Missing Saddle is proud to announce its first edition of their Fantasy Cycling Camp to be held in Tucson, Arizona from January 14th through the 17th at The Westin La Paloma resort and spa. This unique fantasy camp will provide attendees a realistic pro cycling team camp experience. Pro cycling celebrity hosts include Danny Pate [...]

Inside Interbike By: Jamie Naragon Every year, cycling professionals and fans alike gather in Las Vegas, Nevada in September to talk shop and hobnob with those in the industry.  This special event, Interbike International Bicycle Expo, is the largest industry trade show in North America. Interbike is the brainchild of Steve Ready and Herb Wekkenkamp  [...]

Thanks to Ben King (Trek-Livestrong), Jon Baker (KFAN Composite Team) and Vince Owens (Z Team) for providing us their views from the saddle of the Tour of Utah. Thanks to Brian Hodes of Veloimages.com for providing Missingsaddle some great photography. Check out his work at VeloImages.com Tour of Utah Stage 4: Photo: ©Brian Hodes VeloImages.com [...]

Thanks to Ben King (Trek-Livestrong), Jon Baker (KFAN Composite Team) and Vince Owens (Z Team) for providing their view from the saddle of the Tour of Utah. STAGE 2 130 km Ben King The last 35 km of today were straight up a mountain climbing to 9000 ft. Since we lost time yesterday, Ryohei, Ryan, [...]

Missingsaddle catches up with our on the spot race reports; Ben King (Trek-LiveStrong), Jon Baker (KFAN Composite Team) and Vince Owens (Z Team). PROLOGUE BEN KING: Since the beginning of the season, I’ve been aiming at one goal. I was optimistic about my broken collarbone in Redlands, because it meant a stronger second half of [...]

Tour of Utah Missing Saddle Rider Profiles Welcome to Missingsaddle’s inside view of the Tour of Utah. Follow with us as Ben King (Trek-LIVESTRONG), Jon Baker (KFAN Composite Team) and Vince Owens (Z Team) provide us their inside perspective of America’s toughest stage race. Here is a look at the cyclists: JON BAKER KFAN Composite [...]

By: Jamie Naragon In just on a week, the Tour of Utah will commence in downtown Salt Lake City.  The six-day Tour begins August 18 and ends August 23.  At over 325 miles, this Tour features more mountain climbs than any other cycling stage race in the U.S.  The Tour begins with a 4.5km prologue [...]

1     Frank Pipp (Usa) Bissell      1:09:00 2     Karl Menzies (Aus) Ouch Presented By Maxxis 3     Jeremy Powers (Usa) Jelly Belly 4     Clayton Barrows (Usa) Crca/Empire Cycling Team 5     Mike Creed (Usa) Team Type 1 6     Bernard Van Ulden (Usa) Jelly Belly 7     Eric Barlevev (Usa) Team Mtn [...]

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Young Rider Profile: Ben King About Me: I’m a lucky guy. I come from a great family with a brother and two sisters. My dad, uncle, and I still train together. I was blessed to race for HotTubes Development Cycling and the US National Team as a junior. You can’t ask for better support. My [...]

DETROIT 6 DAY – August 11, 2009 Day 1 – results 1st – Team USA – Iggy Silva & Nick Console = 83pts 2nd – Team Red – Daniele DeFranceschi & Nick Laughton = 61pts 3rd – Team Stars/Strips – Barry Miller & Blaine Benson = 45pts 4th – Team Pink – Zach Stien & [...]

Getting to Know Up & Comer Vincent Owens; Interview by Tim Clark The Central Valley here in California is very conducive to building strong cycling skills, climbing, time-trialing, descending and those hard days into the winds across the valley floor combined with good weather for most of the year make for the perfect learning lab [...]