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Messengers and the Zurich 6 Day |
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Written by Whitesnake
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These photos are from the X-Days in Zurich, Switzerland. They do not document the week of beer, parties, alley cats, dancing, hills, steel rails, rain, karaoke, saunas, or general depravity. Eventually I will be able to paste the hundreds of maniacally scrawled notes written on tiny scraps of paper together into a single story of what happened. Until then, enjoy these photos of the main event: bike messengers racing at the Zurich 6 Day.
You have to start somewhere, and this is the messenger group's first lesson about riding on the track. With a group this large there was quite a disparity in the racers' experience. The important thing to remember is no skids, no back pedaling, and no riding like a messenger: hold your line, call out your moves, and keep aware or you might cause a huge, catastrophic crash. Also, remember to keep moving fast enough to keep your tires sticking to the 51 degree turns of the wooden track, go too slow and it's going to be ugly.
The first day of training was dedicated to getting comfortable on the track. In a pack of people who've never been on any velodrome I longed for the relative calm and safety of city traffic. Thankfully, everyone rode aware, with safety on their minds. We avoided any on-track collisions until the training session before the finals.
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