Just received the official 2011 team press release from the crew over at Honey Stinger. The 2011 roster Includes 37 members and national champions in multiple disciplines. Not too shabby…and yes, the majority of them will be wearing the Specialized BG S-Works road and MTB cycling shoe with Boa!

Watch out for the Boa Buzz!

Honey Stinger, the leading manufacturer of honey-based nutritional foods, today announces its 2011 Honey Stinger/Trek Off-Road team roster. In its third year, the team has grown to include 37 professional and amateur cyclists, each wearing the company’s distinctive honey-combed jerseys.

“Now in our third year we’re seeing huge gains in the exposure the team receives as well as increased commitments from our valued partners,” says Len Zanni, Honey Stinger marketing director and team captain. “We believe that the retention of our core group of riders, plus the addition of some of the region’s fastest riders who serve as brand ambassadors for the program and its supporters make our team work well for all involved.”

“As the world leader in mountain bike technology, Trek chooses only premier partners,” states Trek’s Michael Browne, “Not only is Honey Stinger/Trek Off-Road that premier partner for regional race teams in the Rockies, they continue to attract top talent to showcase the abilities of the most sophisticated mountain bikes ever made. Rock on Honey Stinger!”
(more…)

Words of wisdom from 2010 Cyclocross Nationals Champ Todd Wells who just happens to sport the Boa Lacing System every race in his Specialized S-Works cycling shoes. Learn it. Live it. Love it. The Boa Lacing System provides a secure and fast glove-like fit, on-the-fly micro-adjustment, is lightweight, and sheds water, ice and mud.

Laying it all on the line last weekend, Todd Wells (Specialized BG S-Works) and Jeremy Powers (Lake MX330’s) battled it out to the very end of a nasty Cyclocross National Championship race, both wearing Boa cycling shoes. Powers & Wells were duking it out for the first half of the race. They crashed and Powers lost ground. Wells hung on for the win, Powers third. Check out all the details at CXMagazine.com

Photo by Marc Romano

Continuing his winning ways, Lake athlete Jeremy Powers took top honors at the Colorado Cross Classic during the 5th stop of the NACT cyclocross series in Boulder, Colorado. Powers wearing Lake MX330 cycling shoes featuring the Boa Lacing System ignored the potential fire hazard in the background of the race and powered through the sandy shoreline of the Boulder Reservoir to take the victory. Specialized Factory team rider Todd Wells (Specialized BG S-Works with Boa S1) took third. Video below of the race. Check out those Reel Pink Boa reels Jeremy Powers is rocking! Get yours HERE!

Want to win TWO movie tickets to the November 4th premier of Race Across the Sky 2010 in Denver at the Paramount Denver Theatre? Answer the trivia question below and send your answer to dax@backbonemedia.net to be entered in the random drawing. Only correct answers will be collected. One winner gets two movie tickets! Question: What’s the name and altitude of the halfway point aid station on the LT100 MTB course? Contest starts today and ends on Monday, November 1st at noon MST. You are responsible for you own travel to and from event.

Race Across The Sky 2010 from Citizen Pictures on Vimeo.

We usually don’t poach content directly from an email or article online, but this time we copied a note sent to us via Team Honey Stinger/Trek Captain Len Zanni. His email sums up the presence Team Honey Stinger had at the 2010 24 Hours of Moab this past weekend. They rocked it! Here’s the email below and we will get more photos up once they are available!

From Len:
Below is an initial report with some editorial coverage links/ pics/ video from 24 Hours of Moab. Thanks to your support we had a great cap to the season and scored some National Championship jerseys (to add to Pete Kalmes’ National title from Cat 1 earlier). We had a huge presence this year with multiple teams wearing the kit and/ or racing under the Honey Stinger/ Trek team name. The announcer must have said Honey Stinger hundreds of times!

Click this pic for more images on Honey Stinger's Facebook page

2010 24 Hours of Moab Team Honey Stinger/Trek Results
1st Duo pro co-ed – Sari Anderson and Max Taam (Sari had fastest women’s lap time)
1st 4 person men’s – Len, Jay Henry (racer who likes our stuff), Ross Schnell (Stinger athlete), Kalan Beisel (Stinger grassroots athlete)
2nd Men’s Duo pro – Nate and Dax Massey
2nd Women’s solo – Kris Cannon
1st place singlespeed 4 person men’s team had Michael Hayes from Carbondale who is on the race team too
12th Chris Tamucci’s Mooch’s competitive Men’s Sports team
*1st place 35+ National Championship team was from Basalt Bike and Ski so guys I know from down here. They are a dealer too and our logo is on their kit!

“Behind The Barriers” Episode 2 starring Lake athlete Jeremy Powers. Jeremy wears the Lake MX330 and a few other top secret Lake creations with Boa…enjoy!

“Behind The Barriers” Episode 2 from Behind The Barriers on Vimeo.

Who do these legs belong to?? The Boa Facebook contest starts now! Cycling is on the brains for the majority of our fans still, so to keep the vibe alive we’re running a week-long Facebook contest to win a pair of Lake Cycling MX330C MTB shoes with Boa.  Ok, the question is: These legs belong to what professional cyclist? All you need to do is submit one correct answer in the comment section of this post and you will be entered to win!  Follow the red arrow. You can submit as many names as you would like…but only one correct answer from each fan will be put in the random drawing! Good luck! Contest ends Thursday, Oct 7th at Noon MST. Check out the Boa Reel Pink on those Lake shoes!

The official trailer for Race Across the Sky 2010 is up! Check out Specialized Factory Team riders Rebecca Rusch (defending 09 Women’s Champ) and Todd Wells (the red flash across the screen throughout the trailer wearing BG-Sworks with Boa S1). Enjoy!

Race Across The Sky 2010 from Citizen Pictures on Vimeo.

From CyclingNews.com
Garmin Transitions’ Tyler Farrar (Lake CX401 Boa) took his second Vuelta a España stage victory in a dramatic sprint over Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia). The American roared past Cavendish in the final 100m to take the win. Congrats Tyler!

Tyler Farrar (Garmin - Transitions) celebrates his victory in the Vuelta's fifth stage. Photo: © Sirotti