Steve Bauer reflects on 2011 season
On the Toronto Star website: You’ll have to pardon Steve Bauer if he’s a little worn out at the end of a long season. The former Canadian cycling great might not be racing the bike anymore, but as the manager of Team SpiderTech powered by C10 in their maiden season on the Continental Pro tour [...]
Boivin 11th at Pan Am Games
From the Canadian Cycling Association: 2011 CYCLING SEASON ENDS WITH ROAD RACES AT PAN-AMERICAN GAMES Numainville comes in sixth place of Women’s race; Boivin places in 11th position (Guadalajara, MEX – 22, 2011) The road cycling season came to an end today with the presentation of the road races at the 2011 Pan-American Games in [...]
Guillaume Boivin to compete in Pan Am Games
On the Canadian Cycling Association website: Tory Nyhaug, David Veilleux, Guillaume Boivin, Laura Brown, Joelle Numainville and Max Plaxton are headlining a well-balanced Canadian cycling team competing at the 2011 Pan-American Games to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, this month, announced the Canadian Cycling Association on Wednesday, in conjunction with the Canadian Olympic Committee … [...]
David Boily named La Presse ‘Personality of the Week’
In La Presse: Pendant que les meilleurs cyclistes du monde étaient de passage au Québec pour les Grands Prix cyclistes World Tour, le Québécois David Boily s’illustrait en Europe en terminant deuxième du Tour de l’Avenir, une course de haut rang réservée aux meilleurs coureurs de moins de 23 ans. Ce résultat est historique pour [...]
Bad luck for Boivin at worlds
On the Canadian Cycling Association website: Guillaume Boivin of Longueuil, QC (Team SpiderTech-C10) was hoping to repeat his 2010 World Championships bronze medal performance from the road race, this afternoon in Copenhagen, Denmark, but he knew heading into the race that it would be no easy task as the lone Canadian rider in the 175-rider [...]
Svein Tuft 13th at time trial worlds
On the Canadian Cycling Association website: Canada’s top time trials specialist Svein Tuft of Langley, British Columbia, rode to a 13th place performance in the Time Trials race at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark on Wednesday … Click here to read the article.
Hugo Houle 26th at U23 worlds
In La Presse: Houle a pris le 26e rang du contre-la-montre des moins de 23 ans aux Championnats du monde de cyclisme, qui s’ouvraient lundi à Copenhague. Trente-deuxième un an plus tôt à Melbourne, il espérait se glisser parmi les 15 premiers au Danemark. Click here to read the article.
SpiderTech’s Roth wins Univest Grand Prix
At velonews.com: Canadian Ryan Roth of Team SpiderTech powered by C10 capped an aggressive team race at the Univest Grand Prix Saturday, winning from a three-man sprint after counter-attacking once teammate Francois Parisien was caught after a 75-mile breakaway … Click here to read the article.
Gilbert headlines Univest GP
On Bike World News: The Univest Grand Prix – the final race on both the National Racing Calendar (NRC) and the UCIAmerica Tour calendar – will showcase some of the top cycling talent on the domestic and international racing circuit this weekend … Click here to read the article.
David Boily: Looking back on a ‘dream week’
In La Presse: Tour de l’Avenir runner-up David Boily looks back on his “dream week” in France. À cinq kilomètres de l’arrivée, quand il a compris que le Tour de l’Avenir allait lui échapper, David Boily a pensé à Laurent Fignon … Click here to read the article.
Boily 2nd at Tour de l’Avenir by just 17″
David Boily scores Canada’s best-ever result in Tour de l’Avenir by finishing second overall, just 17″ behind the winner. At radio-canada.ca: Ce que David Boily craignait s’est finalement produit. Il a dû rendre son bien au pire moment, dimanche, au Tour de l’Avenir .. Click here to read the article.
One more stage for Boily
In La Presse: Le Québécois David Boily, détenteur du maillot jaune du meneur au cours des trois derniers jours, a terminé 33e de la sixième étape disputée sur 153,5 kilomètres au Tour de l’Avenir, samedi … Click here to read the article.
