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February 26, 2025 • 10 mins
The Aksarben Tirc coming to Aksarben Village
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our friends over at Alma Sports Commission are always doing
so many great things that are helping us not just
know about what's going on in sports and giving us
events to either participate in or to watch, but we
also have an awesome opportunity for you to be a
part of something really special in the world of biking
and here to talk to us about that. We got
a couple of special guests. First off, we got Ravi

(00:22):
Raj Kumar rab thanks so much for being on the
show today.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, good afternoon. Great to be here, all right.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
And then I got Tdy Magner here, and I'm under
the impression Ti that the biking is really what you're
interested in here.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's exciting to be here though and talk about it.
All right, So let's go ahead. This race is called
the Exarbon Turk and it's a krit, which is another
word that I think we need to to So I'm
gonna let Ravi you're gonna do an opportunity. What's the
Exarbon Turk and what's a crit and how do bikes
get involved in with this all?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
We'll start with the easy stuff. Criteria is a French
word and krit is the short version of that there
you go. Check and what it really means. It's a
short track, closed course for bike races, so multiple laps
on a short circuit. We like to call it the
formula one of a bike racing criterions and then Turk
playing off the Exarbon thing is crit backwards. All roads

(01:13):
lead to the Turk. So that's what we're talking about here.
And the race date is going to be an Exarbon
Village on Saturday, May seventeenth.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
May seventeenth, So, I mean it feels pretty awesome. Ty.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm sure you're looking outside and you're just like, okay,
so where's my bike right now? But so so explain
kind of the you know, as a pro, who does this?
How is this different than what we see like the
Tour de France guys in the mountains in France, you
know as they move along, and then also the guys
on that little short crazy track that they do in

(01:44):
the Olympics, and what is this bike racing? How is
this different in terms of its style and its feel,
especially for spectators.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, it's a kind of a.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Perfect mix between those two actually, because a Tour de
France is much much much longer, and then what you
see in the Olympics. It's called track race and it's
on a belodrome. This is typically only an hour long
to an hour and a half long, and you do
a certain number of laps and it's very spectator friendly
and it's very fast, and it's it's just easily digestible

(02:14):
as a fan.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's really cool to have the idea that this is
a thing. It kind of reminds me like maybe more
nascar ish than.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Exactly it's like NASCAR, it's like motocross, supercross.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's really good for an American audience, to be honest.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, and it's really sweet. You're wearing the shirt and
the logo is just awesome. It's like the guy on
a bike, but the bike is like superimposed into a
horse like Zarbin.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
You know the history there. It was just really cool.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
So so Robbie, when I look at what the event
itself or a spectator is going to be, like, what
kind of like how many cyclists are we going to
be seeing here? And what does the kind of I
think of Zarbi and I'm thinking of the Zarbon village
down there by the un O campus and all of that.
What's the kind of you know, course going to look
like when we get there in May.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, yeah, great question, And you got the spot right.
The Xarbant Village is where that it's a happening spot
and we actually were just walking in and taking a
look at that course today. It's a little bit over
just over a mile of the circuit and each race
does multiple laps. It starts earlier in the day with
a race starting at two o'clock and as the day
goes on, the ability levels get better. So we start

(03:20):
with you know, more average bike riders like myself or
a master category, and then it culminates in the evening
with the pro men and women's race. That tie is
a part of. We expect about five hundred athletes racing
there all day and there's something for everyone. There's food,
there's kids races, there's music. We'll probably have a DJ.
It'll be a lot of fun and the community gets
to come out and see what high speed, super fun

(03:42):
bike racing.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Is all about and what an awesome idea. And our
friend Lindsay Tucson Brown, who of course we've had on
the show multiple times from Omaha Sports Commission, always thinking
of different things outside the box that you know, like
we can bring to Omaha.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Ty As, you've had a lot of success in here.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Can you talk about your own personal perspective on stuff
like this, like how'd you get into being a pro
biker and how did you find like criteria where these
crits is like your kind of perfect medium of you know,
doing what you love to do, but also how friendly
it is for the spectators to be a part of
a big party.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
I mean, long story short. I raced in Europe for
a long time and then would basically do criterions on
the side when I would be here in the States.
I came back from your post COVID and went full
time as a criit racer, as I say, and it's
really it's an amazing way to live your life.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
You can travel throughout the country and you go to
these towns.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
I've never been to Omaha before, and now now I'm
here because of Mike Racing, and I think that's super
cool that you get to see parts of America that
you would never see and I get to see them
because of Mike Racing.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I love that we're speaking with Ti Magner and Ravi
Raj Kumar, who are both here and promoting this event
that is happening in a few months, but you're doing
a lot of prep for it now. As a biker,
what are you looking for? What did you think of
the area down there? How is this on a challenge
scale for you versus maybe some of the stuff that

(05:07):
you've done before.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, it's up there. It's going to be a pretty
technical course. It's a lot of turns, it's gonna be
pretty tight. It's going to be really interesting, and it's
going to be great for spectating. The fans can expect
super high speeds. They can definitely expect crashes, which people
love them. But you know, the riders hate it, but
it's part of it for us, and the fans kind

