Get your club membership forms in NOW!

Our weekly club rides have started and I need everyone out with us either an elite team member or a club member with LabiciSquadra/RealDealRacing. Please print off the form from www.labicisquadra.com and bring it with you to the ride tonight. The form will be updated soon but for now just print off last years and mark either $150 membership (non-racer) or $100 if you plan to race our team colors. Hope to see a bunch of you out tonight at 6pm in Aurora.

Jamie Smith makes it 2 for 2 at the Midweek Crit!

The Elite team dominated again last night making it 2 for 2 on the season! Jamie was a bull all night! He was in every move and then just rode away from his break group with 3 to go. Big thanks to the boys at Jet Fuel for bringing 5 guys and making things fun!! See you next week!

Cam Jette 4th at O-cup #1

Congrats Cam on a solid 4th place at O-cup #1 at Mansfield in the Pro-Elite cat!!!!
For full results clink here
http://www.ontariocycling.org/web_pages/results/11oca10.html#rrCatSEM

Tom Jelicka Crit - Ruby 1st, Veal 2nd, Smith 5th

The double Bi is back baby!!!

Krista Ruby takes the womans crown, Ed Veal 2nd, Jamie Smith 5th in the open race
I will post a link to the full results once they are posted.

Osmond Bakker Wins!!

Here is Osmond out sprinting our national champ Aaron Fillion for the win at the OBC Paris - Roubaix held today! Congrats big man!! That's our teams first win of the year!!! Many more to come!! For all the race details click this link
http://www.ottawabikes.com/home/2010/4/25/obc-paris-roubaix-wrap-up.html

Midweek Crit Series - LaBicicletta Domination!

Last night was the first night of racing at the Tuesday night crit series put on by the Midweek C.C.

After years of crushing the field every week we wanted this year to start like no other. Heath Cockburn set the standard for laying all out on the road and punishing anyone who showed up on a Tuesday and the past two years Ed Veal has followed in his footsteps hurting anyone who dares to go off the front with him. Our new crew in 2010 was out to dominate from the gun and they sure did not disappoint!! Ed Veal and Jamie Smith attacked 1 lap into the race and got away with Anton Varabei. It wasn't too long before Anton had enough of the hard paced rotation and popped. Ed and Jamie continued to creep towards the back of the charging pack. It took an hour but with 2 laps to go they got on to the back of the group (lapped the field) and rode through it with 1 lap to go and sprinted to victory!!

It was quite the night and a great way to start the season!! Congrats to all the team members who made it out and helped by shutting things down in the pack.

See you all next week!!

Mark Carins - HOTN Recap

We have had an amazing amount of great feed back about our event and I want to thank everyone again for passing on all the kind words and great feedback!! Thank you so much!! We love putting this event on and look forward to another great day in the saddle next year.
Here is a link to a write up I want to share about one of the riders who rocked the Hell Of The North!
http://www.teamrunningfree.com/blog/2010/04/11/hell-of-the-north/

Calabogie Classic

Nothing like a closed course with perfect pavement!! The Calabogie Classic went this past Sunday and we had a few good placings. Ed Veal 4th, Osmond Bakker 6th and Jamie Smith 11th in the senior men's 1/2 race and Krista Ruby was 5th in the S1/2 women's field. Tom Jehlicka Crit is this coming weekend and the first Midweek crit is TONIGHT!!!

Aurora Club Ride

We meet every Wednesday night all summer long at the Starbucks at Aurora Rd and 404 hwy.

This is for team and club members only. Get your membership forms and waivers in ASAP! You can bring them with you to the ride. Ride starts at 6pm and we ride till sun down. Then its off to the Keg patio for an ice cold beer (not included with membership) Non-members can ride with us once during the course of the year so come check it out!

Elite Juniors get tested

LaBicicSquadra Juniors Kyle Rupay and Justin Zottl spent Friday being tested at the Canadian Sport Center in Toronto.
Tests showed they were ready to take on Hell of the North Sunday morning.

HOTN - Pictures

HELL OF THE NORTH - TOP 25 RESULTS

April 11th 2010 - Our 2nd annual Hell of the North presented by Rapha went off this past Sunday and we couldn't be more pleased with the conditions, the weather and the attendance. 90 riders took the start line in hopes of conquering the epic 90km Hell of the North course. Erik Box (Devinci Cycles) proved to be in great form AND the toughest of the group taking the HOTN title in 2010. Erik out sprinted Derek Hardinge (Lapdogs) and Cam Jette (LaBicicletta Elite team) in a close sprint to take home the coveted "Hell and back" trophy. Thanks to all our volunteers, bike club/team members and sponsors for making this such a great event.

