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Out of Compton…Straight

In this day and age of social media, news travels fast. And when it comes from a source as well followed — 2,431,313 Twitter followers as of this wrtiing — as Lance Armstrong, news not only travels fast, but also broadly. Armstrong’s tweet this morning was a simple one, “This is incredibly cool. Please [...]

Dreams to Reality?

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech remains the seminal moment of the 1960s American civil rights movement. Mainly rhetoric, orated in the Baptist sermon tradition, and filled with anaphora, his words resonate and reverberate worldwide even to this day.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and [...]

Louis Garneau to Sponsor Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling Team

Louis Garneau Press Release
Louis Garneau is proud to announce the sponsorship of the Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling Team. The Bahati Foundation, founded by Rahsaan Bahati, is a non-profit organization that inspires and empowers underprivileged youth to rise above their circumstances. Their stated goal is to work with our partners in helping today’s underprivileged youth overcome [...]

Rock Racing’s Bahati Headlines Sunny King Criterium

Culver City, Calif. – United States criterium champion Rahsaan Bahati of Rock Racing will headline a star-studded field at Saturday’s Sunny King Criterium, a National Racing Calendar (NRC) event.
Bahati will be joined by Rock Racing teammates Cesar Grajales and Nic Sanderson for the 60-lap race around a four-corner, 0.7-mile course that serves as the centerpiece [...]

Bahati’s Top 10 Finish Leads Rock Racing In London

London — Rahsaan Bahati led Rock Racing with a fifth place finish Sunday on Stage 1 of the Tour of Britain.
Competing for the first time as a professional in Europe, the reigning U.S. criterium champion said he was on the wheel of stage winner Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes-Ballan) in the closing moments of the 53.5-mile [...]

Bahati Makes It Two-In-A-Row For Rock

Blue Island, Ill. — For the second straight night, Rock Racing was unbeatable in a criterium at the Point Premium Root Beer International Cycling Classic.

This time it was Rahsaan Bahati who did the honors, winning the St. Francis Hospital Blue Island ProAm Saturday in Blue Island, Ill.

In Friday night’s opener to the 17-day race series, [...]

Rock Racing’s Bahati Rules Manhattan Beach Again

Manhattan Beach, Calif. — Rahsaan Bahati won his sixth race of the season in convincing fashion Sunday, scoring an impressive second straight victory at the 47th edition of the Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix.
Bahati swept across the finish line on a sun-splashed afternoon at Live Oak Park ahead of runner-up Ricardo Escuela (Successful Living presented [...]

Rocking Harlem Classic With Bahati’s Runner-Up Finish

As 53rd Tooth reported (see comments), the winner of the 35th annual Skyscraper Harlem Cycling Classic “threw the bike across the finish line and put his rig and his face on the pavement immediately thereafter.”
“Throwing” may seem very simplistic on the surface but its a technique that needs practicing, even if you’re in the professional [...]

To Dream

I have been called a “dreamer.” But that often carried a negative connotation by the people that label me as such. I preferred to view myself in the context of what Harriet Tubman said about the dreamer, “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and [...]