NRC Schedule

Here is the '09 NRC Schedule for our Pro Women.

Team members and press release coming soon.

We've upped it a little this year. We have also added some amazingly talented women. We are going to be winning some races on the NRC schedule for sure.

Date, Category, Race, City, State.

14-16 Feb 2.4 Amgen tour of California Women's Stage Race w Various, California

26-29 Mar 2.2 Redlands Bicycle Classic b Redlands, CA

11-17 May 2.1 Oregon Pro Cycling Classic B Portland, OR

7-Jun 1.1 Liberty Classic (women) w Philadelphia, PA

28-Jun 1.3 Manhattan Beach Grand Prix b Manhattan Beach, CA

22-26 Jul 2.3 Cascade Cycling Classic b Bend, OR

12-Sep 1.5 Priority Health Grand Cycling Classic presented by Spectrum Health w Grand Rapids, MI

13-Sep 1.5 Priority Health Ann Arbor Cycling Classic presented by Saint Joseph Mercy Medical System w Ann Arbor, MI

TBD US Crit Finals – Vegas In conjunction with Interbike.

Random Awesomeness!!

As EQ would put it. Random Awesomeness!!

At least until the last rain. Which stripped all the leaves. But before we started to get pummeled with rain, the sun came out at the house the other day & I took this picture.

Hope everyone had a great week. Think about what made it Awesome. If you can't think of anything, just think back a little further. We've always got a little random Awesomeness some where.

PEZ, PDX Bicycle Studio & S.R.

The girls did good! They knew Richard Pestes (publisher of PEZ) was a softy when it came to attractive women. So he had to come by the booth and see whats up. Click on the link and scroll down.
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=6431&status=True

We are working with Molly Cameron (http://www.mollycameron.com/) and Portland Bicycle Studio (http://www.portlandbicyclestudio.com/), we currently have her on a Stealth '09 R7. So far feed back has been good.

From Molly's blog - "I am currently on this sweet 2009 Veloforma R7 carbon fibre racing machine.
It is damn nice. I’ve only put a few rides on it so far but, I am impressed.
I’ll be putting a mini-review up on Portland Bicycle Studio when I get a sec to snap some pics."

The Girls have been rocking it in cross.

Weekend and week day rides are starting to pick up and it's that time of year - Base miles!!! Our Travel team is going to need to be ready for the Tour of California which starts on Valentines day (Feb 14-16). So I guess I'll have roses for all the girls at the start Line. :) then on to Redlands (March 26-29) Followed by Oregon Pro Cycling Classic in May and finishing there major Stage races with Cascade July 22-26.

Any how that's all for now. :)

$63 Million.

$63 million, not bad. (Especially since the regional economy is $17 billion).
THAT it is what the cycling industry as a whole is worth to Oregon. It also provides 800 Jobs.
For more information check out bike Portland dot org. For the full story.
http://bikeportland.org/2006/06/15/survey-says-bicycle-industry-nears-63m/

Racing NEWS - The McGraw separates her shoulder yesterday. Get well soon Laura!!! Yes - you now must refer to Laura as The McGraw. She will now refer to her self in the third person just like the Rock (WWF). SHE separates her shoulder on lap 2 and puts it back in on her own, then still goes on to finish the race. This course was super bumpy. The final laps had to hurt. So for all you ladies out there that think she's to pretty to race a bike. ;) She put the grrrr in girl. I don't think most guys would have finished including this one...

Women A Results from CC#2

Pennington currently doing cross for Desalvo - Rocked it and got 2nd!!!
EQ - Vanilla 7th
Heartbreaker - 13th

B's
Goodbrake 30th Veloforma
Chase 31st Ironclad -Veloforma '09
The McGraw 33rd Veloforma

Very cool to see the large numbers for the women events. Hope to see these numbers continue to the road/mtn season.

MD out.

Peithman Power!!

Brandon Arends (rides for Ironclad - http://www.ironcladcycling.com/) took an awesome shot of Susan Peithman this past weekend playing in the muck at Alpenrose on her Veloforma Carbon CX1.

I Love Oregon cyclocross!! I think you would be hard pressed to find any place in the USA that has 119 single speeders at the line up. Way cool. I so want to get my rig dirty. Maybe next weekend. :)
Isn't she pretty!!! And comes in at just about 12 lbs. NOT bad...

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.