Team Land Rover-Orbea

Final updates for this Sunday

2009-05-20T08:06:00.001-07:00

Last reminder for this Sunday's BBQ and fun ride!

Hey everybody,

Just sending out one last reminder to sign up for the Laurelwood Block Party and Fun Ride this Sunday, May 24th, from 12 pm to 5 pm. A few updates:

-We have booked a great local band, Nickel Arcade, to entertain us while we soak up the sun! Check them out at www.myspace.com/nickelarcadesucks

-For those looking for a shorter ride, a modified route of about 8- 10 miles will be offered

-Many great giveaways from some of the team sponsors, plus a silent auction for an Orbea jersey autographed by Olympic gold medalist Sammy Sanchez!

-Dr. Craig Nichols, who successfully treated Lance Armstrong during his battle with testicular cancer, will be on hand to enjoy the festivities and to say a few words.

-The forecast calls for 83 degrees and sunny on Sunday--what better way to enjoy the beautiful day than with a bike ride and BBQ?

Special thanks to the Ironclad Cycling team, who's ride to fight hunger is stopping by Laurelwood Brewery on Sunday. Please bring a can or two of food if you can to help say thanks to them, and check out www.ironcladcycling.com for details of their ride.

Come enjoy everything the afternoon has to offer while supporting the fight against cancer!

Please take the time to sign up at:
http://www.bikereg.com/events/Register.asp?EventID=8470

See all details at:
http://teamlandrover-orbea.blogspot.com/

Hope to see everybody on Sunday

Laurelwood Brewery Block Party!

2009-04-12T16:01:00.000-07:00

The team's annual Lance Armstrong Foundation fun-draiser will place an emphasis on "fun". With the Livestrong Challenge moving up to our neighbors in Seattle, this will be one of the only chances to support cancer prevention and survivorship by riding a bike in Portland. Of course, that's only the beginning...think BBQ, award winning beer (my favorite is the Workhorse IPA), live music, prizes, and some of the most scenic views of Portland. All in one afternoon, all for a great cause!

Who:

Team Land Rover-Orbea is partnering with one of our great sponsors, Laurelwood Brewing Co., to put on this great event.

When:

Sunday May 24th, 12 pm to 5 pm(ish)

Where:

Laurelwood Brewery & Public House

5115 NE Sandy Blvd.

Portland, OR 97213

How:

Pay $20 (a little more if you register online). Show up. Have fun.

or send a check for $20 and a waiver (or more if you want to donate!)

Payable to Land Rover-Orbea

c/o Eric Tsai

6406 NE Garfield Ave

Portland OR 97211

What:

Ride. BBQ. Beer. Music. Prizes. Fun.

All proceeds will go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation. We will also be using this event to raise money to send a cancer survivor to participate in the Livestrong Challenge in Seattle.

What else:

Meet and ride with members of Portland's own Land Rover-Orbea professional cycling team. They will be on hand to participate in the ride, meet everyone, shake hands, sign autographs, flex their quads, and enjoy the festivities.

John Ohnstead, a LAF regional mentor, will be on hand to answer any questions on how YOU can become more involved with the LAF.

Don't forget your helmet! See you there!

Sam Dimas/Redlands photo retrospective

2009-03-31T09:19:00.000-07:00

It was good to see an Oregon sunset. SoCal sunsets are quite different with all the smog.

Laying down on the job under a palm tree.
During the road race at redlands, we were going 55mph on a flat road.... it was windy!
Cool drawing in a Redlands coffee shop bathroom
Setting up the feed zone camp for the Sunset stage of Redlands
Aaron with the best give'er face ever (redlands crit)
Super Todd our mechanic sporting some interesting wrench work
The camp at the Redlands crit
The team out for a nice training ride before Redlands
Jim after the San Dimas hill climb.... The look says it all.

The team riding up GMR before San Dimas startes.

Josh and Ryan came over from Tucson with a few items...
The long drive south

Getting the trailer all sorted. Still needs some work though.

Redlands

2009-03-26T12:04:00.000-07:00

Logan and Jim getting ready for the tt on day one.

Oh no!

2009-03-24T20:19:00.000-07:00

Jim too? Poor jim.

