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The life of Brent Bookwalter-The American Dream
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 01:55
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Every American cyclist wants to be like Lance
As I grew up I wanted to be just like Lance. I wanted my chance for fame and I wanted to ride in the Tour de France with an American team. I'm closer now then ever. My name Brent Bookwalter and I ride for Team BMC. I am from North Carolina in banner elk. Right now I am not the best rider in the world or maybe even my team but many tell me that I have a potential to be. I have trained ever since I was young. I grew up admiring the likes of Lance Armstrong, Andrew Hampsten, Greg Lemond,and Hincapie and they all influenced me a little bit influenced me to sometimes know that I am not always going to be the favorite to win, and Hincapie made me realize that sometimes I may have to take a backseat to the leader and sacrifice my own good for the sake of the leader. I am still developing as a rider but one day I hope to ride with the best in the Grand Tours.
Edited by matt493 on 17-05-2008 02:39
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 02:48
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Just to let you all know I planned on continuing my Chad Cole story but it crashed and I tried to fix it and it ended up in ending the career for good.
Info about my new story.
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| t-baum |
Posted on 11-05-2008 04:51
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How do you keep changing your name? I don't even know who you are anymore
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 11-05-2008 05:55
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Brent is a good guy. Of course he one of the guys I know
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 07:14
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THe american dream is name of story made by Nibali on pcmgeeks chance the name or... xD |
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| stuartmcstuart |
Posted on 11-05-2008 08:53
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Good luck with Brent! So have you officially stopped the Rabobank story then? |
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 13:22
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stuartmcstuart wrote:
Good luck with Brent! So have you officially stopped the Rabobank story then?
Yeah. I got tired of playing on Spain and wanted to see the 2.0 pcm db. but I still have the db saved somewhere so maybe one day it will come back.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 13:29
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schleck93 wrote:
THe american dream is name of story made by Nibali on pcmgeeks chance the name or... xD
I don't go on that site so it was just a coincident.
Levi4life wrote:
Brent is a good guy. Of course he one of the guys I know
You know a lot of american cyclists. The funny thing is that I picked him and later I found out that he is from North Carolina and you don't find many cyclists from North Carolina.
Edit: and then I look up at the advertisements and it says join NC cycling.
Edited by matt493 on 11-05-2008 13:30
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 13:37
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A chance to represent America.
I was invited to train with the USA national team. It is so early in the season and I know it will be time consuming but to be so young and still picked is such an honor. I'll need to work at it if I am ever going to have a chance to win it. With the worlds still many months away I will do everything this season to prove that I should ride for America.
Edited by matt493 on 11-05-2008 13:39
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| niconico |
Posted on 11-05-2008 13:54
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Make this one last matt 
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 14:09
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I will try.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 15:34
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My Goals
This year I know that this will be a year to learn and improve. I have high expectations for myself but I know they all can be achieved.
*** Race in a GT, Top 25 in a UCI race or former UCI race (paris-nice, tirreno adriatico, etc)
** Top 5 Tour of Pennsylvania, Top Tour of Missouri
* Stage Win Tour of Georgia, Team wins a stage in Tour of California
Also coach wants me to finish in the top 30 in Continental Standings
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 16:05
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La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Stage 1
I start my season today and I looked forward to hopefully having a great performance. I will be racing for Moos and setting up a win for him.
Early on in the race I decided to go along with the break in hopes that I could stay away and take the win. It was a couple groups of 2 and I was in the lead 2.
I took the most points from the KOM and after that i focused on trying to stay away. Coming into the last small hill I was pulled in and Moos immediately attacked. Moos stayed away and took about 1 minute on the rest of the peloton.
I fell behind the peloton but the peloton had been split by the climb and I still finished 20th.
I took the KOM jersey and it was a great start to the season.
Stage Rankings
1 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 3h49'11
2 Björn Papstein Team 3C Gruppe + 56
3 Christian Poos Differdange - Apiflo Vacances s.t.
4 Holger Sievers Team 3C Gruppe s.t.
5 Mathieu Ladagnous Française des Jeux s.t.
6 Allan Davis Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech s.t.
7 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux s.t.
8 Ian McLeod Team MTN s.t.
9 Jérôme Pineau Bouygues Télécom s.t.
10 David Lelay Bretagne - Armor Lux s.t.
20 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team + 2'55
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1 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 3h48'51
2 Björn Papstein Team 3C Gruppe + 1'04
3 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom s.t.
4 Christian Poos Differdange - Apiflo Vacances + 1'08
5 Thomas Voeckler Bouygues Télécom + 1'14
6 Holger Sievers Team 3C Gruppe + 1'16
7 Mathieu Ladagnous Française des Jeux s.t.
8 Allan Davis Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech s.t.
9 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux s.t.
