Our athlete Felix Ritzinger will compete on Saturday, April 7th at the Rondevanvlaanderen, the “High Fair of Cycling” in Flemish Belgium at the U23. Felix and the ChaseUp wheels will do their best.
The more than 180km long track is well known and leads again this year over the dreaded Muur van Gerardsbergen, which challenges the cyclists with an up to 20% steep ascent.
We will follow the race!
Der Frühling gab in der letzten Woche schon einen kleinen Vorgeschmack.Last week spring already gave a small foretaste.
The fifth edition and thus the final race of the Vienna Bahn-o-Rama Series in the Ferry Dusika Stadium, on March 2nd, took place again with the participation of Team Chase. The interest in this event grew from time to time, and the stands of the cycling stadium became more and more crowded.
For the mixed field of young athletes, paracyclists, amateurs and elite drivers, there were several competitions on the race schedule. To qualify for the A or B finals, two elimination races each were held.
In the points races, placings were fought for after the qualification. The race remained turbulent with exciting intermediate sprints after every 10th lap in order to score extra points by winning a lap and the well-known snowball system, in which more and more points are awarded in the increasing course of the race. Our athlete Felix took second place in the B final behind Wolfgang Steinbach.
Martin Granadia
A special highlight was the team race, Madison, which took place at the end. The teams of two were able to master the often spectacular changes between the two drivers during the laps with flying colours. There was no fall and the mood during the Madison increased. Team Chase received loud support from the inside of the track for this edition of the Bahn-o-Rama.
In this last and fifth edition of the Bahn-o-Rama the award ceremony of the series took place.
All results now online.
At the end of January Manfred set off by plane to the south. His destination was the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. There he spent 15 days under ideal external conditions. He used the time perfectly to complete extremely high quality and quantitative training sessions.
Starting point of his daily bike rides was Limassol. The location of the city on the south coast of the island offers all possibilities for training: from shallow basic units along the coast to various interval trainings in the mountainous interior, everything is possible.
Under almost perfect external conditions – during the day the temperatures were always in the range between 15° and 25° – Manfred completed about 60 hours of training in 15 days. Always with him were the Chase Up wheels. The training camp was another endurance test for the carbon rims. But they were completely unaffected by the more than 1,750 kilometres of training and about 20,000 metres of altitude difference and still run as on the first day!
Chase, handcrafted in Austria, Carbon. Photo: chase.cx
On the first day there were two competitions with points races and the first 30-minute race. With a total of 9 points, Felix and his partner Tobias Edelbauer were able to place overall in ninth place – a good start. Felix’s crash in the second race and the resulting injuries were less beneficial.
Unfortunately, on the following three days they were not able to continue on the same level and lost one lap to the main field per day. Dwindling strength and the lack of experience resulted in missed detaching and an upset stomach put an additional restraint on Felix on the last two days. All in all it was a very exciting experience to ride in front of the bursting ranks of the Berlin Velodrom and also a taste of track cycling at the highest level!
Chase, handcrafted in Austria, Carbon, . Photo: Thomas Hildebrandt
