VOLUME 13 NUMBER 7 FREE SEPTEMBER 2005 cycling utah CLIMB HIGHER! •Calendar of Events - p. 12 •Dave Zabriskie Interview - p. 2 •Wolverine Ridge - p. 16 •Mill Creek Trail of the Month - p. 4 •Snowbird Hillclimb - p. 8 DIRT •Widow Maker Hillclimb - p. 8 •Josie Johnson Ride - p. 3 PAVEMENT •Results - p. 14 ADVOCACY • Commuter Column - p. 6 RACING •Riding in Qatar - p. 5 •SAFETEA - p. 6 TOURING •UDOT Responds - p. 10 MOUNTAIN WEST CYCLING JOURNAL 2 cycling utah.com SEPTEMBER 2005 SPEAKING OF SPOKES at all. They have military back- grounds, but it translates over into cycling utah cycling somehow, and the whole P.O. Box 57980 team and how we need to be togeth- Murray, UT 84157-0980 AnAn InterviewInterview withwith er. It is a neat experience. It is an www.cyclingutah.com experience that will help me even You can reach us by phone: after cycling. (801) 268-2652 DaveDave ZabriskieZabriskie DRW: Describe Bjarne Our Fax number: Riis. (801) 263-1010 By David Ward Burke claimed David had blocked DZ: He's a very Publisher him, twice, from coming around at a car. In the fourth year, it was just strong person, very quiet, very the finish line. me trying to come back. thoughtful. He thinks a lot. He is With local cycling sensation So, no retraction is necessary. always thinking and kind of talks a David Zabriskie in town, I took the But I thank David, once again, for a DRW: Describe your little with a delay, but that is just his opportunity to sit down with him on fun and entertaining interview. It experience with CSC. style. Maybe his English style August 31st for a relaxed interview. was an enjoyable break from the DZ: It was complete- speaking. But he cares so much David invited me to his mother's daily grind at my office, and it will ly different than US Postal Service. about this team. I know in the past home and gave me the time I be an entertaining break for you, the I feel like I have imaginary arms he has put his own money into the desired to question him. reader, as you read this interview. around me and around the team just team to help float it. I am happy for David is an affable young man Enjoy. holding us together. Everybody him that he got the sponsorship Dave Iltis, Editor & with a sly sense of humor. I gets along really well and there is renewed and for more money and Advertising enjoyed my interview with him, but DRW: You were with just a bunch of really neat guys. I he can make a lot of people happy [email protected] was caught off guard momentarily US Postal for a couple of year. feel comfortable; I feel that every- and himself happy. To see the way DZ: Yes by his statement, as you will read in one takes an interest in people. he puts the stress on himself at the David R. Ward, Publisher They are very intelligent with the the interview, that Cycling Utah races because he wants us to do so [email protected] needed to print a retraction of a DRW: Describe your training and SRM, the power well, it is crazy that he cares that statement, in its article on his win- experience with US Postal? meters. Bjarne [Riis] was one of much about it. When Ivan [Basso] Contributors: Greg Overton, ning the Snowbird Hill Climb in DZ: When I was in the first to use it in training camp. had the troubles in the Giro Neal Skorpen, Gregg Bromka, 1998, that he punched Burke the US Postal Service, in the begin- We got results at dinner. He calcu- [d'Italia], he was close to crying. Ben Simonson, Michael Swindlehurst. Then, seeing my ning it was very hard for me to lates everybody's [results], you He's a good guy. Gonzales, Lou Melini, Charles momentary surprise, and with that adjust to the new style of racing. It know. “You need to train with these Pekow, Joaquim Hailer, John teasing look in his eyes, he laughed. was much more difficult and there numbers, you need to train here, DRW: Speaking of Weis, Jason Bultman, Cindi I was in fact surprised because, were some other things in my life you need to train here,” for every Basso, how do you think he will do Hansen, Bob Kinney as I informed him, I wrote the arti- that were changing. For the first single person. It is completely dif- in the upcoming years in the Tour? cle, and did not remember anything year it was very hard and then the ferent. When things go bad is when DZ: He's only 27. Distribution: Michael about him punching