NACSWORLD group photo at North America Construction

Back row left to right: Brian Kelly, Eddie Reinish, Derek De Gannes, Steve McKee, Ilija Petrovski, Steve Colomby, 

Front row left to right: Jay May, Andrew McPhail, Alex Getler, Kevin Davis (absent: Pavle Stanojevic and Chad Leudtke)

KW Classic Road Race

The annual race on the Hidden Valley course in Kitchener was held this past Sunday on thankfully dry roads in cool and cloudy conditions. 80 Master level 1 racers took part in the approximately 100KM race including all of our team, around the five kilometre circuit. The early action saw NACSWORLD.COM racers in the early moves, but there were no groups of riders ahead of the 'peloton' when three quarters of the race had been completed. At that time the decisive move of the race took place during a tough crosswind section when Bruce Bird of Wheels of Bloor pulled clear along with Ed Makarchuk of 'Sound Solutions' and Ilija Petrovski of NACSWORLD, shortly afterwards they were joined by Chris Firek of 'Gears Racing'. These 4 pulled away from the main group which was being controlled by Wheels of Bloor and NACSWORLD in defence of their rider who were ahead. The breakaway group continued to pull clear while the peloton were being reprimanded by the race commisaires for crossing over the yellow line in the crosswind section. Shortly afterwards Ed was dropped by the group followed by Ilija. That left two ahead of the peloton by a minute and a half up until the end of the race. Bruce then dropped Chris to win the race alone a half a minute ahead of Chris. In the race for the remaining podium spot Kevin of NACSWORLD managed to get clear of the peloton on the short climb with two kilometres remaining, taking two Wheels of Bloor riders along for the ride. He managed to get to the line ahead of the others to take the final podium spot.

Bruce Bird wins with Chris Firek second and Kevin Davis third.