Bob's Bio

DOB: 11/1/1977

Hometown: Cambridge, England

Occupation: Production Manager

USCF Cat: 4

Cycling Bio: I started riding at 17, and immediatly took a liking to the sport. I've spent the last 12 years on the bike. I began racing on the road with the Pittsburgh Cycing Club affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. After a few year hiatus, I got back into racing last year, and am looking to stage a "come back"!

Results: The dates are a little fuzzy, but I had some success as a Cat 4 in the Hookstown Racing series in the late 90's. Won one stage at the Crooked River Stage Race in Ohio, and took 3rd overall in the Cat 4 field. Also have won down at the "oval" as well as numerous top five placings in local racing series.

Favorite Ride: The "Industrial loop". From Edgewood, out through Rankin and along the Mon to rt 51. It smells, the roads suck, and you're always in sight of a steel mill or coke plant. And it rains most of the time i do this. BUT, i love it.

Words of Wisdom: "If it's got a face, you can eat it".

DOB: 11/24/65

Height: 6'0"

Weight: 180

Hometown: Oakmont, PA

Occupation: Quality Assurance Tech MRB Specialist, Medrad Inc.

USCF Cat: 4

Cycling Bio: Started riding mountain bike on regular basis about 10 years ago for health benefits. Friend and follow racer advised me to try racing road bikes after demonstrating strengths of riding. Participated in my first race at Indiana Cycling Classic in 2001 finishing in the top 15 and finishing 5th in the ACA "C" points series. Raced that season and the following year for Guinness. Have spent the last four years racing for Sci-Fit/Dirty Harry's. My shining achievement was this past fall racing in Curacao for Duvel Beer in the 5th Amstel Curacao Race against top Pro's finishing 47th of 150 riders.

Results: 9 top fifteen finishes Washington Blvd Track

8 top ten finishes Washington Blvd Track

6 top five finishes Washington Blvd Track

47th Amstel Curacao Race

Favorite Ride: "Buttermore" a 50 mile ride past Buttermore Farms mid-way from Greensburg through Youngwood, New Stanton, Ruffsdale,Scottdale, Mt. Pleasant, Kecksburg, Norvelt, and back to Greensburg

Words of Wisdom: "My boy, when I want to play with a prick, I'll play with my own".-W.C. Fields

DOB: 10/18/1982

Height: 5'8"

Hometown: Beaver Falls, PA

Occupation: HLS Customer Service Team Lead

USCF Cat: 4

Cycling Bio: I started riding a bike when I was 3 years old. While living in Utah for a year I had no other mode of transportation than my mountain bike and rode it everywhere, to work, to the grocery store, and beyond. I recently decided to get into the world of road racing in late summer of 2006 and started training for the 2007 season in October. Since then I have gotten on the bike no less than 4 days a week, getting on the road as much as the weather will permit.

Favorite Ride: As I have yet to explore all that this area has to offer my favorite, to date, would definitely be exploring down town from the south side to the stadiums and everything in between, while almost getting hit by a crazy driver in an ally.

Words of Wisdom: "Life is too short not to enjoy it."

DOB: 1/20/1973

Height: 5'6"

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA (by way of San Francisco, CA)

Occupation: Magnetic Recording Researcher

USCF Cat: 3 (road) / 2 (track)

Cycling Bio: I began my cycling career racing in the collegiate ranks, and continued racing through multiple graduate programs, becoming an eleven year collegiate cycling vet. While working on my Ph.D. at Univ. of CA, San Diego, I picked up a love of track cycling, eventually attending USCF Collegiate Track Nationals three times as well as medaling in several events at various District Track Championships. In 2001, I was nationally ranked in the ATRC track cycling series. I am a past-president or past-vice persident of four cycling clubs and have helped promote a number of bike races, both road and track.

Results: Second place Cat 1/2/3 2005 ACA Omnium (Sugar Run series)

2-First places, 2006 Washington Blvd., Track Series

1-Second, 1-Top 10, Cat. B 2006 Washington Blvd. Oval

Favorite Ride: Any banked oval with a track bike, although a 250 meter, 45 degree, board track is preferred.

Words of Wisdom: "If cycling were about who is the fittest, all races would be time trials. True victory comes when you beat a stronger ride through the employment of good strategy and tactics."

DOB: 06/14/72

Height: 5'10"

Hometown: Lima, OH

Occupation: R&D Manager, HJ Heinz Company (no I did not work on the green ketchup)

USCF Cat: 4

Cycling Bio: Started mountain bike riding when I moved to Pittsburgh as a means to stay in shape in 1997. I moved to road cycling in around 2001 and really discovered a strong interest, desire and new hobby. In the last couple of years I have really stepped up the cycling with the help of new cycling friends and entered my first race in May 2006, Ligonier Valley Road Race where I finished 13th in my category. I then started racing in the ACA C races on Tues evenings in the later part of 2006. I have started the 2007 season with the Aliquippa Industrial Park Crit and Mingo Creek Series along with the ACA races again.

Results: 2006 Ligonier Valley Road Race - 13th

2007 Aliquippa Industrial Park Crits - 9th & 12th

2007 Mingo Creek - 10th & 28th

2006-2007 ACA C Races - 2 Top 10's, 3 Top 15's

Favorite Ride: Saxonburg town loop from Freeport Rd. - lots of rolling rural roads with little traffic.

DOB: 4/8/55

Height: 5'11"

Hometown: London, England

Occupation: Philosopher…er, uh, Investment Portfolio Manager.

USCF Cat: 4

Cycling Bio: Started on bike in 1995, age 40. Years earlier I'd been disabled in a high-speed head-on car crash with a teen drunk. Right wrist cracked all the way back, right leg cut halfway through at the knee. Five or six other little things. That stuff heals. But I bounced my head hard and the whole broken, bleeding right side of me was dead. The next few days were ugly, but morphine… morphine gets you through.

So eleven years I sat, smoked, drank, drugged, got fat, wrote great poems and finally got so sick of the shit I decided I'd kill myself. I borrowed a bicycle.

I pushed off. But, man, the bike stayed up! Half a block, still up! Wow. I was the happiest kid ever! I'm still the happiest kid ever. See, no matter how much any of YOU love the bike, I love it more. Since 1984, I am out of balance everywhere but in a chair, in my bed, or on my bike. In the twelve years I've been riding I've logged 102,000 miles. That's my best result.

Results:

1997 Stongland III (very short, but a sick 110 ft/mi. of climbing) 5th place overall, 2nd 40+ (a minute back of winner 14 year old Mike Friedman)

1997? Indiana Classic RR (short loop) 2nd 40+

1997 Tour de Tamarack 2nd Mountain bike. (Cheating? 23C road tires, Spinergy wheels)

2002 NAT'L CHAMPIONSHIP Time Trial, (Paralympic cat CP4) Bakersfield CA 1st

2002 NAT'L CHAMPIONSHIP Road Race, (Paralympic cat CP4) Bakersfield CA 1st

2003 Presque Isle Spring 12.5 mile TT 2nd (of 23) 45-49 yrs; 13th (of 229) overall.

2003 4/16 ACA CAT 3/4 Crit 1st MAR

2003 5/27 ACA CAT 4/5 Crit 1st MAR

2003 Paralympic PAN AM CUP Road Race (CP4) Brooklyn NY 2nd

2003 Paralympic PAN AM CUP Time Trial (CP4) Bronx NY 2nd

2004 5/26 ACA CAT 3/4 Crit 1st MAR