Our Disc Brake Pads are Now Available (8-20-11)
With almost 2 years in development, here they are. If you like the quietness of organic pads, but also want the bite and fade resistance of metallic pads, try these out.
Be A Champion To Japan Fundraiser Raises $2000 (5-27-11)
Our fundraiser for Japan went well. We raised nearly $2K. The funds will go to the Soma City Earthquake Disaster Orphan Scholarship Fund. It was set up for orphans of citizens of Soma City, Japan who lost their lives in the disaster. Soma was hit hard by the tsunami is located 25 miles north of one of crippled nuclear power plants. The fund will provide about 30,000 yen per month to each orphan until they reach 18 years of age. Thank you everybody who patronized us during our fundraiser.
Tibco's Whitten Repeats as Omnium Champ at Track Worlds (3-27-11)
In what was described as a perfect performance, Canadian Tara Whitten of Team TIBCO/To the Top successfully defended her Track Ominum World Championship in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands over the weekend. Whitten beat out American standout Sarah Hammer and Dutch power Kirsten Wild to take her second consecutive ominum crown.
“It feels even better the second time around,” she said.
Whitten was never far from the front during any of the six races that comprise the omnium, including three 2nd place finishes. She took over the lead from Wild after finishing 2nd in the fourth race in the omnium, the Individual Pursuit, and solidified it with another 2nd place in race five, the Scratch Race.
Whitten’s TIBCO teammate Joanne Kiesanowski also put in a strong ride in the omnium to take 9th place in the final standings.
Yokozuna Set To Launch Disc Brake Pad Line (1-22-11)
Yokozuna is proud to announce it is ready to launch a new line of disc brake pads. We have been developing and testing for over a year and a half. The line will include a all-around performance type, an XC racing type and DH type. We will start out will models compatible with Shimano, Avid Juicy and Code, Formula ORO and others.
Team Tibco 2010 Year in Review (1-1-11)
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Embrocation Cycling Journal Vol.6 Available (10-28-10)
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Team Tibco Takes Two to Open The Season (2-28-10)
Ten riders went straight from its training camp near Santa Barbara to Merced, CA to race the Snelling Road Race and Merced Criterium. They came away with two wins, as well as two more podiums.
Yokozuna Lends Team Embrocation Cycling Journal Their Support (1-27-10)
This is a talented bunch racing mainly in the Northeast. They will be running Reaction Cables on their Ridley Damocles. Read the magazine!
Yokozuna Sponsors ZENN Racing Team (1-27-10)
Zenn is a 6-man team racing mainly in California. They will be running Reaction Cables on their Campy-equipped Colnago CX-1's. ZENN is an acronym for Zero Emission/No Noise.
PRESS:
Velo News Puts Reaction Cable System To The Test
(8-20-09)
They just called us one day and asked for a set.
We didn't here anything from them until we found the review up on the
web. We are pleased. It is a fair and infomative review.
http://www.velonews.com/article/96561
Meredith
Miller Takes U.S. national road championship (7-30-09)
Yokozuna
Products Will Be Available in Britain (5-12-09)
Fine-ADC will be handling distribution for the
UK. We are extremely happy to have them on board. Retail powerhouse Wiggle
has expressed interest in stocking our products as well.
Reaction
Cable System Availability (3-12-09)
Customers looking for our Reaction Cable System
can rest assured we are doing our best to meet growing demand. We expect
an air shipment coming arriving around March 23, 2009.
And eventually more in early April. We humbly apologize if you've had
trouble finding these.
Team TIBCO is in The New York Times!! (2-16-09)
An article
has been written an article on professional women's cycling, featuring
Team TIBCO!!
Team TIBCO's Tamayo Takes Second in Tour of California Women's Race(2-16-09)
Santa Rosa, CA – Lauren Tamayo of Team TIBCO didn’t let a
little rain bother her in Santa Rosa Sunday. She didn’t let a lot
of rain bother her, either. In a chilly and drenched Amgen Tour of California
Women’s Criterium, she not only helped establish and drive the winning
break, she finished second in the final sprint to Swedish national champion
Emelia Fahlin (Columbia Highroad). In between, she was constantly attacking
to keep the pace high, winning primes and even taking a late dig in an
attempt at a solo win.
