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Welcome to Sunrise Sports Cycling Team
LATEST NEWS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 11, 2006 => ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spring Training Series, MI Challenge, Cone-Azalia, Paris-Ancaster Report & the "REAL" Paris-Roubaix!
SPRING TRAINING SERIES Spring has arrived and with it, the racing season has started. The biggest events in Michigan in April are the combined Flying Rhino Cycling Club / Quick Release Spring Training Series, which take place in Waterford and Ann Arbor, Michigan. The FRCC events are 3 races which take place at the Waterford Hills race track, March 25th, April 1st, and April 8th. The Quick Release races take place April 2nd, April 9th, April 23rd and April 30th. To date the series has been raced extremely aggressively. It’s apparent that many of the top Michigan racers are already in excellent shape. The team has raced extremely aggressively and looks to come out of the series well positioned to contest for the overall Michigan Challenge series titles. You can check out the ongoing results for the series at either: MICHIGAN CHALLENGE New changes are up for the 2006 Michigan Challenge points series. This year there will be an overall team competition for the Men Cat I/II category. This team competition will be the #1 goal for the Cat I/II team. Watch for them competing in this series beginning with the Willow Time Trial on April 29th. Check out the full calendar at: www.mbra.org CONE-AZALIA CLASSIC ROAD RACE Members of the Sunrise Sports team will be promoting the upcoming Cone-Azalia Classic Road Race, Sunday, May 7th. This race takes place across the farms and fields of SE Michigan. The terrain is pan flat. The course is a 10 mile loop with 3 miles of dirt roads. Combine the road surface with the strong crosswinds and you have a race that is much like a Belgian spring classic. This race typically ends in a solo victory or small groups of 2-3 riders. Check out the full race information at: www.midwestcyclinggroup.com/index.php PARIS-ANCASTER – Ontario, Canada, April 9th Sunrise Sports team member Andy Weir trekked up to Paris, Ontario to race the LARGEST single day race in Canada, the Paris-Ancaster ENDURO. Andy placed 25th overall out of 1600+ competitors and was the 2nd best placed US racer, after the overall winner, 2005 Michigan Mtn Bike State Champion - Mike Simonson of the Bell’s Beer Mtn Bike Team. Read Andy’s race report HERE PARIS-ROUBAIX The week before the famous Paris-Roubaix road race, Vince Roberge (Sunrise team member racing in Belgium in 2006) was part of a group from the Cycling Center who were filmed riding over a cobblestone section of the Paris-Roubaix course and inside the Roubaix velodrome. This was all part of a special being done on the Cycling Center program for Belgian TV.Check out the AWESOME pictures Vince forwarded on:
Riders traversing the infamous Paris-Roubaix cobblestones
Vince posing in front of the cobblestones
These markers designate the legendary course
The Cycling Center team takes to the banking of the Roubaix Velodrome |
