BikeRumor Review!!!

BikeRumor.com did a nice review about us at interbike. Thanks to Laura and her PR skills. Check it out. www.bikerumor.com/2008/10/03/interbike-2008-veloforma-cycles/#more-1085 He got a few facts mixed up but all in all a very good job. Cheers.

More Vegas!!!

Getting ready to go for a ride a day before the show.
Heading out of our oasis. It was so nice to stay in Summerlin, instead of the strip. If I had to live in Vegas this is the place. We could ride to the entrance to Red Rocks in about 10-15 minutes.
Entrance to Redrocks. The roads are awesome and the shoulder is wide. I will have to spend some time here this winter when I get sick of the rain.
At the top of the look out in Redrocks. A very fun loop to do if you wanted to get an easy 2hrs ride in. Perfect to clear the head before the show.

Happy that I'm out on a ride, surrounded by good positive people, in the sun, and ready for the show!!
What you see when you ride by Calico Basin.
If you wanted to get in some night life. The red rock was about 5 minutes away. We spent one night eating over priced sushi an Hachi. It was fun and of course part of the Vegas experience.
Cross Vegas baby! It was fun Tina, Laura, Susan, Sabrina, Tim, Mike, Missy... the whole gang came out to see good racing and of course Lance.
Mike and Tim setting up to serve some barley pops!!!

The Crew taking pictures of Lance as he rides by.... go Lance go!!!
Miranda and Tina... All smiles!!
Some of the gang hanging out a Vegas Cross!!! By the way didn't get a picture but Sue Butler is rocking it!!! Way to go Sue.
Lance was in the house!!! It was way cool to see these guys and how fast the lead group was going compared to the chase group. All on grass. Another cool note was watching Adam Craig in the lead bunch hop the barriers and ride the run up. He did this every time. Way cool!!!
Guess I can't believe it. What it is... not sure...

Just being a nut.

Interbike!!!

The 2008 addition to Interbike is over!!! Yeah!!!

Show was good, but I don't care what the spin doctors say NUMBERS were way down.

But that didn't mean we didn't have a good show we did, but that being said you can see that shops are hold on there pennies tighter. He's a few shots from Vegas!!!

You can click on any picture to see a larger version.
Enjoy!

Top photo is the house we rented for the week, we got some riding in before and after the show. Above is Hittman and myself getting some final preparations done on the Mtn. bike the night before we could begin set up at Sands.
Jon laying down the carbon pattern flooring.

Flooring is in and the back drops set, now just need to put the bikes in and we can go for a ride.

A little out of order but me and some of the Veloforma women at the show. From left to right (Laura, Miranda, Mark, Sabrina, Tina and Susan).

The booth in a finished state, and we are ready to go blow off some steam with a ride into Red rocks.
Jon and I talking about the new Mille R - this bike is coming in two versions the R 860grams and the SLR the later model is sub 800 grams.
Tim and Laura, Laura is holding one of our models we didn't get finished before the show. But we did get a few hand delivered to us at the show... so shops got to see it in the raw form.
Me and mans best friends. I am for sure a dog person. Actually and animal person. But I love dogs, all types. This was taken at a BBQ on the last day. It was nice to just chill and talk with friends.

This is what we saw every morning on our ride out to Redrocks.

More to come...this will be in three installments. More show cross vegas/us crit finals - Which Sabrina got 7th!!!!.

HOT off the PRESS!!

Well, Hilary is getting Famous : ). Second post for her on the Cyclingnews.com
Awesome Hilary, awesome!! Way to go girl. Oh and love the helmet! - Not!!!
Any how you can click on the link below are read about her adventure at natz!
http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/2008/diaries/uswcdp/?id=uswcdp0828

Love the shot above. Love it.

At Eugene cycling Celebration down in Eugene. Becka Crushed it. Winning the overall in style. Way to go Becka. I can't think of a better way for Veloforma to close out the season. The really cool thing is she did it with out team support. Proving how truly talented she really is...

Hope to have some shots of Becka from Eugene later in the week (shot above is Hilary at Natz). One last note, I feel really lucky to have put a team together that has done so well, both on a regional and national schedule. These ladies have proven they can ride with the best. And they are all riders from the Pacific NW. I think they have also proven that they are one of the strongest teams in the Pacific Northwest. The '09 Season will have lots of excitement with the team doing Redlands, MT Hood (or Tour of Oregon - what ever they are going to call it) and Cascade for stage races. We will be doing Tour of CA Crit and Nevada City classic - Nevada City CA, plus 6-7 more one NRC races next year. Until our next post enjoy.

stuff

Wow! A lot has been going on while I have been in my cave getting ready for interbike (booth 6570 by the way) Let see. This weekend is the last in the Cat 4 series, it's double points so things are a little crazy and the racing should be good. Not sure who is leading the series as ladies have been getting lots of upgrades.
On the Veloforma home front Becka Hartkop was 2nd at the Boulder Roubaix to Team Columbia racer Mara Abbot. Way to go Becka - maybe she will show up and walk away from the field at this weekends race. Rumor has it she is flying. Let's hope Becka makes an appearance. Becka please race, please... oh and send me some photo's of the Roubaix.
Tina won the state Criterium Championships a race that has long alluded her. I think before this win her best was 5th. Way to go earthquaker!!! Photo by Ed Norton http://web.mac.com/stoppingtime/Site/Welcome.html

Tina was also sighted in Beijing, which she said was absolutely amazing. To get to be at the the Olympics, Wow way cool!!!

Carrie Goodbrake rocked it at the State hill climb and with her climbing prowess gett'n the big W!!!

to make the win even sweeter the family was in town to see the victory!!

Oh and if I can get this rolling too. We will have a way cool and very sexy and tasteful calendar at interbike. Check the cover mock up. And no you will not see Becka's foot in the final draft. Thanks to all the ladies for doing this, and most of all Laura McGraw for all her hard work. Not only is she an awesome racer but is a excellent photographer http://www.lauramcgraw.com/

One last note check out Hilary's Diary on Cyclingnews!!! She is being coached by Mike Engleman who runs the us womens development program. Here is the link to Hilary's post. http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/2008/diaries/uswcdp/?id=uswcdp0826

Natz!

Hilary 5th @ Natz!!!!

She rocked it!!!

Great Job Hilary.

MD out.

Inter Bike - spy photo's

Well - we are under two months away from interbike. It is crunch time to say the least. We will have several new rigs at the show. One new road frame, one new cross frame - single speed and our new mtn. bike. The mtn. bike has been a two year work in progress and I am very pleased with what we have as a final version. Check it out. Can you say SEXY!!!!

You can click on the pictures for a bigger version of the photo

I actually did not want to enter the mtn bike portion of the industry. I just wanted to focus on Road and Cross bikes. But when this rig got finished it was hard for me to say NO. And of course there is the added two years of $$, R&D Blah, Blah, Blah. So it's a go, and it's name is the Grundig - after the grundig world cup series of the late 80's early 90's. Yes I'm dating myself. :)

More spy phoo's of our Single Speed cross bike and New road rig will be up soon.

Have a great day and go ride your bike.

Cheers

Mark