Category Archives: National

Mad Cross UCI Weekend: The Super-Rookie Files Day Two

The second day of interviews and recordings from Madison is 20x better than the first day. Rookie is able to score all types of interviews with semi-famous bike racers including; Dewey Dickey, Todd Wells, Marko Lalonde, Steve Tilford, and the showdown with Paul Schoening.
A great listen!
The greatest quote caught on tape, “I can’t even tell […]

 
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Page and Elliot Double Up At Planet Bike Cup UCI Event

Natasha Elliot (EMD Serono/Stevents) and Jonathon Page (Planet Bike) both won again on the second day of racing at the UCI C2 level event in Madison, Wisconsin. While Elliot’s win was a mirror like performance to her dominating ride on Saturday, it was Page’s victory over US Olympian Todd Wells (GT) that was the talk […]

Page Dominates As Selander Takes Third At UCI C2 Event In Madison

The 1st Annual Jonathon Page Planet Bike Classic was held today in Sun Prairie, WI. The Angel Park Speedway venue is just a few miles east of downtown Madison and featured a fairly technical course with numerous off-camber switchbacks that caused trouble for many riders including one of the pre-race favorites in the men’s race. […]

NVGP Day 2 (The Locals):Special PodCast.

Stage 2 Locals:
Mean Dawg (GrandStay) 0min
-He is embaressed.
-Been training for the time trial.
Dale Sedgewick (Bianchi/GP) 1min
-Talks about the GP train
-Happy for the team
Pete Hanna & Patty Cakes (Bianchi/GP) 2:10min
-He doesn’t understand stickers
-Bike Racing 103
-Patty Cakes has to help with the stickers
-He wears Italian shoes
-Road Racing shorter than super week crits
Ian Sanford (GrandStay) 5:10min
-Talks about the […]

 
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Fixed Gear Classic Day 1: Report Stolen From Smithers

We want to thank Smithers for writing this report of the first day of racing in Blaine. It has been a hectic weekend here at BTDC headquarters and with school and the NVGP fast approaching we are hoping to keep everyone updated with the exciting events that are going on.

Women’s 1 Lap standing TT
From zero […]

The Throwdown: State TT, Flanders Women In The Press, Minnesota 12 Revealed?, FGC Meet The Backstretch!,

The following is a compilation of the news floating around the Minnesota cycling scene of the past week. If you have any more news, ideas or tips please feel free to email us at bikethrow [at] gmail [dot] com.

The State Time Trial Championships are this weekend in St. Peter, Minnesota.
A quick glance of the pre-registration […]

MN Fixed Gear Classic: A Whole Lot More Than Chiappa!

Last weeks edition of the Throwdown featured a press release about the Minnesota Fixed Gear Classic. What the press release failed to mention is the quality of riders that are descending on Blaine for this weekends racing (Saturday at 6:30pm and Sunday at 1pm). While it is well known that the international caliber Roberto Chiappa […]

The Throwdown: Nature Valley Offers Qualifying Option.

We here at Bikethrow.com are proud to be the first to tell the world about the new Nature Valley Pro Ride (NVPR). It should be noted immediately that the NVPR is not affiliated with the local qualification series that is being used to determine the 12 spots allocated to Minnesota based teams, but the NVPR […]

The Throwdown: Hareland to Synergy. NVGP to Climb Ohio. Sprinters Road Race. Patty Cakes Needs A Home.

2007 State Criterium Champion Aric Hareland is making the jump to Team Synergy for the 2008 season. Hareland raced the 2007 season for Hollywood/Silver and enjoyed great success. Over the past two years Hareland has also made attempts at the 30+ competition at Superweek outside of Milwaukee. He won the competition in 2006 and finished […]

Who’s Who of Local Elite Men…plus some tips!