The BikeReg.com / Cannondale Elite Amateur Cycling Team is excited to continue an illustrious and historied program of rider development. Formerly FiordiFrutta, we are focused on the 2009 season and hope to post strong results on both the regional and national stages. With a balanced combination of experienced veteran riders and proven young talent, the Northeast based team is looking forward to competing throughout the United States in a schedule emphasizing NRC races as well as remaining true to its New England roots. The 2009 BikeReg.com / Cannondale team is proud to include Josh Dillon, Jamey Driscoll, Dan Timmerman, Matt White, Eric Schildge, Alister Ratcliff, Steve Weller, Nick Keough, Justin Lindine, Thom Coupe, Josh Lipka and Rider-Manager Todd Nordblom. With the amazing support of BikeReg.com, Cannondale, Mavic, Champion Systems, SRAM, Joe’s Garage, Rudy Project, ClifBar, Thomson, TRP Brakes, Headsweats, SelleItalia and Jay Gump at Incline Training we will be able to compete with the best.

With our new webpage we intend to keep you up to date on team events and race results. Scroll below for our most recent result posting and race report, or check out the archive of our Results/Reports. We encourage you to read up on our Sponsors, without which none of this would be possible. We also hope that you will browse our Photo Gallery to catch up with the many places our riders visit over the course of the season.

Thank you for all of your support and encouragement!

Keep in touch and we hope to see you at the races,

 Todd Nordblom

2nd Place --Eric Shildge

Six riders from BikeReg.com / Cannondale lined up at the Jiminy Peak Road Race on Saturday, May 2nd. We knew that because of our recent success, we would have a target on our back as the team to beat.  With that in mind, we decided to be aggressive and attentive from the very beginning of the race. 

Josh, Nick, Justin, and Steve covered dangerous attacks for the first few laps.  Late in the second lap, Matt moved to the front to animate the race.  I joined him, and together with a number of other strong riders, we attempted to force a break off the front.  While we were unsuccessful, we suspected that a similar move could be successful in the next lap.

Lo and behold, the third lap came and I bridged to a lone rider off the front on one of the climbs on the same stretch that we had attacked on last lap.  I was soon joined by seven other riders from the strong teams in the race.  The break quickly gained a large margin on the field, and we were off. 

For the next 75km, the break worked well with one another.  Leery of my odds as only one out of nine, I tried to keep my pulls short, and save my energy for the finish; hoping that one of my teammates would be able to bridge up with a couple of other riders.  With about 4km left in the race, the attacks started to come.  Liking my chances in the sprint, I tried to cover as many of the attacks as I could, without wasting too much energy. 

Coming over the last climb before the finishing ascent of Brodie Mountain Rd.  Former BikeReg.com / Cannondale rider, Jamey Driscoll attacked and gained a small advantage over the rest of us.  A few of us made attempts to bridge the gap, but the other riders would tag along and refuse to help in the chase.  It seemed as though many had resigned to race for second place. 

Coming up the finishing climb, we had closed slightly on Jamey, but it was clear that he had won the day.  I waited until that last 300 meters to launch my sprint and beat out Daniel Zmolik (Empire Cycling) to take second place.  While I was disappointed to not take home the win, I couldn't have asked to be beaten by a better rider.  The team showed a lot of strength today, and I expect much success in the jam-packed month of May and beyond.

 
1st Overall GC
1st Stage 1 - 83 mile road race
1st Stage 2 - 8 mile team time trial
1st Stage 3 - 35 lap criterium
1st Team GC

So this was clearly a good outing for the team.  The team size was limited to 6 riders max, which meant a roster of Schildge, Timmerman, Weller, Lindine, Driscoll, and myself.  Clearly, we had depth on our side as well as the confidence that we had the race won with Schildge if it came down to a sprint.  On paper, it looked as if that may very well be the case with only one small hill per lap in the road race.  But mother nature had other plans as the extreme heat (upwards of 95 degrees both days) and steady cross-winds shattered the 120 rider field by the finish of the road race.  Fortunately, this also favored our squad with Driscoll and I making the final selection of 5.  Having covered a lot of the early action (as did Timmerman, Lindine, and Weller) I was pretty smoked and couldn't make an attack stick therefore I lead out the sprint for Driscoll which he won handily.  Sunday morning's team time trial was a little bit too close for comfort, only winning by 6 seconds, but learning a lot in the process which we will take with us for future events.  Win/win.  With Jamey and I sitting 1-2 in the GC all we had to do is lead out Eric in the criterium to sweep the weekend.  However, some opportunists had some other ideas and an early move stuck.  Probably due to the heat and the previous days efforts, the field was content to let it go.  Before it gained too much time I bridged across and sat on it hoping the field would get their act together and eventually pull it back.  But these guys were on a mission and lapped the field.  So on the road the game plan had to change to make sure I beat the 6 riders who lapped the field in the field.  Therefore the team still executed the leadout except I was the main benefactor.  The team killed the leadout.  I won the field sprint only because Eric let off the gas at the end to let me cross first.  The other riders in the break were nowhere in sight.  It was an awesome display of team strength that further emphasized our Team GC victory.