“I felt really strong today,” Tamayo said. “I came out
of the Tour of Qatar with good form and I wanted to be really active today.”
With last year’s race winner and current national criterium and
road champion Brooke Miller of Team TIBCO sitting comfortably in the chasing
pack, Tamayo could be a bit more aggressive, knowing that if the break
was caught, the team still had perhaps the best sprinter in the country
ready for the finish.
“Having Lauren up there really took a lot of the pressure off of
us,” Miller said.
But with 13 riders off the front, there was enough horsepower for the
break to maintain a steady gap. And with the sketchy conditions, mounting
an effective chase wasn’t a given. Two-thirds of the way through
the 60-minute race, the gap reached its maximum of 0:40. But as they got
into the final 10 laps, the gap started dropping. With seven to go, it
was down to 0:25. But over the next few laps, the gap held steady and
then went out another five seconds.
“We weren’t sure until there was only five laps to go that
we were going to stay away,” said teammate Meredith Miller, who
was in the break with Tamayo. “The break went really early. The
race started out pretty fast and I had just worked my way up to the front
when the break went and I was able to jump on. Unfortunately, my legs
weren’t very good today, so I didn’t feel like I could help
Lauren as much as I wanted.”
But what she could do was take a flyer on the last lap of the race to
maintain the pace, but also to take some of the pressure off her teammate
for the sprint.
“It was a good sprint,” Tamayo said. “Meredith put in
a great effort. I think maybe I didn’t have quite the snap in my
legs at the end. Emelia came out of Qatar with really good form, too,
and she didn’t do quite as much work as I did in the break.”
Rachel Lloyd (ProMan), fresh off a number of top-10 finishes on the cyclocross
world cup circuit, rounded out the podium in third place.
Notes
With the break fighting it out up front, there was still plenty of action
back in the bunch. Jerika Hutchinson of Team TIBCO took a spill on the
wet the pavement about mid-race. But the same wet pavement that helped
cause the wreck helped her escape with only some bruises. She reported
afterward that she was just fine.
Brooke Miller almost joined her teammate on the pavement a bit earlier.
“I was following a move by Ina Teutenberg (Columbia-Highroad) and
Tina Pic (Colavita-Sutter Home) and someone to my right swung in on me
and caught my rear derailleur with her front wheel. I stayed upright but
it bent my derailleur hanger.” After a quick bike change and taking
advantage of the free lap rule, she was able to integrate back into the
main back and work her way back toward the front.
Final Results
1. Emelia Fahlin (SWE) Columbia-Highroad
2. Lauren Tamayo (USA) Team TIBCO
3. Rachel Lloyd (USA) ProMan
BTI Picks Up The Yokozuna Line
This is sort
of old news, but important news.
BTI (Bicycle Technologies, Int'l) is one of the largest distributors
in the USA and is known for carrying some of the most high tech products
in cycling. They picked up the line in the fall of 2008. We are proud
and happy to have a presence in their warehouse.
Team TIBCO Captures US National Championship
On August
9, Team TIBCO's Brooke Miller won the US National Cycling Road Championships.
After nearly four hours of diffcult racing, Team TIBCO kept the peloton
together into the final climb. On the climb, Mara Abbott (Team Columbia)
launched a serious attack driving the pace to painful limits. Members
of Team TIBCO pulled her back, allowing Brooke to begin her sprint with
300 meters to go. With all her might, Brooke held off her two most serious
contenders, Tina Pic (Colovita) and Kat Carroll (Cheerwine), who finished
2nd and 3rd respectively.
They've had an incredible year so far.
Jo Kiesanowski is in Beijing representing New Zealand at the Olympics.
The team has had 2 first place finishes and 14 top 10 finishes in UCI
races and 4 first place finishes and 5 second place finishes in NRC events.
Yokozuna provides cables and housing products to Team Tibco. The same
products that make their SRAM drivetrains on their Look bikes work flawlessly
is available to you.
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