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!

The scenic 6th annual Mt Hood Cycling Classic returned bigger than ever as one of only three UCI women’s point races in the United States making it a very important stopping point for the women hoping to earn a selection for the Olympics.

A pair of Kiwi track riders, from two different teams, took over the podium at the Mt Hood Cylcing Classic. Points race specialist, Joanne Kiesanowski, on her second race with her new team Tibco, won the prologue in downtown Portland with a time of 3:08 average a speed of 32. m/hr (52. k/hr) over 1.7 mile out and back course. Pursuit specialist Alison Shanks (Jazz Apple) came in second with less than a second behind the winner.

Rounding off the podium is Dotsie Bausch (Colavita/Sutter Home), also not a stranger to the track, as she has just returned from the Pan American Championships with a gold medal in the Women’s 3000 meter Individual Pursuit.

Joanne Kiesanowski (Tibco), prologue winner, photo c. Lyne Lamoureux

“I rode the course a lot of times before, I just went around and around it. I just knew that I had to have a good turn around, it was important not to lose too much time around there, just went hard.” said Kiesanowsk.

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