Pez Cycling News featured a Q&A with Australian Trent Lowe shortly before he went off to ride Tour Med - where he finished a respectable 12th.

So I have spent almost a week and a half here in Girona. During the first week, I was staying with Dan Martin at his place. For the last couple of days I have been living with Will and Meatball. It has been great to catch up with the boys. That is the one […]

Slipstream/Chipotle’s Ryder Hesjedal and Trent Lowe managed to hang with some of the sport’s best climbers today on what was a surprisingly challenging first stage of the Volta a Valencia. The final climb of the day - Alt del Garbi - with widely varying 15-18% grades - broke the front group down to ten, two […]

The first stage of the 2008 Volta a Valencia kicks off with one category 1 climb, Alt del Garbi (640m). The 157K stage also includes a catetory 3 climb, Port del Oronet (500m) and two intermediate sprints.
Slipstream/Chipotle competitors:
Julian Dean
Timmy Duggan
Lucas Euser
Ryder Hesjedal
Trent Lowe
Dan Martin
Pat McCarty
Chris Sutton

Bicycling’s Joe Lindsey spends some time with David Zabriskie during the 2008 Tour of California to get inside one of the sport’s most misunderstood personalities.
Lindsey writes: “Zabriskie is, as the Belgians would say, puffing out their cheeks as if to say, ‘What can you say? Guy’s a good damn bike racer. Time triallist, […]

So the weather was great, but personally I wasn’t. The good news is that team rode well and we are pretty damn happy with the day. Trent and Ryder finished with the front group of about 24 guys. So now they will be fighting it out for the GC.
The whole stage was driven by the […]

In addition to winning the overall team classifcation (see celebration above!), Slipstream/Chipotle monopolized the final podium with David Millar second and Christian Vande Velde third overall. With four riders finishing in the top 12, Tom Peterson taking second in the best young rider classification, and Steven “Breakaway” Cozza keeping it real, the team has […]

Today we–Ryder, Timmy, Lucas, Pat and I (pictured right)–cruised from Girona down to Valencia in the Slipstream/Chipotle bus and tried to get out for a short spin. I got lucky and fell on a sweet road out of the Valencian suburbs. Our hotel, apart from challenging the parking skills of our bus driver, is […]