Epic Racing around the World

How’s this for a commute to work : its 8,774 miles from Los Angeles to Singapore. One way.

Last weekend (though I’m not sure where “today” fits in with “yesterday” regarding the international date line) but Tinker flew to Singapore for the Bike Asia 100k marathon mtb race. Here are his words and experiences…and an article from the race with he and Sophia Loren….

Just got back from a really great trip to Singapore. It was a great experience to meet such nice people - warm and gentle and just my size! I think there is a bright future for the athletes there - and I raced a lot of guys who were about half my age. It was fun racing and it showed the talent of the folks there. It is so nice to see the upcoming talent. It keeps me motivated and one thing I strive for is to make an impact and hopefully motivate them to keep on trying. I know dreams do come true.

Even though the promoters stopped the race due to lightning was a great race and I won! I was heading into lap #9 of 10 and was told to stop. It was pouring rain and lightning so they made the call for safety reasons.

Oh - it was great to meet Sophia Loren!!! If you don’t know who she is - you’re either very young or do not have access to technology! She is a mega movie star and is still a jaw dropping beautiful woman at 73. It was an honor and pleasure to hold her hand and talk with her!

I am so flattered by the hospitality and generosity from everyone. I hope my appearance there at the show and the race helped out a lot.

What was so cool about it is that so many of the people - fans - that have followed my career from way back in the BMX days through Volvo and now. They brought me so many perfect shaped articles, jerseys, whatever for me to sign. It was really impressive.

One thing before I close this brief report is that the Cannondale rep and shop owner “Crazy Chris Bray” was a great host. He took really good care of me. Thank you Chris! I can’t wait to come back next year.

So now I’m off to Sea Otter Classic in Monterrey, CA this weekend with the family and just for fun. We are kicking off the MonaVieCannondale.com team! Join us for breakfast at the MonaVie/Cannondale Saturday morning at the team booth in the race pits!

Peace and God Bless,

Tinker