John Pell and his Pugsley in 15 "of snow.

John Pell and his Surly Pugsley in 15 "of snow

Union Velo National Champion Susan Lynch

Union Velo's USA National Mountain BikeChampion Susan Lynch

Union Velo team jersey time line

Union Velo Cycling Club Team Jersey Time line.I think we have about 18 years of jerseys here and we are missing about 4 other jerseys including the original one from the clubs first year. Here are a few pictures of the jerseys from 1991-2009.

Union Velo Club team time line

Union Velo Cycling Team Jersey Time line.I think we have about 18 years of jerseys here and we are missing about 4 other jerseys including the original one from the clubs first year. Here are a few pictures of the jerseys from 1991-2009.

Union Velo Jerseys

union velo jerseys

Union Velo cycling team Jersey Time line

Union Velo Cycling Club Team Jersey Time line.

I think we have about 18 years of jerseys here and we are missing about 4 other jerseys including the original one from the clubs first year. Here are a few pictures of the jerseys from 1991-2009.

NBX Cyclocross training under the lights

NBX "Under the Lights"
Cyclocross Training Series Wednesday Nights- 7:00 PM
September 30, October 7,14,21,28, November 4,11,18,25 and December 2
Old Mountain Field, South Kingstown, RI
Promoted by the NBX/Narragansett Beer Cycling Team
Held under USA Cycling Permit
Registration-Registration day of the event only. No Pre-Registration. It will close at 6:55 pm.
Entry Fee- Entry fee is $10.00, including all insurance fees. Single day license fees for unlicensed riders are additional.
Standard Release-A 2009 USCF Standard Event Release Form is required for all riders, each week that they ride. http://www.usacycling.org/forms/rider_release.pdf
Course-A challenging Cyclocross course through Old Mountain field, containing numerous dismounts, grass sections, stairs, and moderate traverses.
Racing-This is a training series! Mass start for all riders (all levels) at 7:00 pm SHARP! A controlled lap, followed by competitive racing for one hour.
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Directions-Route 1 to the Old Tower Hill Road Exit, (Wakefield), Right on Kingstown Road (Route 108), the park will be on your right, Registration by the Baseball Fields.
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Union Velo rider Susan Lynch wins the Nationals again!!!!!!!!!

Race Results forUSA Cycling '09 Mountain Bike NationalsGranby, CORace level: NATIONAL(Event Information)
Cross Country on 07/18/2009




Women - Cat 1 - Master - 50-54
Place
Points
Name
Time
License
Bib
Team
1
110
Susan Lynch
2:04:48 AM
225308
605
Union Velo
2
105
Ellen Guthrie
2:09:01 AM
208087
1252
Spin Cycle Racing
3
100
Tammy Killebrew
2:23:57 AM
88101
646
4
95
Lisa Nye-Salladin
2:29:06 AM
26368
1598
Hill Country Bicycle Works

Boston Velodrome

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The Boston Velodrome & Fitness Center is surveying New England cyclists and needs your input. Your 5 minutes could help bring indoor cycling and a world-class facility to Boston. Click here for the survey.
Boston Velodrome & Fitness Center will become the first modern indoor velodrome in New England, bringing track cycling indoors serving all cyclists from beginners to Olympians. In addition to the track, the facility will include a fitness center and host thrilling events for spectators. Look here for updates and get ready to ride the track!
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Houghton Physical Therapy & Sports Conditioning In Attleboro MA

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MCRA Style Organization Proposed, NE Masters Cycling Point Series

Starting a new (MCRA STYLE )master point seriers would be very easy especially if using Bike Reg's help . I think a new and fresh start would be great for the New England master cycling commuminty. Dose anyone have any thoughts on this? One of my ideas would be to run it under the eye of NE-BRA so that way no one group would benfit from any excess funds.

Lance Armstrong racing this week in New Mexico

Cycling News Flash, April 28, 2009
Edited by Laura Weislo
Astana trio's Gila bid back on
By Kirsten Robbins in Silver City, New Mexico with additional reporting from Daniel Benson
Johan Bruyneel is in the USA this week, too. Photo ©: Roberto Bettini

The Tour of the Gila promoter Jack Brennan confirmed that Lance Armstrong and his Astana teammates Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner will get to race in this week's race in New Mexico after all. USA Cycling worked out an agreement with the UCI, who had earlier denied them permission to do the race because the world body's rules prohibit top-level riders from entering national-level races.
"USA Cycling was responsible for making this happen," Brennan told Cyclingnews. "I got a call that there was a problem with Astana showing up, and I e-mailed Sean Petty who was in Europe at UCI meetings. I also e-mailed Steve Johnson on Sunday and spoke with him a few times. They began to resolve this issue with the UCI right away."
Petty was able to work out a solution with the UCI which would permit only three riders from the same professional team to race under a neutral jersey for the national-level event. The agreement will also apply to the BMC Racing Team which, as a Professional Continental squad, falls under the same UCI regulation. Third division continental teams do not fall under the rule and are allowed to race national events with a full squad.
Brennan hopes that a permanent agreement can be worked out to allow top riders into the race in the future. "They all agreed that a solution needs to be worked out so this doesn't happen again."
Horner confirmed to Cyclingnews that the three had already made alternate plans for the week, and had to change their plans when they were allowed to race at the last minute. "I had my bags packed for Aspen and then I got the call from Johan and he said 'you're going to Gila instead.' I really don't know much more than that right now. I'm under the assumption that I'll be be racing the Mellow Johnny's jersey."
Mellow Johnny's is Armstrong's Austin bicycle shop.
The Tour of the Gila is in its 23rd year but was threatened by extinction when it was lacking sponsorship earlier this year. A groundswell of support saved the race and SRAM stepped in as a title sponsor. Brennan said that having the sport's biggest stars at his race will be a huge benefit.
"Having Armstrong, Leipheimer and Horner at Gila? It's an honour, a big honour. We have a really great race in place, a great organization and great community and state support. Yes, I think there will be a lot more crowds and we have been preparing for them."
Stay tuned for Cyclingnews' full coverage of the Tour of the Gila.
Discuss the race in the Cyclingnews forum!
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Armstrong Lands in OZ

