The gran finale for our 2025 #cxteamdoesroadszn experiment DELIVERED. The Portland Criterium presented by Steeplejack Brewing is hugely important for our PNW community, where the calendar of road and criterium events has condensed immensely over the last decade. The downtown Portland Crit has existed in many ways since the ‘90s, disappearing from production for 8 years in the twenty-tens, then reemerging in 2022 thanks to the hard efforts of past multi-time champion turned promoter Steven Beardsley in collaboration with the city. In 2025, the weekend took another huge leap beyond revitalization, adding a second day to its calendar of events, now highlighting both its original NW Park Blocks downtown tech twilight venue as well as a new sunny Sunday afternoon Lloyd Center Mall venue, complete with a trip through its parking garage as part of the course. With shared presenting sponsors on the line and previous titles to defend and impress, you know we were going to show up with some hometown heroics—because crit racing is bike tech meets show business, babyyyy. It was thrilling to bring some #critdawg panache to both days, executing as a honed team two separate victories in two distinct fashions and with two different champs. Portland Crit, we can’t wait to be back in 2026. Thank you for producing a huge community gift for our community, we freaking love you. #TeamSansMCX #doitthehardway #PortlandCriterium

2025 wrapped, Tour de Bloom 🍏🌸 TdB has thoughtfully shapeshifted with the times for a coupla decades plus, moving from 2 or 3-day Omnium to a 3 and now 5-day stage race, building notoriety and opportunity within the PNW racing community, and in 2025 stepping up to offer a UCI-level event for the Elite Women. The race frequently features as a part of Wenatchee’s 10-day long WA State Apple Blossom Festival, celebrating the region’s agricultural success and history for over a century now—when a bike race can build itself into local community celebration, it’s extra special. The regional aspects that support great orchard agriculture also produce great bike racing terrain, with a majority sunny day climate and location amongst insane topography of plateaus and gorges surrounding the Columbia & Wenatchee rivers’ confluence and the foothills of the Cascade mountains just beyond. As a PNW-based team, it was special to be sure to be a part of this UCI rendition and see the race enjoy even more success with an extra powerful women’s field. It was also special to bring our team through our base in Portland before and after the race, spending time with our partners @steeplejackbeer @sellwoodcycle @thepuffcoffee @castellicycling Not every race is a slam-dunk for performances on paper, but this one was a crucial experience builder, and we were stoked to share that with Kaya and Grace in particular! Enjoy the fun vibes from BTS, and thanks again to Tour de Bloom for a special 2025. #TeamSandMCX #doitthehardway #TourdeBloom #womenscycling

2025 round up, roundin’ it up!! The Team S&M CX road project hit Redlands, Tour de Bloom, and then hit the crits and a lil gravel—because multimedia is how you build a calendar these days, and crits are the purest form of speed, fun, and tenacity in bike racin! Skills & craft are honed here. The @cascade_cycling_classic_crit in Bend, OR was a sure stop for us. As a regionally rooted team supporting that bridge from local to pro level racing, of course we were going! Over the last two seasons, this event has ponied up a TON of community support and a generous purse in a move to bring professional-level crit racing to Bend. Of course we were gonna be there and put on a mega good show. Incredible downtown course, amazing primes and vibes. The break went, we were there, podium achieved. Get it on your 2026 calendar, crit critters! Huge thanks to @mollycogswell_kelley for making this event a reality! Extra special shoutout to @streetdoghero for the puppy cuddles, for the rescue work you do, and for letting us hype you up publicly! 📸 @joelle_debban ✨✨🫶 #TeamSandMCX #doitthehardway #critcritters #workingclasscyclocross #inbend

