Newport Beach, CA – Transcend Sports, a partnership between Colorado Premier Training and RAHA Sports Management, has registered a UCI Continental team that will compete in the NRC series and international races. The Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling Team is currently in negotiation with three Pro Tour riders who will add great depth, experience and leadership to a new program. The roster will also include top-level domestic and international riders.

The Bahati Foundation is a non-profit organization that inspires and empowers underprivileged youth to rise above their circumstances. Statistically, those at greatest risk for poverty today are inner city families and single parent families. The problem of persistent poverty is a complex one that includes communities and individuals, who through no fault of their own, find themselves unable to make ends meet in this globalizing information-intensive world. In many families today, children cannot say they expect to be better off than their parents. This is perhaps the greatest challenge now facing our society. Our goal is to work with our partners in helping today’s underprivileged youth overcome poverty. We provide the resources, support and inspiration to help young people succeed in life.

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On Thursday, July 16, 2009, Bahati Racing and Cannondale will host its first Ultimate Pro-Tour Cycling Experience camp. This four-day training camp led by the 2008 National Criterium Pro Cyclist, Rahsaan Bahati, provides professional riding instruction, as well as guidance for strength training, racing tactics and skills, sports nutrition, recovery, and time and energy management.

The Pro Cycling Experience will include: fully supported rides with support bicycles provided by Cannondale, support vehicles to keep cyclists safe; on-staff mechanics to keep bikes cleaned and tuned; on-staff masseurs to provide daily massages for peak performance and optimal recovery; a professional bike fit to ensure bicycles are custom fit to individual riders; chiropractic adjustments to keep everyone fine-tuned physically; daily lectures and skills clinics to educate participates on best practices; and, ride appropriate nutrition lessons to inform athletes of how to get the most out of their daily food and beverage intake.

The most diversified cycling camp offered in the United States, Bahati’s Pro Cycling Experience is expected to reach world-class and upcoming athletes from a pool of more than 70 million cyclists nationwide.

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to ride in a professional peloton? Well, now is your chance to ride with some of your favorite pros as part of the Cycling Sherpa program at California BikeFest. Cycling Sherpa are past and current professional cyclists who are ‘for hire’ for the rides in Ventura, California on Saturday, December 6, 2008 starting at the Crowne Plaza, Ventura Beach.

Cycling Sherpa are offering their domestique services to the highest bidder for the day, with all proceeds benefiting Breakaway from Cancer™ — a national initiative created by Amgen to increase awareness of the important resources available to cancer patients from prevention to education, and patient care to advocacy and financial support.

Currently signed on as part of Cycling Sherpa program and available for bids:

• Ivan Dominguez
• Aaron Olson (Team Bissell)
• Thurlow Rogers (legend)
• Kim Anderson (Team Columbia)
• Roy Knickman (legend)
• Rahsaan Bahati (Rock Racing)
• Wayne Stetina (legend)
• Dotsie Bausch (Team Colavita)
• Daniel Ramsey (TIME Pro Cycling)
• Mari Holden (legend)

Want to learn more about being a pro, what it’s like to draft behind them, or get some great training advice? Hire a Sherpa, have fun and help a cause. Why fix a flat when your Sherpa can do it for you? Cycling Sherpa bidding is now open, so place your bid today!

London — Rock Racing fans of all ages – and even Harrods Owner Mohammed Al-Fayed himself – turned out to meet the pro cycling team at a special engagement at the renowned store in the heart of London on Monday.

Hundreds of people turned out at Harrods to meet Rock Racing’s six riders who competed in the Tour of Britain. Rahsaan Bahati, Santiago Botero, Tyler Hamilton, Victor Hugo Peña, Fred Rodriguez and Oscar Sevilla signed autographs and posed for pictures.

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Digging deep to the finish of the Saab USA Cycling Professional Criterium Championship (left to right): Alex Candelario (Kelly Benefit Strategies presented by Medifast), Rahsaan Bahati (Rock Racing), Mark Hekman (Toshiba-Santo Pro Cycling) and Kayle Leogrande (Rock Racing).

Rock Racing’s Rahsaan Bahati posts up for the win as Alex Candelario (left) holds on for second ahead of Mark Hekman (Toshiba-Santo Pro Cycling).

Photo by Ken Conley

On Sunday June 29, Rock Racing’s Rahsaan Bahati successfully defended his title to win the 47th annual Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix. The pressure was on for Bahati as Rock Racing was a presenting sponsor for the race and he was racing in front of his family.

“It’s like a monkey off my back, it’s weird going into a race that you’ve won the previous year, to have all my family out here, Rock Racing sponsored it. It’s a lot to accomplish you know in one race, to entertain you guys, represent the sponsors well and to win the bike race, and as a team today, phenomenal.” said a relieved and happy Bahati.

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Manhattan Beach, Calif. — Rahsaan Bahati won his sixth race of the season in convincing fashion Sunday, scoring an impressive second straight victory at the 47th edition of the Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix.

Bahati swept across the finish line on a sun-splashed afternoon at Live Oak Park ahead of runner-up Ricardo Escuela (Successful Living presented by Parkpre) and Brad Huff (Jelly Belly Pro Cycling).

“I had a lot of trust in my teammates and they delivered,” Bahati said before being congratulated by Rock Racing Team Owner Michael Ball and a host of teammates and cheering fans. “With a lap to go, I was concerned about us getting swarmed. But our lead out was tremendous. The guys started sprinting with a kilometer to go.”

Ball said he was thrilled that Rock Racing could be a part of the long-standing event. Several thousand fans lined the 1.4-mile (2.2 km) hot dog-shaped course that borders the Pacific Ocean.

“Being able to celebrate a victory again makes our involvement this year even sweeter,” Ball said.

Rock Racing was an official sponsor of the race and the team’s official vehicle, a Cadillac CTS, served as the pace car. The iBN Sports network also provided live, online coverage of the entire event, which is available on-demand at www.ibnsports.com.

The victory was Rock Racing’s 20th of the season and its second at a National Race Calendar event. Santiago Botero won the overall title at the Redlands Bicycle Classic to open the NRC calendar in April.

In last year’s race, Bahati edged out Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United Pro Cycling) while Hilton Clarke (Navigators Insurance) was third.

This time, Bahati said having so many teammates around him at the end of the 90-minute race was reassuring. Rock Racing controlled the front the final laps of the race on the strength of Fred Rodriguez, Kayle Leogrande, Peter Dawson, Jeremiah Wiscovitch and Sterling Magnell. Rock Racing even chased down a move of six late in the 90-minute race that included its own Rudolph “Rudy” Napolitano.

“We just couldn’t put all that pressure on Rudy to come through at the end so we told him to just sit on and the rest of our guys helped bring them back,” Bahati said.

Halfway around the world Sunday, Rock Racing’s Oscar Sevilla scored a runner-up finish at the Spanish national championship road race. Racing without any teammates, Sevilla finished second to Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) in the challenging 130-mile (210 km) race. Oscar Pereiro, another one of eight riders from Caisse d’Epargne in the race, was third.