Who is Team Bulldog?
Team Bulldog is more than just a racing team.  In the past 16 years, we’ve grown from a group of junior racers (under 18) to a well-established team that includes men and women of all ages and abilities.  With 27 members on our current roster, new members join our ranks on a regular basis.  Team Bulldog prides itself on our commitment to our sport, our community and the environment.
 

Every year Team Bulldog Racers push themselves further and further on the race course. Although we are a strong and unified team, cycling is ultimately a solo sport, and sometimes a lonely one at that. We did not let these and the other challenges presented to a competitive cyclist slow us down. Our racers competed in many diverse events over the course of the 2006 race season. These events range from the early season frigid road races to the muddy spring mountain bike races to the NORBA Nationals to multi-day road stage races to the dead-of-the summer Ultra-Endurance events. Our racers love to race and our individual resumes really show this fact. With this love comes a great passion and determination for the sport which leads to excellent results. Team Bulldog racers never give up and never lose the ideals of true sportsmanship. For 2007 we look forward to racing in even more quality events!

Giving Back to our Sport:
Team Bulldog is actively involved in the Campmor H2H Regional Mountain Bike Series, promoting and improving the cross-country mountain bike racing forum in our region. Our Annual Bulldog Rump served as the third race of the Campmor Series and draws racers from all across the Tri-State area and beyond. This year, the Bulldog Rump was on the National AMBC calendar (as it will be in 2007), a huge step forward for Team Bulldog. The Bulldog Rump also served as the New Jersey State Championship Cross-Country Race, which made for an even bigger event. Our Spring race, The Annual Running of the Dogs is an event uniquely geared towards bringing new racers to the sport.

Additionally this year we held New Jersey’s first every High School and Middle School Mountain Bike Championship Race along with a Kids’ Race. Almost 100 young racers, ages 5 to 18 attended the inaugural event and all had a great time. It was wonderful to introduce our great sport to so many young racers and to see the joy on their faces! We will be holding this event again for 2007.

As an official United States Cycling Federation (USCF) member, Team Bulldog promotes races annually in the four-race Augusta Cyclocross Race Series, including the New Jersey State Championship Cyclocross Race. With our mountain biking background, we bring a special element to the ‘cross scene, as well as some new competitors.

Each race that our team sponsors provides an excellent opportunity to promote our sponsors. Hundreds of flyers are distributed by hand, and through internet downloads, t-shirts are printed and banners are flown, all bearing our sponsors logos. Racers visit our site, which prominently showcases our sponsors and their links, both before and after the race.

Giving Back to our community:
As mentioned earlier, we held the first ever High School and Middle School Race along with a Kids’ Race. We also held a kids’ race at our Running of the Dogs event, and it was well received. These events help to introduce young athletes to the sport of cycling and can lead them down a positive path of health, fitness, and competition.

Group Rides:
Team Bulldog organizes several weekly rides of varying degrees of technical difficulty. This is an excellent forum to introduce people to the sport of cycling and to keep them involved; it also serves as an avenue to recruit new members for Team Bulldog and to train riders to be knowledgeable and safe.

Team Unity:
Year after year, Team Bulldog attracts new members while maintaining its existing ones. As a team we have quarterly meetings to which all members are invited to attend. At these meetings, members get a chance to discuss not only promotion but they also discuss races, rides, and cycling trips. It is this commitment to the community which allows team members to embrace both the team and its sponsors. Spawning from this team loyalty is the positive promotion of our sponsors, which is above all the goal of sponsorship.

Giving back to the environment:
Fulfilling a long-standing tradition of giving back to the trails where we ride and race, Team Bulldog contributes hundreds of hours of trail maintenance each year.  In the past several years we have donated nearly 2,000 hours of trail maintenance and creation to the parks of New Jersey.  As a team, we were an integral part of opening Kittatinny Valley State Park to mountain biking and have adopted this park to care for its trails.  Team Bulldog also helped restore mountain biking to Waywayanda State Park after a six-year hiatus.  Mountain Creek Ski Resort, Vernon, NJ, was also re-opened to mountain biking with a cross country trail system created primarily through the efforts of Team Bulldog.  We are proud that our sponsors are associated with our works throughout the state.

Affiliations:
Team Bulldog is a member of NORBA (National Off-Road Bicycle Association), IMBA (International Mountain Bike Association), JORBA (Jersey Off-Road Bicycle Association), NJBA (New Jersey Bicycle Association), and USCF (United States Cycling Federation).

Accomplisments for 2006:

• As a team, we competed in over 290 events including mountain, road, and cyclocross
• 35 events saw a Team Bulldog Racer as the Champion
• Over 150 events resulted in Top-5 finishes
• 4 Podium Finishes at NORBA National Events
• 2nd Place Overall Expert Women NORBA National Series
• 1st Place Expert Woman New Jersey State Mountain Bike Championship
• 1st Place Expert Man New Jersey State Mountain Bike Championship
• 1st Place Expert Men Campmor H2H Mountain Bike Series
• 1st Place Expert Women Campmor H2H Mountain Bike Series
• 1st Place Sport Women 19-34 Campmor H2H Mountain Bike Series
• 1st Place Sport Women 35+ Campmor H2H Mountain Bike Series
• 1st Place A Women New Jersey State High School MTB Championships
• 3rd Place Elite Men New Jersey State Cyclocross Championship
• 3rd Place Elite Men New Jersey State Cyclocross Cup
• Ninth place overall (out of 250) at the Wilderness 101 Ultra-Endurance Mountain Bike Race
• 1st Place Solo Elite Woman in the 24 Hours of Allamuchy
• 3rd Place Solo Male (ages 30-39) in the 24 Hours of Allamuchy
• 1st Place 4-Person Team in the 24 Hours of Allamuchy

[2005 Team Accomplishments]