This video is a chronicle of the Nevada City Bicycle Classic, weaving race history, extensive media coverage, and local sponsorship to celebrate Nevada City's cycling heritage and business community. It details a punishing 90-minute, 1.1-mile Broad Street course with key climbs and late attacks, tracing the sport's evolution from wool jerseys to high-tech gear while profiling notable riders who shaped American cycling. Interwoven are sponsor blurbs and community events, live broadcast notes, and rider narratives (including the 50th edition's result), illustrating the race's prestige, media reach, and role as a launchpad for pro contracts.

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What is it about Nevada City for 50 years this tiny Hamlet nestled in the Sierra
foothills has become the home of the oldest bicycle race west of the
Mississippi today will be another epic battle on the streets of America's
toughest criterion coming up next the 50th running of the Nevada City bicycle
classic on the touchdown production since sports network
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live from historic downtown Nevada City, California touchdown production
celebrating our 13th year of local sports television and nctv community
television of Nevada County are proud to present the 50th annual Nevada City
Bicycle Classic
today is the oldest Bicycle race west of the Mississippi and today we'll be
featuring the men's pro one-two event
this is the final race of the day as we honor the rich traditions of this
classic for the past 50 years and all the cycling action starts right here
right now it's the Nevada City Bicycle Classic
the Nevada City Bicycle Classic turns 50 years old today and under beautiful
blue skies and perfect temperatures a hometown crowd is ready to enjoy a great
Nevada City tradition good afternoon everyone and race fans wherever you are
around the world this is Russ Whips along with my former college classmate
racing partner and good friend Roger Markey our producer inside the commander
today is Gil Dominguez he is joined today by the largest television crew
assembled by touchdown productions to bring you exclusive live coverage of
this 50th annual Nevada City Bicycle Classic but first let's say happy
Father's Day to all the dads out there thank you for being a great dad to your
kids and for spending the afternoon with us for this historic Bicycle race
Roger once again Nevada City finds itself the center of the cycling world
that's right Russ ever since last year when Lance made his appearance and won
the 40th 49th classic the buzz has been all about Nevada City last year's
classic classic was a huge tipping stone to Nevada City being selected as the
fourth annual Amgen Tour of California and here we are just a month later time
for the classic itself to take center stage that's right Roger you know and
this is the second time we've been fortunate enough to bring you live
coverage for this race here in Nevada City and this year we have extended
coverage with seven cameras all around the course as well as some very special
surprises you won't want to miss today Roger the conditions just seem
absolutely ideal they are Rusk and we're just minutes away from the special
50th opening ceremony the roll-up introduction of the riders and course
and of course the classic itself that's right you know last year there's an
awful lot of buzz when Lance Armstrong made a surprise announcement that he
along with fellow teammates Chris Horner and Levi Leepheimer as we all know the
three-time Tour of California champion decided to enter our Nevada City classic
this year we seem to have a buzz of a different sort yesterday we learned that
Floyd Landis is going to be here today to contend this race like him dislike him
it really doesn't matter he's creating quite a buzz here today Roger he is you
know before we get to that we'll play a plenty of time to talk about Floyd and
many of their top pro racers today but first we'd like to show you some footage
that we managed to capture or get a hold of from 1961 when some of the the race
was filmed for the first time on some Super 8 camera here we are this is it
check that out Roger you know what I don't see I don't see any Lycra that that's
true Roger I badger back then there was only one choice and that was wool wool
shorts and wool jerseys hundred percent mostly Italian made although I that does
look like a chaired jersey with the stars on the left there San Jose bike club
if I'm not mistaken yeah and there's out there's a race founder yep and you
also noticed that none of the guys are wearing helmets they didn't quite have
the safety features that we take for granted today maybe it was a heat thing
normally this race is held under 90 degrees 100 degree temperatures today
we're easily in the 70s yeah I said yeah but look at the styles are a little
different back then it's hard to believe 50 years has passed this is we sort of
take this race for granted now but there was an awful lot of effort to put this
together for the first time here's the rollout there's probably a ceremonial
start we had a probably a state-of-the-art 1961 Ford vehicle leading
them out here we got a ceremonial start to this race looks like they're going up
maybe commercial on the backside of this course a little different course than we
have today yeah that's true I mean we'll see him in a minute as they come down
Broad Street and you'll notice many the same you know buildings and venues that
are in existence today but it finished uphill today it finishes downhill on
Broad Street back then I finished on the uphill by the courthouse right at the
courthouse on that bumpy well it used to be bumpy I think it's been paved but
that was the pumpiest section of the course back then yeah and here they're
rolling by the Y on Broad Street coming down towards what'll be the finish
today and those speeds these guys look like they're not going too fast where
they might be behind the car going on their ceremonial lap but today when we
see the race you'll see these guys are just flying down Broad Street 40 50
sometimes even 60 miles an hour it's amazing the difference a little bit of
equipment makes these guys had no titanium no carbon fiber very little
aluminum really and a lot of steel today you don't hardly see steel at all
right they didn't have the triple compound rubber tires for the grip around
those treacherous corners you know they still were numbers just like we see
today they look more like the capes flying back in their jerseys but but
but yeah this is amazing footage you know part of that's a lot different
obviously the technology is different the the clothing is different the helmets
and so on but one thing that's still the same are all the buildings there we're
seeing the outside in you know the top of Broad Street and part of the charm in
Nevada City part of the reason people love coming here to spend the weekend as
the fact that it's been preserved in its historic glory yet that beautiful turn
of the century well pre turn of the century and right up until our deco
era architecture and that's yeah that's what I love about Nevada City that
quality quality architecture that's right City Hall and the courthouse and
the art deco classic style you know the other thing is there weren't as many
racers back then the first race there I guess there might have been 30 people
contesting this race today we'll have close to a hundred people contesting so
maybe you know only a third of the size of today's field very different
dynamic although the crowds there seem to be out here today just like they were
in 1961 that's good to see we're expecting to be a few less people this
year than there was last year but boy this is really something that they
actually actually captured this race back in 1961 that's real nice here we
are back to live a shot of downtown Nevada City the beautiful historic
buildings all the decorations out today the flags the American flags the the
international flags it's it's it's wonderful to see last night we had a
celebration of champions this race well it's a big deal on Sunday it's really a
whole weekend long celebration and last night the historic Nevada Theater just
up the street from the start finish line we happen to capture a few interviews
from past champions the first person we'll share an interview with was Bob
Tesla we're here at the Nevada Theater here in Nevada City the night before the
Nevada City Classic and we're here with one of our more esteemed former
champions Bob and Lorraine Tesla who won the race the very first two years tell
me what it was like in 1961 62 when you did this race for the first time Bob in
61 I just finished teaching and I wasn't in that good a shape so I suffered the
whole way through the race and I won the sprint at the end of the against the
guys that were still left and then I went over and lay down on the grass by the
courthouse because I was so totally wiped out and they were all walking around
talking anyway I put out pretty hard to in order to win that one yeah well tell
me 50 years later did you ever think it would come to this do you ever think
you'd be coming back for an event like this actually I did in the last few
years after the 40th I thought well I better hang on so I can come to the
50th well northern California is known for some of these local races that some
of the greatest cyclists in the world has cut their teeth on something else
that you're really noted for you and your wife are putting on one of the other
classics in northern California tell me a little bit about that cats hill okay
it's about a mile course and it has a hill for one block that's 23% I mean
it's really a wall and I picked a course when I couldn't get a course in the
downtown part of Los Gatos the town council didn't want it everything
disrupted so much so I looked at the best hill in the town and said okay
let's try that and then I made an L shaped course and it's interesting to
ride so we I got the town to approve it and Lorraine I picked the course and
she picked the name cats hill wow and we had a sponsor from the Buick place
there one of two of his children whom I'd had in my class anyway he said oh
that name will never stick well it's stuck it's stuck I know you've been
working as a teacher specifically in a woodworking for all these years tell me
a little bit about the prizes that you have for the cats have criteria and how
that all ties in well in the beginning you know there wasn't money and we did
get some donations but we also lived in Los Gatos near Santa Cruz where there
was a lot of woodmakers and so we got a lot of burles and we made I think kind
of beautiful tables out of them and made them so big they couldn't take the
prizes home sometimes yeah tell me about the prize you won the first year
second year you won this race that's kind of legendary now well the first
year I won a beautiful gold nugget right and second year I won one also but
first year I got a an outboard motor an outboard motor without a boat doesn't
go very far right so right anyway I sold a thing well thank you very much we're
coming back to our city on our 50th anniversary of this great race and thank
you very much all right thank you just a little tip for our viewers if you find
yourself in San Jose or Los Gatos with a bicycle you can still see Bob riding
the Los Gatos bike trail it's really amazing he looks amazing shape for
somebody that won this race 50 years ago somebody else we had a good fortune to
catch up with last night was a real role model a mentor of myself John Howard
here he is now we're here with one of the United States most illustrious and
famous cyclist a Hall of Fame cyclist a four-time Olympian or three-time
Olympian a four-time national road champion and winner of the 1981 Ironman
triathlon and also the winner of the 1970 Nevada City Classic it's none other
than John Howard John thank you very much for for joining us tonight here at the
Nevada Theater the night before the race tell me a little bit about what you
remember in 1970 when you came out here to do this race for the first time well
you want the long story or the short version of it this was the race to win
I mean this was the the biggest event in the country and my focus was on winning
BAR events in the Midwest I lived in Missouri at the time and I had I had a
industrial accident and I had was down for a while and after that I decided
well I'm gonna win any race it's gonna be Nevada City so I came here in 1970
with the idea that I'm not gonna just win and I'm gonna I'm gonna lap the
field and that's that's basically what happened you did in fact you left the
field twice that was it was fine I what I was trained to do is climb hills and
descend because I lived in the Ozark Mountains and Southwestern Missouri so
Nevada City fit like a glove I only wish I had come back about five or six more
times because I think I had it in me at the time and it's it I just remember it
was a wonderful experience I had a great time and I for some reason I got
sidetracked every year I never quite made it back again that's tough well I
know you came up from San Diego to join us tonight tell us a little bit of what
you're doing now and John I coach my focus is on taking athletes we've
had a hundred and seventy eight national champions 17 world champions and two
Olympic gold medalists that we've worked with since 1982 so cycling and
triathlon are my two sports and we've decided that we're gonna make a real
business out of it so the coaching field is it's it's a very full market and our
our focus is on a very small niche and we do a lot of positioning of athletes
on their bikes for maximum performance and that's me mainly my focus well one
of this this race is known for is some of the juniors that have come here that
the up-and-coming talent what would you like to say to some of the people that
are coming here trying to make their way now from a coaches perspective well
it's a real sport now when I did it you know you had to have another job if
you're gonna make a living racing bicycles today you can actually make a
living doing it so I think it's a viable professional sport and yes it's
dangerous and it's and it's it's probably the hardest sport in the world but
the gratification of doing it winning races fresh air blue sky I mean I don't
think you can beat it it's to me cycling is it's it's it's it's more of a more
than a sport it's really a passion yeah did you ever imagine that cycling in
the United States as it's become so big today whatever happened when you're
doing this in the 70s and 80s well we always hoped it would but to see it now
I mean it's it's it's gone through a full full metamorphosis and I think that
that's the exciting part of it to see this this this this blossoming real
sport that's come out of all that bush league practice that we had back in the
well 40s 50 60 70s you know my era the 60 70s and 80s but yeah it's extremely
gratifying to see it happen finally well thank you very much for your time and
good luck with your coaching career John very much thank you wow that was real
special to spend some time with John Howard we got a few more interviews
coming up first Roger I believe we're gonna queue up some footage that we
managed to shoot earlier today on the motorcycle well actually maybe we'll
first go to one more interview this was somebody that's legendary here in
Nevada City there's been a few multiple-time champions but only one
person that won it five times that's Rob Parsons there's Rob we are here with
the only five-time Nevada City Classic champion from 1963 to 1967 none other
than Rob Parsons Rob it's fantastic to have you here for the 50th annual running
the Nevada City Classic tell me what it was like back in the 60s when you went
on that amazing run and winning five straight Nevada City Classics well first
I'd like to say that it's a great town it's fun to be here and it was always my
favorite race and even the first two years that I rode and didn't win I
always had a great time and look forward to coming here and this course was so
designed that seemed to fit my particular set of cycling skills which was
ability to go downhill fast around corners fast up steep short hills fast so
if I were designed a course that was perfect for me this would have been it
yeah but every year must be tough winning it three four or five times you
are kind of a marked man but you you still found the courage to win it every
year how did you do that well the trick was just getting down the hill and around
the corner first I think there was a couple years where I was able to finish
alone but I think three of the years there was a small group at the end and you
know after 45 times down the hill the race was longer than it was 45 to 50
miles and you know you get a lot of practice right you know and so I just
made a point of finding the the last possible spot to apply brakes before the
corner so that I could get around fat first where it finished was on the hill
