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