Sunday, March 1st marked the official start of the Kenda Cup West Series with the first installment at Bonelli Park in San Dimas, CA. Over 650 racers participated in the Cross Country and Super D events. The event was put on by the new and improved Team Big Bear, in partnership with Sho-Air. The organizers did a superb job organizing the cycling holiday france event. Pre-race festivities were a carnival-type atmosphere, highlighted by a motorcycle stunt show. Flow MG was represented by Larry Price, Jon Fugitt and Mike Heindel….each sporting the new green team uniforms. Jon finished 6th in the Category 1 Singlespeed event. Larry finished 14th in the Cat 1 45-49 and Mike finished 19th in the Cat 1 35-39. With the sizes of the fields, those finishes were very respectable. Each of these three racers is racing at Vision Quest on March 7th and were using this event as a primer. Southridge #4 – 2/21/09 02/28/2009 1 Comment(s) Saturday, February 21 was the fourth installment of the Southridge Winter Series in Fontana. Racing for possibly the last time in our orange team kits were Jon Fugitt, David Reid and Mike Heindel. Jon dominated the singlespeed 35 and under category for his second win of the season. David and Mike finished 5th and 10th respectively in the Category 1 (Expert) 35-42 category. Southridge is a great training series and we are getting prepared for the first of the Kenda Cup West races (Bonelli Park on March 1st) and the Warrior’s Society Vision Quest (March 7th). Larry Price and Jon Fugitt were also notified that their entries into the Leadville 100 were accepted this year! Southridge Winter Series Race #2 02/08/2009 0 Comment(s) ChannelMTB on Vimeo. 2008 Team Retrospective 02/07/2009 0 Comment(s) Slide show of some mountain bike and road races in 2008. Races include Southridge Winter Series, Ladera Ranch Grand Prix, 24 hours of Adrenalin Hurkey Creek and Rim Nordic Series. 2009 Tour of California Poll Question 01/30/2009 0 Comment(s) Online Surveys & Market Researchpoll expires 02/13/2009 Southridge #2 – January 24, 2009 01/28/2009 0 Comment(s) “The Lone Ranger” Mike Heindel with a big improvement from the first race.The second in the 6-part Southridge Winter Series was held in Fontana on Saturday. Mike Heindel was the only team member available to race and showed significant improvement from the previous event, finishing in 9th place in the Expert Men 35-42 Division. The recent weather made the course faster and the wind was non-existent. It was overcast and cool, absolutely perfect. They also added a section to the course, to include ten more minutes or so per lap – very similar to cycling Dordogne. The new singletrack links up to the backside of last-year’s course – a fun, hilly, somewhat technical singletrack that is a welcome improvement over last week’s route. Not nearly as many people were out compared to the first week, most likely due to the inclement weather around Orange County.