Awesome KMR Weekend

KMR had a great weekend.

Adam Rapheal took 2nd in the Dual Salom & 4th in the Downhill at the Sugar Mountain National race

Amanda Pilling & Mike Filipiak took a 2nd & 4th respectively at the Stoney Creek TT.

Bryan Mitchell & Chris Filipiak both completed the WAM 300 mile bike ride. The event raised 1.3 million for Make A Wish charity. See pictures below.

Next event is the Big M race & the Snowshoe DH.
Later,

-C-

WAM

Bryan, Scott, Crispy and Karen are all riding in the Make-A-Wish Foundation's Wish-A-Mile 300 mile bike tour this weekend. Here are a few photos from Fridays ride. Much cooler this year but real humid. Bryan is also photographing the event as he rides.

WAM 300 THIS WEEKEND

Ok everyone the Make-A-Wish Wish A Mile 300 bike tour starts Friday! I will be leaving early Thursday morning to catch a bus to Traverse City and then the ride starts Friday morning. A cool thing this year. You can see steaming live video of the start each day, the awards Saturday night and the Heroes Hurrah finish on Sunday.

Go here:

http://dev.magicoast.com/media_center/subscribe/subscriber.jsp?sn=d987ac64bf2ee0a9eff7321c9d288eab

Or here www.wishmich.org and click the video link.

Also when there isn’t a live feed that will be showing video shot the day before and running slide shows with some of the photos I shoot.
I also hope to be bloging about the ride at the end of each day.

You can still donate here!

http://makeawish.kintera.org/wam/konabryan.

RUBY CAMPGROUND NORBA

Randy took 7th in the elite mens race and Evan had a great finish coming in 2nd in the expert mens 19-29 class. Looks like it was a sprint finish as he was only 3 seconds out of 1st. Great job Evan!!!

ADAM KICKS ASS AT PLATTEKILL

Adam took 2nd in the Pro mens downhill and won the pro mens dual slalom at Plattekill near Roxbury, NY!!!!! The Kona Factory team should take notice of Adam for 2008. He is rockin!!!

KMR WINS NOVI TEAM RELAY!

Crispy, Amanda, Jim and Bryan won the Advanced Co-Ed class at the Novi Tree Farm time trial team relay race for the 2nd year in a row!








Full Results.

Oh, and notice who had the fastest time with a 1:28!!!! :) :) :)

BRENT 3RD AT BOYNE MARATHON!

Brent got on the podium with a 3rd place in the 40 mile, 4 lap Boyne Marathon XC race this past weekend. He came in behind Mike Simonson and Robert Herriman after passing Jason Lummis
and Jon Cowan on the last ski-hill climb. YES! Way to go Brent! Results.

From Brent:

Did a pre-ride of the course on Thursday and it was pretty much the same course I have ridden 30 times. It is my favorite MI course, and I know it well. Boyne was actually the second MTB course I had ever ridden, right beind Island Lake. That was 5 years ago when I decided to start MTBing and rode only a few trails and times that year. Progression...

Race started at 10AM with a decent sized group of Elites going off. We took off and I just sat in and kept my pace. Some people went by me and I let them ride away. By the top of the ski slop I was riding with Shawn Meredith somewhere in the 7-8 place. On the downhill, I crashed and I guess he did too, not far behind me as I could hear him say something. On lap 2 I rode solo the entire time while making the passes of lapped riders much earlier than expected. At the start of the thirs lap I caught up to John Meyers and rode behind him. Before the hike-a-bike climb a mile or so in he had me go by. Not too far up the trail I caught John Cowan and rode with him. He set a good pace and flowed through the singletrack very well(yeah, he's from Boyne). We were riding 4th and 5th place. Climbing to the top of the ski hill, we spotted Herriman and Lummis, but never saw them once we got to the top. Near the end of the lap while passing more people on a wide corner, I flew into a tree sideways and tried to hug it in an effort to reducing the impact on my ribs. Luckily I wasn't too hurt, so I grabbed my bike and chased. I caught John again in the beginning of the trail and rode with him until the ski hill where I let it out. I laft him behind and had Lummis in my sights. I passed him before crossing the golf cart path and kept on climbing. I came out at the top and was ready to keep the pace high when I heard skipping. Shit, I looked back and had picked up and bush in my casette. There were leaves in it and a thin branch hanging out. I knew I couldn't stop, so I pedaled away with a skip-skip-skip every pedal stroke. Luckily the course was mostly downhill and I was able to keep away. i finished third with Simonson in first and Herriman in second. It was a great race for me. The course is suited better for my riding with longer climbs and less flat two-track.

No Ruby for me this weekend, but I'll be putting in some last minute rides before heading out to the USA Cycling Nationals in Vermont in 2 weeks.

TdF

Almost hate to blog on top of those awesome Detroit ride photos. Wish I could have been there!

The Tour de France came to me this weekend so thought I'd post a few photos. No Kona's on the course but plenty with the spectators. See more Kona's on the streets in London than almost any other major brand.

The view off the first bend of the prologue with Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and the London Eye in the distance. London was all about the bike this weekend.

Hincapie on his way to a third place finish...

Watching the finish of the prologue on the big screen in Hyde Park. So cool to see hundreds of thousands of cycling fans.

The Peloton starting stage 1 today at kilometer zero in London. CSC up front protecting the yellow jersey Fabian Cancellara who won the prologue (7.9km) by 13 seconds over second place Kloden...

Stage 1 winner was Robbie McEwen who went down hard in the prologue hitting a barrier and again today with 25km to go. His team paced him back onto the lead pack with 10km to go and he sprinted to take the win. Morale... never give up and it's all about riding with a great team. Be there Tuesday and looking forward to riding with all of you!

BOYS (and girl) IN THE HOOD

Dale, our guru Kona rep, was in town on the fourth so Todd Scott took us on what is becoming our annual downtown ride in the D. Detroit for you out of town folks. :) (Click on each photo for a larger view)

AMANDA WINS AT SNOWSHOE!!!

I just listened to a message on my voicemail from Amanda saying she WON her Downhill race this weekend at Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia and took 2nd in the Dual Slalom!!!!!!
"I'm stoked about that and I'm not too broken!" she said on the message.
Hopefully there will have more info and photos soon.
Adam took 5th in the Pro Open DH race!!!

STONEY CREEK MARATHON

Brent raced in the Marathon over the weekend and placed 8th in the elite/pro mens class with a time of 4 hours and 8 minutes in the 62 mile race. Full results.

From Brent:
Raced the marathon out at Stony yesterday. The rain from earlier in the week provided the trail with some good precipitation to keep the trail in good shape. The normal gravely two-track corners were there, but overall it was smooth and fast.

I rode most of lap one with the main group until the last two-track section where I decided to back the pace off a bit. Laps 2-3 I rode with Niel Sharphorn rippin it on his SS. Lap 4 I rode alone passing more lapped traffic. Lap 5 was alone until I passed Greg "I flat every race" Kuhn as he was flipping his bike back over. He came back and went by me later on in the two-track. Lap 6 was keeping the rubber side down and finishing the race off without anyone passing me. I finished 8th with a time of 4:08. I fell twice on gravel in some two track corners. The first one wasn't bad, but the second one came at about 1 mph on the tight switchback from the last singletrack to the two-track 3/4 of the way through the lap. I fell right on my hip-bone and ankle. That is when I wish I hat more fat on me. That sucker kills.

Next up is the Boyne Marathon next week. Should be some fun climbing the ski hill.