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Tour of America’s Dairyland Bike Race Returns to West Allis for Third Year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 6, 2024 – WEST ALLIS, WIS – For the third consecutive year, the City of West Allis is excited to welcome the Tour of America’s Dairyland (ToAD) “Cheese Wheel Classic” bike race to the Becher Street neighborhood on Friday, June 14. This annual bike race brings tours and cyclists from all over the world to 11 different communities over 11 days. The day will feature nine different races starting at 11 a.m. and will feature cyclists of all types from junior riders to seasoned masters, novices to pros and even hand cyclists. All races throughout the day will start and finish near the intersection of W. Becher Street and S. 71st Street.

  At 6 p.m. the 0.82-mile racetrack will be open to the community for the “Anything That Rolls” Community Hour. During this time, community members can bring their wheeled items like skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, and, of course, bikes onto the racecourse to get a feel for what it’s like to ride the route.   

  The Cheese Wheel Classic is brought to the community by West Allis Cheese and Sausage Shoppe, in partnership with the City of West Allis and presented by New Glarus Brewing Company. Additional partnership is provided by El Jimador Tequila and Allis Bike.  

    For more information like the race route and schedule, visit www.WestAllisWI.gov/ToAD .  

Cheese Wheel Classic Race Map 2024. Map courtesy of the City of West Allis.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.

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Pro biker from Germany keeps coming back for Wisconsin's Tour of America's Dairyland race

B ike parts lay on the patch of grass between the sidewalk and Tyler Street in Cedarburg while professional biker and Germany native Wolfgang Brandl's support team services his bicycle.

They are preparing Brandl, 38, for a 75-minute race around four blocks in the city, the sixth of 11 locations on the Kwik Trip Tour of America's Dairyland bike race series.

A day earlier, during the Tour De Pere, the fifth race in the series, one of the wheels on Brandl's bike was damaged when another rider's pedal hit it. The quiet residential area on Tyler street is the unofficial pit stop where Brandl's support team ensures his bike is in tip-top condition.

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Wolfgang and ToAD's history

Brandl lives in Germany, but he keeps being drawn back to Wisconsin for the Tour of America’s Dairyland, or ToAD, bike races. He's one of the people from 15 other countries to come to Wisconsin to compete in the ToAD series since its genesis in 2009.

Brandl rides with his professional biking teammates from the German group the Maloja Pushbikers.

ToAD is an 11-day criterium race series through Wisconsin communities. Criterium bike racing, also known as crit racing, is a short lapped-circuit race. There are typically 8-10 category races held each day of the series.

According to the ToAD webpage , founders Tom Schuler and Billy Ochowicz believe that everyone should have access to a world-class bicycle racing experience.

According to the executive director of ToAD, Bill Koch, even if bikers do not finish the 75 minutes of laps there are still cash prizes to be won during the course of the race. These cash prizes are called "primes" (pronounced "preems" after the French word for "gifts") and have offered at as much as $5,000 in past years.

"Primes can change the dynamic of race flows," said Koch.

Brandl mentioned nothing of these cash prizes in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, though. One thing he did talk about was his longtime love for biking.

Even on his vacations, Wolfgang Brandl can be found biking. He trains between two and four hours per day on his bike and averages 40 to 70 miles of biking per day.

Brandl started bike racing when he was a child, but stopped when he went to university to get his degree. In 2009, when he was 23, he returned to the racing scene.

He came to Wisconsin for the first time in 2016 after his friends told him about the Tour of America's Dairyland races.

What keeps Wolfgang Brandl coming back to Wisconsin?

Due to Wisconsin's history of being home to many German immigrants, Brandl enjoys the familiarity of the culture here.

"The food is very similar, we also have a lot of dairy, we eat a lot of cheese, a lot of fried stuff," Brandl said. "The second names of people are German, and some even speak German, or their grandfather or grandmother speaks it."

Although Brandl was thinking of retiring from the Tour of America's Dairyland races this year, once he had finished his 75 minutes of racing, he had firmly changed his mind about this being his last ToAD race.

"I'm just having so much fun," said Brandl amid the ringing of cowbells held by the cheering spectators lining the sidewalks of Washington Avenue. "I made so many friends here, so it would be hard not to come back."

He thought of retiring because he believed that 38 years old would be a good age to retire. If he doesn't race professionally in the coming years, he will be racing in the amateur category.

