Monday, April 14, 2008


Bay Crits
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Thomas Town

Skin Dog! After hes race always smiling

Bay Crits
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Thomas Town

Bret dabbling in the stock market before the race....

Bay Crits
Vic
Auz

Bay Crits
Vic
Auz

Thomas Town


Bay Crits
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Auz

Thomas Town

Bay Crits
Vic
Auz

Thomas Town

Crit,
Port Melbourne,
Vic
Auz

Rolling a turn

Crit,
Port Melbourne,
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Auz

Rolling in the break

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Port Melbourne,
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Off the front

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Port Melbourne,
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Bret
Total Rush Team mate in the background

08 Auz U/23 Road National
Riding in Total Rush Colours
Buninyong Vic

08 Auz U/23 Road National
Riding in Total Rush Colours
Buninyong Vic

08 Auz U/23 Road National
Riding in Total Rush Colours
Buninyong Vic

08 Auz U/23 Road National
Riding in Total Rush Colours
Buninyong Vic
08 Auz U/23 Road National
Riding in Total Rush Colours
Buninyong Vic


08 Auz U/23 Road National
Riding in Total Rush Colours
Buninyong Vic

08 Auz U/23 Road National
Riding in Total Rush Colours
FYI - Thought I'd share some good news. If you haven't heard already; we delievered Bobby Lea to a fine win on Saturday at Walkersville. Richard, myself, Clayton, Bill, Bobby and Myself represented in every move and had a fine leadout train from 2 miles out. Bobby's rear derraileur cable was burned (yes you read that correctly) by road flare ash and was stuck in the 11 for several laps. Good thing it was a tailwind sprint!!!
Richard, myself, Bill, Jon E. and myself represented at Pinecone and again represented in every important move. I steamrolled off the front in a crosswind section taking two riders and then outkicked them for the V. Richard was in a chase group and took that sprint for 4th.
Clayton, all by his lonesome, manhandled the entire field by taking two premes, bridging to the break (which got caught) and then taking the field sprint at Tyson's corner! Dang Clayton!

Review - Three races, three wins for this weekend.

Our success is the fruit of everyone's hard work, patience, professionalism and caring. Thanks to all!

Cheers for reading Miles

Hi Guys



Rite Aid Pro Cycling presented by Shebell & Shebell Enjoys Successful Tune-Up at Kirkwood Road Race

4 April 2008
Wayne, Pennsylvania - Rite Aid Pro Cycling presented by Shebell & Shebell marked the end of their 2008 training camp with an impressive performance at the Kirkwood Road Race, a 57 mile circuit race just outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The rolling 7 mile circuit of was made tougher by strong winds and a substantial wind chill, which added extra challenge for the 90 rider field. The pace was high from the starting gun and a break of 5 riders immediately opened a gap of 30 seconds on the field,led by three Rite Aid riders, Jake Rytlewski, Clayton Barrows and the newest addition to the squad, Miles Watson from New Zealand. Strong riding by Stephan Kincaid, Jonathan Erdelyi, Robbie King and another new rider for the squad, Richard Geng from Germany, controlled the field allowing the gap to reach nearly 3 minutes. Rite Aid covered any attempts to bridge ensuring that the break would stay clear to the finish.

With two laps to go, Miles Watson attacked the lead group quickly opening a gap of nearly a minute. Rytlewski and Barrows marked the two riders with them and Watson time trialed the last 10 miles solo into a stiff head wind to take the victory, his first on US soil. Rytlewski eased in for third with Barrows 5th and Jonathan Erdelyi taking 6th.

"It was great to see the boys perform so well today," said Jamie Davis, Managing Director. "It's been a long week of training and they were ready to test their form and team chemistry under racing conditions. They executed our race plan perfectly today and it's nice to start the year with some good results."

The team will be traveling to Maryland, New York, New Jersey, then back to Pennsylvania in the next three weeks for some hard racing before heading south to South Carolina for Speed Week.

Thanks for reading, this was an a piece from the Rite Aid Team Website http://www.riteaidprocycling.com/

Cheers
Hi guys

Hers whats happened here so far
No land line here, I will not be on skype for at least another week.

Flight was good,feeling pretty good, bikes just getting built now for tomorrows ride. We have new frames but old gear until the new components turn up. It's supposed to rain for the next week with slight possibility of Snow. It doesn't get much above 12*s at the moment. Americans are really anal at customers lol.

Not much has happened yet, I got to bed at 1pm American time after I arrived, woke up at 930am. Stayed near New Jersey last night. Received all my kit today,we have our training camp starting tomorrow, most riders are staying at the same house for the training camp. TV's shit here lol.

Will get my blog site updated soon with pics, & will get another report out by the end of the week.

Cheers for reading