The original founders of Bailey had a strong showing the opening week of cross season with 3 UCI races in 5 days. Finishing on the lead lap with Bart Wellens and the likes of Team Fidea and Rabobank surprised us.

Behrens was the top Socal finisher at CrossVegas - finally cashing some checks for all that suffering we did with our cross focused training this year.

Behrens doing his part to fund the Monocogue frames..

Team Bailey finished off the season with some impressive results at nationals in Kansas City. Founders John Behrens and John Bailey finished 5th and 9th in the Masters 35-39 race while Mark Noble finished 2nd in the 45-49 group!

For the elite race, the temps dropped into the teens but Behrens and Bailey toughed it out to finish 48th and 67th after snapping his chain.

Cyclocross magazine took some time to do a review of the Miniluv so expect to see a write-up in the near future.

Mark Proia of Portland, Oregon won the final race of the Cross Crusade series and secured 2nd overall in the series.

This was his first win of the year. He was in a lead group of 4 riders and made an spectacular effort opting to run instead of ride the muck that lead up to the finish.

Congrats and great job!

An unexpected little gem in this month's Velo News. Co-founder John Behrens fighting his way up after a start-line crash to a solid 39th place finish at the UCI CrossVegas race.

A few of us hit the road for Interbike and the UCI Cross race in Vegas. Some celebrity chaser showed up to race that made the whole thing even more chaotic. His name is slipping me at the moment, but he won the tour 7 times and is supposedly making a go for 8 after coming out of retirement.

We were caught in a pileup 2 seconds after the gun went off so most of the race was us chasing to salvage anything of a finish. Chasing the pack that is lead by the top pros in the US is kinda like that terrier chasing the car down the road. It was a fun race and even with the mishap, we still faired pretty well...at least better than Berhens' carbon wheel with a hole in it from either my pedal or someone stomping on it.

Behrens finished 39th and I finished 51st. Lana was representing in the Women's pro event and even though she is just coming back from her offseason, she still squeezed out a 26th place finish.

We are heading over to Asia to finalize our designs for the 09' cross bikes. We are excited to be racing these this Fall!

The "John's" had successful races at the SCNCA (Southern California Neveda Cycling) State Time Trial championships. Finishing 7th and 8th at 50:21:45 and 50:21:94 for the 38km loop - an no, the governor is not included on the TT bikes!