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Chavanel with Cunego - can he withstand the attacks on his jersey on Ventoux today?

Sven Beer (Branson High) cuts through the cake batter

Carolina Gomez Villafane (Los Gatos) on her way to winning in JV.

Tyler Giger (Salinas High) makes an early departure from the beach party

Nate Byrom (Nevada-Union) keeps the weight back and low

Lake Folsom set the backdrop of the NorCal High School Mountain Bike League’s second race of the series on March 9th. Although the water level was low this year, making the space for the crisp blue lake almost half empty, the day brought with it a half-full kind of spirit as racers proved once again that they are full of determination, character, and sportsmanship.

Portland International Raceway (PIR) is usually filled with racecars roaring around the track. On Monday nights in the summer, hundreds of cyclists will take over PIR as Lakeside Bicycles Monday Night Races kicks off its 12th season. “Bicycle racing continues to grow at PIR, and we see new racers each year trying it out,” said series organizers Jim Anderson, “We are adding clinics for novice women who want to see what the sport is all about, in hopes of seeing a growth in the women's fields. Also, with the addition of the track

Rams Cycling continues to climb to the top of the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference with outstanding results at the University of New Mexico Lobo Classic and Metro State/Denver University Time Trial and Criterium.

Team ODI/Southridge/Turner has signed both David 'K' and Brad Oein to race this season. Brad Oein had a great '07 season, winning the Golden State Championships in Jr.x and Qualifying to race at the World Championship in Scotland ... Now training in Austalia for the winter, you can expect to see plenty of top place finishes from this proven DH racer upon his Turner DHR race bike. His racing schedule has him back in the states just in time to race the first National race in Fontana CA.

Health Net's John Murphy at the Tour of Taiwan.

Gilbert soloed to his second career Het Volk victory on Shimano’s 7850-SL tubeless road wheel and Hutchinson’s Fusion 2 tubeless road tire.

The bike world is mourning the death of Dick Burke, the founder of Trek Bicycle Corp., who died Monday evening at age 73. Burke founded the company during the 1970s bike boom, when he and his partners saw a need for high-end U.S.-made bikes. The company's first factory was in a red barn in Waterloo, Wisconsin and the company still makes many of its bikes in Wisconsin.

Memorials are being planned for the two cyclists killed on a training ride Sunday in California. A memorial service for Matt Peterson will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant Street, San Francisco. Friends are planning a memorial ride Saturday afternoon in honor of Peterson and Kristy Gough. The ride will leave from Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, at 2:30 More details: http://rememberingmatt.blogspot.com

Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team adds Mexican National Time Trial Championship to List of Victories. Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team kicked off the first racing week in March with Jose Manuel “Chepe” Garcia winning the Mexican National Time Trial Championship. The victory will go a long way to assist “Chepe” in making the Mexican Olympic team that will be racing in Beijing this summer.

The Superdrome at Frisco, Texas, proudly announces their racing schedule for the 2008 season. This year sees the return of the Richardson Bike Mart Superdrome Points Series (SPS), the Moritz Sprint Series, the Matrix Cup, Texas Cup races, a Masters Regional, an Elite National Qualifier and Collegiate Conference racing. The Superdrome Development Program encourages youth participation in the sport by including heats for junior racers during each of the SPS events. For 2008 we will also introduce a series of skills clinics taught by National track racing champions.

Fuji Bicycles is proud to announce its sponsorship of Seamus McGrath, top Canadian mountain bike racer. He will be racing and training on Fuji bikes exclusively during this Olympic year. He joins Fuji teammates Austrian National XC Champion Christophe Soukup and German U23 National Champion Robert Mennen for the European World Cup circuit, as well as pro cross-country races in North America.

To tape or not to tape, that is the question.
Whether 'tis faster on the rim to suffer
The goops and globs of outrageous Tubasti,
Or to take Tufo against a sea of glue stains,
And by taping end them?

Peterson won the category 4 race with a last lap solo attack.

Peterson won the category 4 event at the criterium with a last lap solo attack.

Kristy Gough won the women's Cat. 3-4 race at the Merco Credit Union Downtown Grand Prix, March 1, 2008.

Grieving cyclists, friends and family in California's Bay Area are planning memorial services for two road racers struck and killed by a sheriff's deputy's patrol car on Sunday. Matt Peterson was a driven 30-year-old Cat 4 who competed in 24-hour mountain bike races and Ironman triathlons but who achieved one of his proudest victories — first place in the Merced criterium — just a week ago. The next day he sacrificed his chances to help a teammate win another race, said friend Larry Rosa. "He said, 'I wish everyone could feel this experience just once,' " Rosa told VeloNews.