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Went to Tempe yesterday with Kyle to check out the opensprints setup down south. The event was 300m sprints entitled “Street Kings Invitational”. Everyone was stoked, there were tons of racers, 3 categories, and I got to talk with the coordinators who were super nice & get some ideas bounced off on how to better run our sprints. As far as racing goes, I got bumped out in the first round to a fellow from Tucson, but Kyle ended up rocking 2nd place in the A race with an impressive final race! I ended up scoring a sweet Chrome mini lock belt bag in the raffle too!

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Well, that’s a picture of me trying to sprint with 2 pbr tallboys in my belly. Over the weekend we threw our first “goldsprint” style competition. In this first round, I was barely edged out by spandex man in the middle, but qualified for the 2nd round and made it to the 3rd round, all while running around like a chicken with my head cut off making sure everything went smoothly. It was pretty fun all around, over 30 people raced and about 80-100 people showed up to cheer on. We used the opensprints.org for our software and hardware setups. Bikes were self bought & sponsored by Absolute Bikes. We’ll get all the rough edges worked out for the next race, and start throwing these more often. Fun times indeed.

More pictures here

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