Liz Hatch

Cyclist Liz Hatch rides for the team Vanderkitten Racing. Hatch posed for Maxim in January of 2008.

Hatch first began riding in 2004 in Florida. She blames a "sucky boyfriend" for not allowing her to buy a bicycle sooner. She began racing competitively in Belgium in 2006 and turned pro the following year. She raced her first season as a one woman team, competing around the world. In 2007, Hatch joined Team Vanderkitten.. On January 24, 2008, Hatch was a special guest at the NY Velocity Roller Race benefiting bicycle builder Fernando Cuevas, who is battling kidney cancer.

• I feel so alive that I'm almost close to death. It's the best high I've ever had, I feel invincible and vulnerable all at once. I know that I could race "safer" and sit in more but I don't know that I'd get the satisfaction from that style of racing. I enjoy the risk. It's a "sexy" feeling. Ha, really...It’s a weird thing to say, but true. All that adrenaline and the goose bumps... It's like the best kiss ever! Makes me want to scream like a banshee (if I weren't so out of breath)! I cannot explain it better than that.''—discussing her feelings about racingTriple Crankset: An Interview with Liz Hatch (January 17, 2008)