Zach Bell: Gearing up for Olympic omnium
When the track cycling World Cup gets underway in Kazakhstan this weekend, defending omnium champion Zach Bell won’t be there. But that doesn’t mean the Team SpiderTech p/b C10 rider has switched his focus from the velodrome. Far from it. In fact, Bell is in California gearing up for the most important track season of [...]
Mark Batty: Don’t believe the forecast
“Umm Mark, we’re not really getting out of the car?” When the decision was made to go to Beacon Cross in New Jersey there was nothing but sun in the forecast. A day before heading down I take another glimpse of the weather and, sure enough, they’re now calling for 20-30mm of rain, and they [...]
Fan photo contest winners
It was really, really tough, but we have finally chosen a winner for our 2011 fan photo contest. More than 40 people sent us more than 100 photos, and we had a hard time choosing our favourite. In fact, any number of the photos could have been our favourite, but in the end we had [...]
Mark Batty: Emptying the tank before cyclocross nationals
Mark Batty of Team SpiderTech p/b C10 kept it local this past weekend, racing in Barrie, Ont., north of Toronto. Coming as it did at the end of a heavy training block, results weren’t the objective: Last Sunday was the Barrie Cycling Baseball Cross. Unfortunately there was no baseball playing, just full-on cross racing. The [...]
Mark Batty: Podium at last
Team SpiderTech p/b C10′s Mark Batty continues his cyclocross season in preparation for the national championships in Toronto on Nov. 5. Here’s how his last weekend went: Another early morning, another 10-hour drive and another great weekend of racing. Granogue Cross located in Wilmington, Delaware, presented itself with sunshine, blue skies and high teens for [...]
Mark Batty: Back pain and bad luck in Gloucester
While most of his SpiderTech p/b C10 teammates are taking some time off, Mark Batty is racing on the North American cyclocross circuit until the national championships in November. This past weekend Mark was in Massachusetts for the Gloucester Grand Prix … which didn’t go as well as hoped: Writing about the Gloucester races is [...]
Keven Lacombe: Back in the saddle for 2012
If it’s possible to put a positive spin on a broken jaw and shattered teeth, Keven Lacombe can do it. The soon-to-be 26-year-old from Amos, Que., slipped on a corner and crashed heavily in the Canadian criterium championships on June 26, suffering a triple fracture to his jaw and losing several teeth in the process. [...]
Mark Batty: Long drive, stomach issues and mud
For the next two months, Mark Batty will be flying the Team SpiderTech p/b C10 flag on the North American cyclocross circuit. Mark reports on his first weekend of racing: Twelve hours of driving finally gets the van to Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The temperature is quit chilly and the sky is overcast. Friday morning I [...]
Our Favourite Rides: Will Routley (Whistler, B.C.)
All of our favourite rides The riders on Team SpiderTech p/b C10 spend thousands of hours riding their bikes each year, so they get to discover some fantastic training routes. The next in the series is Will Routley with a hilly trek starting from Whistler, B.C.: ” In Whistler there simply aren’t a ton of [...]
Mark Batty: A new season … of cyclocross
While some Team SpiderTech p/b C10 riders duke it out at the world championships and others take a well-earned break before getting ready for 2012, a whole new season is just starting for Mark Batty. For the next two months Mark will be duking it out in the off-road discipline of cyclocross, and he’ll be [...]
Guillaume Boivin ready to tackle worlds
SpiderTech p/b C10 rider Guillaume Boivin is in Copenhagen for the road cycling world championships. He will be the sole Canadian in the U23 men’s road race Friday. The 23rd of September has been circled on my calendar for nearly a year. After finishing third last year in Australia, a day hasn’t gone by without [...]
SpiderTech p/b C10 photo contest
By the time SpiderTech p/b C10′s 2011 season draws to a close next weekend, our fans will have seen us do more than 90 days of racing at 40 different events. That means you’ve all had ample opportunities to take photos of the SpiderTech riders in action — and it also means you could win [...]
