Tartan Cycling hosted the first ever collegiate race weekend in Pittsburgh on March 22-23, 2008. The weekend, presented by The Weinberg Group, featured an epic road race in Murrysville, PA and a can't-believe-that-just-happened criterium over the 6th and 7th street bridges in downtown Pittsburgh. About 200 collegiate racers attended alongside 75 local USCF racers. We received nothing but praise for the top quality race. The only question people had as they left was, "When are you doing this again?"

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The Steel City Showdown Team

-Ben

Tartan cycling represented in Philly this past weekend. After being forced to turn around by a winter storm last weekend, we finally made it to a race. The weather wasn't much better this time though, with the Saturday road race getting rained out and converted to a very soggy downtown crit. Sunday saw some sun, but also some 30mph wind which made the TTT and circuit race a bit more challenging. Nonetheless, the C men (Jeff, Ben, Dan, Josh) fought their way to some strong pack finishes.

-Ben

New kits are in. They are so sweet. Click the jersey for prices, ordering info and more pictures.

-Ben

It's spring semester and you know what that means - Road Season is coming! CMU Cycling will be braving the cold to prepare for the ECCC race season which begins March 1st at Rutgers University. This season looks to be spectacular! With 4 guys in Men's C (Josh, Dan, Ben, Jeff), some outstanding new talent in Men's D (Devon, Tony), and our killer women's team led by Anne-Marie! And back again for this year is the Intro category for newcomers to the sport! Yours truly raced Men's Intro all last season and it was great! Also on the schedule is a Pittsburgh race hosted by CMU Cycling and UPitt Cycling. Stay tuned for more info on that!

I wanna go fast!

-Ben

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The cycling gods shined brightly on the CMU Cycling Club this past weekend. Not only was the weather amazing, albeit a bit chilly, but CMU Cycling was representing all over!

On Saturday, Mike Cruz and Ben Stephens contested their first cyclocross race in Ohio and placed 1st and 2nd (results) in the C race. On Sunday, Ben attended the first local Month of Mud series cyclocross race of the season (which had a HUGE turnout!) and won the beginner category and would have placed 15th in the Sport category

Also this past weekend, Aaron Hoy and Mike Chen double-teamed the collegiate 6-hr Enduro (results) and Dual-Slalom races held by West Virginia University. On Sunday Aaron, Zhi Hao Poon and new club member Shing Ee Tan battled gravity at the WVU Downhill collegiate race.

Check out the extensive list of upcoming collegiate and local races on the CMU Cycling schedule

Looking for a challenge, a good workout and a chance to represent CMU? Come and join us on some training rides or jump into some fall off-road racing! Contact your friendly neighborhood cycling club officer.

Join the CMU Cycling Club. $20/year for a club membership and an additional $60/semester if you plan to race. Fill out the Membership Form, put it in an envelope with cash or check payable to "Carnegie Mellon University", and take it to the UC Info Desk and tell them to put it in Box #39. That's it!

-Ben

This year's mountain bike season started this past weekend at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Josh, Ben and Poon (shown below) represented CMU at the XC and STXC races. The XC race was a grueling 6 mile loop over boulders, logs, hundreds of feet of climbing, and little streams that left the three C riders bruised and bloodied. But that could not stop CMU Cycling, Josh went on to put in a high-placed finish at the STXC race, which was a short loop with a quick climb up a fire road and a fast winding descent down a single track.

-Ben

Thanks for everyone who came to check out the club at the activities fair. We got all your email addresses and promise not to spam you... except to remind you to come to our first meeting of the year! We'll have a little pow-wow and talk bikes! Here are the details:

1st General Meeting
7pm Monday Sept 10
Dowd Room @ UC

Check out the UC map if you have no idea where that is: click here

If you missed the meeting, get the Fall Handout

-Ben

The CMU cycling club is looking for new members who are excited about all things bike. If you are interested in joining, please contact us. We will be present at the Activities Fair on September 5th 4:30pm-6:30pm at the UC. Come by and say hi! Shortly after, we will have a general meeting to get everyone together and acquainted. Also, if you want to race mountain bikes, please contact us SOON!

Join the message board, that is where all the craziness happens.

-Ben

Road racing season was a huge success! We had great participation and performances. A team from CMU was present at almost every race, even including races in Boston, Poughkeepsie, and Westpoint (>8 hour drives away!). Thanks for everyone that came out to represent CMU and here's to an even better year next year!

-Ben

We've just returned from a successful weekend in Piscataway, NJ at the Rutgers season opener. Notable results include Michael Chen (PhD '12) with 2nd place in the men's intro circuit race, and 4th place in the individiual time trial, and Julie Schoenfeld (CIT '07) coming 4th in the women's B ITT. Congrats!

Pics @ Peter's website...

-Mike

Sponsorship page updated!

Wenzel Coaching and The Weinberg Group

-Mike

From Easterns...

-Mike

Eat lots of food.

The Spring 07 race calendar has been uploaded. We have our work cut out for us.

-Mike

EASTERN COLLEGIATE CYCLING CONFERENCE D2 CHAMPIONS!

This past weekend was the ECCC Championships hosted by UMass - Amherst. Not only did we take the DII team points standing there, but we also took the season overall giving us the title of DII Conference Champions!

We rounded out the season with:

22 podium spots

3 team race victories

and 3 riders taking top D2 honors in their classes. (Julie Schoenfeld - Wmns A, Charlie Patterson - Mens B, and Aaron Hoy - Mens C).

-Mike