Yarmouth Clam Festival Bike Race

For the last 33 years the Yarmouth Clam Festival Bike Race has been a staple of the New England bike racing summer schedule.  With a fast and challenging 3.6 mile circuit and crowds 3 deep on Main Street, racers have been enrolling in this year’s 34th edition of the Clamfest Bike Race in droves.  The Men’s Pro 1/2/3 field is on pace to swell to 100 racers, the maximum allowed by the race promoter, with numerous Maine cyclists in attendance.  Downeast Racing has a strong contingent scheduled to participate in the leg searing 36 mile event including Jeff Dixon, Fred Thomas, Matt Moon, Eliot Pitney, Dan Vaillancourt, Travis Kroot, Ta Herrera, Peter Cole, Joe Lynch, Jeff Yingling and Troy Barry.  The boys in blue will be previewing the course ahead of the Sunday 9AM start and setting up a DER Fan club under the Giant Bicycles tent located at Keybank on Main Street in Yarmouth.  A big thanks to Keybank for so graciously allowing us to set up on their front lawn and to Gorham Bike & Ski/Giant Bikes for the tent.  Sponsor Moses Dyer will be supplying some delicious coffee, Brunwick staple Frosty’s will have a few donuts out for the kids, so stop by, say hello to the team, get over caffeinated and hopped up on sugar and come make some noise for the boys in blue.

For those of you connected to the twitter-sphere, you can find us @racingdowneast.  There are rumors that the team will be live tweeting the event…..  Additionally, you can keep up with the team over on Instagram as well, @racingdowneast. You can usually keep tabs of us while we are off training on some remote road flashing the baby blue kits.

Hope to see you in Yarmouth to celebrate the Clam!