Our Sponsors
Primary Team Sponsor
Clean Currents is a broker of clean energy offering low cost, green electricity to regional Washington DC area businesses. Clean Currents is fully committed to promoting solutions to today's biggest environmental challenges - global warming and air pollution. The technology exists today to dramatically cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
Businesses, citizens, and elected leaders need to join together and promote a vision of a cleaner, better future free from the threat of global warming. Green power is not necessarily more expensive than conventional power and the ever-increasing demand for energy gives Green power an tremendous opportunity to collectively help us meet our energy needs so we are not completely dependant on fossil fuels. Clean Currents brokers the best deal for your business and can lock in your low rate for as many as five years. Sounds great, right?
Check it out for yourself at www.cleancurrents.com. Are you sick and tired of code red days - have you made up your mind to make a change for the better - Contact Clean Currents today for your free energy quote!
Presenting Team Sponsor
Don Beyer is metropolitan Washington DC's favorite Volvo dealership, having served Northern Virginia, the District of Columbia, Alexandria, and Maryland since 1973. Don Beyer Volvo has three convenient locations in Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and right next to Arlington County in the City of Falls Church. With one the largest inventory of new and certified pre-owned Volvo cars in the region, Don Beyer Volvo is sure to have a car for you. Imagine cruising to the Grand Prix of Silver Spring in the all new Volvo C70 convertible or carpooling with your teammates to Masters Nationals in an V70R station wagon!
Don Beyer Volvo's dealerships are conveniently located close to 495, 95, Route 66, Route 28, Route 1, Route 7, and Route 50. Or check them out on-line - click here www.donbeyervolvo.com.
Principal Corporate Sponsors
CycleLife is a cycling-centric lifestyle business model that departs from traditional cycling retail shops and cycling performance centers. CycleLife offers a complete range of retail cycling equipment, clothing, and repair services, performance evaluation and testing for the professional to the avid cyclist, complete health club services, including massage therapy and nutritional consulting, and full smoothie bar and eatery, with flat screens, for the cycling-minded and health conscious alike to congregate. CycleLife is located at 3255 K Street, NW, Washington, DC, in the heart of Georgetown. CycleLife's grand opening is scheduled for late Spring 2008.
Signal Financial is the intelligent alternative to conventional banking institutions for the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. Signal Financial has been committed to offering quality financial services for over 60 years, and uses the power of its cooperative roots to deliver some of the most competitive rates available. Boasting over 57,000 surcharge-free ATMs, more than 2800 shared locations throughout the country where teller transactions can be performed, and 8 convenient full-service locations in the DC Metro area, Signal Financial is poised to emerge as DC's premiere not-for-profit banking institution.
Visit www.sfonline.org today and take another step towards improving your financial fitness.
Supporting Corporate Sponsors
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of approximately 135,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas -audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services - and serves more than one-half of the world's largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. Much more information on this global leader is available at www.deloitte.com.
Founded in 1990 by Bill Phillips, a pioneer in the health and fitness and author of the best-selling book Body-for-LIFE, EAS is a leader in science-based sports nutrition offering a full range of performance nutrition products.
EAS offers four categories of products, including, daily nutrition products, such as Myoplex (core performance nutrition for hard-training fitness) and AdvantEDGE (the perfect nutritious snack), strength building products, such as Phosphagen Elite (a high-performance formulation that helps buffer muscle-fatiguing acid), muscle recovery products, such as Muscle Armor (a blend of L-glutamine, arginine and HMB that minimizes muscle breakdown and maximizes tissue repair), and precision products, such as CLA (a Omega-6 fatty acid that helps support lean mass and fat loss) and VO2 Peak (which helps increase workout capacity, delay fatigue, and combat exercise-induced stress). Check out these and other fine performance nutrition products from EAS at www.eas.com. You have got to try the Myoplex chocolate peanut butter bars, they rule!
Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar on Pennsylvania Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC is a full-service restaurant and wine bar, offering lunch and dinner, as well as space for large and small private events. Sonoma is a great neighborhood restaurant, and offers guests a break from the typical. Chef Drew Trautmann's New American creations bear an Italian influence, and are composed of four groups: cheeses and charcuterie, handmade pasta and pizzas, wood-grilled meats and fish, and organic salads and produce.
