Colorado bike czar is working on USA Pro Challenge replacement
A photo of the 2013 USA Pro Challenge. (Kimon Berlin/Flickr/CC 2.0)
Well that didn’t take long, did it?
Ken Gart, Colorado’s bike czar, is working on a new professional race for the state to replace the now-defunct USA Pro Challenge, reports Velonews.
This time around, there will be a group of owners, rather than a father-son pair. Maybe they’ll lose $20 million dollars like the last two owners did, but they’ll do it together, dammit.
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