The Kelly Benefit Strategies Pro Cycling Team is proud to announce that more than $42,000 has been raised as it kicks off a yearlong fundraising drive in support of World Bicycle Relief.
Jelly Belly, Team Type 1, and Colavita-Sutter Home presented by Cooking Teams are confirming for this year's edition of the Tour de WingHaven on June 21 within the WingHaven community of O'Fallon, Missouri. Professional teams registered to date include UCI Continental teams Jelly Belly, Team Type 1, and Colavita - Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light.
The Raleigh Boys, the cycling team from the seventies that put America on the international stage, will be part of the 50th Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, July 2nd -5th, and its Past Champions Celebration Banquet being held in Fitchburg, MA. This year, the four day stage race includes a special celebration dinner, which is open to the public, on the Fourth of July and will include many of the Longsjo Classic’s past champions along with the Raleigh Boys, who are being sponsored by Wheelworks Bicycle Stores/ Cycling Centers, a major Bay State retailer.
Just days after finishing second in the Giro d’Italia, Danilo Di Luca is making his case about racing the Vuelta a España later this season. With his LPR team already overlooked for the spring classics and the Tour de France, Di Luca is pulling out all the stops in a bid to gain an invitation to the season’s third grand tour. “After a Giro like this, I deserve a chance to race the Vuelta,” Di Luca told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “If they invite us to the Vuelta, Petacchi would race as well, and we would give them a spectacle.”
The 2009 Women’s Prestige Cycling Series resumes next week at the Nature Valley Grand Prix stage race held in Minnesota, June 10 – 14. Following the season opener at Redlands and the Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas, Webcor moved into the lead in the Best Young Rider and Team classification, while Team Type 1 stretched its lead in the Individual standings.
Minneapolis, Min., May 29th, 2009 — The Kelly Benefit Strategies Pro Cycling team is auctioning off a "hot lap" in the team car to benefit World Bicycle Relief. The winner of the eBay-based auction, which starts today, will get behind the scenes access to all the action as the KBS pro cycling team races in the 25th Annual TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship, June 7th.
The mission was simple: cram my Subaru with enough bikes, tubes, wheels and chamois to outfit Astana, and drive 360 rugged miles from Boulder to the other end of Colorado. Spend three days surfing couches, mooching beer and otherwise freeloading my way around Durango's cycling community. Have some laughs, see some old friends and — how could I forget — pin on a race number for the 38th annual Iron Horse Bicycle Classic. Do it all without breaking the bank — or getting dropped.
Dear Explainer, By now, we’ve all probably seen the crash that highlighted the final kilometer of this year’s Giro d’Italia. While I was actually hoping for Danilo Di Luca to pull off a miracle win, I am pleased that he didn’t do it by having race leader Denis Menchov crash and lose enough time to lose the Giro.
When American Taylor Phinney won the under-23 Paris-Roubaix on May 31, it made our decision to feature him on the cover of our July issue appear prophetic. It wasn’t, however, a tough decision to put Phinney on the cover. His elite world pursuit title in March saw the teenage phenom scratch the surface of his seemingly boundless potential.