Category: Photos

U-14 girls rider Kaylee Blevins reciently made her way into the DEVO record books by becoming the first U-14 girls to attend a team race. Crested Butte was the site of this sweet occasion, where Kaylee smiled her way to a 6th place finish in the junior sport women’s field of 9. Way to go team.

stxc-schedule

The weekly race lands in Horse Gulch for the fourth in a series of 12 races. Registration will be at 530 at the parking lot for B men and women and will move up to the meadow at the 6pm for the A’s. The B’s will go off at 6pm and will be doing 2-3 laps on the Sport Ridge Loop. The A’s will begin at 630 and will be doing 4-5 laps. The Sport Ridge consists of a start on Horse Gulch Road, up road past meadow, left at the slickrock climb to Raider Ridge, left after 50m on the traversing trail, all the way down the technical fast singletrack, hard left to join back up with Horse Gulch Road. Cost is 5$ a rider. Last weeks winners were Chris Blevins and Kaila Hart in the B’s and Alicia Rose Pastore and Ryan Trebon in the A’s. Come and race with us!

Hey there Jr DEVOS. Sorry about the last minute schedule announcement, coach Chad was being silly. The post below has all four of the ride groups schedules. Monday is the first grade group with coach Deb Hall, tuesday is the 20” group with coach Annie Cheeney, Monday and fridays 24″ group is with coach Chad and monday and thursdays 24″ group will be led by coach Annie Cheeney. We are very excited to begin our first ever summer DEVO session. Thank you for being patient as we worked out the scheduling. Ride On!

The weekend racing action in Deer Valley Utah wrapped up today with Chase Orrick standing on the podium in the junior mens super D, placing 4th. A day earlier he went on to finish 11th in the fast junior expert field. DEVO Alumni Tad Elliott had his best finish of the national series, taking 11th place in the short track, and 15th in the pro men cross country. DEVO coach Evan Elliott placed 22nd in the semi-pro downhill, after being crashed out by his minute man. Nice work team.

Todd is riding rad this season.

Keep up the good work.

Next….the summer Olympics!

U-19 DEVO/TenTen downhill racer, Taylor Borucki will undergo exploratory surgery on his right ankle after badly spraining it two weeks ago while riding in the Test Tracks, (rumor has Taylor injuring himself jumping on the bed.) It was later that same day that the 2008 USA World Team was announced, Taylor being one of seven named to the junior downhill squad. He is looking to be back on the bike in six to eight weeks. Taylor worked hard over the rough winter months, training with coach Chad Cheeney to make the team. Bad timing took care of that. Cross your fingers for Taylor and give him a high five for accomplishing his goal. The World Championships taking place in Italy this week, fellow Durangatang, Todd Wells was also named to the senior cross country team. Check here on through the weekend to keep up on the results. 

Tuesday morning the Durango DEVO U-19 ladies team met up with local super mechanic/bike shredder, Scott Shishim at Durango Cyclery for an informative session on the art of bicycle maintenance. Scott used the ladies’ bikes as models to teach them how to perform basic skills such as, lubing a chain properly, tuning disc brakes, adjusting derailuers and looking for noises. Thank you Scott for your demonstration and passion for a properly tuned bicycle.

The mens and womens U-19 teams will do their annual summer photo shoot with local professional photographer, Kennan Harvey on monday. The teams will meet at the Fort Lewis College campus, near the chapel, at 7pm. The cyclists are taught how to do a proper photo shoot and the captured moments will be used for future DEVO media projects.