Chicago Bike Racing has had a new sponsor the past few weeks in the form of Athletes By Design, which is promoting its off-season boot camp and its 9th annual indoor time trial series. ABD puts on more events than just about any other club around Chicago, including the Winfield criterium weekend, the Fall Fling and this weekend’s cyclocross race in Bartlett. I’m thrilled to have the support of such a vital contributor to the local scene.

To learn more, I spent some time this week with Mike Ebert,  ABD’s outgoing events director. At 28 he’s an accomplished racer himself. Although some bad luck kept him from having the 2007 he had hoped for, he’s already looking forward to 2008 and has promised some big changes for himself and ABD.  In fact, when I chatted with him he was noodling in Photoshop, working on new uniforms for ABD’s elite squad.

Why the new uniforms?

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