In its 32-year history, the Redlands Bicycle Classic has had foreign winners from Norway, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Australia, Colombia and Spain.
But no one from the US race’s neighbours to the north had ever stepped on the general classification’s top step until this year, when Canadian Matteo Dal-Cin (Silber Pro Cycling) made the breakaway in a hard-scrabble final stage to usurp the overall lead from Jamis rider Janier Acevedo.
Dal-Cin, a 25-year-old from Ottawa, told Cyclingnews he was “over the moon” with the victory, but Silber Pro Cycling director Gord Fraser wasn’t at all surprised with the progress that both his young rider and his upstart team have made. The win in Redlands was another step in the team’s upward trajectory.
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“It has been a work in progress,” said Fraser, who took over the Continental team in 2014.
“This is the third year that I’ve been working with Silber. We’ve had some great results, mostly in Canada, but we’ve come down to the states and had some great results. Ryan [Roth] was in yellow here last year after the TT. I’d like to think we ripped Philadelphia apart last year to set Ryan up for the win. He was seventh or eighth, but we did the damage there.”
Fraser put the overall win at Redlands - which is the third event on USA Cycling’s new Pro Road Tour but is still considered by many as the defacto opener for the domestic national calendar - on equal footing as the team’s win last year at Gastown Grand Prix, where Roth overcame the highly successful UnitedHealthcare “Blue Train” to win with a solo move.
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