Wolfgang Brandl won the Janesville Town Square Grand Prix

Brandl won first place in the Janesville Town Square Grand Prix, the first race of this year's ToAD. He also earned enough overall points to place third in the ToAD Cheddar Series Omniums.

The official Tour of America's Dairyland website lists the results of each race on their results page .

ToAD’s final two races of 2024 are the Café Hollander Otto Wenz Downer Classic Saturday, June 22, and the Cafe Hollander Tosa Village Classic Sunday, June 23.

Plans for the rest of his trip

Brandl planned to join a short community ride out of Wauwatosa on June 21.

"We do a one-hour spin of juniors," said Brandl. "We try to be idols for younger people to get into the sport and bring more people's attention."

Brandl said that he is going to stay even longer than the duration of the ToAD series, because he has so many friends to visit. He said they will explore the cities and the countryside along with some stops at museums and lakes.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Pro biker from Germany keeps coming back for Wisconsin's Tour of America's Dairyland race

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Cafe Hollander Otto Wenz Downer Classic: Bryan Gomez and Kimberly Stoveld take solo wins in Wisconsin

On the second stop of the American Crit Cup fortunes favored the brave as attackers came out on top.

Storms dominated the racing in more ways than one at the 45th Cafe Hollander Otto Wenz Downer Classic presented by ISCorp as Kimberly Stoveld soloed her way through heavy rain to take the women’s race and Bryan Gomez of Reign Storm racing beat out the competition — and a literal rain storm — to stick a last lap attack in the men’s event.

In the second race of the American Criterium Cup and the tenth race of the Kwik Trip Tour of America’s Dairyland, the men and women had 75-minute races along the historic triangular course around the neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The day was defined by the summer storms that brought a huge amount of rain to the women’s race and caused the course to remain slick for the men’s event.

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Stroveld, a noted time trialist and a tall powerful rider, was able to use the stretched-out nature of the race in the rain to go solo twice throughout the race including a surprise final move in the final six laps that looked immediately as if it would be an insurmountable gap. Gomez employed a similar stretched-out field along the Downer Avenue course to hit out from the front of the field with one lap to go to wrench out a gap over the other sprinters and take a commanding win in the men’s race.

“It’s incredible, I’ve been trying that move for the last nine days and it finally stuck! I couldn’t be happier,” Stoveld said after the finish. Stoveld had tried solo moves at every race in the Tour of America’s Dairyland thus far. It took two separate efforts tonight to finally make it stick to the line where she took a commanding victory on the biggest night of the whole series.

On the men’s side, however, it was all about the favorites as REIGN Storm put on another stellar showing to cover the right moves and come out on top for the third straight night in Wisconsin.

“We were just covering covering covering not wanting to be chasing any moves,” Gomez said after the finish as lightning overhead sent everyone scurrying for cover. “We were present in every move and I just so happened to cover the last one and it worked out perfectly.”

At the end of the day Skylar Schneider and Bryan Gomez will head to the next ACC stop in Boise, Idaho with the red leader’s jersey while Rylee McMullen and Danny Summerhill retain their green sprint jerseys.

The Elite Women romp in the rain

The women began their race amid falling rain that would come and go almost on a lap-by-lap basis throughout their 75 minutes of racing.

With the rain to complicate things, the first half of the women’s race was calm in terms of attacks as the main favorites for the stage – namely Skylar Schnieder (Miami Blazers), Coryn Labecki (EF Education-Cannondale) and Rylee McMullen (DNA Pro Cycling) – marked each other throughout the first dozen or so laps as McMullen was the most active of the main favorites.

Stoveld’s first solo of the day came with 20 laps to go and she immediately looked strong as her tall frame tucked low and neatly over her bike as she powered ahead of the field with the power of a classic time trial specialist. Stoveld had enough of a gap to get through the ACC green jersey sprint points, but McMullen had her eyes set on that jersey and marshaled a chase with her DNA Pro Cycling team to set up a sprint to collect the second-place points for that season-long competition and bring back Stoveld a lap later.

Mariana Valdez from LA Sweat was the next rider to escape off the front, with a couple of cash primes making her short stint off the front worth it before she was back into the fold with just over 10 laps to go.

