Baltimore City, Md. – Morgan Patton and Monique Hanley didn’t win Saturday’s Kelly Cup Criterium. But the two Team Type 1 racers did make history.

Team Type 1’s Monique Hanley (left) and Morgan Patton flank the winner, Shontell Gauthier (Colavita-Sutter Home Cycling Team presented by Cooking Light).

Patton and Hanley finished second and third, respectively, in what is believed to be the first time two female athletes with Type 1 diabetes have finished on the podium of a national-level women’s bicycle race.

Patton has lived with Type 1 the past 13 years while Hanley was diagnosed with Type 1 11 years ago.

“From a diabetes standpoint, this is pretty inspiring,” Team Type 1 Sport Director Ed Beamon said. “They rode a great race, staying up near the front and keeping an eye on things. I’m so proud of them.”

Patton and Hanley charged up the finishing straight in Patterson Park, finishing just a few bike lengths behind the winner, Shontell Gauthier (Colavita-Sutter Home Cycling Team presented by Cooking Light). The Kelly Cup is part of the 10th Annual BikeJam Cycling Festival in Baltimore City, Md.

“Monique and I just jumped onto the back of the Colavita train on the last lap,” Patton said. “There was a really tight chicane in the final 500 meters and we were in perfect position coming into that. Then it was just uphill to the finish.”

Patton said she felt strong in the first part of the flat and fast 20-lap race around a one-mile (1.2 km) course. But then her blood sugar began to drop.

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Somerville, N.J. – It wasn’t enough for Team Type 1’s Valeriy Kobzarenko to simply solo the final 40 miles on his way to winning Saturday’s Frank “Nap” Torpey Memorial Hills of Somerset County Road Race.

After earning his first road race victory in the United States this year, Kobzarenko went out for more.

“I rode 50 kilometers (31 miles) to train after the race,” Kobzarenko said.

Kobzarenko’s victory in the 80-mile (128.7 km) race that benefits the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame led a 1-2-4 finish by Team Type 1. Glen Chadwick, the winner of the Tour of Arkansas last week, soloed in for runner-up while teammate Chris Jones won the field sprint behind Jake Hollenbach (CCB/Volkswagon).

Had race officials not led Jones and another rider off course late in the race, Jones might have actually secured third for a first-ever podium “sweep” by Team Type 1.

“They took us onto the freeway and as soon as we got onto it, we knew it was the wrong way,” Jones said. “By the time we got back on course, a group of about 15 others had caught up to us.”

Fitness gained by Team Type 1 in the past two weeks of racing at the Joe Martin Stage Race and Tour of Arkansas was apparent early on in Saturday’s race. Kobzarenko bridged to a breakaway group of four 12 miles into the race.

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With a stage win in the 2008 Tour de Gila under her belt….and currently riding in the Tour de l’Aude with the USA National team, we thought it would be a great time to re-visit a fierce competitor and talented rider, who is also one of the nicest members of the peloton…Amber Rais of Team TIBCO.

Rais left Webcor Builders at the end of 2007 to join her coach, DS Linda Jackson, and Team TIBCO. “I was with Webcor for two years. I have never been on any other team. I felt like it was time for something new. Webcor was great but I am really excited about the riders on Team TIBCO. I feel there are riders on TIBCO invested in riding for TIBCO’s future. That’s really important to me.”

“I am viewing 2008 as more of a diesel engine type season. It’s taking a little while for me to get going this season,” commented Rais at Sea Otter this April, “but once I do, watch out.” Rais broke a rib during a training ride prior to the Sea Otter Classic race. After riding Tour de l’Aude, she is planning on racing the Triple Crown, Nature Valley, and many of the late season races. “I love riding for my coach. It’s been awesome. It’s like the stars have aligned for me this year. It’s going to be a good season.”

Rais entered cycling late. She earned an athletic scholarship to attend Stanford and compete on Stanford’s Swim Team, “I worked really hard for swimming and academics combined,” Rais said. “I swam there for three years but had to have shoulder surgery and stopped swimming. It was also becoming too much with school and everything else. After I stopped swimming I wanted to stay fit but I had burned out on swimming and didn’t set foot on a pool deck,” Rais continued. “I didn’t want to be competitive either. I would have been happy not participating in competitive sport ever again.”

