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Rider: Joe Faulkner
Resides: Tazewell, TN
DOB: 2/20/97
Riding/Racing since:  Learned to ride @ 5yrs, 1st year racing 2010
Riding Disciplines:  Road/Mountain
Favorite Ride: (Road) Tiprell Loop out of Cumberland Gap TN
(MTB) “Green Gate- No Horses Allowed Loop” behind the Lincoln Memorial University campus, Harrogate TN.
What motivates me:  riding in the big ring and knowing everyone behind me is trying to catch up














Rider:  Chuck Faulkner
Resides: Tazewell, TN
DOB:  8/10/54
Riding/Racing since: riding 2 wheels since I was a kid; 1st year racing 2010,
Riding Disciplines: Road/Mountain
Favorite Ride: (Road) Sugar Run out and back from the Visitor’s Center @ Cumberland Gap National Park, Middlesboro KY.
(MTB) “Green Gate- No Horses Allowed Loop” behind the Lincoln Memorial University campus, Harrogate TN.
What motivates me:  getting chased by dogs, and the fun from knowing that a fast descent is the payoff for climbing the hill.
Favorite 53x11 Coffee:  Big Ring










Wade Patton
Date of Birth: 8/1/66
Residence:  Woodbury, TN
Riding since: 1986
What motivates you?  self-improvement and Guinness!
Favorite ride:  swoopy trails

Racing fat tires and one speed in the Southeast.  Just back
after two-year layoff.  Planning to get fit in 2008 and get
fast in 2009!























 

Rider: Joseph Lambert
Resides: Ramer, TN
DOB: 9/18/1969
Racing Since: 2002
Favorite Ride: SMITH & NEPHEW / MARX & BENSDORF
GRAN PRIX, Memphis, TN
What motivates me: Seeing the look on other riders faces when I show up for a
group ride.




























Rider-
Jason Hurdle  - upper rider in pic
DOB:  2/10/70
Riding/racing since: 9/06
Favorite ride: Mud Island custom
What motivates you:  Family
Favorite 53x11Coffee: TBA



























Rider: John Hurdle
Resides: Memphis, TN
Riding since: childhood
Racing since:  2009
What motivates you?  The wife and kids
Favorite Ride: John Bill Hill
Favorite 53 x 11 Coffee: The Big Ring
 























Rider
- Tony Rowland
DOB:  01-19-1970
Riding/racing since:  Rode non-stop as a child, picked up Mountain Biking in college on the trails around Knoxville and started riding rode bikes in 2008.
Favorite ride:   Any time I can get out on the bike
What motivates you:  Family and getting in better shape
Favorite 53x11Coffee: