FBUSA!

You asked if I could write something for your website. Those things take some time around here because we have to translate everything to English. You asked me why no-one will break my 24-hour record, well, Peter Groeneveld, the guy who made our carbon scooters will probably smash my record. I made it to 461 kilometres, he can reach 600 kilometres if all goes well. His situation is better; his route has better asphalt and his material is superior as well, because he’ll use his self-made carbon scooter with two 28-inch wheels, with a total weight of 4,3 kilograms. Another advantage Peter has is that he doesn’t have to look for sponsorship, which gives him more time to train, but even without training he’s in a far better shape because he lives for the sport! 

Everything else is going very well here. We won a lot of prizes and titles last season, among which a European championship time trial title for Rosanne and a European criterium title and time trial title for Maxime. Rosanne came in second in the Dutch sprint championship, the Dutch national championship and the national competition, the Kickbike-cup. Maxime and Jannes van der Heiden, another young member of our team, won the national championship and Melissa Kwint finished second. As for me, I was second veteran behind Peter Groeneveld at the national championship, but I won the Kickbike-cup, for veterans. 

Next season we’ll have four more quick senior men, so we can hopefully win some big races there as well. For now our members are training very hard 3 to 4 times a week. We hope to score big at the World championships with multiple titles and we also want to shine at the Eurocups and in the Dutch races. I want to race one more year with the veterans. After the World championships I’ll probably concentrate on training and coaching of our team and limit myself to making long distances tours of 200+ kilometres. I hope you (Gary, Mike, Jill and you) can make it to