2008 LINKS RESULTS
Prologue
The Wall
Stairway
Team Time Trial
Hill Climb
Mike's Revenge
Epilogue
Team Standings
Overall
(GC)

TEAMS
American Flyers

Big Ring Wraiths

Kokomo Cycling and Fitness

Majestic Moose

Time Lords

Flying Squirrels

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2005 TdS
Top 10 Riders
(in order of finish)

Winner 2005 TdS
Troy Clear
American Flyers

2nd Place
Francis Manfred
Kokomo Cycling and Fitness

3rd place
Roxane Burrous
Big Ring Wraiths

4th Place
Charlie Skoog
Time Lords

5th Place
Steve Peugh
Big Ring Wraiths

6th Place
Seth Wall
American Flyers

7th place
Tom Linn
Majestic Moose

8th Place
Shawn Leonard
Kokomo Cycling and Fitness

9th Place
Terry Bogue
Big Ring Wraiths

10th Place
Mitch Reeves
Big Ring Wraiths

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2005 Tour de Schwinn History Page

Year two. The second annual Tour de Schwinn, yes people enjoyed the event enough for us to have a second one. This year saw several changes to the Tour, changes that we hoped would make the event more fair to all the participants and make it a bit easier on the organizers  First it was decided to limit the riders to 20 and only allow Break Away Bicycle Club members in the Tour.  This left us with five four man teams, so some teams had to go... out was last year's Y.O. (young and old), gone was the O.U.T. team ( once upon a time) and say bye bye to the BABC team (BreakAway Bicycle Club team). The BABC mostly was eliminated cause some one pointed out that we were now all BABC riders. So that actually left us with four teams so we had to come up with one, enter the American Flyers!!! (Kevin Costner would be proud).
Then we added or should say changed the Time Trial to a Team Time Trial, which needed some explaining: First remember how the Tour is run ( each rider comes into the store one at a time and rides one race a week) So then how were we going to have a team ride together, we weren't and we did not. What we did was just average the times of members of a team and then assign that time to every member of the team. I hope that's clear cause that is how it's done. We also had a new  handicapping system that we ran  through a few test before we started the tour this year.  Saw that it was good and went for it.

Year two also saw  a few minor course changes but nothing worth mentioning here. We still had seven weeks of racing facing our brave riders and riders still had to deal with Mike for the duration of the Tour.

HOW THINGS HAPPENED!!!

2005  Prologue (Stage 1)
The 2005 Tour opened just like the year before, with a short 2.3 mile prologue which we used to select teams. The Prologue saw Francis Manfred take top honors again, this time however with a new handicapping system Francis would go into stage 2 (the Wall) as the Tour Leader and a time gap over the other riders, unlike last year where everyone was assigned the same time after the prologue. Once again the question came about, would Francis keep his lead and for how long? Andrew Maibaum, who had won the 2004 TdS, was sitting in last place after the Prologue. Some wondered if this was a cleaver strategy, since he had started low in the standings in 2004. Could he do a come from behind and jump into the lead quickly again this year? Only time would tell. 
Second place in the Prologue went to Charlie Skoog, who was then picked as Team Captain for the Time Lords. 3rd went to  the young Seth "Steve" Wall.

STAGE 2 "THE WALL"
The 2005 course for "The Wall" was the same course as in 2004, however since we had turned the Velodyne to face the opposite direction at Kokomo Cycling and Fitness, we told the races that they were to ride the course in reverse direction from the previous year.  No one bought it, or even cared. The Wall, in case you have forgotten or never knew is a one mile course ( .2 miles down @ 8% grade: .6 mile at 0% and then .2 miles up @ 8%). This course is run 6 times!  Rookie Kevin Wisher took top honors for "The Wall", keeping Andrew Maibaum from doing  a repeat of 2004. Andrew did manage to come in 2nd place with Seth Wall grabbing 3rd for the stage. Kevin's win moved him up to 3rd in the GC but is was Seth Wall who was the big winner by taking over the GC led from Francis Manfred. Francis slipped only one spot to 2nd. Andrew would be now found in 7th, however this would as close as he would get to the yellow jersey for 2005.

