Peter Ancher of the Dutch company Enroute took loving care of everyone—arranged hotel reservations, drove the van and steered the conversation clear of politics.

Marcy Bloomstein is a realtor in Manhattan and an acknowledged goddess. A-19 SIG leader.

Craig Breed is an entrepreneur in technology for financial marketplaces. He raced bicycles for six years over twenty years ago, two of those years at a Cat 1 level.

David Estrada is a three-time veteran of Enroute bicycle trips, an IT executive with a large HR consulting firm, NYCC member, and former A-19 SIG leader. He didn't climb too fast, but he consistently outpaced all riders during the daily “cheese course.”

Mark Loftis teaches middle school and high mathematics and enjoys having his summers off to cycle and travel. After the cycling portion of the trip, he spent a restful week in Burgundy and a delightful week in Paris. A-SIG Classic leader.

Pieter Maessen organized the tour, sweated the details, corralled likely participants and takes the praise and the blame for everything. “Who decided we have to climb that mountain up ahead?!?” Pieter! Obviously he is a three-time veteran of Enroute bicycle trips. He was on the Dutch Junior National team. He works as a banker financing film projects.

Timothy McCarthy is a three-time veteran of Enroute bicycle trips, graphic designer, NYCC Webmaster, A-SIG Classic Captain and raced bicycles once upon a time, long, long ago. As the group’s self-appointed photojournalist, Timothy chronicled the many gaffes and triumphs of the 2004 Enroute Bike Tour riders, shamelessly displaying them on this website.

Pam Nelson is a massage therapist. She generously kept many of the other riders functioning with hands-on treatment. A-SIG Classic leader.

Richard Ramon is a three-time veteran of Enroute bicycle trips, works as an Environmental Engineer for Con Edison. Also has an MBA, a law degree., a NY Professional Engineer’s license and is admitted to the Bar in New York in New Jersey. Funny, mechanical and helpful. Perhaps best know for his Euskatel-Euskadi jerseys. A19 SIG leader.

Ted Shaw is an architect. He takes some time off from mountain biking to ride on the road now and then. After overcoming the lack of guardrails and shear drops on many descents he came to love descending off the major Cols, often observed at the bottom grinning like a Cheshire cat. A-SIG Classic leader.

Oscar van den Brink is a three-time veteran of Enroute bicycle trips, a scientist in chemistry, lives in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Uses cycling to supplement rowing at which he competes at a somewhat higher level. Famous as the locomotive of the “Oscar Express.”

Eva Wirth works at a bank as a foreign exchange salesperson. She has been the B-SIG coordinator for the past few years and past Special Event Coordinator. As tough as the climbs were on this trip, Eva realizes that she needs to work hard on her descending skills before next year's trip.

Mai Yee works in media relations for the New York state court system. As a first-time Enroute cycling trip participant, she was scared sh*tless of being dropped and biking lost and alone for days in the Alps but by trip’s end was having the time of her life. Mai is currently under the tutelage of the Marcy School of Goddesses and remains unapologetic for being a peanut butter hog on the bike.