Discounts
Store-U-Self is offering 20% discounts to Ragers and a free use
of a truck for moving when you rent with them.
Jerseys/Clothing
the delivery date will likely be the first week in May -- I'll
keep you updated.
Team Sponsorships
Harpoon has stepped up again this year to sponsor what may be
the most unique program in the country. The Harpoon / Rage Racing
Program is geared towards helping anyone (yes, that's right, anyone,
from the first-timer to experts with a Harpoon Jersey) who wants
to race.
In addition
to that, Doug and I raised some travel sponsorship for some New
England-based racers who didn't have much support or resources.
We'll be sending them to some national events this year with that
additional support from the California Dried Plum Board, Sluggers
and Store-U-Self. Last year, we offered some promising semi-pros
and juniors support from Gary Fisher and International Bicycle
Centers. We were lucky enough to get some extra bikes for the
club as well last year.
We thought
that Fisher was going to roughly double the number of bikes to
the team this year, but you know what happened to the economy.
So, instead of being in the awkward position of trying to divvy
up bikes, we're in the awkward position of peeling back the offers.
This year, I opted to go the easy way out -- give people who had
them last year first opportunity. We only had three to give. Chris
Smith graciously passed to give the opportunity to someone else
as did Doug. Nate, Dave and Joselle will be riding for the club
and representing us well at the entire EFTA series. Next year,
we'll put together a more sophisticated way of divvying up any
bikes or frames we get (ie, based upon results, number of times
my lawn is mowed, etc.).
That said,
we'd like to congratulate the sponsored racers of Team Rage /
Harpoon who will get either bike or frame support from Gary Fisher
and International.
These folks
make mountain biking pretty much their lives (many of them have
been riding 4 hours each Sunday since January!) and its fun to
have them around as part of the team. They've committed to racing
the entire EFTA and/or NORBA NCS series and they are going to
have an awesome year:
Pro
Adam "Race Day" Bucklin (Mt. Snow semi-pro champ, now turning
Pro)
Ben Moody (EFTA Series champ, also turning Pro)
Sara Bresnick (2nd in the NORBA Expert series nationally, turning
Pro)
Karen DeWolfe (trades in her Sobe for some Harpoon on the Pro
circuit)
Dawn Bourque (double world champ -- in both DH and XC)
Expert
Nate Ringquist
Dave Currie
Scott Smith (International employee rider)
Sport
Joselle Crandall
