Team Bacchetta
Team Bacchetta Member Bio - Eric Sayers
Name: Eric Sayers
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Location: Gainesville, Florida
e-mail: tadpole@gator.net
Phone number: 352-283-5922 (cell)
Riding Background:
I started riding my “Big Wheel” (an early plastic recumbent… sort of) the day of my third birthday in Palo Alto, CA. I quickly transitioned to my parents ten speeds and proceeded to crash into many a parked car. At seven I moved to rural Idaho, and transitioned to a small mountain bike, though most of my riding involved a two stroke of one displacement or another. After a significant bikeless period, a.k.a. my twenties, my wife Ellen convinced me to buy a used Cannondale hard tail with a lefty fork about three years ago for some exercise beyond martial arts. I have been riding recumbents since January 2005.
How did you get into Recumbents?
As an avid road cyclist, Ellen was beginning to have problems in the normal areas: neck, shoulders, wrists, back, & of course, the posterior. She started looking at recumbents, borrowing fellow Bacchetta teammate Ben Tomlin’s Vision. In January 2005 she found a used Strada on Ebay, but as luck would have it it fit me and not her. I bought it for a song and have been spinning ever since, and though I ride primarily on weekends, the Brevet series have been my training rides.
How did you get asked to be a TEAM BACCHETTA team mate?
It happened the day t took fourth in the 2006 Race Across Florida, though I think my appetite for ULTRA rides helped.
What Bacchetta do you ride?
A 2004 Strada, though I plan on adding an Aero soon!
Race results or Personal Best Rides.
HPV: 2006 3rd overall (Jim Ossa & John Schlitter were untouchable!)
ULTRAS: 200km, 300km, 400km & 600km.
Road Races:
2006 RAF 4th
Time Trials:
Not yet (need that Aero!)
Criteriums: Same as previous!
Invitational Rides: Ditto
Events planned to attend for the rest of 2006:
Bonifay Cheaha Challenge: 1200km
2007 P-B-P