Todd Wells

Recent Todd Wells Videos:
Todd Wells's Gear:
  • http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/SBCBkFamily.jsp?sid=12EpicFSR&scid=1100&scname=Mountain

    S-Works Epic

    The fastest, lightest and most efficient performance mountain bikes...

    Learn More at Specialized.com

  • http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/SBCBkFamily.jsp?sid=12SJFSR&scid=1100&scname=Mountain

    Stumpjumper FSR

    Easily the most versatile XC Trail bikes on the market...

    Learn More at Specialized.com

  • http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/SBCEqProductList.jsp?sid=2012EquipHelmetMTB&pscid=1009&scid=1136

    S-Works MTB Helmet

    The lightest certified helmet in the world, worn by 2008 UCI World XC Champion Christoph Sauser...

    Learn More at Specialized.com

  • http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/SBCEqSelectSection.jsp?scid=1128&pscid=1009

    Specialized Gloves

    Made to keep your grip sweat-free and your bike control precise ...

    Learn More at Specialized.com

  • http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/SBCEqSCLander.jsp?scid=1008

    Tires

    The product that started it all.....

    Learn More at Specialized.com

S-Works Epic

I started racing mountain bikes in the fall of 1994. I won the collegiate National Championships in 1995 and 1996 for Fort Lewis College. In 1996 I also started racing with the Specialized Mountain Dew team and won the inaugural Semi Pro Norba National Series Title. In 1997 I turned Pro and raced the NORBA series, U-23 World Championships, and domestic World Cups until 98. I took a few years off cycling, finished college in Arizona and got a “real” job with IBM. I quickly realized racing bikes was more fun then working and started training again. I started racing again in the middle 2000 and joined the Mongoose Hyundai team at the end of year to race World Cups, NORBAs and cyclocross. In 2003 I switched to the GT team and have ridden for them until switching back to Specialized this year. Over the years I have won two cyclocross national titles, one mountain bike short track national title and been a member of two Olympic teams. I have won NORBAs, numerous UCI cyclocross races and stood on my first World Cup podium this year. I am looking forward to adding to my list of achievements over the next three years with the Specialized Factory Team.

Achievements

2011 US Cyclocross National Champion
2011 La Ruta de los Conquistadores 1st Place
2011 Leadville Trail 100 1st Place
2011 US Cross Coutry Mountain Bike National Champion
2011 Sea Otter Classic XC 1st Place

It seems like I was just writing about

July 12, 2010

It seems like I was just writing about the first ever PRO XCT event back in March and this weekend the five race series came to close in Colorado Springs at Cheyenne Mountain Park. In addition to being the final event, it was the first and only stage race of the series consisting of a time trial, cross-country and a super cross-country. I had an eighty-point lead in the series heading into this past weekend and barring any catastrophes I was going to win my first ever PRO XCT/ US Cup/ NORBA series.

The race started at 6:30 pm Friday with a short seventeen-minute time trial. The course was mostly fast rolling single track with a very technical five hundred meter rock garden in the beginning. I had ridden several laps of the course without incidence in training but managed to cut a sidewall one minute into the race. Disaster had struck and I didn’t have time to put a tube in so I hit it with a Big Air but soon was riding on about five psi. I came in three minutes

down and was in thirty-ninth place heading into the cross-country.

I knew it was going to be hard to make up the three minutes I lost to the leaders in the cross-country but I was going to give it my best shot. I worked my way up pretty quick at the start and found myself fifteen seconds behind Kabush and JHK after one of five laps. I made a big push to catch Kabush on the next lap and managed to bridge to him just at the top of the climb but JHK had gotten a gap on him. Kabush was second overall in the series so I figured I would just sit on him and let him do the work.

By the third lap the gap had went up to about thirty five seconds to JHK and it appeared Kabush wasn’t going to chase him.

I went to the front at the bottom of the climb and Kabush did a good turn at the top and we made contact with him on the start of the last lap. At the very top of the climb JHK attacked and Kabush was in front of me in the narrow single track. I couldn’t get around him to chase

and then Kabush crashed in a rock garden and I had to get off and run around him. By then JHK had a good fifteen to twenty second gap and he would keep that to the finish. Kabush got around me on one the corners on the descent and I had to settle for third which was enough to lock up the series overall and move me up to third overall in the stage race.

Sunday was the final event of the weekend and they called it a short track but it was over a mile long course and we raced for about an hour instead of twenty minutes. I tried to attack a bunch in he beginning but it was clear Kabush and JHK weren’t going anywhere. We rode in a group of three for most of the race before Kabush slid out in one of the many slick corners while I was pushing the pace. That left JHK and I alone off the front with Kabush a few seconds back. With two laps to go I attacked when JHK bobbled and managed to open up a twenty second gap to him and over a minute to Kabush by the finish. It wasn’t enough to move up from 3rd in the G.C. but it was nice to grab the stage victory.

With the PRO XCT series in my pocket now the attention turns to Sol Vista for the US National Championships this weekend and then back to the World Cups in Europe after that. I’ve had some good time at home build up my fitness now it’s time to put it to the test.

Thanks for your support….

Stats for Todd Wells are coming soon.
All content © copyright 2012 Specialized Bicycle Components. All Rights reserved.