Bike World News

Instead of our usual daily digest, here’s some of the cycling news from the Giro and a little about what’s happening in the rest of the world.

From USA Cycling:
Colorado Springs, Colo. (January 14, 2009)-USA Cycling announced today the five athletes that were nominated to represent the United States in the elite men’s category at the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships on Feb. 1 in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore.), Tim Johnson (Middleton, Mass.) and Jeremy Powers (Hadley, Mass.) all earned automatic nominations to the team as the top three Americans in the UCI rankings.
Trebon (20th) and Powers (27th) will head to the Netherlands to contest the event. Johnson, ranked 22nd in the world, has declined his …

This will probably be the last news digest that I put out until around January 5th. I have a few reviews to publish and will monitor the headlines for anything that merits a newsflash.
Here are the headlines:

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Here are some highlights from USA Cycling’s latest update:

The number of licensed competitive cyclists, clubs and events has continued to grow.
2009 licenses are on sale
USA Cycling members now get a 10% discount from Wheeltags, Mattie O Artworks, Hampton Inns, 53×11 Coffee and USA Cycling branded XP apparel
The US now has 16 professional racing teams with either UCI Continental, Pro Continental or Pro Tour classifications
There is a new professional cross country mountain bike series. The USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour presented by Sho-Air (ProXCT) will consist of seven …

From USACycling.org

Kansas City, Missouri (December 14, 2008)-The final day of the USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships was highlighted by the powerful performance put on by Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore./Kona) on his way to the elite men’s national title. There were no surprises in the elite women’s race as Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike) rode to her fifth consecutive cyclo-cross national championship despite a talented field. A pair of North Carolina schools will take collegiate cyclo-cross team titles back to the Southeast, Lees-McRae College in division I and Appalachian State in …

USA Cycling sent out a news update. Here are some of the highlights:

The recent growth trends of participation in competitive cycling are continuing as USA Cycling this week exceeded 63,200 members for the 2008 season – an increase of nearly 2.7% compared to this week last year. USA Cycling finished the 2007 season with 61,564 licenses sold. Currently, mountain bike license sales are up over 2.6% while Road, Track and Cyclo-cross license sales are up nearly 3.6%.
Applications for USA Cycling’s Club of the Year are now available on-line here …