Whoops, is 2025 over already? Better hurry up and finish re-celebrating our favorite mems so we can make room for new ones… ✨👑🤓 In 2025, we officially got involved in the US road scene. It was time. The calendar of road events in North America is high quality but smaller than ever, and the opportunities to join teams with varying experience levels where racecraft is learned are hard to come by. It’s a turbulent, resource-intensive sport with a steep learning curve, and it’s beautiful when done well. We were ready to chip in. Our reach was modest this year so our goals were focused: 1) keep good riders with experience racing in the US peloton, 2) commit to racing at least two key national level races together, and 3) bring it full circle and bring these experienced riders home to our flagship crit weekends here in OBRA, helping to raise our regional level of racing. Redlands was our first national race out, and it was incredible. Lots of highlights over the course of 5 days, but Cara flying her way to a top 10 in the mountains, a top 10 GC, and a 2nd place on the iconic final stage, the Sunset Loop—a defining race in the story of American bike racing—was totally the crown jewel. Oh, and did we mention we had fun?? 🧡🧡🧡 thanks to the team @__csoneill @ride_eat_repeat @jennalingwood @gabriellelehnert @brunoandorbrenna @djtorr505 and our support @laurenmroos Tamra & Roger @alexlehnert @jared.wright.art And to the partners that believe in us and what we do together @sellwoodcycle @steeplejackbeer @castellicycling @thepuffcoffee @shimanoroad @lazersportna @sockguyluv @skratchlabs @ridehifi #TeamSandMCX #doitthehardway 📸 @blakedahlin

Next up for our top 2025 moments is currently ongoing and ultra special! We are thrilled to have collaboratively contributed to SF Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit, “Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture,” now on its second tour stop at Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Art Museum through January 2026. It’s an honor to loan one of Clara Honsinger’s ’23-‘24 championship Liv Brava racing bikes to the show, specifically highlighting its visionary paint design from the creative team at Portland’s Ruckus Composites. These bikes are beautiful, and we’re so proud to showcase them, Clara’s story, and our team partners in a fine art setting. Thank you, @crystalbridgesmuseum! The interactive exhibit conveys the intersection of art and sports, demonstrating how they belong together, and highlighting “a collection of stories that show how sports impacts our culture and our psyches.” At each stop on the exhibit tour (SF—>AR—>Miami), the hosting museum provides an installation complementing its local relation to athletics and art. For Crystal Bridges and NW Arkansas, that’s bikes, through & through. We visited the exhibit in person last week while in town for this year’s CX National Championships, and it is incredible to behold in person! A long-time supporter of the growth of women’s cycling, @ruckuscomp is a very special partner to our team, our shop, and Clara specifically. Owner/lead engineer Shawn Small and Ruckus painter Nick Raspberry swiftly and deftly implemented Clara’s vision for a championship bike’s custom paint, using the opportunity to honor some of the best aspects of our country: its wild and natural places. In Clara’s own words, “In my opinion, natural landscapes and open spaces are what makes the United States so amazing, so I wanted to highlight that with this paint job.” In her final season, Clara piloted this bike to 8th place in the World Championships in Tábor, CZ. To enjoy some of the finer details of the machine & design, visit our blog about it via the link in bio, and swipe through the stack here for some fun surprises, from then and now. Crystal Bridges’ exhibit runs through January 26!

Join us for stop one on a walk down the 2025 memory lane: As we wind the year down and revisit some of this season’s finest moments, perhaps our favorite is the First Annual #CXBikeIndy, host of the OBRA Cyclocross Championships, a handbuilt community-benefit event, and an instant classic of a small town event with true downtown vibes—with a slippery jungle edge. Plans for the second edition in 2026 are already well underway! S&M photograph magician @patrick_means captured this lovely gallery of event day images, and we have it up on the Team S&M blog, click the link to view ‘em all, and swipe through this selection for some fun surprises. To everyone who came out and took part that day, know that your choice to be there was so meaningful to us, and the impact the event has had on raising the awareness on cyclocross outside of our crew of consummate riders is palpable! The feedback from the midvalley and surrounding orgs/businesses has been awesome. We are so proud, thank you for helping us share the sport with more folks. Let’s do it again! And another big thank you to the partners who made the weekend a reality: @bikeindyoregon @sellwoodcycle @oregonbikeracing @wstaphouse @steeplejackbeer @ottossausagekitchen @independencehtl @parallel45brewing @castellicycling @skratchlabs @thepuffcoffee @fastfunnice 🧡🧡🧡 Here’s to 2026!

