Chuck Byrge competed in the 2010 Leadville 100 mountain bike race in Colorado this past weekend. This race is one of the most brutal long distance moutain biking events in the world. Levi Leipheimer (this year’s winner and current course record holder) said via twitter that Leadville was “One of the harder days [he's] ever had on a bike” and that “Everyone who competes in the [race] is tough as nails!”

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A great picture of the team

by Nathan June 19, 2010
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Chuck Crouch found this great picture of the team working together as they passed through Franklin, TN on the Harpeth River Ride. One of the greatest joys in cycling is riding in a double paceline with a group of strong riders whose skills you know well and who you trust completely.

Good luck to the guys who are racing in Memphis this weekend. Race reports will be posted after the event. Stay cool.

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Harpeth Bicycles 6 Hours of Hamilton Creek report

by Nathan June 16, 2010
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Harpeth Bicycles Racing Team races just as hard off the road as they do on the road. On June 6th, racing team members Jonathan Woody, Fred Cothren, Todd Essig, and Nathan Taylor competed in the Harpeth Bicycles 6 Hours of Hamilton Creek mountain bike race. They posted great results and had an awesome time. Here [...]

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People’s Community Bank Omnium Race Report

by Nathan June 15, 2010
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Brian Rejack was our sole representative at the People’s Community Bank Omnium recently. Here is his race report.
Last weekend I made the trek from Nashville to east Tennessee for a weekend of racing in and around Johnson City. The events included a 31-mile road race with an 8-mile finishing climb to the TN-NC border, a [...]

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A Team Win and a Winning Team

by Nathan June 3, 2010
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On Sunday May 30th the Harpeth Bicycles Racing Team successfully pulled off our first race. After the May 2nd date for the race was flooded out in Nashville’s 1000 year flood, the team rallied together and worked quickly to reschedule for this later date.
If you’ve ever promoted a race, you already know how much goes [...]

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