One of three athletes to join the KBS program from Symmetrics, where he spent a year racing, Anderson took first in the Kelowna Stage Race Criterium and third in both the Elktown Classic Road Race and the Yaletown Grand Prix last season. The 21 year old has been racing for more than 10 years, getting his first taste of competition in "Shock the Monkey", a mountain bike race in Edmonton, Alberta at the age of 10.

Returning for a second season Andrew "Baj" Bajadali made an impressive impact on the KBS pro cycling program in 2008 but he's been unstoppable since removing his training wheels at the age of three in a cul-de-sac in Los Alamidos, CA. Baj started out racing mountain bikes (for the Dean mountain bike team in 1997 and 1998) scoringhis first win at the Donnor Ski Ranch summer Mountain Bike Series in 1994. He later switched to road, riding for a variety of programs including: Kingsnorth Belgium (2000), Excel Sports (2001-2002), Ofoto (2003-2004), Vitamin Cottage (2005), Jelly Belly (2006-2007) and KBS (2008). After taking King of the Mountain at the Mount Hood Classic and tackling the Pyrenees in France last season, he's ready to climb in 09.

Another Symmetrics team alum, Bell came first overall in the Pam Am Madison Championships and both the World Cup Scratch races in Columbia and Sydney this past season. He's been on a bike ever since he started jumping his BMX in his parents back yard in Yukon and says one of his earliest bike related memories is touring on the back of a tandem with his dad when he was eight years old. A Canadian national, Bell spends much of his year away from home and on the road, citing Santa Barbra and Virgina as favorite training locations as well as Montreaux in Switzerland. His first race experience came racing the Velo North Team Trial event in July of 2000, a team time trial event in which his team were disqualified for not finishing together. Things have improved dramatically since then.

Dan Bowman has been a backbone member of the KBS squad since the team launched in 2007. Before that he spent three years on a bike for TIAA-CREF but has always had an appetite for cycling. He got a first taste at the muddy Addison Oaks Spring Mountain Bike Classic back in the spring of 1996 and took his first win that same year. Bowman finished first in the KOM at Tour de Nez in 2008 and rode the Tour des Pyrenees, some of the most arduous climbing in the world last summer. His first experience with a bike came unseated him, when after removing the training wheels from his bike he rode to a friend's house and then was unable to ride back without a push from dad. He started walking.

DOB: 2/26/75
Hometown: Las Vegas, NV
Residence: San Francisco, CA
Height: 6'
Weight: 170 lbs.
Strengths: Sprinting
Pro Since: 2002
Hobbies: Surfing

Career Highlights:
2nd USPRO Criterium Championships, 2008
1st Overall Tour de Nez, 2007
3rd CSC Invitational, 2006
2nd Stage #4 Pomona Valley Stage Race, 2003
5th U-23 National Road Race Championship, 2002
3rd Wendy's International, 2001
3rd Stage #3 Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, 2001
1st National Collegiate Road Race Championships, 1999

Erker spent four years riding for team Symmetrics before moving over to join this year's KBS program. He got his "start" in cycling when a neighbor girl gave him her old bike and he immediately tore down a hill blowing out its tire. He's been a competitor ever since, snatching a first win as a junior racing in Alberta, where he went into a tuck on the race's last descent and pulled away from the group. A resident of Portland, OR, Erker says it has the best riding terrain of any place he has raced in the past 20 years, other than Japan. In 2008 he finished 3rd in the Canadian National Championships Road Race and 7th in the US Air Force Cycling Classic.

Hoag, an under 23 standout, joins the KBS program from Sakonnet Technology U25 where he took first in the Tour de Millersburg Road Race and first place overall. The 20 year old splits his time racing and attending college where he's studying engineering. He took his first win in 2004 at the Bristol Mountain Prologue Time Trial just one year after getting into competitive cycling at the Hans Huddle 30 miles citizens race in summer of 2003.

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Kline joins the team from LSV/Kelly Benefit Strategies elite amateur team where last season he tied for rider of the year in the World Series of Bicycling. Just 19 years old, he's been in the saddle ever since his sisters taught him to ride on the driveway of the family home at the age of five. He got his first taste for competition at the Leigh Valley Velodrome in 2003 and has been picking up wins ever since. Kline's favorite places to train include Colorado Springs where he's a fan of the Cheyenne Canyon climbing and the 20 minute descent down Mt. Poatina in Tasmania, Australia.

Mumford is a three-year veteran of the KBS program and an original team member from the squad's 2007 launch. An accomplished all rounder, he's been a key part of the team's success since day one. He started out racing mountain bikes in Park City, Utah race in the early 90s and got hooked after coming in fifth in a downhill time trial. He enjoys training in the Oxnard, CA area where the KBS team has conducted the previous seasons' training camps. Not content to just race pro cycling for a living, Mumford is also a researcher in particle physics in the off-season.

After guest riding several times for the KBS pro team last season, Murfet moves up from the minor's full time for the 09 squad. An Australian national, he started out riding in the 2001 Tasmanian Christmas Carnivals and got into racing fixed gear in his home state of Tasmania. As a junior he enjoyed his first win in a 1000-meter handicap race and last season took first in the U23 Tysons Corner Circuit race. Although he misses riding the hard terrain of his native Tasmania, Murfet says Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where LSV/Kelly Benefit Strategies held training camps, comes a close second.

Shirley joins KBS after three years racing for Jittery Joe's and took the most aggressive rider jersey for stage six and 2nd overall KOM in the Tour de Georgia last season. Saying he should have quit when he was on top, he entered – and won – his first race, the Parkfield Classic Mountain Bike Race in 1994. When he is away from home and chasing his one year old daughter around, trains in the San Francisco Bay Area and moves south to San Diego for winter training.

Another original member of the KBS squad, Sundt has raced for the team since day one. Before joining the program, he spent three years with Jittery Joe's and is also a recognized name on the national cyclo-cross circuit. Sundt says his first experience with a bike was crashing his Big Wheel down an embankment at the age of four – a true-life lesson. He's been racing since his early teens, moving from competitive mountain biking into road racing.

Still only 21, David Veilleux had a remarkable 2008 season – his first with the Kelly Benefit Strategies team. Among other top finishes, he won the Tour of Pennsylvania, Tour of Elk Grove and the Kelly Cup in the hometown of sponsor Kelly Benefit Strategies. He's been on a bike since his dad gave him his first shove without training wheels and a competitor since finishing fourth in a peewee mountain bike race. He took his first win in a provincial race in Quebec, Canada as a Junior and hasn't looked back. He enjoys training in the San Francisco Bay Area and went to Verese, Italy for the World Championships where, he says, the riding is incredible.

DOB: 5/29/87
Hometown: West Chester, PA
Residence: Downington, PA
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Strengths: All around
Pro Since: 2004
Hobbies: Sports

Career Highlights
1st Stage #7 PowerNet Tour of Southland, 2007
2nd Chris Thater Memorial, 2006
2nd Overall Bermuda Grand Prix, 2005
King of the Mountain Jersey holder Tour of Georgia, 2004