Three wins in two weeks, and a little from the mouths of babes

The Ford-Basis team capped off its best month of racing since the team's inception three years ago. Led by Chrissy Ruiter, the Ford-Basis women brought home three wins in the last two weeks.

Sprinter, 2000 Olympian and a founder of the Ford-Basis women's team, Nicole Freedman - known as Snerf to her friends - is one of the US circuit's great characters. She, along with her Stanford sharpened-wit, is back as a Cyclingnews diarist in 2005. Her goal? Ride 30 hours a week, travel the world and lie exhausted on a couch!