The Argyle Armada kicked of the Delta Tour with a solid prologue performance and two top ten placings. Chris Sutton (right) and Martijn Maaskant finished 5th and 6th respectively on the short, fast course. The two youngsters are also now 2nd and 3rd by 1″ in the best young rider classification.
“The boys put in […]

Today, young Dan Martin took Portugal’s most famous climb in stride as he finished the hardest stage of the 2008 GP Correios a solid 5th and less than two minutes off of the stage winner. His efforts on this epic day moved him from 54th to 8th in the overall classification. He is also […]

The three day Delta Tour kicks off in the Netherlands with a 3 km prologue around the village of Hulst. The event organizers have tapped Martijn Maaskant and Magnus Backstedt as two of the seven favorites for today’s stage.
The first rider is scheduled to start at 17:00 and the last rider to finish at 19:40.
Slipstream […]

Stage 1 of the GP Correios kicked off in Alcobaça, on the Portuguese coast under very warm, sunny skies. The relatively flat stage included a 5-man breakaway that was caught - thanks to the work of the Argyle and two other teams - right before the finish. Tom Danielson and Tom Peterson worked to […]

Pre-race report from DS Johnny Weltz
We are on our way to the start, which is no small thing. There has been a strike against gas prices that shut down the borders for a couple of days, so the organizer was not sure we could race today. But fortunately, it worked out.
The sun is up […]

Tucked in a couple back from the leaders, Tyler Farrar finished 6th in the mass sprint.
The Argyle Armada survived and kept the fight to the very end during one of the hottest and slowest races in the 24 year history of the Philadelphia International Championship. Despite attacks and attempted breakaways throughout the day, the […]

Mike Friedman leads an early breakaway.
The third annual Commerce Bank Reading Classic - a replacement for what had long been a super-fast sprintfest in Trenton, NJ - was once again held under hot and humid conditions. The heat has been a huge factor this week. And with the forecast for Sunday showing a good […]

As the first leg of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown, the Lehigh Valley Classic provided all kinds of race excitement for the large and enthusiastic crowds. Slipstream/Chipotle H3O animated the race by either jumping in the different breakaways of the day or chasing down any argyle-less breaks. Mike Friedman, Jason Donald, Martijn Maaskant (above) […]