Archive for August, 2007

High Desert Omnium

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

The High Desert Omnium wrapped up with Sean Passage winning the TT and finishing 2nd in overall points after the 1/2 road race and Bill Warburton winning the Cat3 road race on Sunday afternoon with help from Spencer Bushnell, Scott Gray and TJ Paskewich, who ended up 4th. Brandon Groza managed a 4th place in a “sketchy” criterium Saturday afternoon. We also had and Ericka Luckel and Evelyn Dong racing in the women’s field this morning, finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively in the women 4’s. Ericka also finished 2nd in overall points in her category.

Unlike years past, the weather was cooler so it really made for a fantastic day of racing in Bend. I didn’t see anyone swimming in the irrigation ditches this year. Now if we could only figure out why so few people from the Valley want to race over here…?

Since I don’t have any photos yet from the race today, I’ll post this one of Turner Gutmann, a former TAI Rider, who was in town visiting this past week.

sneaks and blocks
sneaks and blocks

HealthNet Twilight Crit

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Bill Warburton and Spencer Bushnell grabbed some primes at the beautiful Twilight Crit in downtown Portland on Friday before Bill tried to lead out Spencer for the win on the last lap… Spencer, who had already gone down once, skipped a pedal on the last corner so Bill and he ended up 6th and 7th, respectively. It was a demanding course which made it very hard to move up and the rests were infrequent thanks to all the nice primes…

Bill testing his bottom bracket height
Bill testing his bottom bracket height

Brant wins the Tuesday PIR 1/2 race!

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Brant Buchholz won the August 21 Tuesday night PIR race! Nice job off the front!

Woodland RR 2nd Place to Spencer Bushnell

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Spencer Bushnell took 2nd place in the Woodland Cat3 Road Race on August 19. It was a points race, so here’s his explaination of the day:

Downhill State Champion

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

While the rest of us were riding on the pavement, Lev Stryker, owner of Cog Wild Bicycle Tours and an original member of the TAI Cycling Team, was down at Willammette Pass hitting the steep dirt.

Lev ran really well on his first run and tried to go faster on his second, “But I made some mistakes and blew out a couple corners,” he said.

His first run was good enough to win his Expert Men’s 30-39 class. Two State Champs in one day!

T-Shirt Design Contest

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

I’d like to get some team t-shirts printed up this fall. If you’re artistic and want to help come up with a cool design, download this template and send it back to ‘bill at taicycling.com.’ Here’s a PDF with some TAI logos. You can print, cut and paste, work on the computer, or freehand them… Logo Sheet.pdf

I was thinking of a ringer t-shirt, like this one as our base:

OSI Ringer T-shirt

But if you have other ideas, send them my way. I’ll post all the designs here so we can all vote on our favorites!

My first design:

Two designs from Molly Cogswell-Kelley:

Criterium Specialists

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Spencer Bushnell won the cat3 Crawfish Criterium and Tim Jones won the cat3 State Criterium Championships this weekend!

Monica Freeman won the cat4 Crawfish Crit on Saturday and finished 3rd at the women’s cat4 State Race. She’s been working on her upgrade to a cat3 for a while now and she attributes her success in criteriums to riding on the tandem with her husband, Mike, “because it’s more aggressive and really helps with cornering.”

Tim Jones and Monica Freeman on the boxes
Tim Jones and Monica Freeman on the boxes

Sponsorships Sought

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

We’re looking for sponsors for the 2008-2010 time frame. If you’re interested in the team, please take a look at the following flyers for more information regarding sponsorship. Please email Bill at taicycling.com.

Sponsorship Guidelines

Sponsorship Flyer

Mt Tabor photo

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Here’s a photo of Peter Gutwald and Spencer Bushnell leading the pack at a recent Mt Tabor race.