Our favourite rides: Simon Lambert-Lemay (Saint-Ours, Que.)
All of our favourite rides The riders on Team SpiderTech p/b C10 spend thousands of hours riding their bikes each year, so they get to discover some fantastic training routes. Next in the series is Simon Lambert-Lemay with his favourite training route from Saint-Ours, on Montreal’s south shore. Simon explains: “C’est un beau parcours le [...]
Hugo Houle: Good start at Tour de l’Avenir
Hugo Houle is competing at the Tour de l’Avenir in France with the Canadian National Team. Hugo was fifth in the prologue Sunday — Canada’s best-ever result at l’Avenir, which is the most prestigious U23 race on the international calendar: Aujourd’hui, avait lieu le prologue du Tour de l’Avenir, course U23 la plus prestigieuse au [...]
Our favourite rides: Zach Bell (West Vancouver, B.C.)
All of our favourite rides The riders on Team SpiderTech p/b C10 spend thousands of hours riding their bikes each year, so they get to discover some fantastic training routes. Next in the series is Zach Bell, who just came back from Team SpiderTech p/b C10′s last European project of the 2011 season, during which [...]
Our favourite rides: Flavio de Luna (Aguascalientes, MEX)
All of our favourite rides The riders on Team SpiderTech p/b C10 spend thousands of hours riding their bikes each year, so they get to discover some fantastic training routes. Next in the series is our Mexican team member, Flavio de Luna, who shares his favourite route back home:: “My favourite ride is a hilly [...]
Zach Bell: Flat roads at last
Zach Bell just wrapped up the final European trip of the season with Team SpiderTech p/b C10. The end of our Euro August tour finally finished on some flats. It was great to find that form that had been building up of the course of a month. The difference between racing at the beginning of [...]
Andrew Randell: Bad karma, black eye
SpiderTech p/b C10′s Andrew Randell is back home after crashing out of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge during Stage 2. Andrew brings us up to date: One year after breaking my femur I’m back on the injured list, the season finished earlier than expected and my chance of doing the Pro Tour events in Quebec [...]
Andrew Randell: Altitude and damaged lungs
Andrew Randell is competing at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge with the SpiderTech p/b C10 team. He posted the 35th-fastest time in the prologue. It’s amazing how much you can empty your body in a short nine minutes. Today was the opening prologue for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, an 8-km time trial that started [...]
Hugo Houle: Hard races and improving form
U23 national road and time trial champion Hugo Houle just finished the Tour de l’Ain and Tour du Limousin with the SpiderTech p/b C10 team in Europe — two of the toughest races of his career. Hugo tells the story: Nous voilà déjà au milieu du voyage. Je viens de compléter le Tour de l’Ain [...]
Andrew Randell: Between races
Andrew Randell is in Colorado with his SpiderTech p/b C10 teammates, where they have been recovering from the Tour of Utah and getting ready for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, which starts Monday. Andrew brings us up to speed: We had a week to kill between the Tour of Utah and the USA Pro Cycling [...]
Zach Bell: Limousin ain’t no plush town car
Zach Bell just completed the four-day Tour du Limousin in the south of France. He brings us up to speed on the experience: That was 4 days of hurt locker … I mean there was some times at a nice easy tempo in this race. However you were almost always going up or going down. [...]
Andrew Randell: Heading to Colorado
Andrew Randell just finished up the Tour of Utah and, along with the rest of his SpiderTech p/b C10 teammates, is heading to Colorado for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Andrew brings us up to date: Sunday was the queen stage of the Tour of Utah, the mountain top finish that everyone was looking for [...]
Our favourite rides: Hugo Houle (Drummondville, Que.)
All of our favourite rides The riders on Team SpiderTech p/b C10 spend thousands of hours riding their bikes each year, so they get to discover some fantastic training routes. Next up is national U23 road and time trial champion Hugo Houle, who offers this 92-km run along the St-François river from his home in [...]
