By David Quist Pre-Coffee Race Report – [tag]Redlands Crit[/tag] Saturday, March 25th, 2006 –More Benjis for da bus in the Beaver Medical Group Criterium— Great course for this crit, an uber-technical nonagon of insanity. I mean, think about it: 90 minutes of racing…maybe 40 laps, with 9 corners, that’s some 360 out of the saddle [...]

With the race shortened to only 3 days, riders had extra fresh legs for today’s Sunset Loop stage. The pace shattered the field with only a select, 30-some group of riders surviving to the finishing circuits. Despite the aggressive riding, [tag]Health Net[/tag] did excellent work keeping the attacks in check, and delivered [tag]O’Neill[/tag] safely to [...]

Phil Z’s prologue report from Redlands, CA.

Redlands Classic Race Report – Stage 1 TT By: David Quist , Team Spine This bitch kitty of a 5k course was more tricky than it looks on paper. Never really flat, the course has some gentle grades (up and down) for the first 3 k or so, with a nice little power climb in [...]

A Conversation With Bob Roll Former pro cyclist and current cycling guru and commentator gets grilled by his business partner for fun and games. By: Jessi Sweeney Pacetti As Bob’s business partner, friend, confidant, therapist, negotiator, entertainer, proofreader, travel agent, financial organizer, crowd buffer as well as a variety of other things, I have learned [...]

Check out the new audioblog section of our site. Becky Broeder reports live from the race with today’s [tag]Central Valley Cycling Classic[/tag] results for Pro Men & Women.

The Central Valley Classic “Report” – Fri. March 10, 2006 by Becky Broeder, staff writer soon to be fired Greetings from The Rainy [tag]Central Valley Classic[/tag], an NRC Omnium, in Fresno, California. Yesterday’s TT came with some controversy as what was advertised as an uphill and short time trial was changed to a 16.5 mile [...]

The recently concluded Amgen Tour of California, an eight-day professional cycling road race, drew more than 1.3 million spectators from February 19-26, 2006, setting records in attendance for any single sporting event in California, as well as for any cycling event in the U.S. The inaugural event, which covered 600 miles of California roadway from [...]

By: Brennon Daly DOMESTIC TEAMS [tag]HealthNet[/tag]– As the dominant team in domestic races over the past two years, it’s fitting that the boys in green and white placed the only rider on a non-Euro squad in the Top 20. Australian time-trial specialist [tag]Nathan O’Neil[/tag] finished [tag]Tour of California[/tag] in fifth. (The result comes despite a [...]

Let’s give Props to Phil Zajicek first off, surviving that crash on the last stage of Tour of California and riding the next day. Second for being the missingsaddle test monkey and letting us revamp his website and start the very first of what is to be many more PRO BLOGS to come. It is [...]

Health Net’s Hadyen Roulston take the 120 mile road stage of the McClane Pacific Bike Classic. That give healthnet a back to back win with Mike Jones Taking numbers at the finish yesterday’s stage BRIEF RESULTS 1 Hayden Roulston (Health Net p.b. Maxxis) 2 Ivan Dominguez (Toyota-United) 3 Mark McCormack (Colavita-Sutter Home)

Merced, CA. 03.04.06 – Brief Results: While it may not be the first NRC event of the year, the [tag]Merced Cycling Classic[/tag] is the first [tag]NRC race[/tag] most domestic teams could actually attend. Toyota-United had a heavy favorite in Juan Haedo, but it was [tag]Health Net[/tag] rider [tag]Mike Jones[/tag] delivering the goods ahead of [tag]Jackson [...]