Tour de Birmingham Finale. Be there. 

Some of you may notice that we have changed the checkpoints for stage 3. After several concerns were expressed about the proposed route into Cahaba Heights in the evening, we at Bici decided it best to keep things closer to town in order to prevent people from getting lost in the mean streets of Mountain Brook or worse get hurt on one of the many dark, fast decents. So there you have it, an over the mountain and back gut wrenching 10 mile sufferfest. I know some of you who haven’t raced in any of our races are thinking ,” 10 miles ain’t so bad.” Come out and see for your self. There is no pace lining, no designated route, and sure as hell no holding back. This is a full gas half hour of PAIN!

Anyway, hope to see any and all of you at Bici Saturday race. Racing or not. 

- Alan

le Tour de Birmingham Stage 3. 

Men’s Stage Results:

1. Ed Merritt
2. Sam Porter
3. Brandon Thornton
4. John Karrasch
5. Ross Porter
6. Travis Lewis
7. Alan Barton 
8. Braxton Schell
9. Brent Marshall
10. Jesse Heath
11. Nathan Hutcheson
12. Russell Mawn
13. Phillip Thompson
14. Nathan Pocus

Women’s Stage Results:

1. Katherine Thompson
2. Rebecca Barton

Men’s GC:

1. Sam Porter      33:57
2. Brandon Thornton    34:24
3. Ross Porter      35:19
4. Travis Lewis      37:07
5. Alan Barton        37:44
6. Jesse Heath  40:31
7. Nathan Pocus  55:36    

Women’s GC:

1. Rebecca Barton 58:06

Men’s Sprint Points:

1. Jesse Heath   10
2. Braxton Schell 9
3. Brandon Thornton  8
4. John Karrasch 7
5. Ed Merritt 6
6. Russell Mawn 5

King of the Mountains Points

1. Sam Porter 10
2. Ross Porter 9
3. Alan Barton 8
4. Travis Lewis 7
5. Brent Marshall 6
6. Phillip Thompson 5

Women’s Sprint Points 

1. Rebecca Barton 10
2. Katherine Thompson 9

Queen of the Mountains Points

1. Katherine Thompson 10
2. Rebecca Barton 9

So there you have it, the results for the second stage of the Tour de Birmingham. This stage we introduced KOM and Sprint points for those who aren’t going to able to race every weekend. This week BBC and Bottletree served as the KOM and Sprint checkpoints, forcing riders to choose which checkpoint to head toward first for highest points. Next week both checkpoints will be KOM stops so there will be a lot of points up for grabs and the category will probably shake up. 

Thanks go out to Mike and the guys at Birmingham Bicycle Company for the awesome prizes and the pushup checkpoint. Also a big thanks to our volunteers who did a great job keeping up with the chaos so we can keep these results straight. 

Stay tuned here on the blog and I will be posting a flier and suggested route for Stage 3 either Monday or Tuesday. 

Stage 2!