is that the courthouse back there on the hill in front of the courthouse and so
the key was getting around that corner first because if you did you were pretty
likely going to win the race so that was that was what I was always able to do
what does it feel like today to see how far American cycling has come into what's
happened with the Nevada City Classic well cycling in this country has
become has progressed dramatically you know Greg LeMond really took it up a
big level with his Tour de France participation and victories and of
course now with Lance Armstrong and two or three American sponsored teams racing
in Europe and the Tour de France it just you know we're you know cycling wise
we're a national you know our world power now when when I was racing it was
just you know there was a few guys in California a few guys in the Midwest a
few guys on the East Coast and that was about it right you know it was just no
one had really ever heard of cycling and you know now it's you know people
actually know the names of a few top bike riders right that's right well it's
it's an honor to have you here to join us for the 50th anniversary and thank you
very much for your time thank you Rob thank you very much it's a pleasure to
be here well is there any doubt that bike riding is a way to stay young Bob
just looked amazingly young we're gonna take a short break but please stay tuned
well here we got some live footage of some of the assembled crowd that's
gathering for this pro race that's coming up in just a few minutes just
amazing how perfect the temperatures are today Roger it is amazing I mean it's
70 what is it 78 degrees 75 degrees very cool which is gonna make for a very
hard race to usually the heat tends to weed out the riders who train in cooler
weather which is a lot of us around the Bay Area most of the riders from Oregon
and Washington but I think the SoCal guys will have a good time as well today
right well we're glad for all the people that are catching us on Nevada
County TV or on the World Wide Web on nevada County org but if you have a
chance to get out here today it's not too late it's a perfect day just a few
wispy clouds in this in the sky and you know it's beautiful a lot of the local
vendors around selling some beautiful treats nice drinks you got to be here
if you can all right we're gonna be taking a short break but please stay
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about 20,000 ounces of silver or more in stock we also assay our scrap gold
jewelry and plaster gold and we will be here for all of your gold and silver
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I'm gonna show you some footage we shot earlier today when we rode around the
course on and we'll bring up the map here we are I don't know if you can see it
very well but this section on the left part of that map is broad street which
is the start finish the bottom of the hill on the far lower right hand corner
that's known as Union Alley down where the beach hut deli is then you make a
left turn and start heading up commercial street right on York left on
North Pine Street right on college and a left up Main Street which is a tough
little hill up to the feed zone before making a left on the broad street where
you go past the outside in and eventually down that screaming downhill to
that finish line it's one of really one of the most technical courses in the
United States it takes a lot of bike handling skills and the riders even the
strong riders get dropped and divided due to their ability well especially to
go around that corner at the very bottom of the hill that's a highway 49 but all
over the course it's only just over one mile one point one miles to be exact
with almost 800 feet of climbing every lap and no dude 90 minutes of racing
about three minutes a lap that's that's a lot of climbing in one one day so are we
gonna bring we shot some footage earlier I'm not sure if we're gonna be able to
cue that up to yeah when we were on the motorcycle and we drove around the course
to show you that what we just kind of represented on the map and you can kind
of see that now the one thing it's hard to bring on on the TV telecast is to show
you just the elevation gain or the steepness these hills TV has a tendency
to make things look a little more flat than it is in reality but I can assure
you just like you said Roger this is just one brutal test of one's fitness so
here we are this is the start finish and we head down the main the main part of
downtown Nevada City Broad Street the National Historic Hotel they're on the
right to come down to the bottom about to make the first screaming left on
Union Alley I love this section the crowds yell so loud through there I
think you might Roger you might be one of the few people that like that corner
yeah that scared a lot of people including Levi and Lance last year but
more about that later this second corner you get to that first one you think you
may have made it but this second corner right here as you turn on to
commercial that's a much more technical corner you got a lot of speed and that's
usually where all the crashes happen we've got a camera down there in case
anybody has a mishap and you really have to watch for the hay bales they scrape
your hands and you can run into them so easily and we see a lot of the snow
fencing up to kind of manage the crowd that tends to gather here on the uphill
sections we go by off-road street theater there on the left we come up
commercial up to the chute commercial street that's true there are never
you'd see a lot of cars on the course here but these cars are all moved in
or either toe here we are turning up on to to York Street and this is a this is
the beginning of where a lot of the action happens and we're fortunate to
have cameras in this section this year here's a left under north pine this is
the section that a lot of riders associate with lactic acid oh first
yeah big shots of lactic acid yeah that that's also known as the burn and
that's frankly this is where the race really separates this is where the real
champions tend to flex their muscles you are coming up on the cottage street and
you see how beautiful the skies are the deep blue skies at the elevation of
nearly 3,000 feet and vendors the one flat section of the course the one tiny
tiny flat section of the course yeah just a few seconds you might be able to
catch a breath and then boom there you turn on the main street this is maybe I
think this might be the steepest section right here so just before the feed zone
in the watering zone and here we are heading up towards the top of main
street you soon see the the pup tent there the easy up tent that's where they
have all the neutral feed zone some of these pro teams have their own special
feeders but some of these guys are very particular about what they get in their
their sports bottles you have to be I mean a lot of water it's amazing how
dehydrated you can get during the short even a short race hour and a half you
can lose two three pounds of water yeah that's true even the experienced guys a
few years ago I did the feed zone and I was working with Mike sirs and Scott
Knight of my Mike sirs tells me what's 90 minute race I don't need any bottles he
took about 15 bottles during that wow every art turning left on the broad
street and then you'll notice a lot of the same footage that we saw from 1961 as
we come by the outside in one of the more beautiful places to hang out for the
weekend if you haven't been there please check it out and slide uphill this is
tended to be where the the final sprint tends to be decided right here right on
that little painful hill and normally you might see the finish decided in the
last one or two hundred meters of race here it seems to be decided about five
six hundred meters from the finish most of the time you know one difference
between 1961 and today is that the trees are bigger if the trees are bigger
that's true yeah providing a little bit of shade for some of the spectators of
course during the race it's a fully closed course you won't have to stop that
stop sign there at the Y on broad street then we'll be coming down down the
final assault to this finish it takes a lot of nerve to sprint here and
typically these guys got some figures maybe a 52 12 52 11 211 53 11 and now
they are fully spun out and you're picking up speed right up until this
section here where you have to hold it as long as you can before the corner at
the bottom now when you and I used to do this race Roger they used to open up the
hay bales at the bottom and you can just continue straight down the hill if you
had over the 49 bridge but today I don't think they have that open I think you've
got to be able to win the race and then still make that left hand turn you can't
make that corner you better be able to stop quick yeah yeah that is really
something I remember one year doing this race with the Glenn Winkle and we
couldn't make the corner luckily that was the year the bottom was open down to
the freeway we actually went off the course turned around got back on the
course and we kept our break we go and it was pretty it was a relief let me put
it that way that is amazing well Glenn Winkle he was known as both Winkle down
at the velodrome at Hell Your Park in San Jose wow that's amazing some of the
times we spend here on this course you also I think you Roger you're more
of a hill climber you probably enjoyed yourself in this all I love it it was
nothing but a suffer fast yeah that looks that looks like a Nate Byron there
on our well we got somebody in front of our camera there but I saw a quick shot
of Nate Byron who's a freshman in college this year he rode for the Nevada
Union High School mountain bike team for a number of years he was telling me when
I talked to him yesterday he's gonna be flying over to Germany tomorrow is the
on a US national team on their mountain bike team and he was participating in
the category three race just before our pro race today it's nice to see the
locals out here well Roger we're starting to see the the assembly of what
looks to be the pro field down at the start finish line our camera angle
unfortunately you see the banner across the start finish line this is the
Nevada City Bicycle Classy it's kind of blocking where they're staging the pro
riders because they stage them behind the start finish line by maybe 30 40 50
feet and that's so that they can do a roll-up for some of the more noted famous
people in our bike race today Roger past champions the pros the guys who you
probably read about in fellow news and other newspapers this is actually the
most anxious time of the race for a lot of riders before the start because it's
a difficult start you really have to jockey for position those first few
laps but even sitting here on the line sometimes you can be on the line for 20
30 minutes and you've just spent the last 45 minutes warming up it can it can be
difficult anxious yeah you know it's interesting Roger they some of our
viewers that have seen other bike races on TV they're very few bike races are
crowned across the country that are on TV maybe four or five so it's a very
special opportunity for us to bring it an event like this to you live but when
you see these races to be collected to France the tour of California these are
stages that are four and five hours long and people think what Jesus it must be
simple doing a 90-minute race like this how tough gonna be but if you think
about those races Roger it's usually the end all right we're gonna go down to the
race announcer who's live Todd Gogolski who's gonna be providing some of the
the names for a roll-up let's go live down to Todd Gogolski
yeah I think you're right Roger this this really is some of the most nerve
wrecking time it's once it gets started all the nerves kind of dissipate and then
you're down to just trying to keep up but you know this race is tough 90 minutes
these guys is short race for these guys and they get warmed up these guys
try they ride very hard doing some very tough intensity work to get ready so
that the motor is hot right before they start this race and then they roll up in
front they just want to roll up and get this thing started I'm still hot and then
they sit there and get a wait for five ten fifteen minutes and you know that
whole time your your nervousness is draining the energy that you really
want to be putting into the pedals that's right in fact some of them more
noted pros are anxious they're wondering if they're going to be one of the few
people they get called up there's always 40 50 guys that deserve to be called up
but they only call them maybe 10 or 15 and sometimes it's time to race with a
little bit of aggression going what the heck I didn't get called up so here we
are let's go live to Todd Gogolski
15 member 1960 Rob Parsons
five-year stranglehold on the race and the most all-time wins
Bill Wilde the Canadian hard man who won two times and in 1975 he passed in
Nevada City native on the last lap when Davis crashed in the hay bales on the
first turn John Howard four-time US road national champion and 81 Ironman
triathlon is in the crowd today Todd Gogolski our announcer extraordinary
today yesterday a past champion in 86 and 88 also here Bill Harrison from the
Bay Area and Terry Peterson also from the Bay Area in San Jose finally Nick
Zeller retired TV news photographer Stevenson Washington and 67 Pan
American Games team participation wow Nick Zeller as well let's have a round
rousing round of applause for our past champions here at the 50th Nevada City
cycling classic also see Mr. Heel a T-bird Burt Swindlehurst up there as well
noticing also kale reader in there so a few people we missed but congratulations
to all former winners let's get your hands in the air come on just like when
you're winning the race that's what we're looking for these are true icons of
the sport ladies and gentlemen and many of them cut their teeth right here in
Nevada City
and without further ado we are gonna start things off this is your finale in
Nevada City cycling classic and these are your riders to watch ladies and
gentlemen it is my distinct pleasure to welcome here on the front row several of
the standout competitors in this year's field we begin with a Salt Lake City
rider winning here in 2005 he is a climbing machine he just took a big win
at the Iron Horse Classic in Durango Colorado for team give presented by
black bottoms the only rider in the field who has previous one here in Nevada
City 37-year-old Burke Swindlehurst and now hailing from Nevada City ladies and
gentlemen he was six here last year he won the time trial at the tour today and
in fact the entire overall three days of racing finishing up yesterday in Nevada
he is riding Ford groove Subaru one of your own the 36-year-old Jonathan Baker
and now from Davis California eighth year the last two years he is in the
Nevada City to Sacramento race last month in the Ameson Tour of California one
of the four riders in the day-long breakaway caught right at the finale
coming into the city from Bissell pro cycling let's hear it for the 28-year-old
Paul Mach and now another Californian just won the Pescadero Road Race in a
hill climb sprint finish six here in 2008 only 22 years of age for Yahoo
cycling team this is Adam Switters and now all the way from Grand Rapids
Michigan third here in 2008 just yesterday he won the final stage of the
tour today at North Star Tahoe it took him a two-man battle with Burke's
Windlehurst to get there he came out on top 25 years old for priority health
cycling Graham Howard and from Nevada City riding for WTB let's hear it for
another one of your own Jason Mosler it's nice to be a hometown favorite this
last rider we reserve for the man from Farmersville Pennsylvania now living in
myriad of California winner of the inaugural Ameson Tour of California in
2006 winner of Perry Nase in 2006 winner of the Tour de Georgia in 2006 ladies and
gentlemen 34 years of age that is for Landis and the rest of the field
wow here we are on the start line now the race middle of the race and we'll
be starting here in just a minute boy there was a lot of tension to see
whether or not Floyd Landis who announced yesterday that he would be here
and an hour before the race no one had seen him it was a lot of excitement down
there in the registration table but he's obviously here rolling up we just
talked to somebody who was chatting with him before the race that he's all
keyed up and ready to win today that was Bill Miller one of the past promoters
of Nevada City couple a couple of decades ago Bill ran this race I have a lot
of gratitude for Bill and all the work that he did here for the Nevada City
cycling classic we're about ready to be in it looks like we we had about 70
pre-registered riders a few days ago we had probably about 25 more join in the
last few days and get a feel that's close to a hundred people as we saw that
footage from 1961 Roger you feel today it looks quite a bit larger it is huge
and this is the crux between the line in that first corner everybody has to