(05:30):
of love it. So yeah, there will be all of that,
and then it's right down where it seems like there's
a lot of bars down there, and it's really it's
an awesome spot for a race. And then for the
pro races there'll be at night right, which is very interesting.
You know, we're racing under lights, so it's a pretty
cool thing to see.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's so cool to even think about this. And I
was actually just running my greyhound. Me and my greyhound
were actually running down there. I don't know if you
guys were there at the same time that we were.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Saw you run by. I saw a greyhound run by.
That was me. Yeah, it's crazy, ye was that? Yeah? Yeah,
I'm like, greyhound would love to just run on the track.
I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
But the bikes are something interesting, Robbie, as we talk
about this is a sport, bicycling that has so many disciplines.
I was enthralled by the mountain biking the Olympics. I'm sure,
I'm sure ty you You're like just such an idea.
I've never seen anything like that before, and I was
just like, how fun would it be just to kind
of slowly be able to try to do this, you know,
as a very amateur biker. What about this type of

(06:26):
event brings out people? Besides maybe the crashes and the
chances of injury for some of these guys, but the
entertainment level that people can get from a crit like
this It's coming to Axarpment Village.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah. We like to think that the criterion is that
uniquely American form of bike racing. It's fast, it's easy
to get to. It's an urban downtown settings. You roll
out of your you know, your your condo, your downtown apartment.
You can see it. There's bars and restaurants. It's high energy,
high music, so super easy. There's not a bad super
easy to see and have fun with. There's not a
bad place on the course to check it out.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's so fun. Now, how Omaha? You know, he said,
you haven't been to Omaha taie before. You've been to Europe.
You've been to a lot of different places, and I
know you haven't gotten the full Omaha experience quite yet.
But as far as Omaha is concerned, so far, what
do you think of far?

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
I think it's awesome. Yeah, we're cruising, uh, cruising up
the hill here and I was like, this is beautiful.
We could have another crit right here and this is Dundee.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
I was like, man, maybe in a few years do
one down there and one up here, and then do
another one somewhere else in the city. And I didn't
really understand the like the rich sports history that Omaha has.
I'd always heard about the road to Omaha with the College
World Series. Sure I grew up playing baseball, but yeah,
I guess I didn't really understand it. So I think
having that rich history is going to be pretty vital

(07:44):
for the for the crypt.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well and the idea of you know, like what's the
longest crit Like, what's about the longest The.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Longest one you do would be two hours, and this
one will be seventy five minutes.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I believe. Okay, is it like Rabbi?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Is it one of those things where you just go
as long as you can or as many as you
can and you just figure out who the winner is?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Like how does the actual race thing work?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah? Yeah, the group starts together as a mass start,
you know, the probably about one hundred athletes there. Wow,
And we know that we convert that time to lapse
so that that might end up being a sixty lap
race something like that. So it's going to be a
lot of laps high speed, you know, Tie when he's
leading out that sprint to win. At the end in
the race, he's going to be you know, nearly forty
miles an hour. I mean, it's super fast fast.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
So just to wrap this conversation up, because honestly, I
could accidentally talk about this for a couple hours because
I'm just so so for people like myself and you
you're a professional at this and you've won what national
championships too, right, I mean, like you're really successful somebody
like me who's like kind of interested in cycling and
I watch it on TV and I see some of
the big races. How would you in a town like

(08:46):
ours that we have, you know, and you're seeing kind
of the landscape and you're always thinking about the biking
part of it, with these great parks, in these great trails,
what would be the best way for somebody to get started?
And what would be some advice that you'd give to
some aspiring you know, cyclists who want to do this
as a full time thing.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, I think reaching out to we were we had
somebody there at the press conference say Mark Mark. Yeah,
he's he just kind of seems like a local legend
around here. And I think having those local legends within
the community that people can reach out to and learn
about group rides. He puts on a Tuesday night crit
every once in a while, which is amazing. Yeah, And

(09:21):
it's just a local version of what you're going to
see in in May, you know, it's and it's a
very easy way to get into the sport and just
finding the community around it and then going on in
group rides and just asking questions and being open to
learning about it.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Well, what's awesome is you guys going to be in
a spot there's gonna be a ton of people who
may not even know that this is going to happen,
and they're going to run into it and they're going
to be like, oh, I want to stick around exactly.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, Like this is going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Right next to the campus, the college campus, right next
to the biggest park in town is going to be
super fun.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
So Robb, I'll let you get the last word here.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
How can people learn more about this and how can
they make sure to put this on their calendars they
don't miss it.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, first come on down on me sep. Teenth and
come check it out and you can take a look
at the Xarben on Socialsxarbin Turk on all the shows.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, and Turk by the way, t I r C.
That's how you're gonna find the turk. Yeah, the turk,
the exarbon Turk, and the shirts are the logo of
the shirt, like, I gotta get me one of those.
And our friends at the Oma Sports Commission, I'm sure
we're going to have more hype of around that as
we move forward toward May. But RAVI, Ty, this was fantastic.
Thank you so much for being in the studio with
us today. I cannot wait. I will be there. It's

(10:28):
going to be an awesome time, of course.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Man, thanks for having then bring the Greyhound.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh yeah, the Greyhound is going to be a we
give They got a need for speed too, I tell
you what. Three twenty eight we'll come back. We get
another special guest from our own Omaha. Supernova is joining
us in the next half hour here on news radio
eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Emrie Sunger on news radio eleven ten KFAB
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