Touchdown! Armstrong lands in Oz

By Anthony Tan

Armstrong in Oz: Enjoying the summer in full Astana kit.
According to word around town, every hotel, motel, bed & breakfast and backpackers’ inn is booked out in Adelaide, under normal circumstances the fifth-largest city in Australia with a population just over the million mark and apart from its award-winning vineyards, no real world-quality to speak of.
But in the few hours we've seen so far and for the next two weeks, Adelaide will be anything but normal. Because Lance is here.
His arrival kept ‘L. A. Confidentiel’ till the day he touched down, we can only assume Armstrong strode into the foyer of the Adelaide Hilton with his typically confident gait and all-American smile; Nike-soled, blue-jeaned, LiveStrong T-shirted, and Oakley-eyed ... and perhaps a little jet-lagged after a nine-hour flight from his recent training ground in Hawaii, where he’s been fastidiously prepping his pins for a much-anticipated 2009 professional race debut.
Nonetheless, the seven-time Tour de France winner would have made his presence felt at one of the city's best hotels, which has played host to each of the past 10 editions of the Tour Down Under.
Here exactly a week prior to this Sunday’s kick-off criterium, tour director Mike Turtur would no doubt have been a bundle of nerves; anxiously waiting to greet the man they call “The Boss” and to see his greatest coup now a reality. A quick, friendly boss-to-boss conversation, if you will.

Armstrong's participation has generated a lot of interest in this year's Tour Down Under.
Photo: Agence France Presse
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Ever since Armstrong announced his return to the pro ranks last September and spun the sporting world into a media frenzy, Turtur, whose event held the first ex-Europe ProTour race at this time last year, had been garnering the presence of the world's most popular bike rider. And when Team Lance said “yeah, why not?” ─ on the basis of certain cancer-related provisos by the South Australian government, furthering the LiveStrong message ─ he's been salivating all over his signature.
Billed by the poetic PR-bods as “Your chance to meet Lance” and “Catch the man no one else can,” this seven-day, six-stage race may be treated as a warm-up to most, particularly to those seeking glory on the roads of western Europe further down the calendar. However, since its inception when local boy and cobbled Classics hero Stuart O'Grady won his first of two titles riding for Crédit Agricole, it has been a race held high in regard, and now in its 11th year, the significance is heightened, for it marks Armstrong's maiden voyage in 2009.
We know he's gone back to a life without excess. We know he's been training well, and for the few pro-am's he's done so far, racing well, too.
But what is really on the public's mind - and possibly his as well - is how well will he go in May, when he embarks on another Armstrong first, tackling the Centenary Giro d'Italia, before his second Grand Tour appointment at the Tour de France and a possible eighth crack at the title.

O'Grady won the first TDU and is back this year, too.
The Tour Down Under will be the first, and therefore critical, gauge of that.
Age isn't really the problem. Even the legend Eddy Merckx said so, especially because the 37-year-old Armstrong's schedule was so targeted following his first comeback in 1998, where courageously, defiantly and quite miraculously, he fought and beat The Big C and then won La Grande B.
No, it's more that up until late last year, he hadn't raced for more than three years, an eternity in a sport that demands consistency to achieve desired objectives.
But really, that's what Armstrong missed most. During his retirement, he kept a level of fitness well above average, however being a natural competitor, he yearned to compete. Running the odd marathon provided some release, but for Armstrong, there's nothing like starting off with 200 of the world's best, then after 300 or 3000 kilometers, finishing with just one on top.
It may not happen for him here, though.

Greipel won four stages and the overall last year.
In 2008, emerging sprint talent Andre Greipel surprised all ─ including himself ─ to win four out of six stages on offer including the overall title, besting Aussie speedster Allan Davis by a margin of 15 seconds. It was unusual because the course, this year 802km long - excluding Sundays’ 51km Down Under Classic that does not count towards the final classification - traditionally suits all-rounders such as O'Grady (winner in 1999, 2001), Michael Rogers (2002), Luis Leon Sanchez (2005) and Martin Elmiger (2007).
While the preceding days are neither dead-flat nor mountainous, the penultimate fifth stage, a 148km leg that circumnavigates its way around the famous McLaren Vale vineyards and includes two ascensions of the race's main obstacle, Old Willunga Hill, has in the past decided those left in contention to win, as the Tour Down Under's final podium is more often than not separated by a smattering of seconds.
Prior to Greipel's dominance in 2008, the stage eliminated the pure sprinters, unable to cope with the eight-percent pitches of the 3km Willunga Hill climb. Yet such was Greipel's form last year, “The Gorilla” as he was less than affectionately nicknamed by his wide-eyed rivals, could do no wrong and had enough left in the tank to win that stage, too.
UCI officials and the race organizer took note, prompting a course change and so this time round, Stage 2 is an almost-identical route reversal of previous years, toughening things up considerably and according to local lad O’Grady, in one fell swoop, doubles the number of climbs throughout the race.
Though as the saying goes, it’s the riders make the race and with 18 ProTour teams on Australian shores (plus the UniSA composite national team), there's no shortage of star quality.
Odds on Lance will be ready to race.
* Anthony Tan will be covering the Tour Down Under for a seventh occasion in 2009.