Super Squadra News
This past weekend was a hotly anticipated but sadly abbreviated Hammerfest Stage Race in Fort Davis, TX. Holland Racing deserves credit for both revitalizing the sagging Hill Climb, TT, RR format with new stages, and making the tough call to cancel the final stage when wildfires encroached upon large swaths of the route. With David [...]
Yes, it is as fast as you’ve been led to believe. It starts fast. The hardest, and fastest 5, 10, and 20min marks were all in the first 5, 10, and 20mins. Also, the race is long. 80k (or, 50 miles), so that fast start primes the field for explosions later on in the event. Mix [...]
This past Tuesday marked the return of our Super Squadra skills clinics!!! (Exclamation marks display our genuine excitement.) Cornering was the subject covered in this edition. It was an opportunity for us to provide developing riders a touch of feedback in regards to physics. Though I am far removed from the Newtownian ways of our green planet, I do know that if one turns handlebars left, one can expect to go left. Silly digressions aside, we desired to not specifically ‘teach’ riders how to corner, but rather to run them through drills addressing the onerous bits of cornering. The task of cornering is strictly limited to two elementary actions, left and right. What is important, is to develop a trust with your equipment, to feel for the apex, to keep your eyes looking through the corner, and ultimately to take the fastest/safest line. Riders all ages and skills turned out, and marked improvements were flaunted by all. We hope riders will take what they learned at our clinic, and apply it to their daily riding. See you all May 8th for breaking away!
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- Eyes up the road, relaxed, and knee out for style. Brilliant
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- Hurdlow applying the Hur(t)d
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- Young Dillon moments before clipping his pedal due to the rapid pace of this future champion.
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- Hand-on-bars approach to our clinics. Dille shows a rider through the fastest and safest line through a challenging corner; he is also displaying his calves.
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- I distinctly recall not being as fast as these highschoolers!
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- JIPPEE! Riders bombing down the corkscrew with confidence
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- I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully teach this Super Squadra clinic, and will to the best of my abilities teach you how to corner like a rockstar
In the first battle of the Texas Revolution, known as the Battle of Gonzales, a group of Texans resisted the Mexican forces who were ordered to seize their cannon back. As a symbol of defiance the Texans made a flag containing the phrase “come and take it” along with a black star and an image [...]
Stage 1 Road Race I have always had a decent showing at the Fayetteville Stage Race’s opening, 68-mile road race. Even when I was racing the Jr open back in 2008, four short years ago. This year, the team’s plan was simple for the race, get two guys in the break. One in the early [...]