2008 Tour of Pennsylvania
by umwolverine on Jun 16, 2008 9:53 AM EDT
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PrintThe race runs June 24th thru June 29th. It is described as a Tour de France-style espoir race. The race will cover 450 miles of Pennsylvania's rolling terrain.
Official website: http://www.tourofpa.com/
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June 24th Tuesday |
Stage 1A 10AM Stage 1B 6:30PM |
Philadelphia Time Trial (Memorial Hall) Philadelphia Criterium (Memorial Hall) |
2.5 miles 30 Miles |
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June 25th |
Stage 2 10AM |
Downingtown to Carlisle |
91 miles |
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June 26th |
Stage 3 10AM |
Camp Hill to Bedford |
105 miles |
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June 27th |
Stage 4 11 AM |
Bedford to Latrobe |
60 miles |
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June 28th |
Stage 5 12 PM |
Ligonier to Pittsburgh |
91 miles |
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June 29th Sunday |
Stage 6 5 PM |
Downtown circuit race in Pittsburgh |
50 miles |
Versus has scheduled daily coverage: June 25th thru June 28th at 6pm EDT; June 29th at 5:30pm EDT.
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Here's the team list. Tour de CA it isn't
International teams
1 ARG Esco-Telefonicos Argentina (see below)
2 AUS Praties Cycling Team “presented by Alcoa” (see below)
3 BEL Johan Bruyneel Cycling Academy “presented by BNY Mellon”
4CANTeam RACE Pro “presented by Kennametal”
5GERTeam Stadler “presented byLanxess” (can’t find much)
6 IRE Pezula Racing “presented by Seagate”
7 NED Global Cycling (need to translate)
8 RSA Konica Minolta Continental Cycling Team “presented by Westinghouse”
Konica is a South African feeder team for Barloworld, and they also
produced Peter Velits. I don’t find a team website, per se, but there’s this
Konica, Prezula, and Praties have true continental teams. Kelly
Benefits, DLP and Time Pro also (see next post, this is getting long.)
by JFS_PGH on Jun 16, 2008 10:36 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
more tour of PA
US Professional Espoir teams
9 USA/MN Kelly Benefit Strategies/Medifast Pro Cycling
10 USA/NC DLP Racing/Texas Instruments
11 USA/NC Time Pro Cycling
Perhaps mercifully, Rock Racing isn’t going to be here.
US Elite Amateur Espoir teams
12 USA/AZ Team Waste Management/Racelab U23
13 USA/CA California Giant Berry Farms/Specialized
14 USA/CA Team VRC Racing/NOW-MS Society Cycling Team
15 USA/CA ZTeaM
16 USA/CO VMG/Felt This is the slipstream feeder!
17 USA/New England Fiordifrutta Cycling Team
18 USA/NY Sakonnet Technology U25 Team
19 USA/PA PA Lightning
20 USA/PA Penn St Cancer Inst-GPOA-Cannondale
I’m guessing that the way to bet, as teams, could be the slipstream feeder team and the barloworld feeder team… that’s total bias towards being a feeder team, not an informed opinion.
No list of riders yet, but if the lists are up to date, and if all include the U23/U25 riders, some of the teams are small enough that they will basically have to bring all of their under-25’s to field a team.
VMG is the feeder team for Slipstream. “The strength of this year’s U23 is without question. Leading the squad is the current junior world time trial champion, Taylor Phinney, and junior world cyclocross silver medalist and three time national US junior national road champion, Daniel Summerhill.” Phinney is 18. They have a full U23
team, used to working together.
Kelly was kinda the slow end of the tour de CA, but some of their kids could be on the fast end of the tour of PA. Lots of good Canadians. To watch: David Veilleux (U23 Canadian TT and road champion in 2007 & 2006 and 2006 respectively) Mark Hinnen, Keven Lacombe, several other very young guys.
The Tasmanians have a rude, funny, chatty website.
They seem to be connected somehow to an Italian team, ACS Gruppo Lupi. Names: Dylan Newell, Timothy Walker, Josh Wilson, Richie Porte
Time Pro Cycling has some interesting kids, e.g. “Nick Frey (21) Hometown: Des Moines, IA. Nick is an engineering student at Princeton and almost in his spare time was able to win the U23 Time Trial Championships and represent the USA at the World Championships.”