PORTLAND, your biggest party is on this weekend!!! The @portlandcriterium presented by @steeplejackbeer is BACK for its third edition, now with two days of racing joy. Saturday, the classic course, downtown, at the North Park Blocks, with a full schedule of crit racing, PLUS a Street Mile running race AND Relay, presented by @theathletic 💜 And Sunday, a brand new crit course co-hosted by @ecolloyd at the Lloyd Center Mall, and the host of the 2025 OBRA Criterium Championships. Saturday’s schedule includes a @pedalpaloozapdx / @cycleoregon Community Ride to the course, with 30 minutes of fun laps ON course available! Sunday includes a community street fair in Holliday Park, called Party On! Portland! Come down and check it out! For us, this sweet weekend marks the conclusion of our special 2025 road project undertaking. We’re stoked to bring the show home and share the fun with our home city, racing both days this weekend, and we’re already looking forward to doing it again in 2026. This weekend’s roster includes: Jenna Lingwood Kimberly Lucie Rachel Geiter Brenna Wrye-Simpson Come watch these crit dawgs rip some corners this weekend: Saturday, 5:50pm Sunday, 1:10pm A special thank you to our team sponsors, Steeplejack Beer & Sellwood Cycle Repair, for their sponsorship of this weekend, ensuring its success. #TeamSandMCX #TeamSandMCD #doitthehardway #workingclasscyclocross #portlandcriterium #steeplejackbeer #neverletthemknowyournextmove

PLOT TWIST: are we a CX team? Road team? Crit dawgs? Gravel grinders? 🥷👻🧐🤓 Defying traditions and definitions, we’re making the most of June and summer and embracing all genres of two-wheeled speed sessions. Catch us this week at … @tourofamericasdairyland - Jenna, Kim, and Helena!!! Starting today at Cedarburg all the way through Sunday at Wauwatosa 🐮🤠🏎️💸 AND @oregontrail_gravelgrinder - Brenna takes on the 5-day “Grand Tour of Gravel” for the third year 🏕️🪨🎸 We’re looking forward to swapping notes on the highs and lows of 6x1-hour races versus 5x2-6…! #TeamSandMCX #TeamSandMCD #TeamSandMGG #critcritters #gravelgrinding #workingclasscyclocross #doitthehardway #neverletthemknowyournextmove

Crit dawg summer kicked off with a trip to Bend, OR for the second annual @cascade_cycling_classic_crit! An exceptionally organized new event by an experienced crew, this event is growing, and we encourage you to put it on your 2026 calendar!! Our women’s race had a small yet mighty turnout. Given this and a 6-corner course featuring a tight series of middle corners, a slight rise, and a tricky chicane, we thought this event would play best if we endeavored to take a lap—and that’s just what we did. With a hot start and lots of generous primes on offer, the attacks kicked off, and several permutations of breakaways went up the road, with our team of three represented each time. The ultimate move went when an attack from inside a break went clear, splitting that group. Brenna bridged up, and with each major team represented, the move of three riders stayed steady while the field lulled and surged behind. Ultimately the break would rejoin the field from behind in the closing 10 laps. Successfully navigating the finish once up a lap can be a little messy. But with a podium placing guaranteed, we still wanted to play for the next highest placing. Jenna won the field sprint for 4th, with Brenna stepping on the box for 3rd. Thank you so much to promoter @mollycogswell_kelley for building this event up, to the @cityofbendoregon for turning out in such warm support, and to the incredible event sponsors for their generous endorsement! @hornercyclingfoundation @worthybrewing @michellemillsrealestate @argonautcycles @highdesertlaw @redbirdphysio @high_desert_sportsandspine @sagebrushcycles @modussportgroup @hydroflask Last but not least, holding a pup on the podium was a heart-melter. If you’re looking to a adopt a doggo, seek out Bend’s @streetdoghero 🐶🧡 📸 @joelle_debban Outplay Creative #TeamSandMCX #workingclasscyclocross #workingclasscritcritters #doitthehardway

It’s June, which means it’s time to roll out the next phase for “Team S&M CD.” As in, like, “crit dawg,” ya know? First stop on summer tour is none other than the party in our own backyard, @cascade_cycling_classic_crit 💥💥💥 A huge thank you to this event and @hornercyclingfoundation for putting such energy and resources into something so special. It’s their second year, and we know this event is picking up steam!! Special shoutout to our friends at @rideshimano // @modussportgroup for providing pit support!! Catch our trio in downtown Bend tomorrow night at 5:40p!

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