Star track welcomes Justin Butsavage to the team!

February 8, 2018 Affinity

We're thrilled to welcome Justin Butsavage to the team for the 2018 racing season. Justin is a T Town native who’s had quite a tremendous few years of racing, he’ll be a wonderful addition to the team.

His recent accolades include:

2017 junior national team pursuit champion

Competitor at the 2017 junior world championships representing team USA

Justin recently raced the 2018 6 days of Berlin

A proud eagle scout recipient!

He’s also helped break the current fastest junior men’s team pursuit time as part of the US national team. Finally, Justin has been invited to train with Team USA at the US Olympic training center in Colorado springs.

Congratulations Justin and welcome to the team!

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Lets hear it for Billy Taylor!

December 7, 2017 Affinity

Star Track is super proud of our junior rider Billy Taylor for having some great rides during rounds 1 & 2 of the Revolution series.

Billy has had a tremendous racing season in 2017, a pinnacle moment was becoming a junior national champion in the team pursuit and now he's in Europe racing with the worlds best junior track racers.

Congratulations Billy!!

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Bicycle Diaries: A day in the life of Billy Taylor.

October 20, 2017 Affinity

Star Track is proud to share a new day in the life of series, a diary of sorts via the perspective of our Star Track riders and their adventures as junior racers.

Enjoy and tune in for our new day in the life of series, "Bicycle Diaries".

This is the Bicycle Diary of Billy Taylor (age 15).

10/20/2017

Talent ID camp.

I just got back from USAC Talent ID camp which was held at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. I was there for five days with around 20 other riders in my age group. It was a great experience. All of the riders got along really well, and we learned a lot.

The food at the Olympic Training Center was awesome and I now have a good reason to work hard to get back there, unlimited good food. The camp was at a pretty high altitude so it made it harder to breath but overall I had some good rides, I was happy with my training and it was a great experience.

I came back on Sunday, then on Tuesday I drove with my family to South Carolina to ride at the Hincapie Gran Fondo. I am doing the 80 mile Gran Fondo this Saturday. Today I got to go on a recon of part of the course with a great group of riders. Besides George Hincapie, there were at least three other former professional riders. Christian Van de Velde, Erik Zabel, and Bobby Julich. It was a great ride in the hills of South Carolina. We rode around 55 miles today.

This is really great training for me because recently I was lucky enough to be selected to ride at the Revolution Series in the UK over the next few months. The Revolution Series is a three part track racing series that takes place in London, Glasgow, and Manchester. A lot of great professional track riders race there and i'm very proud to say that I will be in the “Future Stars” Group.

The events will be televised on Eurosport TV, but I think they use the Future Star races to run the commercials, so you probably can’t see me race... but I'm still really excited. My Teammates Dominic Suozzi and Joe Christiansen will be racing with the pros so I am lucky to share this amazing experience with them.

Hope you enjoyed my stories and adventures, i'll check back in soon and let you know how the Fondo went.

Thanks!

Billy Taylor

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