Neon Racing

Meet Trace! 🙌

Bikes: Trek Checkpoint, Specialized Epic, Giant Defy, Trek Pro Caliber

Riding/racing disciplines: Gravel, Mountain, and for the first time racing ROAD!

How long have you ridden and raced? Her first race was in 2019. But she’s been committed to training & racing for 5 years.

Favorite ride snacks: pain au chocolate and an oatmilk flat white

Racing focus/goals for the year: In a crazy turn of events, a medical diagnosis in March flipped Trace’s world upside down. In spite of this, she has podiumed in most of the races attempted this year. The goal is now to continue to train and manage her illness hoping to inspire others with challenges to also race. You can do it! 💪

What do you do for work/life outside of riding? Trace works as a yoga instructor, small business owner, marketer, teacher and a Little Bellas Program Lead.

Other hobbies: Splitboarding, painting, reading, meditation, traveling.

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇 Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

Long rides require a lot of things. Snacks are definitely one of the most important!

Neons don’t always fuel quite like this—but they sure do love sharing snacks along the way. Because everything tastes better when you’re riding with friends!

What’s in your jersey pocket? 👇

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇 Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

📸 Shane Hunter

🏆Dalton Grand Prix recap 🏆

Sharon came to Dalton to support a great local road race and race alongside Trace for her first road racing weekend—and in the process swept the Women’s Masters categories, despite the August heat!

After a tough road race forced Trace to DNF, she regrouped and came back strong to place 2nd in her first-ever TT & 2nd in her fastest crit ever (Women’s Masters).

46-mile Road Race
Sharon 🥇 | Trace DNF

13-mile Time Trial
Sharon 🥇 | Trace 🥈

40-minute Criterium
Sharon 🥇 | Trace 🥈

One resilient weekend. 💪

Thanks to TopView Sports & all the volunteers for putting on an excellent weekend & providing excellent cheering sections!

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇 Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

August was sweeeeeeet & these Neons made miles of memories! 🤩

1. Rachel celebrating a ride to Oliver Springs with a treat from friends
2. Lisa, Rachel, Luci & Skye kicking up the dirt at Sharp’s
3. Skye on a lovely summer ride in the Upper Cumberland
4. Stephanie caught in action in Knoxville by our fave Shane Hunter
5. Shaunah, Missy, Rachel & Trace getting a last training block before Hardford on the boulevard☀️
6. The same crew getting poured on moments later🌧️
7. Kimberly bidding adieu to Laramie…for now
8. Shaunah climbing Norris on a single speed, days after Hardford
9. Stephanie & Luci cooling off post SoKno ride with a quarry swim
10. Peace, August, it’s September’s turn ✌️

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇 Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

Laramie Range Epic: One and Done recap! 🤠

* 33 miles
* 4,000’of climbing
* Five hours of racing between 8,000–9,000 feet of elevation—and a whole lot of heat.

With nearly 30 DNFs (most likely due to the heat), Kimberly is especially proud of this one. She started out a little aggressively given the size of the field, but eventually settled into a good rhythm and found a pace she could hold for the long haul.

Best news of all, she’s really happy with her day on the bike and proud of herself for digging deep and finishing strong. 💪

📸 photos 1,2 .ross

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇 Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

Rider 👏 Highlight 👏

Get to know Skye Beaty:

Bikes: Santa Cruz Blur, Trek Emonda, Specialized Crux

Riding/racing disciplines: Used to race crits and road races but now race gravel, cyclocross, and XC mountain bike.

How long have you ridden and raced? I started riding bikes as a commuter in college and got into road riding about 14 years ago. Rode across the country in 2015! My first race was a crit in 2017, 9 years ago, and my first cyclocross race was in 2018. 😍

Favorite ride snacks or piece of cycling gear: I love a good vest and a pb&j

Racing focus/goals for the year: Focus for the year has been to recover from injury, strengthen, and build back up to be able to do all the riding and racing I want. 💪

What do you do for work outside of riding? Elementary school speech-language pathologist

Other hobbies: I love to garden, cook, and go for slow walks with Benny 🙂(Benny is featured in photos 3, 5 & 9) 🐾

📸1, 2,10 Shane Hunter

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇 Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

Laramie Mountain Bike Series Race 4 was a tough one for Kimberly. With 13 miles and 1,700 feet of climbing, the course was no joke—and unfortunately, the wheels came off the bus this time around.

She felt off from the start and, after about 20 minutes, just didn’t have the energy to push the pace. Maybe a little too much intensity over the past month finally caught up with her! Instead of forcing it, she shifted the goal to staying upright, riding smart, and getting to the finish.

Sometimes the win is just showing up, finishing, & learning from the race. 6th of 6 in the Advanced Women’s field.

Kimberly continues to show her strength on and off the bike! Way to go!!

She took 2nd in the series over all with the best 4 of 5 races. 💪

📸 Charles Sims

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

📣 Race Recap 📣
Laramie MTB series 3
Happy Jack Recreation Area
15 miles
1,800 elevation at 8500’

With pleasant temps in the low 60s at the start, it was puffy weather by the time awards rolled around in this Kimberly’s 3rd mountain bike race with Laramie Racing !

She was a little nervous heading into this one—the course was more technical, especially on the descents—but her hand held up well, and she was very pleased with how she rode despite all that climbing. 💪

She tackled the course and took 🥉 3rd of 6 — in the Advanced Women category.

Special shoutout to her daughter, Hazel, for capturing the day ! 📸

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇 Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

Say heyyyy to Shaunah! 🙌

She rides : Kona HeiHei Singlespeed: 34/22, Trek Checkpoint, Norco Optic

She races: Endurance XC and Gravel. Technical riding makes her heart happy. 😈

Her fave ride snacks: Albanese gummy bears or a classic coke, for the long hauls.

Must have gear: Glitter. Everything is better with glitter. Suffering in a race? At least you’re sparkly. Having a time of your life on this ride? Of course you are, you’re wearing glitter! Spending a Sunday with Little Bellas in the woods? Better bring the glitter! ✨

Shaunah shared her racing focus this season: “Have fun on the bike! Have already knocked out my favorite race of the year, The Appalachian Journey Gravel this spring with Missy Petty! Excited for my fall portion of the season! Then roll into some classic events I adore, like Hardford and Hill of Truth 12 hr. Looking forward to mixing in some new additions like the Mountaineer in VA. I always get excited for new to me routes/territory! Ladies, come join me! My goal of getting more ladies to the start line is a given every year! Let’s party!” 🎉

Thanks to our sponsors:
✨ Presented by Providence Advisors Group
🪩: Axle Logistics
🥇 71 South
🥇 Two Bikes
🥇Chivo Taqueria | Knoxville Bar and Restaurant
🥈 Rigazzi Mobile Wellness
🥈 Tennessee Valley Bicycles

📸: 1,9 Shane Hunter
4 Bruce Buckley
6 Rachel Woods | Appalachian Photographer
7 Stephanie Bush - WNC Photographer

Put your hands up for our sponsor @ 71South. 🙌

71 South is a casual, family friendly restaurant located in the heart of the Urban Wilderness in Knoxville. Their building happens to be part of one of the oldest churches in Knoxville, dating back to the 1930s. Their backyard is Baker Creek Preserve, home to nationally recognized mountain biking trails—where you will find many Neons ripping about.

High fives all around for this team, who has supported us financially and recently spent time chatting wtih us about how to get . We could’t be more thrilled to rep their business on our jerseys. And we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them.

Thank you, 71 South!