TransAlp Blog by Pete Webber and Brandon Dwight
Pete Webber and Brandon Dwight are racing the TransAlp mountain bike stage race in Europe from July 16-23, 2011. This blog follows their adventures just before and during the eight-day competition.
Webber, 41, is a longtime bike racer from Boulder, Colorado, USA, who rides for the well-known local team Boulder Cycle Sport. He was a pro mountain bike and cyclo-cross racer during the 90s and rode World Cups and world championships for Team Gary Fisher. As a masters athlete, he is two-time US Cyclo-cross National Champion. On the mountain bike, he won the 2010 US Master Marathon National Championships.
Webber is also a longtime bike advocate and trail builder, and worked for the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) for the past 10 years. His many supporters include his wife Sally and 8-year-old daughter Ella.
Dwight, 39, also from the US, is the co-owner of Boulder Cycle Sport, a popular Colorado bicycle shop with two locations and three times voted a "Top 100 Shop" in the USA. He was a pro/elite mountain biker and cyclo-cross rider on the American circuit during the 90s and 00s and is a two-time US Cyclo-cross Masters National Champion. He is also the founder of Doperssuck.com. Dwight lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife Heather and one-year-old daughter Maggie.
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Getting ready in Boulder
Former pros Pete Webber and Brandon Dwight are teaming up -
Stunning scenery, shame about the climbs
Taking on stage 2 -
Trying to stay warm despite freezing rain and snow
An epic day in the Dolomites on stage 5
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The hardest day on the bike
Pete and Brandon comment on a day of beauty in TransAlp on stage 4 -
A day in the life
Stage 7: How riding TransAlp is so different than any other mountain bike race -
Three races in one
Dodging mid-path flower boxes and oncoming cars in stage 1
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Mission accomplished
The final day of racing during stage 8 at the TransAlp -
Wet and wild day at TransAlp
Pete and Brandon recount another crazy day in Austria on stage 3 -
The TransAlp starts tomorrow!
Ready to rumble