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2/2/2012
The FELT ÖTZTAL X-BIONIC Worldcup Team started the season with a series of wins. At the team’s first official training camp, all the stars of the team competed against their international rivals in the Club La Santa 4-Stage race in Lanzarote and set a huge exclamation mark right from the beginning of the season.
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1/17/2012
The 2012 Felt-sponsored 1t4i road team was introduced last week at the team’s winter training camp in Alicante, Spain. The Dutch-based outfit will field a 26-rider men’s Pro Continental team plus a women’s team of 10 riders.
The 1t4i moniker stands for “Team Spirit, Inspiration, Integrity, Improvement and Innovation.” Known last year as Skil-Shimano, the team is looking to step up to the top level of the sport with Felt this year. It will focus on the sport’s biggest events including the Tour de France, one-day Classics, Olympics and other top-tier stage races.
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12/5/2011
Cali, Colombia -- Felt-sponsored track athletes scored a handful of medals at Round 2 of the World Cup in Cali, Colombia. World Champion Sarah Hammer led the way, riding her Felt TK1 to the gold medal in the women’s omnium at the December 1-3 event. In addition to Hammer’s victory, Canadian Zach Bell rode Felt to a silver medal in the men’s omnium, and the Felt-sponsored USA women’s team pursuit squad— Sarah Hammer, Jennie Reed and Lauren Tamayo—took the bronze medal in that event.
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11/18/2011
Irvine, CA (November 17, 2011) – Felt Bicycles is pleased to announce the launch of its mobile version website at feltbicycles.com. This new mobile version is currently live and has been tailored for modern mobile phones and tablets including the iPhone, iPad, Android and most other mobile platforms.
Features on Felt’s new mobile-optimized site include the ability to view all products and their specifications; switch between color options; zoom in or out and swipe through product families.
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11/7/2011
Cincinnati, Ohio - Felt-sponsored cyclocross racers Ryan Trebon and Caroline Mani collected major UCI points at the Cincy3 Cyclocross Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, over the weekend. Both scored multiple podiums, and Trebon won the second of three races in the Cincinnati area on his Felt F1X cyclocross bike. The Cincy3 event featured three straight UCI races, two C2 events and a C1. Trebon, the No. 1 ranked U.S. cyclocross racer, battled a strong group of American rivals, and Belgian Ben Berden at each of the races. He opened the weekend finishing third on a hilly, technical course with some mud sections at Devou Park in Covington, Kentucky.
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11/7/2011
Traverse City, Michigan - With more than 4,800 racers, the Bell’s Brewery Iceman Cometh in Traverse City, Michigan is the largest single-day point-to-point mountain bike race in North America. And of those 4,800 plus starters, three Felt riders finished with top-five finishes in the pro categories.
In the men’s race, Mafia Racing team rider Tristian Schouten finished fourth. And in the women’s race, Kenda/Felt team riders Amanda Carey and Judy Freeman (pictured) finished fourth and fifth respectively.
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10/20/2011
It was the last race of a long Pro MTB season, but also important for next year because the only chance to do the set up on the 2012 Worlds course at Saalfelden/Austria.
After the Worlds test race everyone was happy at the FELT-ÖTZTAL-X-BIONIC Team: With Blaza Klemencic on 2nd place, only beaten by former World Champion Maja Wloszczowska and Adel Morath on 4th the women Pros showed that they target a Top rank for next year.
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10/18/2011
Guadalajara, Mexico — Three American riders from the Felt-sponsored Project London track program scored the silver medal at Monday’s Team Sprint event at the Pan American Games in Mexico. The U.S. squad of Michael Blatchford, Dean Tracy and Jimmy Watkins rode their Felt TK1 bikes to second place behind the team from Venezuela, setting a new U.S. record in the team sprint. The U.S. team posted a time of 44.036, eclipsing the old record and earning the silver medal.
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10/17/2011
Les Herbiers, France — Kristin Armstrong of the Peanut Butter & Co. - Twenty12 team finished a close second in the Chrono des Nations Time Trial in France Sunday. Armstrong, the current defending Olympic champion in the time trial, posted a time of 28:07 on her Felt DA TT bike, 9 seconds off the winning mark set by a fellow American rider Amber Neben. Armstrong returned to the sport earlier this year after taking nearly two years off to start a family. She retired after winning gold at the 2009 TT World Championship. Shortly after the birth of her son in 2010 she announced she would return to competition. Now 38, Armstrong is focused on trying to qualify for next summer’s Olympic Games in London.
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10/12/2011
2 weeks after his racing season, Thomas Litscher decided to take on the challenge of the Roc d’Azur Marathon in southern France where he ranked second after Christoph Sauser.
Litscher started off quite well and later, fought his way up the mountain. On the way down the mountain Litscher oversaw a tree trunk and crashed but luckily was not injured and was able to pick up and continue the race.
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