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Speed Week’s Friday race kicked off a three-day street festival in “Bike Town”, Spartanburg, SC. The downtown race was part of an Omnium weekend and on the National Criterium Calendar. It was great to see the City of Spartanburg so invested in the race, offering up primes and supplying bike-share bikes for a fun, crashed-filled [...]
Are you looking for a road trip to watch a bike race? You and your pals should make the annual drive down I-85 to one of the greatest crit races in the world – The Terrapin Twilight in Athens Georgia. This is the flagship race of the national USA CRITS Championship Series. Charlotte has a [...]
2011 USA Crits Speedweek series had its only North Carolina race in Charlotte. The Uptown Cycles Dilworth Criterium is a daytime, neighborhood race featuring a tree canopy, a tight turn at the bottom of the course and a moderate climb. The United Health Care (UHC) win streak was upset by Frank Travieso (RealCyclist.com). Travieso out [...]
With the departure of overall leader Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita), the women’s Speedweek peloton naturally sensed that this was their opportunity to assert themselves in Spartanburg. Early protagonists included Tiffany Pezzulo (Primal/MapMyRide), and Anne Samplonius (Rouse Bicycles). Samplonius was able to capitalize on her team’s continual aggressiveness to achieve some separation from the rest of the [...]
If there were any signs of flagging energy inside the Speedweek peloton after several days of full-on racing, UnitedHealthCare demonstrated to the crowds at Walterboro that they still had all the firepower necessary to achieve victory. With RealCyclist’s Frank Travieso off on a solo escape for 18 of the 37 laps, UnitedHealthCare launched a team [...]
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