45 - Wednesday, dune 26, 1985 - North Shore News Takle manners page 46 Local bike racing gets rolling On JUNE 30, the two-wheeled whir of professiona! bicycle racing will fill North Shore air for the first time. draw. Race director, Simon Holwill, says some of the best tiders in North America wil] be competing, including members of the 7-Eleven team from the United States. Holwill says there are two main reasons for staging a race in Deep Cove: ‘There's never been a Pro-Am bicycic event on the North Shore before, and Deep Cove has the ideal hill descents and flats for a good bicycle race."" By TIMOTHY RE Deep Cove will be the sight of the 100 km Deep Cove Road Race, the final leg in the three-stage Molson Golden International Bicycle Classic. The race, which incor- porates a first stage 15 km hil] climb up Cypress moun- tain road and a 130 km West Vancouver to Whistler road race, is a bonafide big league Bar-. Lycett, Assistant Race Director, adds that the community of Deep Cove has been extremely active suppor- live sports community and the area deserves the oppor- tunity to host a major spor- ting event. Halwill says 80 of the max- imum 100 cyclists have of- ficially signed up for the Deep Cove race, including Canadian National team riders, Perry Holmolka, Alex Stieda, Chris Carmichael, and North Vancouver’s An- drew Hansen. Riders in the Deep Cove Jeg will run 12 laps of an 8-km circuit bounded by Mount Seymour Parkway, Deep Cove Road, Pollarton Highway, and Ellis Street, Total prize money for the three stage race will be $2,500. Though it still 1snks below other more high profile North American sporting Pursuits, cross country road race and closed-circuit bicy- cle criterium racing is fast taking hold of the irmagina- tions of the more singular minded sports enthusiast. The sport, says Holwill, is one of the bigges: in Europe, “sand I'm convinced cycling 7 NEWS hoto Stuart Davi: NORTH VANCOUVER’ s professional cycling future chases ics professiona! cycling present as 15-year-old Desi Sansalone, re- cent five-medal winner in the Tour of the Grasslands, follows current Canadian naticnal road race champion, Andrew Hansen through itis training paces. Hansen is gearing up for the Deep Cove Road Race, June 30. SLICED FRESH FOR YOU! Under new management BLACK FOREST HAM $4. 16 we 100Gr. 30 VARIETIES OF COLD CUTS ALL 20% OFF PASTRIES--BREADS-COOKIES ALL.WITH NO PRESERVATIVES ee tu aine mnieae WITH THIS COUFS? ANY SARIDWICHIOFSER VALID TILL JUL? 23, 1985 at oy ee ee 6 ee tne em ree ae es me wl Sake & Delicatessen &51 North Park Royal West Vancouver, B.C. 922-6055 EPs Lay Deeg ES Seo ARTES “CARICA ED RII ACR ETO ABROAD Sapce 4aB ——— ‘ey Every Wall to Wall Carpet Cleaning Service is Guaranteed to meet your personal approval. Carpet, Drapery and Upholstery Cleaning Plant 945 West 7th Ave., Vancouver Tel 684-8444 is on its way up here. As a spectator sport, the excite- ment of watching mders hit *50 mph on downhill stretches is really spectacular.’ The lure of such excite- ment might be obvious from the spectators point of view, but from the rider’s perspec- tive that excitement is coupl- ed with the precarious ex- hileration of riding 20 pounds of chrome alloy at speeds the more sedentary among us would be hard pressed to consider driving our cars. In his fifth season of bicy- cle racing, 27-year-old An- drew Hansen is the current Canadian Road Racing champion. While he says racing op- portunitics for novice riders are on the increase in the Lower Mainland, Hansen adds that similar oppor- tunities for top riders are dwindling: ‘‘When J first started, there was at least a race every weekend, now there are maybe four or five ‘big races per year around Vancouver.” Hansen says money is the major factor in the decrease of big league races. Talented riders, if they are to survive professionally, must travel away from B.C. in order to compete in big money races and the circuit in B.C. is just too small to attract the necessary steady stream of name riders. Though costs of suppor- ting a bicycling career are less than costs of supporting a racing career involving more complicated racing machinery, Hansen says the initial investment of between $1000 and $4000 in a racing bicycle, the annual costs of replacing 20 bicycle tires at $50 each, and the weekly 20-hour training routine are expenses that cannot be covered by talent and en- thusiasm alone. 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