Do nothing, win an Elite bike
By Triathlete magazine Interactive
September 1, 2005 – The New York triathlon store SBR Multisports and Elite Bicycles have come up with a unique challenge: sit on a bike continuously for two days or longer, then take it home.
On September 23 at 7:00 a.m., five riders, chosen by lottery, will clip their shoes into the pedals of five top-of-the-line Elite Magnus bicycles. The bikes will be on stands in the window of SBR Multisports, located at 203 W. 58th St. in midtown Manhattan. For the next two days or more, the competitors will try to stay in place. The last person to stay on will keep the frame.
“We’re looking to be part of something historic,” says store owner Christophe Vandaele. The athletes will be unable to get off the bike for longer than 5 minutes at a time, once every three hours, and must keep their bike shoes clipped into their pedals the whole time.
well, he mentioned trying to stay in place, so I thought they might have to ride. How boring. If I had the time, maybe I’d enter, I like Elite bikes. Making them ride would be more fun, and probably quicker. Besides, I’d bet that would draw more traffic, if they were actually doing something.
Sitting on a bike in a window in NYC? My money’s on David Blaine.
ooooooh oooooooh pick me! I have some training left…that would rock, I could get in my ‘Sams Club training’ AND my sleep deprivation If I won I would also give it to a triathlete from NO that lost their baby.
If by chance any of you’se guys gets picked, I can send you a boat load of ideas of HOW to stay on that bike for that long, if you haven’t done it yet. Elite might not like it, but it will work. Now if they would have done 5 days straight, now THAT would be a mother I only know one guy be able to do that within the rules specified.
So, that thing started this morning at 7:30 am. I think about 100 people had applied for it, and 5 got selected by lottery drawing this morning. It ended up to be 3 girls (one of them looking extremely fit!) and 2 guys.
When asked about their preparation, one of the contestant said he is training for a half ironman in 11 days and this had to be enough. Since I know his coach, he asked me not to mention his SIT-ON.
It seemed like everybody could bring his own shoes, pedals and - saddle- ? The other guy mounted this huge dutch style grocery shopping monster saddle on the tri bike. My money is definetly on him. Must be a big advantage to sit soft.
I stayed for about 30 min after it started, and there was pretty much silence. 5 people on a tri bike, reading, smiling, no chatting yet. I’m pretty sure this will change once the first persons cracks and some emotions show up.
I’m just happy to sit in my office chair right now, :o)
I just called them, 2 guys left 39hrs + so far.
This is what they had posted, it looks like it’s a triathlete versus a bike messenger
At this moment, two people are sitting on bicycles at SBR Multisports on West 58th Street. Andrea Galas, Michael Smyth, Stephanie Willet, Joe Diamond and Kim Nicholais were selected at random at 7:00 am Friday morning from a field of 100 + applicants to participate in an endurance contest. At 8:00 am, they each mounted one of five identical Elite Magnus Bicycles http://www.elitebicycles.com/product.php?id=magnus ) that had been immobilized on stands. The object? Stay on longer than anyone else, and win the bike. So far, three have left. But Joe Diamond and Michael Smyth stayed the course, and both of them vow that they will not be going home empty handed.
Passersby look in the glass window of SBR Multisports and see two young men. Diamond, 22, is clad in the workaday pants and teeshirt that he makes his living in as a mechanic and pedicab driver. His curly hair is disheveled and his hands smudged with the charcoal that he uses to draw while he’s in the saddle. Smyth, 28, is dressed in bike shorts and his clean cut frame is ready for the Mightyman Triathlon he will run October 1st. It looks like a battle of opposites. Both athletes, however, are cooperating with each other, and both say it’s more a competition with one’s own body than against anyone else. Send email of encouragement to Bikeoff@sbrshop.com
If I won I would also give it to a triathlete from NO that lost their baby.
