Just a brief update on the ABD/GEARGRINDER squad: these guys were fast this past month!
It started off with Carter taking second at the Winfield Twilight Criterium (technically on May 31st). Then Rob White nabbed the “W” the first day of June at the ABR National Championship.
One week later our man Jeff Schroetlin started to flex his “summer muscles” by driving the 6-man breakaway at the Tour De Winghaven, flatting with 2 miles to go, and bridging back up in time to get 4th place!
The weekend after that Rob White lapped the field with two other riders (including former ABD’er Frankie Dierking) en route to taking the Wisconsin State Crit Title, and his brother Ryan took the field sprint for 4th.
Next up was another big Wisco weekend: the Grafton Twilight Criterium and GEARGRINDER’s own Sheboygan Criterium. Mr. Carter didn’t disappoint the hometown fans, catching the late breakaway from Bissell pro Garret Peltonen in the final straightaway to notch Saturday’s win and outsprinting Jittery Joe’s pro (and another former ABD’er) Chad Hartley on Sunday. (There’s a great video of Saturday’s finish courtesy of Tim Keeley at www.abdcycling.com/public/grafton/Grafton.mov)
To round out the month of June, Schroetlin’s form continued to improve and at the Proctor Criterium he finished as the first Illinois rider across the line to take the IL state title!
And to finish off the pre-Superweek preparation, this past weekend the team did the double 1-2 as Ryan and Rob White executed perfect team tactics to finish first and second, respectively, at the UWW Road Race, and in Sunday’s ABR State Championship Schroetlin agained manhandled the field, lapping them twice and leading out Josh Carter for 2nd place en route to taking 1st himself.
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