CBR rider wins State Championship

2008 has been a great season for one CBR rider. Steve Murray has continued to improve as the season progressed. It began in March with the first Georgia Cup race in Albany, Georgia, and this report goes through the Rome Georgia Cup race weekend. 14 Podiums and counting.

Race High lights of 2008:

Georgia State Cat 4 criterium championGeorgia Cup cat4 35+ series Georgia Cup cat4 35+ series Leader- yellow Jersey holder
Georgia Cup cat4 35+ sprint leader


Albany Stage Race - cat 4
Prologue - 2nd Place


Tundra Time TrialMaster's - 6th

Perry Roubaix Race weekend
TT - 3rd place
Circuit Race - 5th Place
Overall - 3rd

Gainesville Stage race - cat 4
TT - 1st place
Crit - 8th place
Overall - 1st Place


Chattanooga Stage Race - cat 4
TT - 2nd Place
Crit - 8th place
RR - 13th place
Overall - 2nd place



Sunny King Criterium 45+ master's
4th Place

Historic Roswell crit 45+ master'
6th place

Union City Stage Race - cat 4
TT - 2nd place
Crit - 3rd place
RR - 17th place
Overall - 2nd place


LaGrange Stage Race - cat4


TT - 1st Place
Crit - 1st Place
RR - 11th Place
Overall - 1st place

Rome Stage Race - cat 4
Team TT - 5th place
Crit - 5th place
RR - 4th place
Overall - 2nd

CBR takes the Tour of Atlanta

The 2008 Tour of Atlanta was 7 stages over 5 days. Beginning Thursday afternoon, May 22 - Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day Morning). The CBR group took 5 riders for the whole tour and 2 who joined for many of the races. John Stowe, Matt Ragan, Ryan Crabbe, Steve Murray and Steve Bolton all rode the entire stage race. Jeff Mayhand also joined in to help the team with the Team Time Trial and Saturday road race.

The first day was the key to it all for our big gun - John Stowe. John won the Time trial and then took second on the sprints.

TT results:
1st - John Stowe
4th - Steve Murray
15th - Matt Ragan
16th - Ryan Crabbe


















John built a good lead that he took into the criterium at John's Creek the next day. John took control of the race which took place during a huge downpour. He barely missed a win against the strong sprinter from AVX bikes. Ryan went down during the race but still managed to finish well in adverse conditions.

Criterium Results:
2nd - John Stowe
4th - Steve Murray
15th - Ryan Crabbe
19th- Matt Ragan

Day three was the Team Time Trial and road race. The team TT was a mixed bag. Matt Ragan flatted early and the pace was too high for Steve Bolton and Ryan Crabbe. Steve Murray, John Stowe and Jeff Mayhand finished the 16 mile route and the team placed 2nd overall in the TT. The road race started well and only one of the boys ran into issues. Steve Murray went down hard about 20 miles into the race. He lost so much time that he moved from 2nd overall in the Tour standings to 18th.

TT results - CBR team scores 2nd (we missed 1st by 19 seconds)


Road Race results:
8th - Ryan Crabbe
11th - Steve Bolton
16th - Matt Ragan
20th - John Stowe

Gainesville Criterium Results;
15th - John Stowe
18th - Matt Ragan
19th - Steve Murray
21st - Steve Bolton
27th - Ryan Crabbe

Buford Criterium results:
11th - Steve Murray
13th - Matt Ragan
15th - Steve Bolton
17th - John Stowe
23rd - Ryan Crabbe

Overall finish results:
1st - John Stowe
6th - Ryan Crabbe
10th- Steve Bolton
12th - Matt ragan
14th - Steve Murray