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Monday, September 24, 2012

Tour of America's Dairyland Cycling Series Moves Final Act to Wauwatosa

The 11-day series, touted by organizers as the largest competitive cycling event in the country, is moving its closing race from Madison to East Tosa next year. It will follow the sensational Downer Classic.

Billed as the biggest competitive cycling event in the United States, the 11-day Tour of America's Dairyland will end in Wauwatosa next year and thereafter. Already scheduled for June 30, 2013, the final day of the race series will center on the East Tosa business district along West North Avenue. The Tosa race day, a Sunday, will follow the hugely popular Downer Classic on Milwaukee's east side on Saturday, which drew 30,000 spectators this year. The East Tosa Alliance, a group formed to promote the business district and neighborhood, has signed on as the principal local organizing sponsor for the race, with a first right of refusal for subsequent years. The Tour of America's Dairyland — ToAD for short — holds 10 back-to-back events on …

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11:40 am on Thursday, September 27, 2012

I am extremely excited for TOAD to be ending in TOSA! Bike racing is not just for the streets Whitefish Bay or Downer Avenue anymore! It speaks volumes that TOAD wanted its series to end in Tosa. I will be wearing a jersey, drinking a beer, topping that off with pizza and ringing my cowbell baby!!! More importantly, I am very pleased to be a part of a community that will be introducing the sport …   more ›

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Tosa's Matthew Busche Wins 'Boston Marathon of Mountain Biking' in Record Time

Pro road racer from Wauwatosa breaks course record in his first mountain bike event.

With the fastest time in the 30-year history of the race, Matthew Busche of Wauwatosa won the Chequamegon 40 on Saturday, an event some call the 'Boston Marathon of Mountain Biking.' No small accomplishment that – especially since it was the first mountain bike event he's ever entered. That's not the quite the miracle it might sound. Busche has been a professional road bike racer for three years and is a member of one of the sport's top pro teams, Radio Shack-Nissan-Trek. "I spend about half my year in Europe," Busche said. "It was really great to get back to the Midwest, where I started racing, and see some familiar faces, old teammates. "It was a really exciting and fun event – winning was icing on the cake, and setting a record was even…

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