Southeast Pro Cycling News

As the transfer season draws to an end, 2012 season contracts for Southeast based pros are becoming public. Greenville’s George Hincapie will continue to ride for BMC in 2012 as is Athens, Georgia teammate Brent Bookwalter. However, his two other Southeast teammates are moving on: John Murphy and Chris Butler. Murphy also of Athens, Georgia [...]
Southeast Leadout: Summer is here

Memorial Day weekend was packed with racing. We’ve added more photos to our US Pro time trial and road race articles. We also added a video playlist for the time trial. If you enjoyed our US Pro road race live chat or our live chats on Versus.com, you will want to join us for the [...]
Southeast Leadout – Memorial Day Weekend

Team Carolina Cycling News is travelling back to our Upstate headquarters after covering the Amgen Tour of California. Since we covered the Assaults on Marion and Mt Mitchell, we joined the press room crowd starting on Stage 4 – perfectly timed to miss the weather issues plaguing the first few days. We’ll rest up for [...]
Southeast Leadout – Speed Week

May kicked off a month of criteriums with the prestigious USA Crits Speed Week series of criterium races that stretch up and down the Carolinas and into Georgia as well. The first race of the series was Terrapin Twilight Criterium in Athens, Georgia on April 30th. The week-long series continued with the Roswell Criterium in [...]
Southeast Leadout – We’re hitting the road

Carolina Cycling News is getting on the road this month. We’ll be in Charleston for the I’On Village criterium and South Carolina Criterium Championships. Then we’ll head to nearby Athens, Georgia for one of our favorite races, Athens Twilight Criterium. Encourage your favorite event promoters and race winners to contact us so we can give [...]
Southeast Leadout: Palmetto Peloton Project and new partner Amgen reach for stars

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 [...]
Southeast Leadout: Spring riding is in the air

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 [...]
Southeast Leadout for cycling this week: Racing the clock

Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead an hour tonight for the time change, so you won’t miss any of the bike racing action on Sunday. Like many Southeast cycling fans, we have been watching Paris-Nice every day this week. We got a report from Brent Bookwalter of Athens, Georgia, who is part of the [...]
Southeast Leadout – Spring rain can’t stop the racing

Here in Greenville, SC we had been spoiled by a bit of great weather recently and have been dreading the rain forcasted for the weekend. Luckily Friday night’s Pedal Chic Fashion Show escaped the rain and was an awesome event with great community support. The Greenville Spring Series was not so lucky today with plenty [...]
Southeast Leadout – more great road racing this weekend

The past weekend was a great kick-off to racing in the Southeast. The weather cooperated and it looks like the same for this weekend as well. In addition to the racing Carolina Cycling News discovered (or more accurately was pointed out to us) a new up and coming rider – Philip O’Donnell. He’s a product [...]













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