Though the weather was finally on the side of the cyclists, chance was not today for Slipstream/Chipotle. On the last section of today’s 165 km stage, Trent Lowe (left) crashed into a pole that had not been indicated.
“It just suddenly appeared and I had no where to go,” said Trent. His bike broken, […]

After 201 km of miserably wet weather, crashes and general chaos, Trent Lowe (picture left w/JV thumbs up) held his own with the front group and managed to take over the white best young rider jersey during stage 2. His performance also moved him up from 6th to 5th in the overall classification.
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With his 10th place finish in today’s prologue, the 23-year-old Australian Trent Lowe (left) is just 1″ down in the best young rider classification, currently lead by Andrly Grivko. Overall the team put in a solid performance and is currently third in the team classification, just 3″ off of Credit Agricole.

Mother Nature ruled the results of today’s prologue with wetter, windier conditions taking over middle part of the 4.6 km course less than an hour into the event. The first 40 and the last dozen riders enjoyed drier conditions, while the rest of the riders were slowed down by slick roads and colder, denser […]

Tom Peterson (left) goes for a morning spin pre-prologue in Amilly.
Here are the start times for your favorite Slipstream/Chipotle riders:
186. Danny Pate 12:11:00
185. Trent Lowe 12:31:00
182. Lucas Euser 12:51:00
183. Tyler Farrar 13:11:00
184. Christophe Laurent 13:31:00
187. Tom Peterson 13:51:00
188. Christian Vande Velde 14:11:00
181. David Millar 14:31:00

On this second day of the first weekend of hard Belgian classics racing, Slipstream/Chipotle kept the blue and orange flying at the front.
Said DS Johnny Weltz: “Steven Cozza was up there in the right split from the start. But when the group split again, he got caught in second group. Martijn Maaskant came from behind […]

Today Mike “Meatball” Friedman got to show the burly Belgians how a Pittsburgh boy takes the cobbles. In his Flandrien debut, Meatball pounded the pavé of the Belgian season opener Het Volk for 190 km, hanging with the break and finishing 12th in the final hill sprint.
Said Director Sportif Johnny Weltz: “Meatball took over […]

The relatively uneventful and sunny stage 5 of the 2008 Volta a Valencia resulted in no significant changes to the overall results. Slipstream/Chipotle worked as a team to protect Trent Lowe’s position overall and succeeded. Timmy Duggan maintained his second place in the overall mountains classification.
Slipstream stage 5 results
1. Alessandro Petacchi 3:12:54 +
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