jostle for position watch out they don't cross wheels and it funnels it really
funnels down so there's guys in the back who will be going way slow guys at the
front will be going way fast and you can bet they'll be taking advantage of that
that's right part of the roll-up is for the fans to be able to see some of the
noted people that are in the race but it's also to give them the advantage
that they deserve from their their past achievements to be able to take that
corner first I remember getting seated a couple times it was a honor and a
privilege and it was also a relief to be at the front that's right because when
you're the back you're at the mercy of the technical abilities with those in
front of you let's pause for our national anthem
Wow that's nice to hear it almost looks like the 4th of July today with all
these flags out here our national anthem going and these races are saying
who finally can we get this thing started I love Nevada City when it's
decked out like this the flags are on every pole up and down Brown Street all
the flowers and the original gas lantern lamps all the hand-painted signs they
have gas in those they really those are actually lit 24 hours a day they're not
the condescent bulbs are actually gas lantern lights
ready on the whistle gentlemen off you go an hour and a half 90 minutes strong
this is the golden anniversary of the Nevada City cycling classic and race is
gone here we go get that first roll down broad street they're clicking into
their clipless pedals and gonna take that first turn on the Union Street and
then this race gets underway some of these races like we saw in 1961 at a
neutral start kind of a ceremonial lap they do not have that here today Roger
the pressure is on no time to if you miss your pedal you you're off the back
instantly you can see they're already coming around the corners trying to move
up right around the edges rather trying to get into position to make sure that
they can see any action that's happening at the front yeah I guess that is neutral
it does look like they're rolling at neutral that's kind of nice so they
give some of these people that haven't done this race before the first look
because with all the races that are done earlier we weren't able to bring that
to you live but there's four or five races before this as a result of that
these pro riders do not get a chance to pre-ride this course to get familiar
with the corners and the technical nature of this this route so a little
different than the 61 Ford is it it is a little different you're seeing a
motorcycle on the front we've really got about four or five motorcycles you see
these guys at the back the three motorcycles what happens is is the
race shatters into two three four groups those motorcycles will be monitoring
those different groups to keep track of who's lapped and who's on the lead lap
and the what place people are in or at least trying to it's really hard to
keep track of who's on what lap yeah it's easy for us sitting here on the star
finish line to think we know what we're talking about because those guys
actually have to figure it out for real so I remember one of Greg Lamont's races
here he left me three times and there was a guy at the finish line who gave me
second place bouquet actually coming in behind yeah that tells you just how tough
it is one of the reasons why this race Roger is so popular among some of the
super talented bike races around the world I think we heard in the interview
before the race from John Howard that this was really the most noted race in
the country and one of the reasons for that is in cycling the name classic
stands for a one-day race and it means it's the hardest race you can put
together in one day and the reason that's significant is because there's no
you know lucky winners yeah you don't have to rest for the next day stage
there's no mountaintop passes that you can coast down it's basically once you
hit that line you're on to the finish we're gonna see the people rolling around
here soon we're seeing the the TB shot up Broad Street from the star finish line
it takes about three minutes to cover this course and the uphill portion on
the backside of this course that we showed you with the motorcycle shot
earlier takes about two minutes for these pro riders to ride up and that's
typically done with a great deal of intensity and they've got the downhill
section that's largely Broad Street it takes about a minute and so in 90 minutes
those of you out there that are familiar with interval training that's about 45
back-to-back two minutes on one minute off interval training oh my god yeah this
is yeah this would be the ultimate training that's what you think about
doing about 45 two-minute intervals it makes you wonder why you'd ever want
to be a bike racer but that's what these guys are in for today you can see the
pace has picked up quite a bit as we catch them at the top of Broad Street
coming down looks like they're all really all together you know the last few
years this race has had a deciding move take place in the first two or three
laps the race oftentimes you might see people sitting in waiting for the
moment waiting for the right moment here in Nevada City the race is so tough
guys just frankly want to get away from the crowd and get up the road and we're
we might see a decisive move right here on commercial Street as they come into
the second lap this is oftentimes where the first decisive move takes place you
can see they're lining up almost well they're much more strung out that's an
indication of the speed Roger yeah I'll bet these guys at the front rode out to
Campton Villain back to warm up and not slow either when here we go looks like
we had the first move coming off the front there somebody stretching his
legs he's got a small gap looks like people are watching they're trying to
see is that guy worthy is that guy worth chasing a lot of masking who is yeah
they may be asking who that is I didn't recognize them and sometimes you've got
people that when they don't have the legs they know they're on TV I'm gonna
make my move early because that's the only chance I got we're seeing some of
the the gathered crowds you know the crowd just gets bigger and bigger and
bigger throughout the day and it's exciting to see all the people it's
not quite as many people as we saw here last year when Lance Armstrong made his
surprise visit and boy he didn't disappoint he put on quite a show that
was amazing wasn't it yeah I don't think we've had as many people as many
spectators as since the early 1990s yeah that's true we're not sure if it was
really the largest crowd ever assembled the back in the early 80s this race was
so popular it was generating 20,000 people for the event today some of the
biggest races in America become like the tour of California and so on
attracting that kind of a crowd but last year it really was really like the
prime the prime days of the 80s when we saw all those people and they frankly
they all came out to see Lance Armstrong and he did not disappoint he
delivered a phenomenal show did we have some news from Lance in the tour of
Switzerland we did you know that this year a lot of people were asking you
know is Lance gonna come back and defend his title he's won an awful lot of big
bike races but last year when he made his comeback there was only one bike race
he won all year and that was the Nevada City Classic here and but this year he's
racing the tour of Switzerland it just concluded early this morning and he
managed to finish second overall which is the fact the best that is amazing
that's the best stage race finish he has had since his comeback so 39 39 that's
way above the standard deviation for the oldest people to be on the podium in
those hard hard European stage races it's true although today in our club in
our field today we have somebody who's 39 years old the only former champion of
this race for Bert Swindler who won this race a few years ago is the one a
couple of big races came in second in the big race in Tour de Naye just a few
hundred miles from here yesterday it's gonna be debatable whether or not he's
gonna have the legs to hold on today given his big effort yesterday typically
it's hard to go hard two days in a row and first day at altitude too that's
right yesterday it was a big altitude so let's see if we can identify the leaders
taking a solar flare off the front here in the early stages this is like I said
this is oftentimes when this race is decided so these guys got to decide
whether or not they're gonna pull this guy in or there's gonna let him sit up
there sometimes if they don't know him they'll just think that he's gonna go
hard enough and blow up last year we saw Levi about the same time we're all at
the front two laps later Lance decided to join him in Ben jock main from Santa
Cruz riding for Bissell and a road Lance's wheel and the three of them got up
and they never were seen again by the group right I remember I recall the first
time Levi rode this race or might have been the second time but I don't recall
anybody recognizing him going up the road and we all thought a is he gonna be
able to hold this and he did not only hold it he opened it almost every lap
to the finish it was one of the most amazing finishes ever seen that's right
that was back when he was riding for a team Saturn and he really wasn't well
known back then in this race has really become a race that if you can win this
you make a name for yourself it wasn't long after he won that race that he got
his first offer to join the US puzzle team and ride on Lance's team for the
first time right and you can expect that a lot of European pro team managers are
watching this that's true looking for new talent and there's a lot of there's a
lot of teams looking for talent and this is one of these races like we talked
about earlier there's no there's no surprise winners anybody that performs
here is worthy of a pro deal yeah it was last year we were talking about Ben
Jacques Mayn that he may have written this ticket for joining a European team
but he's made a lifestyle choice and decided that he wants to stay living in
Santa Cruz stay close to his family and enjoy the North American circuit which
is big enough to make a legitimate living at these years isn't that great no
northern European weather no northern European cigarette smokers no none of
that language difficulty stuff here they are coming down Broad Street and yeah
looks like we've got a small break but they're pulling them in so where it's
coming back together here just kind of like we expected it's very surprising
to see somebody that was unknown they take a flyer like that be able to hold
it although the field does look a little more strung out than it did the lap
right an indication of speed is the closer they get to single file that's
an indication of the speed and everyone wants to be out of the wind behind
somebody else and you'll see a more narrow gap here looks like we have
somebody from the Cal giant Barry team out of Santa Cruz trying to take a
flyer off the front here looks like he's being closely monitored by many of the
teams we see Floyd Landis near the front kind of just watching to see what's
going on a lot of people think Floyd well he hasn't made a splash in his
comeback is certainly get the fitness to be able to put on a great race today
although I got to be honest my my prediction is one of the guys riding
for Bissell a team that's it's local at a Santa Cruz Paul Mach is one of the
favorites to win today's race
and Paul Mach those of you that were watching the tour of California which
started here in downtown Nevada City it started here rolled down into through
Auburn and into Sacramento and they had a King of the Mountains competition up
49 and Paul Mach won that here we are showing you the course again so you're
familiar with what the rules like they're out sweeping the course earlier
today getting it ready for today so there's no glass no debris nothing to
cause a flat trying to keep it as safe as possible for these riders there is a
neutral support by the SRAM folks down at the start finish line they've got
neutral bikes wheels everything to help you there's no there's no a free lap
though you've got to make a mechanical change you've got a bridge back up to
the peloton you can also see some of the tents around the course these tents
have bicycle parts vendors and clothing vendors make they make for a very
enjoyable walk all the way around the course when the riders are on your
section of the course and when they're not it's true a lot of people you walk
around this course backwards and catch more of the race and get to see some of
the beautiful sights here in Nevada City these beautiful trees the shady
sidewalks the Victorian homes here we're back to to live coverage and we are all
back together which is not surprising it looks like there's a little bit more
monitoring here without any of the the giant names outside of Ford Lannis we've
got the guys all watching everybody we got one of our title sponsor teams
the waste management they're on the front monitoring things trying to get some
good TV coverage for their sponsors that's good to see you know what's
interesting Russ this hardly looks like a descent you see the guy's going fast
but it doesn't you can't convey it on video yeah that's true it looks flat on
TV but trust me people this is this is a screaming downhill I see Paul Mach is
ready there he is on the left with the the red shoulders white shoes riding
about maybe eighth or ninth position over on the left-hand side of the screen
I see Floyd Lannis there riding about two wheels ahead of him and monitoring
things so we've got guys just biting their time just checking things out
testing their legs seeing how they feel before they make a bold move it today's
race reminds me a little bit of an early Rades 80s race when Toby Power
San Francisco native one it was a little bit cooler than normal and the field
hung together a little bit more than normal but Toby was a surprise winner I
think that was the only time he won that was 1982 and he had raced it a few
times before and tough luck he didn't win it in 80 didn't win in 81 but he
became a crowd favorite he was one of the more charismatic racers of his time
and finally in 1982 he did he finally got away and finally got what he rightly
deserved he was one of the more decorated bike racers of our time back
then him and maybe Gavin Chokot who runs the BMC pro racing team out of Santa
Rosa also a former champion here of the Nevada City by school classic did you
know Gavin raced in Italy as a young man I mean before he raced seriously in
the United States he raced in Italy yeah and because of that he remembers how
tough the conditions were how tough it was to to make a living over there
especially as an American that didn't really have the respect that's been
created by people like Greg Lamont and Lance Armstrong that we take for granted
today these people that are turning pro today but back in Gavin's day you know
it was tough it was tough to get a feed on in a race tough to get food in her
race you just didn't have the respect any he brought that the heart when he
started BMC I know Gavin really well and he was telling me one of things he's
really careful about is that every commitment he makes he delivers on that
because he remembers that there were a lot of shallow promises back there in
his days racing in Europe yeah and it's a great experience for American riders
to see how races are run in Europe and in the crowds it's very much like
Nevada City what's interesting is we see the racers come back down broad
streets kind of interesting that we're seeing them kind of glancing each other
look at each other they're trying to gauge you guys you guys strong are you
about to make a move and that's a sign to me that they're feeling kind of
twitchy they know that this race has been a little bit slower than it might
normally be and oh we got a Cal giant guy coming off the back here he's got a
mechanical stopping by the SRAM booth here so he'll get a free lap yeah that
might be
Olson who's kind of the the team captain of the Cal giant team today and like you
said there's no free lap so he's still stressed out trying to get a new bike
there he is his back on the bike he's got a catchback up getting a shove sorry
can't bring that to you live is we're following the racers the lead race
they're starting up commercial street and it's starting to get hot and boy it's
gonna be tough for him to catch back on you just hate to see that but you know
that's just the luck of the draw sometimes interesting though even if
you're off the back you just wait a few laps and you hope that a lot of people
don't notice which is the front of the pack which is the back as they merge
yeah that's true they're there before long it's gonna be tough that was as
Valdo Olmos who's out of San Luis Obispo riding for the Cal giant team the
salmon so mechanic with trouble getting a getting a new wheel for his bike so
