| TimeShip Team Time Trial |
| 14 Registered Contestants.
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| Event Date and Time: |
Saturday, April 24, 2004 00:00 |
| Event Duration: |
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| Location: |
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Entry: |
Open |
| Helmets: |
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| Organizer: |
TimeShip Racing
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| Map: |
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| Entry Fee: |
$75 |
| Contest Info: |
TimeShip Racing presents the first ever Team Time Trial event on April 24th and 25th 2004 in Albuquerque, NM. Teams of 3 racers will compete in two events where they will be allowed to push, pull, sling and draft their way down a very smooth 1.5 mile dead straight course at 50 mph. The last rider across the finish will trip the timer, fastest team time wins. In the second event, two teams of 3 racers each (6-man heats!) will be allowed to push, pull, sling and draft team mates, but only alowed to draft on the opposing team riders. The first racer across the finish line wins for their Team.
Remember Roller Derby? Velodrome? Roller Ball? Grab a partner and start DRAFTING! Body fairings and Aero geeks welcome. No board fairings, No motorized tow ins. We're calling you out Gravity, Dregs, Sector Nine, Comet, Black Leather Racing, Abec 11, Rogers Bros, SSS, Team Swan, Kebbek. If you don't have a Team, just make one up of a couple of riders that you feel comfotable with....at 50mph...8 inches apart!
Sunday the 25th we'll race across town in a single critical mass start, with 10 miles of slightly down hill grade, ending at UNM. We'll then invade the Frontier Restaraunt for lunch before heading out to Ditch Play.
We'll round out the weekend with the usual ditch shuttles, Park session and safety checks. Registration will be at the Los Altos Skatepark on Friday the 23rd from 6:00pm until 9:00pm and at the hill on Saturday morning from 7:00am til 8:00am.
These hotels are reasonably priced, and right next to eachother. They are also near food and a five minute walk to the Los Altos Skatepark.
Guesthouse Inn
10331 Hotel Ave. NE
505-271-8500
$44
Ramada Inn
25 Hotel Circle NE
505-271-1000
$59
Days Inn
10321 Hotel Ave. NE
505-275-3297
$49
Howard Johnson
15 Hotel Circle NE
505-296-4589
$59
To reach the hotels from the airport, take I-25 North to I-40 East, I-40 to the Eubank exit North. Turn right off of Eubank onto Hotel Avenue. The Los Altos Skate Park is 2 blocks west of the Hotels on Lomas, past the softball fields. No fees, no hassles and no pads required.
Schedule of Events
Friday the 23rd Check In at Los Altos Skatepark
Register and or check in until 9:00pm, get racers #
and T-Shirt
Saturday the 24th: Register and or check in at the course on Rio Bravo Blvd. 7:00 am to 8:00 am
Riders Meeting: 8:15 am
Practice Runs: 8:30 am
Racing Starts: 10:00 am
Awards Ceremony: 2:30 pm
Ditch Play: 3:00 pm until dark
Sunday the 25th a Critical Mass Cross Country Race
No Practice, Race Starts: 9:00 am
Lunch at 12:00 pm
Shuttles to Ditch Play: 1:00 pm until Dark
We look forward to riding and racing with you in Albuquerque, where Quiver Counts.
Joe Lehm
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| 1st Place Finisher: |
Rogers Bros |
| 2nd Place Finisher: |
Moody / Flindt |
| 3rd Place Finisher: |
Brunson / Lehm |
| Overall Results: |
Thanks to all of the dependable local volunteers that turned out to help make this event happen, we couldn't do it without you! Long hours standing in the sun, dealing with irritated Sheriffs and motorists and getting to see very little racing. I wish I could give you more than just a T-shirt. Special thanks to Paul and Laurie for working traffic all day due to unforseen delays and to Jim and James West for staying long after to help us load bales and tons of traffic control stuff. James won a new Kebbek DH board as Youngest Competitor (14 yrs old) and I'm sure he knows what to do with it! Call us out to train anytime, you're a racer now. We made the 6 o'clock news on channel 4, "Dare devils in ABQ" and a nice shot of a practice run with lots of drafting. Let me know if you want to get a copy of it, Pat I still have those shirts if you still want them.
Of COURSE the Rogers Brothers won, was there ever any doubt? From the pointy tips of their aero helmets down to the embossed hub caps to 'trim' the flow around the wheels, they are always the fastest team. Period. Other teams come, go or just don't show, but these guys take Skate Team to a new level. Being brothers just raises the exponential. Dave, thanks for the TimeShip Award, I'm so stoked, it's beautiful. 2nd Place was Pat Moody and Jimmy Flindt, you guys were smokin' it, and you beat the host Team as well. Flindt loves doing that. We'll get you yet Jimmy! 3rd Place went to TimeShip Racing, I can't thank my team mate Will Brunson
enough!! Thank you for your all of your help before, after and during that stress mess. Also your huge push, great tuck and FAT pushes from behind as we raced down the course. That was a blast, and I know you were faster alone. Will clocked an individual time in practice 3 seconds faster than our team time. 4th Place went to the Chocolate Speedway Kings, Mark Jeangerard and Chris Miller, you guys are so much fun! It's great having more old guys on the hill talking Grentecs and Road Rider 4's. Thanks for staying late to pick all that control stuff up.
Palmer was the only individual as a Team and I want to give him big props for it. I was talking pre-race smack about how BLR wouldn't step up to a downhill, Team or otherwise and that he is their racing future. Then his last minute team mate Ryan EP backed out after a few practice runs, but Palmer still charged ahead racing alone and clocked a 99.18. Noodle legged in the shut down area he admitted that all the pool, park and ditch skating in ABQ don't do much to condition you for a real downhill. Props Rob, you charged it without a Team or practice. See you at the Bear with your Team in tow, and we look forward to racing BLR at this years downhill and slalom at Breckenridge on August 20th.
Sundays Cross Town race was SO much fun we almost had to do it twice, except our legs were starting to noodle. 8.4 miles of slightly downhill striped bike lane, blowing through intersections, pumping for blocks at 20mph, long 1/2 mile tucks and drafting on wide eyed bicyclists. "That's one fast skateboard!" We will definitely do this one again soon. 1st place went to K-Lee riding a Bozi Slalom type board with Seismic trucks and Avalons, time of 30 minutes and 14 seconds. 2nd place Will Brunson less than a second behind, and 3rd place Joe Lehm, 12 seconds behind the winner. Congrats K-Lee!
Albuquerque continues to be the Outlaw Skaters Paradise, with ample opportunity to expess yourself in an unimaginable variety of fast, fun, free and fully dangerous terrain. ABQ locals are skaters in the truest sense, uncontrollable. We love it. That said, you can imagine how difficult it is to contain that incredible energy into an organized, scheduled, permitted event. Not everyone may feel the need to participate or even support this kind of event, others come out of the wood work to help out or race. Some will even drive a thousand miles to compete and take last place with a smile. That's who I'm trying to stoke by throwing these events in Skate Paradise, the RACERS. If you are not a racer, then please come out and lend a hand in support. If you don't want to help or race, at least support those who do, and if you just plain think that organized events are lame, over regulated, expensive, or too damn early in the morning.......then please do us all a favor and just STAY HOME!!
After this weekends non participant intoxicated idiocy, TimeShip Racings chances for future permits is now under review with the Bernalillo County Sheriff, County Risk Management and State Highway Dept. Being a Skate Outlaw is fine any other time, just not during an organized event, with the Sheriff on site VOLUNTEERING their deputies and patrol cars to help us. They were not impressed, and I must now face the uphill battle of trying to present skateboard racing as a viable acivity to the bueracrats.
It's been hard enough convincing the local skaters.
I am forced to BAN Cowboy Cody from attending or participating in any TimeShip events (permitted or outlaw) for 1 full year, and hope that we have all learned something from his 'contribution' to the ABQ skate epic. Outlaws can still wear helmets, you kook, even here.
GI Joe |
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