William Lau (Center) and Friends

William Lau and Friends riding p in Vancouver, BC. Vancover is one of the most beutiful cities in the world! Notice the Williams Kits.

Off toTour of PA

I will be working with Slipstreams U25 team next week. The team is known as VMG/FELT. Tons of talent on the team. We will have the one and only Daniel Holloway as our sprinter and 5 incredible young climbers to put the "beat down" in the mountains. Should be fun.

Also at Tour of PA, ZTEAM will be on our wheels as well as a few Cal Giant Strawberry riders.

Mike Hernandez will be directing the PA Lighting squad. This means nightly beers and laughs!

"Badia Likes Em"

"I mounted some Vittoria Pista CL tires to the track wheels. Took the bike out to the track last night and won both Men's A scratch races. In the 2nd 50 lap race I was off the front solo for the last 16 laps. Those wheels were SUPER Fast! Aside from looking SWEET! the hubs roll smoother than anything I have ridden. The wheels are stiff enough and felt very aero."
James Badia - product tester for Williams Wheels

BTW, we have another set of the same custom built track wheels in the shop for sale. Contact us for details!

Holloway wins a war of attrition

O'FALLON, Mo. — Favorite Daniel Holloway held off the elements and the field in the premier race of the Tour de Winghaven on Sunday.

"It was really hot. I knew it would be that way, but I had to remind myself to keep taking fluids," said Holloway, 21, the U.S. elite criterium champion and silver medalist at the 2007 Pan-Am Games. "I knew that in a hot race, whoever comes the best prepared will win."

Holloway covered 25 laps of the 2.69-mile circuit in 2 hours, 45 minutes, 26 seconds, just ahead of Carlos Vargas, a native of Colombia who races for the Texas Touch Cycling Team. Chad Cagle of the Mercy Cycling Team, based in Oklahoma, was less than a second behind in third.

With the temperature in the mid-90s, the wind gusting to more than 20 mph and the dew point near 70, the race was a war of attrition. After five laps, a group of 14 led by Holloway had opened a lead of 30 seconds on the remaining 95 riders.

By the halfway point, the leaders had been trimmed to a half-dozen and had built a lead of one minute on a half-dozen chasers. The peloton — the main group of riders — was down to about 60 and four minutes behind. The leaders caught and mixed in with the peloton with three laps remaining and regrouped at the head of the field with a mile to go. Holloway made his winning move about 150 yards from the finishing line, on a steep incline.

"Every lap up the final hill got tougher and tougher," Holloway said. "I had to save just enough to open the gap."

Holloway collected the first prize of $4,000 from the total purse of $20,000, largest for a single-day race in Missouri.

Daniel races on Williams 58 and 38mm Carbon Tubulars.

Inventory Update

Wheel System 30 inventory will be delivered to the shop on Tuesday the 10th. All pre-orders will be shipped to customers Tuesday!

Cool!

It's Picture Monday

Michael Boehme - Colavita Machine

Phil Mooney (Cat 1 speedster) testing our full carbon clincher prototypes at College Nats. The answer is no...I'm not spilling the beans about these wheels until they are ready. Let's just say...everyone loves them!

Phil Mooney's TT bike for College Nats Team Time Trial. Phil and his UC Davis boys won the TTT Nat Championship. The bike looks like a spaceship.

A cool shot of Curtis Palmer racing for Colavita on the 50c full carbon clinchers.