Hagerty Cycling Teamhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/2024-03-19T05:26:06+00:00Your optional tag line goes here.Cliff Onthank2018-10-26T16:25:55+00:002024-03-18T13:21:37+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/cliff-onthank/<p>Text coming soon.</p>Lars Welton2018-10-26T16:25:34+00:002024-03-19T05:26:06+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/lars-welton/<p>Text coming soon.</p>Norm Licht2018-10-26T16:25:13+00:002024-03-19T02:36:35+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/norm-licht/<p>Text coming soon.</p>Hal BeVier2018-10-26T16:24:43+00:002024-03-19T02:13:00+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/hal-bevier/<p>Text coming soon.</p>Rob Goepfrich2018-10-26T16:23:44+00:002024-03-18T13:21:42+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/rob-goepfrich/<p><em>1- What do you love about riding and racing your bicycle? </em></p>
<p><strong>For me it's mostly about the competition and the challenge. I'm always motivated to get faster, to be challenged, and never settling for 2nd place. Doesn't always work out, but always trying. Every once in a while I try to remember to slow down and take it all in, and to not take any ride, fast or slow for granted. Enjoy the ride!</strong></p>
<p><em>2- What do you love about riding and racing your bicycle for Hagerty? </em></p>
<p><strong>New to the team for 2015, but am really looking forward to riding and racing with a great group of Masters men!</strong></p>
<p><em>3- What are some of your proudest moments or biggest accomplishments, on the bike and in life? </em></p>
<p><strong>Very proud of progressing from a Beginner racer and barely keeping up, to the Expert level in just a few years. Loads of fun riding and racing with the fast guys. Proudest moment in a specific event was Barry Roubaix 2015. Finished 12th out of 100 in the Fat Bike Open class just behind some very fast racers. By far the funnest, fastest, most enjoyable, most memorable race I've done so far. Proudest moment in life? Watching my two sons grow up into fine young men. </strong></p>
<p><em>4- Please tell us something about yourself and your life off the bike. What are your hobbies, what do you do for work, tell us something about yourself that we don't know? </em></p>
<p><strong>Work at Great Lakes Stainless as a Project Manager.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Married to Cindy, 31 years (high school sweethearts!), two sons Chris (27yo) and Patrick (25yo), and one dog! Love soccer and hockey! First grandchild on the way this December! </strong></p>
<p><strong>Started riding bikes when I was 15, in high school, with best buddies and have loved it ever since. Took a long hiatus while the kids were growing up and work and soccer coaching kept me too busy, but have gotten back into bikes for the last 8 years and still love it. </strong></p>Don Fedrigon2018-10-26T16:22:45+00:002024-03-17T23:55:48+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/don-fedrigon/<p><em><strong>“I love riding my bike because I like to cover a lot of Real Estate.”</strong></em></p>Peter Worden2018-10-26T16:22:07+00:002024-03-15T14:01:02+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/peter-worden-1/<p><em>What do you love about riding and racing your bicycle?</em></p>
<p><strong>As an attorney and as a dad I have a lot of responsibilities and a lot of times it is hard to see the results of what I am doing. What I like about riding and racing bikes is that you get to see the concrete results right away; how well you do is the direct result of the training you put into it. It also gives me a regular break from the daily grind – it’s something relatively simple to focus on for a few hours at a time which lets me not think about the million-plus problems on my desk or at home, and then I can come back to those other things refreshed and ready to take them on.</strong></p>
<p><em>What do you love about riding and racing your bicycle for Hagerty?</em></p>
<p><strong>I like having the opportunity to share my hobby with people who have the same interest, and I like how easy it is to find riding partners and bounce ideas off one another. It has also been a real privilege to ride with the Master’s squad, a lot of people don’t appreciate this but road racing is truly a team effort – we all have to sacrifice and work together in order for one of us to get a result. Growing up I wasn’t very coordinated so I’d gravitated toward endurance sports – and these tended to be sports where I competed alone. It was nice, especially relatively later in my life, to finally get to participate in a sport where we had to work together as a team.</strong></p>
<p><em>What are some of your proudest moments or biggest accomplishments, on the bike and in life?</em></p>
<p><strong>On the bike, it’s been an incredible experience working with junior racers on Hagerty Cycling and elsewhere in our community. I’ve helped run a junior bike race out on the VASA as part of the Speed of Light ride every Thursday in the summer. My proudest moment to date came at Iceman 2017, when I saw so many kids from that program crushing their age groups and taking the podium – they even dominated the top 15 of the Slush Cup, including the overall win! Two years before many of them had to walk that first hill to the start at Speed of Light – now they were beating the adults! It’s just been a great privilege to see these kids progress.</strong></p>