Everything looked set for a sprint until a prime bell with six laps to go spurred a second attack from Stoveld who was looking to salvage something from the race. Kaitlyn Agnew was the only rider who tried to follow Stoveld, however, she never could quite find Stoveld’s slipstream as she was in full flight and quickly pulled out a massive gap to the peloton. With 4 laps to go it seemed like the only thing left in suspense was if Agnew could bridge the final few seconds to the leader, yet it was a bridge too far.

Stoveld, in the most unlikely of ways, cruised to the win with a massive gap to Agnew who just managed to stay in front of the charging peloton for second. Skylar Schnieder finished third, winning the field sprint.

“I have very limited spots to try that move, you know you only get so many opportunities to make it work,” Stoveld said. “But I am pretty persistent and pretty stubborn so I had to keep trying until it worked.

“I got into this sport hoping to win and I don’t mind getting my teeth kicked in 99% of the time. That 1% of the time when I win gets me coming back for more.”

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A REIGN Storm victory to close the night

The men’s race was fortunate to run under relatively dry weather conditions with the moisture from the previous rain less of a challenge than it had been earlier in the evening for the women. Nevertheless, with a massive 135-person start list, the race was attritional from the gun, with riders spit off the back nearly every lap.

Even if the proverbial backdoor was open, the front of the race saw a stalemate as riders kept attacking only to be followed moments later by the rest of the favorites. This continued through the first half of the race as small skirmishes for the multitude of primes spurred sprints and attacks that were flashes in the pan rather than explosive moves to set up a potential victory.

Danny Summerhill was one of the riders who was acting as the glue that kept the whole show stuck together, welding gaps for his REIGN Storm Racing teammates and taking care of business by getting full points in the green jersey sprint classification in his second straight ACC race. Summerhill has made the season-long fight for the green jersey a target.

After the mid-race sprint, things settled for a few laps before Michael Garrison played his big move with 13 laps to go. Garrison, a privateer rider who is racing the 2024 season without teammates, has been one of the strongest riders on the circuit and quickly managed to pull out a gap with Alfredo Rodriguez (REIGN Storm Racing) tagging along to mark one of the most dangerous riders in the race to the dominant REIGN Storm Racing team.

As the laps clicked down, Garrison and Rodriguez looked like the race win could be decided between the two of them as there wasn’t a big team left to chase. However, with 5 laps to go the bell for a big cash prime for the field was rung again and a flurry of attacks saw a 20-second gap quickly dissolve into a five-second gap as Noah Granigan (Miami Blazers) took the money and started to make his way across the gap. One lap later and suddenly everyone was back into the fold a sprint seemed imminent.

Nevertheless, on a night with many twists and turns, there was room for one more as Bryan Gomez exploded out of the stretched-out field with grimaces all around through the bell lap. His REIGN Storm team had been the only train in play thus far at the Tour of America’s Dairyland so when Gomez hit the gas, the rest of the sprinters were left holding the bag as he cruised to a solo win with plenty of room to celebrate as the storm that had been threatening the race crackled overhead.

“Having the strongest teams gives you more pressure,” Gomez said of the pressure that team dominance puts on the riders in criterium racing. “If any move goes without your team it’s all about you, you really need to race with your head up. You really can’t rely on anyone. But we have a bunch of guys who know how to handle that type of pressure.”

James Gardener (MITOQ-NZ Cycling Project) finished second while Jordan Parra made it two REIGN Storm riders on the podium with a third-place finish.

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Tour of America’s Dairyland Mount Pleasant Momentum Bike Race

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The Tour of America’s Dairyland (ToAD) is the largest competitive road cycling series in the US. It hosts 11 straight days of racing and guess what…Racine County is Day #7! Please join us for the Mount Pleasant Momentum, a 5 mile loop around the Mount Pleasant Foxconn Campus. Racers can register online for the appropriate category and some of you may want to race all 11 days! Racing starts at 10am and ends at 4pm so you get a full day of excitement. Food trucks, music, beer, and fun opportunities are available all day.  Check out the Start/Finish Line for all the most intense racing action! Volunteer opportunities available too! See you at the Momentum!

Tour of America’s Dairyland brings hundreds of cyclists to De Pere

DE PERE, Wis. (WBAY) - Hundreds of cyclists are circling around downtown De Pere today at the Kwik Trip Tour of America’s Dairyland.

Monday is the 5th day of the 11-day race series, race locations change every day, with cyclists of all levels racing around a one mile loop from novices to amateurs to the pros.