we're back showing you some of the footage of the course this is where
they are right now the top of the course as they come to the one flat section
before the steepest section as they turn left on the broad street and by this
point your oxygen dead it you're starting to feel that tingly feeling in
your arms and your neck and you're wondering why you ever chose to be a
bike racer and some of the guys around you don't look like they're hurting near
as much yeah you'll notice that a lot of these guys they just like built like
deer gazelles they're just very very thin very lean and that's what gets them
up these these hills so easily some of these people that typically compete
well in cartoons are a little heavier bulkier more muscular they struggle
here in Nevada City you probably won't see anyone in this field over 9% body
fat and the average I would guess is more like 7% that's probably true 7% is
awfully low but that's typical for these kind of elite bike racers at the pro
level it just takes that it's more than just a training it's a very disciplined
diet that goes along with that you were seeing him come down still waiting for
that first decisive move to to stick so far a pretty safe race not too much to
report on the action we've got some of the wild cherry guys in the front yahu
cycling one of the look the new pro teams that started this year seeing a
number the Bissell guys Cal giant has got more participants than any other team
here today that's good to see see some of the safeway guys and again and even
though we're saying this race has been fairly calm and not too jumpy so far
we're still seeing maybe 10 15 guys been shelled off the back it's just there's
an attack it is just so tough you think you want to just hang in the pack no you
can't just hang in you've got it up those uphills it's just plain work I see Paul
Mach near the front he's been monitoring about fifth six wheel that's a good
position for him to to see it's close enough for him to be able to respond to
any attack that's serious and we see Floyd Lannis that was near the front and
you know Floyd Floyd is a very controversial biker is or he you know
before he became famous riding with Lannister Armstrong on the postal team
he was riding for one of the local domestic teams and unfortunately they
ran out of money midway through the year Lance gave him a handout gave him an
offer to join the postal team eventually he worked his way up to making the tour
de France team and then managed to show enough talent that he was able to be
hired as a team captain of the Fodac team that was put together and you know
then he had that breakout season in 2006 where he won nearly everything he won
the Tour of California the first year it was ever staged he went on to win the
Perry Nice one of the first stage races of the year over in France I won the
Tour of Georgia and of course that year he went on to win the Tour de France
although many would say that he didn't because that title was taken away from
him after he tested positive for the use of testosterone performance enhancing
growth I mean he denied that for many years Roger as you know and start a
foundation collecting money to to fight his case against the UCI and all the
people that were blaming him and saying that he was guilty he lost that suit he
served a two-year suspension and many people are aware that during the Tour
of California this year that moved from February to May he came out decided
it's gonna announce the world that yep he was dirty he did use a testosterone
he used a lot of other things and he tried to throw everybody else under the
bus as well and boy he lost a lot of respect with a lot of people when he
did that he's certainly a controversial person and some people might
wonder why they would even let someone like Florianist into a race like this
but the truth is whether you like him or not he's got a legitimate racing
license now having served his two-year suspension and he wanted to come here
today and and so he's in the race we'll see if he's still got the legs he hasn't
shown anything really that significant since making a comeback virtually
everybody else says that Yvonne Basso has made a mark for himself having won the
Tour of Italy Lance Robstrung as we mentioned earlier second place Tour
of Switzerland that's a remarkable result but outside of the second place
finish that Floyd Lannis had earlier in the year in a race back in New York the
Tour of Baton kill he really hasn't produced much so it's hard when you're a
US rider and you've been accused of you've had a positive dope test because a
lot of the other riders in the field didn't have that advantage and feel you
know you shouldn't be here and he's a so he's a marked rider today you can
expect that if he makes a move and anybody can counter it they will yeah
that's a good point we say it's you know easy you just break away like it's a
matter of fact but the truth is that he is a marked man that's why when we were
talking to Bob Parsons the only five-time champion of this race when he
managed to win it five years in five years in a row every year they were
watching him and yet he still managed to do it we're gonna take a small break but
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we're back live here in Nevada City and we've got a rider from Pasadena
California who's taking a flight off the front Gustav Mendez riding for the
Herbalife team is taking his chances out the front we'll see if he's gonna be
able to let that stick that's a courageous move for a rider of his his
caliber we'll see that's the first decisive move that we've seen for about
five or six laps so it looks like there is a pretty good counter going on right
let's see if we can see who's see if we can see who's monitoring this at the
front looks like all the big names are there so here's where we come around to
the right turn on New York there's a rider being left right now and here's
the motorcycle Sam and try to keep track of all that here's some of the
scragglers off the back boy it's just so tough these guys they look like they're
struggling and they are but normal days these guys are really fit they did it's
just remarkable to see how this race just punishes really fit bike racers even
the guys being laughed early you can't keep up with any normal club ride yeah
last year when we saw Lance Levi and Benchock may enroll at the front they
left the field once and we're almost gonna lap the field twice that's not
remarkable that was it that was a very star studded field we had last year
and well this would be interesting to see if Gustav is able to keep that move
that's a bold move to be making we're not yet halfway through this race and this
is typically when you see move like this I would imagine he is hoping that one or
two guys may be able to bridge up to him because that's a long way to go solo you
know you want two three guys you know I know in 2008 Scott Knightham rolled up
the front and he was joined by Justin England from riding for the Toyota team
last year wrote for Cal Giant the two of them were able to work together to keep
about a minute and a half lead on the pack last year of course there were three
guys to give before Scott Knightham rolled the front with Darrell Lill and the
two of them stayed off the front for most the way before Scott cracked after
that tough effort he made a tour today and then Darrell Lill managed to stay on
for the solo win but it's hard to stay so off the front for a long time at this
race it's just too tough it really is it's interesting though how that tech can
work out if you got a couple riders who bridge up to you so he's probably hoping
two or three riders will get away from the field and bridge up to him and
they'll have a nice little breakaway right right so you want to be away but
you want to be just close enough that you know a couple of really strong guys
like a Paul Mach makes it up there if Bert Twinelhurst makes it up there well
those get that's real now we're going let's go game on otherwise we haven't
seen they yet they're still letting Gustav sit up there see if he can keep it
going yeah otherwise when the field does catch you that's a prime time for some
real action right other breakways launching as soon as they catch a
little breakway like that and the rider who was off the front has a you know a
lot of lactic acid build up in his legs and doesn't have a chance to stay with
anybody who attacks as soon as he's gone I'm trying to get sure it looks like
Gustav may have been caught they might have reeled him back in so you can see
the field that was nearly a hundred people looks like it's done about maybe
30 35 people were down about the size of field we had in 1961 50 years ago and
the men are separating from the boys here only about halfway through this
race so that's not surprising this is a race of attrition that just those hills
that that 700 feet of climbing every single lap just tends to break the
wills of strong riders and riders who haven't done Nevada City before usually
get surprised midway through the race or three-quarters of the way through the
race when they start to get tired all of a sudden because they're just not used
to that intensity you don't see this kind of intensity in other races yeah
that's true typically in a race that they may be hard in the beginning is a
break as Dallas than there's this midpoint where it's hard temple riding
but it's not the kind of lactic acid burn that you're finding here there is no
way to hide in this race it's just up down up down up down and it's it's a
hard hard effort if you look carefully you can see the way these guys are
struggling and no longer as smooth on the machines as they were in the early
stages this race and that's an indication that they're just feeling the
pressure here you know this race Roger has never been won by a local racer
before there's a lot of people like Chris McGovern they tried Ron Miller came
very close couple times Don Davis Don Davis Jason Mosler probably a cloud
crowd favorite is in the race today riding for WTB he's more noted for a
mountain bike racer than he is road racing and you know Justin has had a
number of top 20 finishes and I said you know why do you do this race you really
thinking when he says you're every time I do at Rusk I think today's the day
today's the day I might win and if I do it's a lifetime achievement that's a
great city yeah you got to love that kind of attitude it's tough let's see if
we can find Jason or some of our locals we got a Bissell guy right on the front
we'll see if that's that's Paul rolling up the front here
that's his teammate Ian Boswell that's probably his his helper Bissell doesn't
have as many people as they had in the race last year but Ian Boswell is a
remarkable talent and from Bend Oregon one of the locations of the Cascade
stage race which is I think that's still the country's largest or most
prestigious stage race yeah well he's got his work cut out I know that Paul
Mach would really love to win this race and and he might this is really nice
to have someone as talented as Ian monitoring the front of the race Ian
Boswell it's interesting when he noted on his website some of his favorite
venues to race at he listed only two races the Mount Hood classic and the
Nevada City by school classic is his two favorite races that he's done around
the world today I believe he's living in Chico, California and this is a second
year riding for the Bissell pro cycling team out of Santa Cruz so Chico's not
far from here I wonder if he rode over for a warm-up he might have that's
interesting so again we'll keep a line on on the front of this to see you Paul
may make his move I know Floyd Lannis is still sitting up there very close to the
front Bert Swinterhurst looked like he was up there as well this is the first
year that Bert's riding for himself this year riding for a team give he rode
for the Bissell team for a number of years riding for Ben and Ian and Paul
Mach Paul Mach is from Davis, California went to UC Davis had a
remarkable career at the intercollegiate level he's become a periodic training
partner of Levi LePimer who many people know lives in Santa Rosa and it's good
to see that this race is still attracting some of the top talent in in our
state in around the country used to be in the 80s at least that you see a lot of
riders come out from Cal Colorado and you know been from California always saw
that as kind of a disadvantage those guys with their altitude training and
us lowlanders and Dale Stedna won the race Demgen I think was living in
Colorado most of the riders from Colorado would do very well that's right
in fact Greg Demgen running for the Raleigh team managed to win this
race back in the late 80s it's kind of a big rider it was surprising to see
someone in his size win this race it shows you how much power that man had he
was known as nickname was Doughboy and back then they had a
spinometer like a like a radar gun on the finish line put up by the CHP and
his picture him with his arms raised winning that race and the speed was
rating at 63 miles an hour which is amazing given that he had both hands off
the bars I you wouldn't find me doing that that must have been when they had
the bottom of the course I hope to go straight on I sure hope so
there you see him at the corner at the bottom that's kind of a nice shot yes
you can see at the start finish line there's the official clock 59 minutes
35 seconds so we're almost two-thirds the way through this race it's all
together and we still got the first decisive move that might be made this
race rarely if ever comes down go pack sprint that's just not something you
typically find so we're expecting very shortly a move to be made with 30
minutes to go this is the time you don't want to wait for four or five laps to go
like you might in most races this race you've got to make that move early you've
got to break the wheel and then try to keep that together for the end and it
this is really the moment we expect this to happen we're seeing people at the
start finish line cross from one side of the street to the other down here on
Pine Street a lot of people out here today it's one of the only few places
that you can safely cross the route there's a but you know we should put a
word out to all the volunteers part of this race is put on by this year
express racing team they've got hundreds of people that are volunteered to put
this together for our community it's been promoted for the last number of
years by the people that own the Tour de la Vette a city bike shop Dwayne and
Connie Strasser and it's really a labor of love this is an awful lot of effort
we take the grant this race happens every year but it's a year-round effort
to bring this to us and we're very grateful to them and all the volunteers
that are out here today to make this possible
well we're still waiting for that first decisive move we see some of the crowd
assembling near the top of Broad Street the crowd is getting thicker maybe
people were listening to my encouragement to get out here it's not
too late it's just a beautiful day out here probably one of the most beautiful
days you'll find here in mid-June and little breeze I wonder how that's
affecting the course now this group here is the group that's a little off the
back so you know that it's hard to decipher by the way they look as all
these guys are really strong fit bike racers they just some days they just
don't it's not their day but you know in other days a lot of these guys have won
bike races but today it's just you know it's it's tough whether they're at the
front or the back they're probably operating at close to 90% of their max
VO 2 yeah we you know it's something that we talk about a max VO 2 it's
your oxygen level it's a number that the cyclists know when it's tell me a
little bit about that Roger well that's the amount of oxygen that you can absorb
for every for every well it's a metric measurement but per your body weight so
guys with big lungs can really burn a lot of oxygen can transport that to their
muscles and most of us have max VO 2's in that you know 40s 50s maybe upper
lower 60s some of these guys on the course however are in the 70s maybe a
couple even in the 80s right I know Floyd Lannis measured out in the 80s
Greg LeMond maybe the highest VO 2 max rating ever at 95 and Lance Armstrong is
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we'll announce you we're back live here in Nevada City for the 50th annual
running of the Nevada City Classic and the weather's beautiful we've got about
30 minutes of racing and we're gonna be joined by a special guest here we saw
this interview last night at the Nevada City and Nevada Theater and that's
another than Hall of Famer John Howard welcome John thank you it's a pleasure to
have you now you've been watching this race for about an hour is this bring
back memories of what it was like in 1970 well it certainly does I mean my
recollection was that we raced on a little longer I think we actually did
