.
That would be a weird title with all the focus on Danny Summerhill…
Definitely agree with the racers that crits are most spectator friendly but I would add that cyclocross is equally so - just doesn’t fit downtowns unfortunately 🫤