STAGE 3 "THE STAIRWAY"
Kasey Bickel took the stage win on the shallow climbs of this course for the second year. This kept him in the lead for most stage wins in tour history (both years so far ) it also moved him from last place to 9th in the GC. Meanwhile Seth Wall remained in 1st place and Roxane Burrous moved up to 2nd. Francis Manfred dropped one spot to 3rd. In the Team classification( now something people started to take an interest in) the American Flyers moved to first with the Big Ring Wraiths just 28 seconds behind them. The question was what would the Team Time Trial do to things this year.

STAGE 4  TEAM TIME TRIAL
In 2004 the time trial was an individual event, 2005 saw a change to that, it was now a team event. This meant that each member of  a team would receive the average time of all four members of the team. It also meant that an individual riders chance for a Tour win would be effected by the other 3 members of his/ her team, for better or for worse.
The 2005 Team Time Trial event started off with our last place team riding first on the day. This was the Majestic Moose Team, headed up by team captain Markus Naegeli the Moose were hoping to help Tom Linn with a good team time. Tom was the best placed Moose sitting in 6th place overall. Their time of 16:13 for this 6 mile course looked to be a good one but four more teams were yet to have their say in the matter. The 4th placed team and next to start was the Time Lords ( Charlie Skoog, Kasey Bickel, Keith Crail and Randy Simpson) who out did the Moose with a 15:49.This would not be the best time of the day but a good time none the less, especially considering  Keith  had a major front derailuer problem, Randy had a flat and Kasey dropped his chain. All mechanicals which lost them some time. In the end the Lords would not rule the day, they would be 4th on the day as they were 4th in the Team GC to start. The team in the middle (3rd in GC and 3rd to start the day) was the Kokomo Cycling and Fitness Team, 31 seconds from 1st and only 1 second from 2nd. This squad of riders was lead by Francis Manfred and had defending champion Andrew Maibaum on it as well as Shawn Leonard and Rookie Ron Moore. Francis led the way and pulled his team in with a time of 15:32 which once again was the best time to that point.  The only problem was 2 more teams were yet to go. The Big Rings Wraiths were 4th to start the day, pushing big gears and going fast was very familiar  to this group hence the team name. As Roxane, Mitch "Superman" Reeves, Steve "The Cannibal / Ralph" Peugh and Terry Bouge crossed the line the Wraiths had the led. 15:21 was their time which once again proved the merit of power. So Captain Lee Flasche would have to guide his American Flyers team to new heights  to over take the Wraiths and with 3 tour rookies it looked like a tall order, however they did start last for a reason. After all they were in first place at the start of the day. As Lee brought home Troy Clear, Kevin Wisher and tour leader Seth Wall, victory was theirs for the day. Their time of 15:15 not only bested everyone else on the day it also ensured that Seth Wall would stay in Yellow for one more week, it also moved fellow Flyer Troy Clear in to 2nd place. Roxane Burrous then dropped to 3rd in GC with Francis Manfred going to 4th. This left the American Flyer first in the TEAM GC and 1st & 2nd in the individual GC as well. The BRW stayed in second on Team GC, in fact nothing changed in the Team GC except that the AmF gained a few more seconds on the other teams.

STAGE 5 "The Hill Climb"

The Team Time Trial kept Seth Wall in the led, his team pulled though and gave him what he needed to stay in yellow and increase his lead. It also put Troy Clear, also of the AmF's, into second. However the Hill Climb was the start of a different race, what was hard before was about to turn extreme. So with the climbs getting much tougher could small Seth Wall do well, could he handle the steeper slopes of the mountain stage? It would be a hard stage on all  and in the end the big names would be at the top of the list. In forth on the stage was our tour leader Seth Wall, just ahead of him was Markus Naegeli in 3rd. Charlie Skoog of the Time Lords was able to capture 2nd on the day and he was not the only Time Lord to do well for Kasey Bickel held in to the last to take 5th place. Taking the win for this stage was none other then Francis Manfred who made up enough time in the hills to over take young Mr Wall (Seth). Francis was now once again in yellow (leading the tour), Seth minimized the loss and was now found in 2nd on GC with Charlie Skoog rounding out the top 3. Roxane Burrous slipped to 4th and Seth's team mate Troy Clear was now going the wrong way and dropped from 2nd to 5th. Tom " Capt. Ironlegs" Linn was now for the 3rd time this year to be found in 6th place. With all these big names now at the top of the GC the pressure was mounting on the shoulders of Francis Manfred, could he keep the wolves at bay?  Meanwhile in the Team GC, The Big Ring Wraiths over took the American Flyers by 1 second and the KCF team were in 3rd only 15 seconds out of 1st. The Time Lords and Majestic Moose were still in 4th and 5th respectivley.