50 miles I don't know what they're doing today but I don't think it's quite
that far but you know there are more races now than there were then so they've
got it shortened up somewhere that that is so rougher the course was not as
smoothly paved as it is today we've been surprised John that normally this race
shows a lot of aggression in the beginning and there's a decisive
breakaway of maybe one two or three guys that get away that decide the race that
was certainly the case in 1970 when you won this lapping the field not once but
twice and we were expecting to see some of the same action that we've seen over
the last several years here but today they just seem to be content kind of
watching each other afraid to make that first decisive move well we watched it
break up at about lap number five and this is racing in 2010 this isn't racing
in 1970 or even 80 and in this in this day and age it's it's riders are very
close in terms of their athleticism and power and the tightness of that kind of
training means that you're not going to see breakaways going off and staying off
and riders lapping the field anymore those days are gone forever I mean we
could even see that in Europe but it just doesn't happen anymore well that's a
good point you know there's a lot of people that have a tremendous amount of
support of technology coaching so on and you see a lot of leveling of the field a
lot more talent that is maybe evenly dispersed and that's maybe a good intro
to what you're doing down in San Diego John with your coaching performance
program and trying to get you got a little bit more performance maybe 10 15
20 percent improvements in performance that's a big deal for these guys tell me
about that our our objective has always been to get the maximum amount of
performance out of every athlete irrespective of their age or gold
structure we want to take them to the highest level that they can possibly
achieve and well our fit system is an example of that we have developed a I
think completely unique manner of fitting cyclists where you use the elements
of functional anatomy as the basis of the work and in in doing that we do we
actually put the athletes on the table and do some soft tissue active release
and we see gains and can actually measure them with some very very good
computer software programs and can actually measure as much as 15 or 20
percent improvement in a single session and we do several forms of this one is
called body fit which takes them from that level and we build a structure
around their their goals and try to give them the off-the-bike exercises in
terms of range of motion flexibility and strength that addresses their
particular biomechanical problems wow if you can get any of these guys to
ride at the level that you did that is saying something I know you've had a
number of national champions world champions Olympic gold medals you do
a remarkable thing and anybody that's got an opportunity to go down to San
Diego find John on the web check it as program I encourage you to do that
well thank you I it's it's it's encouraging that we have actually had a
hundred and seventy eight national champions we've worked with since 82 and
16 world champions and two Olympic gold medalists so very proud of those results
John one thing I'm curious about just to give our audience an idea of how much
training is required to just to do a race like Nevada City what kind of say
miles per week were you doing for three to three hundred and fifty even four
hundred miles a week in my prime and I felt like I needed that just to hold on
to the base and power racing every week the problem was that back in 1970 1980
you couldn't make a living doing this so you're also working sometimes an eight
to five job in the process and that's the real difference today the athletes
for the most part are professionals true professionals and we were
professional amateurs and our day and we took it very seriously but mostly we
just enjoyed the the the activity of racing bicycles and I think I think the
cyclists today enjoy that too if the difference is they get a paycheck yeah
that's right very nice little difference yeah well we appreciate you
joining us today John as you may know is in the cycling Hall of Fame which used
to be located back in New York and recently this last year it moved to
Davis California not far from here just west of Sacramento and so that's you
can go visit you can learn more about the hall yeah having been inducted in 89
in the second year I think I think that's really we need to emphasize the
Hall of Fame because it's the roots of our sport and unfortunately most of the
magazines don't talk about what used to be and the history is very deep we go
clear back to the 1800s and I think we need to talk about that with Major Taylor
and early champions Frank Kramer and the whole list goes you know those were
national heroes and there was a time when you went to you went to the baseball
game after all the seats at the bike track were sold out you know we want to
recall that because the history of our sport is deep it's our heritage and it's
it's what we have to show the athletes of today when it was much more like Europe
oh yeah yeah and it's great to see Davis get the Hall of Fame because that same
culture that exists in Europe is very dominant in Davis because people ride
bicycles just like they did for years in Europe so I see a lot of the same
parallel it's great to see the Hall of Fame end up in Davis California where
they'll really treat it with some respect and appreciated well John we
want to thank you for coming and spending a few minutes with this and
again congratulations for your Lester's career and all that you're doing to
encourage our sport today thank you thank you guys thanks John well John
Howard that's a real treat to be able to spend some time with people like John
that's you know a lot of people look at people like Lance Armstrong or Greg
Lamont for having made our sport but frankly John Howard is one of the early
people that really made a legitimate mark in American cycling he may have been
the first American to win a European stage race amateur stage race was that
the Britain tour milk the British milk race yeah yeah I think you're right Roger
that's well you know he's won so many races that we can kind of take for
granted what what he managed to achieve but you're right well we've got a lot
more break up at the front of this race and I was trying to see who is at the
front looks like Ian Boswell has set up his buddy Paul Mach to make a decisive
move here but in quite catch Floyd Lannister there he is so he's in the
front near maybe about fifth or sixth wheel we'll see if we can find Bert
Swindler Hurst who's got a distinctive jersey that's black and maybe some blue
light blue striping down the right side we're down to maybe the 10 guys in that
lead pack that if managed to snap the will of the rest of the field so we've
got the lead guys coming down here let's see who we've got so who is that
number 35 that is Graham Howard out of Grand Rapids Michigan riding for
priority health Graham Howard was one of the people that was called up at the
start of this race so he's a remarkable guy these guys got a watching very
closely we see Paul Mach near the front watching very carefully see a couple of
the Cal giant guys I saw Jason Mosler in there that's very exciting to see but
these guys boy they got to make their move now because if we see there's not a
lot of time left in this well let's see let's see we got 45 minute we're actually
actually at the halfway point I was wrong earlier when I was looking at that
we were counting down rather than then up so we've got 45 minutes less than this
race it's enough time for them to pull them back but Graham Howard is a
legitimate bike racer with some remarkable talent and he could stay away
it's a long way to stay away for a solo breakaway but Graham was one of those
people that's got the legs to possibly be able to do that so let's see we see
him coming up commercial streets you guys struggling as you can see the more
rocking of their body the difficulty that they're having to just to stay with
the group we've got Graham yesterday managed to win the race at Tour de
Ney a big race where he was off the front with Bert's win or Hearst that was a
pretty remarkable pretty remarkable result so we're gonna take a short break
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seeing this race really start to take shape here Roger these guys are being
tested to the limit right now we've got Graham Howard who is writing for
priority health it's made his decisive move off the front look like he had about
a 15 or 20 second gap over the field although some of the big names that are
here today to contest this this race are still close by still within striking
distance with about 43 minutes to go in our race Roger it's very unusual to have
such a big group at this point in the race and it is makes for good
spectating though that's true looks like we have about three or four groups that
are trying to contest this it's but we've got really one guy at the front
running in a black kit writing for priority health and then we've got you
know we see somebody on the TV coverage they're writing for William cycling a
William a a wheel manufacturer for a Metro Mint there Bissell cycling
Safeway we'll see if we can catch Graham Howard and we'll see if we can get a
split on the time that he's got off the front it's a remarkable effort it
tremendous courage to decide you're gonna go for it and when you do it's all
in it's like poker you can't go back he's looking more and more like Levi
Lieppenheimer back in maybe it's 1988 when he won at the first time yeah because
it was 12 years since he had won it when he came back to do it last year so this
is one of our chase pack coming through here you'll see that the there's a
number of guys on motorcycles but the one motorcycle where the guys were in
the referee black and white striped zebra shirt that is the lead vehicle so
that's the one we want to look for for the leader today and we'll see if we can
get a split on his time we're seeing some of the other guys struggle up the
hill today this is like we've talked about Roger this is a race of attrition
this is trying the legs like we said in the when we're watching the motorcycle
coverage around the course that lactic acid burn well these guys are living
that they are in the crowds when you when your legs are burning and you hear
the crowds you just want your legs to burn more yeah okay here come our lead
motorcycle so let's see if we can get a split on the time here the Graham Howard
has managed to put on the field here well it's not very much it's down to five
seconds and we saw a bench on main right there this group's down to one two
three four five six seven eight nine ten maybe ten well yeah if they get all back
together you had a few cal giant guys on the back that could come together on the
turn off commercial straight as we see I mean if it does we've got about 20 guys
that still have a possibility to win this race Graham is letting it go it was
like that was a risky move he had about 20 seconds just about two laps ago you
see him looking over his shoulder that's a sign that you're weakening he's
already giving it up he's decided you know what it's too long ago I don't have
the legs to make the brakes dick it's a smart move Roger to pull back and just
see if he can rest up and recover before he makes another push to break away if
he can get on the back of this field hopefully he hasn't gone too hard I
noticed that Paul mock was at the very front of that chase group as we came by
the start finish line here on broad street and like I mentioned Paul won the
king of the mountains jersey during the first stage the tour of California the
race that went from Nevada City into Sacramento that guy is a phenomenal
climber it done a lot of work in the hills with the Levi and he's done a
remarkable job since he started his intercollegiate career much like you and
I did Roger and UC Davis so when a national championship there is turned
it into a legitimate living now riding for the Bissell poor cycling team in
Santa Cruz well I imagine we'll see when they come back around it'll be be a
group well maybe not you know something that often happens Roger you've
experienced this you've done this race many many times as soon as that guy gets
caught that's really a decisive moment you got attacked right then even though
your legs are burning people are ready to just relax for a moment when you
catch someone like Graham and that's the time when the next break oftentimes gets
established that is a key time and especially now since we've got 40 38
minutes to the finish it's really important to distance yourself from some
of the other riders in the group right it takes so just the strength of will to
will your body to make one more surge one more attack you know I remember when
I was racing it's that moment when you're like well I just don't know if I'm
gonna hang on that's really the moment you get attacked because everyone the way
I figured if I'm feeling that pain if I'm feeling the suffering if I'm feeling
that inkling of wanting to quit that everybody else is too so that's the
time to go right you know when you know is when the guy beside you is going and
you can't go with them right and oftentimes what happens is you make
that surge and you see you get a gap and I don't know why but it's always the
case at least it is with me you get that gap and suddenly you find new strength
going oh man I got it today and you just keep it rolling and sometimes it sticks
all the way to the end and that's what they're hoping for here today so this
this will test your will there's this that's why it's such a phenomenal venue
and it looks like it's been very safe we've got a camera that can see that
second corner at the bottom of the alleyway there and I haven't seen a
single crash that's good to see this is the fastest section of the course here
the riders come out of that second corner at the bottom and they just fly up
the chute yeah up the chute yeah right up to the beginning of commercial street
as they ride up near the off-broad street theater turned right by the New
Moon restaurant and and then as they turn on to York and up North Pine
that's really the tough part where you often see the brakes happen we're
proud to be able to bring you the cameras this year we've got seven cameras
seven cameras around the course today to show you the live coverage show you the
decisive moments we've seen those attacks as they've begun to unfold we've
seen them live on TV this year that's great because last year we we weren't
able to do that and we're so happy to be able to improve our coverage this year
in the 50th running of the Nevada City by-school classic there's a shot of the
chute again and we see the star finish some of the guys that are off the back
just hoping to survive this race they come by and look at that clock and go
35 minutes no it's amazing when you finish this race you just can't believe
it was only an hour and a half yeah and even more remarkable when you hear people
like Bob Parsons and John Howard talk about this race when it was run for 50
miles almost twice the length that it is today the amount of strength and
tenacity it took to ride these kind of hills for that kind of distance is
really something 50 miles on those heavy bikes back then bikes were 23 24 25
pounds the guy the bikes you see here today are 14 15 16 pounds right that's
true and not only were they wearing you know heavier clothing and all that wool
they're riding a much heavier bikes and yeah although speeds 10 speeds versus 20
speeds that's right yeah the technology has really come a long way some of the
people wonder why you know professional cycling like what the teams the postal
team was or today the radio shack team that Lance is on well the truth is that
the sponsors that are getting the exposure from that kind of racing they
can not only sell more equipment but it also allows them to fund the research
and development to create the technology that everyday cyclists get to enjoy that
what was really expensive just five years ago was now affordable at your local
bike shop and equipment is very closely with these professional riders race
today and you make your recreation of cycling very enjoyable but we see the
lead group come by here they're still all together we thought we might see a
break well this looks like we got four guys rolling off the front that looks
like Ian Boswell looks like Paul Mach we got a couple guys that might be Floyd
Lannis I'm not sure and maybe one Metro mint guy we'll see if we can catch the
numbers as they come closer by but this looks to be the decisive move Roger I
see very little chase developing a couple of riders look like they're
attempting to bridge the gap but the rest of the rest of the group doesn't
looks like it's they've given up yeah just look at the speed that break was
