This past Sunday, October 23, the LITESPEED-BMW Cycling Team participated in the 6th annual Spin for Kids.  This is an annual fundraiser, benefitting Camp Twin Lakes, that our team proudly participates in every year.  It’s an exceptional organization in that the main goal is to provide children with certain illnesses or disabilities the right and ability [...]

After the success earlier in the day in the Masters crit at Grant Park the full LITESPEED-BMW squad was amped to get to going in the Pro1/2 race.  The field was stacked with talent from Realcyclist.com, Team Type 1, Team Mountain Kakis, Team Kenda/5 Hour energy and others. 

Knowing the race would be fast from the gun [...]

The LITESPEED-BMW team had been looking forward to their “home” criterium race for some time as lots of friends and family and several team sponsors would be at the event (thank you to Wayne Schulte with BMW and Aimee Henderson with Georgia Natural Gas for coming out and watching us race, we hope you enjoyed the [...]

Saturday evening the team headed East on I-20 for the 5th race of the series, a criterium in downtown Covington, GA.  The race would be 90 minutes on a new course that none of us had raced before.  About 50 riders were on the start line including 6 from LITESPEED/BMW – Oneil Samuels, Benjy Coil, Wes Parrish, Hank [...]

Our Chattanooga teammate and Litespeed/QR sales rep. Chris Brown headed up to the Oak Ridge Velo Omnium Classic the other weekend, he was our lone LITESPEED/BMW rider racing the event and he was up against several strong teams.  Of note the Hincapie/Green Creation, Friends Great Smokies (FSG), Team Sonic-Treehouse and Krystal Racing teams along with others. 

Up [...]

The first race of the Georgia Cycling Gran Prix took place at Road Atlanta in Braselton, GA.  Its a rolling 2.5 mile loop that is recognized as one of the world’s best road courses.  This year the organiser decided to race the course counter-clockwise as well as combine the P/1/2 field with the category 3 field, [...]

The Georgia Games is a staple on the Georgia racing calendar.  Held in July of every year, it is not only on a challenging course, but it is also never under 95 degrees!  First up was the road race, which also doubled as the state championship.  On tap for the day was 90 miles on a [...]

Fine Wine gets another scalp

Report by Benjy:

Colby and I decided to race the masters race and then later in the day race the category 2 race for the state championship jerseys. Most of the fellas, being on the younger side, opted to race the cat 2 race and then the pro-1-2 race in the [...]

Benjy "Fine Wine" Coil takes 3rd amongst boys half his age.

125 riders stood on the start line of a fasts, tight cornered course, and this being one of the largest races in the southeast, as well as one of the USA Crits Speedweek races, it all seemed to add up to some palpable pre-race jitters.

Since [...]

The calm before the storm.

Whoa, has Benjy been going after it out there. The guy has obviously been too busy racing to get any updates out, so let’s knock all of these out at once.  We’ve got a whole bunch of races in here, with a whole bunch of our guys…and a whole bunch of [...]