2020 has been a tough year for everyone, and bike racing has been no exception. With the racing season effectively canceled in the US, and having lost last years’ season to a broken femur I was looking for something to train for and challenge myself. Everesting has been something I’ve contemplated doing for a bunch of years now since I love climbing and love pushing my limits but the ebb and flow of rest, training and racing never felt like […]
If someone would have told us last summer, when we began preparations for the 2020 SoCalCycling.com Team race season, that a worldwide pandemic would take place and cause a catastrophic health crisis and an economic shutdown that included putting cycling events on hold, it would have seemed unimaginable! As we prepared for 2020, the excitement built as new partners Richard Duquette and the Law Firm of Richard L. Duquette and Pacific Premier Bank became partners and a strong roster with […]
Having just arrived in the US from Mexico about two weeks ago and doing the CBR Circuit Race in Dominguez Hills was a good experience after finishing third behind my SoCalCycling.com Team teammate Rene Corella. Racing here in the US is a brand new experience for me. So far the crowds were amazing during these two days of bike racing at the Tour of Murrieta. In the first stage of the Tour of Murrieta criterium, I saw that we had solid, […]
I have been using Continental tires for many years now and so have the riders on the SoCalCycling.com team with great success. When I saw that Continental was updating their road clincher tires with a Continental Grand Prix 5000 model, I was thinking that it was going to be hard to create a better tire than the popular Continental GP 4000 tire. Plus a lot of other manufactures were coming out with new tires and big name brands that make […]
