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Winter season has arrived with Team LAMERE Cycles fresh and excited to be rolling again. The morning dawned with 8 degrees and frozen trails with nary a trace of snow. Didn't matter, tires were selected with a set of 45NRTH 4" Dillinger tires mounted up. A studded on the front for cornering on the frozen ground and non-studded on the rear. We also had the Hitching Post Motorsports trailer on hand for our heated garage.
I believe that the Solstice Chase Race had 290 entrants, a much larger field then last year.
The race took off at 10:00am with temps around 11 degrees, it was winter weather for sure, sans snow on the ground.
The lead group whittled down to 3 riders within a few miles, this was a 42K distance, about 31 mile race.
At the end of 1 lap, about 55 minutes the lead group was down to 2 riders, with Jeff Hall setting the pace. It stayed that way until Jeff dropped Adam Bergman on a climb on the 2nd of 2 laps.
From then on Jeff kept the pace high and finished in 1:45, about 5 minutes quicker then 2014 when he won. The gap to 2nd place was about 6 minutes.
Yours Truly, the LAMERE Team Manager got some miles in today, good woodsy course was I was able to see Jeff Hall at several locations. The race course crew was out roaring around the trail making sure the ribbons were up and the corners were marked, good stuff.
Jeff crossing one of the several bridges and ridding his own race.
Taking it home down the last hill and whooping it up!!
#1 Top Log for the first race of the Great Lakes Fat Bike Series.
Good to see all the Winter racers that we met last year and the Great crew from Cyclova XC "Thanks out to Frank Lundeen"
Race Fat Bike On!!
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