Riding with the champions, NorCal High School racing league & Specialized.

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Northern California has a booming High School racing programme. It is run a by a non profit organization and Specialized enthusiastically pitched in with a huge truckload of demo bikes for the kids to try out, and 3 World Champions on loan. Hence “Riding with the Champions.” Ned Overend, Rebecca Rusch and myself.

The kids could choose between the Specialized Epic, Stumpjumper, Stumpjumper 29er and the Enduro.  The Specialized mechanic set the kids up on bikes, adjusted the suspension for each one, then we had a safety briefing before setting off into the beautiful Paolo Alto Redwood hills. Great riding. Was really cool to see the excited kids, their enthusiasm brings back fond memories of my days a rabid bike geek teenager.

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We split into 3 groups of 10:  8 kids, 1 “champion”  and 1 guide. Bob was one of the guides. Guess what accent he has?

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Ned Overend, Matt, Fritzinger the guy who organizes the non profit cycling program for schools, Rebecca Rusch and myself.

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The 2009 Specialized Epic and the 1986 Specialized Stumpjumper…

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Just in case I forgot which bike is mine…

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At Specialized in Morgan Hill 07-09-2010, 00:13

[…] Yesterday was spent at Specialized HQ connecting with marketing people, product designers, mechanics and web folks. I brought them cookies and brownies from home and that was a big hit. I got to test ride a sweet prototype Ruby road bike and did a sweet ride up into the hills. 1 hour uphill and 20 minutes down. The whole mtb team arrived today including Xterra, XC riders, 4 Cross and DH. Tomorrow is back in the office for a team briefing on new equipment! I can’t take any pics of that, but I will report back what I can. Check out what Conrad wrote about the NorCal MTB event. Conrad Stolz Blog […]

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