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Cameron Cole (NZL/Maxxis-Rocky Mountain) and Darian Harvey (Durango, Colo./Cannondale) won the men’s and women’s downhill contests at the fourth stop on USA Cycling’s Pro Gravity Tour, the Yankee Clipper at Windham Mountain, in commanding fashion. Logan Binggeli (Saint George, Utah/KHS) took the men’s 4X title over a small pro men’s field while Harvey won the women’s contest. For complete results from the Yankee Clipper in Windham, N.Y. click here.
With four of five Pro GRT downhill events complete, Chris Heath (Durango, Colo./Manitou-Hayes) and Darian Harvey (Durango, Colo./Cannondale) lead the first-ever Pro GRT. The latest version of the USA Cycling Pro Gravity Tour downhill standings are as follows:
Men’s Standings
1. Chris Heath (Durango, Colo./Manitou-Hayes) 149
2. Kain Leonard (Gunnison, Colo./Crested Butte Mountain Sports) 100
2. Joey Schusler (Boulder, Colo./Yeti-Fox Shox) 100
4. Chris Boice (Albuquerque, N.M./Yeti) 90
4. Cameron Cole (NZL/Maxxis-Rocky Mountain) 90
4. Aaron Gwinn (Morongo, Valley, Calif./Yeti-Fox Shox) 90Women’s Standings
1. Darian Harvey (Durango, Colo./Cannondale) 280
2. Rachel Bauer (Aspen, Colo./Bansee-Poison) 140
3. Jacqueline Harmony (Tucson, Ariz./Vixen-Loeka) 130
4. Jennifer Wolf (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.) 104
5. Addie Stewart (Roy, Utah/Go Ride-Hayes) 100
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Cycling Mt. Bike – Marin’s Mt. Tamarancho Mountain Bike Trails Best Bike Deal Near San Francisco!
Once upon a time, while desperately looking for lodging during a rainstorm in Kyoto, JAPAN — (true story), the front desk attendant of a ryokan lodge told my friend and me that the price for one night’s lodging was upwards of $150. Far more than we could afford, we attempted to negotiate with her. She looked at us, and said in perfect English: “You pay for quality.”
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Lance Armstrong can’t remember the last time he raced 65 miles by himself.
“I don’t know, maybe when I was a young, young kid,†he said. “You would never do that on the Tour, so none of the Tours I won.
“Quite literally in those Tours, excluding time trials, I probably rode alone for 20 miles. … It’s been a long time since I was time trialing for that long.â€
So strong was Armstrong on Saturday that he left the rest of the field in the mud just 35 miles into the lung-searing Leadville 100 mountain bike race, winning the nation’s highest-altitude endurance test in record time.
Despite racing through freezing rain at the start, which made it difficult to shift gears on the foreboding descents on a flat back tire for the final 10 miles, Armstrong shaved nearly 17 minutes off the record, winning in 6 hours, 28 minutes, 50 seconds…Â Details