Shootout Bike Ride Tucson, AZ 7/19/2008 - Kyle Akin takes Yellow & Curtis Gunn Puts It Down!
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This mornings Shootout was a fast one thanks to Curtis Gunn pictured to the left. Curtis is a professional cyclist and just got back from the Bend Memorial Clinic Cascade Cycling Classic stage race and was racing amongst top name cyclists Levi Leipheimer, Phil Zajicek, Tom Danielson, and Chris Horner just to name a few.
Curtis showed up this morning on his TT bike ready to put the hammer down. He is getting ready for a time trail and wanted to put some miles in on his TT bike.
From the start Curtis went to the front in his arrow position and drilled it. The 125+ riders were quickly strung out. Gord Fraser and a few others rotated through - That is if you could pull through at 25 mph to 30 mph+.
After the bridge the packed was down to about 25 riders still hanging on to the pace set by Curtis. As we started up the climb to the top of the sprint Team Rhino took over and set up the lead out for their teammate Kyle Akin. Kyle Akin took yellow followed by his teammate Richard Moore.
Coming back into town setting up for the sprint Curtis Gunn was drilling it from the front and Gord Fraser had his wheel with the pace around 33mph+. Unfortunately we got stopped by the light and I was slow to respond when the light turned green and don’t know who won the sprint. If you know who win please comment below.
No offense to the female cyclists but the CHICK-O-METER was HIGH today. In the old days, we us to gage the intensity of the Shootout by what we called the CHICK-O-METER. If there were female cyclists that made it all the way around the CHICK-O-METER was low which meant the Shootout was too easy. Lately I have heard some of the old timers like Peter Brown, Jimmy Ricatello and a few others refere to the CHICK-O-METER so I had to throw this in here. Again no offense to the ladies.
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July 21st, 2008 at 9:50 am
As for the in town sprint, Gord held the lead-out pace while an Agress rider and I (Kyle Akin)followed, waiting for him hit the turbo. Big Jake from SummitVelo made the first move, I followed and was able to come around to finish first by a hair to a hard charging Scott Baker (GST).
July 26th, 2008 at 6:46 am
CHICKS rule!!!
April 24th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
It’s been a long time since anyone commented on the Shootout. Has the ride gone bland or is everyone out racing?