Doylestown Bike Works Racing Team p/b Fred Beans

Sam is a 21-year old native of Doylestown Borough and attends West Chester University. He has raced for our elite team since 2019. In 2023, he raced on three continents winning the Ardmore Rock & Ride Criterium, placing 3rd at the Wilmington Grand Prix, and taking home the white jersey (best young rider) at the Tour of Tobago. Sam placed in top 20 at the Bucks County Classic in 2022 & 2023, passing his own house 30+ times. Sam started 2024 winning the overall competition at the Lucratelli & Castaldi Branch Brook Spring Series.

Alex St. Andre (Westport, CT) is a high school senior and has been racing since 2016. This is his first year racing for our team. In 2023 he won the Connecticut Elite State Championships, finished top 20 in the Road Race and Time Trial of 17-18 USA Cycling Amateur Road Nationals, and raced the Tour de l’Abitibi Nations Cup in Canada. Alex started 2024 with 2nd place overall in the Lucarelli and Castaldi Branch Brook Spring Series and finished 3rd on GC at the Garden State Stage Race. As a breakaway rider and all-rounder Alex has goals of helping the team win lots of races.

Colin currently lives and grew up mere miles from the world famous Lehigh Valley Velodrome in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. He grew up watching and racing against past and future Olympians on the track. After a few years away from the sport he returned to racing in 2014, winning his first race back in the Cat 5 field. Fast forward a few years, Colin, now a Cat 1, is building off of his two most successful seasons to date in 2023. As an all-rounder, Colin has goals of winning races and helping teammates to their own podiums.

Key Results:

1st - 2019 Pocono Road Race, 2nd - 2019 Blueberry Bicicletta RR, 2nd - 2018 Smoketown Airport Crit, 2nd - 2018 Giro del Cielo Crit (6th RR and GC) , 3rd - 2018 Amateur Thompson Bucks County Classic, 5th - 2019 Amateur Wilmington Grand Prix, 16th at the USA Cycling Pro Criterium National Championships, 10th at the 2023 Bucks County Classic.

Connor is a resident of Sinking Springs, PA and attends Penn State University. He has raced for our program since 2019. In 2022, he spent the season racing and studying in Girona, Spain. He won the 2021 Wilmington Grand Prix Amateur Men's Race. His 2023 results included winning the Reading Bicycle Race, and completing the 2023 Bucks County Classic. He is known as being the consummate teammate and doing the hard work needed to get our team podiums.

Sean has been racing since 2016 with both the Kelly Benefits and Aevolo programs, before joining our team in 2024. His goals are to keep improving himself physically and as a bike racer while helping grow the young guys and contribute to the team's overall success. His top results include 2nd in 2021 Bucks County Classic Pro Men's Race, and 2nd in Stage 4 of the UCI Joe Martin Stage Race. Off the bike he loves traveling, basketball and being out on the lake. You may even find him in a triathlon a couple times this year.

Julianna Rutecki is a road and track specialist who joined our elite program in 2023. She is a native of West Chester, PA and graduated from West Chester University in May, 2024. She had 2023 podiums at the Easton Twilight Criterium, and the Ardmore Rock & Ride Criterium. In 2024 she plans on focusing on track cycling including the USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships.

Brad Green (Schwenksville, PA) joined our elite team in 2024. Brad is a veteran road and track racer who also competes with the Star Track Cycling program.

Pennsylvania native Kim Zubris has represented the USA in multiple Elite Track World Cup and World Championships, Silver Medalist at Pan Am Championships in the Madison discipline, US National Champion in the Madison and Team Pursuit, Multi-time National Champ Medalist, Valley Preferred Cycling Center (VPCC) Rider of the Year 2021, VPCC Women's Cup winner 2021, VPCC Madison Cup winner 2022, Master's World Champ in Individual Pursuit, Points Race, Scratch Race, and Team Sprint; and Master's national record holder. She has recently been training at the US Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Learn more here. Photo: Ron Short

Alden is a Doylestown native and senior at CB West High School. He has been racing with the Bike Works p/b Fred Beans club and elite team since age 11. Alden is also an alumni of the NICA Bucks County Composite Mountain Bike Team, and the BRL program at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center. In July, 2023 he participated in the DCDevo Racing Academy in Belgium. Alden started his second Thompson Men's Pro Race at the hometown Bucks County Classic in 2023.

Andy resides in the Lehigh Valley in an 1860's farmhouse. He grew up mountain biking with his dad in the Delaware Water Gap. After racing collegiately for Penn State University, he earned his Category 1 road racing license in 2018. Andy's notable results include: 1st 2018 Smoketown Airport Crit; 2018 PCA Elite Men Rider of the Year; 2018 PA BAR Category 2 Champion; 2019 Pro Pedal Series Overall Winner; 3rd 2019 Blueberry Bicicletta Road Race; 3rd 2019 Smoketown Airport Crit; 4th 2019 Historic Marietta Crit; 1st 2019 Reading Radsport Fixed Gear Hill Climb; 1st 2019 Electric City Fixed Gear Hill Climb. He is a fixture in the men's elite track field at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.

Bethany Matsick (Warrington) is the 2022 Individual Time Trial Collegiate National Champion and finished 5th in the 2022 National Collegiate Criterium Championship for Liberty University. In 2021 Bethany won her first national championship in the 2021 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships in the team pursuit discipline. Bethany is a graduate of Liberty University where she competed collegiately.

Guillaume Nelessen, otherwise know as “Gui”. Started racing more than 25 years ago at the age of 13. Several of those years were spent as a pro, traveling racing abroad. Some career accolades include: over 90 career wins, 4 Elite National Championships, 1 Masters National Championship, 14 time National medalist and 5 years on the US National Track Team. Gui finished 2nd at the 2023 National Clustered Spires High Wheel Race in Frederick, MD. Gui currently resides in Lambertville, New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and two dogs. Gui still enjoys racing and teaching young aspiring elite cyclists. Oh and beer.

Chris was born and raised in Jamison, PA and is a graduate of CB South High School and Appalachian State University. He currently lives and trains in Doylestown. Chris has been a licensed racer since 2009 and raced professionally for the Airgas Cycling program where he was a teammate of 2013 Vuelta a Espana Champion Chris Horner. He is proficient on the velodrome, on the road and on the trail. Chris completed the Leadville 100 MTB Race in 2021 (9:14) and 2023 (8:46). Chris is also an ambassador for BMC racing primarily gravel and mountain bike. Shockingly, he is currently the US National Champion on the Pennyfarthing having won the 2023 National Clustered Spires High Wheel Race in Frederick, MD. Photo: Mike Maney

Jacob Ehlinger (Doylestown) is a Cat 1 Pro Mountain Bike Racer. Jacob was a junior national champion in XC Mountain Bike as a 13 year old, returning to cycling after an extended absence.

Josh Rovner (Philadelphia) is a veteran of the Jamison Cannondale and Van Dessel Factory Team. When not cycling he is enrolled as a medical student at Thomas Jefferson University. Photo: Ryan Lavelle

Dan serves as our team mechanic. He is a partner at Doylestown Bike Works since its 2011 founding, and a licensed UCI Pro Mechanic. His 2024 goals for the team include having the most fully supported road, track, mountain, and cyclo-cross team on the planet!

Brian is a partner at Doylestown Bike Works and has served as the USA Cycling Domestic Elite Team Director since 2017. In 2024 his goals are to increase the competitiveness of our team on the road, track, gravel road, trail and in alternative formats. Our team mission is to promote competitive cycling in our community. Let's race all the bikes.