Floyd Lannis has got this kind of trademark grimace on his face that we've
all seen over the years and that was that was the face that we've we've known
to associate with Floyd Lannis as he was ripping up York Street there kind of
putting the hurt on leading out the the break there but Ian and and and Paul
were right there and if you've got a team in in a group of four you've got a
distinctive advantage because you can control that group of four and and more
easily take a victory one of the riders on the team can rest while the other
does work and keep you from getting pushed off the back or dropped off the
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all right we are back live here in downtown Nevada City bringing in the
50th annual running of the Nevada City by school classic and shortly before we
went to a break we saw the decisive move Floyd Lance just digging in deep up
commercial Street New York Street and here we come it looks like yeah no that's
is that the leader yes that is the lead group and that was Floyd right on the
front we've got both Ian and Paul right there those the most noted guys in this
race we've got a chase coming on here from Cal Giant that's none other than
Chris Stansley who's from Vacaville a relatively local racer who listed the
Nevada City classic is his favorite bike race so quite remarkable they've got the
chase they've got their work they're still time for them to catch up but boy
it's tough they let it gap like that get away it's gonna be hard to pull back we
looks like we've got one guy bridging up we've got five guys all together one
guy coming on that could be six if that's six that's a really formidable group
and it'll be really hard to bring back although that's six guy can't make out
his number but boy he's getting on yeah he hasn't broken yet but that that
tether is getting awfully stretched out there the the advantage Roger if when
you're on the group like that it's a maybe 20 25% advantage in the wind if
you can just draft somebody so when you're stuck out in the wind like that
trying to catch on it's a lot harder and if you don't catch on quickly
eventually that 20% difference is gonna show you and you're just not gonna be
able to catch yeah particularly on the descent and the top of the course just
breaking wind is an extra 10 15 20% effort so we'll see if he can bridge it
yeah so they had maybe a four or five second gap on that that sixth rider got
all the the name guys in that league group the guys that we were expecting
before the race started today that we're gonna win this race well they're
showing their strength and they're they're in that league group position to
win so that's not necessarily surprising it was only surprising that they waited
a little longer than normal to make their move but they've made it in less we're
gonna see if we can bring on another special guest Roger why don't you tell
us who we got here well we have Bill Miller who was one of the valued
promoters of Nevada City how long ago Bill did you run this race promote this
race yes Roger good to see you guys and glad to see you guys are televised in
events 50th biggest anniversary yeah I did it in 86 and also did it in the
mid 90s in the mid 90s and 1986 Don Davis and I were co-coordinators of the
event and that was a different year for the race because when we reversed the
course we came uphill on Broad Street up Broad Street as opposed to down and how
about the second time did you have a different course then too in the mid
90s we maintain the course that they have now back to the original course and
but we we made an anombium and in 1998 we added our road race out in Penn Valley
and and also an uphill time trial and was it a stage race or it was an
omnium which is a points race whoever wanted to complete all three days would
accumulate a certain amount of points and whoever accumulated the most points
during that three-day period would win the overall but Levi was here that year
and I think he was waiting to win the the last day on the Father's Day event
so ended up Mike Engelman won the overall then with Todd Colorado's Mike Engelman
and from Colorado also Levi came in I think third that year overall so it was
it was a great a great event did were you the promoter the year went up Pine
Street I remember the steep section of Pine Street no that was that was between
the 86 and the 96 event they they took it up that 20 degree hill there it was a
that was a long burner believe it or not that I mean I've been up that on my
bike and walking I think it's easier on the bike than it is walking yeah that
was the one place where you had to use your small ring no doubt about it low
gears no doubt about it especially was bumpy it was very bumpy as well Dale
Stettino walked away with the race that year right I don't know if you notice
Roger if you took a lap around the course they paved the what's with that they
paved it I think that was for the Tour of California actually made it so that you
know look good on TV I know the riders sure appreciate it I'm sure I mean going
up that the opposite way is a lot easier now for those guys I mean they they
don't really feel the bumps like they used to in the past but that's all you
know that's that's good cuz it'll it'll age so in theory they have more energy
to put into the pedals exactly what do you think of Floyd today that's a good
question I have no idea Floyd unknown quantity he's in the main pack there I
think well stimulating watch I mean everybody who can go with him I'll be
going with them right right and since he's won the Tour de France you know he's
got it in him yeah I think he was feeling pretty good before the race I
chatted with him just for a second uh-huh he was just gonna ride and see how he
felt see how he felt from there and I think he's feeling pretty good it's great
great great crowds around the course there there's parties all the all the way
around the course it's just a great day for cycling in Northern California nice
it is a really nice day to no need to I don't think I've ever seen it 75 degrees
here in all my years Roger have you this is global warming well climate
confusion it is although I hear you know Nevada City has not been too warm all of
this year exactly yeah there's our leader we've got a few guys off the front
with ten minutes to go we got Floyd Lannis who's been making his presence known
off the front we got five gays guys we've also got rather noted local guy at
Davis California Adam Swithers who's up there he's been joined by a guy from
Metro Mint Mitch Trucks who's up there we've got the two boys who we talked from
Bissell cycling both Ian Boswell and Paul Mach and we got one guy who's we
haven't identified but he's making a small push off the front so this is the
time when we're seeing the decisive moves that they'll decide today's winner
being made now that gap we saw they came through the start finish line it's not
it's not that big so these guys close that down easily in one lap it's not a
problem if they've got the legs and the guys in that group quite frankly they've
got the horsepower shut that down so so today's race is brought by a number of
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Nevada City and the 49th annual Nevada City Classic so we'll see if we catch
them coming through it's about three minutes per lap just over so we should
see the guys come by in about another minute or so and and when we see them
come through it no this is not them when we also want to thank touchdown
productions and their sports network for bringing live coverage of this race the
50th annual Nevada City Classic we're gonna see the lead guys come through here
Roger very soon and this will maybe be the decisive move yes they are back
together that's Floyd that seems to have shut this down that's no I'm sorry that
is not the lead group my mistake this is live coverage everyone we're doing the
best we can it's tough to catch everybody because this race just shatters
them all apart again like I said I should have followed my own advice you
follow the motorcycle with the official here we got the lead motorcycle coming
through and we got one that is Bert Swindler who's the 39 year old bike
rider always bike rider in this pro race probably who's got a gap I'd say that's
oh boy look at that time that gap that is a huge gap he is really making his
presence felt we've got Ian Boswell in the front Paul Mach second floodland is
moving up there he's watching this move very carefully this is it because that
move that is decisive I was surprised last time they came through with about a
10 second gap that was about a 25 30 second gap and well he's the only former
champion in this race today he is certainly got the pedigree to win this
race here's the field coming through about 50 people these people are racing
for their own honor because they are not in any position to win this race now so
wow that's the move Roger Bert Swindler who's our former only former champion in
the race this year he's made his move and I think that's the decisive move of
the day I don't know if I've seen a breakaway like that in this race for a
long long time he opened up several bike lengths and just that one lap yeah that
is just remarkable like I said it just takes a tremendous amount of courage and
he's decided this is the moment he's got to make his move right now and you just
got to dig really deep and hope that you can get that established if you get a
break of about 45 seconds maybe one minute well you can keep that to the
end and and then you can maybe relax a bit but he if he pulls you know on that
appeal enough to gain another 15 seconds I think that's the decisive move he
holds it for what do we have eight minutes nine minutes to go yeah very
painful eight nine minutes I'll bet he's his lungs are burning his legs are
burning yeah that that is really something you know bricks window hearse
is 39 years old and we mentioned he's one of the older bike racers in this
race he's living in Colorado he's raced for a number of teams over the years
navigator cycling team I rode for Toyota United pro cycling team with one
of our former champions from Toyota he's rode the last two years from Bissell
cycling but this year he's riding for his own team it's a one-man team called
team give and and he's had a remarkable year he won the iron horse
but school classic just a month or so ago back at the end of May and that's a
super hard race he managed to win that going away solo so he's got he's
certainly got the legs yesterday he was in the break with Graham Howard it to
Renee managed to get second place in that race we were thinking that while he
certainly got the talent to win this race it's very very difficult to be able
to put on that kind of effort two days in a row but but that's exactly we're
seeing here he is coming right through here well so we'll catch a time on what
with the gap here sir but he's coming up on the guys ahead now he's not allowed
to work with those guys ahead of him Roger he may catch that group of five
six guys but he's not allowed to integrate didn't work with them they've
got a rod to separate race here we go we got about a almost a 30 second gap here
we go here's our lead group there's Floyd he's kind of dropped back we got
Bissell two guys on the front there trying to monitor the situation but I
think this race just might have gotten away from them I'm really surprised I
would have thought between Paul and Floyd that they would have pulled this
back but they could have underestimated their chances yeah sometimes that's what
happens you think well he can't really do that we know he raced hard yesterday
and he's not really going to be able to pull us off but but he's again made
about another 10 or 15 second advantage in that last lap so we just might see
the guy from Durango, Colorado pull off another major victory here in the Nevada
City Classic that's really incredible to see two major stage races because the
Tour de Nez is really a big a big race and it's at altitude Reno's about 4,500
feet and to do well there and then the very next day to be able to stay even
stay up with these guys is a very rare talent very strong rider and it's even
more difficult to do when you're 39 years old one of the things that happens
when you get older is you might still be to retain some of the power but your
recovery time after hard effort gets longer and longer and I I'm proof of
that Roger yeah same here it starts when you're well started for me at 35 yeah so
to do this at 39 that's remarkable well that's the same age that Lance Armstrong
is and we all saw him last year when he you know race this race and rode away in
a dominating way so it is possible in late 30s today to be competitive and win
these races but it's still remarkable to see somebody have an effort like that
two days in a row so testimony to the power of vegetables you've got to eat a
lot of vegetables stay that healthy for that long that's right well we'll see
now even though that break is about 35 to 40 seconds it is still not long enough
for for him to know he's gonna stay away he's got to keep working like we said
solo break that's tough we've got maybe 20 minutes left in this race it's a long
time to stay away that's maybe about you know seven or eight times up that hill
having to do it alone here he is coming through here we're seeing it's top of
Broad Street he looks awfully comfortable if you look at the smoothness of
his pedals he's not rocking back and forth he looks like he's awfully calm and
cool about a week ago he had a nasty crash you see the bandages on his left
leg there oh and look at that they are closing this down so he's lost most of
his lead in that last lap that oh I'm sorry no that was a group that he had
caught before we saw him at the bottom of Broad Street catching a lap group and
there come our lead rider so there his gap is still about the same 35 seconds
with maybe seven laps to go here Roger flying up the chute there you might
notice if we get another shot at the very bottom how close those guys come to
the hay bales sometimes just inches leaned over several degrees just coming
within inches to keep their speed through that corner because you can really
hold that speed up the chute and into the into well gosh all the way to York
Street right one of the things that you can pay attention to as you're watching
the live video coverage is just the smoothness in which these guys are
riding now when these guys get up and you see their body rocking back and
forth their shoulders and heads that's an indication that they're really tired
but when you saw a Burt ride through there he was sitting down very calm a lot
of smoothness to his pedal stroke there wasn't a lot of rocking of his upper
body that's a sign that not only does he have the fitness but he's got the core
strength the midsection of his body to keep the power just focus straight down
on the pedals and he's gonna be able to stay away typically when you see a
guy like that and he's rocking back and forth we saw that earlier when Graham
Howard made a move and pretty soon he started moving around you realize oh he
doesn't have it and boom the pack caught him but Burt's windowhurst you know
he looks off the smooth last year was really disappointing for him Roger I
know he really loves this race obviously a former champion and last year he was
targeting Nevada City is one of the races he wanted to do well at and he got
sick the week before this race and when he heard the Lance Armstrong is gonna do
it he was just just so disappointed his opportunity to kind of rub shoulders with
Lance something that's you know a lifetime achievement for many of these
guys he didn't get a chance but here he is but back this year making up for it
he's making up for it and and he's making the most of it you know what
amazes me is Lance traveling from Europe last year because you know he
changed nine time zones and all the new microbes it's really easy most riders
don't go back and forth to Europe too often because it is such a I mean an
interruption training for a solid week yeah but Lance seemed to take it in
stride like he was like it was nothing for him might be the advantage of his
own private jet being able to fly back and forth it could help right you see
the smoothness of Bert's window hearst coming through here it's just just
remarkable the smoothness that he's got let's see how he can catch with the the
gap here it's pretty remarkable see if he's kept it up at 35 seconds here we're
seeing a huge gap we're seeing Bert make the corner at the bottom of Broad Street
and we are yet to see the pace the chase group coming up here that is the move
we're continue to follow bird as he comes up the other side and here comes the
group 28 seconds beyond so they did make up some time it's still possible they
can reel him in they better get busy and they better all work together that's
one of the things that's hard to organize a group like this you've got to all
work together everyone's got to take their turn on the front everyone's got
