Land Rover News
Doernbecher Toy Drive 2009
It's that time again! November 30th kicks off our 2009 Doernbecher Children's Hospital Toy Drive. This year we have a 16-foot trailer that we are looking to fill.
Monday, 30th we will have the locations of our donation boxes posted, for now, enjoy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays!
TEAM RUBICON IN SEARCH OF TITLE SPONSOR FOR UCI CONTINENTAL TEAM
Portland, Oregon –Team Rubicon-ORBEA, presently known as Land Rover-ORBEA; Benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a first year UCI continental team, is in search of a title sponsor. Rubicon’s two-year partnership with Land Rover will end December 31st, 2009.
Dean wins!
Pictured L to R; Lanell Rockmore, his Mother, Dean Tracy, LRO MOM and Kevin Mansker
The Land Rover-ORBEA team won the 2009 US team sprint championship in a time of 0.48.023, beating out 10 other teams. Dean Tracy, successfully defended his 2008 championship title by rolling a 18.3 first lap to get the team up to speed.
VegasCross Baby!
Land Rover Vegas and Land Rover-ORBEA will be there!
For those of you don't know, VegasCross is the biggest cross race held in the United States, it's estimated that there will be 15,000 spectators in attendance -and we will be there.
Land Rover Las Vegas will be sponsoring this event, along with ORBEA-USA and we are sending our top two riders to compete with the world's best. Aaron represented New Zealand twice at Mt. Bike Worlds and Carson Miller represented the US last year at Cyclocross Worlds -should be fun!
Hey YELLOW GUY!
Report from Josh Bartlett on being "that yellow guy."
On the starting line, the guy next to me tapped my shoulder and was like, "Hey, I think you're the yellow guy." I had no idea what he was talking about, but he pointed to some girls in the crowd who had a sign for me! haha. Pretty sure it was the first time I had fans with a sign for me at a race. It was cool! Apparently last year at the same race, when I was handing out some extra wristbands that I had, I gave a couple to them and said "cheer for the yellow guy." They l
ooked up my name in the results and have been Google-ing my name every once in a while since then trying to follow my racing a little bit. My dad took a picture of us after the race so we could email it to them the photo.
LRO invited to the All British Field Meet
Land Rover-ORBEA joined Join OVER 800 other British vehicle owners and shared our mission and interests with other enthusiasts a the Portland International Speedway for the 33rd Annual All British Field Meet, September 4 -7th.
It was a little wet to do any ultimate off-road and but still to be invited and
have the Rover on show was nice. The LR2 was fully stocked with
LIVESTRONG wristbands, one ORDU and ORCA. Hope you caught the
Laurelwood July Fundraiser nets $4309.50
Laurelwood and Land Rover-ORBEA Banding Together Campaign sends Austin cancer survivor to the Austin LIVESTRONG Challenge.
Colleen from the LAF and Mentor group is currently looking for the right individual to received our "gifted" spot for the challenge.
There still is time to donate if you would like to donate on line to our account - Land Rover-ORBEA -LAF
