super team Slipstream
Slipstream was able to hold it together to win: two stages, overall Team GC, Most aggressive rider for the week (Mike Friedman), and overall best young rider (Peter Stetnia)…..oh and also most incredible crash by Alex Howes who slide straight in to the Sram Neutral support care on a mach 10 downhill sharp curve, his bike had no real recognizable tube because they had all been destroyed in the impact, he is truly lucky that he is walking and can still count to 10. I am really stoked for the team, because I was able to see just how miserably trashed they were after every stage, having one of the youngest teams.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
THat’s good… contracts will soon need to be finalized.
July 30th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Super team is right!! I’m so proud of the team!!
August 1st, 2007 at 8:28 am
Hey, I’m the kid that crashed into Alex’s bike on the downhill at ‘Toona. Alex was off his bike and being tended to, but someone put his bike on the gaurdrail to get it out of the way. When our chase group came through the turn and the cars were still in the road in addition to people lying in the road my group fanned out. I was behind and to the outside of a Fiordifruitta rider who swung to the right which consequently pushed me into the gravel, onto my head and into Alex’s bike and under the gaurdrail — all of which happened going 40mph in the span of 2 seconds. I was knocked out for a bit, but the paramedics had to cut pieces of Alex’s bike off of me to get me up. I have slice marks on my left leg from the bladed spokes of his wheels.
I hope he’s doing ok and that there’s no hard feelings. I don’t remember seeing him, or much of anything there. It was a freak accident that I hope never happens again to either of us.
Thanks, Gabe Lloyd.