Bicycle racers from as far away as California, Texas, Canada and Australia are expected to compete in the Memorial Day running of the 76th “Tour of Somerville on May 27. America’s oldest, continuously run bicycle race is a series of races that will attract top amateur and professional cyclists from throughout the world, as well Read More...
LADERA RANCH, Calif., June 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — SmartStop Asset Management, LLC (SmartStop) announced today that Shane Kline, an American cyclist and Olympic hopeful sponsored by SmartStop® Self Storage, earned first place in the 50-mile 2018 Tour of Somerville men’s pro/category one race on May 28 in Somerville, New Jersey. “Shane is an inspiring racer with Read More...
Van Gilder Wins Across the Decades When Laura Van Gilder (Mellow Mushroom) won her first Tour of Somerville criterium, she wasn’t able to share the podium photo on Facebook or Instagram and chances are good it is in a shoebox with other 4 x 6″ cycling memories. The living cycling legend first won the New Read More...
SOMERVILLE, NJ – Had there been more tread on the front tire of Colleen Gulick’s bicycle, Laura Van Gelder might not have won her record-setting fifth Tour of Somerville. Side-by-side, wheel-to-wheel, Van Gelder, 54, won by the narrowest of margins in the Mildred Kugler 25-mile Women’s Pro event in a dramatic photo finish, successfully defending Read More...
SOMERVILLE – As they have for 75 years, thousands of biking enthusiasts gathered on the curbs along Main Street and other Somerville streets to witness bike races in the Tour of Somerville on the last Monday of May. This Memorial Day tradition, which started in 1940, stops for no man or woman, although races were suspended Read More...
SOMERVILLE, NJ – Two Pennsylvania-based track cyclists won first place honors at the men’s and women’s Main Street Sprint races Sunday night, a prelude to Monday’s 75th Tour of Somerville. James Mellen, the current men’s national sprint champion from Schenecksviile and Sophia Shuhay, a multiple-time junior gold medalist bested more than 40 riders racing in Read More...
BOUND BROOK, NJ – Laura Van Gilder of Cresco, Pa. sprinted away from a three-rider breakaway to win the 20-mile women’s race at the Bound Brook Criterium today, a prelude to Monday’s 75th Tour of Somerville. Masha Schneider of Guttenberg, NJ was second and Dori Buckenthal of Glenwood, Maryland placed third. The 54-year-old Van Gilder, Read More...
USACycling.org Since 1940, cyclists from around the nation have come to Somerville, N.J. over Memorial Day Weekend to compete in the Tour of Somerville. Dubbed “the Kentucky Derby of Cycling,” this year’s five-day event runs from Thursday, May 24th through Monday, May 28th and includes a parade, kids’ activities, music, entertainment, great food and as Read More...
TapInto.net May 24, 2018 SOMERVILLE, NJ – Laura Van Gilder, 54-year-old cycling champion from Cresco, Pa., will return to defend her title at the 75th annual Tour of Somerville on Memorial Day, attempting an unprecedented fifth win in the 25-mile women’s race, just one of several races that begin at 10:30 a.m.. The Kugler-Anderson Tour Read More...