Tour of America’s Dairyland brings hundreds of cyclists to De Pere. About 4,500 racers are participating each day with around 1,000 total individual cyclists over the course of the series.

One question Action 2 News’s Lena Blietz had was why the one-mile loop, rather than a long winding route through the scenic Wisconsin farmland.

“Because it’s way more fun for a spectating group to watch the race. If you think about a 60-mile race, they take off and they’re gone for a couple of hours, and they come back. Here, they stay, the community puts on a big party,” said Bill Koch, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Kwik Trip Tour of America’s Dairyland.

The economic impact for all 11 days of the race is estimated to be about 2 million dollars, with cyclists traveling from a dozen countries and 40 states.

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June 16, 2022 – June 26, 2022

The nation’s largest multiday road bike racing series — is returning to Milwaukee area streets June 16-26. Tour of America’s Dairyland (ToAD) is the largest competitive road cycling series in the U.S. It hosts 11 straight days of racing throughout Southeast Wisconsin. The tour was started in 2009 and extends the legacy of multi-day bike racing that first started in Wisconsin in 1969.

June 16: Janesville Town Square Gran Prix  Janesville

June 17: East Troy Cycling Classic East Troy

June 18: Giro d’ Grafton  Downtown Grafton 

June 19: Manitowoc Maritime Bay Classic Manitowoc

June 20 Cafe Centraal Bay View Classic Bay View

June 21 West Allis Cheese Wheel Classic West Allis

June 22 Mount Pleasant (Circuit Race) Mount Pleasant

June 23 Brady Street  Brady Street

June 24 Shorewood Criterium Cycling Classic Shorewood

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Offering world-class bike racing since 2009

The KwikTrip Tour of America’s Dairyland (ToAD) launched in 2009 when several Milwaukee-area cycling enthusiasts, among them Tom Schuler and Billy Ochowicz, came together to start a multi-day road cycling race in a similar structure to the globally recognized Superweek/ICC that was in decline. They were united by the belief that everyone should have access to a world-class bicycle racing experience and wanted to ensure Wisconsin held on to widely embraced idea of staging ten or more consecutive days of bike racing here in America’s Dairyland!

Since that humble start, the series typically stages 11 consecutive days in 11 different communities throughout Southeast Wisconsin, making it the longest competitive road cycling series in the nation. Each of those days, 8-10 races are held from late morning until dusk, offering opportunities for juniors as young as nine years old to seasoned masters racers, novices to pros, women and men and even our amazing handcyclists. Each year we welcome nearly 1000 unique pro and amateur racers from more than 40 U.S. states and 15 countries, averaging 450-500 daily.

ToAD has become one of the most popular race series internationally, earning an outstanding reputation for participant, fan and sponsor experiences. In the 2017 post-race survey, 98.5 percent of riders said they would recommend ToAD to friends or a teammate and 97 percent said they plan to race ToAD again.

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Over the years, we have been honored to have so many recognized Pro/elite cyclists roll up to our starting line. Past participants include Matt Busche (USAC Pro Road Winner), Sam & Skylar Schneider (hometown proud who dominate road racing), Rahsaan Bahati (multi-time US National Crit Champion), Jennifer Valente (US Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist on the track), Brent Emery (former U.S. Olympian), Katie Compton (14-time U.S. Cyclocross National Champion), Dan Holloway (U.S. Olympic track team), Coryn Rivera (holder of 71 U.S. National titles in road, track, cyclocross and MTB; only American to win the Tour of Flanders), and so many more!

Recognizing Incredible Dedication and Loyalty Since 2009

ToAD would not have had the success we’ve seen since our inception in 2009 without the amazing sponsors, people & host cities who have been with us from the very beginning.  We continue to recognize them below and can only say THANK YOU!

