JetFuel Coffee and La Bicicletta are joining forces in 2011. While the teams have been longstanding rivals on the road, Jet Fuel and La Bicicletta share a passion for the sport and a strong commitment to building the profile of cycling in Canada. Our goal is to establish the team as a national and continental force over the next few years while continuing to promote young riders to international competition. Read more...
After 9 races in less than 2 weeks, all of the guys were looking forward to getting home and recharging the batteries a little. Everyone got home, miraculously with all of our bikes and bags, and went our separate ways. Personally I’ve been back to working and getting ready for the next few races. The [...]
The final stage of Gila is famous, and infamous. Known as the Gila monster it consists of 170km, and 5 categorized climbs, totalling nearly 10,000 feet of climbing. There is one out and back section to the Gila cliff dwellings that can only be described at ridiculous. Climb for 12k, go down 10k, turn around [...]
After a tough second stage, stage 3 was a time trial. The course was a hilly out and back with some serious wind. Me being lantern rouge i was first out of the gate at 9:31 am. Everyone’s goal for the day was to make the time cut and live to fight another day. Every [...]
Stage 1 – 151km to mountain top finish. Pretty uneventful stage until the big climb. Two guys rode away early and opened 8 minute gap within an hour as the peloton pedaled backwards, but only moved forward thanks to a wicked tailwind the whole way. The occasional bumps of bars and wheels and slams of [...]
Yesterday the team started the third stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race. It consisted of an 18 km ride out to a 37 km loop which we completed 4 times, then 18km back into town for a total of 184 km. The race started out pretty slow, with some tired legs from the day [...]
Tough day at the office for Jetfuel squad yesterday. It was hot day in high 20’s C and fierce winds. It was a 178km point to point race that rolled south of Fayetteville into mostly headwind, a little bit of crosswinds half way and fast fast tailwind action with some solid climbing on the way [...]
Today found the Jetfuel/La Bicicletta boys in northwestern Arkansas, tackling the first stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race. It was a relatively straightforward 4km uphill time trial in Devil’s Den state park. We arrived in plenty of time, got the Jetfuel banner displayed prominently on the van, and set out to warm up. Nothing [...]
Unfortunately dear readers, this week’s blog will be a short one. Tomorrow morning the Jetfuel/La Bicicletta cycling team heads out from Pearson for our first big trip of the year, and what a trip it will be. The first stop is Bentonville, Arkansas, for the NRC Joe Martin Stage Race, and then continuing onto Silver [...]
Carnage, just carnage. Battenkill lived up to its claims as the toughest one day event in North America yet again. The race course goes through the hilly New York state 100km loop around the Batten Kill river with nearly half of it being on gravel and dirt roads, of which we were to do twice. [...]
This past weekend the the took part in our first races of the season. While Jamie and Anton have been racing since February these were our first races together as ateam. On Friday we raced the Ontario road season opener, the Good Friday Road Race and on Sunday was the cross/ road race The Hell [...]