Burke. I did second year was much better. The they come and help the most. There It's strange for me because he is Gonzales, Rachel Gonzales, promise to review the article, which third year I had a really good strong are people there that do not have only a year older than me, but he David Montgomery, Doug I did. In fact, I reported only that part of the season, then I got hit by any kind of any cycling background acts, he carries himself with so Kartcher much class and he is so nice. Since (To add your business to our day one, when I met him. Real nice free distribution, give us a guy, great to work for him and to be call) around him. He has offered me an apartment next to him in Milan to Administrative Assistant: go and train. I am going to do that. Lindsay Ross We've become friends really quickly and he is a super nice guy. I think cycling utah is published he will win the Tour eventually, I don't know when, but I think he is eight times a year beginning definitely capable of it. He seemed in March and continuing to be the only one attacking Lance. monthly through October. DRW: How long is Annual Subscription rate: your contract with CSC? $12 DZ: It ends next (Send in a check to year. Bjarne, being the kind of per- our P.O. Box) son he is, from what I have done Postage paid in Murray, UT this year, he was saying ...to forget about it and we will open it up and Editorial and photographic con- make something new. For sure it is tributions are welcome. Send via going to be two more years and we email to [email protected]. will talk seriously about a third, Or, send via mail and please probably this weekend. Something include a stamped, self- that I don't think US Postal would addressed envelope to return ever do to any rider. It kind of kills unused material. Submission of the incentive to do well. articles and accompanying art- work to cycling utah is the DRW: Yeah. US author’s warranty that the mater- Postal [Discovery] has had all these ial is in no way an infringement good support riders but they keep upon the rights of others and that leaving. I did not know if that was the material may be published because they were unhappy or if without additional approval. they just wanted to see what they Permission is required to reprint could do as a team leader. any of the contents of this publi- DZ: Some of that is cation. because they want their own glory. Cycling Utah is free, limit one Another part is that you're only in copy per person. the sport for so long, your career ends at 35 maybe. You've got to do © 2005 cycling utah what you can as far as money and monetizing time. Pick up a copy of cycling utah at your DRW: Right. favorite bike shop! DZ: The thing there is, any result you ever got is incom- parable with what they [US Cover Photo: Chad Wassmer Postal/Discovery] had with Lance. (Cole Sport) near the top of You say, “Hey, I got fifth in the Hidden Peak, Snowbird and Worlds,” or “Hey, I won the nation- on his way to winning the al championship,” and they say, Widow Maker Hillclimb. The “We have the Tour de France win- Hellgate Cliffs are in the back- ner.” That is the kind of attitude ground. they have. They feel like people will come to the team and basically Photo: Dave Iltis See more photos at Continued on page 7 cyclingutah.com SEPTEMBER 2005 cycling utah.com 3 ADVOCACY RIDE JosieJosie JohnsonJohnson MemorialMemorial RideRide By John Weis and Jason Johnson Memorial Bike ride old, and fast and slow riders this group and fund future turning at all intersections. Bultman will start at 12 noon in Sugar can equally participate. bicycle advocacy projects. Do not pass a bicyclist and House Park on Saturday, At the mouth of Big This event will serve as a turn right in front of them. Cyclists in Utah watched October 15th. Riders will Cottonwood Canyon, current media and public education 4. Make sure a bicyclist is not with increasing alarm last gather at the south end ter- bike project leaders will detail opportunity. The single approaching from behind year at the rise in injuries and races of the park and ride to progress reports and answer biggest reason motorists do before opening your car door. fatalities to bicycle riders on the mouth of Big Cottonwood questions. Three projects - not like sharing the road with the roads of the state. This canyon.