By Mike Burris: The North American Masters Championships, otherwise known as the Coupes de Ameriques, was held just over the border in Sutton, Quebec last weekend. Sutton is a quaint little town in the eastern townships of Quebec southeast of Montreal. The town actual organizes the event and is a tremendous host to hundreds of…
Local race promoter, Jean Lacroix of Sparta Synergy put on a race weekend at Thunder Road in Barre, VT on June 23rd and 24th. Events included individual and team time trials as well as a "points" race. Thunder Road is a half-mile, banked tracked that plays host to local stock car junkies during the summer…
The road race at Lake Sunapee was moved this year from its original date to mid-June. Fields were condensed which impacted the CAT 3 riders primarily. They had to jump in with the Pro 1,2 field. Not an easy day for our own Christian Verry, who is not quite old enough to race the 40+….
A small contingent of the Burris Logistics-Fit Werx cycling team ventured to La Prairie, Quebec to expand their cultural horizon, work on their tans, and get in some criterium racing. La Prairie is essentially a suburb of Montreal on the south side of the St Lawrence river. It was the location of this week's stop…
I have never been so anxious for a bicycle race as I was last week. It made for a few sleepless nights, intestinal distress, and an inability to focus on anything important. The Tour of the Battenkill will do that to you. I consider this race to be one of the hardest, if not THE…
By Michael Burris, Burris Logistics-Fit Werx Team Director: The weather in New England has been ridiculously good lately. An entire week in the 80s is unheard of for this time of year. This has offered an incredible opportunity for the normally “basement bound” to log some serious training time outdoors. As as a result, bike…
We’ve always tried to sweat the details; to build our bikes better and pay attention to details that help make a Fit Werx bike a little more special than average. However, we have found that these details can be misunderstood at times as they are not common or the way that most shops do…
I am happy to report that Alberto managed to hold his lead (thanks to the weather) and secure a major victory for the Burris Logistics – Fit Werx squad. We are really proud of the job the entire team did in this year’s race. What follows is a race report from stage 3 from both…
By Christian Verry Race was good, sort of. I expected to get my arse handed to me, and that didn’t completely happen. I definitely got the hard day in I was looking for, and felt better than at Catskills. It rained from beginning to end. The course was 3 laps on a 22 miles circuit…
By Shawn Patenaude This report will be a bit less verbose than it would be, given that I’m typing one handed, more on that in a minute. The Eastern Cup mtb race held at Catamount turned out to be a great event and hopefully it gains in popularity. A beautiful day, dry course and reasonable…
By Christian Verry Let me start off by saying this is the best stage race I have ever done. Incredibly well organized, each stage is hard, and raced that way (the Canadian’s do not enjoy sitting in or starting slow), the roads are safe, the scenery great, and 4 races in 3 days is just…
By Philip Beliveau Well the dust has settled on another Coupe and I am currently eating and drinking my way out of race weight. Here is my story and I am sticking to it. The prologue hill climb started on a lovely evening for pain and fresh pavement into Sutton from the border and the…