Idaho bike racing

I wanted to highlight the local Idaho bike community. It’s not perfect (like everything else in life) but it’s pretty freaking awesome—I set out to organize a sanctioned race for the first time. It was a blast. Thanks to everyone on ULTRAPASS (our development racing team), the event ran smoothly and (even though it was cold) we crowned a bunch of new State Champions and showed the local community we’re here to stay. I’m excited to start getting Oak more involved in the community through these endeavors as it will obviously be a locally based company!

As most of you know, cycling is a pretty niche sport, yet the Tour de France is the second most watched sporting event in the World. In the US we don’t have that type of racing but it is here that criterium racing thrives. As the sport grows, it’s a great time to get into it. You can now watch the Tour de France on Netflix and more and more US criteriums are providing livestreams (starting with a week of racing at Speedweek which starts this Thursday!) so stay tuned because it’s only going to get better!