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June 2010

While registrations have completed for the 2010 season, we are still accepting Women and Multi-Sport racers. All other categories will be reviewed on a case by case basis. Please contact Matt for more information. _________________________________

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Portland Velo Race Team Sponsors
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DeFeet

Upper Echelon Fitness

Madison's Grill and Catering

VeloVie Bicycles

Rudy Project

Clif Bar

Pactimo

The Human Bean

Sportsbalm

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Portland Velo Race Team

Welcome to Portland Velo's race team! In our third season and now numbering over 80 racers, Portland Velo more than exceeded any expectations. With 40 victories, 100 podium finishes and 13 state titles, Portland Velo finished 3rd Overall in the OBRA Team BAR behind two teams that race mainly in Southern Oregon's smaller fields.

It’s pretty cool how this team was formed. We started out with a handful of riders, hammering each other every Saturday morning and laughing about it afterwards at our favorite coffee shop. This weekly barbaric ritual went on for a couple of years before we finally decided to start our own team so we could share our passion for pain with others. Today we are over 80 riders strong covering the majority of racing categories and disciplines, including road, stage races, mountain biking, track, and cyclocross. When we're not riding, we’re talking about it several times a day through our race team forum. It’s here we communicate race results, impromptu rides, or if you’re feeling kind of feisty, you can talk some smack.

With all of the amazing sponsors and resources we have, watch out for Portland Velo to be one of the top teams in the state of Oregon in 2010.

If you want to hear what the buzz is all about contact Matt D'Elia by email.

Notes From Our Directeur Sportif

July 2010

The team has had a busy June and start of July. Summer has finally arrived, and with it the first of the OBRA Championship races. To kick off June, we had a small handful of racers in the first major stage race of the summer, the Mt Hood cycling Classic. Brendan Treacy gutted it out in the pro race, with Alex Kroman and Mitch Lee in the Cat3, and Jeff Pollock in the Cat4. Mitch placed 6th in the GC which was enough for him to receive his upgrade to Cat2. Mitch is the first home grown Cat2 from PV, and we are incredibly proud of his achievement. Jeff Pollock took 2nd on the GC in the Cat4 race, which combined with his strong showing the rest of this year earned him his Cat3 upgrade. Congrats to the both of them!

Other highlights of June included Kevin O'Connell and Todd Rosier winning their divisions in the Vernonia Short Track MTB Race, Javad Simonsen's first career win coming over at the PIR Short Track Series, and Cindy McCasker, Al Ledesma, Judi Davis, and Susan Chamberlain going 1-4 at a PIR Monday night race. Cindy capped off a huge June by winning the Points Jersey for the woman's race on Monday night for the June series, along with winning the Firecracker TT and coming in second place in the Firecracker Crit.

After accumulating enough points in the Cat4's by winning the 7/8 Omnium event, he was given the option to race as a Cat3 in the OBRA Track Championships this past weekend. Brian decided to go test himself in the Cat3 group and ended up winning the OBRA Championship in the Kilo, Match Sprints, and 4k Pursuit on back to back to back days. Huge congrats to Brian! Joseph Boquiren also won the Cat4 4k pursuit! Awesome work to our newest State Champions.

In the upcoming weeks we've got a crew heading to Bend for the Cascade Classic, a number of people competing in the Larch Mountain Hillclimb Championship, and the crew continuing to pound sand (and dirt, and rocks, and gravel) out at the PIR short track events.

In closing, I'd like to thank Russ Speirn for his 2+ years of work as our order coordinator for our Clif sponsorship. Russ will be passing the baton to Steve Steiner starting on the next order. Big thanks to the two of you for your involvement.
See you next month!
-m

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