Locals Play Key Roles in this Weekend's Gran Prix of Gloucester
This weekend's cyclocross race at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester has Hamilton-Wenham roots, including a mechanic and a bike builder.
It’s easy to understand the bikes. Take road bikes you’re used to seeing and give them stronger brakes and knobby (but still skinny) tires. Then comes racing. Ride that bike through dirt, loose corners, sand and - if you’re lucky - mud or snow. With people on all sides, racing against you. And do all this while pedaling until you can’t really see straight, for one hour plus a lap. Sound like fun? No? Yet cyclocross is the fastest growing segment of cycling in the country. It turns out that some of the discipline’s greatest minds are right here in Hamilton and Wenham. Wenham’s Christopher Igleheart is an artisan, who takes steel tubing and a torch and hand builds some of the most respected bicycles in the world. “Having the Cambridge …