to make a contribution to the chase otherwise they're not going to catch
him if they stand around look at each other it's over yeah he's definitely
making up time or he's opening the gap on the descent as you can see by the
speed which was which those guys go past but I bet he's taken it easy on those
two steep sections on the backside of the course just to keep his lactic levels
down so he can maintain that higher speed around the rest of the course that's
interesting we're seeing Floyd again move to the front of this chase group
trying to pull him back and we've got about nine people in that group and we
think it's too we've only seen a couple of guys at the front of that chase group
trying to pull him in and if that's the case it's only been Floyd and maybe Ian
Boswell occasionally we see Paul moving up there but everybody else has been
sitting in and biting their time so either they don't have the legs they're not
able to contribute but whatever the case if there's only two or three guys doing
the work they're not gonna bring him back there's Brian Hamilton our former
you know the Union sports columnist the sports editor it's great to see him
out here he's done a remarkable job this week bringing you all the coverage all
the spots that he's put in the Union this week to give us the the history of
the race the press champions and so on it's just a remarkable ambassador of
local cycling and we appreciate all of Brian Hamilton's work wasn't a great
photo it is a remarkable goatee he's got out there he's
supporting some new fashion so well let's see we've got him out two minutes
into this last lap they got to be coming up towards the top of broad street
maybe grab a new bottle typically that feed zone is a very active spot of the
race because the heat just takes it out of these guys today it's only in the
mid 70s maybe upper 70s the heat is not going to be taken out of these guys
today so they'll be fairly well hydrated yeah I think they'll be okay so that's
got to be where Bert's riding right now we'll probably see him come back into our
live coverage at the top of broad street here very shortly and we'll see if we
can get a gauge on the on his his distance ahead of Floyd Ian Boswell Paul
Mach and the group of chasers so we'll see here he is coming down broad
street near the start finish
wow he just I'm just amazed at how smooth he looks he's just gotten into a
really nice rhythm he's got the line figured out the bottom of broad street
is able to keep his speed up to that first corner keep the speed up to the
second corner he's a very technical bike racer you see him coming around here
through the hay bales using all that distance so when he comes all the way
over to the left side of the screen there that's an indication he's got this
speed up so we're seeing the guys come through and you're right it's it's quite
a gap here wow I'd say this is the decisive move I don't think they're
gonna catch him now I think that's that's really it Roger we've seen well he does
seem to be pacing himself pretty well yeah five laps to go yeah so we're
seeing a little bit more rocking of his body he's got to be tired but he's got
that break established now I think he's got enough distance that he's gonna be
able to keep that to the finish with only five to go that's that's tough but
when you got that break like we mentioned earlier when you got that
distance here's Floyd on the front again there's Ian Boswell second not sure
that is third that was Paul Mach fourth sitting in letting his teammate do most
of the work on the front you see that the classic grimace of Floyd here's a
couple guys trying to hang on to that group they're working hard because they
were nine people just two laps ago now how many are there in there Roger looks
like only four or five here they are coming up is that York Street is they're
coming by the new moon that is before they're turning left on the north pine
and then they'll take a turn on a cottage up by the school and begin their
assault at the steepest section of Broad Street so this is the moment all right
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in Nevada City so we just saw Bert come through and he was joined by another guy
Tyler Brant and Tyler Brant is a young under 23 rider riding for Cal giant but
he's a lap down so we noticed there's only a 17 second gap here are the guys
from Bissell and Floyd Lena so they have pulled back quite a bit of time in just
one lap so we thought that Bert maybe have established that the break that was
gonna go but maybe not now we're seeing Tyler Brant kind of hang on there now
Bert's winterhurst cannot get any help from the Cal giant guy Tyler Brant that
would be a rules violation but he's not he's at the front doing all the work
we said Tyler trying to hang on there trying to avoid getting left by there's
Floyd and there's Paul Mock at the back of that group trying to hang on wow this
is really becoming an exciting race as we come down to the final laps we've
only got four laps to go in today's running in the 50th annual Nevada City
Bissell Classic and well we talked about it on the front of the coverage
Roger about how this race typically gets narrowed down to a very few number of
people making a difference in this race and it took a while but it did happen it
did it's way broken up very little remnants of the field and it's all
because of fatigue lactic acid guy all of these guys are going a hundred percent
right now we've got a rather large pack of maybe 30 40 people that are still in
lead lap most of them are still in lead lap and it's an honor just to finish
this race Roger I mean a lot of people talk about winning it but to enter the
pro field and just to be able to finish not get pulled in this race that's a
remarkable achievement for many of these people it's really a great feeling at the
end too I remember what was it 84 the Olympic year everybody got off their
bikes and laid down at the end of the race yeah that's right you know that was
the year that Alexi Greywall was hoping to use this race as an opportunity to
show his worthiness to make the Olympic team and he gave it everything he had
and he didn't win any craps he was crestfallen he was just beside himself a
disappointment thinking his Olympic dreams were shattered right here in
Nevada City well this history tells us he did actually get appointed to the
Olympic team and he he delivered a gold medal he won the performance
yeah we were amazed I mean he was great but he was not that great not one that
we expected to win a gold medal so here we go looks like we've got Bert on the
coverage at the top of Broad Street we'll see if we can catch him coming
through we're seeing in front of us the lead motorcycle coming through
indicating three laps to go two minutes and 46 seconds he did that lap that is
remarkable they typically do this oh and look at that they're only six seconds
down they have reeled him in this race is not over we got the guys that we
thought might win this race Paul Mauch we got Ian Boswell right there Floyd
Lannis is right there and they're only seven seconds down they could easily
pull this back together and we might yet see a pack sprint something we rarely
see in this race but it just might happen the difficulty being in the chase
group here is that the guys who are pulling the chase are actually
disadvantaging themselves while they're doing the chase the riders behind them
who are resting in the draft actually are getting a better ride and so we'll
have more energy in the last these last two laps that's why Bissell has got a
distinct advantage for having Ian do most of that work up there and Paul can
just sit in he doesn't have to do it and he'll have a lot more for the final
laps this race there's only three to go and if Paul's been able to save each
energy we you know it's interesting people look at this and they think it's
an individual sport because a lot of the individuals are getting the accolades
but the truth is it's a team sport and these guys got to work together and this
is one indication of that when you see Ian Boswell just giving it all he's got
suffering or is hoping that he can allow his teammate to have maybe a you know
10 20 watt advantage on every lap well that savings is money in the bank when
it comes down to the final lap or two to be able to win this thing
they are running by the UPS store banner on the corner of York and North Pine
it's nice to have the UPS store a sponsor or event here today you've seen
their commercials we appreciate their local support still an amazingly large
group the field itself yeah it looks like almost half the people that started
this race are going to be able to finish it that's an awful lot last year we had
about 120 people start this race only about 30 finished and it looks like
no we did not
you know what we got a moment when we these guys are climbing to the top of
Broad Street we got a message from Tove moves a lot Miller of Penrose Colorado
would like to give a shout out to Norm Underburger wants to say hi I miss you
and wish you were here that's great we heard from Toby on the World Wide Web
and yep we're using our our live coverage is a bit of Twitter so it's nice personalized
Twitter yeah so outstanding nice to know that people around the country even in
Colorado watching this and well you've got one of Colorado's own that's been
putting on the show of the day running off the front right out of Durango Colorado
Bert Swindlehurst former champion here he is joined and yeah and just like we expected
that's Paul Mock who's up there Floyd Lannis is pulling in Ian Boswell has pulled back
so this might be it now as we talked about earlier when the group gets caught that's
the time to make another move and it looks like Paul made the move immediately two laps to go
and Bert managed to have enough legs to stay with him so it looks like they're creating a small
gap here maybe three four seconds um Floyd's got to shut this down what do you think Roger is he
shutting it down good question it looks like he's suffering just a little bit there yeah
relatively big gear too yeah Floyd is he's kind of a big gear grinder and uh well he's trying but
that gap is not closing and uh Ian is sitting there watching him uh monitoring the situation
but it is not getting any smaller and uh with two laps to go you got to close that down now
and nobody's willing to help Floyd out Floyd you got to earn it here there's uh you know no one
willing to help you out Ian's got his teammate up ahead in the break so it's not responsible for him
to work he's sitting there in second wheel almost in a blocking move and uh so it may come down to
the person we thought might win this uh Paul Mock who's out of Davis a local favorite loves this
race it's one of his uh and lifetime achievements he wanted to win this race he's never won it
before today might be the day wow to see these guys just continue to dig deep just the the courage
to ride when you know you're not gonna be able to win you're not gonna get any prize money you're
not gonna get any accolades but they're just suffering as you see them climb this climb oh
man I I just know that feeling so well and frankly I don't miss that kind of pain I don't
either I remember going to work Monday morning just wondering how I was going to get through the
day after Nevada City yeah that's really true well we ought to see them come through here fairly
quickly as they come back down and uh they only had two to go the last time so this will be the
bell lap I believe we got to be able to hear the uh the cowbells rolling the uh the bell lap coming
up uh wow this has been exciting coverage this race just never disappoints in delivering an exciting
exciting race it's just that's I think that's one of the reasons why the spectators come out
year after year and uh and this year is no different even without Lance Armstrong it's
been a remarkable race here alive well look at that Floyd is back up there we've got uh here
here comes the lead motorcycle coming through let's see if we can catch these guys Floyd Landis
leading it out uh we got Kurt right behind him we got the two Bissell guys wow that is remarkable
so they're all there even with that big gear he was able to motor up that means he's a he's
got a good probability of doing well this next these next two laps so is there two to go or is
this the bell lap Roger this was two to go so now we're on the bell lap so we're on we're on the bell
lap so they come through this will be the finish right no when they come through they'll get the
bell okay not mistaken one no the lead motorcycle ahead of one I can't see the uh I do see a one
well we're seeing Floyd continue to do all the work on the front I don't know how he's going to
have for the sprint he's going to have to make a gap because Floyd is not really known as a sprinter
so he's going to have to create a gap on the uphill and I don't know he's done an awful lot of work
to pull these guys back it's going to be remarkable if he's able to win this race
all right so we are on the bell lap and we're uh this is an exciting finish this typically doesn't
come down to a sprint finish but we had five guys in that league group and it's going to be
interesting to see what happens as they come down to the finish here we had uh our favorites
Paul mocked up there Kurt Swinnellers who's out of Colorado we've mentioned Paul is out of Davis
and uh Floyd Lannis who's living down in uh Southern California these days
is showing a lot of courage pulling these people back there were times when I thought he didn't
have it but uh when he really came down to it two laps ago he pulled the the group back all by
himself I wish we had these riders vital signs or vitals the one thing about the sprint on the
downhill is that the heavier rider even by just a few pounds the heavier rider has a distinct
advantage yeah that's true now normally it would be the lightness normally races finish on an uphill
and this is one of the few venues that finishes on a downhill so uh we saw in the mouse's race
really today and Larry Nolan a former world champion a race in the pro race last year big guy
managed to to win in a sprint coming down that because he's a little bigger so uh we're seeing
some of the guys come through the uh the finish here oh here we go wow was that Ian Boswell I
thought we'd see Paul mock but uh we got a solo break off the front and who's the guy we got two
whistle guys that's Ian Boswell and Paul mock year one two wow that is absolutely remarkable
Floyd Lannis is coming up in fourth position and one spot out of the podium Ian Boswell
happened to be our champion today we were telling about Ian Boswell doing all that work
for uh Paul mock and it turned out that he had the legs at the end to win it pulling away absolutely
remarkable today's strongest rider by a pretty good margin yeah wow Ian Boswell that is absolutely
remarkable I'm very impressed I really didn't think Ian Boswell had it in him to do that kind
of effort given all the work that he did to protect Paul mock but at the end he did it that's
absolutely remarkable well Ian Boswell has no uh no newcomer to the sport I mean he's been racing
for a number of years uh not long ago um he's still young but back in 2009 he was on the junior
world championships for the United States racing in Moscow in Russia and he's been in a valuable
edition of the Team Bissell team um and today he is your champion at the 50th annual in the
baddest city basketball classic that's Ian Boswell riding with his teammate there Paul mock wow that
was exciting and there they are Team Bissell most successful team here today yeah making their
victory lap getting the accolades on the the crowd wow that's nice that is just something else well
like I mentioned earlier Ian Boswell put on his website the Nevada City Classic is one of his
favorite races despite the fact that he's never had a chance to win it but uh he made the most of
his opportunity here today Roger that is just outstanding
so having grown up in Chico California I suppose uh when he was younger he was one of the races
he could come down to and see this maybe his dad brought him down here uh kind of lit the fire
about how exciting this is and yeah hometown advantage he's probably got a lot of friends
and family watching him today yeah that's that is really exciting well well I'm just uh very proud
to have been part of Touchdown Productions for today's 50th annual Nevada City Biscuit Classic
this is one of the very few bike races in America that's televised and it's a tribute to everyone
at Touchdown Productions uh Gilda Mingus his large crew that he's assembled today thousands of feet
of cable seven cameras two production trucks I hope you've enjoyed the coverage it's absolutely
remarkable we'll see if we can stay on the air long enough for the coverage of the podium we're
not sure we're going to be able to do that but if we can we will if not I'll remind you that you
can always go onto the website at nevadacountytv.

