Haymarket Bicycles / HomeVisit spent the weekend racing at the Tour of the Bahamas, a pre-season kickstart for racers sick and tired of winter weather. The big name team in attendance this year was Garmin's development squad, the Holowesko Partners U23 Team.
The local boys showed well, with Steven Gordon notching a 4th in the RR, 6th in the CR and 10th in the TT en route to a 4th in GC. Bryan Vaughan had a breakout RR, finishing 2nd after his involvement in a breakaway that lasted 75 miles. Jared Nieters scored a top 10 of his own in the RR. All three finished in the top 10 in GC. Following Gordon's 4th came Vaughan in 8th and Nieters in 10th. The team finished 2nd in the Team Classification, behind only Holowesko Partners U23.
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This is almost unbelievable - but makes sense with how hard they've been training during the winter.
Well done guys.
Posted by: Tim Rugg | January 25, 2010 at 09:48 AM
I have it on good authority from Steven Gordon's CMO (Chief Motorpacing Officer) that he's been killing it lately to tune up for Belgium. But yeah, it's good to see these guys light it up. Should make for an exciting season locally.
Posted by: Mike May | January 25, 2010 at 09:55 AM
dudes---> that is freekin suacy as all get out
Posted by: Rolf Snigmund | January 25, 2010 at 11:51 AM
We need a return of the Robot Diary and his videos.
Posted by: terribleTerry | January 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM
We've got some video and photos, but they're in the mail heading this way now. As soon as I have them, we'll be sure to put them up on the site.
(btw, thanks for helping out at the shop while we were gone, Terry)
Posted by: Jared | January 27, 2010 at 02:28 PM
making out like Pirates? I guess it must be in the Jack Sparrow/ambiguous stereotype of pirates
Posted by: Pete "The Master of Disaster" Custer | January 28, 2010 at 11:10 AM