2010 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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2008TOP TEN

Francis Manfred 1st

Ron Moore 2nd

Charlie Skoog 3rd

Clark Griffin 4th

Tom M^cMahan 5th

Markus Naegeli 6th

Mark Bettinger 7th

Rick Weaver 8th

Stephen Sehr 9th

Tom Linn 10th

2008 Tour de Schwinn History Page

2008  the 5th try.

The last year. Ok that was Mike's plan anyways. With the use of a second machine we were able to open the field up to an additional 4 riders and have some riders going at the same time. This added a bit of fun to the event.

THE START STAGE 1 : PROLGOUE
The Prologue was a familiar course with familiar results, somewhat.

So once again Francis was in yellow after the prologue and the teams then were set based on the results.

STAGE 2 THE WALL
This stage went back to the old course, 6miles each miles saw .2 miles of 8% down hill  .6 of a flat then .2 @ 8% uphill. As in years past each lap seemed to drain the riders more and more. Ron Moore took top honors this race and moved into 2nd on GC 36 seconds behind Francis Manfred. Kevin Wisher took second on the stage with Tom Linn and Andrew Miabaum 3rd and 4th.

STAGE 3 THE STAIRWAY.
The stairway was your basic course like in years past with flat up flat up flat up them over 6.2 miles of riding tested the riders just a bit.  This stage should shake the GC up a bit,  the peleton just let Ryan Hulce go, not expecting him to be able to maintain the pace he set from the start which ended up giving him the stage win.  And Walt kosiak also was a big surprise on the stage, taking second.  There was a crash in the field that seems to have slowed down some of the favorites. Rumor has it a dog took  Kevin Wisher down and caused the slow up with a few other riders.  Ron Moore took over the lead in the GC

STAGE 4 TEAM TIME TRIAL
7.4 miles(5.5 flat with a 1% down hill for the last 1.9 miles)
A very fast course one which the American Flyers took advantage of, winning the event and helping team member Ron Moore extend his lead over Francis Manfred from  :06 to 1:13.  The Flying Squirrels came in second with Time Lords in 3rd. Francis Manfred's team came in last.

STAGE 5 THE HILL CLIMB
As the name clearly states there was climbing involved on this stage, in fact the road hit 12%. Ron Moore did not fair well do to illness and lost the GC number one spot however it was to his team Captain Clark Griffin who finished 2nd on the stage behind Tom McMahan. Kevin Wisher also abandoned during this stage.

STAGE 6 MIKE'S REVENGE.
Know as the hardest stage of the tour, Mike's Revenge, has been known as the make or break stage. Do well here and you have a good chance for the top of the GC, do badly and its time to think of next year. And this year it seems that some people had been saving themselves for this stage. Tom Linn won the stage with a all out flyer for his team the American Flyers. Mitch Reeves kept with Tom until the last climb but could not match him on the final bit. Mitch finished second with Stan Shuey coming in 3rd. The GC got a bit of change as expected after this stage; Clark Griffin droped to 5th as Francis Manfred took over the lead. Though it was a small lead for Mitch Reeves was in 2nd  less then 1 second behind Francis. Jeff Bell's ride placed in 3rd on GC just 15 seconds back. In fact things were a lot closer this year than in the past the average GC defiect was only 1:35 at this point which was 2 minutes less then the 3 previous years. Francis looked like he might finally get the win he had been going for, however he had been here before. Could he hold off the attacks from so many riders who were closer then ever to him at this point. It all came down to the last ride.

STAGE 7 EPILOGUE
This race was done in time trial style with the last place rider off first and the first place rider off last. It is also the same course as the Prologue which was done to allow the riders to see how much they improved over the last few weeks. So the stage was set,  the GC was tight and alot of riders had high hopes of winning the Tour. The riders were to ride in reverse GC order with the leader Francis Manfred going last. Ron Moore set a great time and looked like he might be able to not only take the stage but redeem himself and steel the victory from Francis. However at the end of the day Ron came up 4 seconds short of victory giving Francis his Tour win after 3 years of coming in 2nd place.

List of riders by teams with placing

Tour History