Friday, we had an interesting request from Stanford University Event Department. 

We had a request for temporary fencing for a large bicycle race that is coming to California in February 17, 2008.  The race is called the 2008 Amgen Tour of California, which will display 17 professional cycling teams to compete in a world class cycling race across California.

There will be 136 athletes that show up for the event and it will start in Palo Alto. The field of both international and domestic cyclists includes teams based in Luxembourg, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, as well as several elite American groups, including the local Fairfield-based Jelly Belly Cycling team.

The request was for 6′ temporary fencing, which is a standard size when it comes for enclosing an area for an event.  As the conversation continued with David Cappelloni, who was organizing the event, mentioned that he was going to hire a full crew of people to pick up the Universities bike racks that were placed around campus for the event and that this was going to take many man hours to accomplish this task.  I asked David if he had seen our green bike rack barricade that many of our customers use in their events as bike racks to hold the bikes in place during the event.  

I sent him a few pictures and the rest was history…..we were able to present a reasonable cost solution that saved the University money and allowed Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services to coordinate the entire installation and removal for the event. 

Stanford University is expecting 1000 bikes to be parked on campus for the event.  It should be a great Event

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