Welcome to the new Scholars Inn Bakehouse Team Tortuga website!  This is the location for all information related to the team and our cycling program.  Here, you’ll be able to easily navigate the intuitive links to the team members, our racing calendar, race results by member and by team, read news stories and blogs on the action behind the scenes of the bike race, visit our sponsors and contact us for more information.  The site was designed by John Palmer with implementation handled by Gary Palmer.

Enjoy the ride!

Here is a recent re-post from Bloomington Velo News.

Scholars Inn Bakehouse Team Tortuga Racing

The roster for the Scholars Inn Bakehouse Team Tortuga cycling program is rapidly forming and there are a few spots open.  We are encouraging Women, Cat3, 4, 5s to apply for the team!  It’s going to be an exciting year for racing and cycling development in the Bloomington bike community and we want all dedicated racers to be involved!

When I was a boy, my brothers, who were great athletes in their own right had posters hung up in the cellar (we didn’t call it a basement because it had a dirt floor and coarse stones making up the foundation). It was really just a hole in the ground. In the corner of the ‘furnace room’ (a converted coal furnace, now burning oil) next to the makeshift bench press and scattered dumbbells, taped up to the round stones with electrician’s tape were a series of posters titled ‘Conditioning for a Purpose.”

One of the posters was of Steve Prefontaine, the legendary Oregon runner before his untimely death in 1975. The posters had a series of stretches and weight exercises designed to make you faster or stronger or have more endurance. “Pre” was credited with saying, “Someone may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.” So, when 8 of the areas toughest racers showed up at the Scholars Inn Bakehouse for a pre-winter training ride on a cold November morning, I knew that I was in for a few hours of bloodletting.