Tour of the Gila goes UCI

[mewmewmew13]

where can I follow this? no stream I assume?

Twitter best hope....@tourofthegila

It's a great race!!

 

[mewmewmew13]

Chris Baldwin unofficial 5th!
rooting for him AND Tom Zirbel!!

 

[mewmewmew13]

http://thetourtracker.com/2012_gila_apps/

 

[md2020]

The tracker was pretty worthless today.

 

[dolophonic]

Great race, better than a lot of others... was exciting when Teco's was there...
Real grass roots event,worth some support.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Thanks for bringing this thread back.

If the races are run well, I think there's very good long-term potential for races like Gila, Tour of Utah, Cascade Classic, etc. to end up as UCI races. We'll see...

 

[CQmanager]

Great race, better than a lot of others... was exciting when Teco's was there...
Real grass roots event,worth some support.

I have to agree ...

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

1 Rory Sutherland (Aus) UnitedHealthcare 3:45:43
2 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Bontrager-Livestrong Team 0:00:12
3 Chad Beyer (USA) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team 0:00:14
4 Sebastian Salas (Can) Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefits Strategies
5 Chris Baldwin (USA) Bissell Cycling 0:00:33
6 Marc De Maar (AHo) UnitedHealthcare 0:00:39
7 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team 0:00:52
8 Luis Enrique Lemus (Mex) Mexican National Team 0:01:02
9 Cesar Grajales (Col) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team
10 Carlos Lopez (Mex) Mexican National Team 0:01:14
11 Phil Gaimon (USA) Kenda 5 Hour Energy
12 Chris Butler (USA) Champion System 0:01:22
13 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Team Type 1 - Sanofi
14 Nate Wilson (USA) California Giant Cycling Team 0:01:27
15 Max Jenkins (USA) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team
16 Tyler Wren (USA) Jamis-Sutter Home 0:01:33
17 Mathew Cooke (USA) Team Exergy 0:01:44
18 Nathan English (USA) Kenda 5 Hour Energy 0:01:50
19 Chris Winn (Aus) Juwi Solar 0:02:02
20 Andrew Bajadali (USA) Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefits Strategies
21 Evan Huffman (USA) California Giant Cycling Team 0:02:08
22 Andy Jacques-Maynes (USA) Kenda 5 Hour Energy 0:02:09
23 Jonathan Hornbeck (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling Team 0:02:22
24 Michael Creed (USA) Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefits Strategies 0:02:28
25 Morgan Schmitt (USA) Team Exergy
26 Tom Zirbel (USA) Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefits Strategies
27 Hector Rangel (Mex) Mexican National Team
28 Jose Edmundo Robledo (Mex) Mexican National Team 0:02:42
29 Ignacio Sarabia (Mex) Mexican National Team
30 Craig Lewis (USA) Champion System


very good result from luis lemus. he is only 19 years old and one of mexicans enormous talents from the 1992-1994 generations.

16 Team Rio Grande 0:11:02
17 Hagens Berman Cycling Team 0:11:10
18 Ekoi.com- GASPESIEN 0:12:48
19 Jetfuel Cycling Team 0:14:24
20 BMC - Hincapie Sportswear Devo 0:14:40

painful how much that bmc u23 squad sucks. I can't belueve what s*** riders they got

 

[42x16ss]

Thanks for bringing this thread back.

If the races are run well, I think there's very good long-term potential for races like Gila, Tour of Utah, Cascade Classic, etc. to end up as UCI races. We'll see...

Agreed. I probably shouldn't reopen this chestnut but this is the type of race the UCI should be looking at to extend their presence beyond Europe, along with others like Turkey, Oman, San Luis and Langkawi.

Not "manufactured" races like Beijing, Qatar, USPCC and (to some extent) ATOC.

 

[Kazistuta]

1 Rory Sutherland (Aus) UnitedHealthcare 3:45:43
2 Joe Dombrowski (USA) Bontrager-Livestrong Team 0:00:12
3 Chad Beyer (USA) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team 0:00:14

(...)

very good result from luis lemus. he is only 19 years old and one of mexicans enormous talents from the 1992-1994 generations.

One would think it was an even more impressive effort by the young Dombrowski - he's 19 as well (though turning 20 in eight days) and even though he seems a bit fragile, he's a great climber.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Agreed. I probably shouldn't reopen this chestnut but this is the type of race the UCI should be looking at to extend their presence beyond Europe, along with others like Turkey, Oman, San Luis and Langkawi.

Not "manufactured" races like Beijing, Qatar, USPCC and (to some extent) ATOC.

