Cannondale has been actively supporting mountain bike racing since 1994 - first with Volvo-Cannondale; then with the creation of Cannondale Factory Racing; and most recently with MonaVie-Cannondale. As the exclusive equipment and jersey sponsor for these teams, Cannondale has helped to develop several world-class athletes including U.S. National Champion and two-time U.S. Olympian, Tinker Juarez, who will join the CFR team for the 2010 season.
“As we look to the future and how Cannondale will continue to support mountain bike racing and its elite athletes, we recognize the opportunity to create a global mountain bike platform, the Cannondale Factory Racing (CFR) team,” said Rory Mason, director of sports marketing for Cycling Sports Group. “Cannondale is committed to push the boundaries of innovation and technology in order to give athletes the bikes they expect for world class performance. Sponsoring CFR allows us to focus our efforts and support the team in a bigger way, which will benefit both the athletes and consumers.”
This year’s team will be led by 10-time Belgium Champion, Roel Paulissen, and include a diversified group of athletes who compete across multiple disciplines. In addition to Juarez, Cannondale will welcome Jeremiah Bishop to the team, underscoring its commitment to the sport and to helping athletes realize their dreams of competing on a professional level.
It is still unclear what affect the creation of the CFR team will have on Cannondale's other race teams specifically Monavie-Cannondale.com, the team Bishop and Juarez raced with in 2009, . The Monavie squad was one of the top teams in U.S. racing last season and enjoyed multiple race wins including the Breck-Epic, Intermontane Challenge, Blood, Sweat, and Gears, multiple legs of the NUE series, and a second at La Ruta De Los Conquistadors.
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The Intermontane Challenge 2010 is please to add a singlespeed category for both men and women for our event on July 26-31st 2010. The Intermontane Challenge has been fielding questions on why there is no singlespeed categories in our event and we felt that to live up to our commitment to listen to our racers, we would add the additional categories. The course for 2010 has a great mix of single and doubletrack and with the large amount of singlespeeders out there, The Intermontane Challenge sees this as another great addition to our second year event.
The singlespeed category will run with the geared categories and run the same course. The prize break down will be released once we have seen the response to the new category.
The 2010 edition of The Intermontane Challenge is right on schedule with our proposed course awaiting approval. Our limited early registration comes to an end on January 31st so don’t miss out.
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