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The Last 200 Meters: Steve Tramp

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In an effort to give readers/followers a look inside the team and its partners, we’re launching the occasional question and answer feature called “The Last 200 Meters.”

The idea is to take a two minute interview, or emailed Q&A, and see what happens.

We’re debuting the first in a series of GVR team rider profiles today featuring Steve Tramp. He contemplated writing a profile on par with The Iliad, but opted for this instead:

Name: Steve Tramp
Home: Green Bay
Occupation: Banking (don’t hate)
Racing/riding discipline(s): Road rider. Everything else I seem to get injured.

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Tramp at the finish of Race The Lake in August 2015.

Years Racing: About 10 years seriously. That means when I started spending a lot of money.

2015 highlights: Finished Race the Lake under 4 hours 6 days after breaking my collar bone at the Ore to Shore. Broke 5,000 outdoor miles again.

Why do you ride/race?: I love the camaraderie of a good group to ride with. It’s also some of the best stress relief I know.

Most dreaded bike repair: My shifting gets messed up every year because I’m a grinder. Gonna have to bite the bullet next year and go automatic.

Your “dream ride”: Kaanapali mountain on Maui. 30 miles up 10,000 ft of climbing.

Song that best defines your life: Dare You to Move by Switchfoot.

Back to the Future: The first GVR promotional items

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The winter of 2013-14 was brutal in the Upper Midwest. We went weeks without high temperatures clearing 0-degrees Fahrenheit.

Those were also the first months following the decision to form Gryphon Velo Racing. We were starting a team from scratch. We had no website, no money, no uniforms, a couple riders, a Twitter account, and an idea.

We also had a photo editing program and decent search engine to find old photos on the iterwebs. Here’s a quick look at some of the very early promotional images from GVR. All are from 2013-14.

These early bicycles were called penny-farthing, high wheel, high wheeler, Hi-wheel and ordinary bikes.

While looking for these I found a few photos/posters/ads that never got altered.

Could we see more?

2015 GVR blog numbers in review

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Here’s a quick rundown of stats for this blog since it was launched at the very tail end of August. Thanks to everyone that stopped by to take a look and stay tuned for more content in 2016.

Oh, and as far as I can tell, the most viewed photo last year was the profile pic for Aaron Messenger. He must have quite the fan base.

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 27 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

As long as we’re posting 2015 in review, here’s the LONG version of the 2015 recap video (originally posted just before Thanksgiving):

 

 

2015 Gryphon Velo Racing Recap Video

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Here’s a Thanksgiving week tradition: 10 months of the team’s racing and riding condensed into video and images.

We have plenty to be thankful for this year from our group of riders, a season of great results, no major trips to the hospital, and a great group of businesses that have helped us out along the way.

We still have a couple riders set to go to the start line at Jingle ‘Cross to officially finish up our season (which started way back in March at Barry-Roubaix).

Here’s our 2016 video (for the time-crunched, or those with a short attention span you’ll find a condensed version of the video in the second viewer box).

See you in 2016!

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