Posts Tagged ‘Rock Racing’
Botero Powers Stage 4 Breakaway At Tour Of Britain
Stoke-on-Trent, England — Rock Racing’s Santiago Botero did the lion’s share of the work to ensure his breakaway would successfully stay in front to the finish Wednesday at the Tour of Britain. But when it came time came to contest Stage 4’s uphill sprint on a narrow winding road through the streets of Stoke-on-Trent, Botero [...]
Rock Racing Weathers Crashes At Tour Of Britain
Burnham-on-Sea, England — For all but a handful of riders, the third stage of the Tour of Britain was certainly one to forget – Rock Racing included. The team’s troubles on Tuesday included an early race crash in the rain that took down Tyler Hamilton and Oscar Sevilla, a number of bike changes for Hamilton [...]
Rock’s Sevilla and Rodriguez Well Placed at Tour Of Britain
Newbury, England — Rock Racing moved two riders into the top 12 at the Tour of Britain Monday despite suffering two flat tires and having nearly the entire team get caught up in a crash. Spaniard Oscar Sevilla is 10th, seven seconds off the lead, and American Fred Rodriguez is 12th, eight seconds behind. In [...]
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 [...]
Rocking the Criterium National Championships
Downers Grove, IL — They made the most unlikely pair, Rock Racing and Team TIBCO; fundamentally different in their makeup and markedly divergent in their approach to marketing their teams. Yet, for a weekend their paths converged in the western suburbs of Chicago with both teams leaving with a National Champion among their ranks and [...]
Rodriguez Fights Off Stomach Bug For Second
Salt Lake City — Simply competing in the Toyota Downtown Criterium was an accomplishment for Rock Racing’s Fred Rodriguez Friday night at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. A stomach virus nearly kept the three-time U.S national road race champion from finishing Thursday’s University Health Care Road Race. The unpleasant feeling actually had Rodriguez [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: An Interview With Michael Ball
Whether you would like to admit it or not, Rock Racing has turned the very traditional sport of cycling on its proverbial ear. From their overwhelming presence at races replete with Cadillac Escalades, buses, trailers and a 35 foot rig, to their multiple designed, multi-colored kits, Rock Racing has brought style and sex appeal to [...]
Napolitano’s Runner-Up Finish Caps Rock Racing’s ‘Super Week’
Whitefish Bay, Wis. — Rock Racing got a runner-up finish Sunday and placed two riders on the final podium of the Point Premium Root Beer International Cycling Classic to cap one of the most successful stretches of racing in the team’s history. During 17 days of competition in Wisconsin and Illinois, Rock Racing won six [...]
Rock Racing Announces Winner of First Online Photo Contest
Los Angeles – Rock Racing, the most-talked about team in professional cycling, has named Kyle Kuykendall as the grand-prize winner of the team’s first online photo contest. Launched in early June this year, the contest received more than 400 entries and gave fans the opportunity to share their favorite Rock Racing photos for a chance [...]
Rock Racing’s Hamilton Has Victory In Sight
Huzhu, China — Rock Racing’s Tyler Hamilton is a short circuit race away from earning his first victory in a stage race in four years. Hamilton survived a rather uneventful day in the yellow leader’s jersey Saturday in the penultimate stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake, finishing in the lead pack of 19 riders [...]
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