Owner Eli Hengst is an accomplished MABRA racer - be sure to thank him for supporting the cycling community by taking a trip to Sonoma. For more information on hours of operation, menus, private events, and more, go to www.sonomadc.com.
DrinkMore Water's mission is to provide our customers with the absolute highest quality bottled water delivered with outstanding customer service. At the same time, we work to effect positive change through social responsibility and good corporate citizenship. DrinkMore Water is a proud sponsor of DC Velo, the 2007 DrinkMore Water Grand Prix of Silver Spring, and dozens of other MABRA events. We continue to support the local cycling community because we strongly believe in promoting a healthy and active lifestyle --- our water, of course, helps you stay well-hydrated. If you are in the market for bottled water delivery service (be it 3 or 5 gallon bottles, cases of single serve bottles, or a cooler), please give us the last shot at your business. We are locally-based, family-owned and your support really does make a difference. Thanks for reading!
Check us out today at: www.drinkmorewater.com.
Minshall Stewart Properties has made opportunistic and long-term investments in high quality commercial and multi-family real estate since 1989. Utilizing a multitude of acquisition strategies, Minshall Stewart targets assets that fit the requirements of institutional capital providers. With offices in Washington, DC, Denver and Cleveland, Minshall Stewart uses a market-based approach to purchase real estate assets that earn extraordinary returns for both its partners and the company. Our experience includes targeting and acquiring vacant and underperforming fee simple assets, debt secured by real estate assets, partnership and leasehold interests, controlling interests in corporations that own real estate assets, and credit leased properties. Minshall Stewart's experience encompasses all aspects of real estate investment and management, including, acquisition, financing, disposition, leasing and construction management of a broad range of real estate product types in geographic regions across the country.
DC Velo Outreach Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation dedicated to promoting kids bicycle safety and other cycling related charitable causes. The Foundation is the natural extension of our club's continued commitment to charitable community work. For 2007, the Foundation is organizing and running the hugely popular "Kid Ride With Helmets," which is schedule right before the men's pro/elite race at the third annual Grand Prix of Silver Spring to be held on Sunday July 22 in the revitalized downtown of Silver Spring. The Foundation's goal that day is to provide free entry and free helmets for up to 250 kids.
Please visit the DC Velo Outreach Foundation website, located at www.dcvelooutreach.org, where you can learn more about the Foundation's activities and how to make a tax deductible charitable donation.
Cycling Product Sponsors
Every Orbea bicycle is born in the heart of the Pyrenees in northern Spain. It is a region with a mild climate that is good for riding year-round and where cycling is a way of life. This region, known as "Euskadi" in the Basque language and "Pais Vasco" in Spanish, is home to some 1,500 cycling clubs and thousands of cyclists. It is a region where children learn to ride in school and are taught the cycling history. It is the perfect place to design and make a bicycle. Orbea bicycles thus come from the best cycling region in the world: The Pyrenees.
We will again being racing Orbea's Opal this year - the perfect blend of stiffness and comfort for US style racing. 80+ wins in the last two years says so. Check out Orbea's full line of bikes on-line at www.orbea-usa.com.
Protect your intellectual property with the most technologically advanced helmet on the planet - the Giro Atmos! The choice of our club for many years, the Giro Atmos features Tour de France-proven performance and leading style - it's no wonder why so many elite riders count on it to protect their noggins. If you want a premium helmet for the speed and thrill of wide-open roads, this is the one. To see more on Giro's full line of helmets, please visit www.giro.com.
Rudy Project is worldwide brand leader in hi-tech sunglasses, goggles, helmets and accessories. Using science, advanced materials, and computer technology, Rudy Project creates functional, aesthetically superior, and technologically advanced products. Over the years, Rudy Project has been a champion of sponsoring and supporting athletes at every level of competition. And for that, our club is very grateful, having been long sponsored by Rudy Project. Do look over these very cool products at www.rudyprojectusa.com.
Sponsor Opportunities
For enquires and questions about team and event sponsorship opportunities, please contact Ben Landers, Sponsorship Committee Chair, at blanders@dcvelo.com.












