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

And the winner is....

Thanks again to everyone that entered the raffles in support of the Eric Kautzky Memorial Scholarship Fund. Thanks to your entries, we raised $780. Add that amout to the $1300 we raised during the third annual Eric Kautzky Memorial Track Race, and our total contribution to Eric's fund is $2080.

Each year Eric's Fund provides a scholarship award to a deserving graduating senior from Tigard High who is pursuing a future in either sports medicine or biology (both subjects Eric taught at Tigard for over 24 years). Eric's family hand picks the senior based on a written essay, grades, and overall resume during his or her time as a student at Tigard High School.

And now to the winners. The drawings were held Friday night, July 25th, at the Alpenrose Velodrome. Anna Knoblock from Bike Central was our offcial drawer of the winning entries out of our large wicker basket.

In the first drawing, the winner of the LiveStrong cap personally autographed by Lance Armstrong is ---- Stephen Hemminger!

In the second and final drawing, the winner of the Veloforma F1R Road Frame is --- Barb Grover!

The winners will be contacted shortly and arrangements will be made accordingly for the delivery of their prizes.

THANKS AGAIN!

Darell Provencher
Team Rose City

Big Smile.

It's been a little quiet on the home front for the Veloforma women's team. After Cascade it was time to take a break. I think that most people have been rejuvenated and are ready to rock, while others are winding down a bit and ready for the season to end. But wait it's only the end of July you say... well they have been racing every single weekend Since February. Cross is just around the corner. We are not going to field an official cross team this year, but we will have a few out racing for sure. When I look back of our first season (even though its not over yet) together I get a BIG SMILE! These ladies are awesome!!!

Pennington at the End of Silverton Road race.

Alice and Becka on the Podium @ Silverton.

Miranda on the rail at AVC.

Susan and Tina giving it all systems go with the gun show for Pennington in the feed @ cascade.

Alice and Tina - I think Tina looks pretty tuff in this helmet!!

Stars and Bars for Miranda and Jennifer.


The girls at Kings Valley.
The crew at Cascade.

There is still a lot of racing to be had with Hilary going to Nationals. High Desert this weekend which is the last of the Oregon Cup Races. Are Earthquaker and Heartbreaker going to make it?? They have been doing some High Altitude training in Colorado... looking forward to having the crew back together for this weekends events. Until then.....cheers

AVC & Short Track and more...

Road sprinters are tough, maybe a little crazy. But Track sprinters and particularly Keirin riders... well I just don't have a definition for them. The men and women of the Keirin are of a different breed of sprinter. Check out this video. It's from this weekends AVC here in Portland.
Ouch!!!
Glad everyone was OK.

Tony Kick of the Gentle Lovers went down hard on Sunday in the Scratch. It was a little scary at first. As he lay face down on the apron of the track. Thank fully he is OK. Last night at short track I heard he was pretty sore. I guess it's better to be sore than have broken bones. Get well soon Tony!!!

Raffle for F1R is coming to a close on July 25th - this is your chance to get an F1R on the cheap!!!
July 25 Raffle Drawing for Veloforma F1R Frame, Lance-autographed Livestrong Cap Date:
There's only 5 more days until we conclude a couple of raffles that will benefit the Eric Kautzky Memorial Scholarship Fund at Tigard High School. The drawing will be held July 25 at the Fast Twitch Fridays event at Alpenrose Velodrome. Winners need not be present to win. Raffle tickets can be purchased online (see below) until 1pm, Friday, July 25th. Or you can purchase in person at Alpenrose this Friday until 15 min before the drawing occurs.
Raffle tickets keep coming in for these two great prizes:
+ A Veloforma F1R carbon frame. Mark Duff, Founder and President of Veloforma, will ensure that you will have the right size F1R frame to meet your cycling needs. Check out www.veloforma.com and their cool blog at http://veloforma.blogspot.com/ . $15 per entry.
+ A raffle for a LiveStrong cap personally autographed by Lance Armstrong. Raffle tickets are $15 each).
You can pay online at www.paypal.com and click on "Send Money" (Fill out info in the "Send Money" box).
Then enter pay@teamrosecity.org as the e-mail address you want to send money to and fill in the blanks.
Please send an email to darellp@easystreet.net verifying which prize drawing you are paying for and how many tickets. Include your contact info (email address and/or phone) We will then write out your raffle ticket(s) and enter them into the drawing.
For more information about Eric Kautzky and Eric's Scholarship Fund at Tigard High School, go to www.teamrosecity.org
Thanks again for your support! (And please support the upcoming negligent homicide bill in the next session of the Oregon legislature --
http://news.opb.org/article/2289-new-vehicular-homicide-law-proposed-oregon/)
Thanks,
Darell Provencher Team Rose City
-- Note NEW email address is darellp@easystreet.net -- no longer .com



Short track is a blast.

I needed to change things up a little bit and do something different.

If you need to change things up a bit too.. then check it out. http://www.portlandracing.com/info.html

Plus I HAD to get this rig out there and tear it up.

If you've been out at short track you may have also seen Tina Brubaker or Alice Pennington out on a VELOFORMA full carbon single speed Mtn. Bike. This is a prototype, but the final rig is better, stiffer and more responsive. Plus it will be available this fall after Interbike. Photo's of the final product will be out soon.

Time to head back to the shop. Go ride your bike.