• Todd Busteed (professional announcer) – The guy who puts so much energy in due diligence pre-race and an enthusiastic approach to each and every sponsor, Todd views himself as one of us & is always willing to stand by our side as we prepare for the series each year.
• Brad Sohner (professional announcer) – That voice. That energy! That love for chocolate milk! That Brad Sohner; he’s the bomb of race voices.
• Jay Baumeister (Tenspeed Productions) – Willing to go the extra mile and always there! Tenspeeds has been our sole provider of staging and the barricades we love, although we since purchased them from Jay. We’ve worked closely with Jay on various fronts over the years and you’ll not find a better friend to also call a supplier.
• Megan Starshak (staff) – A marketing genius, Megan came to ToAD in Year One with an idea to mimic as close as we could the professional stages of bike races around the world! We said yes and here so many years later, she continues to add more and more value to so many things we do! Her latest endeavors now give you this timeless website that she oversees along with the oversight of our Race Ambassador program.
• Trek Bicycles – A world-wide leader in bikes and a company very Wisconsin proud! Where would our cycling community be without Trek?
• Wisconsin Bike Fed – A leader in the world of cycling advocacy organizations. Wisconsin has been blessed to have our very own Bike Fed to have our backs, fighting for access and safe pathways for all!  Not a member?  Shame on you; join today !

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• Grafton – The Giro d’ Grafton was our founding race, begun in 2007 by one of our founding partners, Billy Ochowicz and a few racing buddies, Michael Martens and Jeff Littman! Still running strong today thanks to the continued commitment of the Village of Grafton, Celebrate Grafton & it’s team of leaders.
• Downer Avenue – The Otto Wenz Cafe Hollander Downer Classic is one of the granddaddy’s of bike races around the USA and lives large in the hearts of fans and racers alike. The atmosphere is electric and continually draws ToAD’s largest fields year after year, amateur and pro, women and men!

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Meet the Americans competing at the 2024 Tour de France

A general classification win may be out of reach for the American riders in the Tour de France, but ending a three-year stage win drought is well within their grasp. 

Sepp Kuss, 29, was the last American to win a stage when he took Stage 15 of the 2021 Tour de France. The Durango, Colorado native is the best rider the country has seen in a decade. Last year, Kuss finished as the top American in 12th place at the Tour de France and won the 2023 Vuelta a España to become the first American Grand Tour winner since Chris Horner won the same race in 2013. However, although slated to be ​​Jonas Vingegaard’s top support rider for the 2024 Tour de France, Kuss withdrew from this year’s edition after testing positive for COVID-19 in the lead-up to the race. 

Greg LeMond remains the only American to have ever won the general classification category at the Tour de France, accomplishing the feat in 1986, 1989 and 1990. American Lance Armstrong won the Tour from 1999-2005 but was subsequently stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping by the International Cycling Union in 2012 .

So, who is left in this year's race to give the United States a shot at glory — at least for one stage. Here's a look at the three Americans competing at the 2024 Tour de France.

Matteo Jorgenson (UCI WorldTeam Visma-Lease a Bike)

Jorgenson, 25, is having a breakthrough season with an overall victory at Paris-Nice 2024 and a second-place finish at the 2024 Criterium du Dauphine.

Jorgenson is a strong contender in this year's race for the white jersey, which recognizes the best young rider under 26. A versatile rider, Jorgenson — alongside Kuss — is poised to be USA's best hope for a future Tour de France general classification winner. But for now, he will take over from Kuss to play the chief support role for teammate Jonas Vingegaard, who won the 2022 and 2023 Tour de France. 

This year will be Jorgenson’s third Tour de France. The Idaho-raised cyclist finished 20th in the general classification standings in 2022 and had to withdraw in 2023 due to injuries sustained in a crash along the route.

Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost)

A standout mountain biker during his young adulthood in California, 27-year-old Powless transitioned to the road and turned professional in 2018. 

Powless made history in 2020 as the first Native American to compete in the Tour de France. Since then, he has continued to improve and is coming off his strongest season yet with overall victories at the 2023 Grand Prix La Marseillaise and Étoile de Bessèges. 

In Kuss’ absence, Powless is the top American prospect for pulling off a stage win as he is known for his success with breakaways and aptitude at climbing. Last year, Powless led the King of the Mountain classification for the first half of the Tour but was ultimately edged out by Italy’s Giulio Ciccone. This year, he’ll be looking to finally secure the polka-dotted jersey by the end of the Grand Boucle . 

Hailing from Los Angeles, Quinn is a 24-year-old, up-and-coming cyclist riding in his first Tour de France to support Richard Carapaz, team leader of EF Education-EasyPost. Hot off a victory at the U.S. National Road Race Championships in May, Quinn is a strong all-around rider who excels at climbing and can produce strong sprinting kicks. Quinn will certainly be one to watch as he develops in the coming years.

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