Although some of the team's current riders will be creating a new team with the previous sponsor, Bouledogue tout noir will be forging ahead with the same principles and philosophy on which it was founded.
Bouledogue tout noir had an instant impact on a burgeoning Midwestern category 3 and women's cycling scene when it debuted in 2007. "Burnham Racing (then known as Team Clif Bar Midwest) demonstrated the value of category 3 racing in 2006," said team director Jonathan Tenney. "They were real trailblazers and certainly inspired a lot of racers to reconsider their strategy. They taught me a lot about how to put a team together." Although 2007 was a good year for us, 2008 was even better. "It is pretty cool to note than the entire team (all categories) won more races in 2008 than 2007, that we did it with fewer riders, we did it with a smaller budget, and we raced in double the number of racing categories. We earned many national and state championship medals. While other teams were padding their accomplishments by recording top-10s, we had to restrict the listing of placings on our site to top-3s because we could not have fit all of our top-10s on the same page. All of these are a testament to all of the hard work done in the shop, on the web, and in the saddle by everyone who was a member and shop employee from 2007-08," wrote Tenney in an e-mail to all of the past and future members of his team.
When asked about the look of the team for the upcoming year, Tenney said: "Our jersey design will essentially stay the same, so look for a new name along with the same old stripes in 2009. Our kit was inspired by the paint jobs seen on the monster 4-cylinder engine motorcycles manufactured by the japanese in the 1970s. When I was in college I had a Kawasaki KZ1000, and it was a monster. Just huge, impressive, and very fast."
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