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07 Aug 2015

Riding in Breakaways at the Brentwood Grand Prix

This past weekend, the SoCalCycling.com Team competed at the Brentwood Grand Prix along San Vicente Boulevard in the upscale city of Brentwood.  The Brentwood Grand Prix, which also hosted the SCNCA Elite Criterium Championships, had an expo area, nice crowd and atmosphere in Downtown Brentwood with over 90 riders lining up to compete for the Elite Criterium Title. The course was technical, challenging and the speed was very fast. The SoCalCycling.com Team rode a great race with representation by Josh […]

22 Jul 2015

Product Review: KMC X11L Silver Chain

If you haven’t used or heard of KMC chains, KMC specializes in making some of the best and most reliable chains on the market around the world. No matter if you are riding BMX, mountain bike, track, fixie or road, KMC makes a variety chains for each type of bike, for various speeds and in different chain weights. The SoCalCycling.com Team has been using KMC chains for the last 9 years. This year our Team bikes are equipped with the KMC X11L […]

09 Jul 2015

Product Review: Smith PivLock Arena Sunglasses

The Smith Pivlock Arena sunglasses are made for the person looking for genuine benefits in performance and function.  After two years of experience using the Pivlock Arenas for countless of hours on the bike I find its lightweight, wide peripheral view, and adjustable nose piece to be the glasses key features. The glasses lightweight and amazing field of view is due to its simplistic build that leaves out a top and bottom frame piece.  Instead, the glasses have a single […]

08 Jul 2015

SoCalCycling.com Elite Cycling Team Launches a New Web Site

We are excited to launch our new web site for the SoCalCycling.com Elite Team! We have added some great new features that we think you will enjoy! The web site will feature the latest Team news, photography, race reports, sponsor profiles and product reviews, results, Team media, an online store and more! We hope that you will visit the new web site often to keep up with the SoCalCycling.com Team as they compete throughout the year! Visit the Team Web […]

29 Jun 2015

On the Podium at the Ontario 4 Corner Criterium

The Ontario 4 Corner Criterium was held on a short .7 mile course that runs on some of the same streets as the popular Grand Prix course. The Pro 1-3 race was only 60 minutes long, so the SoCalCycling.com Team was aggressive and made solid attacks throughout the race in an effort to get something to stick in the hot and humid weather. A break of twelve riders got off late in the race and with a few laps to […]

22 Jun 2015

Making the Podium at the 805 Criterium Weekend, By Wesley Eslick, SoCalCycling.com Team

Day 1 – 805 Hancock Twilight Criterium in Lompoc The Explore Lompoc presents 805 Criterium Weekend kicked off on Friday evening with a twilight criterium on a nice banked 1.3 mile course. This year they put in a nice twist and reversed the courses from previous years which made it fast and hard. The Pro 1/2 race kicked off at 6:45 pm with the wind blowing hard which would make it a hard 90 minutes. Attacks were going off the […]