HELL OF THE NORTH - April 11 2010 -TOP 25 RESULTS

1. Erik Box 2:45:00
2. Derek Hardinge
3. Cam Jette
4. David Dermont 2:49:08
5. Bobby Mrvelj 2:49:17
6. Mike Mitchnik 2:51:38
7. Jon Barnes 2:51:39
8. Daniel Varga 2:51:40
9. Chris Chambers 2:53:11
10. Colin Reinholt
11. Brien Ross
12. Norm Riekenbrauek 2:55:34
13. Justin Zottl 2:55:34
14. Lorne Cunliffe 2:56:58
15. Jeremy Hatt 2:56 :58
16. William Fu 2:57:16
17. Mike V 2:59:07
18. Keith Hopkins 2:59:20
19. Chad Dawe 2:59:56
20. Christian Jug 2:59:57
21. Mark Summers 2:59:59
22. Hopi Martin 3:03:00
23. Glenn Cameron
24. Kevin Watson
25. Fred Perez 3:04:01
26. George Hobson 3:04:05 - HAPPY 50TH B-DAY GEORGE!!!!

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www.realdealcoaching.blogspot.com

Cam Jette looks to repeat at the HOTN!!

Last years champ will be back to defend his title in 2010! But this year he is racing for us!! A big signing for our team in the off season, Cam Jette will be at his best and ready to take home again the prized HELL OF THE NORTH trophy that was presented to him by Mr Barry.

We look forward to seeing you all on Sunday morning, the weather looks great and the course is in fine form. I've had dozens of emails about tires and I say semi slicks are the way to go. You can ride a road bike, cross bike, MTB at this one....its your call. Just know your going to get a little dirty and you might want a shoe you can run in : ) Keep the $500 carbon sole beauties for another day!

You can register day of first thing in the morning. We will be set up and ready to go for 7am with the race starting at 9am Sharp!!

HELL IS COMING......

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  Sunday April 11th - 8:30am (9am start SHARP!)
  
  Come try and conquer the HOTN! An epic day in the saddle the promises not to disappoint!
  There is day of registration, just make sure to come early!
  Check out http://www.labicisquadra.com/ for all the details

HELL OF THE NORTH - 2010 - Pics

The course is looking great! I will be out there on course all day today. Look for the orange signs...

LaBicicletta Elite Team - Domination at FCV

Team LaBicicletta Elite Youth Stick Together and Win Together at F.C.V.

"On April 3rd, the Forest City Velodrome hosted a night of elite racing for Canadian and American track riders.
The women raced for a cash prizes and preems of over $1000 in the first annual Mary Kelly Memorial Race.
Team LaBicicletta's youngest riders were there to support each other on and off the track, and did so very well.

LaBicicletta's Krista Ruby fought with a very strong field for 100 laps to earn a well deserved 2nd place finish.
Krista was also very successful in earning extra cash by winning all preems.

On the Men's side of track, Junior Racers Kyle Rupay and Justin Zottl battled with the elite men in a Sprint tournament, Madison and an Endurance race.
Kyle was eliminated in round two by the eventual winner and Justin made it to the third and final round and took a second place finish.

In the Madison, seven teams competed. Kyle and Justin racing as Team LaBicicletta lapped all but one team and won the tournament.
In the final men's elite endurance scratch race, Kyle took a hard fought fourth and was the youngest rider left on the track.
Both Kyle and Justin also won their share of preems.

A great team effort from the young LaBicicletta Elite"

Dave Viney - Rippin it up in Florida!!

Webster Roubaix

75km total -20km of it on rough gravel road- Here is a pic of Dave crossing finish line at end of Masters 55/65/womens race- Dave has won this event 4 years in a row win but this was closest win by far! He also 9 wins out of 10 races he has entered this year!!

He is coming home soon Ontario and he is riding for us!!

Good Friday RR - Macdonald gets 4th!

S - 1/2 Field sprint

Here is a pic from the first road O-cup of the year. Jamie Smith was 8th and EdVeal was 9th in the S- 1/2 race and James Macdonald got 4th place in his first M1 race and Ken Ng was 15th!

Check out the OCA site for full results www.ontariocycling.org