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Team Type 1 Chadwick victorious at Tour of Arkansas stage
Team Type 1’s Glen Chadwick soloed to victory on the opening stage of the inaugural Tour of Arkansas Thursday while his teammate, Moises Aldape, finished third. Chadwick won the “Epic Road Race,” a 110-mile (177 km) race that featured 10,592 feet of climbing. In doing so, he scored his first victory of the season and the seventh win of the year for Team Type 1. “Chaddy really wanted this one,” Team Type 1 Sport Director Ed Beamon said of the sixth-year pro from New Zealand. “We rode the climb for him so he was really the only guy who wasn’t on the front today.”
Spot Brand buys Maverick American
Spot Brand, best known for the belt drivetrain it introduced last year, has acquired Maverick American, a mountain bike and suspension company founded in 1999 by Paul Turner and Frank Vogel. Frank Scurlock, co-owner and VP of operations of Spot Brand Bicycles, confirmed the purchase this week. Scurlock along with a tight-knit owner-management group, purchased the Spot Brand in 2006. The company, based in Golden, Colorado, made waves at the Interbike tradeshow with a belt-driven bicycle drivetrain called Carbon Drive, a product developed in conjunction with Gates Rubber.
Penn State fan at ECCC Championships
Penn State fan at ECCC Championships
Tour of Atlanta, a first-year event, set to begin May 22
The highly anticipated Tour of Atlanta, May 22nd through the 26th, is less than two weeks away from its first event. This inaugural stage race will feature 7 stages in 5 days in, and around, the Atlanta area. The stages provide an exciting mix of time trials, criteriums, and road races to allow racers of all types with a chance to excel and win stages. The most unique aspect to this event will be the street sprints on the first day of racing. The time bonuses awarded for the street sprints may turn out to be the difference between winning and losing the general classification.
Me & JJ after his stage 2 win in Augusta
Me & JJ after his stage 2 win in Augusta
Hmmm….SCOTT meets Ferrari…oh well.
Hmmm....SCOTT meets Ferrari...oh well.
Brooks releases special edition saddle to benefit bicycle film festival
Brooks England announces collaboration with the New York City Bicycle Film Festival with the release of a limited edition Swallow. Only one hundred special Swallow models, manufactured with British racing green leather and each bearing an authentic serial number of authenticity, will be available to the public. Proceeds from sales will benefit the 8th annual Bicycle Film Festival which runs from May 28th through June 1st (www.bicyclefilmfestival.com ).
Teams announced for Priority Health Tour de Leelanau
The 2008 Priority Health Tourde Leelanau will be lead by a record participation of 17 teams in the Men’s field and 11 teams in the Women’s field and will take place on Sunday, May 25th, 2008. The Men’s race will include the Bissell Pro Cycling Team of defending champion Garrett Peltonen, who is looking to repeat in a race that is very important to their Grand Rapids, Michigan based sponsor. Bissell has been on a hot streak recently, winning stages at the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico and the Joe Martin Stage race in Arkansas as well as leading the