Here are just a few of the ways you can support the 1 PVD Cycling team:

1) Cheer on our riders at races!

2) Rep our gear - check out our store or click the ‘Add to Cart’ button on any item shown here.

3) Make a donation by clicking the ‘DONATE NOW’ button above. Every little bit helps.

4) Support our generous partners, and let them know we sent you!

5) Contact us to get involved!

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CYCLOCROSS

Cyclocross

2019 is 1 PVD Cycling’s FIFTH season racing cyclocross. Every year, our team participates in 8-10 races across New England.

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking

In the spring of 2019, 1 PVD Cycling started a mountain bike program, partnering up with NEHSCA and the Northern Rhode Island Renegades. In 2020, 1 PVD Cycling will launch NEHSCA’s first Providence-based youth mountain bike team.

 

Our Coaches

 
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Donny Green

Cyclocross Coach

donny@1pvdcycling.org

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Brad St Martin

Mountain Bike Coach

brad@1pvdcycling.org

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Colin Aina

Mountain Bike Coach

colin@1pvdcycling.org

Our Board

Edward Raff

Thomas Bacon

Donny green

colin aina

Bradford st martin

Christina morra

Ralph Gillis

STATEMENT FROM 1 PVD CYCLING’S BOARD, July 2020

Dear Members of the 1 PVD Cycling Community,

We haven't had much to say over the last few months with all our programs on hold due to COVID-19. We come to you today with our long overdue entry into public conversations about racism, white supremacy, and justice.  

Since our team’s first race at Roger Williams Park in Providence in the Fall of 2015, we at 1 PVD Cycling have worked to give high school students in Providence more access to the incredible sport of cycling. 

Providence is an amazing place, with an abundance of culture, diversity, pride, art, and love. Providence is also a city that struggles with the ongoing legacy of white supremacy in our country and state, - the poverty, discrimination, educational inequality, de facto segregation, gentrification, and more, that disproportionately affect our communities of color. 

Our small team of Providence high schoolers has looked different year to year, bringing together students of different races, genders, income levels and more. Not all 1 PVD riders are students of color, but more often than not our students of color were among the few, if not the only, riders of color at the events we attended. 

With your support, we’ve accomplished a lot in five seasons. We’ve raised funds, bought bikes, driven to countless races, coached, cheered on, learned from and laughed with our amazing high school riders. And then we’ve done it all over again. For five seasons of cyclocross and one season of mountain biking. 

But there’s something important we’ve never done. Because it might be difficult, or make some people uncomfortable, and we might not do it right. 

What we’ve never done is talk publicly about WHY we exist - why some students have access to certain extracurricular programs and activities (like the sport of cycling), and others don’t. So here goes. Spoiler alert: it’s racism and white supremacy. 

Racism and systems of oppression continue to hijack the opportunities of students of color to get the education and support they need to live full, happy, and healthy lives. 

The lack of diversity in the sport of cycling is a direct result of the pervasive systems of oppression that exist in our country. 

We at 1 PVD Cycling envision a world where all students have a safe place to pursue their physical, social and emotional development. But we at 1 PVD Cycling will never be able to provide this space for all of Providence’s students. And we at 1 PVD Cycling are not the ‘answer’ to cycling’s diversity problem. 

So what does all this mean? And where do we go from here? 

We won’t pretend or presume to know how best to dismantle racism and white supremacy, because we are not the experts. And we won’t speak for the youth of Providence, because they’ve been doing that themselves. 

So what we will do is SHARE - resources, ideas, and questions, to help the cycling community join the fight to dismantle racism in our community and country. 

And we will LISTEN - to Providence’s bold and brilliant students of color as they lead by example, and push the adults in their lives and in their city to do better by them. 

And we will SUPPORT organizations in Providence and beyond that are advocating for, and ensuring that, youth of color get the support, education, and opportunities that they deserve.

This may be the first time we've publicly addressed the topic of racism and inequality but it will not be the last. We hope you'll join us in these important conversations so that in the cycling world and beyond, we can continue to push ourselves and our systems to do better and to do right by our young people of color.

Ride on, 

Donny Green, Ed Raff, Katie Fairhead, Brad St Martin, Colin Aina

1 PVD Cycling's Board