We hope you’re enjoying the first week of the Tour de France.

Garmin-Cervélo fans are no doubt thrilled with the team’s success during the first few days of the race. On this end, it’s been a thrilling start to the race.  Watching the guys win the Team Time Trial; then seeing a perfect lead-out help Tyler take the win on Sunday; followed by the remarkable efforts Thor made to hold on to the yellow jersey during Monday’s stage – it’s all amounted to plenty of smiles over here at CB&C.

The TCB Cycling squad was out in Tulsa recently, racing the Tulsa Tough.

Ahh, the joys of racing in the stifling Oklahoma heat. Mix in a couple thunder storms, Dave Towle on the mic, enthusiastic crowds, plus a handful of crashes and it makes for three relatively crazy days of bike racing.

Thanks to Tim & Laura for hosting the team and baking Blake a bundt cake for his college graduation celebration. The guys might not know how to spell "bundt" properly, but word on the street is

10 years ago, all Berkeley High math teacher Matt Fritzinger was hoping to do was start a road cycling club for interested students.  By 2010, what started with that simple mission had turned into The National Interscholastic Cycling Association, with 6 leagues stretching from California to Minnesota.  With those leagues now successfully in place, NICA is looking east to turn competitive high school mountain biking into a nationwide phenomenon.

When a world-class climber like Ueli Steck asks you to help him prepare for some upcoming 8000-meter alpine-style speed ascents in the Khumbu…what do you do?  If you’re Freddie Wilkinson, you buy a ticket, pack as little gear as possible and head straight to Kathmandu!