Sakonnet…Anyone know more?
Fiordifrutta has nice graphics and a fun website. Not sure if they have much beyond that, despite the Italian connection. Anyone know more?
Pezula’s William Connolly looks nice, and is only 19. Presumably riding with teammate Martyn Irvine.
Esco has a good U23 rider: Gastón Agüero. We’ll assume they’ll bring him. The rest of the team is a mystery shrouded in an enigma. Anyone know more?
The Giant Berries are mostly in their mid-30s. exeception: Max Jenkins: “Q: What’s your Favorite Race? A: Well I would say the Nationals course in Seven Springs, PA, but that may be only because I won.” Age 21. Got to be a contender. Other U25: Ken Hanson, Tyler Dibble (crit racer). Also a very nice fellow on the cross half of the team; guess they could draft him: Chance Noble.
Have to do this just because I am anal about these sort of things.
1. Taylor Phinney can’t race. 19-25 racing age only. Phinney sis still a junior. He will be at Junior Worlds at that time anyways.
2. Ken Hanson is like 27 years old.
Actually, thats it. Other then hat, awesome asesment
by cyclingsoup on Jun 16, 2008 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions
And even more so
Taylor’s birthday is not until NEXT Friday. He’s still just 17 years young.
Keep an eye out for his record attempt today. He was flyin’ yesterday on the track.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Fiordifrutta
They are a super strong amateur development team. Lots of evenly matched guys. My fav is Josh Lipka , quiet and strong. A threat for the Prologue and a big horsepower rider.
JFS-PGH
Is there a good buzz about this race in the Burgh? I hope so.
Adverts? Yes. buzz on the street? Hard to tell.
At least one big billboard, some ads in the newspaper. I don’t have a TV, so I don’t know if they are doing TV ads. Pittsburgh’s odd that way. Bits are very neighborhoody, to the exclusion of “outside” information. Bike PGH recently put out a heads-up, about being good hosts for the party. Last I heard, they’re still looking for volunteers. I’m afraid it may get lost in the rest of the year’s Pittsburgh 250 events (it’s our 250th birthday, we’re allowed to have selective memory?)
as you can tell, I'm pumped
More pumped than informed, but you do what you can. P.S. Yeah, that must have been an old page on Hansen. My bad.
Pittsburgh should have its own one day classics race
Its got some great steep cobbled hills and great neighborhoods to ride through. I think it would be a cool event.
I mean a one day race with the big boys like Philly!
The Philly race brings a lot of money into the City.
Something like this would be good for the Burgh since the city is struggling for cash
I'm stoked...
about this. I know 3-4 riders who will be doing this as their first big stage race. Talented young guys.
And yeah, I know Hansen and I’m pretty sure he’s in his late 20s…
This should be a very interesting race. KBS has a slew of young talent
as you mentionned Veilleux, Hinner, Lacombe but also Ben King. He’s fast.
Cal Giant – definitely Max Jenkins. What about Olmos, is he still under 25? nope, he’s 26 bummer.
Team RACE? the only name that I know (under 25) is Joël Dion-Poitras, who was the Canadian junior cross champ in 04.
Saskonnet – Jake Keough is making a name for himself.
Time – Soladay has been quite active in the races lately, lots of attacks.
One of my favorites on VMG is Dan Holloway. (local boy)
Stage 1A: Time Trial (2.5 miles) -- Results
1 VAN VOOREN, Steven (Johan Bruyneel Cycling Academy) 04:18.3
2 LACOMBE, Keven (Kelly Benefit/Medifast) +0:00:03
3 VAN HEERDEN, Christoff (Konica Minolta) +0:00:04
4 VEILLEUX, David (Kelly Benefit/Medifast) +0:00:05
5 NEWELL, Dylan (Praties Cycling Team) +0:00:07
6 BAUMANN, Ryan (Sakonnet Technology) +0:00:08
7 BAKER, Andrew (TIME Pro Cycling) +0:00:09
8 STOOP, Michael (TIME Pro Cycling) +0:00:09
9 BARBERI, Stefano (ZTeaM) +0:00:10
10 HOLLOWAY, Daniel (VMG/Felt) +0:00:12
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
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