Rais then moved to Monterey California to work on a research project at the Hopkins Marine Station. “I went down there and fell in love with marine biology,” Rais said. “I concentrated my studies on marine biology and environmental policies when I discovered the Earth Systems program that offered interdisciplinary courses based on environmental sciences, economics and sociology that impact the environment. I then graduated with a Masters of Science in Oceanography through the Earth Systems program at Stanford.”
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MORRISTOWN, N.J. - Holli Steelman, Laura McCaughey, and Rachel Warner of the JuicePlus+ team executed a perfect plan to score the team’s first National Racing Calendar victory this past weekend at the Wilmington Grand Prix. Racing atop Van Dessel’s Rivet, JuicePlus+ earned Van Dessel its second NRC win in the company’s relatively short existence.

“An NRC win is obviously great - It’s personally very satisfying,” said Edwin Bull, Van Dessel’s owner and president. “Sponsorship is one thing, but we do tend to take it personally. There’s more to it than just shipping some bikes and waiting for results to come in. JuicePlus+ is a great group of athletes that we knew would pull of some tremendous results. Having athletes like Kerry Barnholt for ‘cross and Juice Plus+ on the road to work with is fantastic. Having them like - and gush - over the bikes is even better! I guess I am living vicariously through the sponsored riders. Following the progress and seeing them succeed makes up for a lot of missed racing on my part.”

Witnessing last weekend’s win was to see the machinations of pro road racing at its finest. Warner attacked from the gun, went straight to the front where she drove a hard pace and left the field dangling single file in her wake. Knowing that she had two solid sprinters in Steelman and McCaughey, Warner commanded the race from first position by covering attacks and sustaining a white-hot pace that would eventually splinter the field. With precision, Warner faded back while McCaughey brought Steelman to the front where they joined a break of two. Steelman, sensing the narrowing gap behind her, told McCaughey, “Go!” and eased off her pedals to succeed in slowing the charging field. The break of three held its lead until the finishing sprint when one jumped left, the other jumped right, and McCaughey tucked in behind the wheel of one of those riders. With 200 meters to go, McCaughey made her biggest move and clinched the win by two bike lengths. McCaughey’s extraordinary effort punctuated Van Dessel’s main goal to maximize performance, function, and dependability in every bike through talented, results-oriented athletes.

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Recently RoadBikeReview was invited out to the home of Linda Jackson, founder and President of Team Tibco Cycling, to get the scoop on the new team bikes for 2008. LOOK continues as the team’s bike sponsor for 2008 and issued the ladies 585’s, with the exception of Brooke Miller who will be racing aboard the stiffer 595 this season. What first caught our eye, was the new custom team paint job. A striking combination of blue, black, and white gives these bikes a fierce look (pardon the pun). The paint job was a design by the team and executed by the LOOK factory in France.

Shifting and braking come via SRAM RED components, the sub 2000 gram groupset which is making it’s debut this year. The SRAM components give the team great functionality but also a full range of adjustability. The RED components are hung on Ritchey WCS handlebars and stem. You’ll notice the ladies are sporting the new “Wet White” finish stems. Availability of these Ritchey stems and the corresponding “Wet White” handlebars to consumers won’t be until late this summer.

Photographed here with the HED Stingers, this will be the preferred setup for road race days. If wind is a factor though, the team may run Bastognes in the front in place of the deep dish Stingers. For criteriums, the team has the choice of running the HED Stinger 60’s or Jet 50’s front and back. The team will generally train on the Bastogne’s.

The Full rundown of parts-

• Frames: LOOK 585 Elle road bikes, Brook Miller on a LOOK 595, 496 Tri for Time Trialling
• Groupo: Sram Red for race bikes, Force for TT bikes
• Bars: Ritchey WCS Logic Aluminum
• Aero/TT bars: Hed Vantage Eight, Hed Aerobar
• Stem: Ritchey WCS aluminim
• Seatpost: Look ergopost4
• Saddle: Selle San Marco
• Pedals: Look Keo Sprint Elle
• Wheels: For Road: Hed Bastogne, Jet 50, Stinger 50, Stinger 60 For TT: Hed Tri-spokes and Hed Superlite Discs
• Tires: Schwalbe Stelvio
• Cables and Housing: Yokozuna

Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer
by Jamie Smith (Author), Jef Mallett (Illustrator)

• Price: $21.95
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: VeloPress
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934030171
• ISBN-13: 978-1934030172

Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer came into the office a while back shortly after it’s release date. And I thought I’d get around to reading it at some point, but because of this or that did not get around to it. That was, until one day right before a flight up to Seattle I decided on a whim to grab it and give it a read. I was absolutely entertained from start to finish during the flight with veteran race announcer Jamie Smith’s words and Jef Mallett’s illustrations. I had to stop and look around a few times to see if anyone was giving me dirty looks for randomly laughing out.

