Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Nathaniel Thompson (Rocky Mountain Bikes) at 50

Rocky Mountain Bikes not contenders

Tour of Arkansas - NE

USA, May 15-18, 2008
Stage 2 - May 16:

Chadwick takes two on key climb

By Kirsten Robbins in Russellville, Arkansas

Glen Chadwick (Team Type 1) continued his strong form with a second consecutive stage at the Tour of Arkansas today. This time the New Zealander took a gratifying victory atop the queen stage's Mount Nebo ahead of Predrag Prokic (Toshiba-Santo) and Michael Lang (Jelly Belly).

Chadwick furthered his overall lead in the Tour with an additional five seconds in time bonuses picked up on the line.

"It was a lot harder than I thought it would be," said Chadwick of Mount Nebo's 18 percent average gradient and more than 20 switchbacks. "I thought it was just a couple of switch back followed by some flatter bits and then a couple more switch backs. But it was just switchback after switchback. It was a nasty little climb and I know what to expect next time I'm here that's for sure."

Team Type 1 began the 160 kilometre stage with the intention of controlling the race from start-to-finish, to bring race leader Chadwick into Mount Nebo with fresh legs. But the responsibility transferred over to Toshiba-Santo after it failed to take part in an early break of 12 riders who rode away over Mount Petite Jean, the first of the three climbs.

Meanwhile our guys riding Rocky Mountain Bikes have the following placements -
50 Nathaniel Thompson (Rocky Mountain Bikes/STOK)          4.16
90 Courtney Guck (Rocky Mountain Bikes/STOK) 36.13
The men will be challenged to a second mountain-top finish at the end of tomorrow's
160 kilometre Stage 3. Prokic hopes to challenge Chadwick for the leader's jersey
on tomorrow's 16 kilometre ascent of Mount Magazine. "I know it is going to
be difficult but we hope to be able to move up one more place on GC after tomorrow's
stage," he said.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

A Specialized Goal!

OK, I need to get a picture of this bike Alex is so hot on. It's a Specialized Mountain Bike. I think it's a dirt jumper - I'll have to verify that with Alex. Next time we are up on the avenue I'll get a shot of it.

Alex and his Norco


This Norco Katmandu was Alex's first performance Mountain Bike.