What a great weekend of racing. It started with the Portland Twilight on Friday, the Sunset Crit and Callahan’s Challenge TT on Saturday and the OBRA TT on Sunday.
News
Evan Elken will be out in Downer’s Grove this weekend while Omer Kem will be battling it out in the Tour of Utah. Best of luck to the both of you. Also, Brad Ross and Chad Sperry are also down there as they are helping run the show!
Unfortunately, Roman van Uden broke his collarbone on Friday night riding home from the race and will be missing out on Utah. Heal up quick Roman!
Rubicon/Orbea also announced a new sponsor for their team. Land Rover has joined up as a sponsor.
Jonathan posted a nice little recap of the Twilight Crit along with a farewell to Dougie.
Talk about moves, Brian Witty- one of our favorite Cross Crusade guys moved to Germany. Best of luck Witty!
MissingSaddle is sporting a spiffy new look.
National Racing
Brighthouse Networks Marion Classic 8/9
1 Steven Howard (Bissell Pro Cycling Team)
17 Morgan Schmitt (Bissell Pro Cycling Team)
33 Graham Howard (Bissell Pro Cycling Team)
Brighthouse Networks Marion Classic 8/10
1 Morgan Schmitt (Bissell Pro Cycling)
7 Graham Howard (Bissell Pro)
TransRockies 1- full results
Men
4 Andreas Hestler (Can) / Chris Sheppard (Can) Rocky Mountain
5 Keith Hickerson (USA) / Evan Plews (USA) Scott USA/ Tamarack
(If recognizes anyone else in the results, shoot me an e-mail)
Portland Twilight- full results
1 Stephen “Geronimo” Kincaid, Rite Aid
2 Kyle Gritters, Health Net/Maxxis
3 David Richter, Benaroya Research Institute
4 Aaron Tuckerman, Jelly Belly
5 Evan Elken, Jittery Joe’s
Blogs
New blog: Chris Parrish
Check out this new MTB frame named the “Grundig” from Veloforma. DROOL.
Ironclad posts about Portland Twilight and Sunset Crit. Thar be a classic quote by Candi in there.
Brian Barker also reports from the Twilight Crit and the Sunset Crit.
Here’s Derwyn Harris’ Twilight report.
Sam Johnson has been stressing his host’s dog out and is unfortunately DQ’ed from a race he won for doing something REALLY cavemanish.
Ivar’s blog sports a new look and he’s spotted making cookies.
Erik V. posts a race report of the two crits this weekend and also posts a report on the status of the OBRA Uphill TT Championship venue.
Tony Kic finds the rug of his dreams.
Sue Bulter rides the 2nd annual RAMHOOD.