Roadie is aimed at a very specific audience, that being the friends and family of those who have a cyclist or bike racer in their life. The author, Jamie Smith, does a very good job of explaining everything Roadie related. The book is carefully divided into several parts. In the beginning Smith explains the lifestyle of a bike racer, the devotion to the sport, the training that goes into it, the dreaded bonk. Why cyclist go out and ride with the tightest and brightest clothing on earth. Then he moves onto strategy, what a racer does during a race and why. The intricate chess match going on within the NASCAR style racing. Drafting, breakaways, and the good ol finish line sprint are all covered with great enlightenment. The book finishes up with different ways the non-cycling friends and family can start enjoying in the favored past time of their bike racing friends.

Smith does all of this with simple explanations and a great sense of humor. Terms, strategies, and ideas are explained so well that someone who really doesn’t care for cycling will stay interested, maybe even enough to pique their interest and get into the sport. Helping Smith is Illustrator Jef Mallett, a nationally syndicated cartoonist, who drives these explanations and points home with his simple yet beautiful illustrations throughout the book.

Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer doesn’t aim to teach Roadies much, because you already live and do those things, but it does drop little tidbits from time to time that might make you go “hmm”. What Roadie does very well is explain this beautiful and obsessive sport to the masses that might not otherwise understand the world of a bike racer.

PROS

• Very entertaining book
• Easy gift for the friends and family of cyclists

CONS

• Not much new information for those already into the sport

Conclusion - Highly recommended reading, just for the sheer entertainment.

Value

Overall

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Oakland, CA - After consecutive overall stage race titles the past two weeks, Rory Sutherland of the Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis has opened a commanding lead in the most recent USA Cycling National Racing Calendar individual points standings.

With 976 points, Sutherland has a 569-point lead in the competition, with well more than twice the total of the next closest rider, Ted King (Bissell; 407 points). Sutherland opened the sizable lead by virtue of winning the Joe Martin Stage Race and the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic in consecutive weeks this month.

On the strength of Sutherland’s results, Health Net Presented by Maxxis has also opened up a solid lead in the team standings, with 1,726 points, 512 points ahead of second-place Bissell (1,214).

“Our goal at the start of the year was not to win either of these competitions,” said team directeur sportif Mike Tamayo. “Our goal, as always, has been to win races. When you win races, the other benefits like NRC wins come along with that.”

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Bend, OR – The Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team flexed its muscles this past week winning six out of eleven races it entered as its riders prepare for Philly week, a series of three races in the greater Philadelphia area held the first week of June.

The incredible string of wins began with Dominique Rollin’s win at the GP Granby Time Trial near Bromont, Canada on May 10, 2008. Rollin won the 19 kilometer time trial in a time of 24:04.14, a mere 6.8 seconds over second place finisher François Parisien (Symmetrics).

The sixth annual Mt. Hood Cycling Classic began on Tuesday May 13th with a short 1.8 kilometer prologue time trial. Ivan Stevic showed he’s returning to form after a long nine-month bout with a sore right knee by placing third with a time of 2:48.7, 3.7 seconds behind the winner Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell).

The following day, the riders competed in stage one, the Mt. Tabor Criterium. Team Bissell controlled most of the race, which was held on a hilly circuit in the heart of Portland. Despite 90 minutes of attacking by Toyota-United, and other teams, the field remained intact with two laps to go. The final three kilometers saw the Toyota-United boys in red, white and blue turn it over to their two fast men, Hilton Clarke and Ivan Stevic, who finished the job taking 1st and 2nd respectively. As a result of Clarke winning the stage, he also picked up the leaders yellow jersey, king of the mountain and sprinter’s jerseys for his efforts.

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Van Buren, Ark. — Glen Chadwick will go into the history books as Team Type 1’s first overall winner of a professional stage race.

The New Zealander wrapped up the Tour of Arkansas on Sunday by finishing eighth in the 75-minute Celebrity Classic Criterium in Historic Downtown Van Buren. Chadwick enjoyed a 25-second margin of victory in the final standings ahead of runner-up Predrag Prokic (Toshiba-Santo Professional Cycling Team presented by Herbalife) and third-place finisher Michael Lange (Jelly Belly Pro Cycling).

Team Type 1 also placed two riders in the top 10 with Moises Aldape (fifth) and Chris Jones (ninth) while Valeriy Kobzarenko was 31st, Fabio Calabria was 35th and Ian MacGregor was 48th. Timothy Hargrave, who made his stage race debut for Team Type 1, also finished the race but his final position was not immediately made available.

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