Garneau Evolution starts another season with a dominating 1st and 2nd place win at the dEVo Spring Series #1: River Road. GE’s new man, Greg Christian, took the 110km season opener with minutes to spare over what was left of the group. Christian made a solo attack in the first 10km of the race, while [...]
Our man David Stephens sends this report: On Saturday, Tripleshot Cycling put on the BC Time Trial Championships in Cowichan Valley on the Island. It had looked like there would be no provincial TT champs this year, but at the last minute, Tripleshot came through and put on the event in conjunction with the BC [...]
A report from the Team Coastal Thursday Nighter, 4 August 2011: Jones and I the only GEers. Big group of As at the race. I attack on lap 3, spend a couple alone with a big gap until Zach from HR and that East Coast guy in the red+white Swiss kit bridge, and eventually Schwingboth, [...]
The annual Garneau Evolution Whistler Charity Ride is coming up. This Saturday, August 6, our racers will ride from Vancouver to Whistler—and back—in support of the BC Children’s Hospital. It’s part of our mandate to be a cycling team that’s relevant to its community, both inside and outside cycling. Plus it’ll be one heckuva training [...]
Hill climb results: http://www.allscenes.com/tourdewhiterock/results-homelife.tsp 13. Stephens, David 01:53.65 14. Reams, Jesse 01:53.89 16. Werner, Jeff 01:54.36 19. Thompson, Jason 01:56.43 31. Gerth, David 02:01.50 33. Rothengatter, Mike 02:05.18 37. Buckosky, Kyle 02:08.03 56 starters Best time around was around 1:45.
BC Superweek, the biggest set of races at the peak of the season in the province, starts tomorrow and doesn’t let up for 11 days. GE will be there for every race, with nearly every one of our racing men on the start line. As always there’s Delta this weekend, then White Rock the next. [...]
Update June 16, 10pm: Full results from the prologue: http://goo.gl/IZhTw. Deardon 5th 2:39.3 Stephens 6th 2:40.9 Werner 17th 2:47.9 Thompson 24th 2:51.5 Gerth 26th 2:53.1 Biggar 29th 2:54.0 Martin 43rd 3:00.8 Seven Garneau riders are competing in this year’s Banff Bike Fest: Deardon, Martin, Thompson, Werner, Stephens, Gerth, Biggar. Four of the guys travelled in [...]
Update June 6, 2011, 17:20 Stephens had a ripping time and was 4th after the prologue TT. Then moved to 3rd overall after the first stage RR. Second TT came down a bit, to 10th GC. Waiting for results from today’s final RR. Abercrombie, Stephens and Thompson are racing the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic…right now! [...]
There’s a 5km water-front time trial and the Bastion Square criterium in Victoria this weekend. GE is sending Howard, Werner, Rothengatter, Stephens and Deardon over on the ferry to contest the races. The time trial is a new one for 2011, running along Dallas Road, the former training grounds of Howard and Werner. It’ll be a tricky [...]
GE ran its first Tuesday Nighter of 2011 without a hitch. [Ed. note: In conjunction with our mother-club, Escape Velocity, Team GE volunteers to be one of four, monthly-rotating teams to organize and run a large club race in Vancouver] Weather was good, all races started and ended on time, no reported crashes or disputes, [...]
