Enhance Cycling P/B Nebraska Medicine

Cornering is the single biggest skill that separates a fast, safe pack from a nervous one, and it's the one place a small mistake can take out riders around you, not just yourself.

Whether you're lining up for your first Tuesday Night Worlds or you've been racing for years, the fundamentals are worth revisiting.

Slow in, fast out. Enter wide, cut to the inside at the apex, drift back out on exit. Eyes up through the turn, brake before you tip in (not while you're leaned over), pick your line and hold it, hands in the drops with your outside pedal weighted down. That's the whole game.

Share this with the new racers in your life. See you Tuesday at Baxter Arena — Lot 26, 6:00 PM Beginner start.

Co-hosted by Omaha Velo & Enhance Cycling Team
Tuesdays, June 30–Aug 4 (no July 14)

We are going to rally at Bike Masters Cycling tomorrow at 6pm and head out once everyone arrives.

Solstice Gravel 2026: Grit, Heart, and the Final Chapter

When the Solstice Gravel Grinder rolls through its final edition this year, there's no better way to honor a decade of grassroots cycling than what we witnessed on the beautiful backroads of Beatrice, Nebraska on June 20th.

The weather was perfect. The course was unforgiving. And Enhance Cycling showed up with the kind of grit and determination that reminds you why community matters on the bike.

This wasn't just about medals and times, though we brought home plenty of those. It was about what happens when you put riders from Lincoln and Omaha on the same gravel roads, mix in teams from Kansas City, and let the best parts of Nebraska cycling shine through. Three Hundred Eighty Eight riders across three distances, each one challenging themselves and celebrating the culmination of an amazing event and the wedding of its organizer Joe Billesbach and Katie Dolan.

The Kindler (38 miles, 147 participants)

Chris Iten opened the day strong with the men's win in 2:05, sprinting to beat second place by one second. But the women's field is where the day really told its story. Heidi Boschen took first in 2:20, followed right by Shannon Winter in second and Morgan Cutler a strong third. They worked together for such a strong performance and its exciting to see the growth of these ladies.

The Solar Fiddy (66+ miles, 141 participants)

Susan Price absolutely disappeared in the Solar Fiddy, rolling through in 4:28 for the women's win. Here's the part we loved: she finished and was genuinely surprised when they called her for the podium. She hadn't seen another rider for the last ten miles. That's not a sign you were slow, that's a sign you found something no one else had.

Gina Babcock brought her own heat with a 4:44 finish. Eric Biehl settled into 9th overall and 4th in the Masters division at 3:59. Randy Root cruised through at 4:14. And Eli Criffield logged a solid 5:49.

The Hundy (100+ miles, 100 participants)

And then there's the story that defines what gravel is really about.
Hannah and Derek Augustine started the morning together. Early in the race, near mile 9, Hannah hit a bad patch. One second of wrong weight, one derailleur damaged in the impact, bent back through her spokes. Derek did what you do: he grabbed a bike tool and bent it back as far as it would go. Not perfect. Functional enough. Ninety-two miles left.

Hannah rode the remaining distance on a derailleur that barely worked, grinding through what would have been a much harder day on fresh legs, and they crossed the line together in 7:03.
Derek took the Fat Bike category on top of all that.

And in the relay category, the co-ed event that demands at least one woman on the team, Hollie Urbauer brought it home for her crew, Snappy and the Shrinks.

What We're Celebrating

This is a decade-long event running its final edition. Another gravel race is sun setting. The Solstice Gravel Grinder started as a small grassroots venture ten years ago and grew into one of the Midwest's most respected gravel events.

Our team came to race hard, support each other, and enjoy the closing of an amazing event and amazing community.

Thanks to everyone who showed up, whether you were working for a podium or just working to finish. Thanks to the organizers for ten years of beautiful gravel and an amazing community experience.

Solstice Gravel Grinder
Andrea Skalla
Orange Mud


Thank you Andrea Skalla and Pay

There are partnerships that matter, and then there are partnerships that define what you build. For the past ten years, SBI has been the latter for us. As we've grown our presence in the local cycling community, they've been consistently in our corner, believing in what we're doing even when it wasn't clear where the journey would lead.

That kind of commitment deserves acknowledgment. Not just the polite kind that comes in a thank-you card, but the real kind. The kind that says we see what you've done, we appreciate it deeply, and we're grateful to have you on this ride with us.

When you're building something in the cycling community, the early support matters most. You're figuring out who believes in the mission before there's much to show for it. SBI showed up then, and they've kept showing up through every iteration of what we've become. They were there when we were just a small group of people who enjoyed riding together. They've watched us grow into a 50-person club, watched us begin organizing events, supporting our riders, and strengthening the cycling community around Nebraska. Through it all, through every transition from what we were to what we've become, their partnership has been instrumental to our growth.

The truth is, without supporters who understand the value of what cycling brings to a community, none of this works. SBI gets that. They understand that investing in cycling isn't just about the races or the bikes or the performance numbers. It's about being part of of the community, supporting something bigger than yourself, and they've made that clear through their sustained commitment.

We're planning a moment to properly recognize their partnership, a chance to present them with a shadowboxed jersey that represents our shared journey over the past decade. It's a small gesture, but it's meant to say what matters most: we see you, we value you, and we're excited about where we go together from here.

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Breckenridge Expedition - Field Report

Team members Garrett Widholm and Jack Mensinger, along with Austin Griswold and Ben Morris, spent May 28-30 in the Frisco and Breckenridge area of Colorado, three days on the mountain bike. Big tires, big altitude, and a trail system that doesn't let you forget either.

Some of the trails they rode were the Backdoor/Sidedoor combo sits up around 10,800 feet and covers about three miles of singletrack. Backdoor is a roughly one-mile grunt of a climb, but it earns its place as it's the only way up to Sidedoor, a downhill flow trail loaded with berms, jumps, small drops, and a fast straightaway to finish it out. The kind of trail that has you hiking back up to do it again.

Baker's Tank Loop runs through aspen groves with views of the Tenmile Range, following an old narrow-gauge railroad grade up to the historic Baker's Tank, a relic from the days when steam engines stopped there for water on the climb. The singletrack is rooty and rocky in stretches, with a descent that gets steep and technical in the lower section.

The Frisco Peninsula trails round out the area nicely, riding waterside along Dillon Reservoir with views in every direction, and enough variety to mix in flow, climbs, and technical bits depending on which way you point the bike.

By all accounts the crew had a great trip. Coming from Lincoln at around 1,000 feet and riding at 10,000-plus, the altitude makes itself known early. The legs find it eventually. Good group, good trails, good few days out west.