US trackman Bobby Lea will soon be on the boards of Paris fighting for the World pursuit gold medal, so our ‘6 Day’ expert, Ed Hood, talked to Bobby after a successful outing at the Berlin 6. With over twenty Elite titles to his name, there’s a good chance of adding a Rainbow jersey to that total in the French capital.
The USA team has a realistic contender for a medal in Bobby Lea who took bronze in the London World Cup omnium and has recently been polishing his form on the six day tracks. Originally Bobby was to be riding the omnium; a combination of the flying lap, 40 K points, the kilometre, pursuit, elimination and scratch race. But as there is now a clash between the pursuit and the omnium he has opted to go for just the pursuit race. The 2015 track Worlds will be staged in France’s new National Velodrome in South West Paris, between 18 – 22 February. Here’s what he had to say to PEZ when he was preparing to ride the omnium and not the pursuit….
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