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Tour of Utah Stage 4

Obligatory “at-speed” blurry shot of T-Bird on the finishing climb of Stage 4 of the Tour of Utah.

Tyler Hamilton

Tyler Hamilton, a little closer.

I had to step back after this last shot, afraid of pulling a bonehead move like the guy who knocked down Giuspeppe Guerini on l’Alpe d’Huez [...]

Tour of Utah Stage 3

Rock Racing & Simple Living riders in an early break.

Garmin-Chipotle pulling the field to chase down the breakaway riders.

Almost 200 photos taken altogether … these were the only two of the actual race worth keeping. I’ve got a lot of work to do on action shots.

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(Crack) Rock at Contender

This crossed my email inbox today:

CONTENDER BICYCLES TO HOST IN-STORE SIGNING WITH CYCLING STARS TYLER HAMILTON AND FREDDIE RODRIGUEZ OF ROCK RACING

Contender Bicycles will be hosting an in-store signing with Tyler Hamilton and Fred Rodriguez of Rock Racing on Saturday, August 16 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. This is a great opportunity to [...]

Ouch!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture that more accurately or effectively depicted the phrase “oh, shit!”

View the entire sequence at Velonews.com:

http://www.velonews.com/photo/81241 http://www.velonews.com/photo/81242 http://www.velonews.com/photo/81243 http://www.velonews.com/photo/81244

Just looking at the pictures hurts.

Reserving judgment

VeloNews | Rock Racing launches fund to help injured bike racers.

Michael Ball, owner of the Rock Racing team, says he and his companies will contribute “hundreds of thousands” of dollars to launch a fund to help elite racers who seriously injured while racing.

“Let’s do the right thing for these guys,” Ball told VeloNews.

[...]

Merckx disses (Crack) Rock Racing

VeloNews | Merckx: Happily retired and carefully weighing his options

[Axel] Merckx was close to rejoining the peloton in a much more active way after opening negotiations this spring to join Rock Racing as a sport director, but the deal fell through following differences with team owner, Michael Ball.

Merckx told the Belgian daily La [...]

So it appears I was wrong …

Tour de Georgia finishes tomorrow, and (Crack) Rock Racing hasn’t imploded yet. Definitely have to back off my prediction, although I’m not sure how happy the team is going to be with Oscar Sevilla’s 6th place finish …

But what’s the story with Tyler Hamilton being 41-minutes back? The twin not helping him pedal this [...]

(Crack) Rock in Georgia

Kinda scary when a team’s top-ranked rider on a flat stage is a climber, who finishes 40 spaces ahead of the team’s sprinter.

RESULTS

14 – Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Rock Racing 23 – Kayle Leogrande (USA) Rock Racing 50 – Fred Rodriguez (USA) Rock Racing 51 – Tyler Hamilton (USA) Rock Racing 54 – Santiago [...]

Hey, (Crack) Rock!

Rock Racing Reveals Rosters For Tour de Georgia, Sea Otter.

Culver City, Calif. — Rock Racing will field a line-up for the Tour de Georgia presented by AT&T that includes a world time trial champion, an Olympic gold medalist, Tour de France yellow jersey, polka-dot jersey and white jersey wearers and a three-time U.S. national [...]

Too Funny!

VeloNews posted the following article after my earlier post today on Rock Racing and the Tour de Georgia.

Michael Ball: Georgia’s promoters had one condition, “Don’t freak us out.”

Rock Racing team owner Michael Ball said Friday that his team earned an invite to the Tour de Georgia based on just one simple condition.

“They [...]