Topolino News
What a week for Calyon! One win, a 6th , and a 16th place against some of the nation’s best criterium riders in some of the most competitive crits on the US racing calendar.
Topolino has sponsored the Calyon pro cycling team for the past two years – we supply the wheels, they provide the results. Calyon is young professional team based out of Montreal, Canada with the majority of their riders in their early 20s. Having placed well at the Tour of Belize early in 2008 and many early season domestic races, Calyon is a definite force in professional peloton across North America and abroad.
Maxime Vives, one of the team’s sprint specialists, was a bit too fast for the field during the Hartford Downtown Criterium on May 25th , taking the victory with ease. Max went on to place 6th in the renowned Tour of Somerville the next day beating the likes of Olympic hopeful Mike Friedman. Only six days later Max placed 16th (third to the line after the 13 man break) at the CSC Invitational, touted as the ‘toughest crit in the US’. The 16th place was good enough to best last year's winner, Rock Racing’s Rashaan Bahati, and his teammate Freddie Rodriguez. Truly a great week of racing.
Check out Max at the line in Somerville (all the way to the right).
