Southeast Bike Expo comes to Georgia

Southeast Bike Expo

The first southeast consumer cycling expo comes to Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, Georgia, February 25 to 26th. The Southeast Bike Expo will include booths from Trek, Specialized, GT, Niner, Felt, SRAM, Colnago, Look, Scott, Jamis, Thomson, Cane Creek, Stan’s Notubes, Yakima, Camelbak, Saris/Cycleops, GoPro, Garmin and Timex. The Southeast Bike Expo will be [...]

Weekes dominates Short Track MTB

Gville Single Track Series CREDIT: Brad Allen

Greenville, South Carolina businessman Chandler Weekes came off a successful 5th place at the Rock Hill Classic road race to easily win the Expert/Pro field at Thursday’s Greenville Short Track Mountain Bike Race at Riverbend Equestrian Park. His first lap was timed at 3 minutes and he stayed consistently within 10 seconds of that for [...]

Subaru/IMBA grassroots educational program coming to Greenville

IMBA Trail Care Crew

The Upstate chapter of the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) has been chosen to host the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew March 10th -13th, 2011 in Greenville, South Carolina. The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew is IMBA’s grassroots educational program and an authority on sustainable trail building practices. Two teams of trail experts travel year-round throughout North America and beyond, [...]

Mountain biker Jeremiah Bishop training in the Upstate

Bishop tearing it up on his Scapel

The Upstate area has become the place to train during the winter for east coast based professional cyclists. Last month Greenville, South Carolina hosted Liquigas-Cannondale rider Ted King and Jeremy Powers of Cannondale p/b CyclocrossWorld.com. The temperate weather made five-hour rides a possibility. It’s not just road riders who are taking advantage of the weather [...]

Southeast collegiate cycling teams battle for top ten

Lees-McRae Cycling Team

With the conclusion of the collegiate mountain bike season USA Cycling posted the Division 1 and Division 2 school rankings. In the Division 1 category one southeast college is sitting in the top ten. The Division 2 category has three southeast schools occupying the first ten. The 2008-2009 Division 1 champions Fort Lewis are once [...]