From the Boulder County Business Report

BCBR ARTICLE

Virtual cycling training facility opens
By Doug Storum
November 30, 2010 --

BOULDER - Mike Ricci of D3 Multisport is opening D3 Energy Lab, an indoor cycling training facility.

The facility, at 3200 Valmont St. in Boulder, features the CompuTrainer, a virtual course that is projected onto the wall.

Up to eight riders can train at the same time, on their own bikes on treadmills, on the same virtual course. Courses can be customized, and the system's interactive real course videos include famous courses (including Tour de France stages and Ironman courses) to be input and raced. This allows riders to measure their performance against one another, and themselves, as the system measures and records a variety of performance parameters, including speed, calories and power output.

Classes are up and running and sessions are available mornings, lunchtime, evenings and weekends, and for a limited time, new riders can experience a session for free. See www.d3multisport.com/EnergyLab/schedule for more information.

Ricci is a certified USAT Level III coach. He has owned D3 Multisport Inc. since 2000, and he is the head coach for the national champion University of Colorado triathlon team.

From Sky Daily News

On the heels of two years of mountain biking national championships, Granby Ranch's SolVista bike park officials are hoping to gain the town's title sponsorship for the next big race in the Granby area.

During budget talks on Nov. 23, town board members directed the town staff to research where in the budget $25,000 could be drawn to create a prize purse that could attract to Granby the “best of the best” in the racing world during the spring shoulder season.

“The National Championships the last couple of years has put Granby on the map,” said SolVista Bike Park Director Matt Thompson. “The bike park is seeking and hoping to promote and create bigger types of events in order to attract a broader range of people and get our name out there and draw more people to Granby.

“We need a purse so that we can attract world-renowned, world-class riders to come to Granby, and that will bring the amateurs,” he added. “The purse can have a drastic impact on the amount of people that come to a regional race or a national race.”

From the Daily Camera

Louisville's Pearl Izumi sues Garmin-Sliptream cycling team over 12 winged suits

By Laura Snider, Camera Staff Writer
Posted: 11/24/2010 02:20:31 PM MST

Louisville-based Pearl Izumi has filed a lawsuit against Slipstream Sports — which manages the Garmin-Slipstream pro cycling team — over a dozen “winged suits” that the technical clothing manufacturer made for the riders.

The winged suits were developed by Pearl Izumi’s advanced clothing design team known as The Speed Shop. The group of developers works exclusively on making technical clothing that allows athletes — such as runners, cyclists and triathletes — to shave off seconds by reducing drag.

The winged suits are cycling outfits with “an aerodynamic winged sleeve for smoothing airflow around the bicep area of the cyclist,” according to the lawsuit filed last week in Boulder District Court.

Pearl Izumi, which has been sponsoring the Garmin-Slipstream team since January 2009, claims that they gave 12 prototype winged suits to the cycling team for them to test in competition in mid-June.