Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Cirlces of fun

Orange County Speedway Crit - Lets start by assembling a new bike the night before and morning of my first race of the season. Tweaking the shifting and seat hight as I warm up, the bike seems to go well especially after riding a cross bike only for the last 4 months.
So wheels are on the bike and handlebar is pointed forward as the race begins. Off the bat my old teammate Ross Bowden and a couple other guys go, immediately following them a half dozen others spring themselves across the gap leaving people strung out around the course. After a few chaotic laps of rotating around 9 people lapped the field myself included. With most teams accounted for the 9 of us began to think about a second go round. After about 20 minutes of attempts a second group of 5 go and finally get all the way around again, with myself included. Two of the larger teams present begin to line up for the lead out. Being a lone rider I stick myself 4th wheel and stay there, until the final lap when Curtis Staples came by with Ross on his wheel on the bell lap. I latched on to Ross and we three grew a small gap as we zoomed around the last lap of the short track. Curtis peeled off and I snuck around Ross for a nice 1st place field and race sprint win.

2 Comments:

Blogger Josh Whitmore said...

FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON! Way to go Forkner.

February 12, 2008 6:47 PM  
Blogger redender said...

Nice win Forkner. Way to get the race season off to a great start.

February 13, 2008 3:00 PM  

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