The Top Sport Stage race isn’t quite a classic yet but it looks like it could become a strong alternative for Elite riders who won’t want to go duke it out with the big shots who show up for San Dimas and Redlands down in the southland. Women 1/2 Metromint showed up in force and [...]
Read more →It’s no secret I’m disappointed that Kenda/5 Hour Energy didn’t get into the Tour of California. It sucks, but it’s great to seem them out on the roads tearing it up like it doesn’t matter. There might not be a TOC for women yet but the big race on the block that’s going to make [...]
Read more →After a year of writing NorCal Cycling News bs… i’m shutting it down. Hernando is gone. He found a girl and basically quit. My lackies, well… they feel like they need to have other things to do on weekends than “write about races i don’t get paid for.” Pansies. I would have been able to [...]
Read more →Redlands is over which pretty much wraps up my interest on cycling in Southern California for the year. Though I mock SoCal they have managed a great set of races with the San Dimas, Redlands week. If the Tour of Marguritte continues to grow California will start to make up ground on Belgium in terms [...]
Read more →Wards Ferry is one of the minor Spring Classics. It’s a cross between Gent-Wevelgem, when it was a mid-week race, and one of the hilly Ardennes races. It gets overshadowed by other Velo Promo Spring Classics like Snelling, and Copperopolis, but it’s a race won by hard heads like Klein, Huffman, and Oliveira. Men’s P/1/2 Weather [...]
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