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 [...]

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 [...]

Southeast Leadout for cycling this week: Racing the clock

Greenville, SC Bicycle Master Plan Community Workshop

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

Greenville Spring Training Series- River Falls

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

Hincapie Spring Series

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 [...]