“Beer, bikes, and legal representation....what more could a racing team ask for?”
Bicycleattorney.com is the web site of Michael A. Colbach, who is the main cash sponsor of the Bicycleattorney.com/racing Cycling Team. Beginning in 2024 Cyclepath PDX is the exclusive Portland Bike Store of the BicycleAttorney.com Cycling Team. Hopworks Urban Brewery is a long-time team sponsor and Exclusive Brewery Sponsor of the BicycleAttorney.com Cycling Team.
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Some History
The owner and operator of Bike n' Hike is Kevin Chudy who actually sponsored Mike's cycling team when he used to race bikes on the Presto Velo Cycling Team which is now the BicycleAttorney.com cycling team and Mike is the main cash sponsor. Mike and Kevin Chudy sponsored together Team Presto Velo BicycleAttorney.com/racing through 2015 in conjunction with HUB - Hopworks Urban Brewery.
In the Fall of 2015 after closing the Portland store, Kevin Chudy, owner of Bike N Hike, announced his retirement and closing of the Beaverton, Milwaukie, and Hillsboro stores. The team partnered with a new Portland bike store.
More about the team's legend and origin on their website.
More Portland Cycling History
The Portland Cup, U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross which was the final races of the national Gran Prix series for 2007. We had The USGP Portland Cup in 2008, 2009 and 2010 also and in 2010 Mike Colbach BicycleAttorney.com and the team's sponsors were all contributing sponsors pictured below.
Portland almost always draws big crowds for bicycle events, and there was a respectable showing at the racetrack for the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross.
About 800 racers competed Saturday and 800 are expected today. Winners of the Juniors (17- and 18-year olds), Elite Men and Elite Women classes will receive an automatic USA Cycling world championship berth. Racers come from all over the country. Several of the top entrants are from Bend and Portland.
Pictured Above: The banner over the start /finish line at Portland International Raceway of the U.S. gran prix of cyclocross The Stanley Portland Cup, with bike n hike Hopworks and bicycleattorney.com on the banner as contributing sponsors. The US Cycling Cyclocross Nationals were held in Bend that year the next weekend so the turn out and crowds were huge.
Pictured Below: Rich Cramer on the Podium, Bend, Oregon U.S. Cycling Cyclocross Nationals 2010
BicycleAttorney.com team Presto Velo is one of Oregon's oldest, continuously operating cycling teams. You can see in the Team's Image Archives that there are several team members who have stood on the Podium at U.S. Cycling Nationals, and even UCI CX Masters World Championships. They are the a wonderful group of people who support each other and racers at all levels in all disciplines. The Team is always up to raising money or supporting some good cause which are also featured in the yearly archived images like in 2018 they were raising money for the American Lung Association Reach The Beach, and cleaned/wrenched 23 children's bicycles for the Community Cycling Center's Holiday Bike Drive.
David Auker is a living legend in local and national bike racing circles. You might not know his name, but Auker was once one of the most feared racers on the west coast. He never signed a pro contract because he was too much of an independent spirit to go that route; but friends who were there back in the 1970s and '80s say he won plenty of races against much more famous opponents like Alexi Grewal, Bob Roll, and others. "In the old days," former teammate Danny Knudsen recalled at a birthday party for Auker in Hillsdale last night, "the pros would not like to see Dave when they showed up. He'd ruin their plans."
Knudsen, a fit 42-year old with thick white hair who currently coaches the BicycleAttorney.com Cycling Team, calls Auker his mentor. "He really took me under his wing," recalled Knudsen as Auker looked on, "He's had a huge impact on my life." From how to pack his race-day gear bag, to using mind games as a way to vanquish stronger riders, to using mint-flavored dental floss to sew up flattened tubulars (the mint was for good luck), Knudsen said, "I couldn't run my team without everything he's taught me."
Story about the building of the Alpenrose Velodrome for the U. S. Nationals as well as a background to all the things that Alpenrose does for cycling and the Portland community.
A private company startled promoters and competitors with a brand-new high-banked track, making the National Bicycle Championships the most pleasant on record.
Frans Pauwels, the Portland organizer of the championships, and a big wheel in Oregon cycling, is still somewhat stunned by Alpenrose Dairy's outpouring of largesse. "I just came to Carl to ask for some trophies, and so...," he says, waving sort of helplessly at the track, stands and tents.
Pictured Below: Flying Lap Alpenrose Velodrome Challenge