Monthly Archives: April 2008
Tour de Georgia: TT, Mountains, and Wrap-up
I wish I’d been able to do a write up after each of the final four stages, but the time (and wireless internet) just wasn’t there. Wrenching for Marco Polo is a 16 hour day – 6am to 10pm just about everyday. A lot sure did happen though – lots of stories, too many to tell in one sitting! I’m …
Management of Energy (TDG Stages 2 & 3)
Watching a pack of 118 professional bike racers in a peloton from a few cars back is something else. It’s a mass of color washing back and forth across the road; at one moment stretching out length-wise, and the next width-wise. For the first two stages we had a Chinese reporter and cameraman from CCTV following the team around, and …
TdG Stage 1 Ends with Russian Rocket
For better or for worse, a quiet, boring day in the team cars for the mechanics is the best day you can ask for. No troubles with the new groupsets, no slipping handlebars over the 6 sets of choppy railroad tracks, and no flats. Sometimes you may take a look at a rider roster and wonder ‘who the heck is …
Calm before the storm (Tour De Georgia Part 2)
Yesterday was a looooong day. Henk and I worked straight through the day (minus a 90 minute break to get a run in) stripping down the rest of the team bikes and building them up with the new sponsor parts. We don’t have a scale on site, but these bikes are for sure at about 15 lbs, and have very …
BioWheels Ready for Tour de Georgia
Racing? Nope, we’ll be wrenching, with BW-Cincy’s Mitch Graham working for China’s GE-Marco Polo Cycling Team. He flies down to Savannah tomorrow afternoon to join the team and start getting their bikes ready for Stage One on Tybee Island. He’ll be taking photos when possible and relaying stories you most likely won’t find anywhere else except for here. Stay tuned …
PARK(ing) Day- San Francisco
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Portland Considered Most Bicycle-Friendly City in North America
Check out this video & audio piece on Bike in Portland! Gives us a set of goals in Asheville. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/15/portland_considered_most_bicycle_friendly_city For many, Portland is a haven of green-friendly urban planning. It recently topped Popular Science‘s list of the Greenest Cities in the United States. A big part of that is bikes. Portland is widely considered the most bicycle-friendly city …
The Traveling Circus
We made the drive down from Atlanta this morning to the Tour de Georgia start on Tybee Island, just south of Savannah, GA. The guys got out for a short ride while Henk and I surveyed and organized the work before us. Nine Trek Madones, all getting new Red groupos, new Aerolus wheelsets,…. and just two days to get it …
UPGRADE FOR OVCX’s BioWheels/United Dairy Farmers CYCLOCROSS
UCI Elevates Cincinnati Area Race to C-1 Status FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2008; Conshohocken, PA, USA: “Harbin Park’s a C-1, baby!” That’s how Mitch Graham, promoter of the annual BioWheels/United Dairy Farmers Cyclocross in suburban Cincinnati Ohio, announced that the UCI had granted an upgrade for the race. Last year’s C2 race drew a who’s who of North American …