Look out for sharks

2009-03-24T20:17:00.000-07:00

We had a great visit with the children's hospital here in Redlands
California. We lost josh to a redhead eating shark.

We'll miss you josh.

Getting fueled up for San Dimas rr

2009-03-22T08:42:00.000-07:00

Finally going down

2009-03-21T08:25:00.000-07:00

After almost an hour the road heads down. This road is up there in my
top 10 roads for riding! Amazing.

Looking up

2009-03-21T08:22:00.000-07:00

This road just goes up and up!

Way

2009-03-20T13:20:00.000-07:00

Not much to say here

2009-03-20T13:06:00.000-07:00

Other then "cool"

Other side of the ridge

2009-03-20T13:03:00.000-07:00

View from the finish

2009-03-20T13:02:00.000-07:00

LA is somewhere down there....

Little further

2009-03-20T12:58:00.000-07:00

Looking back on the course.

San dimas tt

2009-03-20T12:53:00.000-07:00

So I got out to the course nice and early to get a good spot and ride
up the course. This is about 2k up the hill.

Team trailer

2009-03-11T14:24:00.000-07:00

Larch Mtn

2009-03-04T13:54:00.001-08:00

So glad to be back on a good riding bike!

Dirty old men

2009-03-02T08:21:00.001-08:00

Aaron says he is turning into a sprinter... Little does he know that
Dean (our real sprinter) eats climbers like Aaron for lunch! Watch out
Aaron.

Other than that Aaron and Evan had a good showing with a 2nd and a 7th
place in the grit and grime. Eric, Norrene, and myself... well we have some work to do.

Now it's time to clean the bikes!

Team diet

2009-02-26T17:23:00.001-08:00

Garlic and oj with t-sauce

Powered by SRAM

2009-02-20T13:46:00.000-08:00

Tour of California through day 3

2009-02-16T23:19:00.000-08:00

Is it the 3rd day? what day is it? were we in Modesto now or San Jose or still in Santa Cruze? How many people do we have today? wait, is it today or tomorrow?

So the trip goes like this: up at 6:00, make coffee, either make some pancakes or get the conti. breakfast at the hotel, load up the bikes on the LR3, and head to the finish expo. We have the bike stands and tent in the LR3 so we park at our sight and put up the tent. The bikes come out of the orbea van and go in the stands where they are locked up.

Now that we have our place lined up, we look for a warm and dry coffee shop to hang out some.

Once the people start showing up we hang out and chat with some great people until the race comes to town. The LR3 looking pretty good at day one of the TOC.
It's great when we get people that have Orbea bikes already. They stop by and tell us all about their bikes. There are some great fans out there!

Getting set up in the expo

2009-02-14T22:38:00.000-08:00

Soon to be inundated with thousands of crazy fans!

Btw. Yah, the LR3 has the ride hight adjustment. In this pic it is on
low setting which makes getting the bikes much easier.

Just switch to ice and snow

2009-02-14T22:32:00.000-08:00

.... And mo problems.

Tour of California

2009-02-14T22:31:00.001-08:00

Evan and I left for the tour of California Friday am. It was an pretty
uneventfull trip thanks to the Rover's sure hamdeling!

Carson putting the OUCH on the OUCH guys

2009-02-09T19:51:00.001-08:00

2009-02-09T19:07:00.000-08:00

Our new kits came so we hired this male model to showcase the clothing. He costs $100 an hour but we figured it would be worth it..... (proper pictures will be coming soon as well)

Wow!

2009-02-06T15:33:00.001-08:00

Thank you all!

Oh yah!

2009-02-06T09:47:00.000-08:00

Just a thought

2009-02-03T18:42:00.000-08:00

So I had an extra seat clamp laying aroung ant thought to myself maybe
if it were yellow??? So one coat of primer and two coats of "federal
saftey yellow" this is what you get!

#4

2009-02-02T12:19:00.001-08:00

Fast bikes.....

2009-01-31T23:37:00.001-08:00

.... Need fast gear. (as in chainrings, not the other gear)

Up next

2009-01-31T23:35:00.001-08:00

I was really dreding the cables on this one but the cool guys at Orbea
make it a snap to string these up!

One down....

2009-01-31T23:30:00.001-08:00

.... Many more to go. Got almost enough parts to finish one up. Just
need wheels now and we're ready to rock. The new SRAM parts are super
nice. Better shifting and cable routing. This one went together super
nice.

