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
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Posted: Fri, Nov 20th
NACT concludes in SouthamptonThe 2009 North American Cyclocross Trophy series comes to a close this weekend in the posh Hamptons area of Long Island, New York. Southampton Youth Services Park, a large swath of green built atop a former landfill, hosts the Whitmore Landscaping Super Cross Cup on Saturday and ...
Posted: Sun, Nov 15th
Johnson, Nash take day 2 of Mercer CupA day after playing the role of Ryan Trebon’s punching bag, Tim Johnson punched back. The Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com rider dropped the country’s best cyclocross racers — Trebon included — to take an impressive solo victory at Sunday’s Mercer Cup, the sixth race of ...
Posted: Sat, Nov 14th
Ryan Trebon returns to racing to win on the East Coast; Katerina Nash takes charge of the womenA race course coated in peanut buttery mud couldn’t keep Ryan Trebon (Kona-FSA) and Katerina Nash (Luna) from victory at Saturday's round of the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross. Both Nash and Trebon took convincing solo victories — as well as the series lead — in the muck at ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 13th
Kona-FSA's Ryan Trebon says he's ready to take on the Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com boys in New JerseyRyan Trebon says he has the legs to beat the odds.
“’Cross is not rocket science,” the Kona-FSA rider told VeloNews this week. “If I have the legs I can beat them all. If I have a bad day they might win. That’s how it is.”
The chips are stacked ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd
Mountain Bike News and Notes: Tostado wins Breck 100; Kurchat and Spitz tops in GermanyAltitude specialist Josh Tostado (Santa Cruz-Bach Builders) defended his title at the 2009 Breckenridge 100 cross-country race, held July 18 in Colorado. Tostado spent the majority of the 100-mile race battling with Trek rider Jeff Schalk before finally pulling away in the ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 19th
Gould, Craig take short-track titlesGeorgia Gould (Luna) and Adam Craig (Giant) out-suffered their respective fields to claim short-track wins at the 2009 USA Cycling national mountain bike championships in Granby, Colorado.
The two proved strongest on the course at the SolVista resort, which featured a single ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 18th
Husband and wife teammates Heather Irmiger and Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski win matching XC titles at SolVistaThe Subaru-Gary Fisher team must now silkscreen “His” and “Hers” national championship jerseys for Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Heather Irmiger.
The husband-and-wife teammates, together since their dorm days at the University of Colorado and married in 2005, escaped ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 17th
Cares and Dombroski take U23 titles at MTB NatsColin Cares and Amy Dombroski required fresh, clean stars-and-stripes jerseys Friday after taking the U23 crowns at the 2009 USA Cycling national mountain bike championships, held at SolVista resort in Granby, Colorado. Both riders crossed the line coated in layers of dirt and ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 16th
Four women will battle for cross-country national title this weekendKatie Compton has the legs. Heather Irmiger has the lungs. Mary McConneloug owns the technical skills and Georgia Gould has the speed.
Each of these four racers brings a unique set of skills into this weekend’s USA Cycling national cross-country championships, held at ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 16th
US Cup/Pro XCT series cancels Las Vegas finaleOrganizers of the new Sho Air-Specialized US Cup and USA Cycling’s Pro Cross-country Tour (ProXCT) have canceled the final race of each respective series, the Series Shootout cross-country race. The event was supposed to be held Sunday, September 26 at Bootleg Canyon, just ...
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 ...
