Long time team member Zane Godby tells his story with Team CLIF Bar. From starting out as a racer, to becoming a mechanic, Zane shares how Team CLIF Bar has shaped him. If you have been around the cycling industry long enough, there are a few questions that you will always get asked. Those questions are: When did you get in to racing? How long have you been racing? And what’s on your schedule this year? Each of us have different answers for these questions, but when it comes down to it they are all very similar. Without further adieu here are my answers to these questions. Whe ..read more

You may have heard about the Ginger twins if you have followed to domestic crit scene over the past five years. My twin brother Kevin, Ginger 1 and myself Conor Mullervy, Ginger 2 raced professionally from 2010-2015 with Team Exergy and Champion System Stan's NoTubes and focused mostly on the Criterium racing. Though we did not start riding till our Senior year in High School and did not take training or racing too serious until we started school in Grand Junction, CO at Colorado Mesa University. During our Freshmen year of College is when we first met Ben Turner and he then introduced ..read more

This weekend the team traveled to Missoula for the Missoula XC pro XCT, one of the best XC races on the pro XCT calendar, it is a typical ski resort race with a steep climb and blazing decent. This race was a major goal for the team to perform well and get the ever-valuable UCI points for call-ups and qualifications to world cups. Having key races in the calendar is one of the best ways to stay motivated to continue to train as hard as you can. These key races can do two things; go great and show you how much your training has paid off, or go poorly and light the fire  ..read more

 Hi this is Alex and here’s what went down during my two days racing at Midway UT The Midway Pro Dev XC was a very fun and challenging course consisting of lots of interesting natural features.  Lap times were fast and the course was very unforgiving while at the same time in a really beautiful setting near the foothills of the Wasatch Range.  Midway UT is basically outside of Park City which I had never visited before and it was gorgeous.  The course was set at the same venue that hosted the 2002 Nordic Olympic Games, called Soldier Hollow - that was pretty cool to com ..read more

Hey guys! Liam and Anders here, we got the opportunity to head to The Sea Otter Classic with the Clif Pro guys Ben Sonntag, Troy Wells, and Menso de Jong. The whole trip was a fantastic learning experience and we both learned a ton about what constitutes the "pro lifestyle" and what goes into being a professional athlete at a large scale event such as Sea Otter Classic. The Sea Otter Classic  Each day we would prep in the morning and gather our race gear along with a change of clothes before heading to the venue. On Friday, we posted up with our gear at the Stan's Notubes tent before ..read more

The CLIF Bar Development team is excited to be racing mountain bikes this year.  New team member Finn Gullickson is representing the team in California the past two weekends.  In the Fontana PROXCT Finn finished just on the podium in fifth place. At the more competitive Bonelli PROXCT Finn rounded out the top ten in ninth place.  Keep an eye out for the new black Team CLIF Bar truck on the PROXCT circuit this summer ..read more

Tired of reading our blog posts? Yeah us to. This week team member Anders, created a video blog to show us a day in life. A student at Marian University, Anders is home in Boise Idaho for the Holiday break. Take a look at how Anders stays motivated for Cyclocross Nationals in a few weeks ..read more

After a strong first half of the season in both Cross and Collegiate Mountain, Team Clif Bar hopes to continue performing and out performing those results for the second half of the season. Since the last race update the bulk of the cross season is now behind us and during that the time team has been busy competing all over the United States Picking up from the Early Season race update was Pan American Championships in Cincinnati. In the U23 Field Garrett Gerchar came in 14th and Anders Nystrom came in 17th. The course was the same as it has been for the past few years but this year unli ..read more

The Bike: This year the Clif Bar Squad Is sponsored by Niner and our weapon of choice is the BSB9 RDO. One of the fastest bikes in the peloton the BSB9 offers full carbon thru axles front and rear along with perfect race winning geometry. Many of our riders like their bikes set up in different ways to fit their riding styles. Even though the bike is the same each one is tailored specifically for each ridder. Today I’m going to share how I set up my. Handlebars: Starting with the handlebars. My handlebars are similar to a traditional cyclocross set up where the hoods slightly higher than ..read more

The Bike: This year the Clif Bar Squad Is sponsored by Niner and our weapon of choice is the BSB9 RDO. One of the fastest bikes in the peloton the BSB9 offers full carbon thru axles front and rear along with perfect race winning geometry. Many of our riders like their bikes set up in different ways to fit their riding styles. Even though the bike is the same each one is tailored specifically for each ridder. Today I’m going to share how I set up my. Handlebars: Starting with the handlebars. My handlebars are similar to a traditional cyclocross set up where the hoods slightly higher than ..read more