University Daily Kansan, September 16, 1981
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Biker encounters dangers, thrills in racing
By PAM ALLOWAY Staff Reporter
a flash of green, orange and black.
Staff Reporter
A tauty wired body arched over a
sure bicycle whizzes in less than a
succeed.
The Criterium includes races for both licensed racers and KU faculty, students and staff. It begins at 8 a.m. in front of Strong Hall.
Radiating assurance, David Conrad,
Lawrence graduate student and a Mt.
Oread Biket Club member, has been
selected to serve as the host for the KU Criterium race this Sunday.
Conrad, 24, raced in Ireland last month. He had originally planned to compete in a national race on Aug. 9, but about a week before the race, he found out he had the chance to compete internationally.
He said he was depressed because of a disasterous showing at a June race in Rossville. Conrad, positive he would do well, did not plan on dealing with the storms that followed the tornado that hit the area the day before. He said he started first and had to break the wind for other cyclists.
stand not riding," Conrad said yesterday.
"On a 12-speed bike, I was in my car for a few minutes, moving because of the wind." he said.
Preparing for competition, Conrad trained 38-130 miles a day on his sleek Autro-Daimler bike, which is worth about £2,000.
The Tour of Ireland race was an eight-day race that covered about 784 miles starting from a town on the Irish coast, Clonakilty, and ending in Dublin.
"I was competing against everyone else," Conrad said. "I tried to go hard from the gun. That's my philosophy."
Every day each rider had to make the time cut, which meant finishing in 20 percent of the leader's time or being disqualified. Of 96 bicyclists that began the race, 72 finished. Conrad finished 60th.
Conrad said he was satisfied with the outcome of the race.
"All we wanted was to finish and have a good time, and we did," he said.
The bicycle has become more than a sport or hobby to Conrad, who has been racing since 1975. It has become his life. The bicycle's way of life, he has suffered a little.
In December 1978, Conrad had surgery to correct a slipped disc. However, Conrad said he has come to accept the injuries as part of the sport.
One of the most dangerous places on a course are mountain descents, he said. A cyclist can average around 60 mph on a descent.
"It's hair-raising going down a
mountain 66 mph and seeing gravel on the corners," Conrad said.
He said that during the Irish race one cyclist was coming down a mountain and hit a cow. The impact killed the cow and broke the cyclist's pelvis.
Cyclists take as many preventive measures as possible, Conrad said. One example is shaving their legs to prevent irritation in the event of an accident. In case of injury because their legs massaged daily, unnecessary hair is irritating.
Cyclists must consider the condition of the roads in addition to the condition of their legs. Although road conditions in Ireland were less than desirable, he said, he was impressed with the importance the local people put on the race.
"Racing over there is a bigger sport than over here," he said. "It is a festival in each town. There were banners all over the town."
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