Because of a lack of funding for women’s cycling teams, the Ritte Women’s Team is running a few fund raiser parties to help them get to Ireland to race bikes. Read more about their fund-raising campaign at Rally Me and if you’re in SoCal, head over to the Beers Bikes & Food event at Pedalers Fork tomorrow! See the event details at Facebook.
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The NYC Women’s 100 Rapha Ride – Chris Lee
The NYC Women’s 100 Rapha Ride
Words and photos by Chris Lee
This past Sunday morning, women all over the world took part in Rapha’s Women’s 100 ride. Every year this globally-coordinated event challenges female athletes of all skill types to ride 100km together as a group.
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The 2014 Wolfpack Hustle Civic Center Crit
You know what? I had never been to a Wolfpack event before last night. I know, I know, I suck… Luckily, it just so happened that I was in Los Angeles and was able to pedal down Sunset Blvd to the Los Angeles Civic Center to watch the 2014 Wolfpack Hustle Civic Center Crit…
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Cadence: Club Flow Women’s Jersey
Cadence’s summer collection just dropped, including these new Club Flow women’s jerseys. Head on over to Cadence to see the full line of shirts, caps and gloves.
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Speaking of Tenspeed Hero
This video is so random that it needs its own post.
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Tenspeed Hero: Sous Les Pavés, La Page Jersey
Tenspeed Hero just dropped a ton of new products into their web shop, but my favorite is the Sous Les Pavés, La Page jersey, designed in collaboration with the Athletic‘s Julie Krasniak! See more at Tenspeed Hero.
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Team Cinelli Chrome Kits
The night before the 2014 Red Hook Crit Brooklyn, Team Cinelli Chrome was announced and now, the Cinelli Winged Store has these racing kits in stock.
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Ruckus Composites Frame Raffle To Benefit Female Cycling
This is making the rounds today and for good reason!
“Ruckus Composites is a Portland Oregon based Carbon Fiber repair business, repairing thousands of bikes a year for customers, bike shops and frame manufacturers. Every so often a bike never gets picked up, and ends up in the dead pile. For several years we have been wondering what to do with these lost souls, this year we cracked the code. Working with local and national non profit organizations as well as grass roots cycling teams, Ruckus will repair and custom paint these bikes and raffle/auction them off to raise money and awareness for causes that we believe in. The proceeds from these frames will go directly to organizations in need, the bikes will go to the lucky winners of the raffles.
The first two frames will be raffled in support of Presented By Let’s Race Bikes (PBLRB). PBLRB is a Oregon based project dedicated to supporting and enabling elite female cyclists to compete on a national level. They are breaking down the financial barriers associated with professional cycling by offering support to female athletes through crowd sourced initiatives. PBLRB has raised money to date with support from The Athletic and Sellwood Cycles in Portland OR. We are excited to work with them and proud to support their efforts in cycling. ”
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California Girls: Latigo Fever
I wish they all could be California Girls…
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Tenspeed Hero: Les Petites Victoires Tri-Color Jersey
I absolutely love what the Tenspeed Hero Women are doing, especially when it comes to their jerseys. The new LPV Tri-Color Jersey is now in stock and it is guaranteed to make you look as bad ass a Dani!
You go girl(s)!
While we’re at it, go follow the TSH Women on Instagram!
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Juliana Introduces the Roubion
Santa Cruz has the Bronson and over at Juliana, the sister company, they have the Roubion, a do-all 150mm travel trail bike, specifically designed for women without holding back on any of the tech benefits. These bikes mean business!
See more below.
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The Rapha Women’s Prestige 2014 Video
I’ve ridden some of this route and it’s amazing but not nearly as amazing as these women, all of which are inspirational to other cyclists, male and female alike. Read up more and see some photos at Rapha!
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Nahanni and Sparrow’s Signal Cycles and TykeToter Seat
The city of Portland and its bike-friendly streets need no introduction. People there have adapted their blocks to child-friendly play zones, their streets are lined with green bike lanes and there are even designated bicycle avenues.
Spending the day with your family, on bikes is a fairly common weekend activity. Especially for Benji from Poler and his wife Nahanni, who take their two daughters, Olive and Sparrow out for rides frequently.
While Olive is old enough for her own bike, Sparrow catches a ride with Nahanni on her Signal Cycles step through commuter via a contraption called the TykeToter.
I’ve never seen this product before, but it’s genius. The TykeToter goes on in seconds, can be used on any bike and gives the child an early introduction into balancing a bicycle.
These two women looked so happy scooting around the neighborhood that I had to shoot some photos!
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Koochella Team Debut at the NSC Velodrome 2014 Opening Night
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Koochella track team? Well, All-City’s engineer Anna Schwinn spoke about them a little while ago on the AC Blog. Turns out, this Thursday (tomorrow) is the team debut at the NSC Velodrome.
Check out that kit and bike!
See the event flier below and more information at All-City!
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The 2014 Ritte WCA Bosberg Charity Bike Auction
To commemorate the the 2014 Tour of California’s women’s circuit race, Ritte is auctioning off a one-of-a-kind Bosberg size small (53cm TT, 44cm ST). All proceeds from the auction will go to the Women’s Cycling Association. Get your bid in now because the auction will only the length of the ATOC: Sunday, May 11th – May 18th.
Head over to eBay to bid and check out more photos below.
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Ride Along: BrittLee Bowman of Stan’s NoTubes p/b enduranceWERX
If you watched the first stage of the 2014 Amgen Tour of California, then hopefully you watched the women’s circuit race. Zipping through the corners, tight in the front group there were a grouping of red and white jerseys: the girls of Stan’s NoTubes p/b enduranceWERX.
One of these ladies, I’ve known for years and watched her grow in the sport. BrittLee Bowman races road for Stan’s and crushes cross for Richard Sachs. She’s a total babe and is one of the most humble, friendly people you’ll meet on a bike.
Right after the women finished their race, I shot some quick photos of BrittLee and her Rosko steel road bike… I love the “muscle” photo!
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2014 Amgen Tour of California: Stage 01 – Sacramento
Sacramento’s projected high temperature was supposed to be 84 on Sunday, yet it felt like the 90’s. I also made the mistake of wearing all-black (again). It was cooking hot, but how could I complain when the PRO racers were out in the real heat, cranking away calories and watts. Luckily for them, the Skratch Labs team was out with Neutral Human Support.
Us on the otherhand, not so much but we did get to drink fresh espresso at the über-new Rapha Mobile Cycle Club and watch the PRO women race for an hour in a fast-paced circuit race around the State Capitol, which became the highlight of the day for me. Not just watching them cook corners well-done, but to see how engaged the audience was and a majority of the passionate fans were women AND it was mother’s day.
There was a lot of love for the women going around, so I reciprocated that by turning my lens to them.
Stage 01 ended with a phenomenal sprint by Cavendish and everyone’s appetite was whet for Stage 02’s time trail in Folsom…
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Manual for Speed: Hydration and Recovery with Team Stan’s NoTubes
Parking lot yoga, hydration, swimming pools, shopping malls and yes, more hydration. Manual for Speed tackles it all with the ladies of Team Stan’s NoTubes!