This past summer for the fourth year in a row I found myself in Izegem, Belgium with a group of American juniors as a part of a joint project organized by myself and Sean and Rachel Wilson from Team California Juniors. The purpose of these trips is to provide opportunities for American juniors to … Read more

Congratulations to Tête de la Course Cycling athletes Arjuna Burgos and Riley Halpern on their performances at the Junior National Track Championships held last week at the Jerry Baker Velodrome. Arjuna won two National titles, the first in the 15-16 men’s individual pursuit winning with a time of 3:38.35 which was just over four seconds … Read more

    The Maumee Valley Wheelmen is a bicycle racing club based in Northwest Ohio. It was founded in 1968 by four guys living in Bowling Green, Ohio and is still thriving in much the same form 56 years later. It is also the club where I got my start racing bikes as a 14 … Read more

The Team California / Tête de la Course Cycling juniors are now in Belgium following the Junior Tour of Ireland. I asked Nate Meister to keep a blog about his time in Ireland covering not only the racing itself but also some other observations. Enjoy. On our second day of riding in Clare County, we … Read more

I started coaching Nate a little over a year ago. His goal at the time was to prepare primarily for mountain bike racing during his final year in high school and hopefully earn a scholarship to a college that offered them for cycling. That goal was met and he will be attending Fort Lewis in … Read more

  For the third year in a row I am partnering with Team California Juniors to provide opportunities for American juniors to race abroad. Similar to 2022 and 2023 we have a group of 17-18 year old junior men racing in both the Junior Tour of Ireland followed by a three week race block in … Read more

  It’s been a while….I decided to give up bike racing at the conclusion of the 2023 racing season. I got my GED, in my evenings I am now studying business management at Purdue Global online. I have also started a job as a Paralegal. Yes I also got a haircut.I appreciate all the kindness … Read more

    Evan Larson is an 17 year old junior (racing age 18) from Redlands, CA and has been a part of Sean and Rachel Wilson’s junior development program since he developed an interest in racing over seven years ago. Evan was one of the four juniors who took part in the EU race project … Read more

  Last winter Sean Wilson of @teamcajuniors and I decided that we wanted to take juniors to race in Europe. So we combined resources and came up with a program where a small group of 17-18 juniors would first race The Junior Tour of Ireland and then travel to Belgium to race a block of kermesses.   … Read more