Scott Nydam

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Title: All Sport-Team Swift Cycle with Champions
Location: West County Revolution, Sebastopol CA
Description: Support the Team Swift Junior Cycling Development Program and join the team for a beautiful 30 or 50 mile ride through Sonoma Wine Country with BMC professional rider Brent Bookwalter and other members of the Team BMC staff, with local special guests Steve Cozza and Scott Nydam.
This year the course will be different than in the past. We are starting at West County Revolution in Sebastopol. Riders of all levels will go at their own pace along the two loop course so everyone can enjoy a pit stop feed station. Riders will receive a free cycling gift bag, free catered lunch and raffle with fabulous prizes as well as a silent auction. For a schedule, pricing and registration go to www.teamswift.org/events/
Start Time: 08:30
Date: 2009-11-01
End Time: 17:00

I think I may have found the giving tree, or maybe it’s the tree of life. The fern Tree.
Red Hill, Sonoma Coast.

A very cool video Oct 5 blog from father/son Bill/Liam Flanagan FatherSonTour
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VeloNews.Comeback for Nydam

congrats to the guy in New Mexico who won himself a new BMC SLC01 Pro Machine! Those school teachers, they deserve some love http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/jun09/jun05news

Painting credit Charles Beck of Meyers Grade

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VIDEO from the man

Scott Nydam (BMC), Tommy Edmonds (All Sport-Team Swift) and Levi Leipheimer (Astana)

April 2009

My son Tommy is a new Team Swift member. He’s 12-years-old and has only been riding a couple of months. Last Saturday (April 4) I took him up to Alexander Valley to practice drafting and get a few miles in. Though Tommy is pretty tough, he still gets juvenile asthma a bit, so I’m being very conscientious about not over-doing it with him so that he stays encouraged. We were mostly just hitting the rollers around the area, no climbing. It was neat to see another Team Swift rider coming towards us on Red Winery Road. As he approached I hailed him over for a chat. It was 13-year-old Phillip Kinney riding solo. Tough kid, he had just climbed the Geysers, and was heading back home to Windsor (in the “it’s-a-small-world-but-I’d-hate-to-have-to-paint-it” category, I found out I know his uncle, who is a Santa Rosa Police Officer…I’m a Captain at the Sheriff’s Office).

Well anyway, we were approaching Jimtown with about 20 miles in at this point, and I asked Tommy if he wanted to take a little break at the store there. He did, so we pulled on in to park our bikes. There were a couple of riders sitting down out front having a chat. Tommy told me later that when he saw the guy with the Astana jersey on, he was thinking it was pretty cool for somebody to be wearing a pro team jersey. Well it was pretty cool because I saw that the guy was Levi (you know you’ve reached the pinnacle of your sport when you’re a one-namer ala Micheal, Ronaldo, or Tiger). I also recognized the other fellow as Scott Nydam of BMC.

This is the first year that we have the Versus Channel at home (it took me three years to win that domestic battle), so Tommy, being an avid sports fan, quickly came to recognize them too. This is about where it got really cool. As we were still pulling up, in a real cheery tone, one of them said “Hey! A Swiftee!” (Tommy was wearing the new team kit. There was no mention of my cool I.C.3 kit…bummer). Both Scott and Levi proceeded to engage Tommy in a very welcoming conversation. For me, I was interested in hearing about them, but they seemed genuinely interested in hearing about Tommy and his development as a rider. They could not have been more kind, down-to-earth, and encouraging. It was obvious that they were both big supporters of Team Swift.

I’ll bet we talked to them for about ten minutes. For me and Tommy, it was definitely a meet-the-rock-stars moment. As for me, I felt lucky to be with Tommy to get in on the back-stage pass! I asked them if I could get a picture of Tommy with them. They readily agreed, sitting Tom right in the middle. Honestly, I wanted to get in the picture too but I decided not to push their graciousness. I whipped out my I-phone and took a few clicks. Actually, I did make it into the photo if you count my reflection in the store window (I am counting it). I also got a few pictures of Levi’s way-cool bike.

We watched them head out. I know Tommy was thinking about packing it in before we pulled in, but while they were talking to him, Levi and Scott asked Tommy if he had climbed Pine Flat yet.

I asked Tommy what he wanted to do. For some strange reason, all of a sudden he wanted to do Pine Flat, so off we went! Tommy was so stoked to meet these two pros. “Dad, those guys were so cool”.

I told him that years from now he’ll be telling his kids the story about this day. Hopefully it’ll be while he’s teaching them to ride too.
-Dave & Tommy Edmonds

With a special thanks to Levi and Scott