STAGE 6 "Mike's Revenge"
Mike's Revenge, like in 2004, was the longest and possibly the hardest course of the tour. 7.5 miles of torture with climb after climb, a brutal course that looked to favor Tour leader Francis Manfred. Manfred was known for his speed and more importantly now for his endurance so it seemed as he would have done well here. At the end of the stage however he was a disappointing 5th, this was good enough however to keep the yellow jersey on his back. Our stage winner was Time Lord Keith Crail who made an early breakaway and was able to hold it. The GC was then mixed up again, Francis remained in 1st, but Seth Wall lost more time on the day and found himself now down  in 6th. While his fellow teammate,Troy Clear, moved back up to 2nd.  Roxane (BRW) over took Charlie Skoog (TL) for 3rd and Steve Peugh (BRW) climbed his way up to 5th in the GC. Speaking of the BRW's they extended their lead in the Team GC while KCF moved up to 2nd (+:53) and the Amf were in 3rd.  One final note on the stage, American Flyer's Lee Flasche road this grueling with fractured ribs which he received from a fall a couple days before the ride.   He was later awarded the Tyler Hamilton Tough Rider Award in honor of his toughness, not bad for a 60 year old.

STAGE 7 "EPILOGUE"
The final stage. The battle field was set, Francis Manfred had fought his way back into the lead and looked poised for one more assault to finish off the competition so he could win this years tour. Rookie Troy Clear had been on the move of late and was now only 21 seconds behind Francis, looking to spoil the Professors victory. Troy was not the only one who was trying to steal victory for themselves: Roxane Burrous was not resting on her heels and had kept a short leash on the dogs of war, she was only down 37 seconds. To add to things the Epilogue, which was the same 2.3 miles course as the prologue, was to be road as time trial with the riders starting in reverse order of the GC (last place first off and first place off last). So the riders would start in this order

  Joe Dibble: Majestic Moose
Andrew "Motto" Maibaum of the Kokomo Cycling & Fitness team
Lee "Lance" Flasche: American Flyers*
Jim Burrous: Majestic Moose
Keith Crail: Time Lords
Kasey Bickel: Time Lords
Kevin Wisher: American Flyers
Randy Simpson: Time Lords
Ron Moore: Kokomo Cycling & Fitness
Terry Bogue: Big Ring Wraiths
Markus Naegeli: Majestic Moose
 Mitch "Superman" Reeves: Big Ring Wraiths
Shawn Leonard: Kokomo Cycling & Fitness
Tom "Captain IronLegs" Linn : Majestic Moose
Seth Wall : American Flyers
Steve "the Cannibal" Peugh: Big Ring Wraiths
"Too Tall" Charlie Skoog: Time Lords
Roxane "Wonder Woman" Burrous: Big Ring Wraiths
Troy Clear: American Flyers
 Francis -The Professor- Manfred: Kokomo Cycling Fitness

Joe Dibble took the stage win which was the only glory he was awarded this year, Joe finished 19th in the GC. * Lee Flasche was forced to abandon the tour as he was unable to ride the last race due to his fractured ribs. Andrew Maibum was 2nd on the stage with Kevin Wisher taking 3rd. But the real story was how did the top 3 GC contenders do? Roxane finished her race with a 6:04 time(taking 17th on the stage), this was enough to keep her in 3rd on GC. Troy Clear came back with a time of 5:38 besting Francis Manfred 6:10 enough to take the yellow Jersey winning the 2005 Tour de Schwinn.

In the Team GC the Big Ring Wraiths took top honor , American Flyers were second (+30)

2005 Tour de Schwinn Riders
Listed by Team and final place.

Tour History