Luke Strobel and Gabby Malloy Win NW Cup #2!

MS Evil's Luke Strobel takes the Pro Men's win with 2010 Canadian National Champion Andrew Mitchell of Dunbar Cycles 2 seconds behind! Dean Tennant stands on bronze for Dunbar Cycles, Diamondback's Kyle Thomas defending his 2010 NW Championship holds 4th step and Dan Sims grabs 5th for a total Dunbar Cycles domination of the podium. Gabby Malloy of Zerode takes the Women's Pro title home to New Zealand via Whistler, Loeka's Jaime Rees claims 2nd, 2009 NW Cup Overall Champ Dawn Fidler of Speedy Beaver Racing takes 3rd, Bike Hub Racing's Chelsey Stevens rounds the podium out in 4th. Junior Experts (18&under Cat 1) champion is Experience Cycling's Mark Wallace from Duncan, BC. Last year's runner up to the overall Kevin Littlefield of Big Tree Bikes/Yeti takes bridesmaids for second and Project 529's Kole Wetherell holds 3rd place, Steven Baldock traveled from Northstar Tahoe to place 4th and Jonathon "ALL-Line!" Allyn rounds out the top 5 for Big Tree Bikes of Seattle WA. Vet Pro win goes to Dirt Corps Captain Matt Patterson with Fanatik's John Pitton taking 2nd and ByrnInvent's Chris Bentley bronzes himself for third.


Results:

Pro Mens-
1 Luke Strobel MS Evil 2:35.48
2 Andrew Mitchell Dunbar Cycles/Elka/ Straitline 2:37.82
3 Dean Tennant Dunbar Cycles/ Devinci/Elka 2:38.49
4 Kyle Thomas Diamondback 2:41.37
5 Dan Sims Dunbar Cycles 2:42.05
6 David Camp 2:43.41
7 Eric Loney Project 529/SRAM/SantaCruz 2:43.85
8 Adam Mantle Dunbar Cycles 2:43.99
9 Tim Coleman John Henry Bikes 2:44.22
10 James Dodds Zerode Bikes 2:44.55

Womens Pro-
1 Gabby Malloy Zerode 3:06.92
2 Jaime Rees Loeka/Bike Hub Racing 3:10.63
3 Dawn Fidler Speedy Beaver Racing 3:21.32
4 Chelsey Stevens Bike Hub Racing 3:32.96

Vet Pro-
1 Matt Patterson Dirt Corps 2:55.56
2 John Pitton Fanatik/Prospect Street Cafe 3:00.24
3 Chris Bentley BrynInvent/FSA 3:04.35

Junior Expert (18&under Cat 1) -
1 Mark Wallace Experience Cycling 2:45.12
2 Kevin Littlefield Big Tree Bikes/Yeti 2:49.55
3 Kole Wetherell Project 529 2:51.97
4 Steven Baldock Northstar@Tahoe 2:53.30
5 Jonathon Allyn Big Tree Bikes 2:53.46


All results are posted at NW Cup's website HERE.

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Next NW Cup is #3 at Mt Hood on June 24th-26th!


Thanks for reading. -Mike Estes