Race car #1

2009-01-14T16:57:00.001-08:00

Here is the LR2 without all the decals. More pictures to come soon.

7 miles up Larch

2009-01-14T16:54:00.001-08:00

I made it this far, not sure how I'm going to get home from here....

All done up

2008-12-26T14:43:00.001-08:00

Big thanks to Bill and the park tool team!

Park stand use # 100

2008-12-26T14:41:00.001-08:00

Park tool stand comes through in the 11th hour after I find out that
our tree stand is broken.

A rare photo of Norrene

2008-12-24T18:09:00.001-08:00

Standing with all the toys

Some cool artwork @ Doernbecher

2008-12-24T18:02:00.001-08:00

Dournbecher children's hospital toy drop

2008-12-24T18:00:00.001-08:00

Big thanks to Laurelwood Brewing, Nike, and Brian Abers for all the
toys! They were saying that because of the weather the were running a
little low on the toys.

Fwd: Land Rover-ORBEA team updated 12-19-08

2008-12-19T16:28:00.001-08:00

David Godfrey

Manager

Land Rover-Orbea Cycling

503.806.5305

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: Norrene Godfrey << Date: December 19, 2008 4:07:25 PM

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Hope my email finds everyone safe and sound for the holidays.

LAF UPDATE:

We will be opening our 2009 LIVESTRONG Challenge account shortly –look for it by the end of December. We will be once again raising funds for the LAF to send another individual to the Seattle LIVESTRONG Challenge.

Dorenbecher UPDATE:

Today is the last day for our toy drive and we will be picking up our toy boxes this evening and delivering the toys to the hospital shortly. I will have a photo of all the toys in our next email update. Thank you to all who participated in our toy drive –the kids at Dorenbecher's will be happy this holiday season thanks to all of you!

Welcome on board Bicycling Magazine:

We would like to welcome on board the Land Rover-ORBEA; Benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation family for 2009 –Bicycling Magazine. Bicycling Magazine will help with getting the word out on our little team and all that we do, with email distribution of team info, counter top displays, banner advertising and printing and distribution of promotion postcards. This will be a HUGE opportunity for the team to take it's message of raising funds and awareness for the Lance Armstrong Foundation to even more people!

Bicycling is the world's leading cycling magazine and connects with millions of active, affluent professionals for whom cycling is the centerpiece of a vibrant, experiential lifestyle. Bicycling's unique combination of travel, gear, fitness, style and award-winning stories -- all surrounded by vivid photography and framed in elegant design -- brings the sport to life for passionate readers who take them along for every ride.

WELCOME ON BOARD!

Race News:

New Zealand National Criterium Championships was December 5th and Roman van Uden took 2nd and new comer to the team Mike Northey took 3rd in the U23 division. Excellent job guys –2009 is shaping up to be an exciting season!

Dean Tracy our lone track sprinter will be heading out this weekend to New Zealand and Australia where he will be racing the Taz Christmas Carnivals. Dean was invited back by the Australian promoter to try his luck again in the week long event. After racing last year, Dean has a better understanding of what to expect and we look for him to be on the podium several times this year –good luck Dean! If you want to track his adventures you can follow him through his blog site at www.voodoomadness.blogspot.com

Getting to know the team: Josh Bartlett

Josh is from Windham City, New Hampsire, this will be his second year on the team. Josh's favorite foods are Blueberry and Chocolate Chip Pancakes and Coffee. He likes pretty much all kinds of music from Kenny Chesney to Spitalfield. Josh brings to the team, his never quit attitude and his ability and willingness to take on any challenge that is put in front of him. Some of his best memories are placing 2nd in the 2008 OBRA Road Race Championships then racing the Cirque du Cycling Criterium the same evening. Josh also participated in the pedalpalooza here in Portland, but you will have to ask him about that one yourself!

Cheers
Norrene

Norrene rode to work and home on these for 6 months without a flat! Best tires ever!

2008-12-10T15:12:00.000-08:00

It's started. Schwalbe sends some love!

2008-12-10T15:10:00.001-08:00

The Beginning

2008-12-08T08:57:00.000-08:00

It didn't begin here, maybe it graduated to here.... Either way, lots to come.