From Marshall Dobbins of Rockville, Maryland:

I have been to the CSC Invitational with 1 or both of my 2 sons every year for the last nine years and was looking forward to another great day of racing this year. I was really excited last winter when I read that you had signed Magnus Backstedt to a contract. I kept hoping that we would get to see him race here in the USA.

The week before the race, I followed my usual plan of looking at the race roster a couple of nights before the race and then going through a vast assortment of cycling magazines to find things to get autographed. When I saw Magnus on the start list, I went into high gear to find a picture of him winning Paris-Roubaix.

When we got to the race, we looked around to see were all the teams had parked there vehicles. When we saw Argyle, we went to wait to see Magnus after his pre-race warm up ride. He signed all of the items my son Alan and I had. I got lots of great pictures during the race and several more of Magnus on the podium afterwards. The entire day was highlighted by the picture of Magnus with Alan!

Thanks to all of your team and staff for a great day!

Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O took center stage today with a long breakaway by Magnus Backstedt and a dramatic sprint finish by Julian Dean. Riding out front for the first three laps, “Maggy” won the two of the three intermediate sprints of they day along with two KOMs. He was caught with two laps to go […]

Drag racing to the end, Big Mag finished third in today’s opening Tour of Britain stage.
Race report from DS Matt White
Today we are in Britain so we gave our quasi Brit Maggy the opportunity to show his sprinting prowess!
Chris Sutton was in the early break that went a very long way. Then the boys, […]

Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O completely ruled the roads during today’s penultimate stage of the 2008 Tour of Ireland. After repeated attacks by Magnus Backstedt and Martijn Maaskant, Maggy (above) made and drove the day’s break, working the group’s lead on the peloton to over four minutes. With Maggy the virtual leader - and #1 decoy - […]

Cycling Weekly previews the Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O rosters for both the Tour of Ireland and the Tour of Britain later this fall.

So this year’s Tour ended like so many others have for me with an early withdrawal. It certainly wasn’t for the lack of trying, legs or even injury this time.
To give you the full run down of what has been going on lately, I struggled through the month of June like so many of you […]

Featured athletes: Danny Pate, Magnus Backstedt
Provided courtesy of Saris Cycling Group
As the terrain begins to go upward, as it did in Stage 6’s uphill finsh, it is important for the riders to be able to maintain a high watts-per-kg or power-to-weight ratio. Watts per kilogram is power output normalized to body weight. The reason we […]

I’ve got a yellow number! I’ve never been on a TdF team good enough to get yellow numbers. We get them because we’re leading the team GC. This is due to Will’s excellent breakaway and near miss a couple of days ago. That launched us into first place. Then between Danny, Christian and myself, […]