Up and running

Our campaign for the 2012 Race Across America is up and running! The support of Velocite bikes has made it viable, though we do have a lot of fund raising still to do.
I'm really excited to be teaming up with Velocite. On the weekend I received the first of the two bikes I'll be using for RAAM, the Velocite Geos. I'm in the middle of building it up for the Gruyere Cycling Tour on Sunday. I'll post a full write up of the bike once it's finished. Suffice to say for now that it's a very pretty looking bike, and is easily going to come in under the UCI's 6.8kg minimum weight rule.

There is so much preparation to be done, not to mention 15,000km of training. The first, and by far the most critical, issue is crew selection. The crew in 2010 were brilliant.

I'd like to have as many of them as possible with us in 2012, especially now that they are blooded and battle hardened! Unfortunately it is a time and financial commitment that some of them may not be able to make. One confirmation we have is one of the stars of the 2010 crew, our IT guru, last-second lifesaver and general selfless superhero, Stew.

Here we go!