Team Laser Cats is a proud supporter of the Women Bike PHL Devo Program, a six-week intensive coached and mentored racing development team for women in Philadelphia. Co-founded by TLC’s Elisabeth Reinkordt, and with mentor help from most of our squad, the program is entering its third season this spring. This year, in addition to the road racing program, there will also be a mountain bike devo squad!

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It was a beautiful fall day for an adventure, and close to 60 riders took to the trails and streets of Philadelphia in the second annual #NoScrubsCX alleycat. In addition to being a fundraiser for the team’s programming to encourage and support women’s cycling in Philadelphia, host clinics, and sponsor junior women racers, this year’s race also raised funds for Cadence Youth Cycling and Neighborhood Bike Works.

Riders were challenged with a long route, where winners would be determined by most checkpoints visited in the shortest amount of time, and a 3 hour window to make it back to the finish line at Neighborhood Bike Works. From smashing piñatas made by Sophia, drawing mythical creatures with Melissa, feeding feral cats with Lindsay and Meghan, taking on a mini-cyclocross course with Taryn, doing bike limbo with Michaela and Emma, and hula hooping with Eve and Roz, each checkpoint offered opportunities for racers to win raffle tickets for their performance along the way.

Sophia’s handmade piñata and dice

DFL!

Men’s Open podium

Sam and Blake, champion Cadence Youth Cycling Coach

Cadence Youth Cycling strategy session

Happy bunch of Cats

Kyle gets LOW

Ben wins the Grand Prize from Bicycle Therapy & Jamis Bicycles!

Junior Women’s podium

Women’s Open podium

Women’s podium powered by Zubaz headbands provided by Mattio! of Second Chance Racing

Junior Men’s podium

Andrew smashes the Laser piñata

Team VeloDash gets creative

Emma doesn’t let her dad off easy at the limbo

Mistress of Ceremonies Elisabeth with racer instructions at the Plateau

Cadence at the hula hoop challenge

Sam hustles raffle table

Taylor serving food

Team VeloDash strategy meeting

Mike and Chris with the trophy

More hula hoop fun

Four junior racers from the Cadence Youth Cycling program — one of our beneficiaries for this event — took to the course and had a great time visiting checkpoints and chasing down their coaches en route. The women’s podium was a tight competition, with winner Lauren choosing the south route and arriving second overall at the finish line. In the open men’s division, 8 racers completed the full course, and Ryan out-navigated Kyle for the win in the end.

Congratulations to all our winners, including trophy finders Mike & Sean and grand prize raffle winner Ben, who went home with a brand new Jamis Beatnik courtesy of Bicycle Therapy!

Thanks to all who raced or came to our afterparty!

Thanks to all our sponsors: 

Bicycle Therapy

Gore Bike Wear

Laser Cats and Such

The Willary

Lone Wolf Cycling

V Street & Vedge

Cycles PHL

RZ Designs

Matt Hagen

Gary Thornton

Second Chance Racing p/b Zubaz

Lagunitas Brewing

And to Neighborhood Bike Works for the use of your building! 

And to the women of Team VeloDash for donating extra food! 

And thanks to additional checkpoint volunteers: 

Cory

Theron

Willem

Louis