Tag: giro
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2020 Giro d ‘Italia Preview
As if to highlight the oddity of the 2020 professional season, this preview launches one day after the Giro has already begun. Stage One’s Prologue took place on the same day as the finale of the BinckBank Tour, a race that itself saw one stage canceled due to coronavirus. The second stage, continuing in Sicily […]
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2019 Speed of Light Giro Competition p/b up.bike Finale: Owens Takes Pink With Record-Breaking Win
Just a day removed from his 29th birthday, Jeff Owens took the Giro Competition and set a new course record in the process. While sitting just over a decades ahead on GC entering the final stage, Owens toed the start line Thursday night with an ace up his sleeve. His leading margin may have numbered […]
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2019 Speed of Light Giro Competition p/b up.bike Stage Two: Owens Doubles Up
Jeff Owens confirmed he’s the man for the maglia rosa, while the gaps opened into chasms on Stage Two. It was a virtual repeat of Stage One’s dominance from Keen Racing’s Jeff Owens. While not wearing a pink jersey, the aura around him as the confirmed leader of the race and heavy favorite was tangible […]
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2019 Speed of Light Giro Competition p/b up.bike Stage One: Owens, Schwab Lead
After a morning and afternoon spent playing the guessing game, the call was ‘Go!’ for Stage One of the Giro Competition. Speed of Light is underway. Riding in a misty haze to the start, it was a small but hearty crew to toe the line for the first night of the seventh year of SOL. […]
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2019 Speed of Light Giro Competition Race Book
It’s almost here. The biggest fake bike race in Traverse City (we think) starts with the Giro Competition on Thursday, May 9. It’s back. Speed of Light returns for yet another season on its traditional start, the first Thursday after Mud, Sweat and Beers. As is also the tradition, now hitting its sixth year, the […]