Tour de l’Avenir: Boily still in yellow
In La Presse: À l’issue d’une cinquième étape remportée par le Français Romain Bardet, vendredi au Tour de l’Avenir, le coureur québécois David Boily a conservé le maillot jaune de meneur avec deux étapes à faire à la compétition … Click here to read the article.
Quebec, Montreal gear up for cycling fiesta
Article by Steve Bauer in the Globe and Mail: Tour de France champions, Olympic medalists and national champions from around the globe will compete on the streets of Quebec City and Montreal Friday and Sunday in these only two races on the 2011 World Tour circuit, a 27-race season highlighted by the Tour de France [...]
The magic continues for Boily
In the Journal de Montréal: Même s’il ne reste que deux cyclistes de l’équipe canadienne pour l’aider, David Boily a réussi à conserver le maillot jaune du Tour de l’Avenir jeudi, après avoir pris le 20e rang de la quatrième étape … Click here to read the article.
David Boily takes yellow at l’Avenir
In La Presse: L’Australien Michael Hepburn a remporté mercredi la troisième étape du Tour de l’Avenir, disputée sur 166 km, entre Gérardmer (Vosges) et Porrentruy (Suisse), à l’issue de laquelle le Québécois David Boily s’empare du maillot jaune de meneur … Click here to read the article.
Keven Lacombe: A shock and its after effects
In La Presse: Keven Lacombe se remet bien de sa terrible chute subie au critérium des championnats canadiens, fin juin. Remonté en selle moins de deux mois après une opération majeure, il se surprend même à bien se sentir sur le vélo. Sa saison 2011 est néanmoins terminée. Et l’accident a provoqué chez lui une [...]
SpiderTech playing key role in Canadian success
Excellent article in l’Actualité on why Canadian cyclists are doing so well, and the role Steve Bauer and SpiderTech p/b C10 are playing in that. (Only omission: Alex Stieda’s yellow jersey in 1986.) Que s’est-il produit dans le cyclisme pour que les Canadiens passent de la queue à la tête des pelotons et qu’ils soient [...]
Tuft victory makes a media splash
Svein Tuft’s historic win at the GP Stad Zottegem has made the rounds of Canadian and international media. Here’s a sampling: TSN (Canadian sports network): With 18 kilometres to go, Tuft launched a powerful attack and rode solo for the remainder of the race to win by 36 seconds over Willem Vauteurs of World Tour [...]
Svein Tuft moving to World Tour squad in 2012
SVEIN TUFT MOVING TO WORLD TOUR SQUAD IN 2012 (St. Catharines, ON – August 12, 2011) Svein Tuft of Langley, BC has informed management at Team SpiderTech powered by C10 that he will be moving to a World Tour team  next season. “We are grateful for what Svein brought to the team this year and, [...]
Steve Bauer helps raise hospital funds
At yorkregion.com: Exhausted and considerably lighter, 43 Tour de Bleu cyclists refreshed and plumped up Markham Stouffville Hospital’s expansion fund Sunday … Click here to read the full article.
3 SpiderTech juniors to race worlds
Alex Cataford, Emile Jean and Alizée Brien of the Montreal-based SpiderTech p/b Powerwatts junior team have been selected to represent Canada at the world championships in Denmark. From the Canadian Cycling Association website: (Ottawa, ON – August 04, 2011) The Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) is pleased to announce the athletes who will represent Canada in [...]
SpiderTech part of world-class field in Utah
Press release from the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (July 28, 2011) – Fresh from Paris and the Champs-Élysées, a number of noted professional cyclists next eye the Wasatch Front and the Tour of Utah. Race organizers for the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah confirmed team rosters today … [...]
Keven Lacombe recovering slowly from injuries
In the Abitibi Express: Le cycliste professionnel Keven Lacombe (SpiderTech propulsé par C10) se remet lentement de ses blessures infligées lors d’une chute au critérium des championnats canadiens de vélo sur route, le 26 juin. Sa convalescence de quatre à six semaines pourrait toutefois lui coûter sa participation aux Grands Prix Pro Tour de Québec [...]