<p><strong>In life, I have to say it’d be my kids. Seriously, I have to say that.</strong></p>
<p><em>Please tell us something about yourself and your life off the bike (hobbies, work, something we don’t know)?</em></p>
<p><strong>My hobby used to be flying airplanes. Those of you who have seen me attempt to navigate single track understand why I felt I had to give that up.</strong></p>Dan Hofstra2018-10-26T16:21:26+00:002024-03-12T20:08:18+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/dan-hofstra/<p><em>What do you love about riding and racing your bicycle?</em></p>
<p><strong>I love just seeing what's over the next hill. I race to motivate myself to ride more.</strong></p>
<p><em>What do you love about riding and racing your bicycle for Hagerty?</em></p>
<p><strong>I grew up in team sports and missed that motivation and comradery of the team. The Hagerty Masters has been one of the finest teams I have had the privilege to be a part of.</strong></p>
<p><em>What are some of your proudest moments or biggest accomplishments, on the bike and in life?</em></p>
<p><strong>My biggest accomplishment on the bike was riding from the Pacific to the Atlantic with my son and having the rest of my family pick us up on Tybee Island. 30 days, 3,500 miles, 125,000 feet of climbing.</strong></p>
<p><em>Please tell us something about yourself and your life off the bike (hobbies, work, something we don't know)?</em></p>
<p><strong>I'm an accountant and actually a motorhead (have had classic cars insured by Hagerty). I have enjoyed sports cars, and snowmobiling and dirt-biking with my kids. My faith in our Creator God is important to me and I enjoy His blessings and presence most often out on the bike seeing what's over the next hill.</strong></p>Myles Weitzman2018-10-26T16:20:13+00:002024-03-18T03:44:58+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/myles-weitzman/<p><span>At almost 60, riding with the Hagerty team is a great way to stay fit and be part of a group of cyclists who have a passion for competition. I am retired and married to my awesome wife Erica. What more could one ask for?</span></p>Larry Brownell2018-10-26T16:19:37+00:002024-03-12T16:01:34+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/larry-brownell/<p><em>What do you love about riding and racing your bicycle?</em><br/> I love riding my bike because it allows me the freedom to explore roads and trails locally and through out the world. I love racing my bike because it allows me to push myself beyond what you can in non race situations. </p>
<p><em>What do you love about riding and racing your bicycle for Hagerty?</em><br/> I love riding and racing my bike for Hagerty because of the sense of community that racing for an all local team brings.</p>
<p><em>What are some of your proudest moments or biggest accomplishments, on the bike and in life?</em><br/> Finishing on the podium for the first time ever in 22 years of racing by coming in 1st (age group) at 2013 Mud Sweat & Beers.</p>
<p><em>Please tell us something about yourself and your life off the bike. What are your hobbies, what do you do for work, tell us something about yourself that we don't know? </em><br/> When I am not riding my bike I spend my time hiking and Nordic skiing. I work for AT&T creating custom managed service business cases for the world's largest companies. </p>Steve Andriese2018-10-26T16:18:38+00:002024-03-18T08:27:54+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/steve-andriese/<p><span>Steve Andriese is a physician and masters racer who evolved from enjoying triathlons, to time trials/crits/ and road racing to racing primaily on dirt these days. Technical aspects of riding, swimming, paddling, running, and gear probably represent areas of expertise outside of his career field of physical (musculoskeletal) medicine. </span></p>Paul Olson2018-10-26T16:18:08+00:002024-03-14T16:35:33+00:00adminhttps://hagertycycling.com/blog/author/admin/https://hagertycycling.com/blog/paul-olson/<p>What I love about riding and racing a bike is the adrenaline rush. Pushing yourself to places that you never thought possible. The freedom that a bicycle provides is unparalleled, except possibly skating on west bay with ice as smooth as glass, unfortunately this only happens a few times in life.</p>
<p>From the first time I wore the Hagerty kit it made me faster, being on a team is highly motivating. The team comradery, training rides, espresso stops to name a few are the best parts of racing for Hagerty. The ability to ride and race with many state champions is an opportunity that I relish.</p>
<p>The proudest moments in my life are the births of our two children Kelley and Jack without doubt. I am a very lucky man to have such a supportive family. On the bike it has to be a top 30 overall in my first iceman and winning my first race at rock road 50/50. Life off the bike includes a lot of projects around the house, watching our kids play sports and Sunday dinners with family and friends.</p>
<p> I am lucky enough to be a chef in this great community that we live in. Ice hockey my first sport has taken a back seat to cycling but still love to play, just not as often. When I was a kid growing up in Oakland County I lived on my BMX bike and YZ 80, perhaps this is why I love to race a mountain bike now.</p>