Ready the Motor

As mentioned in yesterdays post, we have some new and exciting additions to the 2010 RCV schedule. This one REALLY has my attention. As most of you know, in the three years since the RCV project was launched, we have produced only triathlon bike courses. They are the world's most famous courses in conjunction with our Ironman partners at the World Triathlon Corp., with this robust project success keeping us always in search for new opportunities. A lot of this comes in the form of market research from our users, many of whom are not triathletes, and never will be. (Nobody ever said that you have to be a swimmer to ride a CT). Naturally then, we have looked to other cycling events in order to test the RCV waters. This year we will test target to our roadie, cross, off-road, crit, TT, and touring friends, as well as continue to film and produce the creme de la creme tri courses that we haven't already shot.

What this all means to you is more RCVs in difference cycling genres. What it means to me is that I have to find the ways and means to capture the event footage. And as I'm sure you can appreciate, sitting on the old Super Shooter Scooter amongst 1,500 non-drafting (most of the time) triathletes over 56 or 112 miles is the polar extreme from hanging on to a BMW in the middle of a pro peloton at 35 mph, or in this case, mounting a camera somewhere on my anatomy and riding single track mid race. I am quite confident the results of all this testing, research, development and on location shooting will provide spectacular RCV results, however, riding the Leadville 100 is going to require some additional technical work prior to the event.

Cameras, mounts, batteries, shocks, tape, film, memory cards, GPS, and the ways and means to haul all this over 100 rugged miles, will be a chore.

But nothing like getting the motor ready.