Here’s a few chaps on rollers to wet your whistle. The opening ceremonies have commenced (I took a lap around 9th and 9th with the official roller race torch) and now it’s time to rock and roll. I’ve seen some good trash talk on the blog and I want to see more. People are lining up to give it their best shot. So let me know when you’re coming down.
Who says you can’t wear sweatpants on rollers
Don’t watch this if you use a pacemaker!
And here’s one for all you snow bike fans out there.
Everyone knows the Contender roller race is a fun way to sweat and compete against your buddies as well as yourself. It’s also a great way to learn something about cycling if you’ve never been on rollers before. Here’s how it works. You’ve got 10 minutes to cover as much distance as you possibly can on the rollers. You bring your bike and the desire. We’ll provide the rollers.
Now here’s the twist. February is Valentines and in celebration of that we’re adding a team category to the roller race challenge. There will also be a special prize for that team as well. So now two individuals distances will be combined to make for one result. In an effort to bring in more women participants, couples will be highly encouraged to join in. Now you can still partner up with your bros but the couples prize is going to be so awesome you’re not going to want to miss it.
Now as always the winners of the roller are always determined in a lottery style so everyone is always in the hunt. But for the teams one ticket per team will get in the lottery ticket in the pool and for the co-ed teams five tickets will go in the pool for the team competition. Here’s the breakdown.
Rider who covers the most distance- 15 tickets
2nd most distance- 13 tickets
3rd most distance- 11 tickets
and so on…
A rider will also receive one ticket for each additional attempt as well. Of course I’m always willing to give a few extra tickets for a special attempt but you gotta convince me.
The Roller race will be running from Feb.7th to the 19th. Who can enter you ask? Here’s who. Road cyclists, mountain bikers, triathletes, runners, young and old, tall people, short people, U.S. citizens, illegal aliens, introverts and extroverts. To say the least if you want to join in, we welcome you. Just email me at fitting@contenderbicycles.com or call Contender and tell me the day and time. If you don’t know how to ride rollers I welcome newcomers to learn that first week of February. That’s the skinny. I can’t wait to get it rolling. Let me know what you think.
Patrick
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The Contender Club is the 2010 Utah cyclo-cross overall team champion. And for our efforts this glorious trophy. Congratulations to all the crossers.
It seems that the Draper course isn’t everyone’s favorite but to remind you of the pain and suffering here’s video from the race. Remember The Contender Club is still currently leading the team standings so we need some serious participation to bring this one home. See you out there.
We got a win on Saturday in Ogden with Graham Greenlee taking the honors and several others doing very well in their categories too. The team standings are going to be interesting when they come out. You gotta check out the rear view to see the carnage of one unlucky racer. Trust me it’s worth it.
By the way if anyone has pics send them my way for all to see (fitting@contenderbicycles.com) and post your race reports in the comments. Great job to all those who raced and cheered. See you next time.
Not only are Ross and Graham strapping cameras to their head but now they’ve got a rear mounted one too. Check out thier footage from last week at Draper. Remember that there is still one more race there so if you haven’t done it before this is the inside scoop on the course.
This weekend the race is in Ogden at the Weber fairgrounds and we’ll be there in full force. See you there.
Who is leading the picks? Currently, Dean is the only person to have scored 6 points having picked Cancellara for the prologue, Hushovd for Stage 3 and A. Schleck for yesterday’s stage. However there are multiple people sitting in 2nd with 4 points! Unfortunately right now I am at 0 points. However, I made a bet with Steve at The Coffee Garden that Lance wouldn’t be in the top 5 GC. Unless the Tour changes drastically, it looks like Steve will owe me 5 lattes instead of me owing Steve 3 tubes. So I might not win the picks, but at least I have a few lattes on the way!
It is time for the annual Tour de France Fantasy Picks. This year should be interesting with Vino supporting Contador, Lance & the Landis accusations, Valverde’s exclusion and all the drama that always happens! This year’s Tour looks to be one of the most exciting! Here are the details of the fantasy picks!
There will be points given for each correct pick for the following stages and the general classification. The points value of each stage and classification is listed in parentheses before the stage and classification. The person with the most points wins the Grand Prize Package! There will also be second and third place prize packages! In the case of a tie, the highest number of stage picks will break the tie.
Just copy the following list, list your pick for the win next to each stage and classification and post your list of picks as a comment to the blog. This way we can all follow who is leading the competition. Your picks need to be submitted by Friday night, July 2 since the Le Tour starts on Saturday, July 3!
For information on the stages and to see the latest start list, go to www.cyclingnews.com.
STAGES
(2 POINTS) – PROLOGUE – INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 1 – SPRINTER’S STAGE
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 3 – CLASSIC’S COBBLE STAGE
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 8 – SUMMIT FINISH
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 9 – CLIMBER’S STAGE
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 11 – SPRINTER’S STAGE
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 14 – CLIMBER’S STAGE
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 15 – CLIMBER’S STAGE
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 17 – SUMMIT FINISH
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 19 – INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL
(2 POINTS) – STAGE 21 – CHAMPS-ELYSEES
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
(5 POINTS) – 1st OVERALL (Yellow Jersey)
(3 POINTS) – 2nd OVERALL
(2 POINT) – 3rd OVERALL
(1 POINT) – FLAMME ROUGE (Last Place Overall)
JERSEY COMPETITION
(3 POINTS) – SPRINTER’S JERSEY (Green Jersey)
(3 POINTS) – CLIMBER’S JERSEY (Polka Dot Jersey)
FIRST POSITIVE
(3 POINTS) – FIRST RIDER EJECTED FROM THE TOUR DUE TO A DOPING OFFENSE
PRIZE PACKAGES
1st PLACE PRIZE PACKAGE
$60 Cafe Expresso Dollars
1st Place Hammer Nutrition Prize Package
1 Contender Bicycles T-Shirt
1 pair of DeFeet Contender Socks
2nd PLACE PRIZE PACKAGE
$40 Cafe Expresso Dollars
2nd Place Hammer Nutrition Prize Package
1 Contender Bicycles T-Shirt
1 pairs of DeFeet Contender Socks
3rd PLACE PRIZE PACKAGE
$20 Cafe Expresso Dollars
3rd Place Hammer Nutrition Prize Package
1 Contender Bicycles T-Shirt
1 pair of DeFeet Contender Socks
With the warmer weather upon us, the Sunday group ride is changing to 9 AM. Just meet in front of the shop!
With the weather improving we decided to take a ride up to big mountain for our Sunday ride. Lots of riders were out and we enjoyed a fun ride in shorts.
Join us for the Monday night ride from Contender at 6pm led by the one and only Gary McLaren. See you there!
Is there any other better place to ride than this?
We had the whole road to ourselves
We ran into some good friends Byron and Monty at the top of Emmigration
