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On April 20th, 2008 the chilly breezes subsided and the sun shone brightly for LGR’s wildly popular Annual Grumpy’s Roubaix event. Team members met at Grumpy’s Northeast and took about 30 local riders on a moderately paced tour of the twin cities most cobbled streets and alleyways. The ride is intended to mimic the Paris Roubaix, which is a race on the heavy cobblestone streets of the Paris countryside. After completing the ride, the group met back at Grumpy’s Downtown to watch the race on the bigscreen TV. This is one of LGR’s most fun and relaxed events of the year.

As the racing season begins, there have been LGR sightings all over the place –most notably on the podium. In 2008, LGR has had a rider on the podium in 8 out of 9 races. Jake Helmbrecht started us out with the Cold Bear Challenge Mountain Bike race series. The rest of the team has followed suit in area Crits and Road races. LGR is breaking all its own records so far in the 2008 season. Keep checking back as the season progresses.

Little Guy Racing would also like to send our well-wishes to Tim “Masi Guy” Jackson who suffered a terrible crash during a race at the San Diego Velodrome. Tim has been a supporter of our team since day one. His generous support comes through the Masi bicycles that we ride. If you have a moment stop over on his blog to check in on his recovery.

From all of us at LGR we would like to say, “Get Well Soon!”

We’re at it again!

Only once every year does an event of this magnitude occur.

On one single day in April, the stars align, the skies open, and cycling’s biggest heroes converge for one single purpose… Grumpy’s-Roubaix!

Join us on April 20th, at 1pm, for a ride leaving Grumpy’s Bar NE to tour the most brutal cobbles Minneapolis and St. Paul have to offer.

We will be arriving at Grumpy’s Bar in Downtown in time to pull a stool up to the bar, and watch dudes in spandex suffer and crash, again and again.

April 20th, 2008

Grumpy’s NE to Grumpy’s Downtown
Ride Leaves at 1PM
Arrives at Downtown at 330PM

Helmets Requested, but not mandatory.

Race wheelset not recommended.

The Little Guy Racing team is proud to announce that over $1500 was raised for the Minneapolis community during the 4 part ColdSprints series. The milestone was reached on the last night of racing when a total of $400 was raised for the Mark Loesch Memorial Fund. In conjunction with January’s amount of $375 the Loesch fund got a considerable donation from the local cycling community.

The first two installments of the ColdSprints Indoor Cycling Series were to benefit Second Harvest Heartland, a local foodshelf. In just two short months $800 was raised. The foodshelf has long been a part of the Minnesota community and the team is proud to have worked in conjunction with other sponsors and series volunteers in order to make the sizeable contributions this winter.

Thanks to all that came out for ColdSprints in 2007/08!

Come join us at the grand finale of the winter indoor sprint series, known as Cold Sprints!

It’s been our great pleasure to help make this event a reality. We have to thank our partners in crime, Grumpy’s Bar, Behind Bars, One on One, Retro Soft, and Lovely.

Come on out, we’d love to see you there!

The ColdSprints Indoor Cycling Series that Little Guy Racing is a proud sponsor and supporter of was on the KARE 11 evening news on Wednesday and will be featured on Sunday for Minnesota Bound (with Raven the dog!).

The feature story and clip of the segment is available on the Kare11 website, or by clicking this link.

Our team is excited to help present the next ColdSprints event on Friday January 25th at 7pm at Grumpy’s Bar Downtown.

To find out more information about ColdSprints head to the official ColdSprints myspace page.

To read about the past two ColdSprints events and results head to BikeThrow.

December  28th

November 30th 

Chances are you made your way here from the Star Tribune story about ColdSprints.

Here is the information you may be looking for:

Please take a moment to look around the site and look at our list of 2007 sponsors, then come on back to LittleGuyRacing.com to see the 2008 sponsors and our new and improved roster of bicycle racers!

If you like what you see please feel free to contact us about potential sponsorships for the team or ColdSprints please email us at thesuperrookie@gmail.com

See you on the 28th!

p.s. We were also featured in the New York Times.

This time we made it into the NY Times.

It is an awfully nice way to cap a truly amazing first year as a team!

We had print articles this year in the Star Tribune, New York Times, Midwest Events Magazine. We also had quite a bit of press on the internet, from the gearjunkie to the masiguy blog.

Pile that on top of our multiple State Championship medals, and numerous other victories… well, LGR is on fire.

We really owe it all to great teamwork, and some fantastic sponsors that have really allowed this team to go above and beyond!

Grumpy’s Bar, Behind Bars Bike Shop, Masi Bicycles, America’s TPA, Moose and Sadie’s Cafe, and Body of Knowledge Massage, have all made our success possible! We try to support them as much as we can, and we hope that you will too!

So, stop in any one of them, and tell them thanks for supporting!

Check our Sponsor page for links!

Cyclocross in the upper midwest is winding down, and the National Championships are coming up!

LGR has been racing all over Minnesota, and in Wisconsin this season, and we will close it out with the UCI weekend of events in Iowa, at Jingle Cross.

We’ve kept the success coming our way so far this CX season, with Amy Campbell picking up a pair of wins! One at Riverfront CX in Hudson, WI and one in Taylor’s Falls, WI at the Red Barn Classic.

Matt “Little Guy” Allen also scored a victory in Northfield MN!

We are gearing up for a strong showing at the Minnesota state championships, and at Jingle Cross… then we finally get a vacation!

…then training for next year starts!

The course is set.

The barriers are ready.

The bleachers are in place.

All we need is you.

Be there.

Do not miss your chance to see the most monumental cyclocross event in Minnesota history!

There is no guarantee that this event will ever happen again, so don’t chance it.

So, the Cyclocross season is here! That means the road and track
racing seasons are over here in Minnesota.

I think LGR had a pretty good summer for a first year team!

[fall colors at the campus crit. photo: skinnyski.com]

We were competitive all year and had a lot of great results! More importantly, we had a great time at the races, and even pulled off some great events throughout the year! Like the Campus Crit, and Grumpy’s-Roubaix! (plug: come check out NSCx on nov. 4th!). All-in-all, a great summer, and a great first year!

Let’s review!

MN Velodrome Womens Rider of the Year - Congrats Gwen!!

MN State Road Race Champion - Cat 3! Congrats Tuffy!!

MN State Sprint Champion - Cat 4! Congrats Dan!!

MN State Time Trial Champion - Cat 4! Congrats Joe!!

MN State Keirin Silver Medal - Cat 1/2! Congrats Tom!!

Campus Crit m4/5 - 1st Place!! Congrats again Tuffy!!

Hopkins Crit - 3rd Place! Congrats Sarah!!

MN State Championship Crit Cat 4 - 4th Place! Congrats Mark!

Grandstay Crit - 3rd Place! Congrats again Sarah!!

There were many more great times had on the bike this road season, and there will be even more during this Cyclocross season!

Hats off to all my LGR teammates in 2007, and all of our fantastic sponsors as well!!

We look forward to 2008!

See you at the races!