Not the first race of the season but in a way a kick off to the season. Mavic Neutral Support provided me a great opportunity to come out and work with some newbies who just completed this past winters Bill Woodul clinic here in Colorado Springs.
Redlands provides the perfect venue for a new mechanic in the Neutral Support realm. It is pretty much guaranteed that you'll get to jump into the action as some point in this 4 day race weekend. Every day provided some kind of wonderful, if wonderful is of course changing a wheel or scrapping a rider off the pavement. The criterium provided the most action with a couple of mass pileups and plenty of wheel changes and fallen riders.
The entire crew did a great job. It feels good to come out and see that what we teach in the clinic is practical and that the folks who pass through are able to apply what they learned to real life situations. Sure the nerves run high, the adrenaline flows but no tragic mistakes were made, of the 10 people on this Redlands crew we came and we departed with all 100 fingers and 100 toes.
Someone with a camera even managed to capture me actually doing something. Don't get used to it!
James
Redlands provides the perfect venue for a new mechanic in the Neutral Support realm. It is pretty much guaranteed that you'll get to jump into the action as some point in this 4 day race weekend. Every day provided some kind of wonderful, if wonderful is of course changing a wheel or scrapping a rider off the pavement. The criterium provided the most action with a couple of mass pileups and plenty of wheel changes and fallen riders.
The entire crew did a great job. It feels good to come out and see that what we teach in the clinic is practical and that the folks who pass through are able to apply what they learned to real life situations. Sure the nerves run high, the adrenaline flows but no tragic mistakes were made, of the 10 people on this Redlands crew we came and we departed with all 100 fingers and 100 toes. Someone with a camera even managed to capture me actually doing something. Don't get used to it!
James
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