Races 2008

“Sparkasse” juniors celebrate successes

29th August 2008

The “Sparkasse” juniors team celebrated one victory and three places on the podium. Benjamin Sydlik (photo) won his seventh victory of the season at the “33rd Erft Cup of Quadrath“. Jan Robin narrowly came in second at the “2nd Fiefbergen Tour” On the following day Henri Schulze-Lutum also came in second in the “Rund um das alte Seminar” race in Eckenförde. At the U19 Race in Bad Homburg Benjamin Sydlik and Matthias Thimaschowski came in 3rd and 6th, thereby securing the second place in the team rating.

The “Sparkasse U19” savings bank team races with Connex 10s8 chains.

Czech MTB Marathon Champion insists on Connex derailleur chains

26th July 2008 T

he new Czech Champion in the Mountain Bike Marathon is Jirka Nowak. He raced the 90 kilometre, 3100 meter altitude course – just like his mates of the Dekhome Cannondale team – with a Connex 908 derailleur chain.

Nowak’s comment: “The chain functions with clockwork precision and reliability.”