GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., August 17, 2009 – Tomorrow, BISSELL Pro Cycling’s Burke Swindlehurst will lead his team’s eight-man roster six days of some of the toughest racing on the NRC calendar, the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. A Utah native, Swindlehurst finished fourth overall at the same race in both 2008 and 2006. “I’m feeling very excited for the Tour of Utah,” he said. “I have unfinished business with the race after twice finishing one spot off the podium. I intend to change that this time around.”

Swindlehurst will be joined by teammates Ben Jacques-Maynes, Tom Zirbel, Frank Pipp, Paul Mach, Omer Kem, Jeremy Vennell, and Morgan Schmitt. The strong, well-rounded squad has been training in Utah, where they’ve ridden this year’s course and worked to become acclimated to the altitude and extreme climbing that marks the course.

BISSELL’s strong time trialists will look to take advantage of the two time trial stages, the opening prologue and the stage 3 time trial at the Miller Motorsports Park where Zirbel finished first last year. The team hopes to be in position to set up Swindlehurst for the stage 4, Queen Stage, which takes the riders from Park City to the mountain-top finish at Snowbird. Swindlehurst finished the stage in fourth place last year and will be concentrating his efforts here to make the difference in the overall. “I’m very much looking forward to racing on the roads I regularly train on and in front of a hometown crowd,” said Swindlehurst.