I don't get this. Compared to Oman the Tour of Qatar is already a long-lasting classic.

And no, I don't want to see the Tour of the Gila upgraded to any category higher than 2.1 - I just don't want to see all those boring riders/teams you already see in every other WT race. Gila should stay a domestic race with only few foreign teams (especially from Latin America). Further upgrades would change the whole character of the race, with more infrastructure needed etc. - it should stay just like it is.

 

[Tragic]

I don't get this. Compared to Oman the Tour of Qatar is already a long-lasting classic.

And no, I don't want to see the Tour of the Gila upgraded to any category higher than 2.1 - I just don't want to see all those boring riders/teams you already see in every other WT race. Gila should stay a domestic race with only few foreign teams (especially from Latin America). Further upgrades would change the whole character of the race, with more infrastructure needed etc. - it should stay just like it is.

Silver City is a pretty small town a long way from anything else. Having LA etc in 09 and 10 stretched the capacity of the infrastructure, can't imagine higher than 2.1.

To the race: Armstrong back to 09 form when she cleaned up without a team. Her only risk is leaving it all out on the road in the TT and being vulnerable to an attack on Sunday. Don't know how Sutherland time trials, but he's probably looking over his shoulder at Baldwin and Mancebo, at least. Young Joe Dombrowski could surprise----

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Sutherland has been a more then decent TT rider back in his Rabo years. The decisive stage will be the Gila Monster, as always.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

One would think it was an even more impressive effort by the young Dombrowski - he's 19 as well (though turning 20 in eight days) and even though he seems a bit fragile, he's a great climber.

dombrowski turns 21 in a few days actually.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Sutherland has been a more then decent TT rider back in his Rabo years. The decisive stage will be the Gila Monster, as always.

it wouldn't surprise me to see mancebo do a better itt than sutherlandf though. mancebo developped into amazing itt rider and sprinter in usa

results of 2nd stage:

1 Eric Young (USA) Bissell Cycling 3:04:25
2 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team
3 Chad Beyer (USA) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team
4 Anibal Borrajo (Arg) Jamis-Sutter Home
5 Hector Rangel (Mex) Mexican National Team
6 Marc De Maar (AHo) UnitedHealthcare
7 Jesse Goodrich (USA) Juwi Solar
8 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Team Exergy
9 Georg Preidler (Aut) Team Type 1 - Sanofi
10 Rory Sutherland (Aus) UnitedHealthcare

 

[XlandaluzeX]

6 Marc De Maar (AHo) UnitedHealthcare

edit: Aho = Netherlands Antilles... what a bully

 

[dlwssonic]

Chad beyer ain't a bad rider at all, he might go back to BMC.

 

[janraaskalt]

One would think it was an even more impressive effort by the young Dombrowski - he's 19 as well (though turning 20 in eight days) and even though he seems a bit fragile, he's a great climber.

...and appears to have improved TTing a lot!

 

[mewmewmew13]

edit: Aho = Netherlands Antilles... what a bully

lol
thought it stood for something else
jk

 

[Tragic]

OK, presuming no major changes from the crit, the Gila Monster should be a cracker, with CC and Livestrong (and maybe Bissel) trying to knock off Sutherland. It's a tricky course - the last long climb ends with about 15 miles to go, after that its bumpy but only gets hard in the last 500 meters, not enough to get a lot of time.. I would look for some attacks on the Sapillo.

Oh yes, hear Phinney won at some race in Italy, Chapeau.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

1 Alejandro Borrajo (Arg) Jamis-Sutter Home 1:33:40
2 Anibal Borrajo (Arg) Jamis-Sutter Home
3 Luca Damiani (Ita) Kenda 5 Hour Energy
4 Eric Young (USA) Bissell Cycling
5 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team
6 Weimar Roldan (Col) Colombian National Team
7 Edwin Avila (Col) Colombian National Team
8 Chad Beyer (USA) Competitive Cyclist Racing Team
9 Gavin Mannion (USA) Bontrager-Livestrong Team
10 Shawn Milne (USA) Kenda 5 Hour Energy

 

[Kazistuta]

dombrowski turns 21 in a few days actually.

Yeah, miscalculated - but still young, talented and "tres impressive"

 

[mikeNphilly]

Nice stage yesterday, Craddock looks to have a bright future, and Sutherland just keeps on winning. Wish Paco would have done better, but he is always a great climber, and local guy Tyler Wren did a pretty good job.

Congrats to Armstrong for winning as well.

Was a great race as always, look like people had a great time watching it.