Southeast Leadout: Palmetto Peloton Project and new partner Amgen reach for stars

P3 Stars and Stripes Challenge p/b Amgen Press Conference

The Palmetto Peloton Project (P3) has teamed up with Amgen and its Breakaway from Cancer® initiative to benefit the sixth annual Stars and Stripes Challenge ride on Sunday, May 29 in Greenville, South Carolina. At today’s press event, P3 President Kevin Dunn announced that this collaboration also includes a $100,000 donation from Amgen. You can [...]

Hincapie to race through 2012 and Bookwalter breaks collarbone

George Hincapie PHOTO: Sirotti

There was some good news and bad news regarding our Southeast based riders in team BMC. CyclingNews.com is reporting that before the start of Gent-Wevelgem last year’s fourth place finisher in this Belgian classic, George Hincapie, confirmed he is racing through 2012 for BMC. “I feel really good these days. I’m going to do one [...]

Team Type 1 – sanofi-aventis team Colnagos stolen

Photo: Team Type 1

Thieves broke in to locked Team Type 1 – sanofi-aventis vehicles overnight on Friday in a parking lot outside the race hotel, stealing more than 500,000 euros worth of bicycles, tools, spare parts and equipment, forcing the team to abandon the start at Stage 5 of the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali in Italy. Team [...]

Review: LeMond Fitness Revolution windtrainer

LeMond Revolution

Training indoors is the “four letter” word in cycling. No one relishes the thought of attaching their multi-thousand dollar machine to a windtrainer and turning it into a stationary bike. However time restraints or poor weather forces us to turn to other methods to maintain or hone our fitness. LeMond Fitness has entered the windtrainer [...]

Southeast Leadout: Spring riding is in the air

2011 Southern Mountain Bike Summit

You know Spring has really arrived when your head out to the first evening training ride of the season. Here in Greenville, SC, we are counting the minutes until we load up our cars for the Greenville Spinners SC-TAC/Donaldson ride that starts tonight at 6:00 pm. It was delayed from its expected start last week [...]