Historic Roswell Criterium is this SUNDAY!
Be on the look out for PRIMES to the ToA in all the races!
The $15,000 Tour of Atlanta is Memorial Day weekend- Beginning Friday, May 22 - Monday, May 25th. Go to www.georgiacup.com to see all the details, Maps, Registration and the $54 per night race hotel (regularly $109)! Hotel is ALREADY filling up – Make your reservations fast.
Alpharetta, GA North of Atlanta and just seconds from Historic Roswell is rolling out the red carpet for bike racing. They have hosted the Tour de Georgia and now want to support Grass Roots cycling. In fact, six of the seven stages are within a few minutes (on your bike) from the race hotel!
Last year’s Tour of Atlanta, was a HUGE success with more than 500 race entries! This year will be event BIGGER! Online registration is already up 20% from last year at the same time. All the courses are on or around many group rides throughout the year – including the Reality Bikes (Cumming) Road Race.
Alpharetta is just like Roswell they want to offer their support but the costs for doing SIX events in the City of Alpharetta are VERY expensive. It is really amazing we have received this opportunity to race there. So, please get the WORD out - register early and often and let’s support this very LOCAL event!
Race Rationale: The past couple of years we have seen the trend of racers not registering for the Omnium. In fact, the past 7 GC Bike race weekends (this year and last year) there has been a decline of Omnium entries. On average 20% of participants are registering for the Omnium, while the 50% of the prize purse is allocated to the Overall.
Coupled with racers suggestions we chose to offer low ALL7 race entries ($25 per stage), increased individual stage payout and pay deeper. Our goal is to reward amateur racers with cash and prizes. Every Amateur Stage winner will receive a CUSTOM glass plaque with ToA bag tags to podium winners.
In addition, we have added the Fastest Lap, MAR & KOM competition to each event. This means that every stage race you are competing for the WIN, Fastest Lap and MAR/KOM for CASH and PRIZES! Plus our friends at Reality Bikes have donated $1,000 for the KOM competition (Allocated among all races)!
ProAM WILL be an Omnium with less weight to the overall (20% instead of 50%). Each stage pays 15 deep (Prologue 10 deep) including the GC! The Most Aggressive Rider is an overall competition NOT individual stage like the amateur races.
Space is LIMITED in the ProAm field,
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Juliette Time Trial - Saturday, MAY 2nd
Come get some Fried Green Tomatos!
Home Page: http://www.georgiacup.com/races.php?series=tt&id=12
Register: http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=7738
