What do a standard box of crayons, a package of hot dogs, and the Bicycle Heaven road race team have in common? The number 8. There are 8 crayons in a standard crayon box. Eight hot dogs in a package of hot dogs. There are also now eight state crit or road championship jersey’s on [...]
Ever show up on your regular Tuesday night group ride and see people you don’t know? It happens all the time to us. Some times it’s a newer rider looking to try a quicker ride. Sometimes it’s a Cat 1/2 who is in town for the week and needs to get in his miles. So, [...]
What do you do when there’s a bike race a mile from the shop? You show up and race, obviously. What do you do if you’re going to be at that race all day, and the only operation out there making food has a crudely made sign restricting it to “VIP’s ONLY“? Well, in that [...]
With a lull in the racing this week, it’s been more about long rides and coffee shops than hard sprints and breakaways. As the season begins to taper off (although there are still 6 USA Cycling races within an easy drive of BH HQ, as well as the always fantastic Winfield crit and Fall Fling), [...]
As we pointed out last week, Rob has been tasked with helping shape the career of Nicolai Brochner. And, well, it’s going pretty well. Last weekend Rob and Nicolai traveled down to the fantastic Indy Crit. Not to let the picture of Nicolai on the podium ruin the story, but here’s Rob’s account: Indy Crit [...]
What a weekend of fun! Superweek (a 17 day series of racing through the Chicago and Milwaukee area, for those who don’t know) had a Geneva edition for the third straight year. Not only was it in Geneva, it was 2 blocks from Team HQ. Can’t pass up a race you can ride your bike [...]
Ok, maybe you weren’t away. Neither were we, really. Just because this update has taken a minute to get posted, doesn’t mean we weren’t racing! Actually, things have been going quite well the last couple of weekends. We have been having a lot of fun. Our main man in cheap shades, PFK, rolled up to [...]
That picture says it all. If you’re staring at the picture and can’t figure it out, we’ll break it down for your. Those three guys are on Bicycle Heaven. They’re not wearing our team jerseys. See, they earned those fancy new ones. This weekend was the USA Cycling State Road Race Championships down in O’Fallon, Illinois. Dave Ross [...]
A few weeks back we had the State Championship crit at Glencoe. That was fun. Hard, but fun. This week, the State Championship road race is happening down at the O’Fallon Grand Prix… which is the second difficult omnium in as many weekends. Should be a great weekend to race, and we’re looking forward to [...]
Andy Kerr had another fantastic weekend. As I’m sure you recall, he’s a recently-crowned state champ. This past weekend he set out to not only be an Illinois State champ, but he also tried to win the Wisconsin State Championship Road Race. Tackling one of the toughest hills we race within 1.5 hours of Bicycle [...]