Gallery: Inside Team Columbia-Highroad’s Tour of California compound
- By Steve Frothingham
- Published Feb. 14, 2009
- Updated Feb. 15, 2009 at 8:23 AM UTC
Columbia-Highroad is in the midst of making a bike switch from old sponsor Giant to new sponsor Scott. While the guys are all on Scott road bikes, the time trial bikes present more challenges.
“It’s all about the little details in the time trial,” said team director Rolf Aldag, adding that the riders will stick with their old machines “until we have it perfect” with the new Scott models. Team mechanics were busy Saturday prepping the bike ahead of the afternoon’s prologue in Sacramento.
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VeloNews.com editor Steve Frothingham joined the gang in bike-crazy Boulder in early 2008. He is the former executive editor of the trade magazine Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. He also was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press, where he covered three presidential primaries in politics-crazy New Hampshire. His racing career began on a BMX track in 1980 and reached its zenith with several miserable road races as a category 2 in the early 90s. He subsequently retreated to cat. 3, where he has had a consistently mediocre (at best) record ever since, in road, mountain bike and cyclocross events. Follow him on Twitter at @steve_froth