10 Ian McLeod Team MTN s.t.
20 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team + 3'07
KOM
1 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team 13
2 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom 11
3 Piotr Zielinski Bretagne - Armor Lux 2
4 Pierrick Fédrigo Bouygues Télécom 1
Sprint
1 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 25
2 Björn Papstein Team 3C Gruppe 20
3 Christian Poos Differdange - Apiflo Vacances 16
4 Holger Sievers Team 3C Gruppe 14
5 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom 12
6 Mathieu Ladagnous Française des Jeux 12
7 Allan Davis Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech 10
8 Mikaël Chérel Française des Jeux 9
9 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team 8
10 Ian McLeod Team MTN 8
Edited by matt493 on 11-05-2008 18:30
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 11-05-2008 16:10
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Wow, that makes 3 BMC stories. Quite a popular team.
Good luck
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 16:18
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Yeah well I looked up a young American stage racer who wasn't on a pro tour team and he was the only one. and Deadpool's BMC story is over. So that is only 2 now.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 16:50
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La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Stage 2
After a good day for BMC in stage 1 I decided that my goal should be to go for the KOM points and make sure that i can have the jersey until the end. If I couldn't get away in the break my job would be to pull in the break for Moos.
A very short stage today but it was also hilly so it was ideal for a break. A couple of riders broke away and I was right on there tail making sure I wouldn't be dropped.
It was down to two riders and we were relaying trying to stay away from the pack.
The peloton kept getting closer and closer so I put on the gas and was able to get a little gap on the other escapee and with 1 km left the peloton was left than 45 seconds behind. I sprinted for the win and I took my first win of the season.
What a victory!!! despite coming second in all the KOM sprints I still held on to the jersey.
Stage Rankings
1 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team 1h52'42
2 Sébastien Duret Bretagne - Armor Lux s.t.
3 Domenik Klemme Team 3C Gruppe + 37
4 Lilian Jégou Française des Jeux s.t.
5 Igor Abakoumov Mitsubishi - Jartazi - Protech s.t.
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1 Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 5h42'10
2 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom + 1'04
3 Björn Papstein Team 3C Gruppe s.t.
4 Christian Poos Differdange - Apiflo Vacances + 1'08
5 Thomas Voeckler Bouygues Télécom + 1'14
19 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team + 2'00
KOM
1 Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team 24
2 Sébastien Duret Bretagne - Armor Lux 17
3 Yuri Trofimov Bouygues Télécom 11
4 Pierrick Fédrigo Bouygues Télécom 2
5 Piotr Zielinski Bretagne - Armor Lux 2
6 Amin Saryana LeTua Cycling Team 2
7 Nicolas Inaudi Differdange - Apiflo Vacances 2
Sprint
Brent Bookwalter BMC Racing Team 43
Sébastien Duret Bretagne - Armor Lux 30
Alexandre Moos BMC Racing Team 25
Christian Poos Differdange - Apiflo Vacances 23
Björn Papstein Team 3C Gruppe 20
Edited by matt493 on 11-05-2008 18:29
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| samiam |
Posted on 11-05-2008 18:20
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great win. |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 11-05-2008 18:25
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matt493 wrote:
Levi4life wrote:
Brent is a good guy. Of course he one of the guys I know
You know a lot of american cyclists. The funny thing is that I picked him and later I found out that he is from North Carolina and you don't find many cyclists from North Carolina.
BMC is based in Santa rosa 5 miles from here. I've known Scotty and Nathan for long time and met the rest of the team at their training camp before California.
I actually ate dinner with Brent, Scotty and Nathan at Merco Cycling Classic. Gavin Chilcott thinks very highly of him, at least that is what he told my coach, Gavin's girlfriend.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 18:27
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Levi4life wrote:
matt493 wrote:
Levi4life wrote:
Brent is a good guy. Of course he one of the guys I know
You know a lot of american cyclists. The funny thing is that I picked him and later I found out that he is from North Carolina and you don't find many cyclists from North Carolina.
BMC is based in Santa rosa 5 miles from here. I've known Scotty and Nathan for long time and met the rest of the team at their training camp before California.
I actually ate dinner with Brent, Scotty and Nathan at Merco Cycling Classic. Gavin Chilcott thinks very highly of him, at least that is what he told my coach, Gavin's girlfriend.
lucky you.
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| matt493 |
Posted on 11-05-2008 18:42
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La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Stage 3
There were no mountain points so I was just going to stay with the pack and try not to crash.
Early in the stage a group of 4 got away.
Mitsubishi came to the front and tried to reel in the break to set things up for there sprinters.
After the break was pulled in and there were 10km left there was a small cobbled section. a group of 5 broke off the front including Wyss.
Wyss was to strong for the rest and easily out sprint the rest for the win.
Sorry for no results page but nothing changed much.
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