Bronze for an Angel!

The Sprinter has arrived!

Naiqwan "Angel" Pellman, a 14yr. old Junior, raced all the events as a Cat 5 Senior in a 3 day weekend marathon call the OBRA Senior Track Championships, and won a Bronze medal in the Match Sprints.

Showing two laps of big speed in the 3 and 3/4 laps Kilo TT, Friday night, even the announcer took notice.

But it was the full schedule of Match sprints the next day, Saturday that revealed the true Sprinter.

In one of the "3-up" sprints his team-mate Dey Shaun Lee helped keep back the opposition by not chasing his teammate, confusing the lone chaser.

Both Juniors raced in the Points race together in a field combined with the Cat 4s. While they got shelled and lapped despite the efforts of blocking ex-teammates Cameron Duff and Aubery Edwards, they were still crowd pleasers.

The significance of this day is that our Juniors our able to race and hold their own in the Adult's divisions. While Dey Shaun has been showing signs of this new status starting with his winning of a point against New Zealand pro Aaron Tuckerman in the Thursday Points race two weeks before, this Championship weekend seals the deal.

Kisses for Grandma!

Race of Truth in Peoria!

After racing in the Individual Time Trial against the cruelty of the watch, Cyclisme racers were thrilled by the hospitality of Grandma Hansen. Jake's Grandma Margaret can really lay out a spread, and aided by Uncle Mark on the grill and "Pop" on the social repartee, the scene was a blast.

Serendipitously, Jake's Grandparents live two miles away from the finish line of the State Time Trial in Peoria, Oregon.
Little Devin Morago almost went the distance to their home by accident when he didn't notice his race had ended. We found the kid pedalling down the road after we ran to pick up a thermos of coffee from Grandma earlier in the day.




It was a great Cyclisme gathering with the Gerwings, the new women's team, and elder Master Marc Brewer, but the Juniors were just beside themselves in the environment of food, drink, and Grandmotherly care. They didn't want to leave.

Racer to Watch!

Daphne Moore is making
a come back from over a year off, and it's working!

Charging up Mt. Tabor in the tough Master's Women
Division, she has also won so many
Open Women's category races at PIR that they gave her the green "Leader's" jersey.

Now courted by womens'powerhouse teams like BicycleAttorney and SorellaForte she would do well to come race for Word RCB where she would be a well respected Captain on an up-beat crew of up-and coming Champions.

"I just want some women that will go out with me and do the training miles," Daphne says.

Tell her about Larch Mountain ladies!

Track, PIR, Short Track, and Tabor are racing!

Training on the velodrome,
Cyclisme racers are getting ready to put the Word-RCB name on the board at the double point OBRA State Champs Fri/Sat/Sun.

Every week there is a lot of racing. Mielle, herself a green jersey winner at PIR, has changed up and is now covered in mud and winning on the short track.


Meanwhile her teammate Sarah Hunter just went off the front for three laps at PIR on a windy night only to get caught by one chaser in a shattered field, finishing 2nd.


Veteran road captain Catherine Cooper is sprinting her way to the top, and leads the Cat 4 Track BAR heading into the State Track Champs at Alpenrose.

Women Warriors wear Word!

Power on the Volcano
by
J.Fritzgerald B.

Racing on the red hot volcano of fun, a variety of Word RCB veterans and new recruits rode the alpine slopes and wicked descents at a vicious pace. Four women Mielle (right in S&M), Sarah (left in the kit), Alex(purple), joined our Catherine "Hana" Cooper to explore the meaning of Cyclisme.

Catherine "Hana" met Mielle, and Sarah while racing at PIR on Monday nights. Mielle won the lime green leader's jersey for May in the Novice Women!

Now I am proud to announce these fast women are joining the ranks of Word-RCB to defend The Lore.
Welcome women.

Photo in toto!

By John Benenate
Photos credit: Catherine Cooper, Sonny Chiago & Jim Cavanaugh

With all the different schedules amongst many diverse personalities,
it is rare when a whole amateur cycling team can show up
at the same place
at the same time.



The one event that traditionally brings the whole team together is the team photo.


Team blended with family,
and in the parking lot of
River City Bicycles,
all were part of the Team.



Patrons David Guettler and Mark Ontiveros took time from an incredibly busy sales floor to don the green and black of Cyclisme and take their rightful,
and old place in The Lore.



Though no miles were logged the time together felt as if a long time coming. Pride led to excitement as the power and import of Word RCB was made evident.

Unfortunately none of the photos turned out very well.
Certainly not enough representative of Cyclisme quality to be fit for showing off to the competition on the RCB wall,
and with key people missing,
it was a bit of a wash anyway.

The good news is
we will have to meet up
and all get together again.

I for one,
am always very proud to see you all together.

Sisters Stampede MTB Race, by Greg

For the inaugural edition of the Stampede, Csaba's family and the O'Brien clan rented a sweet house in the Tollgate area of Sisters for the long weekend. We all arrived late Friday, and spent Saturday relaxing and playing with the kids until about 2 when Csaba and I rode to town to pick up our numbers, etc for the race. We then rode a few miles of the course to check it out. Despite the recent rains, the course was pretty darn dry.

Csaba riding smooth!

On Sunday morning, a few raindrops were present as we rode to the start. A big crowd was there, which was great to see for a new race. We started as a huge group of all age groups of men's Cat 2's and singlespeeds. I staged late and had a pretty crummy position. The start was a dirt road that wound around for a bit before getting into the woods. For what seemed like 4 or 5 miles, we were on wide trail/doubletrack that helped to spread out the field. I felt good and went hard to get closer to the front before hitting the long singletrack sections.

Huffin' and Puffin'

The course was 29 miles, and it was fast with no real long sustained climbs. You really had to focus, as there were many, many rocky sections that came up right after speedy descents on lightly bermed fast trail. The penalty for crashing could be severe on some of the hillside traverse sections.

Birthday Boy Mike

I was able to push it hard with no cramping and finished 4th in the Cat 2 45-54 field. Former Cyclismite Justin Serna and I worked well together pushing a hard pace for quite a while before he got up the trail by a minute or so near the end.

All in all a great vacation weekend and race!

Greg

Photos courtesy of Oregon Velo and InFocus Eye Care