SRAM’s brand new Neutral Race Support cars for 2011
The 2011 decals have been officially applied to the eight cars in the US-based SRAM Neutral Race Support (NRS) fleet and the cars are currently traveling to service courses across the country. SRAM’s NRS program is the nation’s premiere cycling support crew that provides neutral service to professionals and amateurs at over 120 cycling events annually. The fully SRAM-Zipp-Specialized decaled cars will locate to Rhode Island, Illinois, Texas, California, and Virginia. Each car can expect to travel between 50,000+ miles over the course of the year.
The SRAM NRS program starts with a top notch staff that includes several of the nations premiere technicians; Butch Balzano, Jose Alcala, and Chad Contreras are the three mainstays. Each of their Volvo XC-70′s, capable of hauling up to six Specialized bikes, tools, spare parts, pumps, wheels, coolers, a virtual rolling service course. The XC-70′s are beautiful cars and, according to Butch, simply improve the experience of travelling. SRAM adopted this program in 2006 and will enter their sixth year of service as ‘SRAM NRS.’
Here are some pics of the new NRS cars, some even as decals are applied…