At VOmax we always love receiving pictures from our customers showing off our products in action. We recently received these photos of our new licensed apparel from a couple different clients.
These riders wore our new licensed jerseys representing Boston MA at the Pan Mass Challenge a few weekends ago.
Another group of riders sped off with our Colorado Rockies jerseys recently.
Its always great to see our cycling jerseys out there in the cycling world! We want to see more customer photos. If you read this and want to send us pictures, just shoot them over to Shop@vomaxgear.com and i will post them on our facebook and twitter.
This licensed cycling apparel sector of our business is really taking off for us! Check out our website Vomaxgear.com and purchase your favorite sports team jersey. Remember though, we do custom cycling jerseys as well, http://vomax.com/cycling1.html
Expect to see our bike jerseys everywhere real soon. Our marketing will be getting us into bike shops all over the U.S. and in other retailers in the cycling industry.
The next two guys that we are featuring have both raced as professional teams and are a huge asset to the Wheelhouse team. They help the younger riders learn what it takes to race like a pro.
Ward Solar Age: 34 Hometown: Milan, NH Racing Category: Cat 1 Ward Solar started racing road bikes back in 1989. While living in northern NH he joined a local bike club and never looked back. In college he started a mountain bike club, played collegiate soccer and volleyball. He even graduated with an ecology and environmental science degree! After college he was craving competition so Ward picked up solo 24 hour mountain bike racing. The next 5 years he spent most of his time training on his road bike but racing his mountain bike. With over ten 24 hour solo victories and high finishes at the World Championships, he was drawn back to his road racing career. In 2000 because of his love of cycling and wealth of experience, he decided to become a USA level 2 certified cycling coach. In 2002 he joined America’s Cycling Team and was exposed to many International two week UCI Stage Races. 2005+2006 Ward moved to Richmond VA. and rode for the local Pro /Am Team Natures Path. Missing NE he moved back and planted himself a “real” job as a sales and service pro working in the biotech field. For the ladies out there you can check one more off your list, as Ward is engaged and soon to be married, but don’t let that stop you from checking out and cheering for the rest of the NCC/ Wheelhouse crew.
Dan Greenfield Dan rejoined Wheelhouse / NCC in 2009 after taking several years off during grad school. In 2005, he had a successful season with the team earning his category 1 upgrade in the spring and eventually securing a spot on a UCI trade team for 2006. On the national circuit Dan found the steep part of his learning curve. While results did not pour in, he gained some experience, which he hopes he can share with his younger teammates. Prior to cycling, Dan played football while attending Colby College. He currently is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the economics department at Northeastern University.
This team plays a huge role in getting our cycling jerseys out into the racing scene. They are the nicest people in the New England bike racing area. The team is in charge of critiquing our new cycling products and giving constant feedback on existing custom apparel (http://bit.ly/9j59j7). Right now we have two of the riders in the office giving us feedback on new cycling apparel and are discussing where VOmax should go in order to take of more of the market (http://bit.ly/9me2Kr). I'm looking forward to hearing what evolves out of this meeting.
I hope everyone has a great weekend! Cross racing is on my schedule, and in this heat i will be wearing my new summer skin suit that VOmax makes! (http://bit.ly/dp20e9)
Here at VOmax we love to connect with the people that wear our stuff. irecently stumbled upon this photo on a teams website that we recently supplied with new kits.
The kits came out great, and they actually won a best dressed competition at an event they were at!
They will also be getting ski suits that look the same from us!
Remember we don't only do cycling. but running and skiing as well.
VOmax sponsors a local elite race team in the northeast. There team name is Wheelhouse / Northampton cycling club. This team is great because they help us with a lot of product development and testing. A lot of products that are out in the market now for us were tested and critiqued by the hardest riders who really put the products to the test.
This is going to be a blog series that focuses on a couple riders of the team each entry, and highlights what their strong points are and how they help the team. We will focus on Mukunda and Alec for today.
Age 31
Hometown Easthampton, MA
Racing Category Cat 1
Personal Bio: Mukunda has been racing for over 10 years and has spent the last several years racing for the Team. A strong all-rounder, Mukunda enjoys racing hard for the breaks and giving it his all in industrial park crits. This year Mukunda has taken over Jason Beerman’s spot as Team Director and is really pumped about the way everything has come together, so if you don’t see him off the front of a race it’s most likely because he is back in the team car “directing” things..
When Mukunda isn’t racing he can be found drinking coffee and whisky at his cafes Amherst Coffee and Northampton Coffee.
Age: 33
Hometown: Easthampton, MA
Racing Category: 1
I got into racing based on a misconception of the sport that watching the tour on tv had fostered. A few years in, as I realized I would not be the next Miguel Indurain and this industrial crit was not like what I saw on the alp, it was too late and the act of riding a bike had inseparably grown into the way I related to life. So, I like to ride bikes, and racing is partly the justification for that riding. I live in the Pioneer valley with the core of the Wheelhouse team, and the riding out here is amazing with little traffic. It’s hard to pick which of your favorite routes to ride, and it’s impossible to get to all of them in a season. I don’t mind riding with people, but really like riding alone.
I am a coach for Cycle-Smart.com, and a board member of the Northampton Cycling Club. I promote a local training series in Montague, and UCI cross races.
Mukunda and I run the team as a way to collect people that make racing more enjoyable.
Sometimes they are fictitious like Neil Coleman, or Doug, but they are always people we would associate with off the bike.
Tune in for more profiles on our riders in the following weeks.