org to catch what we might miss if we have to go off
the air early I'm sure that we'll have an interview with Ian Boswell from Chico California Paul Moff
we'll also I'm sure have an interview with Flo Atlantis despite the fact that he failed to make
a podium spot it's just kind of indicative of the year that he's had or the two years he's had he's
close but he's just not the kind of champion that he once was doesn't have that spark I guess
events of the past year year and a half two years have really affected him yeah obviously I mean
he's had an awful lot of weight on his shoulders uh kind of keeping private the fact that he was
using performance enhancing drugs and now maybe uh strange enough him uh coming clean with that
is added even more burden is he's had the scorn of the entire cycling world on his back
criticizing him for all that he's uh that he's done so wow what a remarkable race it looks like
we have probably uh you know eight nine ten thousand people out here that enjoyed today's race
perfect weather here in historic nevada county or in nevada city and in nevada county and uh wow
what a remarkable race the pistol last year as you remember there were three guys in the break
Lance Armstrong and Levi Liebheimer the third guy in that break was ben jock main who's the captain
of the team Bissell team ben chose not to uh to do it this year but uh his team was well represented
today weren't they roger I would say yeah well wow that was uh that was something that's taken me
a while to catch my breath I thought uh I thought Bert might have a break it typically when you get
up about a minute on this field that's oftentimes enough but we talked about that there's a difference
between going up there solo and going up there with one other or two other people to help uh
share the load and having to do that solo he just eventually he didn't have the legs or the lungs or
who knows what exactly it was but he cracked yeah and right at the last minute so it was a well
timed attacked excellent strategy for the winners yeah and I didn't see where Bert finished but uh
either fifth or sixth so still a remarkable effort he put in a great show for all the people here
in Nevada City today and uh just awesome I mean you know you really can't ask for anymore when
you're in a bike race uh they have the courage to give it what you got to see if you can be a champion
on that day he didn't hold back he let it all rip um he just came up a little bit short but he's got
nothing to uh to be discouraged about today he uh he put on quite a show
let's see here we uh no I guess that's uh Ian Boswell we're seeing down there on the
live coverage kind of getting rehydrated uh you know 90 minutes of effort he's probably
expending a lot of calories a lot of fluids um part of the recovery is getting rehydrated
we're seeing that uh it's important to drink your recovery drink get rehydrated before
you gotta get onto the podium and stand there you might be there for another 10 or 15 minutes
for the presentation and the interviews and so on so it's important these guys continue to race
throughout the week virtually every weekend that's part of what being a professional is and
that's what they've signed up for so it's important they take care of themselves immediately after the
race with both fluid and nutrition right there their blood sugar levels are probably pretty
low right now too yeah these guys are awfully thin but uh you know output that many calories uh
you do get to eat quite a bit you're seeing Ian Boswell shake the hand of Floyd Lannis
you know Floyd gave it all he had uh he just didn't have enough uh in the tank at the end
and when that move happened uh brought the very top of Broad Street just out of the view of our
cameras uh when Ian made that move Floyd just if he had it he would have gone but obviously
didn't have it today the best he had was fourth so uh here the guys come down there's Ian Boswell
coming in front of our podium right here uh Paul Mothling the more decorated guy that
of Davis California right there nice to Floyd Lannis coming up too we're not going to be able
to probably stay long enough for the uh video presentation to the uh the podium presentation
we'll stay on as long as we can but we've got to Nevada County Road we're coming up next please
stay tuned for that and uh and we'll see we're seeing them set up the podium right now in the
start finish line this is the final race of the day and uh they take a minute to get that set up
you're seeing the podium stand there with all the uh the local sponsors that uh put on this race
and bring it to us seeing the logos of the A.

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video of the rest valley group the UPS store
um and uh this is uh this is a community effort to bring this together um like we've mentioned
earlier Dwayne and Connie Strasser have put this together for a number of years there's been rumors
that Dwayne will not do it after this year you know remains to be seen whether he will do that
we hope he does because it's done a remarkable job and he's done a great job of bringing together
hundreds of volunteers uh to bring this race together and give us the excitement that we
take for granted after 50 years of seeing this race
all right as we're watching the uh some of the pro riders riders that managed to finish this
race we saw Brooks Winterhurst just right by us we're only gonna have another minute or so of
our live broadcast today at the 50th annual Nevada City Bicycle Classic brought to you by
touchdown productions as we go off the air or remind you that you can also continue to follow
the action even after we go off the live tv coverage at nevadacountytv.

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onto the website just click on watch nctv now for live streaming video of this community event
one of many that are brought to you by touchdown productions we also like to
thank city hall for allowing us to connect into their servers to bring it over the web
like i said this is a community effort and uh and uh and we thank everybody at city hall
we will also look forward roger to seeing everybody back next year at the 51st uh running of the
nevada city classic father's day as always father's day as always that's right you can mark
your calendar now father's day next year will be the 51st annual running of the nevada city classic
and you probably want to get your hotel rooms now too that's true and the hotel is a this is a
big event uh bring a lot of people from out of town so uh make your reservations early and it's
been a real privilege roger for you to join me i appreciate your uh your support today you've
been great rusty thanks very much for such a great show all right thank you everyone as we bid
you feel well we appreciate you joining us today for the 50th annual running of the nevada city
bicycle classic thank you everyone
all right we're here in uh downtown nevada city as we uh we're waiting for the uh podium to be assembled
um and all right we're gonna uh throw the mic down to uh Todd Gogolski and allow him to uh do
the podium call up in the the awards presentation let's uh throw it over to Todd from madison
wisconsin riding for grove subaru cycling team let's hear it for zack javies
and dwayne strasser there serving as a flower man for the top three and now we'd like to bring up
our second place on the day riding for bissel professional cycling team out of davis california
ladies and gentlemen let's hear it for paul mock
and the first man on the day and what a day it was besting all the competitors out here for
this 90-minute test let's hear it for the man at the top for bissel pro cycling ian buzzwell
and presenting the trophy to the winner this is steve cameron district manager for waste
management steve why don't you go ahead up there and give ian his trophy and thank you so much to
steve and waste management for sponsoring this 50th edition of the race there they are once again
ian buzzwell your winner the 50th anniversary of the nevada city bicycle classic paul mock
second place and once again in third that is zack davies gentlemen what a show it was
spectators thank you so much for being here it's been a terrific race to be part of this 50th
edition of this race i'd like to thank brittini and other folks we're going to get some more
pictures of these guys all together and i'll get a quick word with ian buzzwell here right after
he's done with these photographs well that's a remarkable podium at bissel once again making
a big splash on the podium taking first and second place and uh wow that's really something
we're gonna see if we can uh again an interview let's go back to talk are you really 19 years of
age or am i wrong on that yeah i'm 19 so 19 in february this has to go right to the top of your
resume is the biggest win of your career uh definitely yeah i was out here last year racing
as a junior and uh i raced the uh i raced in the afternoon had a chance to ride with uh lead by
lifetime and uh ben jock mange is on bissel as well and uh yeah this is one of my favorite races
and i was glad i had the legs today to win it it's really a dream come true it's my favorite race
tell me a little bit about how you and paul work together at the end of the race because you had
swindlehurst off the front you were back in that chase group and you guys came out one two at the
end of the day yeah it was a hard race with the swindlers off the run we uh you know there were
times when i was wondering if we could bring him back but at the end we were finally able to bring
him back and uh he was pretty coked and uh paul took a good day to bring him back and at the end uh
had the legs so just riding off motivation and uh inspiration and this race and i was able to pull
off the win so did paul actually do the last chase for you so that you guys could bring back
swindlehurst and you'd have a little bit left at the end yeah paul was able to bring him back and
then he uh swindler swung again like he was allowed to go and uh played and helped us out brought him
back and there i was able to be able to go up the top of the hill well congratulations a worthy
champion here ladies and gentlemen ian boswell team pistol pro cycling what a tremendous day it's been
and i would like to thank dwayne strasser here our race promoter for so many years let's hear
for dwayne strasser what a terrific event my co-announcer briggs heaney all of our officials
and judges and most of all all of you spectators out here in nevada city we'll see you back here
again next year i'm todd gagalski so long wow that was quite a uh honors uh or quite a podium up
there cna and boswell i had forgotten that we saw him race the junior race last year where he
virtually lapped the field and then uh um he joined in the pro race there's a number of photos
there's a lot of amateur photographers around the course last year taking pictures on lance and
levi and ben jock main and and they they lapped in boswell i had forgotten that but as he was
being interviewed by uh todd gagalski at the the finish there um i remember he rode with uh levi
and lance for maybe uh five or six laps or so um and there were a number of pictures of him riding
in that group people thought how did he get into that breakway but he didn't get he wasn't in the
break but uh he got to ride with those guys obviously he got some encouragement all right
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and touchdown productions the leader in foothill broadcasting we have uh with us today ian boswell
has come down here for an interview of our tv coverage have you got the mic there ian i do thank
you very much for joining us uh tell me what that was like last year you're racing the junior race
today in the pro one two race the elite field and uh you only 19 years old but you sure you
look like you're belonged yeah i know it's um you know this is my favorite race as i was saying
this is uh kind of a dream come true to win this race i've been here this is my third time racing it
and i've watched it several years in a row so it's uh i mean i'm really still kind of in shock
that i was able to pull off the win but i had some good help from my teammates and it was a it was a
good day for it yeah well last year uh pissell is a team that's based at and santa cruz you've had
some remarkable talented people on that team last year we enjoyed watching ben jock main roll
off the front with levi and lance and um let's see if i can turn around so i'm uh facing the right
way here let me just take this and last year we saw ben jock main who did a remarkable job up in
the breakaway i know that you uh not only won the junior race last year you also jumped in the pro
one two field um and towards the end when you got lapped you wrote a few laps with lance and levi
maybe you took some inspiration from that yeah i know that was definitely a uh you know huge stepping
stone last year with the race with those guys and actually uh it was this race last year that kind
of got me the spot on bissel this year with uh you know ben jock main's definitely noticed my
presence in that race and uh you know at the end of the season when i was looking for a team i uh
talked to him and he uh you know saw that i was able to you know had some good talent so he was
instrumental in getting me on the bissel professional cycling team and i'm super happy about that it's
you know good to good to win one for the team yeah that's excellent so and tell me you know we were
talking before the broadcast uh this being the 50th annual running of this race some of the champions
that have uh been represented are 50 years some of these are the most remarkable people in the
world of cycling with uh john howard gregelmond lance armstrong levi there are no fake champions
that win this race it's such a difficult race talk about what the course is like how difficult it
is to survive a 90 minute race like this yeah i know uh i mean the history of this race is amazing
and to win it's like you know it's by far my biggest result i've accomplished and uh you know
coming from my dad uh went to school at chico state and so he used to always come up and do this
race and so i have a lot of uh you know supporters from chico and the history of this race for you
know northern california is huge so uh you know to win this race is just an honor yeah we noticed
that on the bissel website it noted that uh you only listed two favorite races and the nevada
city classic was one of them we were commenting that maybe your dad brought you down here when
you were younger and maybe sparked an interest in the sport yeah he did uh like i said this is my
maybe third time racing i've been down here and watched it like total of five times and uh
yeah i mean you know it's it's on father's day so it's you know this one was you know for my dad
and it's awesome to be able to come out here and you know you can almost guarantee every uh
every father's day in nevada city is going to be warm and sunny so it's uh i love coming to the
face great atmosphere and great you're here today he is yeah oh great what a great father's day
give a picture here at the nevada city classic that's awesome so this has often been a stepping
stone people show that what they're capable of where do you think this may go for you what are
your aspirations in this sport um well uh the national you 23 national championships are in
bend origan next week so my hometown so that's kind of my next big goal and to win today was uh
you know big confidence booster to you know they have a good performance there and you know carry
on some good fitness for the rest of the season yeah that's right that the uh under 23 national
championships are next week i know they got the uh the individual time trial the road race up there
any race that you're targeting for the uh national championships um both the time trial and the
road race are you know there are hometown race both of them are within five minutes of my house so
you know both of us i'm going to give 100 percent and if i can you know have have legs like i did
today hopefully and pull on a stars and stripes jersey wow well we want to thank you very much
for joining us today and allowing a few minutes to talk to you congratulations this is an awesome
victory thank you guys and uh like we said there's no uh there's no uh you know fake
champions this is a remarkable achievement and uh congratulations thank you thank you thank you
thanks for having it all right thanks a lot ian ian boswell that's your uh 2010 50th annual
nevada city classic champion racing for the bissel classic uh bissel cycling team at a santa
cruise and we appreciate ian joining us for a few minutes to share his thoughts a remarkable
achievement especially since his dad's here on father's day and he talked about his dad coming
down here you know racing in this race he wants his dad competing this race and uh well that's
just exciting to see in here that um you know this is a father state tradition what a what a great
gift to give to your dad to win this race roger yeah i wish my dad had been here when i uh was on
the podium a couple of times um the riders who travel you know are disadvantaged in that way but
having your father watching your race is uh is uh well it's as good as 10 000 spectators i do that
yeah that's right that is really remarkable this is a day that he's not going to forget i know that
he's got his aspirations next week up in bend oregon but i have a feeling we're going to be
seeing a lot more of him boswell down the road so yeah well we've uh been happy to bring you this
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