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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Pacesetter Steel Service, Inc. and Roswell Bicycles made the Top 100 in 2006
Congratulations to two of our Sponsors. Pacesetter Steel Service, Inc. and Roswell Bicycles made the Top 100 in 2006
The Pacesetter Steel Service Cycling Team would like to congratulate our title sponsor Pacesetter Steel Service, Inc. (www.teampacesetter.com) for being named 48th in the Top 100 Private Companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
We would also like to congratulate Roswell Bicycles (www.roswellbicycles.com) for being named one of the Top 100 Bicycle Retailers in America by Bicycle Retailer and Industry News.
Christian Leask
2:13 PM |
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Monday, October 09, 2006
Bill Feier take 4th in the 24 Hour World Solo Championship
The weather was great for the event. The trail was dry and the moon was full. The race was by invitation and the best ultra endurance racers from all over the world came to see who was the best. Chris Eataugh won this race for the last 6 years running. Before him, Tinker Juarez was dominant. Just before the race, we all lined up and the announcer called us out to the start line by name. After all the solo racers were lined up, they allowed all the other team entrants to line up behind us. 24 hour racing is formatted on 5 man teams normally. 12 Noon came and the gun was fired. We raced around the 1996 Olympic trail for 24 hours. Each lap was around 9 miles and over 1,000 feet of climbing, not to mention the rocks and roots and log piles. Nighttime came and everyone had to strap on their lights. The whole place changes when the sun goes down. When dawn came, I was feeling pretty good. My goal during the race was to ride within myself and stay consistent. I needed to stay in the race. My last laps were tough, but I got them done. In the end I placed 4th in my age group (1 lap out of 3rd place) and would have placed 28th among the Elite racers. While the race was happening, there was a film crew called Gripped Productions who are going to make a movie called 24 Solo. I got interviewed in the middle of the night at the top of Olympic hill (sweating and breathing hard) and I got filmed bombing down the hills with cameras on cables following me. At the end, on my last lap, they were filming the eventual overall winner and he came up on me and passed with the camera guy following him on a bike. I passed him back, then he passed me again on "the rock side". I hope the "Pacesetter colors" find their way to the final version of the movie.
Christian Leask
12:10 PM |
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Pacesetter Steel seals first Win at the AUTOUR du LAC Road Race
During the Time Trial the boys were ready to make a mark on the fast Time Trail course. Tyler finished just out side the top 10 in 11th less than 1 second of 10th. Chad, Chris and Charles all took the course by storm but on a course that favors bigger riders the finished in 21, 22 and 24th. The amazing thing was their times would have put them in the top 10 last year and Tyler's time was a top 5 last year. Just goes to show what kind of heat had shown up for this race. With three Pro teams showing up for the weekend this was not going to be easy.
The criterium was where we knew we had something special going during the weekend. The plan was to make a big move with 2 laps to go in the .7-mile 6-turn course. Well Chad got up the road twice and with 7 laps to go there was one rider off the front so Tyler went across to him and stayed away till lap 3 when AEG-Toshiba-Jet Network Pro Team decided they wanted it to come down to a sprint for Frank Travieso. With half a lap to go Chad made a run that almost proved the show stealer but was caught in the last turn! Almost! We varied from the plan; if we had stuck to it victory would have been ours. After talking with some of the Pro riders there we found out we were very close to victory because no one expected the attack from Chad! 
With the knowledge from the criterium we went in to the Road Race with an agenda. Chad, Chris, and Charles where going to be in any breakaway that had potential and Tyler would wait to make one massive attack in the last couple of miles of the race. Now the question was could we make the plan work? Charles went with the first break and attacked the group at the first King of the Mountain sprint point after the group was brought back things eased up a bit. Small attacks kept going up the road but nothing stuck then Chris attacked with one other rider at the start of the last lap and everyone chased. The plan was working Pacesetter was proving to be the small team that could. Every break we were in had an overall contender in it, so the other teams had to chase. Then a break went up the road with 3 of the top 5 riders in it, Chad saw it a soloed across to the break so we were represented. It worked the major teams that missed the break went to the front and chased for the next 15 miles. With 5 miles to go they were caught but some riders kept up the attacks for the next mile but nothing was getting away. Then with four miles to go a group of 5 riders attacked Tyler was the last guy in the move when Eric Murphy (AEG) went to the front to slow the move down to again set up Frank for the sprint. Tyler attacked with 4 miles to go. Chris and Chad worked to control the peleton. Pacesetter had caught the Pro teams napping. Right after Tyler attacked there were two sharp turns that the group would have to slow for before they resumed the chase. With that Tyler held the chase off for 4 miles to solo in for his first Pro 1-2 victory. Pacesetter Steel Cycling worked flawlessly as a team and pulled off a huge victory.
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Christian Leask
9:17 AM |
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