Our Rider Maxime St Jules on the Podium at the Cyclistes Mardis Lachine Tuesday June 18/2013

Current EKOI Devinci and EX VELOSELECT rider And Current VELOSELECT Riders at Cyclistes Mardis Lachine on Tuesday June 18/2013

Our Ex Rider Felix Cote Bouvette and current rider of the EKOI-DEVINCI  UCI Professional  Cycling Team in the Leaders Jersey at The Cyclistes Mardis Lachine on
Tuesday June 18/2013. Our riders riding at the front of the 108 rider peleton  Shawn Turcotte and Miguel Lukaszewicz in action.   

UPDATED RACE REPORT

 Here is a updated race report for the VELOSELECT CYCLING Team for the week ending June 8 2013.  Our team went to the GP ST Raymond Race last Saturday and Sunday   

 May 25 26 which was the the selection race for the Quebec Team for the Canada Games for the U23 category or known as the Espoirs category. Our riders faced horrendous conditions and finished and gained invaluable experience riding with a fast senior peleton. It was good preparation for the GP Charlevoix which is a huge race on our calendar.  So our game plan was to have guys go in the breaks and see where this would lead to.  The 1st stage was a criterium on Friday night and it so fast paced that the race was selected in the first five laps and our riders Shawn Turcotte and Rafeal Gagon made the selection. Shawn ended up in 10th and Rafeal tried to help him move up but to no success he finished 29th. So the time trial was ok so we wanted success to have a podium or top 5.  The 3rd stage following the time trial was a hill climb that was quite the event as well. We gave it our all but the boys came close but the fog was was as thick as pea soup and you couldn't see in front of you. 

So for us going to the top we had quite the task of driving to the finish line. 

So our day we said to our boys was the road race and all the riders wanted a W bad.  That Sunday I could feel a buzz in the air. Our team was fighting through out the weekend and this what Czeslaw and i wanted.

 We had a quick meeting before the road stage and told the boys that this was our day. The stage was epic. We had a storm blow through on Saturday night that affected peoples power blew trees down and it was cold raining and 6 degrees this is only  that you  would only see on tv in the Giro d'Italia or the Tour de France with fog going down hills and you couldn't see two feet in front of you. We told our boys that if you kept getting through this day good things would come.  So we had 3 in the final selection when all was said and done in the final 35 km. A break of five riders rolled off the the front of the peleton at 25 km and we knew because of the nasty weather conditions it would be caught cause a break can't be sustained for the whole 120 km. So after the final selection Miguel Lukaszewicz Shawn Turcotte and Francis Bertrand made it to the dwindling peleton. so when it was Shawn Turcotte who made the final for the peleton of 5 riders scattered and the break of five gap was dropping very rapidly. Shawn Turcotte and David Drouin of the Apogee team dropped their other three riders who weren't as motivated as these two to catch the break.  So with 6 km to go they saw them for a minute. Then they knew that they were going to catch it and fight for the podium or a W.  With 5km's to descending at 70 km per hour Shawn and Dave were going through a ninety degree turn and a motorcycle that is part of the security detail was in the wrong place at the wrong time and cut off Shawn's line he had to go straight and hit a dirt road and he didn't crash but stayed upright he got got back up and raced as hard as he could to try and catch them. But that oopsie cost him 45 seconds. It was a valiant effort  though and chapeau to Shawn for putting up such a fight to reel in the break!! He finished 7th and the boys weren't far behind. We also have to mention that other teams were having mechanicals and flat tires. Our MAXXIS tires were bulletproof and our K-EDGE Catchers were also keeping our guys from getting dropped in the selection process by keeping our chains intact! Our SHIMANO Ultegra gruppos were awesome and no mechanicals.

So all in all our guys are getting better and we can for see good results in the races to come a Few pics form the various stages of the GP de Charlevoix

So until next time,

 

Thanks for reading

Press Release For the EQUIPE VELOSELECT CYCLING TEAM For the GP Brossard and GP Gatineau

Press Release Coutresy of  EQUIPE VELOSELECT CYCLING TEAM
 Ste Martine Quebec( May 20 2013)

The EQUIPE VELOSELECT CYCLING TEAM team has been busy racing in the GP BROSSARD and The GATINEAU GP in the past three weeks of the month of May. Our team attended the GP Brossard on Sunday May 5th  and we wanted to race 100% and  leave nothing behind. While spraying the boys legs with KOOLN'FIT and fueling them up with CYTOMAX Pommegrante Berry and using Tangerine Energy drops our boys were ready for battle. The goal was to getting the break and get away so we could be in a better position and sprint from a small group of riders as we didn't have the full team in attendance due to injuries sustained at the IGA DESJARDINS GP STE Martine Race. So our plan was executed and Shawn Turcotte and Rafeal Gagnon went in to the break and eventually caught the peleton and "lapped" the field. The Sprint Finale was within our grasp but it wasn't meant to be a lapped rider wasn't pulled  and caused chaos in his sprint to the line. Luckily Shawn Turcotte stayed upright and had to brake fiercely and start to sprint again on his RHUS Wheels equipped with MAXXIS COMET Tires with our first W of the season within grasp.Shawn finished fourth just off of the podium and didn't crash.
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So after drinking MUSCLE MILK for Recovery our boys regrouped for the GP GATINEAU in GATINEAU Quebec on Saturday May 18 2013.
 We had 7 riders in attendance and would see if our wounded warriors were healing in this fast paced race. All the teams were represented except for Andre Cycle KAYCAN RDS. So we would see how the race went. It was very hot for a may long weekend and a lot of CYTOMAX was used to help refuel our athletes.   So our team took the bull by the horns and were attacking but nothing would stick until three riders went clear sans our team. So we were the only team to attempting to organize a catch of the break. But there was no cooperation and when the boys got other teams to finally lend a hand it too little to late. So Espoirs Qullicot TRJ telecom and a few others chased the break a few other riders joined it but it was gonna be a sprint from the break of the 7 riders which also included a few senior three's as well. Our rider Miguel Lukaszewicz on his Team  issue PROLOGUE SUBIACO equipped with RHUS Wheels racing on MAXXIS TIRES did a lot of work finished a strong tenth. Along with Francis Bertrand 12th and Wil Etherington 18th after lending a hand in catching the break. We now regroup and look forward to our next events GP ST Raymond and GP Charelvoix.

Thanks for reading and until next time

EQUIPE VELOSELECT CYCLING TEAM