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December 13th, 2012
Osprey sponsored mountain bike racers Jake and Nye Yackle show us their skills and awesome attitude toward getting away from the video games and enjoying the outdoors.
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Stage 3: Tom Danielson Wins the Epic Gunnison to Aspen Stage
August 22nd, 2012
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge is the biggest and most challenging bike race ever held on U.S. territory. This year, it’s back with a vengeance. Starting August 20, for seven consecutive days, some of the best cyclists from around the world will take on 683 miles of the Rocky Mountains and ride through some of Colorado’s most beautiful cities. Osprey is proud to be the official pack sponsor of the Challenge and will be bring you photos from each day’s events right here on the Osprey Bike Blog.
Congratulations to Tom Danielson! He blazed through the finish line first to a roaring crowd in Aspen today. The epic Gunnison to Aspen stage features two of the highest climbs in professional racing, the 131-mile Queen Stage—the longest stage of the entire week—and a monster 12,000-foot summit on the famed Independence Pass before a wild descent into Aspen. Needless to say, it was an exciting day of racing!
Stage 1: USA Pro Cycling Challenge Kicks Off—Durango to Telluride
August 20th, 2012
Tyler Farrar crosses the Stage 1 finish line in Telluride, Colorado. Photo: Chris Horton
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge is the biggest and most challenging bike race ever held on U.S. territory. This year, it’s back with a vengeance. Starting August 20, for seven consecutive days, some of the best cyclists from around the world will take on 683 miles of the Rocky Mountains and ride through some of Colorado’s most beautiful cities. Osprey is proud to be the official pack sponsor of the Challenge and will be bring you photos from each day’s events right here on the Osprey Bike Blog.
Tyler Farrar won Stage 1 of the second annual USA Pro Challenge today. The opening stage was anything but tame, with challenges hitting cyclists right away. Starting with a 5-mile loop that encompasses most of Durango, Colorado, the riders headed up hill and out of town and toward Telluride. After a second Sprint Line in the town of Dolores, racers started the gradual canyon climb that lasted more than 30 miles, eventually taking them up and over Lizard Head Pass at 10,222 feet. After the climbers’ first test of the week, they blazed down a 15-mile descent into the narrow streets of Telluride to finish stage one and the first 125 miles of the race.
Congratulations to Farrar and all of the riders who showed us what they had today, we’re excited for a full week of these kinds of performances!
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- Tyler Farrar crosses the Stage 1 finish line in Telluride, Colorado. Photo: Chris Horton
The State of Enduro Racing: Is It The Next Big Thing?
August 14th, 2012
The beauty of Enduro racing can be found on the transition stages with friends: riding along and enjoying the day.
I should preface this piece by stating that I am not an experienced Enduro racer, but rather one that has participated in several races, and likes the idea of a race that is like a ride with friends, but against the clock in the fun sections. The burgeoning excitement over this new style of racing is contagious, but I am unsure of whether to completely jump on the bandwagon of those claiming it’s the next big thing. Is it the next big thing? Can it dethrone the juggernauts that are DH racing and XC?
Yackle Brothers Racing: Putting Osprey Packs to the Test
May 21st, 2012
Waiting At The Start Line During Sea Otter
I am 11-year-old Jake Yackle and I live in Cortez, CO. For four years I’ve been XC Mountain Bike racing in the Four Corners States and for the past two seasons I’ve stepped up to race teenagers and adults in competition. My brother, Nye, and I traveled to the Sea Otter Classic last month to race against nationally ranked 13-14 year-old juniors that are closer to our age.
Before our XC race, each of the three consecutive days, we completed pre-rides on the dry, hot 14.5 mile Sea Otter course. The Osprey Verve 4′s ample water capacity and innovative lightweight design proved perfect to help keep us fresh and energetic for our second most important race of the season.
Yackle Brothers Racing Team Recounts The El Paso Puzzler Race
February 3rd, 2012
Last month, two brother, ages 11 and 9 entered a TMBRA Endurance Series Race, The El Paso Puzzler. In addition to completing the race, the two remained competitive throughout the 35-mile version of one of the toughest course in the country, finishing in 13th and 14th place in the Men’s Open Class Field.
We’re excited to support the efforts of the Yackle Brothers Racing Team, based in our hometown of Cortez, Colorado. Jake and Nye have etched their mark as top national junior XC MTB racers over the last three years, winning National Championship Medals along the way. Challenging themselves seems to be the only logical course for these two top athletes.
The World of Collegiate Cycling by Nitish Nag
March 3rd, 2011
The University of California Berkeley Cycling Team
With the massive growth of high school cycling through the recent inception of the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA), we are seeing a huge boost in the amount of junior cyclists across the country. This is super exciting and promising for the sport to grow in a sustainable manner for the future.
But what happens to all these high school cyclists as they head to college? [Insert superhero music] Collegiate Cycling! Because collegiate cycling gets much less media exposure than high school cycling, many do not even know how it work or exists. The idea was founded initially as the National Collegiate Cycling Association in 1985, and is now under the governance of USA Cycling as USA Cycling Collegiate. Where as NICA currently focuses on just mountain biking, due to the benefit of safety and ease of introduction that mountain biking offers to beginner cyclists, collegiate cycling encompasses road, mountain bike, track and cyclocross — essentially all disciplines of bike racing other than BMX racing. This is really cool because all types of cyclists have a spot in the collegiate program.
