JW DUNDEE'S Cycling Team

3/27/05 --- Dwight Roth powered his way to a superb fourth place finish in the Buffalo Giro on Sunday. He went with an attack in the last 5k of the race and never looked back. Dwight and Rob both raced an aggressive race and scored with the best finish thus far in the 2005 Giro series for the JW team in the A division. Rob covered the counter attacks and came in for a seventh place overall finish.

3/21/2005--- Mike Mathis, JW Dundee's Premium Beer star Cat 3 rider returned from a couple of weeks of early season training (and site seeing) in Italy. Full story and pictures coming soon.

March 19, 2005 --- Dave Rowley demonstrated his superior fitness yesterday by once again winning Giro #3 with a solo victory. With temperatures flirting with the 40s, the entire JW Dundee's Premium Beer "B" squad showed the peloton how to race like a team. More Information >>

March 13, 2005 --- David Rowley attacked at the 3 mile point, and never looked backed. He finished with well over a 2 minute lead on the peloton. More Information >>

March 19, 2005 --- Dave Rowley demonstrated his superior fitness yesterday by once again winning Giro #3 with a solo victory. With temperatures flirting with the 40s, the entire JW Dundee's Premium "B" squad showed the peloton how to race like a team.

The race started out tame as no one wanted to do much in the wind. Mo soon got bored, and launched an attack that received some quick attention from a group of about five or six riders. Several attacks were attempted by others, as well as Mikey, Mo and Myself. It became clear that no one was going to get away early in the race, but the attacks kept coming.

On the second lap, I got off the front with two of the guys , but the pack was organized, and eventually caught us. It was a good thing, because I was not doing so good right then. Finally, On the second lap coming in towards the finish with the tail wind, The gas got put on hard core. The rubber band stretched, and finally broke. When we came around the corner over the bridge, there were three of us alone, with the peloton in shambles, but not too far back.

It turned out to be the winning break, as all the guys were strong, and willing to work. A fourth guy managed to bridge up, so now it was me and three others, and we worked very well together into the headwind. Soon, the peloton was out of site, and we traded hard pulls until the tailwind section.

It became apparent to me that all three of the guys I was with were friends, as they were talking to each other by first name. I began to worry that I was outnumbered, and that they would soon hang me out to dry. One of them, who appeared to me to be very strong on the group effort into the head wind, started skipping pulls. I figured he was saving himself for an attack, so I began to ride with my eyes and ears wide open. I also noticed that the other two had slowed down some too, and our pace was not very fast. This was OK by me, as I was able to recover some, and get ready for their attacks.

After the last right turn on the course, all of them got behind me, and refused to pull through. I slowed down, they slowed down. I wanted to get behind them so I could attack with some element of surprise. There was no way I was going to let the this come to a sprint, as I was outnumbered, and thought they had some gas.

Finally, I just said screw it, grabbed two gears, stood up and hammered. When I sat down, I looked back, and the gap was huge! I was shocked. I attacked with about two miles to go, figuring if I was caught, I might get some recovery time in before the finish. So at that point I committed all out, and rode in alone.

The A group was shocked by an early attack from Adam Garlapow, that was never to be brought back. Late attacks from fresh legs prevented any J.W. rider from placing in this race.

March 13, 2005 --- In absolutely horrid conditions (28degrees, snow and very wet roads), Mike Dispenza gets his first win of the year at Sundays Buffalo Giro and gives the JW Dundee's Premium Beer Cycling Team back to back wins in the "B" group . After 1 of 3 laps of a 10 mile loop Mike decided to have a go and road off the front of our very small group never to be seen again until he was standing shivering at the finish . Yup it was that bad even with a hard solo effort Mike was still wet and frozen . Once Mike was off the front Mark's job was to cover any moves to catch Mike and none were successful and with about 2 miles to go , once Mark got his bike to shift into the big ring because everything was frozen , he attacked and road away from the remaining riders for 2cd place .
With the win in Sunday's Buffalo Giro Mike takes over the Spring Giro "B" series points lead with David Rowley 2cnd and Mark Rowley tied for 3rd .

March 12, 2005 --- David Rowley attacked at the 3 mile point, and never looked backed. He finished with well over a 2 minute lead on the peloton. Dave is showing excellent early season form and the hours of indoor training and opportunistic outside rides have paid off well. The remainder of the B squad covered the attacks and the team picked up a third and sixth with Mike Dispenza and Jim Fetton respectively.

The A squad was able to be a part of the early breaks, but was unable to cover the last attack by the eventual winner. A group of three stayed away in the last loop around Mendon and had no more than a 30 second lead. With the two major teams having representatives in the break it was difficult to bring it back. Taylor Hogan and Rob Dietrick came in sixth and seventh respectively.

A great opener for the team. The team not only looked sharp in their new kits and bikes, but we had some great results.