An interview with Chad Gerlach, March 6, 2009 Addicted to crack and living on the streets just over one year ago, American Chad Gerlach is now making his return to the pro peloton in perhaps the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Chad Gerlach's comeback from five years of homelessness and drugs to the heights of pro bike racing was the stuff of legend, a triumphant U-turn in his life that startled ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- To the regulars on the Saturday-morning River Ride, Chad Gerlach must have seemed like an apparition as he rode away from the pack, leaving 50 of Sacramento's best cyclists ...

In 2002, Chad Gerlach abandoned cycling. Caught up in a life of crack cocaine and alcohol abuse, Gerlach, a former professional cyclist who used to race against Lance Armstrong, became homeless in ...

Chad Gerlach had a successful 2009 season (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us). American Chad Gerlach's comeback tale from a life of drug addiction and hard times on the streets to a ...

Until someone walks in my shoes, with my exact past, present and future...the pressures, the struggles, the emotions...then, judge me not. It's hard to have hope in something, when it's right here ...

In June, Lancaster's Intelligencer Journal carried a feature article about Chad Gerlach, a California cyclist of great talent who had abandoned cycling in 2002 when he fell into a life ...

Chad Gerlach rode for a solid string of teams in the late 90’s and into the 2000’s: Montgomery Bell in ’95, US Postal Service in ’96, Navigators in ’97, Oilme-Klein in ’98, and Sierra Nevada in 2002.