Best Lineup For North American Stage Race Confirmed for USA Pro Cycling Challenge Top Cyclists George Hincapie, Christian Vande Velde and Robert GesinkJoin Previously Announced Tour de France Top-3 for Inaugural Race DENVER (August 9, 2011) – The provisionary team rosters* for the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge, which is […]
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2011 UPCC Denver
The racers then speed toward Denver, where they take six laps of a five-mile circuit along Speer Boulevard before heading past the original Quiznos store at 13thand Grant to reach the finish line on Broadway next to the State Capitol Building. An exciting five-mile circuit, the monumental finish line, and […]
2011 Tour de France Top 3 Confirmed for USA Pro Cycling Challenge
Cadel Evans, Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck Headline Colorado Race along with Top American Rider Tom Danielson and Italian Ivan Basso. USA Pro Cycling Challenge today announced that all three Tour de France podium placers are set to be at the starting line for the inaugural race, August 22-28. In […]
2011 USA Pro Challenge Altitudes
Host town and Mountain Pass Altitudes for the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado Host Towns Mountains Salida 7036′ Weldon Creek 2651m Gunnison 7703′ Mt Crested Butte 3450m Crested Butte 9375′ Cottonwood Pass 3684m Aspen 7908′ Independence Pass 3662m Vail 8150′ […]
Cadel Evans to race USA Pro Cycling Challenge Colorado
Race co-chairman Shawn Hunter has confirmed that Cadel Evans, who just won the Tour de France last weekend, will be racing the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado in August. The Schleck brothers are also expected to be here. As part of BMC Racing, Evans is involved with Jim […]
2011 UPCC Garden of the Gods
2011 UPCC Host City Salida
My incredibly gracious hosts were April Prout-Ralph and Greg Ralph. April is the PR director for the Chaffee County Visitor’s Bureau and Greg is the Marketing Director at Monarch Mountain. I stayed at a brand new Hampton Inn that was clean, state of the art and convenient. We met at […]
2011 Monarch Pass
2011 UPCC Host City Crested Butte
Some History on Crested Butte: My guide was Erica Reiter, PR Manager for Crested Butte “The difference between Crested Butte and say Aspen or Telluride is that they were gold and silver mining towns with a lot of money in the big booms. Crested Butte was a coal mining town. […]
2011 UPCC Host City Gunnison
Mayor Houck: “We get Ride the Rockies and Bike Tour Colorado year after year after year because it’s such a great part of the state to be in. At first, folks were asking is there a lottery? How do people sign up? It’s a whole different ballgame. I think they’ll […]
