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Connecticut Yankee Bicycle Club

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RICHARD SACHS 'CROSS REFERENCE

Richard Sachs at speed during the 2007 season.

Richard Sachs 'at speed' during the 2007 Cyclocross Season.
Photo courtesy Zac Daab / Cascade Bicycle Studio

The Connecticut Yankee Bicycle Club was formed 1967 as a racing club affiliated with the Amateur Bicycle League of America. In the decades which followed, the club has had dozens of this country's finest athletes as members on its teams. More than twenty C.Y.B.C. riders have made it on to the National Teams of both the United States and Canada.

Richard Sachs has raced with the club since 1974. His framebuilding business has been the official title sponsor of the team since 1981.

For the past 13 years, Sachs' loyal sponsorship of cyclocross teams in the US helped grow the sport and produced a top 'cross athletes in the process, leading to 9 national championship titles since 1997, most recently for Jonathan Page at the 2002 Cyclocross Elite National Championships.

During the last decade, the team has been aided by generous industry support from Cane Creek, Crank Brothers, JB Custom Paint, Oval Concepts, Challenge Tires, VergeSport, Selle San Marco, Rudy Project, Svelte Cycles, Wippermann Connex, as well as financial sponsorship from RGM Watch Company, Rex Chiu, The Radix Group LLC, Ozell Stankus Associates Architects, Boathouse Inc., The Wheatmarket and Nelly's Deli.

For 2007-2008, Sachs' six-person Elite team will compete in the New England Championship Cyclo-Cross Series, at UCI events across the US and in the Nationals. Several Richard Sachs team members also plan to race in Europe after the US National Championships in December 2007, in preparation for the 2008 World Championships.

CYBC NEWS

2007-2008 Richard Sachs/CYBC Cyclocross Team Results