Fred Dreier
BACKGROUND: Dreier covers the full spectrum of bicycle racing, from mountain bike and track cycling to the international road scene. Dreier studied journalism and history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he competed on the swim and cycling teams and edited the school newspaper, City on a Hill Press. He started with VeloNews in 2005. Dreier is a Cat. 3 cyclist on the road, a two-time finisher of the La Ruta de los Conquistadores mountain bike race and a three-time Ironman finisher.
BIKES IN THE GARAGE: '06 Jamis Zenith Pro, '08 Cervelo P3, '06 Kona Jake the Snake, '07 Giant Anthem 1
Stories by Fred Dreier »
Posted: Tue, Jul 14th
Horgan-Kobelski favored for this weekend's MTB natsJeremy Horgan-Kobelski is making room in his closet for another stars and stripes jersey.
Maybe two.
Less than one month after taking the marathon cross-country national championship race, held at the Firecracker 50 race in Breckenridge, Colorado, Horgan-Kobelski ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 12th
Kabush, Pendrel take Canadian cross-country championship titlesGeoff Kabush and Catherine Pendrel will wear the red maple leaf jersey for the next 12 months after winning the Canadian national cross-country championships Saturday at St-Felicien, Quebec.
The winding course, which hosted a round of the UCI World Cup in 2007, was soaked by ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 9th
Breck Epic’s fifth day serves up high altitude sufferingGasps for air and the occasional clank of mountain bikes were the only sounds heard during the 45-minute hike-a-bike up the final pitch of the Wheeler Loop to the top of Breckenridge ski area.
The steep section of the Colorado Trail, which on Thursday hosted the fifth stage ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 4th
McGrath, Sheppard clinch BC Bike Race Seamus McGrath and Chris Sheppard left no doubt as to who owned the strongest set of legs at the 2009 BC Bike Race, winning the final day into Whistler to clinch the race's overall prize. The two Canadians attacked the field on the day's opening fire road climb and never looked ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 3rd
McGrath, Sheppard blow BC Bike Race openChris Sheppard and Seamus McGrath stamped their authority on this year’s BC Bike Race, winning the sixth stage and putting nearly seven minutes into their chief rivals, the Kona duo of Barry Wicks and Kris Sneddon.
The two Canadians attacked from the gun in the 65km stage, ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 3rd
Contest narrows at BC Bike RaceThe fifth day of the 2009 BC Bike Race saw riders tackle a 47-kilometer trek along British Columbia's Sunshine Coast from the town of Sechelt to the ferry landing at Langdale. The day's primary feature was a 45-minute descent on the famed Highway 102 South trail, which plunged ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 3rd
A BC Bike beat downThe fifth day of the 2009 BC Bike Race saw a sizable line of riders queue up outside the Obsession Bikes bike maintenance tent at the finish line in Langdale.
After five days of racing, the wrenches-for-hire had seen just about every mechanical calamity known in the world of ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st
A Sunshine Coast adventureIt seemed fitting that Wednesday's fourth stage of the 2009 BC Bike Race fell on Canada Day, as Stage 4 exposed the 400 or so racers to more of Canada than any day other of this year’s race.
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st
A Day in the Life of a BC Bike Race TeamJason Hill and Peter Butt rolled out of their tent at 6 a.m. to see the sun slowly rising over the snow speckled peaks on the western coast of British Columbia.
Hill and Butt — two of the 400 or so riders competing in this year’s BC Bike Race — had endured a restless ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 30th
Sheppard, McGrath win Stage 3 at BC Bike RaceThere’s a tight battle brewing at the front of the 2009 BC Bike Race between the Kona’s defending champions Kris Sneddon and Barry Wicks, and Canadian strongmen Chris Sheppard and Seamus McGrath (Santa Cruz/Jamis).
After three stages the Canadian duo holds a slim 1:15 ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 30th
BC Bike Race: A Day 2 galleryThe second day of the 2009 BC Bike Race saw 400 riders depart mainland British Columbia and take an hour-long ferry boat ride to the town of Nanaimo on Vancouver island.
The day's course featured 65 kilometers from Nanaimo to the beach town of Parksville, and was designed by ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 30th
Barry Wicks' BC Bike Race rigBarry Wicks and Kris Sneddon of the Kona team came into the 2009 BC Bike Race with the recognition and confidence that follows all defending champions. In 2008 the duo proved to have had the strongest legs and best technical skills over the course of last-year’s seven-day ...
